It’s a hard task to choose what’s the best of the year, considering that every day I post bangers; the selection criteria do not include nostalgia or paying tributes but, for me, one of the things that stood out this year is that Andrew Weatherall passed away. There’s a lot to say about him but if you know electronic music, the name “Andrew Weatherall” says it all.

“Though Weatherall turned in just the third ever BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix back in 1993, his 1996 entry is usually held up as not only his own best, but one of the finest in the series’s history, a masterclass in depth and poise. There are four cuts in the tracklist from Two Lone Swordsmen – his then recently formed group with Keith Tenniswood, which proved the most durable and creatively rewarding of all Weatherall’s many alliances – including an introductory airing to the classic Glide By Shooting. With a subaquatic melody, an undercurrent of wibbling noise and a haunted air about it, it is pretty strange for a deep house song. It also slaps, and sounds even more robust as it hurtles past early on in the mix – a testament to Weatherall’s ability to constantly improve on source material even when it was his own.”

— Gabriel Szatan https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/18/andrew-weatherall-10-greatest-tracks

• Two Lone Swordsmen – Glide By Shooting