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One year long, we have listened to thousands tracks from everywhere. From well known labels such as Cajual or Mo'Wax to very obscure releases on labels such as Balihu or Scuba... The Freestyle team had lots of hours of pure musical fun and is now ready to present a selection of the best of 1997. We offer our 100 favorite tracks of 1997, that is 25 tracks presented by each Freestyle team member. Enjoy !
| Say Vegin best 25 of 1997 | |||
| 1 | Glenn Underground | Keep the Hidden Treasure | Peacefrog |
| 2 | AIR | Le soleil est près de moi | Source |
| 3 | Boards of Canada | June 9th | Skam |
| 4 | The Gentle People | Soundtracks for living | Rephlex |
| 5 | V.A. | Megasoft Office 97 | F Comm |
| 6 | V.A. | Spaced Out | Disorient |
| 7 | Glenn Underground | Dizco Moog | Cajual |
| 8 | Kid Loco | More real pop corn blues | Yellow |
| 9 | The Wiseguys | Casino 'Sans Pareil' | Wall Of Sound |
| 10 | Gary Moscheles | Goodbye Jazz People | SSR |
| 11 | Glenn Underground | 7th & Rhodes | Guidance |
| 12 | Bochum Welt | Feelings on a screen | Rephlex |
| 13 | Glenn Underground | Wilderness funk | Guidance |
| 14 | Yusuf Loveys | Only House Music | House of 909 |
| 15 | dj Seeq | Distortion | Jimmy Jay |
| 16 | Second Crusade | May the funk be with you | Freeze |
| 17 | SJU | Future Parables | Defender |
| 18 | Mauler | PGM 100/200 | Shield |
| 19 | Trevor Loveys | Distorted Jazz EP | House of 909 |
| 20 | FSOL | Glass Yage | Virgin |
| 21 | Ballet Méchanique | Vinyl Voyage | Eevo Lute |
| 22 | Biosphere | Chukhung | All Saints |
| 23 | Rare 2 | Sweat | Catch |
| 24 | Maurizio | M7 | - |
| 25 | Sixteen Souls | Late Night Jam | Glasgow Underground |
| Outspan best 25 of 1997 | |||
| 1 | Dimitri from Paris | ..presents de-luxe house of funk | Mixmag Live |
| 2 | Spaced Out | ten original disco funk grooves | Disorient |
| 3 | Mateo & Matos feat. Scott Wozinak | 3 times soul | Nervous |
| 4 | Glenn Underground feat. Steve Israel | House of Blues | Guidance |
| 5 | The return of the gigalo supreme | After the storm (vinyl saturday mix) | Nervous |
| 6 | Roni Size feat. Bahamadia | New Forms | Full Cycle |
| 7 | Glenn Underground | Dizco Moog | Cajual |
| 8 | The Wiseguys | Casino 'Sans Pareil' | Wall Of Sound |
| 9 | The Herbaliser feat. What What | Bring it | Ninja Tune |
| 10 | Glenn Underground | Keep the hidden treasures | Peacefrog |
| 11 | Yusuf Loveys | Inifite Groove | House of 909 |
| 12 | Obscuro P | Sole Inflection | PAN |
| 13 | Glenn Underground | Concrete Level Jazz | Guidance |
| 14 | Endemic Void | Hydrosphere | Language |
| 15 | Mark Grant | Spirit of the black ghost (blackest mix) | Guidance |
| 16 | The S.J.U. unit | Magic Potion | Defender |
| 17 | Jamie Myerson | Take it or leave it | Selector |
| 18 | Black Jazz Chronicles | Snookys spirit | Nuphonic |
| 19 | Jungle Brothers | Brain (stereo mc's remix) | GeeStreet |
| 20 | UNI | Soulsearcher (hot & cold classic mix) | 20:20 Vison |
| 21 | Abacus | Taxi blues | Guidance |
| 22 | The sunshine funk | Ruffattitude | Sunshine Groove |
| 23 | Julius Papp | Cosmic Wave (cosmic ride mix) | Yellow |
| 24 | Kid Koala | Scratchappyland | Ninja Tune |
| 25 | Mateo & Matos | Retro groove | Midnight Groove |
| EZBoy best 25 of 1997 | |||
| 1 | Summer people sampler v1 | The shape of things to come | People |
| 2 | Pal Joey | The flight | Loop'd loop |
| 3 | Scuba | ? | ? |
| 4 | Men from the Nile Pt 2 | Watch them come | Underground therapy |
| 5 | Yusuf Loveys | Only House Music | House of 909 |
| 6 | Glenn Underground | House of Blues | Guidance |
| 7 | Teddy G | Captain Dobbey | Disques Rotax |
| 8 | Idjut Boys | Long stayer mix | Nuphonic |
| 9 | Mark Grant | Spirit of the black ghost | Guidance |
| 10 | Boogie traks faze 1 | Emerald City Sequence | white label |
| 11 | Calysto | My planet Rocks | Guidance |
| 12 | Glenn Underground | 7th & Rhodes | Guidance |
| 13 | Groove Armada | M2Many | Tummy Touch |
| 14 | Alton Miller & Urban farmer present | Lolita : rubarb triangle mix | 20:20 Vision |
| 15 | Sunburst Band | Delicious | Z-records |
| 16 | Davidson Ospina | Chronicles III | Henry Street Music |
| 17 | Future Homo Sapiens | Driving south | Galactic Disco |
| 18 | Faze Action | Astral Projection | Nuphonic |
| 19 | Global Communication & VCF band | The Groove | Globa |
| 20 | Straight no chaser | Turn it around | Guidance |
| 21 | Obscuro P | Soul inflection | PAN |
| 22 | Private Funk | Tales of insecurity | Cross Section |
| 22 | The deviants | Being someone else | Luxury Service Records |
| 23 | Deep Freeze Productions | New York sex drug fantasy | Sure shot records |
| 24 | Yokota | One Way (Salt City Orchestra Robodisco dub) | Eye Q UK |
| 25 | J.T. Donaldson | Money flowers EP | Fair Park |
| Howie's best 25 of 1997 | |||
| 1 | Herbert | Deeper | Phono |
| 2 | Basment Jaxx | Fly life | Atlantic Jaxx Rec |
| 3 | DJ Q | Feeling moody | Go!Beat |
| 4 | Neil Landstrumm | Monaco Grand Prix - The wash out | Tresor |
| 5 | The Electric 10 | ex-p.r. | Rough Cut |
| 6 | Dark Comedy | The Bar | Elypsia |
| 7 | Special Agents | Kindered Spirits | ? |
| 8 | DJ Q | Make your mind up | Filter |
| 9 | T-Quest | Upiter | Music Man |
| 10 | THD & The Funky Technicians | Goodbye Jazz People | ? |
| 11 | Bjork | Isobel (Dimitri's Enchanted Forest) | One Little Indian |
| 12 | Mauler | PGM 100/200 | Shield |
| 13 | Move D | Hurt me | Source |
| 14 | Bochum Welt | Module2 | Rephlex |
| 15 | Richie Hawtin | 8068-005 | Plus8 |
| 16 | Man Made | Space Wreck | Fragile |
| 17 | Mark Grant | Spirit of the black ghost | Guidance |
| 18 | NU Era | Solar Winds | SSR |
| 19 | John Beltram | Ten Days of Blue | Peacefrog |
| 20 | I Cube | Ding ding ding | Versatile |
| 21 | Bob Sinclair | Visions of paradise | Yellow |
| 22 | Glenn Underground | Dizco Moog | Cajual |
| 23 | Sun Electric | Eya | Apollo |
| 24 | jb3 (Joey Beltram) | Through the Mixer | NovaMute |
| 25 | Pacou | Symbolic Language | Tresor |