Another year, another Serengeti album. I’ve always been impressed by artists that keep the output high in both quality and quantity. What’s even more impressive is that each Serengeti release tends to wildly differ from the last.

“Breaking Vows” is a bonus track from Saal, the next album for Serengeti’s ever-growing body of work. The album features production by Sicker Man, a frequently collaborator of Serengeti. They last captured our imagination on “Accommodating” a track originally made for a Sicker Man solo release – which is also listed on the tracklisting for this album - before releasing an album under the pseudonym of Shtaad. Saal is due out on the 12th of February.

Our Best of 2012 coverage had to end at some point but I couldn’t think of many better than Junk Science’s Baje One for our final guestlist. We asked the Modern Shark founder what he’s been listening to in 2012.

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The final week of our Best of 2012 coverage has us handing over the keys to some of our favourite artists to find out what they liked this year. We kick it all off with Milo’s Top 10 albums of 2012. Who has released the first of two EPs already today. You should go check that out after.

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So here it is. Our final part of our Best of 2012 coverage concludes with our top 50 tracks of the year. I’ll avoid the clichés, but this has been a tough list to put together and a special thanks to everyone who produced great music throughout the year for making it tough. It’s been fun.

We’ve still got our guestlists for 2012, which will be coming up each day this week and then we’ll be returning to regular goodness. But for now, enjoy the end of the year with our Top 50 Tracks of 2012.

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It’s a cliché itself, but what a great year we’ve had. It’s just been packed with so much great music as hip-hop diversifies, there’s one thing for sure – hip-hop ain’t dead. So why don’t we get down to what you came here for? A list of our favourite albums of 2012 for you to skim-read. Then once you’re done, let us know your albums of the year in the comments below.

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Really disappointed that Jel & Odd Nosdam had this one out for a month before I stumbled upon it. Two of my 2012 highlights have been the two, polar opposite, Serengeti releases. Despite their differences in tone, Jel & Odd Nosdam brought them together with stellar production. So, they decided to pick the best of the bunch, put them on their Bandcamp and put a $2 price tag on them. I obliged, you should to.

GETI BEATS vol.1 by Jel & Odd Nosdam

Serengeti’s “Dennehy”, while being his breakthrough track was also the place where I started to get his whole Kenny Dennis persona. Here Jel & Odd Nosdam get hold of Chicago’s unofficial city anthem and do their normal weird stuff to it.

“Let me get as drunk as fast as I can, so I can pass out and dream about being a different man”. There’s no denying that the air thickens when Dave Kohn, aka Serengeti, steps out of the guse of the Comical Chicagoan Kenny Dennis. The lyrical content gets incredibly darker and he becomes introspective beyond the wildest dreams of any conscious rapper.

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