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Old 01-01-2009, 12:16 AM   #1
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Dare I Post This? (best of 2008)

top ten for this year? i know Josh has this tradition.
i can only post a top 5 due to my lack of 08 material.

2008
1 RADIOHEAD - In Rainbows
2 PORTISHEAD - Third
3 GROUPER - Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill
4 MOVE D & BENJAMIN BRUNN - Songs from the Beehive
5 PETER BRODERICK - Home (from what i've heard im quite excited about this fresh simple tonality)

these selections might surprise you; NHK, Fennesz, Machinefabriek, Flying Lotus, Alva Noto, GAS and such artists did not make the list. i must confess, ive been still traversing through older territory. stuck like your pasta on the fridge door
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Old 01-01-2009, 12:43 AM   #2
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your number 1 can be debated since it was released in digital form in 2007...but i know many loved it.

i decided not to do a list this year. there were many great releases, but most of them were in the ambient areas for me. it was just too biased and non-comprehensive. I do like that grouper album. i actually adore it.
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Old 01-01-2009, 04:26 PM   #3
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you're right about the Radiohead; how could i have overlooked its landmark release?


i will discourse briefly to justify my decisions because that's just how pretentious i am.


im going to forget the digital will-offering bit. it didn't feel like Kid A or O.K. Computer; nothing spellbinding; each track has a quality in its own; im not sure that any of them stand out more than the other; each seems like its own world; i see why 'Videotape' is the final track, but i don't see this album as a constructed storyline like most of their material; the tracks' character are intimate and beautifully progressive; wonderful tonality and the orchestration/timbral combinations are seamless as expected.


an experience; imagery; non-proportional architecture; noir; rewarding.


Seefeelish Bloody Valentine sweeping through waves of seabreezed cool. there are some great harmonic movements and tonality/timbre subtleties that ring through Liz's reverbial sirening..yet siren as in the luring quality. 'Invisible' is quite a standout for me.

she's beautiful, is she not?


the artwork does this recording justice. little snippets of Move D's swaying/swung grooves are tastefully peppered throughout Brunn's contributions of (what i've heard from Brunn) low fi extractions. melodically quite static and at times slow to progress, but really builds steadily and surely. like bee's bringing their efforts patiently, these two complete a solid record of dubby bubbly minimal intelligence!


organic, lush, emotive harmonies. the cadences are just what im looking for.
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Old 01-04-2009, 03:02 AM   #4
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your number 1 can be debated since it was released in digital form in 2007...but i know many loved it.

i decided not to do a list this year. there were many great releases, but most of them were in the ambient areas for me. it was just too biased and non-comprehensive. I do like that grouper album. i actually adore it.



Maybe you've been in Alabama too long and this is getting lost in translation....but since it's a list based on your tastes....is there supposed to be some doubt that you wouldn't be biased?


As in, if you're not going to post a list....at least put some effort in the dog ate my homework excuse you use.


P.S. If I can take the time to break off my lists....
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Old 01-04-2009, 03:20 PM   #5
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Maybe you've been in Alabama too long and this is getting lost in translation....but since it's a list based on your tastes....is there supposed to be some doubt that you wouldn't be biased?


As in, if you're not going to post a list....at least put some effort in the dog ate my homework excuse you use.


P.S. If I can take the time to break off my lists....


I know lists have always been subjective, but I've always kinda tried to list my likes and group them together with a wide spectrum of electronic releases.

P.S. I'll be on it eventually.
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Old 01-04-2009, 08:10 PM   #6
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Breakcore release of the year goes to!



Otto Von Schirach's Ooozing Bass Spasms, with a close runner up -



The Teknoist - "...Like A Hurricane Made of Zombies"
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Old 01-21-2009, 06:44 PM   #8
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Here are some electronic albums I really liked:

Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern
Autechre - Quaristice
Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker - Fantasma Parastasie
Merzbow - Eucalypse
Burning Star Core - Challenger
Alva Noto - Unitxt
COH - Plays Cosey
Byetone - Death of a Typographer
Fennesz - Black Sea
Port-Royal Flared Up - Remixes
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Old 01-21-2009, 08:09 PM   #9
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Here are some electronic albums I really liked:

Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern
Autechre - Quaristice
Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker - Fantasma Parastasie
Merzbow - Eucalypse
Burning Star Core - Challenger
Alva Noto - Unitxt
COH - Plays Cosey
Byetone - Death of a Typographer
Fennesz - Black Sea
Port-Royal Flared Up - Remixes

nice list. didn't really care for the Ikeda release so much. Love his first release in the datamatics series, but this 2nd one just didn't do it for me. If I was to change that release to a different Raster-Noton one, it would be Kangding Ray's 'Automne Fold'. That Burning Star Core album is their best, in my opinion.
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