It's been an amazing end to the year for Maya Jane Coles, she hit the dizzy heights of chart success (voted No1 charted track on RA for the month of Oct) with her '92 feel-good house track 'What They Say' which could easily be mistaken for an early MK/ Nightcrawlers record. We're very proud to welcome Maya into the Hypercolour family, and we lead with the 'Humming Bird' EP, which as far as we are concerned is a great end to an also great year for Hypercolour.

Picking up where she left off, 'Humming Bird' once again utilises that classic house feel for which Maya is becoming well know for, non-surprisingly a harmonic 'hum' weaves over and above Maya's organic bass and drums. This is grade A deep house and will be sure to please all those who played and loved 'What The Say'.

She's no one trick pony, and anyone familiar with her alternative projects will know she has immense talent. Next up we air 'Nobody Else', blissed out electronica with none other than Maya herself featuring on vocals, her catchy vox makes you feel like you could easily be at the helm of the Bristol scene in the mid 90's, smoking a reefer and listening to the likes of Portishead or Massive Attack, clearly a big influence on Maya's sound.

'Lookin' Out' continues the drive forward for the dancefloor, an incessant vocal carries a groove, pushed along by Maya's trademark bass heavy approach throughout, which rolls with the flow, into percussive breaks. This is yet another example of Maya's grooves, strictly intended for the floor. 

Once again Maya's alluring vocal reaches out in 'You', her voice is both delicate and dazzling here, sitting on top of a low-slung, dub house groove, ska style bass and ragga stabs echo throughout. This is a totally refreshing strand of 'House' and wipes the floor with the swarm of generic music out there at this present time.

Finally, 'Contradiction' just had to go on the package, and too our absolute amazement this track is nearly 5 years old!! it has just been sat there  taking up space on Maya's hard drive it may have the percussive house tag, but trying to place where you will hear it? could be anywhere from the Balearics to a back street sweat pit in the outskirts of Whitby. 

RA winds up its year-end polls with the staff's take on the top tunes of the year.

One thing you probably didn't see coming in 2010: the glorious return of the anthem. Unlike last year, when ultra-subtle tracks like STL's "Silent State" made the top 5, 2010's top 50 is packed with unapologetically catchy bangers, most of which probably got as much play in Ibiza as they did in Berlin. It's as if club music finally became so niched that the crowds once again yearned for collective experiences.

Indeed, if Motor City Drum Ensemble's epic remix of NUfrequency hadn't been officially released in 2009, it might've topped our chart this year. (It'll have to make to do with setting a record for most consecutive months at #1 on RA's DJ charts.) But the RA staff isn't composed solely (or even largely) of DJs. So our list has plenty of weird ones too. UK bass's latest mutations rank nicely, stonefaced techno is still going strong and Chicago's juke phenomenon crashes the party as well. All sorts of music took our fancy this year, this is simply 50 of the most popular among our staff.

Remix and additional production by Dada Life.

Apparel Music wishes all its listeners a Merry Christmas! with Keisuke Kondo, Sinan Kaya, Fab Galdieri, Pierre Santino, Kisk, Maxim Buldakov, Beleft Beright, Melo & Jorge, Sailor Mood, Nice7, Moodymanc, Kjofol.

The Anjunabeats Yearbook collection gathers together some of the biggest Anjunabeats tunes of 2010 with tracks from Above & Beyond, Kyau & Albert, Gareth Emery, Duderstadt, Super8 & Tab, Aruna, Nitrous Oxide, Mat Zo and many more, includes a bonus DJ mix.