RA Poll: Top 50 tracks of 2010

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

Everyone seemed to have an opinion on which version of The Gathering’s “In My System” was the foremost. Chez Damier, Chris Carrier, I:Cube, Milton Jackson and The Revenge all remixed the track—of which an original was never released—although the version that rang loudest, longest and truest was Jef K’s System Mix. House music may have reverted to groove-based thrills in recent years (and “In My System” had plenty of ‘em) but the Frenchman’s remix was all about a single moment: the split second of silence before its bass and drums returned thrillingly to the fore.
- Ryan Keeling