Dancing Astronaut presents the Prime 100 Digital Tracks of 2021 – Dancing Astronaut
by: Ross Goldenberg
Dec 30, 2021
Plain and easy, 2021 was an anomaly not only for dance music, but additionally for music as a complete. A bulk of 2020 was spent imagining how releases would ultimately translate to the in-person format once more, and this contemplation carried over properly into the brand new 12 months, with no instant finish in sight. With the live performance calendar in an interminable limbo all the way in which from January till the spring and summer season months, artists continued to journey the unrestrained artistic waves that they’d beforehand mounted—minus the time constraints of touring schedules. The music launched all through the course of the 12 months persistently mirrored the ingenuity that was the results of lengthy and unimpeded durations within the studio. And even with live shows now (considerably) again in full swing, it feels as if that mindset has but to vary.
Though in-person music programming was in stasis firstly of the 12 months, authentic releases had been something however. 2021 was given a head begin the very second that the New Yr’s Eve ball dropped, when, within the early moments of January 1, Hardwell and Blasterjaxx determined to expeditiously safe a spot on our eventual reflection of the 12 months’s most memorable tracks. Their the long-awaited “Bootshaus ID” was a welcome start line to a sweeping launch document that we’d must someway slender right down to Dancing Astronaut‘s high 100 releases of 2021 when the time got here. And if all went accordingly to plan this 12 months, Dancing Astronaut‘s most-anticipated IDs of the 12 months would hopefully present 15 different releases that may be part of the Dutch duo’s bigroom collision, with 11 of these unreleased cuts clearing the discharge board when the 12 months was all mentioned and achieved. Gorgon Metropolis and DRAMA’s late-January supply of “You’ve Finished Sufficient” set the ID launch prepare in movement. Later, Bleu Clair and OOTORO‘s “Beat Like This”—which STMPD RCRDS was variety sufficient to allow us to premiere— Porter Robinson‘s “Take a look at the Sky”; ILLENIUM, Nurko, and Valerie Broussard’s “Sideways”; Alesso’s “Any individual To Use”; Ophelia Data‘ “Pantheon”; RL Grime and ISOxo‘s “Stinger”; Dom Dolla‘s “Pump the Brakes”; and David Guetta, MORTEN, and John Martin‘s “Unimaginable” all acquired the inexperienced launch mild. However that was merely a hint quantity of the 2021 productions that might be deemed Observe-of-the-Yr worthy, and whereas these 10 songs—and lots of upon lots of of others—had been deserving of that sought-after title, just one now wears the crown as we attain 2021’s last hours.
“The observe of the 12 months dialog could also be open and shut earlier than its eventual winner even arrives.” That is how we prefaced “One Extra Day” on that forenamed checklist of our most-anticipated 2021 releases and the sentence now rings as true as ever. We knew it when Seven Lions launched it at The Gorge Amphitheatre a 12 months and a half in the past, we knew it when it arrived in March, and we know it now that our Observe of the Yr couldn’t have been something aside from Jason Ross, Blanke, and Chandler Leighton‘s three-headed magnum opus of melodic-bass, “One Extra Day.”
“One Extra Day” shined brightly on the unending path of Ophelia Data originals that amounted to its choice as Dancing Astronaut‘s 2021 Label of the Yr, and contemplating the quantity of occasions that we’ve tweeted in regards to the observe in 2021, “One Extra Day” vaulting from our favourite unreleased ID to our favourite launch this 12 months ought to come as something however a shock. Whereas we stream “One Extra Day” for the 1,000,000th time, get pleasure from it—in addition to 99 of our different high releases of 2021—in our full playlist under.
Featured picture: Alex Varsa
Classes: Options, Music