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l_f21896c3262ef916fc9f658cf5de41d4-150x150Every decade has a defining genre of music that, one day, will make people look back and think “wow that was rubbish”.

In the nineties, it was bouncy rave, until Britpop took over and made everyone supposedly cool. For the unfunnily-named noughties era, it’s fair to say that nothing new emerged and survived. Soppy indie was everywhere and weak commercial drum and bass also came back from the ashes.

However, it wasn’t all bad. Towards the end of the decade, the underground sound of dubstep started to creep out of London and into the commercial world. Burial even got a Mercury prize nod, but shunned it in favour of staying anonymous. Whilst we can’t predict what will get you grooving down the local singles club night during this new decade, we can take a recap over some of our favourite artists who we mentioned in 2009…

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l_d94efbd6b8784dc68e5bf84ff76d8ed8Not only is it coming to the end of this year, but also the end of the decade.

So far, various lists have been chewed over to come up with the best albums of 2009. And, as usual in December, it’s time for so-called industry bigwigs to tell us what will be clogging up space in record shops and on your iPod next year.

Generally, electronic artists don’t get looked at and are never well represented. The cool and experimental sound of the nineties died with Euro cheese this decade. Nobody will ever get sick of a moody indie band churning out some copycat melody or an odd-looking female belting out some feelgood song. But will the New Year see something on the electronic side rise up? According to those clever types at the BBC Sounds Of 2010, Gold Panda will save us all.

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