Best of 2010

/*---- Albums ----*/

1. Lorn - Nothing Else
2. Scuba - Triangulations / Interpretations
3. Balmorhea - Constellations
4. Wild Nothing - Gemini
5. Max Richter - Infra
6. Tunng - …and then we saw land
7. The Flashbulb - Arboreal
8. Menomena - Mines
9. Nils Frahm & Anne Muller - 7Fingers
10. Caribou - Swim

/*---- EPs ----*/

1. Forest Swords - Dagger Paths
2. James Blake - CMYK
3. Fantastic Mr Fox - Sketches
4. James Blake - Klavierwerke
5. Balmorhea - Candor/Clamor
6. Wild Nothing - Golden Haze
7. Sepalcure - Love Pressure
8. Woodsman - Mystery Tape
9. Airhead & James Blake - Pembroke
10. Clogs - Veil Waltz

The Wire - Rewind 2010 - top 50

01 Actress - Splazsh
02 Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
03 Swans - My father will guide me up a rope to the sky
04 Joanna Newsom - Have one on me
05 Catherine Christer Hennix - The electric harpsichord
06 Rangers - Suburban tours
07 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before today
08 John Tilbury & Sebastian Lexer - Last daylight
09 Keith Fullerton Whitman - Disengenuity/Disengenuousness
10 Kevin Drumm - Necro accoustic
11 Sun City Girls - Funeral mariachi
12 Annette Krebs & Taku Unami - Motobachii
13 Sun Araw - On patrol
14 Gonjasufi - A sufi and a killer
15 Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
16 Joe Colley - Disasters of self
17 Richard Skelton - Landings
18 Emeralds - Does it look like I'm here?
19 Eleh - Location momentum
20 Autechre - Oversteps
21 Helena Gough - Mikroklimata
22 Demdike Stare - Liberation through hearing
23 Marina Rosenfeld - Plastic materials
24 Bill Orcutt - Way down south
25 Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
26 Bellows - Handcut
27 Tilbury/Duch/Davies - Conrenius Cardew: Works 1960-1970
28 Hype Williams - s/t
29 Laurie Anderson - Homeland
30 Konono No 1 - Assume crash position
31 Zs - New slaves
32 Phew - Five finger discount
33 Sabbathh Assembly - Restored to one
34 Derek Bailey - More 74
35 Seijaku - Mail from Fushitsua
36 Tyler the Creator - Bastard
37 Moon Wiring Club A spare tabby at the cat's wedding
38 Larry Polansky - The world's largest melody
39 Alasdair Galbraith - Mass
40 Jailbreak - The Rocker
41 oOoOO - oOoOO
42 Pedestrian Deposit - East fork/North fork
43 Group Inerane - Guitars from Agadaz vol 3
44 Prins Thomas - s/t
45 These New Puritans - Hidden
46 Aldo Clementi - Works with flutes
47 Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Air supply
48 Joseph Hammer - I love you, please love me too
49 Joshua Abrams - Natural information
50 Grinderman 2

Tunng ...And Then We Saw Land

VA – KillRockStars: best sampler ever (2010)

Kill Rock Stars: Best Sampler Ever

tracklist
01 ELLIOTT SMITH "Angeles" from Either/Or
02 THE THERMALS "Now We Can See" from Now We Can See
03 GOSSIP "Standing In the Way of Control" from Standing In The Way of Control
04 THAO "When We Swam" from Know Better Learn Faster
05 SLEATER KINNEY "Oh!" from One Beat
06 PANTHER "Love Is Sold" from Entropy
07 UNWOUND "Corpse Pose" from Repetition
08 THE PAPER CHASE "What Should We Do With Your Body? (The Lightning) from Someday This Could All Be Yours (Part 1)
09 XIU XIU "Dear God, I Hate Myself" from Dear God, I Hate Myself
10 DEERHOOF "Believe E.S.P." from Friend Opportunity
11 QUASI "Repulsion" from American Gong
12 MARNIE STERN "Transformer" from This Is It...
13 STEREO TOTAL "I Love You, Ono" from My Melody
14 LILIPUT "Ain't You" from Liliput
15 BIKINI KILL "New Radio " from New Radio
16 BRATMOBILE "Die" from The Real Janelle
17 COMET GAIN "Kids In The Club" from Realistes
18 THE SHAKY HANDS "Allison and the Ancient Eyes" from Let It Die
19 THE DECEMBERISTS "16 Military Wives" from Picaresque
20 HORSE FEATHERS "Curs In The Weeds" from House With No Home
21 JEFF HANSON "Hiding Behind the Moon" from Son

Brian Borcherdt - Torches (the Ward Colorado demos)

Download for free : http://brianborcherdt.net/

Recorded in Toronto, coastal Yarmouth of Nova Scotia, and in the mountains near Ward, Colorado, Torches includes home demos and unfinished album attempts from 2004-2006.

Hand Drawn Dracula is pleased to bring you 'Torches (& the Ward Colorado demos)', an intimate collection of songs, almost never released, by one of Canada's most devoted cultural navigators. They are finally out of his hands so that they may find their way into yours.

Also available Coyotes on LP and CD. Purchase HERE. also available from EMUSIC

Beautiful clouds - Last.fm ones that is...

Last.fm Tools apparently dig deeper... see for yourself http://lastfm.dontdrinkandroot.net/

Asura - Asura

Eclectic albums seem to for-fill my obsessive desire of wanting to hear new sounds constantly, even within a track length.  I guess that's part of the being in the "Shuffle" generation.

Toro Y Moi Causers Of This

Enjoying this a whole lot... Bleep say it's "already marked as one of our freshest releases so far this decade!" I agree.

emusic / bleep

Valgeir Sigurdsson - Draumalandid

Jaga Jazzist – One Armed Bandit (2010)

The Norwegian 9-piece return to the fray after a five year break with the stunning album “One Armed Bandit,” Lars Horntveth describes the new sound as “Wagner meets Fela Kuti!”. 

BUY  EMUSIC

Ghostly's 110 - Our Favorite Albums of the Decade

Fume - Top 10 Albums 09

(In alphabetical order)

2562 
Unbalance 
Tectonic

Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion 
Domino

Balmorhea 
All is Wild, All is Silent 
Western Vinyl

Bibio
Ambivalence Avenue
Warp

Dorian Concept
When Planets Explode
Kindred Spirits

Grizzly Bear 
Veckatimest
Warp

Mike Slott
Lucky 9Teen
LuckyMe

Nils Frahm
The Bells
Kning Disks

Tortoise
Beacons Of Ancestorship
Thrill Jockey 

Zomby
One Foot Ahead of the Other 
Ramp



  

(In alphabetical order)

Fume - Top 11-20 Albums 09

Ben Frost
By the Throat
Bedroom Community

Letting Up Despite Great Faults
Letting Up Despite Great Faults
New Words

Lone
Ecstasy + Friends
Werk Discs

Martyn
Great Lengths
3024 / Grove

Memory Tapes
Seek Magic
Memory Tapes / Tune Core

Neon Indian
Psychic Chasms
Lefse Records / The Orchard

Ochre
Like Dust of the Balance
Benbecular Records / IODA




Peter Broderick
Music For Falling From Trees
Erased Tapes

Peter Broderick + Machinefabriek
Blank Grey Canvas Sky
Fang Bomb




Peverelist
Jarvik Mindstate
Punch Drunk

Kode9 Sinogrime Minimix

The boys at the Lower End Spasm blog (for which Alex Bok Bok is a contributor) just put up a killer 'sinogrime' mix from 2005 by musicologist/bass assassin Kode9. A must-have for any fan of grime and its abstract mini-splinters. No tracklist is available, but Kode9 assured Lower End Spasm that "all the tracks are Jammer/Wiley/Wookie/Wonder/Geeneus." Hot! (XLR8R)

Fume - Top 10 EPs 09

Do Make Say Think 
The Other Truths

Dorian Concept 
Trilingual Dance Sexperience

Floating Points 
Vacuum
 

iTAL tEK 
Mako
 

Kode 9 
Black Sun / 2 Far Gone
 

Machinefabriek & Nils Frahm 
Dauw
 

Mount Kimbie 
Sketch On Glass
 

Nils Frahm 
Wintermusik
 

Ólafur Arnalds 
Dyad 1909
(Also: Found Songs is amazing)
 

Three Trapped Tigers 
EP2

Fume - Honourable Mentions 09

 







Boxcutter – Arecibo Message
The Black Dog – Further Vexations 
Califone – All My Friends are Funeral Singers
Japandroids – Post-Nothing 
Kona Triangle – Sing a New Sapling into Existence
Keaver & Brause – The Middle Way
Lukid – Foma 
Lusine - A Certain Distance 
Klimek - Movies Is Magic 
Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
WHY? - Eskimo Snow

Rhubarb Radio

Birmingham UK's online radio station - Check it out...

The Milk Factory - THE 2009 REVIEW

Twelve months compiled into just twenty albums. From the thousands of records released each year, it is difficult to get even a handful on the site, and even more difficult to decide which ones were the best of the lot. This is however the twenty albums that have marked the 2009 for themilkfactory.

1.
VLADISLAV DELAY
Tummaa
The Leaf Label

2.

BEN FROST
By The Throat
Bedroom Community

3.

STRINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS & ANGEL
Strings Of Consciousness & Angel
Important Records

4.

PETER BRODERICK & MACHINEFABRIEK
Blank Grey Canvas Sky
Fang Bomb

5.

MORITZ VON OSWALD TRIO
Vertical Ascent
Honest Jon’s Records

6.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
Merriweather Post Pavillion
Domino Recording Co.

7.

KING MIDAS SOUND
Waiting For You
Hyperdub

8.

SYMBIOSIS ORCHESTRA
Live Journeys
Baskaru

9.

MOUNTAINS
Choral
Thrill Jockey

10.

TYONDAI BRAXTON
Central Market
Warp Records

11.

BROADCAST & THE FOCUS GROUP
Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
Warp Records

12.

ALVA NOTO & RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
utp_
Raster Noton

13.

PETER BROODERICK
Music For Falling From Trees
Erased Tapes

14.

THE VILLAGE ORCHESTRA
I Can Hear The Sirens Singing Again
Highpoint Lowlife

15.

TELEFON TEL AVIV
Immolate Yourself
BPitch Control

16.

SIMON SCOTT
Navigare
Miasmah Recordings

17.

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS
Found Songs
Erased Tapes

18.

SND
Atavism
Raster-Noton

19.

OBERMAN KNOCKS
13th Smallest
Aperture Records

20.

RIVAL CONSOLES
IO
Erased Tapes

4AD 2009 Sampler

 

Better Propaganda - Top mp3s of 2009