Music

Best Music of 2013

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If you think year-end music lists are about nailing down the best music of the year, you are doing it wrong. Music is intensely personal, so lists should be like fingerprints, not aggregations of taste. That’s why I’m particularly proud of Unwinnable’s Best Music of 2013. Sure, we put some hits up on the board, but I think our top ten reflects more than a little of our off-kilter sensibility. And if you really want to discover some new music keep reading (and listening to our Spotify playlist). Our nominees go deep, hard and weird.

Unmixable: Spaced

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Kursse returns to Earth and brings sounds from the great beyond. His mix of familiar sounds and oddball tracks shows how vast space can be. Intro “Ape Shall Never Kill Ape” – U.N.K.L.E. “Intergalactic (Fuzzy Logic Remix)” – Beastie Boys “Spaceship” – bananaSLOTH “Spacelab” – Kraftwerk “Walking on the Moon Remix” – The Police Excerpts from War of the Worlds “Planet Earth” – Duran Duran “Killer Klowns From Outer Space” – The Dickies “Teenager from Mars” – The Misfits “Astronomy” – Blue Oyster Cult “Space Truckin’” – Deep Purple “Z-X3” – Man or Astro-man? “Space Oddity” – David Bowie “Major Tom