Chart for stowaways – 23 April 2016

Here’s the latest album chart:

1. Pet Shop Boys – Super
2. Jean-Michel Jarre – Electronica 1: The Time Machine
3. New Order – Music Complete
4. Conjure One – Holoscenic
5. Róisín Murphy – Hairless Toys
6. Little Boots – Working Girl
7. M83 – Junk
8. David Bowie – Best of Bowie
9. Leftfield – Alternative Light Source
10. David Bowie – Nothing Has Changed

Random jukebox – Erasure

What you really want now is a very tenuous link, isn’t it? I can do that. From Leftfield last week, to Am I Right? from Erasure. Left and right, you see. If only I could think of a song about being ambidextrous.

Chart for stowaways – 9 April 2016

Here are this week’s top ten albums:

1. New Order – Music Complete
2. Jean-Michel Jarre – Electronica 1: The Time Machine
3. Conjure One – Holoscenic
4. Pet Shop Boys – Super
5. Róisín Murphy – Hairless Toys
6. Little Boots – Working Girl
7. David Bowie – Best of Bowie
8. David Bowie – Blackstar
9. David Bowie – Nothing Has Changed
10. Leftfield – Alternative Light Source

Random jukebox – Leftfield

Last week’s random jukebox was brought to us by Planet Perfecto, and was pretty phat, but phatter still is Leftfield‘s Phat Planet:

Chart for stowaways – 26 March 2016

Here are the top albums this week…

1. New Order – Music Complete
2. Jean-Michel Jarre – Electronica 1: The Time Machine
3. Conjure One – Holoscenic
4. Róisín Murphy – Hairless Toys
5. Little Boots – Working Girl
6. David Bowie – Best of Bowie
7. Leftfield – Alternative Light Source
8. David Bowie – Nothing Has Changed
9. David Bowie – Blackstar
10. David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Chart for stowaways – 27 February 2016

Let’s take a look at this week’s top ten albums, still with a profusion of Bowie, and rightly so…

1. New Order – Music Complete
2. Conjure One – Holoscenic
3. Jean-Michel Jarre – Electronica 1: The Time Machine
4. Roísín Murphy – Hairless Toys
5. Little Boots – Working Girl
6. David Bowie – Best of Bowie
7. David Bowie – Nothing Has Changed
8. David Bowie – Blackstar
9. Leftfield – Alternative Light Source
10. Dave Gahan & Soulsavers – Angels & Ghosts

Chart for stowaways – 13 February 2016

A little delayed, but here are the albums:

1. New Order – Music Complete
2. Conjure One – Holoscenic
3. Jean-Michel Jarre – Electronica 1: The Time Machine
4. Róisín Murphy – Hairless Toys
5. David Bowie – Nothing Has Changed
6. Little Boots – Working Girl
7. David Bowie – Best of Bowie
8. David Bowie – Blackstar
9. Leftfield – Alternative Light Source
10. Dave Gahan & Soulsavers – Angels & Ghosts

The Stowaway Awards 2016

Here are the winners of this year’s Stowaways:

Best Track

As announced over the New Year, the winner of this year’s Best Track award was New Order feat. Elly Jackson, with Tutti Frutti.

Best Album

These were the nominees:

• Camouflage – Greyscale
• Dave Gahan & Soulsavers – Angels & Ghosts
• Hot Chip – Why Make Sense?
• Jean-Michel Jarre – Electronica 1: The Time Machine
• Leftfield – Alternative Light Source
• Little Boots – Working Girl
• Marsheaux – A Broken Frame
• MG – MG
• Roísín Murphy – Hairless Toys
• New Order – Music Complete

The winner is New Order!

Best Reissue / Compilation

• Air – The Virgin Suicides
• Delerium – Rarities & B-Sides
• Erasure – Always – The Very Best Of
• Everything But The Girl – Walking Wounded
• Faithless – Faithless 2.0

With an exceptional selection of b-sides, mixes, and rarities, the winner is Everything But The Girl, for the special edition of Walking Wounded.

Best Video

• Étienne de Crécy – Hashtag My Ass
• Dave Gahan & Soulsavers – All of This and Nothing
• Hot Chip – Huarache Lights
• Leftfield & Sleaford Mods – Head and Shoulders
• Little Boots – Better in the Morning

The winner is Leftfield.

Best Artist

• Camouflage
• Sarah Cracknell
• Hot Chip
• Jean-Michel Jarre
• Leftfield
• Little Boots
• Marsheaux
• Roísín Murphy
• New Order
• Soulsavers

Winner: Hot Chip.

Best Live Act

Winner: Little Boots.

Best Ambient Track

Winner: Jean-Michel Jarre and Lang Lang, for The Train and the River.

Best Remix

Winner: Röyksopp, for The Presets‘ remix of I Had This Thing.

Best Dance Act / Remixer

Winner: Étienne de Crécy.

Outstanding Contribution

• Erasure
• Everything But The Girl
• Hot Chip
• Leftfield
• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Winner: Erasure.

 

Albums chart of the year 2015 for stowaways

It gives us great pleasure to unveil the top albums of 2015! Here’s the chart:

1. New Order – Music Complete
2. Leftfield – Alternative Light Source
3. Hot Chip – Why Make Sense?
4. Little Boots – Working Girl
5. The Future Sound of London – Environment Five [released 2014]
6. Jean-Michel Jarre – Electronica 1: The Time Machine
7. The Prodigy – The Day is My Enemy
8. MG – MG
9. Erlend Øye – Legao [released 2014]
10. Röyksopp – The Inevitable End [number 1 of 2014]
11. Étienne de Crécy – Super Discount 3
12. Pink Floyd – The Endless River [released 2014]
13. Camouflage – Greyscale
14. Shit Robot – We Got a Love [released 2014]
15. MG – MG EP
16. The Chemical Brothers – Born in the Echoes
17. Björk – Vulnicura
18. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses [released 1989]
19. Delerium – Rarities & B-Sides
20. Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon [released 1973]

Deepest commiserations to Erasure and Madonna, who were only just outside of the top twenty this year! Better luck in 2016!

Singles chart of the year 2015 for stowaways

Time now to announce the top singles of 2015 on the Chart for stowaways:

1. Jean-Michel Jarre – Remix EP (I)
2. Röyksopp – I Had This Thing [number 46 in 2014]
3. MG – Europa Hymn
4. Little Boots – Working Girl
5. New Order feat. Elly Jackson – Tutti Frutti
6. The Future Sound of London – Point of Departure
7. Étienne de Crécy – Hashtag My Ass
8. Dave Gahan & Soulsavers – All of This and Nothing
9. The Beloved – Love to Love
10. Röyksopp – Sordid Affair [number 36 in 2014]

Here are some highlights from outside the top ten:

• 11. Moderat – Bad Kingdom
• 15. Hot Chip – Move with Me
• 18. Marsheaux – See You
• 24. Leftfield – Bad Radio
• 26. Sarah Cracknell – Nothing Left to Talk About
• 29. Róisín Murphy – Exploitation
• 30. Camouflage – Shine
• 38. Shit Robot – Do That Dance
• 44. Lean Jean-Marie – Bring it On
• 50. Röyksopp – Running to the Sea [number 1 in 2014]