i love music and yes it's that time of year. if you are on apple music (and are interested) you can look me up and simply add 2019 selection . it's about 3 hours long as i think that's the length of a decent radio show and if ever invited onto bbc6music i am ready! most of the tunes have been discovered or heard there to be honest. lots of people i know are on spotify and i don't tend to use apple so here is a list of my selection of tunes for this year curated into some kind of order. i love instrumental music and as i did last year have also made a 2019 horizontal playlist though i seemed to come across a bit less this year – that is also below. a few of those intro and outro the main selection. my actual playlist for 2019 is around 14 hours so i won't bother sharing that one though i really love it.

[update – harry being a spotify user and keen to listen to the playlist created a spotify one so i can now share that all you spotify users – the one track not on spotify is vin gordon's african shores but apart from that i think they are all there… here's the link JonnyBakerBestOf19 ]

weird fact – this year i listened to four albums that came out by people who are dead – leonard cohen, gang starr, marvin gaye, john coltrane. 

• sea watch – floating points
• the haunted victorian pencil – a winged victory for the sullen
• a walking embrace – nils frahm
• debushy – kenny segal
• earth tone – simiah and the phantom ensemble
• uman – kokoroko
• mark sampson (feat carlosoverall extended mix) – kassa overall
• icy roads )stacked) – joe armon jones
• jupiter – kinkajous
• what am i to do? (feat loyle carner) – ezra collective
• free my skin – steam down
• wake up – old paradice, confucius mc and morriarchi
• ill wind – radiohead
• a caged bird/limitations of life (feat roots manuva) – the cinematic orchestra
• family and loyalty (feat j cole) – gang starr
• get it together – ted jasper
• cool water (justice rolls down like a river) – brian owens
• joy – the cranes
• that's how the good lord works – sunday service choir
• this is what love looks like – carlton jumel smith
• let me go – sault
• heaven (feat andreya triana) – the vision
• rise up – the freedom affair
• eternal light – free nationals and chronixx
• african shores – vin gordon
• temptations – jitwam
• please won't please – helado negro
• heroist – apparat
• traffic – thom yorke
• healer (feat theophilus london) – jnr williams
• evening time (feat knucks and etta bond) – oscar #worldpeace
• therapy – little simz
• breathe in – technimatic
• valley of paradise – psychemagik
• blood orange – else hewitt
• plain jane – rhi
• doin' time – lana del rey
• solid ground – michael kiwanuka
• the soil – david benjamin blower
• bright horses – nick cave
• listen to the hummingbird – leonard cohen
• meditation app – ryuichi sakamoto
• moments in love – kara-lis coverdale

and the horizontal playlist…

• home – aukai
• a walking embrace – nils frahm
• zerzura theme i – ahmoudou madassane
• run – tara jane o'neil
• odemark – isorinne
• billow – ultra straus
• istid iii pt iv – northaunt
• shallow, shadowless – earthen sea
• bridget's theme – adam bryanbaum wiltzie
• meditation app – ryuichi sakamoto
• equivalent 7 (feat secret pyramid) – loscil
• untitled, live in portland – sarah davachi
• am see – ben lukas boysen
• drei projektile – ben lukas boysen
• the haunted victorian pencil – a winged victory for the sullen
• the rhythm of a dividing pair – a winged victory for the sullen
• sea watch – floating points
• the slow descent has begun – a winged victory for the sullen
• moments in love – kara-lis coverdale