Summer’s here, and we don’t like to judge, but-
Actually, scrap that. We do like to judge, and never are people judged more – for their clothing, their flings, their festival conduct and their sunglasses – than during summer. If you’re not playing at least half these songs regularly this summer – out your car, at your BBQs, nursing your comedowns – then you’ve failed at the whole season, and we don’t want to hear from you ’til winter.
From cheeseball trance to West Coast cook-out jams via red-eyed footwork and, naturally, Sade, this is the sound of FACT’s summer. Dive in, and don’t get burnt.
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01. Tinashe – ‘2 On’ (DJ Q remix)
02. YG & Blanco – ‘Block Party’
03. Murlo – ‘Cold Stroke’ (Sudanim remix)
04. Sade – ‘Never Thought I’d See The Day’ (L-Vis 1990 remix)
05. Dego – ‘Nuts!’
06. Tink & DJ Dahi – ‘Men’
07. Milkmakerz – ‘Anthem Pt. 1’
08. John Barera & Will Martin – ‘Awake’
09. G-Unit – ‘Real Quick’
10. Kid Antoine – ‘Expected Encounter’
11. Asan – ‘Call Girl Machine’
12. Jill Scott – ‘He Loves Me’ (Flava D Remix)
13. Yemi Marie feat. Dlow Shuffle – ‘Love Bop’
(And the whole We Invented the Bop 2 mixtape)
14. Palms Trax – ‘Forever’
15. Kirkus – ‘Worm Jelly’
16. Dark0 – ‘Sweet Boy Pose’ (Mr. Mitch Peace Edit)
17. Seven Davis Jr. – ‘Summers’
18. My Nu Leng – ‘Masterplan’ (Zed Bias Remix)
19. Darq E Freaker – ‘Minger’
20. Alchemist & Budgie feat. Domo Genesis, Action Bronson & Blu – ‘The G Code’
21. Fragma – ‘Toca’s Miracle’ (Ticklish Reboot)
22. DJ Taye – ‘Rollup’
23. DJ Haus – ‘Woo! Yeh! (James Brown Bmore Jam)’
24. Lil B – ‘Peyton on Broncos Jordan On Wizards’
25. Moire – ‘BBOY 202’
26. Cam’ron feat. A-Trak & Juelz Santana – ‘Dipshits’
27. Danny L Harle – ‘Aquarius’ (Luna Remix)
28. DJ Earl – ‘I Get High’
29. Moleskin – ‘Clemency’
30. Steven Tang – ‘Leaving the Physical World’
31. Jeremih feat. YG – ‘Don’t Tell Em’
32. Rae Sremmurd – ‘No Flex Zone’
33. Lake Haze – ‘Lightning Riddim’
34. Royksopp & Robyn – ‘Sayit’
35. El-B – ‘Duro’
36. DOSS – ‘The Way I Feel’
37. Francois feat. Louis Benton & Mr. Limey – ‘Menajatrois’
38. Wen – ‘Signal’
39. Hannah Diamond – ‘Attachment’
And 40? That whole damn Katie Pearl album.
