The end of 2022 gives us hope. Even two hopes. The first one is about continuing the recovery pace after 2020. It seems, that this year gave us the almost a pre-COVID amount of festivals and just good parties all over the world. But not the whole world…
…and that’s hope number two. After 24.02 and the full-scale Russian invasion, the whole country of Ukraine has almost vanished from the electronic music scene map. A lot of DJs there are still digging, just not tracks, but trenches in the army, to defend their homeland. Instead of hearing bangers in their headphones, people are hearing the banging of bombs falling near them. Instead of dancing in the darkness of the clubs, youngsters in Ukraine are sitting in the darkness of blackouts because of electricity problems in the country, caused by constant Russian bombings. Only victory could help re-establish normal life with so long-awaited parties in Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Donetsk, Luhansk, Crimea and all over the country. That’s the main hope for 2023 (at least, in Ukraine).
Aaaand, about the list. This year was, probably, the hardest one. The number of tracks we loved was just enormous, our long-list had around 300 submissions from our premieres section and all over the music world (so, if you don’t find your favourite one – it was probably cut during those painful procedures). For the first time ever, we even gave you a chance to decide on one position of our top-100 in our Telegram channel. We didn’t have those really long delays, like it was in 2021, so all the tracks in the list have been released after 1.01.2022 and until this day. But, for the first time ever we broke another our unwritten rule – won’t tell you exactly what it is, let’s just say, it seems, that the year was quite man/ipulative (giving you a wink). Zero chills – we are already waiting to meet you at the end of 2023. Take care till then.
- Man/ipulate – 1st Date [SENTAKU007]
- VOY – 14 B [VOY014]
- Juaan – 18.8 [SO003]
- Baldo – 1998 [PE011]
- Matthias – Acid Leak [MR-05]
- Dynasty of Dreams – Acid Wild West [LR-021]
- Pirvu – Altona [NSR009]
- Alexander Skancke – Are You Happy? [QRK005]
- Bakked – Baktv [OTP03]
- N-GYNN – Bumpin And Gurnin [HHH04]
- Omii – Clinch (Silat Beksi Remix) [FL006]
- Spandrel – Colonizer Appreciation Day [TERRAFIRM7]
- OCB – Corporate Sound [CKNOWEP42]
- Cristian Sarde – Changes [OTP02]
- Unknown Artist – Dancing Like a Hoe [HOE001]
- Rizzi & Lapucci – Dark System (Do/Or/Die Remix) [COWBEATS02]
- Innershades – Deviation feat. Mutado Pintado [CRTL014]
- Mathew Jonson – Diamond Eyes [TNS028]
- Rob Pearson & Chris Wong – Digital Dream [REAL008]
- Natalie Gardiner – Down On Me (Dragan & Mikhu Edit) [OGEWHITE011]
- Sally C – Downtown [BSC002]
- Charonne – Eden [FIR008]
- Sweely – Energy Bars [BSU007]
- Matthias – Enon [FAC-2]
- Fio Fa – Enter The Turtle [SUNSET001]
- Locklead – Era [DSOTSV01]
- Laurine & Cecilio – Era Un Ravero [SL033]
- Man/ipulate – Eternity (Alex Kassian’s Ode To Sunshine Mix) [CMR007]
- Shaque & Tjizza – Falling C [PICNIC005]
- Costin Rp – Family First [STPV012]
- Pure Sleek – Feel This Beat [DIGBETH005]
- Ricardo Villalobos & Ferro – Ferric One [VBX007]
- Too Smooth Christ – FM Enhancement [EYA018]
- Vision Of Gandhi – Forgotten Realms (Arp Mix) [ONUSSEN02]
- Protectorate feat. Francesco del Garda – Good Breath [RST025]
- Data Memory Access – I Can’t Be Alone [MW003]
- DMX Krew – I Love Kevin [ALT003]
- Shonky & Giammarco Orsini – Il Ritorno [SP002]
- Kolter – Interstellar Music [HOOVE03]
- Silat Beksi – Jhana [RAWAX-S021]
- Yamen & EDA – Joe Kerr (Youandewan Remix) [ONE050]
- JOSS – Justify (iO (Mulen) Remix) [ARR044]
- Pancratio – Korghettini Electronics #6 [OTTA4]
- Domenico Rosa – Kosmos [P.T.003]
- Occibel – Lift Off [PACHINKO1]
- Miroloja & Swoy – Like Really [OLOREC005]
- Unknown Artist – Los Ninos [OOO001]
- map.ache – Love (S.O.S) [GIEGLING28]
- Man/ipulate – Make It Sweat [SENTAKU007]
- Theme V – Mind Identification [OLBREC002]
- DJ Pipe – Mobile Craft [GN02]
- Henry Hyde – More Days Inside [NSR010]
- MFT – Naughty Tea Garden [ROR003]
- Mystic Bill – Obzession (Black Mix) [WYC001]
- Dolly – Organ Lab [ANIMA4]
- ZeroFG – Original Nuttah (Out Of Respect Mix) [EC2A-048]
- Sohrab – Out Of Touch [EYA017]
- Toke – Pero [PPR003]
- Joy Orbison – Pinky Ring [XL1262TN]
- victor.b – Point [SPINDESIRE002]
- Riku Sugimoto – Poisonous Pufferfish [LONEWOLF011]
- victor.b – Proskater [HPNHS004]
- Jake Flory – Pure Tone [MTMLTD011]
- Italoboyz / Marco Donato – Random Fucktor [POLO-06]
- Sweely – Re-Center Yourself [TSOL002]
- Arapu – Reset [UVAR015]
- Magazino & Tiago Marques – Santos do Bairro [BLOOP025]
- Sonic Resistance – Secret Potion [ANTAM008]
- Jacopo Latini – Since I Found You [TAB003]
- Nemo Vachez – Slomo4 [LMML20]
- O’FortyFour – Smudge Funk [AMG001]
- Bobby. – Space Age [PCLUB013]
- Paramida – Space Ride [LOTR025]
- Mathew Jonson – Spaceport 23 [HB021]
- Liquid Earth – Spooky Snorkel [SVA-003]
- Mayell – Studio 7 [TRAFFIC019]
- Electromenager – Sunny Side (Huerta Remix) [STFM002]
- Yamen & EDA – Sunny Side Motel (S. Moreira Remix) [SCRTC013]
- SE62 – Teacher’s Call [SLPFNK025]
- Man/ipulate – The Beat Club [OPIA012]
- Lucretio & Omar Akhrif – There Is No Enemy (Marieu Remix) [TL07]
- Gene On Earth – To Bleep Or Not To Bleep [LD007]
- Sandilé – Trayvon (Malin Genie Remix) [HOMEAGAIN004]
- Unknown Artist – Unknown A1 [TELUM009]
- Unknown Artist – Unknown A1 [VWV005]
- Unknown Artist – Untitled A2 [CHIVALRY001]
- Franco Cinelli – Unum Festival [MR004]
- Remus – Velvet (Vocal Mix) [SELF-RELEASED]
- Timmy P – Vibes And Mutual Friends (Rich NxT Remix) [CEC043]
- Borys – Voice In My Head [WB027]
- Andy Catana – Wav Encore [MDT06]
- Post Play – Wave Lazer [MOVES003]
- PENG – WCM 2 LDN [PENG90]
- Henriku & Alexander Skancke – What Happened? [QRK006]
- Sepp – Wherelse [LOK067]
- D&P – WTF [PT001]
- Voodoos & Taboos – XTC [CWPT004]
- Kolter – Ying Yang [PILOT07]
- Huerta – Zappin’ [LZR003]
- Aerofunk – Zezwa [SLS001]
DISCLAIMER. Please note that this section is a collection of 100 tracks that the team at Trommel enjoyed most in the passing year. It should not be intended as a ranking or chart/classification in any form, and the list of tracks is made following track name A-Z order. It also reflects the subjective taste of the team components from their personal but limited knowledge of what has been released during 2022.
You can check our previous selections from 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
ALSO. This article was written in Ukraine. Ukraine is in the middle of the war with Russia right now. Would be great if you could donate to the biggest Ukrainian volunteer fund here. Also, you can pick any music initiative, that is also trying to help from our list here. We’ll be stronger together.
