This year's best track is presented by a new arrival artist. Phonat has some other nice productions but 'Set Me Free' really captures the heart of everything I could ever hope to hear in the club. I am always surprised at the eclectic audience this song has reached. No matter what type of crowd I play it out at, several people will immediately start going insane.
The song's brilliance can be found in it's musical story telling. It starts out with some nice vocal chops that float around your brain in sleek stereo sound. There's a blueballing buildup that teases you until your begging for the beat to drop.
A visual representation of 1:33-2:02 would be clouds parting after a thunderous storm. Poseidon just having reacked havock on the earth becomes tired and retreats back into the ocean's depths. You (the listener) are one of the only survivors left on earth, Your tattered and body floating above the treacherous deep. A beam of light pierces through the dark sky and strikes your skin causing a numbing sensation.
the heavens open up.
you are lead into a place of beauty, comfort and elation.
You can fly.
Other producers would be content with leaving their song finished here, having established a nice hook and general vibe for their single. Not Phonat. Like a twist in a plot, he turns the song upside down around 3:18, launching us into a full on banger...tech...shit storm? I'm not sure what to call it but it's amazing and floors me every time.
Then toward the end there's a quick medly of everything you've heard, sort of like at the end of musicals where they mash up all the songs of the show so they get stuck in your head during the car ride home.
The Hood Internet used the last part of this song for an awesome Kid Sister mash up, the song is brilliantly mastered and produced, the album artwork is gorgeous the
video is epic...
[Side Note] For those of you who would applaud me for not making a top ten of 09, don't. Mine's just a little late. For now here's the best dance single of 2009.
Just got this killer remix of Dragonette's 'Pick up the Phone' single. 
I've got two brand spakin new mixes from Good Morning Good Night. I met them a while back when they sent over their infectious 'On My Mind' remix. Since then I have been relentless in my harassment to shake them down for new dance funk grooves. 
Might as well call Le Principle the funk doctors. They're out there every night performing cpr on tunes you thought was dead. Listen to these jams they recently resurrected called 'The Music' and 'Lost In Music'. They're my favorites out of a pack of free tunes they gave away through twitter.
