UNTONE Music Team
2025-01-01 12:00:00UNTONE Music - Best of 2024
10 community votes, 10 staff picks, these are the 20 best tracks of UNTONE Music throughout 2024!
As 2024 comes to a close, so does our year of music, and to celebrate, we'll be releasing the best tracks of the year in a compilation album today!
Listen here!
For a month, we ran community and internal voting to decide two categories of the "best" tracks:
- 10 Community picks
- 10 Staff picks
In this blogpost, we'll be covering the results of both, the highlights of each track, and for the staff picks, why we think personally they're worthy of the Best of 2024 title!
Warning: Descriptions were written as fast as possible since we had to finish them before the song ended. Help.
Community Picks
One of the most iconic tracks of UNTONE Music, Iridescent by DJ Stuiter joins us in the first track of Best of 2024! A chill electronic track loved by all of us here in UNTONE Music, and clearly everyone in the community too, scoring the highest of all the tracks!
This was around the time I was experimenting with new sounds, as working on the same genre consistently was starting to get demotivating over time. I made this track as an escape, to try to experiment and make something unique, this was the result and I think it turned out great. - DJ Stuiter
A remix of the iconic track Swifts by Sky Max, Marc Leo reimagined it into a chill up-beat track!
Although this track technically released in 2021, it's first debut on UNTONE Music was on the 2024 album Runes! This track is one of dljzt's first works and contains various genres blended together with pure skill to create a flawless music.
The UNTONE Music community clearly liked this track, since it landed in the top 10 tracks by community vote! Goes to show that genre isn't all that matters with a song! Let's go!
A remix of the iconic track A Shopping Spree from PRELIMINARY BURST, A Shopping Spree ~ Reimagined grabs the original and reimagines it better than ever before, with smooth piano and chill drums, similar in vibe to Iridescent!
People cleary loved this track, as it got very high up in the community voting. Who couldn't love that smooth jazzy piano alongside the chill electronic drums and subtle DJ Stuiter!
The latest release form Sky Max collaboratnig with Orion Midnight hits hard with vocals from the amazing Allysa Asea and soft electronic synths and sounds throughout! The swifts will never fade away, and nor will the community's love for this track, landing it a spot in this compilation album!
Another release from Sky Max, this time with vocals from Calla obviously resonated with the UNTONE Music community, with it's bouncy synths and iconic vocals!
This song is like our diary, each note of this song encapsulates our journey, aspirations, and the cherished stories we hold close. We hope it resonates with you as deeply as it does with us! - Sky Max
With heavy synths and punchy bass, DJ Stuiter comes in with another banger! Making use of very bouncy sound design alongside good music
"BONDU IS NOT IN FULL CAPS" i've been told, but BONDU's track MARGIN has made the cut, resonating with the many listeners of UNTONE Music with it's bass-oriented sound design and unique usage of vocal samples and cool synths!
I made MARGIN as an experimental song. Originally it was a lot less gritty, and sounded almost totally different. After revising it a few times, I thought I was nearly done, but I couldn’t get an idea for the 3rd drop. After sharing the song with a few friends they all agreed it should have a 3rd drop, and I literally made it in an hour in a vc. Overall this song was just meant to be a kinda an experiment to base future bass house songs on, but I eventually decided on submitting it here, and it has been welcomed with levels of enjoyment for the song I was never expecting to see. - bondu
Also flying into the top 10 is drifty with their track Stars! Featuring bouncy synths and drifty music!
DAVR's here with their remix of Iridescent! Completely reworking the chill track to add more up-beat elements and energetic synths and melodies, this truly is one of the remixes of all time!
Staff Picks
There were lots of amazing tracks which sadly didn't make the cut of the top 10 community picks. We've picked our personal favourites as Staff Picks!
We're rather shocked this one wasn't included in the community picks. This was one of our favourite tracks this entire year! With wide vocals and very atmospheric sounds, it transports you to another realm with its angelic sounds! We feel this deserved a place on the album! It's banger
Because this track was recently released, it didn't get much of a chance to be voted upwards by the community, but it's got to be one of our favourites of this year! With ultra colourful sound design and atmospheric ambience througout!
Bliss was released earlier this year, and we've always quite liked the track! torment. made use of various sounds and samples throughout the track to make a unique vibe and music!
With this song, you'll be DREAMING you had more, with DREAMER from KINOSEI featuring smooth synths and combining retro sounds with modern approaches!
A recreation of an older track, Corrupted Angel by TFD500 makes use of unique sounds taking inspiration from the music of retro rhythm games and other games!
During my time experimenting with the DAW that I was using (which was LMMS), I decided to experiment with a few new genres that you wouldn't normally hear in rhythm games. So I was just goofing around with the default samples, and the rest is history. - TFD500
Taking inspiration from Y2K-era video games, with jungle and phonk, Luun's im going in is an up-beat song easy to vibe and dance to!
Ooh this track... Yeah, this was on the period i started doing completely different genres im used to, being one of those, Jungle. Just like the name of the EP, i was one day bored, scrolling through my sample folder, then i found a sound that sparked something in my brain, so i was like "Oh, i gotta make this a Jungle track" then i started working. After that, i got an idea with a friend (Shoutouts to DyhoCoffee) "What if... I combine Phonk with Jungle?" and tried to make it work, and it did! Then i got mentally blocked, but on that period, i started playing more old racing games, like Rage Racer and Ridge Racer Type-4 for example. Then something sparked on me again, opened FL Studio, found another good sample, and i made a more chill section inspired by those games. Im proud of what i did, is even my most favorite track of my EP - Luun
Combining orchestral sounds, harder rock-oriented guitars, and up-beat breakcore-esque drums, ENDLESS by Tanza3D (me :3) is good i promise :3
E-clipse's track MYDNESS makes heavy use of D&B elements throughout with punchy bass and synths around every corner!
With up-beat chopped-vocal-oriented elements, Sexy Little Misfit by DAVR is arguably one of the sexiest songs in the list! We felt it deserved a place in here for being one of our personal favourites!
I made a track called "Gen Z Discovers Vinyl LMA9" for my Cyber:Stream album. It had a early-mid 2000s house feel and I wanted to make a sort of successor to the track. I set out to make a better house track with mostly the same feel and managed to finish it within three days. I'm very satisfied with the finished track and it got an overwhelming amount of support from my friends and relatives. - DAVR
"BOOP BEEP BOOP" says DJ Stuiter whilst making You & Me, Pt. 2! Created as a sequel to an unreleased song in 2021, You & Me, this song completely reimagines the sound and feel of the track, and is one of the best in No Bootable Devices Found!