CMU Approved CMU Playlists

Playlist: CMU Approved in 2016

By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 19 December 2016

As always, every day in 2016, except Fridays obviously, and Saturdays, and Sundays, but on every other single day, apart from bank holidays, but on all the rest, we selected artists and tracks from the ocean of new music on which we sail in order to grant them official CMU Approved status.

A total of 190 artists were approved along the way. It’s possible you missed a couple, which is a shame, because every single one of them was brilliant. It’s alright though, because we’ve been collecting them all in a Spotify playlist.

Well, most of them. Actually, 179 have the song we wrote about available on the streaming service, which is a massive improvement on previous years. All in all, that’s just shy of twelve hours of music, which should keep you going for the two weeks or so before the column returns for 2017.

It kicks off with our five artists of the year: Frank Ocean, Riz MC, Anna Meredith, Lady Leshurr and Moddi.

Listen to it all here:

Tracklist:

• Frank Ocean – Nikes
• Swet Shop Boys – T5
• Anna Meredith – The Vapours
• Lady Leshurr – Queen’s Speech 6
• Moddi – Army Dreamers
• Young Juvenile Youth – Youth
• Lully – Sans Chapeau
• Anna Straker – Serious
• Rodes Rollins – Young & Thriving
• Bargou 08 – Mamchout
• Bloom Twins – Set Us Free
• Brutus – All Along
• Sad Palace – Breeze
• Jay Daniel – Knowledge Of Selfie
• Alyusha – Moshi Moshi
• The Very Nice Interesting Singer Man – One Step At A Time
• Cavegreen – Witches Dream
• Else Born – This Time/Remember
• Nathan Fake & Prurient – Degreelessness
• Adna – Overthinking
• Avante Black – Drug Money
• HMS Morris – From The Neck Down
• Childcare – Film Club
• Noga Erez – Dance While You Shoot
• Wednesday Campanella – Aladdin
• Leonie Evans – Mi Balcon
• Ayelle – No Harm
• Frederic Robinson – Breathing
• Knight$ – What’s Your Poison
• Fifi Rong – Future Never Comes
• Confidence Man – Boyfriend (Repeat)
• Ama Lou – TBC
• worriedaboutsatan – From A Dead Man (Part 2)
• Estrons – I’m Not Your Girl
• Trills – Mud And Gold
• Many Voices Speak – Video Child
• Keir – Probably
• Michelle O Faith – Birthday Blues
• Wildhart – Shake Off
• Yentax – Yentax Error
• Andrew Broder – Apeggehater
• Menace Beach – Maybe We’ll Drown
• Girl Ray – Trouble
• Silja Sol – Dyrene
• Cosima – Girls Who Get Ready
• Debz – Plastic Wrap
• Robin Richards – Liquidators
• Cherryade – Houdini
• Paffgen – Channel View
• Skott – Amelia
• Sacred Paws – Everyday
• Katie Gately – Lift
• Prides – Are You Ready?
• Conrad Schnitzler & Schneider TM – Doozer
• Dany Rodriguez – November
• Radian – Scary Objects
• Cristian Vogel – Cubic Haze
• Kelly Lee Owens – CBM
• Empathy Test – Demons
• Baby Baby – Hang In There
• Cherry Glazerr – Told You I’d Be With The Guys
• Lulu James – It’s The Time
• Konni Kass – Time
• Modern Studies – Dive Bombing
• Soccer96 – Megadrive Lamborghini
• I Am Karate – Swayze
• Wovoka Gentle – When Cameron Was In Egypt’s Land, Let My Cameron Go
• Vanessa Anne Redd – Behind The Wall
• Cocoa Futures – The Blue
• Diamond – Bad Girls
• Adam Betts – Drumbones
• Oddarrang – Mass I-III
• Bat And Ball – Cruel Cats
• Myrkur – Jeg Er Guden
• SaraSara – Euphoria
• Minor Victories – Cogs
• Motion Graphics – Lense
• Clipping – Baby Don’t Sleep
• Neamo Kid – Schoolyard
• Bayonne – Spectrolite
• Lung Dart – Healthy Functional Tissue
• The Garden – Call This # Now
• Xander Harris – Buckle Bunny
• Holychild – Power Play
• Yip Man – For Your Own Good
• The Pictish Trail – Dead Connection
• Noréll – Howl
• Mieux – Rust
• Mass Gothic – Nice Night
• Toothless -Palm’s Backside
• Jerkcurb – Night On Earth
• Roch – Vienna
• Riz MC – Englistan
• Miamigo – Forever
• Tycho – Division
• Will Joseph Cook – Take Me Dancing
• Exploded View – Orlando
• Suzanne Ciani & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Closed Circuit
• Lola Colt – Moonlight Mixing
• MJ Hibbett & The Validators – 20 Things To Do Before You’re 30
• Portishead – SOS
• Bad Willow – Ringer
• Death Team – Jump
• Darkstar – Reformer (feat Empress Of)
• Pascal Pinon – 53
• Danny Brown – When It Rain
• Efterklang – Cities Of Glass
• NZCA Lines – Oh… (Call Me Back)
• RABBII – New Friends
• Sälen – Diseasey
• Ida Long – Mannen På Taket
• Villas – Fuckin Round On You
• Hilary Woods – Bathing
• Zyna Hel – Catacombs
• The Erised – Liar
• Effie – Pressure
• The Fin – White Breath
• Vessels – Are You Trending?
• Moonface & Siinai – Them Call Themselves Old Punks
• Pink Oculus – Overdue
• Jim Perkins & Tom Gaisford – Kyrie
• Maria Usbeck – Jungla Inquieta
• Dems – Gold
• Magical Mistakes – Annihilated
• Jain – Come
• Basia Bulat – Long Goodbye
• Moddi – Punk Prayer
• The Hearing – Robot Vs Human Heart
• Rex Domino – Sam’s Spoon
• Amanda Mair – Wednesday
• The Bridport Dagger – Harry Dean Stanton
• Parc en Ciel – pH
• Colder – Inside
• Lyra – Rabbit In The Headlights
• Annabel Jones – IOU
• Sh?m – Mob Boss
• William Tyler – Gone Clear
• Anchorsong – Expo
• Slowolf x Kimbra – White Feathers
• Dälek – Control
• Fakear – Sheer-Khan
• Rukhsana Merrise – Money
• Femme En Fourrure – Seer
• Ofelia K – Cinco
• Anna Of The North – Baby
• Wesley Gonzales – I Spoke To Euan
• Jennifer Evans – Bakkos
• Marcus Whale – My Captain
• I Wear Experiment – Patience
• Le Voir – Gravity
• Babymetal – Karate
• Fiordmoss – Madstone
• Mikeneko Homeless x Masayoshi Iimori – America (feat Nagi Nemoto)
• A Ching Zeng Compilation Called Yumi
• Iiris – Hope
• Omaar – Heartbreak
• Mitski – Your Best American Girl
• Brodka – Horses
• Dcnxtr – Summer Rain
• NY*AK – Dollar
• White Lung – Hungry
• Gold Panda – Time Eater
• Hana – Clay
• Orka – Grind
• Teleman – Dusseldorf
• Berger – Apologize
• Nevermen – Mr Mistake
• Jorja Smith – Blue Lights
• Let’s Eat Grandma – Deep Six Textbook
• The Invisible – Save You
• Joy Crookes – New Manhattan
• Highasakite – Someone Who’ll Get It
• Rina Sawayama – Where U Are
• Guns – I Know Exactly How It Feels
• Sophie Beem – Skyline
• Synne Sanden – Sweet Electricity
• Three Trapped Tigers – Silent Earthling
• Jibóia – Ankara
• Colour – Nowhere
• PJ Harvey – The Wheel
• A Nighthawk – Dune
• EinarIndra – Sometimes I’m Wrong
• Lovespeake – DNA
• Ekkah – Small Talk
• Fort Romeau – Seventyfour
• Sofi Tukker – Matadora
• FEMM – PoW!
• PAUW – Visions
• Steve Mason – Planet Sizes
• LCD Soundsystem – Christmas Will Break Your Heart