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The Key’s Year-End Mania: K. Ross Hoffman’s megamix dance party for NYE 2017
Year-End Mania is the Key’s annual survey of the things below the surface that made 2017 incredible. In this installment, Key contributor K. Ross Hoffman presents a megamix of 2017 highlights for all your New Year’s dance party needs.
Welcome to my year end mania. My most cherished, and certainly most insane annual personal ritual, every December since 2006 (the year of Girl Talk, not so coincidentally) is to construct a monster mash-up DJ mega-mix of music from the year that was. The idea is for it to serve as a dance party for New Year’s Eve. This year, I’m sharing my mix – finally completed, with just hours to spare – with you.
I think this is my longest New Year’s mix ever. It also ended up being the dirtiest mix I’ve ever made – I’m not sure what that says about this year. As Fever Ray observed perceptively in a track that I didn’t end up including, this country made it hard to fuck in 2017 – still, it was a year in which even Taylor Swift was #readyforit.
Regular readers of my Now Hear This column will recognize plenty of the cuts included here from our journeys in song over the past twelve months. Other tracks are sourced from the pop charts, critical consensus picks, nuggets discovered from scanning the year-end lists of various publications, and all manner of personal bops including my absolute 2017 anthem which nobody else seemed to notice, MUNA’s “I Know A Place.” You’ll hear a fair amount of Philly in here too, from Sheer Mag to Lil Uzi Vert to Alison Crutchfield to DJ Haram. (My tradition is to start off every mix with a track by Four Tet; helpfully, he released one this year entitled Two Thousand Seventeen.)
Happy 2018, y’all! Let’s dance it out.
…and here’s the tracklist:
1. Two Thousand and Seventeen – Four Tet
2. Slip Away – Perfume Genius
3. Drew Barrymore – SZA
4. Congo Get Slap (Mark Ernestus Remix) – Equiknoxx
5. Frontline – Kelela
6. Nichako – DJ Lycox
7. Big For Your Boots – Stormzy
8. Glue – Bicep
9. Feel Infinite – Jacques Greene
10. Bad & Boujee – Migos
11. Toma – Nidia
12. Shotgun – Spoon
13. Tin – Daphni
14. Green Light – Lorde
15. Boys – Charli XCX
16. Uh Huh – Julia Michaels
17. Better – Lil Yachty
18. Sky Walker – Miguel ft. Travis Scott
19. XO Tour Lif3 – Lil Uzi Vert
20. Big Bank – Big K.R.I.T. ft. T.I.
21. The Underside of Power – Algiers
22. Kendrick Lamar – HUMBLE.
23. My Old Man – Mac DeMarco
24. Emotional Haircut – LCD Soundsystem
25. Cartoon Rock – Delicate Steve
26. Feel It Still – Portugal. The Man
27. 3 Fine Hoez – Boylan & DJ Deeon
28. Look At What The Light Did Now – Matthew E. White & Flo Morrissey
29. I’m The One – DJ Khaled ft. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper & Lil Wayne
30. Nyakinyua Rise – Jlin
31. BagBak – Vince Staples
32. …Ready For It? –Taylor Swift
33. IDK About You – Fever Ray
34. Dean’s Room – Alison Crutchfield
35. Love You Like A Brother – Alex Lahey
36. Big Boys – Chuck Berry
37. Down – Marian Hill
38. Oh Baby – LCD Soundsystem
39. Gabriel Garzon-Montano – Crawl
40. Quick Exit – Mr. C
41. Love$ick – Mura Masa ft. A$AP Rocky
42. Sweet Love – Wizkid
43. Big Bad Sound – Chronixx ft. Chronicle
44. Despacito – Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber
45. Lemon – N.E.R.D ft. Rihanna
46. Offering – Cults
47. Dark Night – Amber Coffman
48. Chained To The Rhythm – Katy Perry ft. Skip Marley
49. Level Up – Kodie Shane
50. Yeoman – Baths
51. Red Mercedes – Aminé
52. Die Young – Sylvan Esso
53. Do U Love Me – Young Thug
54. Los Ageless – St. Vincent
55. Big Woman – Nadia Rose
56. Caramelo Duro – Miguel ft. Kali Uchis
57. Locura Colectiva – Making Movies
58. Mi Gente (Remix) – J Balvin ft. Beyoncé & William Willy
59. Angel – Juanes
60. Need To Feel Your Love – Sheer Mag
61. Is It Always Binary? – Soulwax
62. To The Moon & Back – Fever Ray
63. Ponyboy – Sophie
64. Boogie – Brockhampton
65. Disco Tits – Tove Lo
66. 1 Night – Mura Masa ft. Charli XCX
67. Chocolate – Big Boi ft. Trozé
68. Blue Pedro – Bullion
69. Passionfruit – Drake
70. Want You Back – Haim
71. Raining Again – Pender Street Steppers
72. I Know A Place – MUNA
73. Standing In The Middle Of The Field – Cut Copy
74. Cut To The Feeling – Carly Rae Jepsen
75. Everything Now – Arcade Fire
76. Ordinary Lover – Moon King
77. I’m Better – Missy Elliott ft. Lamb
78. Woman – Kesha
79. Question – KH
80. How We Met (The Long Version) – Jens Lekman
81. High Times – Marcus Marr
82. Hard Times – Paramore
83. Long Time – Blondie
84. There’s A Honey – Pale Waves
85. Colors – Beck
86. Look At Your Hands – Tune-Yards
87. Theme From Q – Objekt
88. Bad Liar – Selena Gomez
89. Tail Lift – Joe
90. Other Voices – LCD Soundsystem
91. Leaves – Justin Carter
92. On Hold – The xx
93. Bodak Yellow – Cardi B
94. Body Count – DJ Haram
95. Love – Lana Del Rey