A few years running now I've created end-of-year top lists. Like many do. I based mine on all of the tracklists for uploaded mixes though. So I could say with certainty that my lists were definitive and objective. I wasn't tossing out the names of friends or just the releases I remembered. It was the real deal.

What bothered me those years still was that it was only based on the published mixes as those were the only mixes I tracklisted. It misses a lot. As I play a lot of records. I set myself a goal for 2017. I would tracklist the whole year. And I managed to do just that. It sucked up a lot of time and effort, but the number of records missed is less than 10. I'm tempted to say I missed none, but I'm bound to have had a small error margin.

So for 2017 my top list post will be all encompassing. It's every record played in streams, at gigs, and privately at home while fooling around or recording a podcast for someone else. It's a biggun.

The tracklist for 2017 clocks in at 1685 entries. The number of unique record labels in that is 561 and the number of unique artists played is 628. I'm pretty proud of those numbers. They're much higher than I expected. I like to think I play a healthy variety, but at the same time I definitely do have certain artists and labels I play a lot of. Those numbers --I think-- show my initial thoughts to be correct. Even though I definitely have favourites there is a lot of other stuff being played as well.