RadioActive.fm Top 50

So here it is... the RadioActive.fm Top 50 tunes of 2011! What an outstanding year it's been for new music (and another crap one over in the mainstream)... especially for NZ music...

The RadioActive.fm Top 50 is compilled using data from caller / text / facebook / twitter requests, Dj picks, and the weekly Top 11 with B-Line (broadcast every Wednesday from 7pm til 9pm right here on RadioActive.fm

This year NZ artist not only occupy 25 spots on the chart, but take 6 slots in the top 10...

Huge congratulations to all the artists, labels and especially Wellies own D:UNK for taking out number 1!! You can check out D:UNK along with excelle right here on RadioActive.fm on The Urban Experiment on Sundays 7-9pm....

So, here it is... what Active sounded like in 2011 :-)

1 D:UNK - Floor You (independent) (NZ)
2 Orchestra of Spheres - Hypersphere (Carabou edit) (independent) (NZ)
3 Unkle with Nick Cave - Money & Run (Inertia/Rhythmethod)
4 Parallel Dance Ensemble - Shopping Cart (Permanent Vacation) (NZ)
5 Tame Impala - Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind? (Erol Alkan Rework) (Modular/Universal)
6 Urban Tramper - Kate Bush Saved My Life (independent) (NZ)
7 The Kills - Satellite (Domino/EMI)
8 She's So Rad - Format (Round Trip Mars) (NZ)
9 David Lynch - Pinky's Dream feat. Karen O (Border)
10 Bachelorette - Blanket (Particle Tracks/Rhythmethod) (NZ)
11 Crystal Fighters - Champion Sound (Alternative mix) (PIAS/Liberator)
12 @peace - Nobody feat. Lucky Lance (independent) (NZ)
13 Scratch22 - Window Rattle (Round Trip Mars) (NZ)
14 The Slurtones - We Like to Paint (NZ)
15 Planningtorock - The Breaks (DFA/Shock)
16 Glass Vaults - Gold Star (JUKBOXR) (NZ)
17 Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers (Warners)
18 1995 - Love Your Ghost (Frequency) (NZ)
19 The Checks - Candyman Shimmer (Rhythmethod) (NZ)
20 Imaginary Cities - Say You (Shock)
21 Little Bark - Party (Tone-E & Symptom remix) (independent) (NZ)
22 Benoit & Sergio - Boy Trouble (edit) (DFA)
23 Olmecha the Relic - Timebeast (independent) (NZ)
24 Cornerstone Roots - Journey (CSR) (NZ)
25 CSS feat. Bobby Gillespie - Hits Me Like a Rock (Universal)
26 The Vietnam War - Beat My Time (Round Trip Mars) (NZ)
27 Faults - Invention (independent) (NZ)
28 Secrets - Stay Tru (independent) (NZ)
29 Charles Bradley & the Menahan Street band - The World is Going Up In Flames (Daptone/Shock)
30 The Radio Dept - The New Improved Hypocrisy (Labrador)
31 PVT (Pivot) - Crimson Swan (Warp/Border)
32 Family Cactus - Fields & Fields (Arch Hill) (NZ)
33 F in Math - Don't Look Down (Flying Nun/Warners) (NZ)
34 SBTRKT - Wildfire feat. Little Dragon (Young Turks/The Label)
35 Jon Lemmon - Exodus I (independent) (NZ)
36 M83 - Midnight City (Rhythmethod)
37 Roots Manuva - Get the Get (Big Dada/Border)
38 LA Mitchell - All For Nothing (Honesty Box/Rhythmethod) (NZ)
39 Cults - Abducted (Sony)
40 Hercules & Love Affair - Painted Eyes (Moshi-Moshi/Shock)
41 St. Rupertsberg - So Way Oh Way Oh (independent) (NZ)
42 Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX - I'll Take Care of You (XL/the Label)
43 Ria Hall - Best of Me (Tu Taniwha) (NZ)
44 Kurt Vile - Smoke Rings For My Halo (Matador/the Label)
45 Shabazz Palaces - Swerve... the Reeping of All That Is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding) (Rhythmethod)
46 Tom Lark - All Night Long (independent) (NZ)
47 Phantogram - Don't Move (Barsuk)
48 JBrown & the Mic Smith - Where Ya At (independent) (NZ)
49 Hudson Mohawke - All Your Love (Warp/Border)
50 The Nudge - Come Home (independent) (NZ)