Top Five June 2010
Benny Tones feat LP - Odyssey
Hugh Masekela - Don't go lose it baby
The Simonsound - Tour de Mars
Bonobo - Eyesdown
Crabs Corporation meets King Hammond - Bring down the birds

Top Five May 2010
Ricketts Meets Fabulous at Maitland Rd EP
Jahdan Blakkamore - The general - Ticklah remix
Sharon Jones and the Dapkings - Better things to do
Hypnotic brass ensemble - Spottie
Richie Phoe  -Bumpy's lament 

Top Five + five July 2009
DJ Vadim - Hidden treasure
Hypnotic brass ensemble - Alyo
Naomi Shelton - Trouble in my way
Major Lazer - Can't stop now
Revolutionaries - Kunta Kinte (DJ Kentaro remix)
Brother culture - Warning
Issa Bagayogo - Filaw (Senor Oz remix)
Cookin on 3 burners - Cars
Smashproof - Ordinary life (Moody boyz dub)
Wajeed - Jeedo suave

Top Five May 2009
Staff benda billili - Sala mosala
Open souls - Hold you close dub
Chancha via curcuito - Zorzal
Albarosie - Kingston town (Bassnectar version)
Nina Simone - Taking care of business (Pilooski re-edit)

Top Five + five March 2009
Overproof sound system - Kingstep (Unitone Hifi dub mix)
Lee Scratch Perry - God smiled (Moody boyz remix)
Horace Andy and Ashley Beedle - What we (Pinch remix)
ESG - Moody (spaced out mix)
Manasseh - Western world version
Onra - The anthem
Amadou and mariam - Djama
Specials - Ghost town (DJG bootleg)
Beat pharmacy - Strangers
El michels affair - Walk on by

Top Five + 1 December 2008 faves from the year
Gabriella Cilmi -Sweet about me (Ashley Beedle remix)
Steel n skin - Afro punk reggae dub
Eru Dangerspiel - Sun again
The Snugs - Trying
Restless Soul - Turn me out
Dub Colossus - Azmari dub

Top Five October 2008
Salah Ragab - Egypt strut
Mungos Hifi and Brother Culture - Ing (MJ mix)
Bluevibe studio - Holdin on (Magowl remix)
Benga - 26 basslines
Dark Angel and Roots garden - Version minded

Top Five Augst 2008
Ernie K Doe - Here come the girls (Andy Smith edit)
Rob Symeonn - Message in the music (Shanti roots dubhouse edit)
Unitone hifi - Up to eleven
Jazmine Sullivan - I need you bad
Johnny Hammond - Fantasy (Marc Mac Beatdrop version) 

Top Five June 2008
Manzel - Evil, wicked and nasty
Komac - Scratch marchin'
Bad Brains - Leaving Babylon
Junior Murvin - Cool out son
Ponco Sanchez - Watermelon man (Dan the Automator remix)

Top Five April 2008
Erykah Badu - Honey (Moody boyz remix)
Mighty Mo - Next message
Overproof sound system - The Model
Little Dragon - Test
Restless soul - Turn me out

Top Five November 2007
Guilty Simpson - Man's World
Hot 8 Brass Band -  Sexual healing
Daktaris - Eltsuhg ibal lasiti (Mad Professor remix)
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Balicky bon
Manu Chao - Politik kills

Top Five September 2007
Bob Marley - Sun Is Shining (Dj Dolores Remix)
Guts - And the living is easy
Mr Vegas - Lean wsid it
Bacao rhythm and steel band - Look-a-py-py
Pinchers - Bandolero

Top Five December 2006
Bronx River Parkway - La valla
Iggy Pop, Peggy Lee - Passenger fever
The Quartertones - Caffeine (DJ Format's getaway mix)
Chuck Womack and the sweet souls - Ham hock and beans (Quantic remix)
The Dynamics - Seven nation army

Top 22 July 2006
Been a while, here's a ton of tuneage...

Bombs - Under mi sensi remix
Bob Marley -Stand up jamrock (Ashley Beedle re-edit)
Cut chemist - The garden
Nomo - Divisions
Onelung - Devine No 5 (Dub Asylum "feel alive" remix)
Scrappy - Off the lsead
Fat Freddy's Drop - Flashback (Jazzanova mashed bag remix)
Shaggy & Barington Levy - Broadway
Grant Phabao, Carlton Livingston, Lone Ranger - Message to you, rudy
Turbulence - Stay focus
Barrington Carey - Love u forver (Boxsaga mix)
Open souls - They don't even know
Nightmares on wax - Flip ya lid
Hot grits - Mr nice
Jorge Ben - Umbabaraumba
Mulatu Astkake - Yegelle tezeta
Zilver Zurf - Moment is gone (Kieser Velten remix)
JStar - Fall in love
Rhythm and sound - Lightning storm (Francois K remix)
Big Youth & the Congos - Feed a nation
Beatconductor - Hottest dub
Coldcut feat Roots Manuva - True skool

Top Five + 1 October 2005
Beenieman and Devonte - Imagination
Recloose - Dust (Submariner remix)
Iggy and the Stooges - Raw power
Keith Lawrence feat Rodney P - Style and fashion
Led Zepp vs Snoop Dogg - Drop it like a whole lotta love
Amadou and Mariam feat Manu Chao - Senegal fast food

Top Five August 2005
Turbulence - Notorious
Noisy bunch feat MS Thing, Beenieman, Shirley Ellis - Clapping dude song
Recloose - Mana's bounce
Boozoo Bajou feat Top Cat - Killer
Katzenjammers - Cars (steel drums doing Gary Numan!)

And of course Fat Freddy's Drop album 'Based On A True Story' on lovely double vinyl with colour sleeve!

Top Five March 2005
Rodney P - The nice up
Tha Feelstyle - Outside Enclosure
Diplo - Newsflash
Angie Stone meets Viceroys - My man (Upstate remix)
Katchafire - Rude girl (Baitercell and Schumacher remix)

READING... Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hiphop Generation by Jeff Chang, Classic material: the Hiphop Album Guide by Oliver Wang, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas by Anne Salmond, Wax Poetics mag, Mojo mag, Vice mag. WATCHING... Sopranos first series rerun, new Simpsons episodes.

Spring Seven (September 2004)
Syros - Be wat I wanna Be 7"
Dub Dadda - Cross the border 7"
Sharkey feat Jean Grae - Summer in the city 12"
Tenor saw - Pumpkin belly 12"
Jstar - Music rerub 7"
Studio One Classics compilation LP
Defari - Behold my life 12"

Top Five +1(May 2004)
Overproof Sound System - Nothing to proove 12" EP
Tubbs feat Dallas from Fat Freddys - 5 Day Night (Baloo mix) 12"
Junior Murvin - Crossover/bad weed 12"
Big Bud and MC Tek - Bubblin 7"
Amp Fiddler - Waltz of a ghetto fly CD
Nuffwish 4 - Loaded chalice 12"

READING... heaps of magazines; Wax Poetics #8, Elemental, Manual, Out4Fame, Consumer, Zembla, Back2Basics, Future Music (great Brian Eno interview).
WATCHING... Insiders Guide to Happiness, Monster Garage.

Top Five (February 2004)
Henry and the Revolutionaries - Skanking 7"
Bumps Jackson/This Kid Named Miles - Funky in Jamaica Pt 2 7"
DJ Danger Mouse -Grey Album (Jay Z vs Beatles)
Shantel - Bucovina (Haaksman soca bogle mix) 12"
Twilight Circus vs Groove Corp - What we need is love (feat Big Youth) 10"

READING... History of New Zealand by Michael King, the new issue of Mysterex magazine.
WATCHING... 24 Hour Party People, Kung Faux, 24.

Spring Seven (September 2003)
The Pointer Sisters (DJ Food re-edit) - The pinball number count 12"
Styles of Beyond - Mr Brown 12"
Elephant Man - Pon di river (buyout) 12"
Paul Murphy - Soul call 7"
Lemon - Oye como va remix 7"
Pitch Black - Flex CD EP
Carlton Livingston - 100lbs of collie weed 7"

Top Five +1(July 2003)
Kraftwerk - Tour de France 03 12"
Back eyed peas - Hey mama 12"
DJ Format - Here comes the fuzz (Quartertones remix) 7"
Mckay - Take me over 7"
Lumidee - Uh oh 12"
Sola Rosa - Ready Now remix EP

READING... Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, the latest issue of Wax Poetics magazine
WATCHING... Igby Goes Down, Tears of the Black Tiger, Monster Garage

Top Five (April 2003)
Adrian Sherwood - Never trust a hippy CD
Erland Oye - Unrest CD
Aldo Vanucci - Everything's alright 7"
Manasseh meets Equalizer -Pepper EP
Roy Ayers - Destination Motherland compilation CD

READING... Electric by Chad Taylor, the new issue of Wax Poetics magazine
WATCHING... Without a Trace, Whale Rider

Top Five (January 2003)
Bobby Hughes Combination - Kerma Elastica (Nicola Conte remix) 7"
James Brown - Ultimate Remixes CD
Steel Funk - volume two LP
Moodorama - Sweet Toffee 12"
Studio One Scorchers LP

Top Five (August 2002)
Superfly and Shakka - We come sweet 12"
Rae & Christian- Six Feet Under theme remix
Earth Wind & Fire - Soul Source Remixes
Nicola Conte & Rosalia de Souza - Maria Monte 12"
Salmonella Dub - Outside the Dub Plates remixes

Top Five (May 2002)
Joi - Star kittys revenge
Maxwell Implosion - Small circle of friends
Treva Whateva - Singalong
Prince Fari - Dub to Africa
Verve Remixed - Is you is or is you aint my baby -
Dinah Washington (Rae & Christian remix)

Tokyo Top Five (November 2001)
Record shopping in Japan is a lotta fun!!!
Jackson 5 -Soul Source Remixes CD
JB's 40th Anniversary megamix 12" (sounds cheesy, but is funky as!)
Earl Zinger - Mr DC 7"
Michael Olatunnji -Soul Makossa 7"
Ike and Tina Turner - Funkier than a mosquitos tweeter 7"

Current Top Five + 1(October 2001)
Nicola Conte - Bossa per due
Mo Horizons - Hit the Road Jack 12"
Che Fu - The Navigator
Rhythm and Sound feat Cornell Cambell - King in my Empire 10"
Kool it (when soul, funk and jazz went latin) - compilation
Boozoo Bazou - Satta

All-time Top Five Records
Eric B and Rakim - Paid in full
Prince Fari - Cry Tuff Dub Encounter chapter 3
Augustus Pablo - Original Rockers
Nightmares on Wax - Carboot Soul
Temptations - Masterpiece
(but if you asked me tomorrow, it would probably change).

from Invisibl Skratch Pikls website...
DJ Shortkut's favorite breaks
1. "Weya" / Manu Dibango
2. "Bubblegum" / 9th Creation
3. "Funky Drummer" / James Brown
4. "Funk To the Folks" / Soul Searchers
5. "Thinking" / Meters
6. "Upon This Rock" / Joe Farrell
7. "Black and Blues" / Bobby Humphrey
8. "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" / Roy Ayers
9. "Capricorn" / Cannonball Adderly
10. "Apache" / Incredible Bongo Band

MixMasterMike's top 5 horror flicks
1. Dead Alive
2. Evil Dead 2
3. The Hitcher
4. The Hills Have Eyes
5. Scanners