WiscoJazz-Cast: Episode 189 [BEST OF 2022]

Here's my favorite tracks from 2022. This will be a long(er) post, but given the importance and reflective nature of this mix, I'd like to explain what is behind this mix. Each year I put together a 'best of' mix for the year. This isn't a typical "year end round up list" that many put together. When I pick out tracks to include in these 'best of' mixes, I'm not always selecting tracks that I consider to be 'the best produced', or 'the highest grossing', or what 'I listened to the most', or 'what the algorithm suggested'. These are special tracks that signified a meaningful moment in my life over this past year and they were the soundtrack to that moment. The moments could range from something like reminiscing with friends, to a soundtrack to a show I couldn't get enough of, to tracks that ignited a dancefloor, to tracks that I couldn't stop listening to no matter how hard I tried. This is a mix of feelings. Only music can do that. We're so lucky to be able to communicate in this way - to bottle up feelings and have them transferred to you via this thing we call music. In the hands of DJs - who can orchestrate music to take you on a journey of FEELS - that is some next level ish right there. You now know what these 'best of' mixes are about. Here are my favorite tracks from 2022. 01 - SAULT - Valley of the Ocean [Forever Living Originals] 02 - Aviators - Sun Creatures [Music For Dreams] 03 - Santino Surfers - Looking At A Strange World [Music For Dreams] 04 - Shy FX & Liam Bailey - Come Around Slowly [Digital Soundboy] 05 - James Bright - Totem [NuNorthern Soul] 06 - Darius feat. Kadhja Bonet - Nothing to me [Roche Musique] 07 - VVieux Farka Touré Et Khruangbin - Diarabi [Dead Oceans] 08 - Kokoroko - Something's Going On [Brownswood Recordings] 09 - Kutiman - A Day Off [Siyal] 10 - Magic Source - Genius Of Love [Favorite Recordings] 11 - Palm Skin Productions - The Sword Will Die [Tru Thoughts] 12 - Eagle - Sunrise [Cold Busted] 13 - Black Star - So Be It 14 - Danger Mouse & Black Thought feat. Michael Kiwanuka - Aquamarine [BMG] 15 - Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 5 [pgLang] 16 - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard & DJ Shadow - Black Hot Soup (DJ Shadow's My Own Reality Re-Write) [Liquid Amber] 17 - U.S. Girls - So Typically Now [4AD Ltd] 18 - Sefi Zisling feat. Layla Moallem/Jasmin Moallem/KerenDun - The Sky Sings (Obas Nenor's Extended Dub) [Tru Thoughts] 19 - Fotheringay - The Way I Feel (lukewarm edit) 20 - Anders Ponsaing, Kenneth Bager - Greece 2000 [Music For Dreams] 21 - CHAIRNOGOODFORBACK - Let Music Always Round Me (II) [Music For Dreams] 22 - Rhye - Holy (Frank Wiedemann Remix) [Secular Sabbath] 23 - Harry Styles - Music For a Sushi Restaurant [Columbia] 24 - LF SYSTEM - Afraid To Feel [Warner] 25 - Elado - Sun [Razor N Tape] 26 - Axel Boman - Hold On [Studio Barnhus] 27 - Tensnake feat. Fiora - Nightshift (Enduro Disco Noir Extended Mix) [Armada Music] 28 - The Soft Pink Truth - Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This? (Dark Room Mix) [Thrill Jockey Records] 29 - Rhye - Black Rain (Ãme Remix) [Secular Sabbath] 30 - Bonobo - Defender [Outlier] 31 - Chevals - Afterparty [Dansu Discs] 32 - Seb Wildblood - Jobi [All My Thoughts] 33 - Fort Romeau - Untitled IV [Ghostly International] 34 - George FitzGerald - Cold [Domino] 35 - Jungle - Good Times [Caiola Records] 36 - Beyoncé - Break My Soul [Parkwood Entertainment] 37 - Luxxury - Break My Love 38 - Lizzo - About Damn Time (Purple Disco Machine Extended Mix) [Atlantic] 39 - Elton John - Hold Me Closer (Purple Disco Machine Extended Mix) [EMI] 40 - Beyoncé - Summer Renaissance [Parkwood Entertainment] 41 - Oliver Heldens, Nile Rodgers, House Gospel Choir - I Was Made For Lovin' You (Extended) [Kangarooli Tracks] 42 - SAULT - Stronger [Forever Living Originals] 43 - Aux Meadows - Locals [Shed Records] 44 - Crazy P - If Life Could Be This Way [Walk Don't Walk Ltd] 45 - Rob Simonsen - Running Up That Hill (Lullaby Mix)