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#TheTenX5 Day 26

KIesza - Hideaway (single, 11/4/2014) 🇨🇦
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Among all the FuturePop, I'll always have time for a throwback

Hello! Here’s my five:
1. The xx - xx [5pts]
2. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
3. Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
4. Tiga - Sexor
5. De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - Parels voor de Zwijnen [1pt]
Cheers!

#TheTenX5 Interlude

Another thing to use the interlude for: stats!

Picks per year: 2010: 7, 2011: 5, 2012: 7, 2013: 4, 2014: 6, 2015: 7, 2016: 2, 2017: 2, 2018:6, 2019: 4

Countries: 🇬🇧 17.4 (+ 1 feat.), 🇺🇸 12, 🇨🇦 6, 🇳🇱 4, 🇸🇪 3, 🇩🇰 2, 🇩🇪 1.4, 🇦🇺 1, 🇧🇧 1, 🇪🇸 1, 🇺🇦 1, 🇬🇷 0.2

NKC 48%, PC 12%, non-singles 30%

Wait, there are songs similar to this? 😀

#TheTenX5 Interlude - HMs

5. DJ Koze - XTC (15/6/2015) 🇩🇪

And here's one HM from an artist who'll appear in the main list as well - it was a tough choice which one to pick.

"Is meditation the truth..."

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4. Answer Code Request - Calm Down (22/10/2015) 🇩🇪

Techno, but breaks. Icy, but warm. 💓

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3. Alex Cameron - The Comeback (18/4/2014) 🇦🇺

Don't try to take anyone's show from them!

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And since we only have 3 days:

2. Pulp - After You (28/1/2013) 🇬🇧

Best thing they've released in the last 30 years. There's a mind-bending Soulwax remix as well but the original has the dirty disco vibe that best fits the lyrics.

From disco to disco, from Safeway to Tesco...

YouTube video by RizzleKicksVEVO Rizzle Kicks - Down With The Trumpets

#TheTenX5 Interlude

For the next three days, I'll post five Honourable Mentions. I'll send in a list of 45 HMs at the end of the challenge to boost songs I've seen others post, but the coming days are for unfortunate late cuts from my list.

1. Rizzle Kicks - Down with the Trumpets (10/6/2011) 🇬🇧

Oh, this is embarrassing. I should have three - I forgot to add the "11 pts" 🚨 to my 11 Feb post for Carly Rae Jepsen - "Call Me Maybe". Mea culpa!

#TheTenX5 Day 25

A.G. Cook - Beautiful (single, 4/6/2014) 🇬🇧
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Back to our regular programming with some more hyperpop. Does what it says on the tin, etc.

#TheTenX5 Day 24

Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues (on Transgender Dysphoria Blues LP, 21/1/2014) 🇺🇸
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And now for something completely different...

18 excellent debut albums from the 2005-2009 period: Tiga - Sexor The xx - xx The Field - From Here We go Sublime Gui Boratto - Chromophobia De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - Parels voor de Zwijnen LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem La Roux - La Roux Vitalic - OK Cowboy Pipettes - We Are The Rex The Dog - The Rex the Dog Show Heartbreak - Lies Lykke Li - Youth Novels Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love Discovery - LP Calvin Harris - I Created Disco Cassie - Cassie Little Jackie - The Stoop Kathy Diamond - Miss Diamond To You

#5debutalbums0509 It's going to be five from these - the most likely ones towards the top.

Parels Voor De Zwijnen might need all the help it can get!

#TheTenX5 Day 23

Daniel Avery - New Energy (Live Through It) (from Drone Logic LP, 4/10/2013) 🇬🇧
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A 10-pointer no doubt, but it's my favourite track on the album and it just had to feature here. 💙

#TheTenX5 Day 22

Danny L Harle - Broken Flowers (single, 15/7/2013) 🇬🇧
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Original version here although the 2015 EP version is very neat (and arguably a bit more 'hyper').

#TheTenX5 Day 21

Kölsch - Goldfisch (single, 22/4/2013) 🇩🇰
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Speaking of warm and Kompakt and house...

Anniemal has five great singles!

“It IS tricky to rock a rhyme that’s right on time. I made a list of some other words that rhyme with time: Crime, tim, crumb and time.” - Run-G.P.T.

#TheTenX5 Day 20

Devendra Banhart - Your Fine Petting Duck (on Mala LP, 12/3/2013) 🇺🇸
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Still no idea why halfway through this deadpan ditty with lyrics about a no-good boyfriend suddenly turns into warm Kompakt-style disco house including poetic lyrics in dodgy German but I'm all for it.

Remembering TV presenter and music impresario Tony Wilson, born on this day 1950 in Pendleton, Salford.

#TheTenX5 Day 19

The Coup - This Year (on Sorry To Bother You LP, 30/10/2012) 🇺🇸
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"We comin' with tens of millions / Them villains be oh-so-shady / It's gonna be ending with us winning / You already know" 🤞

It’s such a ridiculous, trashy Showgirls-level bit of nonsense. And there were loads of people insisting it was a very meaningful emotional journey.

#TheTenX5 Day 18

Killer Mike - Reagan (single, 6/10/2012) 🇺🇸
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Second of three in a row from October 2012, all African American, the first one sad, the third hopeful, this middle one wonderfully righteously MAD AS HELL

#TheTenX5 Day 17

Solange - Losing You (single, 2/10/2012) 🇺🇸
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October 2012, happy times. My first publication in a proper journal 🔥 Sad songs sound good in happy times too:

Oh no, is it David Bowie again?

STV now!

My suggestion would be to throw the 13- and 14-pointers into a hat and pick six of them blindly rather than having another round of voting.

Thank the silent majo… er, 37%

Sorry for being a bitch, all power to you Ciara

Maybe I'll try one more time, start 3 minutes in