b3science counts down our choice top 40 tracks of 2009! have a happy new year, and we’ll see you suckas in 2010! check the original posts for a synopsis on the track as well as artist and purchaseinfo.

1. Electric Wire Hustle - They Don’t Want
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2. Raheem DeVaughn - Bulletproof (Feat. Ludacris)
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3. Colin Munroe - I’m Fine (Feat. Young Buck)
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4. The Maccabees - No Kind Words
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5. Jay Electronica - Exhibit C
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6. Jack Penate - Pull My Heart Away
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7. The Temper Trap - Love Lost
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8. Trailer Trash Tracys - Candy Girl
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9. Bat for Lashes - Daniel
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10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
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11. Lee Fields & the Expressions - My World is Empty Without You
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12. Gliss - Morning Light
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13. Rich Boy - Drop
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14. The Raveonettes - Heart of Stone
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15. Delphic - This Momentary
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16. Maino - All the Above (Feat. T-Pain)
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17. Ian Brown - Stellify
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18. Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Feat. Hope Sandoval)
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19. Groove Armada – I Won’t Kneel
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20. Young Buck - Lord Have Mercy (Feat. The Outlawz)
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21. Phoenix - Lisztomania
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22. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dull Life
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23. David Dallas - Big Time 
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24. Kleerup - Until We Bleed (Feat. Lykke Li) via International Release
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25. K-os - I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman
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26. Wye Oak - Take It In
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27. The Veils - The Letter
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28. Sidwho? - Millionaire
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29. The Hickey Underworld - Blonde Fire
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30. Brittany Bosco - Blues for Blue
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31. Aime - Summertime Mood
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32. Florence and the Machine - Cosmic Love
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33. Kasabian - Fire (Radio Edit)
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34. Chris Brown - I Can Transform Ya (Feat. Lil’ Wayne & Swizz Beatz)
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35. Memory Tapes - Bicycle
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36. The Maccabees - Love You Better
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37. Nouvelle Vague - All My Colours (Feat. Ian McCulloch)
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38. Sade - Soldier of Love (Casamena Basement Edit)
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39. The Roots - How I Got Over
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40. People Under the Stairs - Hit the Top
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honorable mentions:

Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Which Way To Go
The Dead Weather - Are friends Electric
Bombay Bicycle Club - Magnet
The Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightening
The Horrors - Whole New Way
Diving With Andy - Sugar Sugar
Winston Audio - Hey Anne
Fanfarlo - I’m A Pilot
The Vicounts - Broken Britain
Wale – Beautiful Bliss (Feat. Melanie Fiona and J. Cole)
Birdman – Money to Blow (Feat. Drake and Lil’ Wayne)
Magistrates - Make This Work
Little Black Dress – Robin
The Ruling Class – Marian Shine
Reigning Sound – Call Me
The Cribs – We Share the Same Skies
Lyrebirds – Closer
Basement Jaxx – A Possibility (Feat. Amp Fiddler)
White Rose Movement – Cigarette Machine
Mos Def – History (Feat. Talib Kweli)
Nas – Film
Print – Reserved for the Cool Kids
We Were Promised Jetpacks – Ships with Holes Will Sink
De La Soul – La La La
Airship – Kids
She Keeps Bees - Gimmie
Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson - Relator
O. Children - Dead Disco Dancer
Brakes - Don’t Take Me To Space (Man)
Fenech-Soler – Lies
Asaf Avidan - weak
The Stevenson Ranch Davidians - Feelin Good
Reigning Sound – Call Me
Depeche Mode – Wrong
White Rabbits - Percussion Gun
Sergeant - K-OK
Machine Gun Kelly - Cleveland State of Mind (Feat. Bravo & Ashley Simpson)
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - 40 Day dream
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Justin Towns Earle- Midnight At The Movies
Cornershop - Who Fingered Rock ‘n’ Roll
Alberta Cross - Rise From the Shadows
Holly Miranda - Waves
Kev Brown – Hennessy Rap Pt. 3 (Feat. Kenn Star and Raheem DeVaughn)
Kings of Conveniece – Renegade
DJ Deckstream – Life is Good (Feat. Mos Def)
AFTA-1 -Love Suite 2 (Sit Still)
Omarion – I Get It In (Feat. Gucci Mane)
The Kid Daytona – The Engine
The Phenomenal Handclap Baby – Baby
if you want more, then you should read our blog

Kellen & Me: “Joann’s Great Big Noose” (exclusive download!)

Kellen & Me: “Serenity Song” (exclusive download!)

if you’ve frequented Chicago’s local songwriter venues, you might have been fortunate enough to catch one of the scenes newest best kept secrets… experimental folk songsmith Kellen & Me. amidst preparation of his first full length album, b3science caught up with the multi-tasking instrumentalist between sets, night jobs and excessive pondering for a brief Q&A.

b3sci: so you’re a one man band?
kellen: yeah, i use a loop pedal for spontaneous rhythms and abstract elements, but i do so that the focus isn’t on the pedal- it’s more on the song and the melodies.

b3sci: do you prefer flying solo, or do you one day wish to rock a band?
kellen: at first i thought having a band was the ultimate goal, but what i was looking for wasn’t coming, so i said fuck it, it’s not gonna stop me. in the future a band could be great, but only the right band will do.

b3sci: have to ask. what’s you favorite dental instrument?
kellen: umm, gotta go with the mirror.

b3sci: the big one or little one?
kellen: the little one they go in your mouth with. i wish i had one of those… i think spys use them to look around corners.

b3sci: while were on the subject, who’s your favorite globalist front group?
kellen: you mean like the free masons? yeah them. really anybody that uses symbolic imagery. you know the whole marketing of symbolic things using subconcious imagery. i actually grew up in a town with a whole bunch of masons. their were a bunch of temples with no windows and stuff. they were always kind of interesting to me.

… they never let me in, but i did meet a mason when i was pruning apple trees in wisconsin. he’d told me they’d been watching me ever since i was a young child. he was a very serious man. i didn’t believe him, but it peaked my curiosity.

b3sci: haha do you think their watching you right now?
kellen: it’s flattering, i wouldn’t mind if they were. i could definitely use their support.

b3sci: how did you make that incredible video for “Batteries and Frequencies”
Kellen: i stumbled on this technique when i was in high school and just kind of started messing with it.. you plug a video camera directly into the audio video output of a television, and then shine the camera into the television. you’ll get all sorts of images from the light feeding back depending on how you hold the camera. you’ll get all of these free association kind of images.

b3sci: what are you looking to accomplish with your music
kellen: i’m playing music to make some sort of interpretation of my own inner world and to bring it out into reality, and hopefully people will want to listen to it.

b3sci: when can we expect a record?
kellen: yeah i’ve been working on new songs. i have a batch of stuff and hope to have a full albums worth of new material out soon.

b3sci: looking forward to it. thanks for chatting
kellen: thanks for having me, bye.

get music from kellen & me here. and check out his video for “Batteries and Frequencies” below..

hell yes.