In 2023, KALX DJs played over 100,000 songs! Out of those, here’s the 200 most played songs of the year.
- Snõõper – “Running” from Music for Spies EP; Super Snõõper (Computer Human; Third Man)
- Altin Gün – “BadI Sabah Olmadan” from Aşk (ATO)
- Dead Air Fresheners – “Tumbleweed Quarantine” from Unfriended (Personal Archives)
- Dub Specialist – “Queen Of The Rub” from Studio One Space-Age Dub Special (Soul Jazz)
- Screaming Females – “Brass Bell” from Desire Pathway (Don Giovanni)
- bar italia – “Nurse!” from Tracey Denim (Matador)
- abracadabra – “talk talk” from shapes & colors (Melodic)
- Sun Ra Arkestra – “Day of the Living Sky” from Living Sky (Omni Sound)
- Slowdive – “chained to a cloud” from everything is alive (Dead Oceans)
- Horsegirl – “Anti-glory” from Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)
- Dengue Fever – “Room 720” from Ting Mong (Tuk Tuk)
- The Mauskovic Dance Band – “Zwaar” from Bukaroo Bank (Bongo Joe)
- Water From Your Eyes – “True Life” from Everyone’s Crushed (Matador)
- TEKE::TEKE – “Doppelganger” from Hagata (Kill Rock Stars)
- Death Valley Girls – “Magic Powers” from Islands in the Sky (Suicide Squeeze )
- Ladytron – “City of Angels” from Time’s Arrow (Cooking Vinyl)
- Aphex Twin – “Blackbox Life Recorder 21f” from Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 (Warp)
- Slowdive – “kisses” from everything is alive (Dead Oceans)
- Aphex Twin – “zin2 test5” from Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 (Warp)
- Orchestra Gold – “Keleya” from Medicine (Orchestra Gold)
- The Free Music – “Men Awel Marra” from Free Music (Part 1) (Habibi Funk)
- Bala Desejo – “Lua Comanche” from Hidden Waters: Strange and Sublime Sounds of Rio de Janeiro; SIM SIM SIM (Mr Bongo)
- The Goods – “I’m Not the Only One” from The Goods EP (Dandy Boy)
- Asha Puthli – “Space Talk” from The Essential Asha Puthli (Mr Bongo)
- Marlene Ribeiro – “Toquei No Sol” from Toquei No Sol (Rocket )
- Creation Rebel – “Stonebridge Warrior” from Hostile Environment; Pay It All Back Vol. 8 compilation (On-U Sound)
- The C.I.A. – “Impersonator” from Surgery Channel (In The Red)
- Brian Eno – “Inclusion” from FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (Opal)
- Mitski – “My Love Mine All Mine” from The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)
- Glitter Wizard – “She’s a Star” from Kiss The Boot (Kitten Robot)
- Horse Lords – “Zero Degree Machine” from Comradely Objects (RVNG Intl.)
- Amyl and The Sniffers – “Capital” from Comfort To Me (ATO)
- Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily – “Sajni” from Love In Exile (Verve)
- Kool Keith & Haji Outlaw – “Sporty Nights (Uber Eats)” from Kool Kriminal/Sporty Nights (Uber Eats) 7″ EP (Self Released)
- Adrian Younge – “Ebun” from Jazz Is Dead 011 (Jazz Is Dead)
- Forbidden Overture – “Primal Overture” from Turned On (Dark Entries)
- Arthur Russell – “Not Checking Up” from Picture of Bunny Rabbit (Audika )
- Death Valley Girls – “Watch the Sky” from Islands in the Sky (Suicide Squeeze)
- Decisive Pink – “Cosmic Dancer” from Ticket to Fame (Fire)
- µ-Ziq – “Froglets” from 1977 (Balmat)
- Green/Blue – “In Lies” from Paper Thin (Feel It)
- The New Pornographers – “Pontius Pilate’s Home Movies” from Continue as a Guest (Merge)
- Belle and Sebastian – “Talk to Me, Talk to Me” from A Bit of Previous (Matador)
- Sun Ra Arkestra – “Chopin” from Living Sky (Omni Sound)
- The Movers – “Soweto Inn” from The Movers Vol. 1 1970-1976 (Analog Africa)
- Nina Simone – “Blues For Mama – Live” from You’ve Got To Learn (Live) (Verve)
- Snõõper – “Powerball” from Super Snõõper (Third Man)
- Slowdive – “shanty” from everything is alive (Dead Oceans)
- Spacemoth – “Round In Loops” from No Past No Future (Wax Nine)
- Faten Kanaan – “Ebla” from Afterpoem (Fire)
- Chuck Johnson – “Letters from the Attic” from Music From Burden Of Proof (All Saints)
- Cable Ties – “Perfect Client” from All Her Plans (Merge)
- False Figure – “Plexus” from Castigations (Transylvanian)
- The Movers – “Give Five or More” from The Movers Vol. 1 1970-1976 (Analog Africa)
- Los Royals De Pucallpa – “Descarga Royal” from Perú Selvático: Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986 compilation (Analog Africa)
- Marlene Ribeiro – “What It Is” from Toquei no Sol (Rocket)
- Kara Jackson – “pawnshop” from Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? (September)
- Momma – “Speeding 72” from Household Name (Polyvinyl)
- Sparklehorse – “Evening Star Supercharger” from Bird Machine (Anti/Epitaph)
- Altin Gün – “Su Sızıyor” from Aşk (ATO)
- Slowdive – “skin in the game” from everything is alive (Dead Oceans)
- African Head Charge – “Asalatua” from A Trip To Bolgatanga / Pay It All Back Vol. 8 compilation (On-U Sound)
- Dengue Fever – “Silver Fish” from Ting Mong (Tuk Tuk)
- The Free Music – “Law Yom Saalak Had” from Free Music (Part 1) (Habibi Funk)
- Brian Eno – “I’m Hardly Me” from FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (Opal)
- Devon Russell – “Move On Up” from DISCO REGGAE ROCKERS (Soul Jazz)
- Sun Ra Arkestra – “Night of the Living Sky” from Living Sky (Omni Sound)
- The Mauskovic Dance Band – “Bukaroo Bank” from Bukaroo Bank (Bongo Joe)
- Colleen – “Les parenthèses enchantées – Movement III” from Le jour et la nuit du réel (Thrill Jockey)
- Al-Qasar – “Sham System” from Who Are We? (Glitterbeat)
- Altin Gün – “Leylim Ley” from Aşk (ATO)
- Black Belt Eagle Scout – “Nobody” from The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)
- Wednesday – “Quarry” from Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)
- Peter Barclay – “Love It In The Sun” from I’m Not Your Toy (Numero Group)
- Flock – “Prepare To Let Go” from Flock (Strut)
- Dom La Nena – “Universo” from Leon (Sabia)
- Kendra Morris – “Le Snitch” from Babble (Karma Chief)
- Oval – “Wildwasser” from Romantiq (Thrill Jockey)
- The Movers – “Kudala Sithandana” from The Movers Vol. 1 1970-1976 (Analog Africa)
- Bala Desejo – “Passarinha” from SIM SIM SIM (Mr Bongo)
- Vanishing Twin – “Marbles” from Afternoon X (Fire)
- Meg Baird – “Unnamed Drives” from Furling (Drag City)
- Pusaka Sunda – “Mangga” from Utama Tembang Sunda And Kacapi Suling Music Of West Java (Sakti)
- Sun Ra Arkestra – “Wish Upon a Star” from Living Sky (Omni Sound)
- Buzz Kull – “Rise From Your Grave” from Fascination (Avant!)
- Meg Baird – “Twelve Saints” from Furling (Drag City)
- Alvvays – “Easy On Your Own?” from Blue Rev (Polyvinyl)
- Juan Piña y sus Muchachos – “Toquen Cumbia” from Cumbia Cumbia Cumbia Vol. 1 (Vampisoul)
- Yan Tregger – “Gold Calf Dance” from Space Oddities (1974-1991) (Born Bad)
- Rose Mercie – “Witching” from ¿ KIERES AGUA ? (Rose Mercie)
- Pachyman – “Lovers” from Switched-On (ATO)
- Fruit Bats – “Rushin’ River Valley” from A River Running to Your Heart (Merge)
- Crime of Passing – “Midnight Underground” from Crime of Passing (Feel It)
- Cruel Diagonals – “Penance” from Fractured Whole (Beacon Sound)
- Caterina Barbieri – “Math of You” from Myuthafoo (light-years)
- Maria BC – “April” from Hyaline (Father/Daughter)
- Nabihah Iqbal – “This World Couldn’t See Us” from DREAMER (Ninja Tune)
- King Krule – “Seaforth” from Space Heavy (Matador)
- Lael Neale – “Return To Me Now” from Star Eaters Delight (Sub Pop)
- Screaming Females – “Beyond the Void” from Desire Pathway (Don Giovanni)
- Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily – “To Remain/To Return” from Love In Exile (Verve)
- Arp – “Le Palace” from New Pleasures (Mexican Summer)
- Al Lover – “Order from Chaos” from Cosmic Joke (Fuzz Club)
- Kelela – “Happy Ending” from Raven (Warp)
- Spacemoth – “Pipe and Pistol” from No Past No Future (Wax Nine)
- Lucrecia Dalt – “Contenida” from ¡Ay! (RVNG Intl.)
- Mister Water Wet – “Always and In All Ways (High)” from Top Natural Drum (Soda Gong)
- Aphex Twin – “in a room7 F760” from Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 (Warp)
- King Ayisoba – “Good Things God Knows” from Work Hard (Glitterbeat)
- Animal Collective – “Soul Capturer” from Isn’t It Now? (Domino)
- Nabihah Iqbal – “Sunflower” from DREAMER (Ninja Tune)
- Decisive Pink – “Haffmilch Holiday” from Ticket to Fame (Fire)
- Tiny Ruins – “Dorothy Bay” from Ceremony (Ba Da Bing!)
- Blues Lawyer – “Have Nots” from Sight Gags On The Radio (Dark Entries)
- YEHAIYAHAN – “Love Hurts” from Adrian Sherwood Presents: Dub No Frontiers compilation (Real World)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto – “20210310” from 12 (Commmons)
- Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway – “Alice in the Bluegrass” from City of Gold (Nonesuch)
- Carla dal Forno – “Come Around” from Come Around (Kallista)
- The Reds, Pinks and Purples – “Too Late for an Early Grave” from The Town That Cursed Your Name (Slumberland)
- Cruel Diagonals – “Precipice” from Fractured Whole (Beacon Sound)
- Los Disco Duro – “Oye Como Va” from La Inconforme (Discos Mas)
- Bobby Lee – “Reds for a Blue Planet” from Endless Skyways (Tompkins Square)
- Nabihah Iqbal – “Dreamer” from Dreamer (Ninja Tune)
- Nina Simone – “You’ve Got To Learn” from You’ve Got To Learn (Live) (Verve)
- abracadabra – “in a photo” from Shapes & Colors (Melodic)
- schroothoop – “Cascaraï” from MACADAM (Sdban Ultra)
- Polobi & the Gwo Ka Masters – “Driv” from Abri Cyclonique (Real World)
- ANOHNI and the Johnsons – “It Must Change” from My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross (Secretly Canadian)
- John Cale – “NOISE OF YOU” from MERCY (Double Six)
- DADDY LONG LEGS – “Street Sermon” from Street Sermons (Yep Roc)
- Radian – “Cicada” from Distorted Rooms (Thrill Jockey)
- Andy Shauf – “Wasted on You” from Norm; Wasted On You (Anti-)
- Julian Lage – “Everything Helps” from The Layers (Blue Note)
- Young Fathers – “Rice” from Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune)
- Los Disco Duro – “La Inconforme” from La Inconforme (Discos Mas)
- The Comet is Coming – “CODE” from Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Impulse!)
- Peter Barclay – “Acceptance Is the Key” from I’m Not Your Toy (Numero Group)
- Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries – “Panic Attack” from Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries (Emotional Response)
- Slow Crush – “Swoon” from Hush (Church Road)
- Hot Laundry – “The Dance” from Pawn Shop Gold (Hot Laundry)
- Lucrecia Dalt – “Atemporal” from ¡Ay! (RVNG Intl.)
- The Lost Days – “In the Store” from In the Store (Speakeasy Studios SF)
- Junior Y Su Equipo – “America Índia” from America Índia; Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-1981 compilation (Analog Africa)
- Stellar Legions – “An Arp in Tunisia” from Stellar Legions (SDBAN ULTRA)
- Ricardo Dias Gomes – “Menos” from Muito Sol (Hive Mind)
- Cindy – “A Trumpet On The Hillside” from Why Not Now? (Mt.St.Mtn.)
- PJ Harvey – “Prayer at the Gate” from I Inside the Old Year Dying (Partisan)
- Pantayo – “Dreams” from Ang Pagdaloy (Telephone Explosion)
- Melissa Grey & David Morneau – “Being” from Always Becoming (Flower Cat)
- The Damned – “Wake the Dead” from Darkadelic (earMUSIC)
- Sun Ra Arkestra – “Somebody Else’s Idea” from Living Sky (Omni Sound)
- CHAI – “MATCHA” from CHAI (Sub Pop)
- Dumb – “Pull Me Up” from Pray 4 Tomorrow (Mint)
- Au Suisse – “Thing” from Au Suisse (City Slang)
- Yussef Dayes – “Tioga Pass (feat. Rocco Palladino)” from Black Classical Music (Nonesuch)
- µ-Ziq – “0.166666666666667” from 1977 (Balmat)
- Meg Baird – “Star Hill Song” from Furling (Drag City)
- Kendra Morris – “Wizards Float” from Babble (Karma Chief)
- Fake Fruit – “No Mutuals” from Fake Fruit (Rocks In Your Head)
- Rrose – “The Illuminating Glass” from Please Touch (Eaux)
- Cruel Diagonals – “Reconciliation” from Fractured Whole (Beacon Sound)
- The Acharis – “Jesus Thrill” from Blue Sky / Grey Heaven; Jesus Thrill (Zum)
- Nabihah Iqbal – “Gentle Heart” from DREAMER (Ninja Tune)
- Orchestra Gold – “Baara Nyuma” from Medicine (Orchestra Gold)
- Sessa – “Que Lado Você Dorme?” from Estrela Acesa (Mexican Summer)
- Nabihah Iqbal – “Sky River” from DREAMER (Ninja Tune)
- Broadcast – “The Book Lovers” from Maida Vale Sessions (Warp)
- Thee Oh Sees – “Die Laughing” from Intercepted Message (In The Red)
- Brian Eno – “Garden of Stars” from FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (Opal)
- Death Valley Girls – “California Mountain Shake” from Islands in the Sky (Suicide Squeeze)
- Popp – “DLY” from Blizz (Squama)
- Monophonics – “Love You Better” from Sage Motel (Colemine)
- Lee Fields – “Save Your Tears For Someone New” from Sentimental Fool (Daptone)
- Hvozd – “Ticho” from Krehkou krajinou (Slnko)
- Woods – “Another Side” from Perennial (Wooodsist)
- Mapache – “What A Summer” from Swinging Stars (Innovative Leisure/Calico Discos)
- Shana Cleveland – “Faces in the Firelight” from Manzanita (Hardly Art)
- Big Joanie – “Sainted” from Back Home (Kill Rock Stars)
- Decisive Pink – “Rodeo” from Ticket to Fame (Fire)
- Grupo Siglo XX de Rioja – “Moyobambina” from Perú Selvático: Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986 compilation (Analog Africa)
- Weyes Blood – “God Turn Me Into a Flower” from And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
- Yalla Miku – “Premier du matin” from Yalla Miku (Bongo Joe)
- The IFIC – “Wrong Way” from Wrong Way 7″ single (¡No Clubs!)
- Hot Laundry – “Supper’s on the Stove” from Pawn Shop Gold (Hot Laundry)
- Sharkiface – “Melancholeta” from Climax in a Process (No Part of It)
- White Hills – “Radiate” from The Revenge of Heads on Fire (Heads On Fire)
- Automatic – “New Beginning” from Excess (Stones Throw)
- Gemma Ray – “Come Oblivion” from Gemma Ray & The Death Bell Gang (Bronze Rat)
- Sunny & The Sunliners – “I Can Remember” from Mr. Brown Eyed Soul Vol. 2 (Big Crown)
- Laura Groves – “D 4 N” from Radio Red (Bella Union)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto – “20220214” from 12 (Commmons)
- Frank Schultz – “Throstle” from Blots (Stickfigure)
- Caterina Barbieri – “Alphabet of Light” from Myuthafoo (light-years)
- Ivo Nilakreshna – “Ka Huma” from Ka Huma; Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry (1955-69) compilation (Soundway)
- Julian Lage – “This World” from The Layers (Blue Note)
- Sylvan Esso – “Your Reality” from No Rules Sandy (Loma Vista)
- The Lloyds – “And That’s Why (I Don’t Like You)” from Attitude Check; Let’s Go Lloyds (Liberation Hall)
- Nabihah Iqbal – “In Light” from DREAMER (Ninja Tune)
- Kaisahan Afrocubalintang – “Descarga Con Duyog” from Kaisahan Afrocubalintang (Iridium)
- Lael Neale – “I Am The River” from Star Eaters Delight (Sub Pop)
