Part one of one of the best mix albums out there

Fresh for you from 2009, a choice selection of that hip-hop music. 4th Annual Edition.

This is the 9th installment of my year-end Best Of series (which I started in 2001). See more here: http://maltedmusic.blogspot.com/2010/01/best-of-2009.html

For what it's worth, here's my 2009 'Best Of' mix to throw on the already enormous pile. The 25 songs are in order, meaning the first track that plays (r1fle reco1l) is my 25th favourite of the year. Phantogram came out top, and there's a tracklist within the first comment (well there was, but it's been deleted by someone. Thanks guys). Incidentally, best album would've gone to Phoenix, closely followed by The xx.

A countdown of the top 25 tracks across all "best of 2009" mixes on 8tracks.

Tracks selected based on the number of mixes in which they were included and the aggregate play count of those mixes.

Includes music by Animal Collective, Phoenix and Bat for Lashes.

these are the top albums of 2009, yeah i realize i'm on an elitist pretentious music site, sorry i underestimated you guys

The best songs I heard this year

Follow up to my previous mix. It took 3 months to prepare but it's finally here.

50% tracks to wake you up
50% tracks to calm you down
100% sweet remixes

thanks @dp for that first track by Gold Panda, the anthem of our 8tracks 1 year anniversary.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do!!

20+ tracks representing Bollywood's best with tracks by A.R. Rahman, Shankar Mahadevan and Vishal-Shekhar.

music by Sigur Ros, The XX, Phoenix and more

A countdown of the top 10 tracks of 2009 as selected by Pitchfork staff, including music by Animal Collective, Bat For Lashes and Big Boi.

Check out the reviews here: http://tinyurl.com/ycf9omv