Best of 2009 – Your Votes
December is here. Can you believe it? A year of music already gone. A DECADE of music, if you will, is behind us (that’s a whole other story). And something barely audible is already stretching its tentacles into 2010 to begin another trend. But before we leap into the new year, I think it’s time we celebrate 2009 the only way that I know. So help me out with your votes for Best of 2009 releases! Here’s what I need from you. I’ll make it easy, but please stick to the format in order to help me compile all of this at the end.
(note: you don’t have to submit for all categories)
Top 10 favorite full-length albums. On each line write ARTIST – ALBUM.
Top 5 favorite compilations or mixes. On each line write LABEL – TITLE.
Top 3 favorite labels of the year. On each line write the LABEL.
Top 3 favorite new artists of the year. On each line write the ARTIST.
Submit your votes for best of 2009 releases by replying now!!!
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Stalk Me… it’s fun… i guess
Hi,
I know i am a bit late here but here we go anyway….. ive narrowed it down and here is my favourites of the year:-
Albums:
Omar S – Detroit (which is actually full of new tracks and really a new album)
New North Wales – New North Wales (short but could technically be called an album)
Stephan Mathieu and Taylor Dupree – Transcriptions
Demdike Stare – Symbiosis
Zomby – One Foot Ahead of the Other
Andres – Andres II
Dam-Funk – Toeachizown
The Boats – Words are something else
Wisp – The shimmering hour
Danny Norbury – Light in August
Labels:
Cotton Goods
Mobeer
Home Normal
Compilations:
Kling Klang – Kraftwerk Boxset
M-Plant – Robert Hood Minimal Nation
Solar One Music – S.O.M Compilation 2
Ostgut Ton – Tama Sumo Panorama Bar
3 Chairs – Spectrum
New Artists:
Joy Orbison
Demdike Stare
Danny Norbury
albums
1hecq-steeltongued
2ametsub-the nothings og the north
3solo andata-solo andata
4kettel-myam james pt.2
5yagya-rigning
6wicked messenger-vision rites and techniques of ecstasy
7leyland kirby-sadly,the future is no longer what it was
8loess-burrows
9clark-totems flare
10tim hecker-an imaginary country
honorable mentions: emeralds, aidan baker & thisquietarmy, lawrence english, alva noto, prurient, jega, chihei hatakeyama, dorian concept, jon hopkins, the black dog, peter broderick, william basinski, tim exile,animal collective
————- TABULATING RESULTS AS OF THIS POST ———————————————-
In the end it only came down to one album that stood out beyond all others.
Album of the Year
01) Dam Funk – Toeachizown (Stones Throw Records, 2009/10/27)
(Inspiration divine sounds from the Funkmosphere!)
Labels of the Year:
01) Stones Throw Records
02) Darla Records
03) Smallfish Records
Artist(s) of the Year:
01) Dam-Funk
Keep reaching for a higher level. All the best for a positive New Year.
Top 10:
• Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
• Balmorhea – All is Wild, All is Silent (Also: All is Wild, All is Silent Remixes)
• Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
• Dorian Concept – When Planets Explode
• Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
• Mike Slott – Lucky 9Teen
• Nils Frahm – The Bells
• Tortoise – Beacons Of Ancestorship
• Zomby – One Foot Ahead of the Other
• 2562 – Unbalance
10 Top EPs / Mini Albums:
• 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)
• Three Trapped Tigers – EP2
Labels:
• 4AD
• Type
• Hyperdub
Comps:
• 5 Years of Hyperdub (Hyperdub)
• Dark Was Night (4AD)
• Edan – Echo Party (Five Day Weekend / The Orchard)
• 4AD 2009 Free Sampler (http://www.4ad.com/features/2009/)
• Warp 20 (Warp)
New Artists:
• Nosaj Thing
• Floating Points
• Three Trapped Tigers
Best free download: Paul White – Sounds from the Skylight http://paulwhite.bandcamp.com/
Happy Christmas Everyone :o)
STENDECK – SONNAMBULA
ACCESS TO ARASAKA – OPPIDAN
PHYLUM SINTER – FROM UNITY TO SEGMENTATION
PROEM – TILL THERE’S NO BREATH
UNDERMATHIC – RETURN TO CHILDHOOD
SUBTRACTIVELAD – WHERE THE LAND MEETS THE SKY
SPC ECO – 3-D
HECQ – STEELTONGUED
BEN FROST – BY THE THROAT
KLYXN – POINTS THAT MATTER
n5MD
TYMPANIK
HYMEN
(No particular order here)
My 10 favorite albums from 2009:
Jon Hopkins: Insides
Stendeck: Sonnambula
Access To Arasaka: Oppidan
Franz Ferdinand: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
Telefon Tel Aviv: Immolate Yourself
Port-Royal: Dying In Time
Undermathic: Return To Childhood
Opposite Exhale: Nothing Lasts
Broken Note: Terminal Static
Keef Baker: Pen Thirteen
Compilations:
IDMf Presents: Divergence
Hymen: Miwak Twelve
Tympanik Audio: Emerging Organisms 3
Impulsive Art: Thesis vol. 1
Kod.ex / Brume Records: Kod.eX Electronic Compilation
Labels:
Ad Noiseam
Tympanik Audio
Hymen Records
Hi HC,
Here’s my top 10 of 2009. No surprises I guess :)
- Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
- Shackleton – Three EPs
(http://soundcloud.com/surefire/shackleton-mah-mix-september-2009)
- 2562 – Unbalance
- Luke Vibert – Rhythm
- The Black Dog – Further Vexations
- Mr. Chop – For Pete’s Sake
- Moderat – Moderat
- DJ Sprinkles – Midtown 120 Blues
- Few Nolder – New Folder
- Air – Love 2
Best,
V.
Top 10 favorite full-length albums:
Ian Hawgood / SNOW ROADS [Dragon's eye]
CONCERN / Truth and Distance [digitalis]
Celer / Engaged Touches [Home Normal]
Celer / Brittle [Low Point]
Celer / Capri [Humming Conch]
Pillowdiver / Sleeping Pills [12k]
Le Lendemain / Fires [Home Normal]
SON OF ROSE / ALL IN [BLANKET FIELDS]
Keepsakes / Partial to Memory [self-release]
Corey Fuller / Seas Between [Dragon's eye]
1. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
2. Clark – Body Riddle
3. Keaver & Brause – The Middle Way
4. Ben Klock – One
5. The Field – Yesterday & Today
6. Tristeza – Fate Unfolds
7. Harmonic 313 – When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
8. Martyn – Great Lengths
9. Tortoise – Beacons of Ancestorship
10. The Black Dog – Further Vexations
1- Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics – Inspiration Information
2- Chinese Man – The Groove Sessions Vol II
3- The New Mastersounds – Ten Years On
4- Lord Newborn And The Magic Skulls – Lord Newborn and the Magic Skulls
4- DJ Signify – Of cities
6- SMOOVE & TURRELL – Antique Soul
7- Wax Tailor – In The Mood For Life
8- Shawn Lee & Clutchy Hopkins- Fascinating Fingers
9- Worriedaboutsatan – Arrivals
10- Greyboy – Era Correct
1.Hannu- Hintergarten (kesh Recordings)
2.Nils Frahm-Wintermusik (Sonic pieces)
3.Alva Noto- Xerrox Vol.2 (raster noton)
4.Mark Templeton and Aa.Munson- Acre Loss (Anticipate)
5.Leyland Kirby- Sadly, the future is no longer what is was (History always favours the winners)
6.Concern- Truth & Distance (Digitalis)
7.Svarte Greiner- Kappe (Type)
8.Seasons (Pre-Din)- Your Eyes the Stars and Your Hands the Sea (Type)
9.Taylor Deupree- Sealast (12k)
10.Jasper TX- Singing stones (Fang Bomb)
11.Isnaj Dui- Unstable Equilibrium (Home Normal)
12. Machinefabriek + Gareth Davies- Soundlines (Studio Machinefabriek)
13.William Fowler Collins- Perdition Hill Radio (Type)
14.Lawrence English- A colour for Autumn (12k)
15.Peter Jorgensen-To (Low Point)
Happy Christmas!
1. Jonsi And Alex – Riceboy Sleeps
2. Mew – No More Stories, ….
3. Olafur Arnalds – Lost Songs
4. Asobi Seksu – Hush
5. William Basinki – 92982
6. Olafur Arnalds – Dyad 1909
7. Max Richter – Henry May Long
8. Helios – Unleft
CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA – Saunter
MARTIN HERTERICH – Silent Fields
AKIRA KOSEMURA – Polaroid Piano
TOMASZ BEDNARCZYK – Let’s Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow
GRAND SALVO – Soil Creatures
RAMESES III – I Could Not Love You More
CELER – Engaged Touches
CLOUWBECK – Wolfrahm
ATLAS SOUND – Logos
ANIMAL HOSPITAL – Memory
apparat
moderat
Bon Iver
Mondkopf
Byetone
Fuck Buttons
Best Albums:
01. Ametsub – The Nothings of the North
02. Alva Noto – Xerox Vol. II
03. Vladislav Delay – Tummaa
04. Monolake – Silence
05. 2562 – Unbalance
06. Zelienople – Give it Up
07. Markus Guentner – Doppelgaenger
08. Clark – Growls Garden
09. Broken Note – Terminal Static
(discovered through this list, amazing! bass music)
10. Oneida – Rated O
Best labels:
01. Raster Noton
(inspiring and challenging in sound)
02. Sending Orbs
(quality control, dedication and love)
03. Ghostly International
(innovative in use of new media & distribution)
ps. All releasing excellent music, no difference there.
01. Andrew Weatherall – a pox on the pioneers
02. Planetary Assault Systems – temporary suspension
03. The Black Dog – further vexations
04. Martyn – great lengths
05. 坂本龍一 (ryuichi sakamoto) – out of noise
06. Porn Sword Tobacco – everything is music to the ear
07. Proem – till there’s no breath
08. Lusine – a certain distance
09. 横田進 (yokota) – psychic dance
10. Little Dragon – machine dreams
and i thought Efterklang’s ‘performing parades’ release was pretty special too ..
Top Artists:
Lawrence English
Christopher Willits
Alva Noto
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Sawako
Piana
Cokiyu
Taylor Deupree
Tim Hecker
Tetsu Inoue
Top Lab.
12k
Raster Noton
Room40
Touch
Cronica
Rain Music
Plop
360′
Schole
Top albums of 2009
Loren Dent – Anthropology
Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
Anduin – Abadonned in Sleep
Celer – Engaged Touches
Kilowatts – Undercurrent
Ekca Liena – Orb Night
Fennesz – Black Sea
Philip Dickau – This City, and You
Celer – The Everything and The Nothing
P Jorgensen – To
Top 3 Favorite Labels:
Databloem
Infraction
Home Normal
Top 10 favorite full-length albums
1.Ben Frost – By The Throat
2.Lawrence English – A Colour For Autumn
3.Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek – Blank Grey Canvas Sky
4.Monolake – Silence
5.Vladislav Delay – Tummaa
6.Intrusion – The Seduction Of Silence
7.Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
8.Tomasz Bednarczyk – Let’s Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow
9.Daughter Of The Industrial Revolution – Variable Resistance (parts 001-003)
10.A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
Top 3 favorite labels of the year
1.Touch
2.Kranky
3.12K
1. Clark – Totems Flare
2. Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
3. Mount Eerie – Wind’s Poem
4. Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
5. William Basinski – 92982
6. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
7. Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
8. Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade
9. Future of the Left – Travels With Myself and Another
10. Kylesa – Static Tensions
1 .Kryptic Minds-One of Us
2. King Midas Sound – Waiting For You
3. Shackleton -Three Eps
4. Martyn – Great Lengths
5. Dizzee Rascal-Tongue Cheek
6. Two Fingers – Two Fingers
7. Falty DL – Love is a Liability
8. Mos Def-The Ecstatic
9. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
10. Mary Anne Hobbs-Wild Angels
11.Kings of Convenience – Declaration of Dependence
12. Hyperdub – 5 Years Of Hyperdub
13. Sleepy Sun-Embrace
14. Hudson Mohawke-Butter
15. The XX – The XX
as of this moment, my top 10 albums look as follows [processed by Last.FM]:
Stendeck – Sonnambula
The Twilight Sad – Forget The Night Ahead
Antlers Mulm – Filth In Several Styles – Alternative Sparks
Deastro – Moondagger
Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself
Yagya – Rigning
Ecovillage – Phoenix Asteroid
Sébastien Schuller – Evenfall
John Foxx & Robin Guthrie – Mirrorball
Mew – No More Stories Are Told Today I’m Sorry They Washed Away, No More Stories The World Is Grey I’m Tired Let’s Wash Away
Top 3:
1. Bloody Beetroots, Romborama.
2. Lusine, A Certain Distance.
3. Claude VonStroke, Bird Brain.
Hey foks what about the last Shpongle ?
I aint see it yet except on my own list …
Maybe it’s because the album is recently released…
Top 15: (10 is such a tiny number)
Porcupine Tree – The Incident
The Appleseed Cast – Saggarmatha
Gazpacho – Tick Tock
maudlin of the Well – Part the Second
The Low Frequency in Stereo – Futuro
Blueneck – The Fallen Host
The Dead Sea – The Dead Sea
Zu – Carboniferous
The Dear Hunter – Act III
múm – Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know
The Autumn Project – This We Take With Us
Clint Mansell – Moon OST
From Monument to Masses – On Little Known Frequencies
The Hylozoists – Líle De Sept Villes
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – Here Be Dragons
In alphabetical order:
Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
Bat For Lashes – Two Plantes
Dakota Suite – The End of Trying
Epic45 – In All The Empty Houses
Fever Ray – Fever Ray
Gaston Arevalo – Austral
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Kings Of Convenience – Declaration of Dependence
Le Lendemain – Fires
múm – Sing Along to Songs you Don’t Know
Nils Frahm – Wintermusik
Ólafur Arnalds – Found Songs
Pillowdiver – Sleeping Pills
Rachel Grimes – Book of Leaves
Solo Andata – Solo Andata
The Tumbled Sea – Melody/Summer
The Whitest Boy Alive – Rules
The XX – The XX
Top ambient/idm/post rock type vibe:
Do Make Say Think – Other Truths
Yagya – Rigning
Port-Royal – Dying in Time
Jónsi & Alex – Riceboy Sleeps
Bell Orchestre – As Seen Through Windows
Here are my top 10, regardless of genre:
Fever Ray – Fever Ray
The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Kings of Convenience – Declaration of Dependence
Masomenos – The Third Eye
The Phantom Band – Checkmate Savage
Tiga – Ciao!
Patrick Watson – Wooden Arms
The XX – Self Titled
The Whitest Boy Alive – Rules
Well, I’ve just finished Tarot Sport by Fuck Buttons and now need to append my list. It’s definitely up there, perhaps even more satisfying than Yagya. And still so many recommendations to listen to…
Peace.
Lee
Top 10 albums in no particular order:
Rhian Sheehan – Standing In Silence
Yagya Rigning
Brock Van Wey – White Clouds Drift On and On
Solar Fields – Movements
Kettel – Myam James 2
Jon Hopkins – Insides
Ametsub – Nothings Of The North
Port-Royal – Dying In Time
Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself
Intrusion – The Seduction of Silence
I missed a lot of the real good stuf this year, I guess. Here are at least my personal favs of 2009, descending:
Broken Note – Terminal Static
Wisp – The Shimmering Hour
Clark – Totems Flare
Hecq – Steeltongued
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Stendeck – Sonnambula
Martyn – Great Lengths
Keef Baker – Pen Fifteen
Balmorhea – All Is Wild, All Is Silent
Nero’s Day at Disneyland – From Rotting Fantasylands
2562 – Unbalance
Ben Frost – By the throat
Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald – Recomposed
Kryptic Minds – One of us
The Caretaker – Persistent repetition of phrases
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
A Hawk and a Hacksaw – Delivrence
Martyn – Great Lengths
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ALBUMS (no special order)
Ruby Throat – Feb/March 2009 (tour EP)
Ruby Throat – out of a black cloud came a bird
David Sylvian – Manafon
Pet Shop Boys – Yes, Etc.
Elizabeth & the Catapult – Taller Children
Julian Cope – Peggy Suicide (Deluxe Edition)
Paul Weller – Paul Weller (Deluxe Edition)
Thomas Dolby – The Singular Thomas Dolby
ALBUMS::
Yagya – Rigning
Point 7 – What
Alva Noto – Xerrox Vol.2
Wisp – The Shimmering Hour
Lusine – A Certain Distance
SubtractiveLAD – Where The Land Meets The Sky
Markus Guentner – Doppelgaenger
Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
Ben Frost – By The Throat
Intrusion – The Seduction Of Silence
COMPILATIONS:
Warp Records – Warp Records 20
Hyperdub – 5 Years Of Hyperdub
Hymen Records – Miwak Twelve
LABELS:
Sending Orbs
Raster-Noton
Warp
NEW ARTISTS:
Nalepa
Top Albums (in order from best to worst, although “worst” of course is a subjective term when you’re talking about the #10 album of the year!):
Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
Ben Frost – By the Throat
Tyondai Braxton – Central Market
Autumn Project – This We Take With Us
Alexander Turnquist – As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color
Pimmon – Smudge Another Yesterday
Zu – Carboniferous
Sunwrae – Autumn Never Fall
Paniyolo – I’m Home
Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
Top Compilation (only really listened to one this year that is worth mentioning, but this one is fantastic!):
Mu Nest – In This Nest We Found our Winged Tales
Top 10:
Oneohtrix Point Never – Rifts
Zelienople – Give It Up
Elm – Nemcatacoa
Ilyas Ahmed – Goner
Sundog Peacehouse – Brosound
White Rainbow – New Clouds
The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
Mountains – Choral
Jóhann Jóhannsson – And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees
Runner-ups:
Black To Comm – Alphabet 1968
Alva Noto – Xerror Vol.2
Lotus Plaza – The Floodlight Collective
Others:
Markus Guentner – Doppelgaenger
Thomas Köner – La Barca
King Midas Sound – Waiting For You
Zelienople – Hollywood
Pillowdiver – Sleeping Pills
Sir Richard Bishop – The Freak Of Araby
Barn Owl – The Conjurer
2562 – Unbalance
Caboladies – Crowded Out Memory
Simon Scott – Navigare
Klimek – Movies Is Magic
Cursillistas – Joint Chiefs
Six Organs Of Admittance – Luminous Night
Rameses III – I Could Not Love You More
Emeralds – Emeralds
Emeralds – What Happened
Emeralds – The Overlook
Compilations:
Hyperdub – 5: Five Years Of Hyperdub
Kompakt – Pop Ambient 2009
Labels:
Digitalis
Type
Kranky
New Artists:
Sundog Peacehouse
Pillowdiver
Simon Scott
Pretty awesome year. Just realized I have nothing IDM related listed, haha.
Arc Of Doves — Impressions
Atom™ — Liedgut
Estroe — Elemental Assets
Kings Of Convenience — Declaration Of Dependence
Maayan Nidam — Nightlong
Memory Tapes — Seek Magic
Midaircondo — Curtain Call
Milinal — Honey Meridian
Pillowdiver — Sleeping Pills
Soap&Skin — Lovetune For Vacuum
Top 3 artists:
Arc Of Doves
Milinal
Soap&SKin
top 10 albums 2009
Burial & Four Tet – Moth / Wolf Club
Vladislav Delay – Tummaa
Fennesz – Black Sea
The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
Evangelista – Prince of Thrut
Yonlu – A Society in Which No Tear is Shed is Inconceivably Mediocre
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Richard Youngs – Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits
Solo Andata – Solo Andata
Tim Buckley – Live At The Folklore Centre Nyc, March 6, 1967
Albums:
1 – Hildur Gudnadóttir – Without Sinking
2 – Ben Frost – By the Throat
3 – Harappian Night Recordings – The Glorious Gongs of Hainuwele
4 – Clark – Totems Flare
5 – The Sight Below – Glider
6 – ISIS – Wavering Radiant
7 – Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself
8 – Tiago Sousa – Insónia
9 – Múm – Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know
10 – Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
Compilation/Mixes
Warp – Warp20 Recreated
Kompakt – pop ambient 2009
Hyperdub – 5 Years Of Hyperdub
Labels
Touch Records
Bpitch Control
Sublime Frequencies
New Artist
Harappian Night Recordings
Tiago Sousa
Nite Jewel
Albums: (no Order, but just count the first 10)
King Midas Sound – Waiting for You
Boxcutter – Arecibo Message
Shackleton – Three EPs
Nosaj Thing – Drift
Lukid – Forma
2562 – Unbalance
Jega – Variance
Harmonic 313 – When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
Clark – Totem’s Flare
Falty DL – Love is a Liability
Mount Kimbie – Maybes EP, Sketch On Glass EP
Jamie Vexd – In System Travel EP
Clubroot – Clubroot
Kryptic Minds – One of us
Neil Landstrumm – Bambaata eats his Breakfast
Dr. Who Dat? – Beyond2morrow
Professor Psygrooves – Foreign Pulses & Borderline Dubs
Prefuse 73 – Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
Disrupt – The Bass Has Left The Building
Julien Dyne – Pins & Digits
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics – Inspiration Information
Hudson Mohawk – Butter
Compilations:
Hyperdub – 5
Rush Hour – Beat Dimensions
Soul Jazz – Dub Echoes
New Artists:
Mount Kimbie
Joker
tomorrow this will likely change, but you know how it is…
The XX – The XX
Ben Frost – By The Throat
Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
Raekwon – Only Built for Cuban Linx Pt. II
Senking – List
Fever Ray – Fever Ray
Monolake – Silence
Sunn O))) Monoliths & Dimensions
Antony and the Johnsons – The Crying Light
Alva Noto – Xerrox Vol. 2
Full-Lengths
Lusine – A Certain Distance
Bluetech – The Divine Invasion
Nosaj Thing – Drift
Current – The Dream Cabinet
Various Artists – Ambient Pop 2009 (Kompact)
Helios – Unleft
Vladislav Delay – Tummaa
Nicolay – City Lights Vol. 2
Jonsi and Alex – Riceboy Sleeps
Harold Budd – Candylion
Labels
Touch
Ghostly International
Warp
Odawas – Blue Depths (Jagjaguwar)
Zelienople – Give It Up (Type)
Rameses III – I Could Not Love You More (Type)
Simon Scott – Navigare (Miasmah)
Pillowdiver – Sleeping Pills (12K)
Elm – Nemacatacoa (Digitalis)
Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country (Kranky)
Ilyas Ahmed – Goner (Root Strata)
Richard Youngs – Under Stellar Stream (Jagjaguwar)
A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Ashes Grammar (Mis Ojos Discos)
Top 10 in no order
A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself
Port-Royal – Dying In Time
Jack Marchment – Who’s Afraid Of Iannis Xenakis
Syntaks – Ylajali
SPC ECO – 3-D
Jesse Somfay – A Catch In The Voice
Caspian – Tertia
Proem – Till There’s No Breath
Yagya – Rigning
TOP 10 Almum’s 2009
– Random order — -
1 Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
2 Machinefabriek and Nils Frahm – Dauw
3 Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto with Ensemble Modern-Utp_2009-BCC
4 The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – Here Be Dragons
5 Plastik Joy – 3:03
6 Broken Note – Terminal Static
7 Broken Note – Let ‘Em Hang / Meltdown
8 Tomasz Bednarczyk – Painting Sky Together
9 Our Ceasing Voice – Steadied Stars In The Morphium Sky
10 If These Trees Could Talk – Above The Earth, Below The Sky
Full-Length Albums in no particular order:
1. Hecq – Steeltongued
2. Jon Hopkins – Insides
3. Monolake – Silence
4. Tim Exile – Listening Tree
5. Lusine – A Certain Distance
6. Ben Frost – By The Throat
7. Two Fingers – Two Fingers
8. Murcof – La sangre Iluminada
9. Clubroot – Clubroot
10. Plaid – OST Heaven´s Door
Top albums
1. Kraftwerk – Catalogue
2. Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek – Blank Grey Canvas Sky
3. The Field – Yesterday and Today
4. Atom TM – Liedgut
5. Niels Frahm – Wintermusik
6. Jasper TX – Singing Stones
7. SND – Atavism
8. Jim O’Rourke – I’m Happy, And I’m Singing, And A 1,2,3,4
9. Oren Ambarchi – Intermission 2000 – 2008
10. Depeche Mode – Sounds Of The Universe
top 10 albums 2009:
1. tim hecker – an imaginary country
2. yagya – rigning
3. hecq – steeltongued
4. stendeck – sonnambula
5. access to arasaka – oppidan
6. monolake – silence
7. loess – burrows
8. the black dog – further vexations
9. displacer – x was never like this
10. se – epiphora
Ametsub – The Nothings of the North
Mouse on the Keys – An anxious Object
Toe – For Long Tomorrow
Baroness – Blue Record
Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
Jon Hopkins – Insides
Yagya – Rigning
The Mercury Program – Chez Viking
Ochre – Like Dust in the Balance
Jean-Michael – Tons of Fun
Top 10 albums
1. Goldmund – Malady of Elegance
2. Dakota Suite and VA – The night Just Keeps Coming
3. Kronos Quartet – Floodplain
4. Ben Frost – By the throat
5. Message to Bears – Departures
6. Anthony and the Johnsons – Crying Light
7. Point 7 – What?
8. Yagya – Rigning
9. Alva Noto – Xerrox II
10. Byetone – Death of a Typographer
Yesterday we listened to the new single of Tycho, “Coastal Brake”. It certainly deserves a place in the Best of 2009 too.
Top 10 albums (no order):
Royksopp – Junior
Hecq – Steeltongued
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Guiseppe Ielasi – Aix
Mountains – Choral
The Field – Yesterday and Today
Here We Go Magic – s/t
Clark – Totems Flare
Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
Few Nolder – New Folder
My favorite compilation:
!K7 – Athens
My top 10 of 2009:
1. Rameses III – I Could Not Love You More
2. Chihei Hatakeyama – Saunter
3. SubtractiveLAD – Where the Land Meets the Sky
4. Riceboy Sleeps – ST
5. Kings of Convenience – Declaration of Dependence
6. Horse Stories – November, November
7. The Ideal Setback – How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives
8. Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter
9. Robin Guthrie – Carousel
10. Mountains – Choral
…if SubtractiveLAD “Life At the End of the World” is released before the end of the year that would climb into the top 3 as well.
Top Labels:
1. N5MD
2. Darla
It is a hard task to pick only ten albums out of the numerous great
releases to come out this year.Let us
hope that 2010 will see artists as inspired as during the last twelve
months and aiming for the same level of quality.
So here are, as far as I am concerned, the ten greatest among the greats:
1-Shpongle -Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland
2-Solar Fields – Earthshine
3-Kettel – Myam James Part 2
4-Bluetech – The Divine Invasion
5-Ametsub – The Nothings of The North
6-Yagya – Rigning
7-Wisp – The Shimmering Hour
8-Monolake – Silence
9-Jon Hopkins – Insides
10-Ben Frost – By The Throat
Top 3 Label
1-n5MD
2-Ultimae Record
3-Hyperdub
Top albums of 09
1. Moderat – Moderat
2. Lusine – A Certain Distance
3. Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself
4. Jon Hopkins – Insides
5. The Flashbulb – Kirlian Selection
6. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimests
Top 3 labels
1. B-Pitch Control
2. Sending Orbs
3. Warp
Top 10 full-lenght releases of 2009:
1. Tyondai Braxton – Central Market
2. Ben Frost – By The Throat
3. Leyland Kirby – Sadly the Future Is No Longer What It Was
4. The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – Here Be Dragons
5. Black To Comm – Alphabet 1968
6. Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek – Blanck Grey Canvas
7. Russian Circles – Geneva
8. Tortoise – Beacons of Ancestorship
9. Barn Owl – The Conjurer
10. Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
Top 3 Labels:
1. Type
2. Miasmah
3. Bedroom Community
Top 10 favorite full-length albums:
1. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Utp
2. Hildur Gudnadottir – Without Sinking
3. Sparklehorse & Fennesz – In the Fishtank
4. Ikue Mori – Class Insecta
5. Two Fingers – Two Fingers
6. Dj Spooky – The Secret Song
7. Murcof – La sangre Iluminada
8. Plastik Joy – 3:03
9. Martyn – Great Lengths
10. Kettel – Myam James Part 2
No particular order:
Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself
Clark – Totems Flare
The Black Dog – Ov Mind, Ov Magick (Live)
Yagya – Rigning
Monolake – Silence
KiloWatts – Six Silicates
Lusine – A Certain Distance
The Sight Below – Murmur
Warp20
These albums come to mind, but I’m sure I’m forgetting lots of stuff:
Clubroot – Clubroot
Falty DL – Love is a Liability
Fever Ray – Fever Ray
Yppah – They know what ghost know
Little Dragon – Machine Dreams
Boxcutter – Arecibo Message
Jon Hopkins – Insides
The Field – Yesterday adn Today
Lusine – A Certain Distance
BOP – Clear Your Mind
Mount Kimbie is definitely my favorite this year, too bad they didn’t drop a full length yet.
My Top 10 favorite full-length albums.
Infinite Scale – Ad Infinitum
Point 7 – What?
Access To Arasaka – Oppidan
The Kilimanjaro Darkajazz Ensemble – Here be Dragons
Yagya – Rigning
Proem – Till There’s No Breath
Depeche Mode – Sounds Of The Universe
Parallel Worlds – Shade
Port-Royal – Dying In Time
Synapscape – Again.
Top 5 favorite compilations or mixes.
Hymen Records – Miwak Twelve
Tympanik Audio – Emerging Organisms 3
Warp Records – Warp 20
Impulsive Art – Thesis Vol. I
Binkcrsh – 15 Tracks From Binkcrsh
Top 3 favorite labels of the year.
Ad Noiseam
Sptectraliquid
Sending Orbs
Top 3 favorite new artists of the year.
IP Neva
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Top 10 favourite full-length albums (no particular order):
Ben Frost – By The Throat
Boxcutter – Arecibo Message
Hecq – Steeltongued
FaltyDL – Love is a Liability
2562 – Unbalance
PANTyRAiD – The Sauce
Clubroot – Clubroot
Ochre – Like Dust Of The Balance
Access to Arasaka – Oppidan
Clark – Totems Flare
bluetech – the divine invasion
converge – axe to fall
nosaj thing – drift
hecq – steeltongued
the last atlant – cloudburst of colour
ben frost – by the throat
murcof – la sangre iluminada ost
clint massel – moon ost
Shpongle – Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland
Gifts From Enola – From Fathoms
khainz – modul 8
Top 10 favorite full-length albums:
1. Leyland Kirby – Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was
2. Ambarchi/Fennesz/Pimmon/Rehberg/Rowe – Afternoon Tea
3. Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
4. Aoki Takamasa – RN Rhythm-Variations
5. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Utp
6. ATOM TM – Liedgut
7. Circulasione Totale Orchestra – Bandwidth
8. Jim O’Rourke – I’m Happy, And I’m Singing, And A 1,2,3,4
9. BJ Nilsen – The Short Night
10. Eliane Radigue – Triptych
1. Scanner – Rockets, Unto the Edges of Edges
1. Ben Frost – By The Throat
3. SND – Atavism
5. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
6. Redshape – The Dance Paradox
7. Yagya – Rigning
8. Grischa Lichtenberger – Treibgut
9. BIOSPHERE – Wireless
10. Wisp – The Shimmering Hour
Label: Raster-Noton
Full-Length Albums
1. Monolake – Silence
2. Demdike Stare – Symbiosis
3. NHK – Unununium
4. .SND – Atavism
5. Alva Noto – Xerrox II
6. Nadja – When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV
7. Planetary Assault Systems – Temporary Suspension
8. Moritz Von Oswald Trio – Vertical Ascent
9. Muslimgauze – Sulaymaniyah
10. The Black Dog – Further Vexations
*11. Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions (+1 won’t hurt right? :p)
Labels of the Year
1. Sandwell District
2. Raster-Noton
3. Delsin
1. Hyperdub – 5 Years Of Hyperdub
2. Delsin – Delsin II
3. Warp Records – Warp Records 20
4. Fabric – Fabric 45: Omar S
5. Raster-Noton – Frame.Sync
Top albums of 2009 (Didn’t listen to much new music this year)
1. Wisp – The Shimmering Hour
2. Kettel – Myam James Part 2
3. Jega – Variance
4. kid606 – Shout At the Döner
Top 3 Favorite Labels:
1. AlphaBasic
2. Warp
3. Rephlex Records
Full Lengths:
1. Stendeck – Somnambula
2. Clark – Totems Flare
3. Black Lung – Full Spectrum Dominance
4. City Rain – This I will Remember
5. Deastro – Moondagger
6. The Field – Yesterday and Today
7. Keef Baker – Pen Fifteen
8. L’ombre – Letting go at the steering wheel
9. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
10. Yppah – They know what ghost know
Compilations:
1. Hymen Records – Miwak Twelve
2. A:larm Music – Trentemøller – Harbour Boat Trips 01 – Copenhagen
3. IDMf:Industrial – Divergence
4. Soma Quality Recordings – Soma Coma Vol. III
5. Warp Records – Warp 20
Labels:
1. Tympanik Audio
2. Hymen Records
3. Ghostly International
New Artists:
(this was a difficult one!)
1. SE
2. Nalepa
3. Esben and the Witch