You’ve already had my favourite albums, club tunes and movies of 2009 and so to complete the set, here’s my top 10 pop singles of the year…
1. Lily Allen ‘The Fear’
2. Bat For Lashes ‘Daniel’
3. Nenka ‘Heartbeat’
4. Animal Collective ‘My Girls’
5. Kesha ‘Tik Tok’
6. Lady Gaga ‘Bad Romance’
7. Florence & The Machine ‘Rabbitheart’
8. Doves ‘Jetstream’
9. Empire Of The Sun ‘Walking On a Dream’
10. La Roux ‘In For The Kill (Skream mix)’
Merry Christmas everyone and a very happy 2010
xXx
Carrying on with the end of year ‘Best of’ charts. Here are my highlights of clubland 2009. My biggest tunes of the year. Everyone a winner…
1. Pryda ‘Animal’
2. Guy J ‘Lamur (Henry Saiz mix)’
3. Cirez D ‘On/Off’
4. Gui Boratto ‘No Turning Back’
5. Culoe De Song ‘The Bright Forest’
6. Guy Gerber ‘Timing’
7. Moby ‘Pale Horses (Gui Boratto mix)’
8. Popof ‘Shades’
9. Sebastien Leger ‘The People (Prydz mix)’
10. Erol Alkan & Boys Noize ‘Waves (Seaman edit)’
I can’t believe it’s that time of the year already. What the hell happened to 2009?!! And this time, not only are we reflecting on the last twelve months but have the added weight of also looking back on the last ten years! The decade that was the “noughties” (Any idea what we’re gonna be calling the next decade by the way?). As is customary at this time of year, I’d like to share some of my highlights in music and film and always look forward to getting yours in reply. After all, if you can’t spread a little happiness at Christmas then there’s no hope for you. So first up, here’s my Top Ten albums of 2009. What’s yours?
1. Florence & The Machine ‘Lungs’
2. Fever Ray ‘Fever Ray’
3. Bat For Lashes ‘Two Suns’
4. The Xx ‘The Xx’
5. Moderat ‘Moderat’
6. Doves ‘Kingdom oF Rust’
7. Nerina Pallot ‘The Graduate’
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs ‘It’s Blitz!’
9. Jay Z ‘The Blueprint 3′
10. Passion Pit ‘Manners’
Another winter fast approaches which can mean only one thing from your caring sharing friends at Audio Therapy, time for another cherry picked collection of hot new winter warmers in the form of our bi-annual sampler. This Is Audio Therapy 2010 features new and exclusive tracks from Fiord, Christian Cambas, Amin Golestan, Simon Garcia, Reuben Keeney, Dubfunk, Nomad In The Dark to name but a few and is available for your delectation from Monday December 7th.
The tracklist in full is as follows…..1. Fiord ‘Foxy Moron’ 2. Simon Garcia ‘Electric Zoo’ 3. Christian Cambas & George Arpegis ‘Rich & Famous’ 4. Dubfunk ‘Joy’ 5. Amin Golestan & Xaver ‘Let’s Do It Again’ 6. Steven Libby ‘Firestone (Nomad In The Dark mix)’ 7. 7th Key ‘Butterflies In My Room’ 8. Nectarios ‘Friends With Benefits’ 9. Reuben Keeney ‘Guitar’ 10. Andre Sobota ‘I Can Hear You’
Go forth and indulge people… Knock yourselves out!
Good reviews and bad reviews come with the territory. You get used to taking the rough with the smooth. One man’s poison is another’s medicine. You’re never gonna please everybody all the time. The way I look at it, the bad ones tend to just be misguided, yet to understand the error of their ways whereas the good ones of course, always have impeccable taste. Here’s one such critic who obviously knows their onions
Seriously though, a big thank you to Lambretta at inthemix.com for your kind words. Lovely. Here’s the link…..
Nick Muir returns to the Audio Therapy fold after the success of his “G Platz” and “Tenko” releases with his latest offering, “Fu Man Chew”. 2009 has been a busy year for Nick releasing new tracks with long time partner John Digweed in the form of “Tangent” and “Aquatonic” alongside remixes for Timo Maas and Christian Smith & John Selway.
On the remix tip we are very proud to include the prodigious talents of Egostereo and Wiretappeur. The Italian duo of Egostereo have emerged as one of the hottest talents in the progressive/techno genre in 2009 and what a fantastic job they have done again here bringing that signature sound perfectly into play. Wiretappeur meanwhile is the alias for the trio of Florian Kruse, Nils Nurnberg and Stel who have had 2 critically acclaimed releases on Fresh Meat and continue their rich vein of form here with a beautiful deep house monster full of luscious chords and deep grooves.
It’s another carefully and lovingly constructed package from your friends at Audio Therapy catering for all your electronic house needs. You’re welcome.
https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/204598/Fu%20Man%20Chew

1. Dave Seaman & Andy Chatterley ‘K Conundrum’ Audio Therapy
2. Guy Robin ‘Prism’ Memory
3.Trentemoller ‘Gush’ SK Supreme
4. Steinmuller ‘Eiskanter’ Circle Music
5. Dennis Ferrer ‘Hey Hey’ Objectivity
6. Paul Nazca ‘On & On’ (Julian Jeweil Vision2) Scandium
7. Solee ‘Vegas’ Parquet
8. Steve Angello ‘Alpha Baguera’ Size
9. Jamie McHugh ‘Wrong’ (Harvey McKay) Audio Therapy
10. Dave Angel ‘Ghost Train’ Plaza In Crowd
So here we go with the second installment of the occasional series that is my Digital Mixtapes. It’s been a while since the last one mainly because I’ve had two official album releases in between so I didn’t want to inundate you all with stuff. This one is an hours excerpt from my recent gig at AM Club in Monterrey in Mexico and as will always be the case with the podcasts, pretty much all the tracks are already available to buy individually from the likes of Beatport, djdownload, iTunes, Juno, etc… So with no further ado, here’s the links. Hope you enjoy…
For iTune users.. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=319070379
For non iTune users.. http://media.libsyn.com/media/daveseaman1/Digital_Mixtape_Vol_2.m4a
So the cats out of the bag. I can finally now confirm, for all the Australian’s that have been asking, I will be back down under in February next year to take part in the Good Vibrations Festivals in Sydney, Perth, Brisbane & Melbourne.
It’s a hell of an impressive line up next year that I’m honored to be a part of with The Killers, Bassment Jaxx, Friendly Fires, Gossip, Armand Van Helden, Busta Rhymes, Chase & Status, Plump DJs all on board.
I’m going to be bringing the family with me on this trip, the most excited of which is my four year old who asks me on a daily basis “How long until we go on tour with the Killers?”. Nothing like starting young!
www.goodvibrationsfestival.com.au/