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2010: Why Mount Kimbie 'Crooks & Lovers' is our album of the year Dom and Kai’s album is a work of extraordinary humility, resonance, skill and simplicity.

2010: Why The-Dream's Yamaha is the best song of the year The-Dream’s track is a work of dazzlingly imagination, humanity and clarity with a chorus fit for a million first dances.

2010: Why Oneohtrix Point Never is our artist of the year 2010 was the year we all finally caught up to Dan Lopatin’s free, radical synth music.

2010: What is it that makes today's producers so different, so appealing? From James Blake to Balam Acab, Actress to How To Dress Well, the dreams and actions of a few bedroom producers have stretched music into new forms, new shapes and new feelings. Tamara El Essawi examines these new ‘centres of gravity.’

2010: What we can all learn from T-Shirt Party With hooligan pride, an eye for the quids and a dancer’s dream, a video-maker who flogs whitties for a tenner from his frontroom is the most interesting new business of the year.

The Dummy Guide To Daft Punk Or, how wit, imagination and very, very good electronic music made two French men in robot masks one of the best dance bands in the world.

Live Broadcast: Stream Brandt Brauer Frick in London Brandt Brauer Frick’s brand of live jazz-infused techno recorded and stream-able.

Technique: Gatekeeper's Giza EP A song-by-song breakdown of the precise sonics that created the black, endless ride through the depths of night.

Jacques Greene interview: "A very bittersweet thing." A late night transatlantic chat with the LuckyMe and Night Slugs House producer from Montreal, whose debut EP ‘The Look’ is out on December 14th.

Live Broadcast: Stream Oneohtrix Point Never in London Dan Lopatin’s mesmerizing show at XOYO, recorded and stream-able.

D’eon interview: ‘I just want to hear notes.’ Montreal resident and ex-Tibetan monk Chris D’eon’s synth pop tracks are as deep as the world is wide.

Elan Tamara interview: "Go with your gut instinct." A stroll in the park with the enchanting East London artist who released her ‘Shadows’ EP on Kwes’s new label Bokkle.

FaltyDL interview: "Learning how to moonwalk." Coffee in New York with the garage/house producer playing Dollop’s night at Heaven on Wednesday 27 October.

Stop Making Sense Podcast We came, we danced, we were well balearic, and we did a podcast!

Standon Calling Podcast Our next festival podcast comes from a sunny day on a manor house chatting with Summer Camp, Delorean, book sellers, and punters amongst hay and a swimming pool.

Salem interview: "You’re not scared…it’s music." American trio interviewed ahead of their journey into ‘Night.

Everywhere else #10 Click for pieces on or by Jamie Reynolds, Darkstar, Salem, the xx, Tony Benn and Lady Gaga.

Chilly Gonzales interview #2: "Who do I idolise? Anyone who hustles." Moviestar, clown, prince, pianist, rapper, Canadian, Berliner, seatless toilet, flusher of tradition down the drain. Three months on from our last chat, we ask – Who is he?

Everywhere else #9 The internet’s best, including mixes by Four Tet, Altar Eagle, Radioclit and Fever Ray, the love lessons of the Beastie Boys, Aphex Twin facts.

Days out – Bestival If you’re Isle of Wight-bound this weekend, here’s what to look out for at the world’s biggest fancy dress parade.

Film Club #2: Videos in black and white The second in our surveys of contemporary music videos, this time – spurred on by Martyn and Antony – referencing the fantastic world of black and white videos.

What have The xx ever done for us? Notes on the most important British band of our times.

Everywhere else #8 Required reading from the rest of the net, featuring Big Boi, Darkstar, Terror Danjah, Peter Saville’s England strip, DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn…

Field Day podcast The first in our series of festival podcasts kicks off with a set of interviews from No Age, Phoenix Tensnake, the Golden Filter, Memory tapes and Mount Kimbie and sounds from Victoria Park.

Ratatat interview: "It worked out for the best." Machine music’s journeymen chat to Dummy a short while after their last album, ‘LP4’, came out.

Everywhere else #7 New links for a new week.

Sleigh Bells interview: "Start at your feet, end at your brains." On their debut album’s release day, Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss talk song-craft, space, and why simple is best.

Sexbeat Radfest (Corsica Studios, 8th August) London promotions house Sexbeat takeover Elephant & Castle for a Sunday for the best house party ever.

Everywhere else #6 This week’s links, inc. Terror Danjah, David Sitek, Skream, Mount Kimbie, Trojan Records

Mount Kimbie interview: "A dream, going on and on." Cold thoughts on hot days: After-Dubstep stars chat as they record the sounds of Southwark Cathedral.

Everywhere else #5 Zola Jesus, Moog synths, the Knife and Kanye West and Ariel Pink (again) in this week’s web round-up.

Pantha du Prince interview: 'Some moments are too strong to not be told.' Update on one of 2010’s most interesting musicians, a man that makes tracks about landslides and speed and plays air-conditioning and icecubes, in which he tells us about what comes after ‘Black Noise.’

Everywhere else #4 Our latest set of absolutely necessary links from the rest of the internet.

The Knife, Planningtorock & Mt Sims interview: "How history sounds." The Knife and friends interviewed ahead of the UK opening of their opera, Tomorrow, In A Year.

Phoenix interview: "We are slaves of this thing that we’re reaching for.” We interrupt the holiday of a member of Phoenix, the masterful Rock band playing Field Day in just over a week, to speak to him about recording plans and airports and other stuff.

Film club #1 – Stop motion videos In the first in his series of music video primers, Henry Powell talks us through the pastoral beauty of stop motion clips (warning – contains folk-rock whimsy).

Liars interview: "The fear and pain in his face was real." Aaron and Julian from the decade-spanning rock band chat about their futures ahead of their Standon Calling date.

Chilly Gonzales interview: “London has to step up.” The Canadian pianist and rapper on his Guinness world record, piano battles and jealousy.

Release notes: El Guincho's 'Piratas de Sudamerica' EP The Latin Pop/Folk artist tells us the story of his record and his love of South American folk music.

Robyn interview: "Yeah. Always." An independent Pop star for independent times, interviewed during a video shoot in East London.