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Best of 2016 - Mix and Album List

This year certainly has been a strange one. My favorite albums are no different!

Here's the crazy-long list, and a mix that highlights something from almost every album.

Beats and Instrumentals:

Swarvy, Knxwledge, and Mndsgn, still from StonesThrow Records

Toonorth - Melancholy Swarvy - Elderberry Drrtywulvz - Ah Yes

Devonwho - Luz Elusive - Textures

Sleepy Eyes - Burnout

Dirty Merlin - Perfect Princess

Prozak Morris - Dystopia

Norvis jr - Pyrrhic Victory

Linafornia - Yung

Kenny Segal - Kenstrumentals vol 2

Nicolas Jarre - Sirens

Daedalus - Labyrinths

Flamingosis - Pleasure Palette

Kaytranada - 99.9%

Jeff Parker - The New Breed

Blank Banshee - Mega

cover art from Zeroh's release, Tinnitus

Rhymes: Dretrav and Gabonano - Rareflwrs

Zeroh - Tinnitus

Tribe Called Quest - We'll Take it From Here

T'mon - False credence

Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered

Mick Jenkins - The Healing Component

JsnMsk - YHN

NxWorries - Anderson Paak and knx

Vince Staples - Prima Donna

Charles Bradley, performing at the 2013 Sydney Festival in Australia. (Marianna Massey/Getty Images)

Vocalists:

Nico Yaryan - What a Tease

James Blake - Colour in Anything

Mndsgn - Bodywash

Anohni - Hopelessness

Charles Bradley - Changes

Gallant - Ology

Drab Majesty - Completely Careless

The Seshen - Flames and Figures

Soundtracks:

Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein - Stranger Things Vol 1 Moniker - Hunt for the Wilderpeople Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Before the Flood

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