We posted the ‘top 486 releases of 2011 according to you‘ a while ago, now it’s time for the individual Incubate employees year-lists! Every day until the end of 2011, we’re going to post the top 10 year-lists of the Incubate employees. There’re also links to Spotify  (or to other sources where you can find the album’s music as not every artist is on Spotify unfortunately..). We also made a compilation of the best 50 albums of this year in a special We Are Incubate album year-list 2011 playlist on Spotify. Enjoy!

Today is the list of Joost Heijthuijsen, director and extern communications at Incubate! Here is his top 10:

10. Scooter – The Big Mash-up
09. Jackmaster – Fabric
08. The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient
07. Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts
06. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
05. Peter Evans Quintet – Ghosts
04. EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints
03. AMM - Uncovered Correspondence
02. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
01. John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves

After we saw the Dutch music/media site 3voor12 put together their Song Of The Year 2011, we thought that’s the only list left we didn’t pay attention to. So we made one.

Incubate’s Song Of The Year 2011 is a Youtube playlist with 100 songs. We didn’t make a top 100, because we didn’t know how to compare the drones of Natural Snow Buildings to the indiepop of Metronomy, to name two. So it’s no top 100 list, but it’s a nice way to get to know some music that the media kinda forgot about most of the time. We only had one rule while putting this together: only 1 song per band/act.

You cannot possibly like EVERY song here. It ranges from the death-metal of Ulcerate to the happy-pop of Retro Stefson. From the ambient of Tim Hecker to the indierock of The War On Drugs. And from the acoustics of Stranded Horse to the blunt hardcore of Trash Talk. Luckily for you, there’s a skip button, when you click ‘play all’ :-)

Have fun with it! Under the video is the complete list with all of the 100 songs.

(When you click the rectangle left of ’360p’ you can skip through the playlist)

In no particular order:
1. U.S. Girls – Island Song
2. The War On Drugs – Baby Missiles
3. Suuns – Bambi
4. Trash Talk – Awake
5. Rubik – Laws Of Gravity
6. Odonis Odonis – Blood Feast
7. Metronomy – The Look
8. Future Of The Left – Polymers Are Forever
9. Black Lips – Mr. Driver
10. Austra – Lose It
11. Rustie – After Light
12. Atlantis – She Loves All
13. M+A – Liko Lene Lisa
14. Esben And The Witch – Marching Song
15. True Widow – Blooden Horse
16. Cave In – Serpents
17. Zomby – Natalia’s Song
18. Battles ft. Matias Aguayo – Ice Cream
19. Blut Aus Nord – Epitome II
20. Boef En De Gelogeerde Aap – Echte Helden
21. Russian Circles – Mladek
22. Burial/Four Tet/Thom Yorke – Mirror
23. Teen Radiation – Surfer’s Paradise
24. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Bats In The Attic
25. Sleepingdog – Scary Movie
26. LUIK – A Fool
27. Touché Amoré – Home Away From Here
28. Stranded Horse – Jolting Moon (Live Acoustic)
29. Textures – Reaching Home
30. The Weeknd – Wicked Games
31. Balam Acab – Oh Why
32. Pterodactyl – School Glue
33. John Maus – Believer
34. Dirty Beaches – Lord Knows Best
35. Oathbreaker – Origin
36. HEALTH – Goth Star (Pictureplane cover)
37. Wooden Shjips – Lazy Bones
38. The Men – Bataille
39. EMA – California
40.  Charalambides – Before You Go
41. Korallreven ft. Julianna Barwick – Sa Sa Samoa
42. YOB – Prepare The Ground
43. Pinch & Shackleton – Burning Blood
44. Man Man – Piranhas Club
45. Ice Age – Broken Bones
46. Purling Hiss – The Hoodoo
47. Baby Dee – Brother Slug And Sister Snail
48. Holy Other – YR Love
49. Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
50. Ulcerate – The Destroyers Of All
51. Retro Stefson – Kimba
52. Traumahelikopter – Roomservice
53.  Dead Neanderthals – Cubic Aesthetics
54. Rats On Rafts – Lalalala
55. Pariso – Birds
56. Julio Bashmore – Battle For Middle You
57. Kurt Vile – Jesus Fever
58. Rivulets – No Talking
59. Actress – Rainy Dub
60. Thurston Moore – Circulation
61. The Caretaker – Camaraderie At Arms Length
62. Graveyard – Hisingen Blues
63. Glassjaw – Gold
64. The Black Keys – Lonely Boy
65. Necros Christos – Doom Of Kali Maa/Pyramid Of Shakti Love /Flame Of Master Shiva
66. Gallops – Eukodol
67. Fair Ohs – Everything Is Dancing
68. Shazalakazoo – La Inconformable
69. Tombs – To Cross The Land
70. Leyland Kirby – They Are All Dead, There Are No Skip At All
71. Red Fang – Wires
72. Motor City Drum Ensemble – L.O.V.E.
73. Jürgen Müller – Sea Bed Meditation
74. Laurel Halo – Hour Logic
75. Peaking Lights – Amazing And Wonderful
76. Angel Olsen – Tiniest Lights
77. Kerouac – Fiends
78. Naked On The Vogue – Clock Of 12′s
79. Tim Hecker – Piano Drop
80. Light Asylum – Dark Allies
81. Wolves In The Throne Room – Astral Blood
82. Grouper – She Loves Me That Way
83. Royal Headache – Surprise
84. The Black Atlantic – Darkling, I Listen
85.The Soft Moon – Total Decay
86. Scooter – David Doesn’t Eat
87. Zola Jesus – Vessel
88. The Skull Defekts – Peer Amid
89. Memory Tapes – Yes, I Know
90. Nguzunguzu – Water Bass Power (Timesup Sand Mix)
91. The Fall – Mask Search
92. Circle Takes The Square – Enter By The Narrow Gates
93. Slugabed – Moonbeam Rider
94. Gross Magic – Sweetest Touch
95. Rainbow Arabia – Boys And Diamonds
96. Mastodon – Black Tongue
97. Klaus Beyer – Jedermann Hat Was Zu Verstecken Ausser Mir Und Mein Affen
98. Miracle Fortress – Miscalculations
99. Touchy Mob – Crooked Mist
100. Natural Snow Buildings – This Ice Fortress

86 top-10′s submitted, 486 unique releases submitted resulting in a top 448 releases of 2011; yeah, the call for year-lists seems to be quite a success. It’s not a big surprise the magnificent Let England Shake-album by PJ Harvey ended up on number one in the We Are Incubate year-list 2011, followed by The War On Drugs‘ Slave Ambient (as heard live at Incubate 2011) and Smoke Ring For My Halo by Kurt Vile. The War On Drugs featured in 19 of the submitted lists, followed by PJ Harvey (18) and Kurt Vile (17).

The top-20 also includes Incubate(d) alumni John Maus (We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves), EMA (Past Life Martyred Saints), True Widow (As High as the Highest Heavens and from the Center to the Circumference of the Earth), James Blake (S/T), tUnE-yArDs (W H O K I L L) and Wooden Shjips (West).

A few stats:
- There were 486 unique releases submitted in 86 top-10′s. This means the average list includes 5,65 albums that are not in any other list
- 312 releases (64,2%) are in just one top-1o, 62 (13%) are in two lists
- The Whole Love by Wilco is the first album in the top list that’s not number one in any of the submitted top-10′s. Still, it’s number five in the top-list.

The top-50 can be found below, including links to the albums on Spotify. If you’d like to listen to  all almost all (yeah, some artists are still not on it) artists in the top-50, check out the special We Are Incubate album year-list 2011-playlist on Spotify. You can also download the full top-448 list (Excel spreadsheet) which also includes all 86 individual top-10′s, Plus you can find a tab with the Incubate-employees’ choices which slightly differs from the regular list..

Thanks to all submitters:
Richard Mathijsen (Incubate), Erik Luyten (Incubate), Barry Spooren (Incubate), Gijs Garenfeld (Incubate), Jelle Agema (Incubate), Peter Meeuwsen (Incubate), Joost Heijthuijsen (Incubate), Vincent Koreman (Incubate), Frank Kimenai (Incubate), Jaimy Lucardi (Incubate), Stefan Kuschnig, Jeroen van Gaans, Theo Ploeg (Journalist), Tijs Heesterbeek (Effenaar), Alex Bonam, Wouter De Waal (Nu.nl / 3VOOR12/Tilburg), Bram de Jong, Will Samson, Romeo Vermue, Hans Vrijmoed (Kindamuzik), Koen Gijsbers, Tom van Bavel, Tom Wouters, Justin Faase, Marc van der Holst, Antal Derene, Jonas van Overwaelle (Cuttingedge.be), Mathijs Nicolai, Maartje Buise, Johan van Hattum, Levi Huijnen , Jan Verbunt, Maurice Dielemans (Kindamuzik), Mike Dobber (Nikoo), Maurice Dumont, Fons Moers, Tjeerd van Erve (Nu.nl), Ruud van Esch (Kindamuzik), Bas Ickenroth (Kindamuzik), Robin Geurts (3VOOR12/Tilburg), Martijn Veenman, Atze de Vrieze (3VOOR12), Serge de Vries, Mathieu Janssen, Joris Rietbroek (Kicking The Habit), Gerrit van Hoven (Brabants Dagblad), Eduard Versteege (Ekko), Herman Nijhuis, Remco Brinkhuis, Coen Schilderman (FileUnder), Willem Zenhorst, John Doran (The Quietus), Glen Rowlan, Benedikt Eiden, Rutger Brouwers, Sven Schlijper, Niels Vinck (Kindamuzik), André Kuijpers, Rob van der Zwaan (Festivalinfo), Levi van Huygevoort, Hein Verstappen, Loes Everink, Sjuul Stultjens, Marcel Kamphuis (Festivalinfo), Dyon Schlebos (Incubate), Gerko Telman, Jantien Borsboom (Incubate), Stef Siepel, Hans Rebers, Jeffrey Zweep (ROAR E-Zine), L. van Barneveld (Crazyland), Brent Oostrum, Jasper Willems (FileUnder), Frits Wiersum, Joost P., Alex van der Hulst (Journalist), Eric Teeuwen, Eelke van Houtum, Age Versluis, Jan Rijk (Dutchpix.com Photographer), Johan Gijsen (Tivoli), Marcel Verhoeven, Erik Zwennes (3VOOR12), Tom Roelofs (Photographer), Marjolein de Vliegher (Het Burgerweeshuis), Pierre Oitmann (Nu.nl, KX Radio, Muziek.nl)

FYI: The number 1 on each list received 10 point, the number 10 received 1 point.

Watch this collaboration from Brabant’s New Kids with the legendary Scooter. No more coffee, just have a beer! You like to party, that’s why i’m here!

Date: Saturday the 13th of March
Time: 21.00 – 02.00 p.m.
Entrance: 10 euro
Line up: Otto von Schirach (US), Notorious Nastie (US) en SHITMAT (UK) and
Drs. FNTN, DRTMSTR vs Penny Pony, en Psykiatrisk.
Location: TAC

We at the Incubate office really like Scooter. Especially on Friday when work is (almost) over. Here at the office “Hyper Hyper” is one of the most played tracks, so we could not let the new Scooter record pass you by unnoticed.

Via Zwar.

A schlager remix of Scooter!

Of course Otto will play at ZXZW.

But it’s more important to be number one! SCOOTER! Back in the house! YEAH! German techno group Scooter have knocked Madonna off the number one spot in the UK album chart. Yeaaaaaah!! Ravers of the Universe…you, keep the spirit alive! Hardcore! All right posse! Wicked, we also have a interview for you.

A lot of countries know their own version of Idols. This is a guy doing Scooter. Let me see your hands!

Vengaboys:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOxsNAjeN-A]

Spice Girls:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeTCB16hKwA]

Toy Box (no sing along, but a must-see):
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=7n4jNSp06W0]

Vanilla Ice:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=UNQc68m7oBE]

Aqua:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrdtXxzhBWA]

Scooter:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKau2BK5X4A]

Backstreet Boys:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=x1LZVmn3p3o]

Cartoons:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=WiP-DUS1DgY]

Natalie Imbruglia (by Esmee Denters):
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=4HYPSqsF3Fo]

Eifel 65:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=oMXYmM5CcCA]

Enrique Iglesias:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=jZP7LslXDDg]

Lou Bega:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=OVG44feVLrM]

Britney Spears:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=KqC5p5jdfBU]

Heiligeili! Scooter ran out of KlF samples so they had to find a new artistic direction. Their new hit is a Gigi d’Agostino kinda intro meets jumpstyle with a Sailor sample.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlPO6cGX0Ds&rel=1]
Bye & Rønning made a great parody on the Scooter style with “Party in Heaven”.