Wednesday 29 December 2010

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

Friday 17 December 2010

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

Monday 31 May 2010

Monday 12 April 2010

VA – KillRockStars: best sampler ever (2010)


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

Monday 22 March 2010

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

Thursday 11 March 2010

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.


Tuesday 23 February 2010

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

Friday 22 January 2010

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!”. 
No label persuasion, just personal opinion.