GIMME TINNITUS

Is it time to start listing the best tracks of year already? Why yes, yes it is. Now, a lot of these tracks have been available for a while (e.g. last year or in the GT 2010 preview), but they either had their official release this year or I just thought they should be on this list for some other reason or another. Without further ado, I give you the first volume of the Best Downloadables of 2010.

Downloadables:

Spector (mp3) by Signals

BEAD (mp3) by Dinowalrus

Swim (To Reach The End) (mp3) by Surfer Blood

M.B.T. (mp3) by Susu

C’mon (mp3) by The Soft Pack

Written In Reverse (mp3) by Spoon

Ambling Alp (mp3) by Yeasayer

I Do (mp3) by Screaming Females

Self Awakening (mp3) by Ernest Gonzales

Blessa (mp3) by Toro y Moi

Friendly Ghost (mp3) by Harlem

See Waves (mp3) by Nice Nice

some lonesome street corner (USF remix) (mp3) by cars & trains

Excuse Me (Memory Tapes Remix) (mp3) by Gucci Mane

Jail La La (mp3) by Dum Dum Girls

Me Thing Drawing Me (mp3) by Javelin

Everything Will Be Alright (mp3) by Golden Ages

Hold (mp3) by Hands

Years (Five – Eight) (mp3) by Starscream

Teenage Whore (mp3) by Dinosaur Feathers

Can’t Stay Awake (mp3) by Cloud Nothings

Be sure to check out the rest of the year’s Best Downloadables:

Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 | Vol. 4 | Vol. 5

Additionally, if you like what you hear you should probably purchase music from the above artists at any of these fine online retailers:

Insound | Amazon MP3 | eMusic | Other Music

Also, If you want to download all (or most of) the tracks in this post, you should probably think about installing the DownThemAll! or FlashGot Firefox extensions.

As you probably already heard, Diplo gathered together a bunch of remixers to ply their craft to their favorite tracks from major label rap artist Gucci Mane’s triology The Cold War Mixtapes. The resulting free album Free Gucci (Best of The Cold War Mixtapes) features the knob tweaking of Memory Tapes, SALEM, Flying Lotus, Zomby, DJ Teenwolf, among others. Listen…

Downloadable: Excuse Me (Memory Tapes Remix) (mp3)

Get the whole free album over at Mad Decent.

Gucci Mane is on Twitter.
Gucci Mane is on Wiki Wiki Wiki.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

As you may already know, Adult Swim has a long history of releasing rad mixtapes. It all started with the Occult Hymn EP by Danger Doom. Then came: Definitive Swim (Def Jux themed), Warm And Scratchy (indie rock themed), Ghostly Swim (Ghostly Int’l themed), and most recently African Swim (African hip hop themed). Now Adult Swim has a new mixtape entitled ATL RMX, which teams up Atlanta rappers with a wide variety of remixers. And now a couple of tracks from said free mixtape.

Downloadables:
Take Off (Michna Remix) (mp3) by Young Dro
Good Night (HEALTH Remix) (mp3) by OJ Da Juiceman featuring Gucci Mane

Download the whole ATL RMX album… here.

Some of the other remixers on the album include: SALEM, Flying Lotus, Memory Tapes, Dam-Funk, Phaseone, Hudson Mohawke, and Prefuse 73.

The album is a cross-promotion for Rockstar’s app named Beaterator, which is a Timbaland-inspired remix app.