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00:00 Intro
00:47 Gillian Welch, The Way It Goes
[The Harrow and the Harvest, Acony Records]
04:22 Bill Orcutt, The Thing Sings
[How The Thing Sings, Editions Mego]
08:47 Clap, Have You Reached Yet?
[Have You Reached Yet?, Sing Sing Records]
12:37 The Panthers, Simmi Dance
[Pakistan Folk and Pop Instrumentals 1966-1976, Sublime Frequencies]
15:34 Yuck, Cousin Corona
[Yuck, Fat Possum]
20:01 Shin Joong Hyun-Beautiful Rivers and Mountains
[The Psychedelic Rock Sound of South Korea’s Shin Joong Hyun 1958-74, Light in the Attic]
29:52 True Widow, Blooden Horse
[As High As The Highest Heavens & From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth,
Kemado Records]
36:44 Anstam, Bitten By The Snake
[Dispel Dances, Fifty Weapons]
41:13 Sunns, Bambi
[Bambi/Red Song, Secretly Canadian]
48:46 Oneohtrix Point Never, Nassau
[Replica, Mexican Summer]
53:27 Seefeel, Sway
[Seefeel, Warp Records]
62:27 Wolves In The Throne Room, Woodland Cathedral
[Celestial Lineage, Southern Lord]
67:47 King Blood, Black Money
[Eyewash Silver, Permanent Records]
73:05 Exit Dialogue
T o p T e n C o n f a b F o l l o w s :
Hey U everywhere,
ALL year my mind was caught up in a dry mesa breeze & now christmas lays imprinted on my eyelids as i snore like a baby's gums rubbed with good whisky # all my dreams are dead %100% the wind and grind on the street is the music of night and day, old & young, the dead and the living = that noise is the ticking universal bomb waiting to explode in the red dawn of tomorrow # steel fragments whiz along the horizon > travelers load up and move while life happens in every leaf, brick and billboard + hear it all + see it all and move along a string toward unborn thought & way out in the distance visualize the reality * cause a thought seldom hesitates and without cogitation we are only a meal for a fly.
2011 top stuff:
1 Ursula Bogner/Sonne = Black Box/CD/Faitiche/Experimental/Germany
pharmacist housewife aka 20 years vaulted basement studio experiments. memorex? or hoax? some say the release could be a hoax. i think not.
2 King Blood/Eyewash Silver/LP/Permanent/Psychosedation/US
distortion, degradation, hiss, saturation and transcendence through noise.
3 Oneohtrix Point Never/Replica/LP/Software/Experimental/US
laminated 80s advertising loops, morphed skips, sort of-a-beat riding the industrial dream gone haywire, his best release by far.
4 Deceh/Fundamental Structure/Cassette/Tapeworm/Drone/UK
organ, shruti box, isolated frequencies and the effects on brain activity
5 Seefeel/Seefeel/Warp/LP/Electronica Soundscape/UK
gazy, dubby, drifty, ethereal and I bought it on the same day as Conor
6 White Hills/H-p1/White Hills – H-p1/Thrill Jockey/Space Rock/US
assault of the status quo with more than lyrics
7 Eleh/Floating Frequencies/Cassette/Intuitive Synthesis/Drone/US?
droning on and on space travel
8 Pakistan Folk And Pop Instrumentals 66-76/Sublime Freq/LP/World/US
blow-mind instrumentals with a hint of sitar
9 Suuns/Bambi + Red Song/12" 45/Secretly Canadian/Post Punk/US
wispy chromatic stomp from the vortex
10 Tommy Guerrero/Lifeboats & Follies/Galaxia/CD/Lounge/US
handy for extended elevator rides [of the inner-psyche]
watch out for flies, Mindmondo
jan 2 2012 end;over&out|
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Oh man, I must not have been paying attention to music this year... I think I was more into either live music, or old stuff. I don't think I can name 10 albums from 2011. But, I will have a go.
Oneohtrix- Replica: I love what this guy has been doing with samples. Thats some brainy shit. I like how he is constantly trying exploring new avenues of composition
Seefeel- blew my mind with their latest
Massive Attack had an awesome album... oh shit maybe that was in 2010... whatever
James Ferraro's latest was pretty interesting
Vladislav Delay/John Tejada/ Alva Noto- Sistol Remixes is fucking badass, published by Basic Channel.
The Pakistani Surf album is badass, although I don't own it and have not heard the whole thing...
Plaid's latest "Scintilli" is great, they were great live, I was very moved by what I saw and heard.
Other than that, I can't really think of any more... haha. To me, this was the year for live music. Both as a spectator and performer. I had the privilege of seeing some of my all time favorite artists this year, including but not limited to: Monolake, Atom TM (whom I didn't really know about until I saw him live, and man oh man, I was blown away) Plaid, Carl Craig, Devo (DEVO), William Basinsky et al. I have to give credit to The Normal Ones, who are pretty much one of the coolest bands (local or otherwise) that I have ever seen. Rene Hell was the bomb (I got to open for him, that was fun)... other than that, I spent most of my time either working in a shitty restaurant or sitting in my basement making music...
merry christmas friends, hope everyone is well
Oh shit, how could I forget Demdike Stare!?! That was my favorite for sure.
Charles
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Without further ado:
1. Dalgish - Benacah Drann Deachd [Highpoint Lowlife]
Dystopian electronic bliss for the hellbent loner or hyper-stressed urbanite. Difficult to listen to in the hills, a breeze in a towering parking garage or coal spewing power plant.
2. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love Is a Stream [Type]
The best shoegaze record since Loveless.
3. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica [Software Recording Co./Mexican Summer]
Milkman and Charles have had their blinders off for sometime now. I first heard this record driving across the majolica empire of the Mojave desert. The vocal drops are cut subliminally and the otherworldly jazz-like samples rise like the dead.
4. Zomby - Nothing EP [4AD]
Leave it to a Southeast Londoner to continually reinvent his sound by breaking away from the whomp-whomp-whomp of bro-step and replacing it with a blend of spliced reggae and afro-beat vocals with early 90's rave culture. The full-length Dedication is also noteworthy, "Natalia's Song" is the track of the year, but the album as a whole doesn't touch Nothing. Both album and EP are on the classic label that brought us the Cocteau Twins; 4AD continues to push the envelope, unlike most early alternative labels.
5. Ø - Heijastuva [Sanko]
Mika Vaino of Pan Sonic's swan song. The title track is seventeen minutes of ambient transcendence, followed by complete mind-fucks. "Heijastuva" is the greatest ambient work since Aphex's Collected Works.
6. Seefeel - Seefeel (Warp)
Warp's greatest act is finally back doing hypnagogic-pop better than any American act. I'm looking forward to Mark Van Hoen's 2012 release The Revenant Diary, according to The Wire it's a throw-back jammer. LFO returned in 2011 too with Gods-speed and a bit of British 90's love.
5. Anstam - Dispel Dances [Descargar Gratis]
German industrial-post-dub-step. What the fuck? Darkness rules everything around me.
7. The Bats - Free All Monsters [Flying Nun]
Kiwi's took odd-pop to new heights in the 80's. They still control the landscape. The Clean also came back strong in 2011.
8. (etre) - Inferno from My Occult Diary [Porter]
The title says it all; maddened Italian field-recordings, stuck-up classical chops and a shit load of noise.
10. True Widow - As High as the Highest Heavens from the Center to the Circumference of the Earth [Kemado]
What a terrible name for a record, but I had to include something to appease Tyler. These guys and gals listen to way too much Nirvana, Low and Slowdive, yet they filter it through hazey Texas sludge so well.
11. Scientist Presents... Scientist Launches Dub-Step Into Outer Space [Tectonic]
I have to thank Milkman for this gem. It's not as good as his reworked Massive Attack album, but it shoots most dub-step dead in its tracks. I jammed this walking around Brixton this summer, white-boy dancing at every traffic light.
12. Wolfgang Voigt - Kafka Trax 12" Picturedisc Singles 1, 2, 3 [Kompakt]
Kompakt's leader and greatest artist returns with heavy hitting minimalist house inspired by Kafka short-stories. Each track is created from voice recordings put to 4-on-the-floor. The music paired with the video is unstoppable; a man hangs himself with the moon for Christ's sake.
13. Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Horizontal Von Oswald Trio [Honest Jon's]
Improv techno with headed by Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound's Moritz Von Oswald and Vladislav Delay... count me in. Milkman, if you don't have this get on it. Charles, I know you're set.
14. Massive Attack vs. Burial - "Four Walls - Paradise Circus" 12" [VF Editions]
Perfect blend of both innovators; pensive, dismal, slow and buried.
15. Lukid - Chord [Werk]
Bleak minimal techno.
R.I.P. Bill Dixon and Conrad Schnitzler; love, pining and weltraum...
c o n o r
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
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Bah, humbug
Top 20 of 2011 (in no particular order):
Clap - Have You Reached Yet (Sing Sing)
V/A - Pakistan: Folk & Pop Instrumentals '66-'76 (Sublime Frequencies)
Shannon & The Clams - Sleeptalk (1 2 3 4 Go!)
Razika - Program 91 (Smalltown Supersound)
Vagrants - I Can't Make A Friend (Light In The Attic)
J. Mascis - Several Shades of Why (Sub Pop)
Blaze Foley - Clay Pigeons (Secret Seven)
Bleached - Carter 7" (Art Fag)
Charles 'Packy' Axon - Late Late Party (Light In The Attic)
Mikal Cronin - S/T (Trouble In Mind)
True Widow - As High As The Highest Heavens & From The Center to the Circumference of the Earth (Kemado)
Earth Girl Helen Brown - Story Of An Earth Girl 10" (Forest Family)
Heavy Times - Jacker (Hozak)
Los Robbins - La Maravilla Musical De 10" (Electro Harmonix)
Boomgates - Layman's Terms 7" (Smart Guy)
Yuck - Yuck (Fat Possum)
Davila 666 - Tan Bajo (In The Red)
The Ex - Catch My Shoe (Fishtank)
Bare Wires - Cheap Perfume (Southpaw)
Milk Music - Beyond (Perennial) *technically released end of '10.
ED P.
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I still thought it was 2010!? I'm way behind you guys as far as any new releases that sparked me this year
I'm in the same mind frame as Charles where I have been playing a lot of music this year and listening to whatever I come across (or go back to).
That being said:
FRIPP & ENO - No Pussyfooting (probably my favorite Eno record.....I'll wait for Jeff's angry rebuke....)
TDK (early 80's hardcore from Spain)
CHROME - Half Machine Lip Moves
the PAKISTANI v/a comp. (thanks to Jeff and EAR-RATIONAL)
JUDEE SILL - s/t
SAMARA LUBELSKI - the Fleeting Skies
anything by DER PLAN
TAKEHISA KOSUGI - Catch-Wave (there aren't enough stars in the sky to rate this record)
BUGALU TROPICAL - Gozalo! Vol. 4 2LP
PIC-NIC - s/t - re-issue of 1968 Spanish band that sounds like the Mamas and the Papas w/o evoking images of incest.
The INTERNATIONAL VICIOUS SOCIETY vol. 4 (all volumes are great if you can find them)
SYCH - Lunar Roulette (Wally Shoup, Chris Corsano, et al) Hey, this one actually came out in 2011 !!!
The CATS & the FIDDLE - I Miss You So (BLUEBIRD recordings from 1939-41)
SEBASTIAN TELLIER - Sexuality
Again, keeping with me being a self-absorbed narcissist, I have been more excited about what I have been playing and recording this year and what is on the horizon for 2012.
Waiting to hear from those hobos w/o wi-fi and the imprisoned...
happy new year, Eric
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The Dream is Over… said Lennon. Just Yoko and me…
1. Gillian Welch: the Harrow & The Harvest
2. Pakistani Surf (Sublime Frequencies)
3. John Fahey: Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You -- The Complete Fonotone Years Box Set Extraordinaire
4. The Alps: Easy Action (Mexican Summer)
5. M83: Hurry Up We’re Dreaming
6. Tinariwen: Tassili
7. Hank III- Ghost to A Ghost/Guttertown
8. Mark McGuire: Mark McGuire or just about all them LPs he released this year…
9. Jonas Reinhardt: Music for the Tactile Dome makes synth music that Daniel Lopotkin only wishes..
10.Demdike Stares: Tryptych. had to wait to get the 3cd set since the LPs vaporized
Best show: Atom Heart at the Fox
Where's Milkman???
Uncle Jeff
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To further scare off the Milkman, I'm going to give you all what none of you wanted from a 2011 end of year list: my top disco jams of the year including tons of awesome re-edits and then a couple records I actually took a break from listening to disco to like.
First, the full records that cut through the disco smoke, in no particular order and not necessarily disco free:
7 Eleh/Floating Frequencies/Cassette/Intuitive Synthesis/Drone/US?
droning on and on space travel
8 Pakistan Folk And Pop Instrumentals 66-76/Sublime Freq/LP/World/US
blow-mind instrumentals with a hint of sitar
9 Suuns/Bambi + Red Song/12" 45/Secretly Canadian/Post Punk/US
wispy chromatic stomp from the vortex
10 Tommy Guerrero/Lifeboats & Follies/Galaxia/CD/Lounge/US
handy for extended elevator rides [of the inner-psyche]
watch out for flies, Mindmondo
jan 2 2012 end;over&out|
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Oh man, I must not have been paying attention to music this year... I think I was more into either live music, or old stuff. I don't think I can name 10 albums from 2011. But, I will have a go.
Oneohtrix- Replica: I love what this guy has been doing with samples. Thats some brainy shit. I like how he is constantly trying exploring new avenues of composition
Seefeel- blew my mind with their latest
Massive Attack had an awesome album... oh shit maybe that was in 2010... whatever
James Ferraro's latest was pretty interesting
Vladislav Delay/John Tejada/ Alva Noto- Sistol Remixes is fucking badass, published by Basic Channel.
The Pakistani Surf album is badass, although I don't own it and have not heard the whole thing...
Plaid's latest "Scintilli" is great, they were great live, I was very moved by what I saw and heard.
Other than that, I can't really think of any more... haha. To me, this was the year for live music. Both as a spectator and performer. I had the privilege of seeing some of my all time favorite artists this year, including but not limited to: Monolake, Atom TM (whom I didn't really know about until I saw him live, and man oh man, I was blown away) Plaid, Carl Craig, Devo (DEVO), William Basinsky et al. I have to give credit to The Normal Ones, who are pretty much one of the coolest bands (local or otherwise) that I have ever seen. Rene Hell was the bomb (I got to open for him, that was fun)... other than that, I spent most of my time either working in a shitty restaurant or sitting in my basement making music...
merry christmas friends, hope everyone is well
Oh shit, how could I forget Demdike Stare!?! That was my favorite for sure.
Charles
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Without further ado:
1. Dalgish - Benacah Drann Deachd [Highpoint Lowlife]
Dystopian electronic bliss for the hellbent loner or hyper-stressed urbanite. Difficult to listen to in the hills, a breeze in a towering parking garage or coal spewing power plant.
2. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love Is a Stream [Type]
The best shoegaze record since Loveless.
3. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica [Software Recording Co./Mexican Summer]
Milkman and Charles have had their blinders off for sometime now. I first heard this record driving across the majolica empire of the Mojave desert. The vocal drops are cut subliminally and the otherworldly jazz-like samples rise like the dead.
4. Zomby - Nothing EP [4AD]
Leave it to a Southeast Londoner to continually reinvent his sound by breaking away from the whomp-whomp-whomp of bro-step and replacing it with a blend of spliced reggae and afro-beat vocals with early 90's rave culture. The full-length Dedication is also noteworthy, "Natalia's Song" is the track of the year, but the album as a whole doesn't touch Nothing. Both album and EP are on the classic label that brought us the Cocteau Twins; 4AD continues to push the envelope, unlike most early alternative labels.
5. Ø - Heijastuva [Sanko]
Mika Vaino of Pan Sonic's swan song. The title track is seventeen minutes of ambient transcendence, followed by complete mind-fucks. "Heijastuva" is the greatest ambient work since Aphex's Collected Works.
6. Seefeel - Seefeel (Warp)
Warp's greatest act is finally back doing hypnagogic-pop better than any American act. I'm looking forward to Mark Van Hoen's 2012 release The Revenant Diary, according to The Wire it's a throw-back jammer. LFO returned in 2011 too with Gods-speed and a bit of British 90's love.
5. Anstam - Dispel Dances [Descargar Gratis]
German industrial-post-dub-step. What the fuck? Darkness rules everything around me.
7. The Bats - Free All Monsters [Flying Nun]
Kiwi's took odd-pop to new heights in the 80's. They still control the landscape. The Clean also came back strong in 2011.
8. (etre) - Inferno from My Occult Diary [Porter]
The title says it all; maddened Italian field-recordings, stuck-up classical chops and a shit load of noise.
10. True Widow - As High as the Highest Heavens from the Center to the Circumference of the Earth [Kemado]
What a terrible name for a record, but I had to include something to appease Tyler. These guys and gals listen to way too much Nirvana, Low and Slowdive, yet they filter it through hazey Texas sludge so well.
11. Scientist Presents... Scientist Launches Dub-Step Into Outer Space [Tectonic]
I have to thank Milkman for this gem. It's not as good as his reworked Massive Attack album, but it shoots most dub-step dead in its tracks. I jammed this walking around Brixton this summer, white-boy dancing at every traffic light.
12. Wolfgang Voigt - Kafka Trax 12" Picturedisc Singles 1, 2, 3 [Kompakt]
Kompakt's leader and greatest artist returns with heavy hitting minimalist house inspired by Kafka short-stories. Each track is created from voice recordings put to 4-on-the-floor. The music paired with the video is unstoppable; a man hangs himself with the moon for Christ's sake.
13. Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Horizontal Von Oswald Trio [Honest Jon's]
Improv techno with headed by Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound's Moritz Von Oswald and Vladislav Delay... count me in. Milkman, if you don't have this get on it. Charles, I know you're set.
14. Massive Attack vs. Burial - "Four Walls - Paradise Circus" 12" [VF Editions]
Perfect blend of both innovators; pensive, dismal, slow and buried.
15. Lukid - Chord [Werk]
Bleak minimal techno.
R.I.P. Bill Dixon and Conrad Schnitzler; love, pining and weltraum...
c o n o r
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
= = = = = = = = =
Bah, humbug
Top 20 of 2011 (in no particular order):
Clap - Have You Reached Yet (Sing Sing)
V/A - Pakistan: Folk & Pop Instrumentals '66-'76 (Sublime Frequencies)
Shannon & The Clams - Sleeptalk (1 2 3 4 Go!)
Razika - Program 91 (Smalltown Supersound)
Vagrants - I Can't Make A Friend (Light In The Attic)
J. Mascis - Several Shades of Why (Sub Pop)
Blaze Foley - Clay Pigeons (Secret Seven)
Bleached - Carter 7" (Art Fag)
Charles 'Packy' Axon - Late Late Party (Light In The Attic)
Mikal Cronin - S/T (Trouble In Mind)
True Widow - As High As The Highest Heavens & From The Center to the Circumference of the Earth (Kemado)
Earth Girl Helen Brown - Story Of An Earth Girl 10" (Forest Family)
Heavy Times - Jacker (Hozak)
Los Robbins - La Maravilla Musical De 10" (Electro Harmonix)
Boomgates - Layman's Terms 7" (Smart Guy)
Yuck - Yuck (Fat Possum)
Davila 666 - Tan Bajo (In The Red)
The Ex - Catch My Shoe (Fishtank)
Bare Wires - Cheap Perfume (Southpaw)
Milk Music - Beyond (Perennial) *technically released end of '10.
ED P.
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I still thought it was 2010!? I'm way behind you guys as far as any new releases that sparked me this year
I'm in the same mind frame as Charles where I have been playing a lot of music this year and listening to whatever I come across (or go back to).
That being said:
FRIPP & ENO - No Pussyfooting (probably my favorite Eno record.....I'll wait for Jeff's angry rebuke....)
TDK (early 80's hardcore from Spain)
CHROME - Half Machine Lip Moves
the PAKISTANI v/a comp. (thanks to Jeff and EAR-RATIONAL)
JUDEE SILL - s/t
SAMARA LUBELSKI - the Fleeting Skies
anything by DER PLAN
TAKEHISA KOSUGI - Catch-Wave (there aren't enough stars in the sky to rate this record)
BUGALU TROPICAL - Gozalo! Vol. 4 2LP
PIC-NIC - s/t - re-issue of 1968 Spanish band that sounds like the Mamas and the Papas w/o evoking images of incest.
The INTERNATIONAL VICIOUS SOCIETY vol. 4 (all volumes are great if you can find them)
SYCH - Lunar Roulette (Wally Shoup, Chris Corsano, et al) Hey, this one actually came out in 2011 !!!
The CATS & the FIDDLE - I Miss You So (BLUEBIRD recordings from 1939-41)
SEBASTIAN TELLIER - Sexuality
Again, keeping with me being a self-absorbed narcissist, I have been more excited about what I have been playing and recording this year and what is on the horizon for 2012.
Waiting to hear from those hobos w/o wi-fi and the imprisoned...
happy new year, Eric
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The Dream is Over… said Lennon. Just Yoko and me…
1. Gillian Welch: the Harrow & The Harvest
2. Pakistani Surf (Sublime Frequencies)
3. John Fahey: Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You -- The Complete Fonotone Years Box Set Extraordinaire
4. The Alps: Easy Action (Mexican Summer)
5. M83: Hurry Up We’re Dreaming
6. Tinariwen: Tassili
7. Hank III- Ghost to A Ghost/Guttertown
8. Mark McGuire: Mark McGuire or just about all them LPs he released this year…
9. Jonas Reinhardt: Music for the Tactile Dome makes synth music that Daniel Lopotkin only wishes..
10.Demdike Stares: Tryptych. had to wait to get the 3cd set since the LPs vaporized
Best show: Atom Heart at the Fox
Where's Milkman???
Uncle Jeff
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To further scare off the Milkman, I'm going to give you all what none of you wanted from a 2011 end of year list: my top disco jams of the year including tons of awesome re-edits and then a couple records I actually took a break from listening to disco to like.
First, the full records that cut through the disco smoke, in no particular order and not necessarily disco free:
Veronica Falls - S/T: A really nice jangle-pop record in my opinion. My favorite track.
The Mountain Goats - All Survivors Pack: Parts of this remind me so much of All Hail West Texas and that record slayed me. These lo-fi versions of All Eternals Deck songs are awesome in comparison.
In Flagranti - Worse For Wear: When the title track intro of high heels clacking on the ground turns into the beat for the song my boner gets to full mast. I'm amazed that a song could have such a vivid bodily reaction myself.
Jens Lekman - An Argument with Myself: I've had a couple of these songs bootlegged and on mixes and such for years, I'm so excited to see them get a proper release. Obviously I'm obsessed with Jens.
Holy Ghost! - S/T: I wasn't really sold on these guys until I saw the video for Wait & See, then I was hooked.
Now for some super hot disco treats because truly, that's all I've been listening to this year. No particular order:
In Flagranti - Worse For Wear: When the title track intro of high heels clacking on the ground turns into the beat for the song my boner gets to full mast. I'm amazed that a song could have such a vivid bodily reaction myself.
Jens Lekman - An Argument with Myself: I've had a couple of these songs bootlegged and on mixes and such for years, I'm so excited to see them get a proper release. Obviously I'm obsessed with Jens.
Holy Ghost! - S/T: I wasn't really sold on these guys until I saw the video for Wait & See, then I was hooked.
Now for some super hot disco treats because truly, that's all I've been listening to this year. No particular order:
Reverso 68 - Earthy Powers: The vocals don't even hit the song until 3:30 (of 5:11) and this beat just builds and builds and by the time those vocals do come in, the dancefloor is hooked.
Poolside - Do You Believe?: Laid back as can be, this was the summer pool party anthem for me. These guys cut a nice Neil Young cover too that you can find on YouTube.
Savanna - Never Let You Go (Onur Engin edit): Off the Backstreet Brit Funk compilation, this shit is so cool.
The Cool Notes - I Wanna Dance (Boy Norty edit): Also off the Backstreet Brit Funk compilation, you should probably own this whole record.
Sleezy Mcqueen - You'll Be Mine: So dirty and when I play this one out it slams out of the low end and people just start dancing because they're already vibrating so much.
78EDITS - Let Me Down Easy: Smooth and sexy, perfect for the warmup or the warming lube.
Rayko - Give Me Your Love (edit): Simple and really one of those songs that just has the right amount of pull to it...I don't know how else to explain it.
Late Nite Tuff Guy - Come Inside Me (LNTG Rework): Really, this is the sleeziest, sexiest song on my whole list.
Katsil - SMD: A jump up and dance jammer that you really can't get away from. And the bassline reminds me so much of Bassment Jaxx's Red Alert...it's weird.
Disco Tech - Get Lifted: Honestly this shows how little a re-edit has to give to you to make the song sound update for our dance floors today. Very rooted-in-the-original from George McCrae.
Dead Rose Music Company - Never Gonna Stop: This track is off the hook. Just sliding into your brain so slowly until it's in there for good and you find yourself humming it before going to sleep and your girlfriend is like 'shut up freak'
Suonho - For The Love Of Soul: Take out those shitty parts from Claudja Barry's Love for the Sake of Love and this is what you get. This is also what makes the dance floor lose at the peak of the night.
V/A - Disco Deviance Vol. 2: FULL ON AWESOME, for real. This whole album is solid gold.
Okay that's it. Sorry all I do is listen to disco now and please don't start playing all of these out in Denver because then we will be the same DJ.
Pat
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wolves in the throne room - celestial lineage
Hell - S/T (crushing doom from Oregon)
future Islands - on the water
broken water - peripheral star ep
m83 - hurry up we're dreaming
Bell Witch - Demo (two-piece Seattle funeral doom)
Happy Jawbone family band - Hotel double tragedy tape
That's my top 7 that I can think of right now. Despite this year being one of the less memorable for me, with regard to music it has been great. I released 6 tapes on my new label, 3 with Charles as Gemini Trajectory.
I was able to play more than 25 shows this year and organize a west coast tour. Not to mention all the great live shows I was able to see, there were so many.
Tyler
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Sorry for the delay. Here's what I came up with:
Top 10 LPs:
1. Bill Orcutt-How the Thing Sings- Editions Mego (LP)
This guy made my countdown last year. He used to play in Harry Pussy. Orcutt plays acoustic guitar and yells/groans/emotes over the top of it all. This record is different from the first one he put out in that it isn’t as unhinged the entire time. There is a really long track on the B side, 15 minutes or so, that is a roller coaster of explosive playing mixed with the barely audible. If you haven’t heard him yet, start with the first LP/CD he put out in 2010, “A New Way to Pay Old Debts.” Get hooked on that, then jump to this one.
2. Demdike Stare-Tryptych-Modern Love (3LP set)
I talked to Charles briefly on New Year’s Day. We were laughing that Old Man Holland snoozed on this shit and had to settle for the CD edition. Anyways, these reissues pack together the duo’s first three LPs. A brand new DS album came out within the last few weeks, but I haven’t digested this one completely as of yet. I honestly totally forgot that I bought this one a couple of months ago until Charles mentioned it on his list. Thanks for the reminder, Mr. Ballas.
3. David Lynch-Crazy Clown Time-Sunday Best (2 LP)
Brooke (of 1190 fame) came to visit sometime in November, I think. This was playing. The first thing she asked me was if this was a synthesizer record. And, in fact, it does start that way. But, a big chunk of this thing is just talking blues. I might even call it a poetry record, really, with Lynch dicking around with a guitar he can’t really play.
4. Bern Porter-Music for Children of All Ages Volume 1-Turned World (LP)
A poetry record from the late Bern Porter. Do yourself a favor, and give his poem “The Last Acts of St. *uck You” a listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQa9TmkAVh8
Turned World has promised more in the future.
5. Colin Stetson-New History Modern Warfare Vol. 2: Judges-Constellation ( LP)
I have sort of backed off of buying sax records this past year. However, this was one of two pleasant surprises. Stetson tours with Bon Iver. This record has Laurie Anderson doing some spoken word, while Stetson performs circular-breathing saxophone heroics underneath. There are like a billion microphones on his horn, so there are all sorts of bizarre recorded sounds happening here. At times, Stetson sounds like one of Dave Alex’s beat machines! No overdubs…say what?!?!
6. Shin Joong Hyun-Beautiful Rivers and Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound of South Korea’s Shin Joong Hyun 1958-74-Light in the Attic (2LP)
This comes off of a local Seattle label that I don’t trust. They are way too patchy with their output. They sometimes go a little too far down the archive rabbit hole, and end up unearthing things that should have remained buried ( see the Mowest compilation disaster for proof). That said, I’m very ready for the reissue of Morphine’s “Cure for Pain” in 2012.
The style of these “best of” tracks on this double LP from Hyun is perfectly captured on the cover. Great soloing with vocals surfing over the top. Best of all, it’s not a wacky take on Western psychedelic music. It is the genuine article.
7. Chemical Brothers-Hanna Soundtrack-Universal Studio (LP)
I saw this movie with a friend at a movie theater for adults. Have you heard of these things? It’s how yuppie thirty year olds (me) see movies outside of their homes. There are no kids, and the theater sells beer and hot wings. The movie was okay, but the soundtrack was good to the point of distraction. There is a simple melodic theme that is returned to within most of the tracks. It is reassuring to know that simple, original melodies are still out there to be created.
8. Stare Case-Lose Today-De Stijl (LP)
The Wolf Eyes guys chill out with some sort of bass/saxophone project. This is a major drifter complete with occasional vocals. Notable to me from the standpoint that it keeps the Wolf Eyes attitude with none of the noise. I mean, none of the noise; it is almost electronic ambient at times.
9. Phurpa-Trowo Phurnag Ceremony-Ideologic Organ (LP)
This is my once a year purchase for 2011. Much like those Les Rallizes Denudes reissues, I love it, but I have got to be in an unusual mood in order to listen to it. The album is ritual Tibetan chanting with instrumental accompaniment. Before you bust out the prayer flags, the musicians are a collection of Russian artists and experimental musicians, so it is respectful to a degree but definitely doesn’t feel like you bought the recording in a souvenir shop at the airport. These guys settle in within the first minute and don’t dramatically deviate for the rest of the recording. Either listen to the whole thing, or don’t put it on in the first place.
BTW-I bought it from Jeff’s retirement job. Andy is to Revolver as Jeff is to ear rationale!
10. Thee Oh Sees-Singles Volume 1 and 2- Castle Face (2LP)
I resisted listening to these guys for a long time because of all of the buzz. That was a mistake. There isn’t a lemon on these 2LPs. A solid compilation of punk and garage songs.
Shit Jeff and Conor were right about:
Townes Van Zandt. Why did it take me so long?
Milkman
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