Best of 2010 – Your Votes
Well, once again, it’s that time of the year! I know we’ve got a whole month to go, but the labels have already adjusted their release schedule, and bumped up their latest catalog additions to 2011. Once again, I gather my favorite albums into a humongous pile, trying to decide how I’m going to share the best of the best with you. I think I’ll stick with my last year’s categories (what do you think?).
Meanwhile, I need your help in compiling Headphone Commute’s Readers’ Selections. Just like we did last year, I need you to submit your favorite releases of the year. This will not only contribute to your Best of 2010 selections, but give you an opportunity to share your top choices with the rest of the readers! To help me in aggregation at the end of this month, all I ask is that you PLEASE follow the following format:
(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.
Here are your selections from last year: [part one] [part two]
Submit your votes for best of 2010 releases by replying now!!!
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Top 10 favorite full-length albums:
The Fun Years – God Was Like, No
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Hammock – Longest Year (I say it counts)
The National – High Violet
Olan Mill – Pine
Slow Six – Tomorrow Becomes You
Marcus Fischer – monocoastal
Wild Nothing – Gemini
Four Tet – There is love in you
Sleigh Bells – Treats
Top 3 favorite new artists of the year:
The Best Pessimist
Melorman
The Echelon Effect
Top albums in 2010
The Glitch Mob – Drink The Sea
Trentemøller – Into the great white yonder
Max Richter – Infra
My Sleeping Karma – Tri
Gonjasufi – A sufi and a Killer
Tipper – Broken Soul Jamboree
Access To Arasaka – Void();
Apparent Symmetry – Mourn
Dirk Geiger – Autumn Fields
Justice and Metro – 839
–probably more i can’t think of–
Top 3 favorite labels
Tympanik Audio
Ad Noiseam
Rottun Records
Can’t believe more people choose Drink The Sea and Into the great white yonder, these are the absolute top albums of 2010 for me.
hey :]
I was looking for some new music, youtubed your first recommendation and liked it very very much, then the second, and I’m done after I grabbed all of these albums.
you have great music taste! thank you very much.
TOP ALBUMS
01 Keith Fullerton Whitman-Disingenuity
02 Emeralds-Does It Look Like I’m Here?
03 Oneohtrix Point Never-Returnal
04 Darkstar-North
05 These New Puritans-Hidden
06 Rangers-Suburban Tours
07 LA Vampires/Zola Jesus-LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus
08 Autre Ne Veut-S/T
09 Solar Bears-She Was Coloured In
10 Salem-King Night
11 Zola Jesus-Stridulum II
12 Forest Swords-Dagger Paths
13 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti-Before Today
14 Moon Wiring Club-A Spare Tabby At The Cat’s Wedding
15 Marcus Fjellström-Schattenspieler
Can’t believe Jan Bang didn’t get more attention this year!
1. Jan Bang – … And Poppies from Kandahar
2. Max Richter – Infra
3. Scott Cortez – Twin Radiant Flux
4. Ametsub – The Nothings of the North
5. Ryuichi Sakamoto – Out of Noise
6. Johann Johannsson – And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees
7. Pjusk – Sval
8. Brian McBride – The Effective Disconnect
9. Inch-Time – The Floating World
10. Chris Abrahams – Play Scar
And my next ten are listed here: http://tigon.typepad.com/tigon-world/
My labels of the year:
1. 12k
2. Line
3. Type (for giving a lot of good music wider distribution)
Happy New Year!
Max Richter – Infra
Pjusk – Sval
Food – Quiet Inlet
Peter Broderick – Music For Contemporary Dance
Olan Mill – Pine
Nico Muhly – I Drink the Air Before Me
Erik K Skodvin – Flare
Marcus Fjellström – Schattenspieler
Greg Haines – Until the Point of Hushed Support
Nest – Retold
1 Mark Fell – UL8
2 Kevin Drumm – Necro Acoustic
3 Ambarchi / O’Rourke / Haino – Tima Formosa
4 Akira Rabelais – Caduceus
5 Eleh – Location Momentum
6 Evala – Acoustic Bend
7 Actress – Splazsh
8 Robert Curgenven – Oltre
9 Fenn O’Berg – In Stereo
10 Olivia Block & Kyle Bruckmann – Teem
labels:
1. Editions Mego
2. Another Timbre
3. Erstwhile
Top 10 Albums:
1. William Ackerman – New England Roads
2. Mark Preston – Nature & Design
3. Innocence Mission – My Room in the Trees
4. SubtractiveLAD – Life at the End of the World
5. The American Dollar – Ambient 2
6. Brian McBride – The Effective Disconnect
7. Eluvium – Similes/Leaves Eclipse the Light Ep/The Motion Makes Me Last Ep
8. David Helpling & Jon Jenkins – The Crossing
9. Near the Parenthesis – Music For the Forest Concourse
10. Badly Drawn Boy – Fattest Man in Britain Soundtrack
Top Label:
Always N5MD
Top albums:
36 – Memories in Widescreen [3six recordings]
Alio Die – tripudium naturae [hic sunt leones]
Brian Mcbride – the effective disconnect [kranky]
Christopher Hipgrave – Slow With Pages Of Fluttering Interference [low point]
Deepchord presents echospace – liumin/liumin reduced [modern love]
Gareth Hardwick – of the sea and shore [low point]
hummingbird – our fearful symmetry [fluid audio]
Kyle Bobby Dunn – A Young Person’s Guide To [low point]
Maps & Diagrams – Tintinnbulate [audio gourmet]
Marcus Fischer – monocoastal [12k]
Nest – Retold [serein]
Pausal – lapses [barge]
Scott Cortez – twin radiant flux [line]
Steve Reich – double sextet 2×5 [Nonesuch]
Top labels :
Low Point
12k
under the spire
audio gourmet
Top mixes :
Astromatt – Liquid Vibes – Circling around Anemones and Corals
Subheim – Headphone Commute Mix
:papercutz – Dream Scores Headphone Commute Mix
The Quiet Sounds Podcast – Everything Old
Ambientblog – Invisible Ink
Albums
1. Loscil – Endless Falls
2. Balmorhea – Constellations
3. Emeralds – Does It Look Like I’m Here?
4. Brian McBride – The Effective Disconnect
5. Caribou – Swim
6. The Books – The Way Out
7. Hammock – Chasing After Shadows…Living with the Ghosts
8. Eleven Tigers – Clouds are Mountains
9. Marcus Fjellström – Schattenspieler
10. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
Narrowing the annual best of list down to 10 albums is just too hard this year… So I present my list of 10 plus 13 additional albums that really struck a chord with me. So to speak. ; )
Loscil – Endless Falls
Boy Is Fiction – Broadcasts In Colour
Zeller- Turbulences
Mnemonic- Hörsinn
Four Tet – There Is Love In You
Niveau Zero- In_Sect
Dryft- Ventricle
Nin Kuji – Sayonara
Dalot- Loop Over Latitudes
Anklebiter – I Will Wait
abs6-Audiomedikation
Kattoo- (Reivoottak)
Geomatic – 64 Light Years Away
Emeralds – Does it Look Like I’m Here?
Tzolk’in – Tonatiuh
Casino Versus Japan – Night On Tape
Geistform – Transistor Music
Ruxpin- Where Do We Float From Here?
Subheim – No Land Called Home
Matta- Prototype
Toronto is Broken- Kusanagi
Roel Funcken- Vade
Deru- Say Goodbye to Useless
Top 3 New(ish) Artists:
Niveau Zero
Toronto is Broken
Anklebiter
great year for music; after some consideration
top25 albums
1.pjusk-sval
2.brian mcbride-the effective disconnect
3.rafael anton irisarri-the north bend
4.happy birthday-happy birthday
5.the boats-sleepy insect music
6.jefre cantu-ledesma-love is a stream
7.machinefabriek-daas
8.bvdub-the art of dying alone
9.solo andata-ritual
10.oval-o
11.fabio orsi-winterreise
12.taylor deupree-shoals
13.chihei hatakeyama-a long journey
14.lil’ B-rain in england
15.deepchord-liumin&liumin reduced
16.mount kimbie-crooks & lovers
17.michael santos-memory maker
18.black swan-in 8 movements
19.yellow swans-going places
20.murralin lane-our house is on the wall
21.grasslung-sincere void
22.ariel pink’s haunted graffiti-before today
23.vhs head-trademark ribbons of gold
24.pleq-my life begins today
25.fenn o’berg-in stereo
new artist
1.happy birthday
2.black swan
3.monolith
label
1.12k
2.home normal
3.type
concert
1 chihei hatakeyama @ ateliers claus, brussel
2 akio suzuki @ STUK, leuven
3 nurse with wound @ STUK,leuven
4 ryoji ikeda & carsten nicolai@ BEMF, bozar, brussel
5 oneohtrix point never @ AB, brussel
6 machinefabriek @ BEMF, bozar, brussel
7 black to comm @ kavka, antwerpen
8 ATOM TM @ BEMF, bozar, brussel
9 autechre @ AB, brussel
10 isan @ cactus, brugge
top 5 EP/short stuff
1.grouper-vessel
2.monolith-vol.1
3.oval-oh
4.robin guthrie-sunflower stories
5.demdike stare-the forest of evil
Top 10 favorite full-length albums
Evala – ttm studies 08
Evala – Acoustic Bend
Ryoji Ikeda (池田亮司) – Dataphonics
Aoki Takamasa – Fractalized
Kuniyuki Takahashi – Walking In The Naked City
Alex Smoke – Lux
The Books – The Way Out
Pantha Du Prince – Black Noise
Starkey – Ear Drums And Black Holes
Senking – Pong
The definitive list – in a week
Ok heres mine for what its worth
I love all styles of music but to the stay in the Genres discussed here
Top 10 albums,
Rafael Anton Irisarri – The North Bend
Minamo & Lawrence English – A Path Less Travelled
Richard Skelton – Landings
Bitcrush – Of Embers
The Sight Below – It all falls Apart
Machinefabriek – Daas
Seaworthy & Matt Rosner – Two Lakes
Greg Haines – Until the Point of Hushed Support
Lights out Asia – In the Days of Jupiter
Solo Andata – Ritual
Loscil – Endless Falls
White Hills – White Hills
Top 3 Labels
N5MD
Room 40
Thrill Jockey
looking forward to the Modern Classical mixes
Happy New year
Top 10 favorite full-length albums.
Loscil – Endless Falls
Nest – Retold
Olan Mill – Pine
Beach House – Teen Dream
Autechre – Oversteps
Marsen Jules – Yara (remastered)
Brian McBride – The Effective Disconnect
How To Dress Well – Love Remains
36 – Memories In Widescreen
pq – You’ll Never Find Us Here
Top 5 favorite compilations or mixes. On each line write LABEL – TITLE.
3six – isolatedmix 12
Top 3 favorite labels of the year.
Serein
Kranky
3six
Top 3 favorite new artists of the year.
Olan Mill
Infinite Body
Eleven Tigers
Lists do not contain Moving Furniture Records releases and Artists.
Top 10 favorite full-length albums
1. Catherine Christer Hennix – The Electric Harpsichord
2. Greg Haines – Until the Point of Hushed Support
3. Nicholas Szczepanik – Dear Dad
4. Christopher McFall – The Body as I Left It
5. Evan Caminiti – West Winds
6. Grouper / Roy Montgomery – Split
7. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Love Is a Stream
8. N – Gager
9. Heavy Winged – Sunspotted
10. Yellow Swans – Going Places
Top 3 favorite labels of the year
Type Records
Blackest Rainbow Records
Digitalis Industries
First and foremost, it’s nice to see all the Tympanik love on here. Tickles my man-bits, surely. Second, thanks for all the votes for void(); this year. Even though I disagree profusely, and feel as though some nice Ke$ha or Lady Gaga would have made a better substitute. Third, to HC, if your entire musical endeavor was a person, I would make sweet love to it. Thank you for everything.
Now, Top Ten Albums, in no particular order :
Candle Nine – The Muse In The Machine
Tapage & Meander – Etched In Salt
Lucidstatic – Symbiont Underground
Dirk Geiger – Autumn Fields
Anklebiter – I Will Wait
Subheim – No Land Called Home
Autechre – Move of Ten
Apparent Symmetry – Mourn
Boy Is Fiction – Broadcasts In Colour
Undermathic – 10:10PM
Top 3 Labels :
Tympanik Audio (obviously)
n5MD (pelvic thrusts in your general direction)
Abstrakt Reflections (big things will happen with them, mark my words)
It took all of my energy to narrow everything down for these two lists, so I’ll opt out of the other two… for now. Enjoy your holidays, all!
[AtA]
Best albums i listened and owned ;)
in no particular order :
Keith Fullerton Whitman – Disingennity/Disingenousness
Fenn o’ Berg – In Stereo
Eleh – Location/Momentum
Deepchord presents Echospace – Liumin/Liumin Reduced
Pjusk – Sval
Solo Andata – Ritual
Chris Abrahams – Play Scar
Pan Sonic – Gravitonni
anbb – Mimikry
Black Dog – Music For Real Airports
Top Labels
Touch
Room40
12k
Top “new” artists
36 + Clem Leek
hammock – chasing after shadows. living with the ghosts
boy is fiction – broadcasts in colour
jatun – blanket of ash
the sight below – it all falls apart
anklebiter – i will wait
dryft – ventricle
sayCet – through the window
ocouer – les hommes ne savent pas voler
access to arasaka – void();
lights out asia – in the days of jupiter
n5md
tympanik
ghostly int.
THE VERY BEST OF 2010:
01. Flying Lotus – Cosmmograma
02. Loscil – Endless Falls
03. Trentemoller – Into The Great Wide Younder
WE ALSO ENJOYED VERY MUCH:
Deepchord presentes Echospace – Liumin
Autechre – Move Of Ten
Brian Eno – Small Craft On A Milk Sea
Cepia – Cepia
Mind Over Midi – Thru EP
Recue – Leftover Love
The Black Dog – Music For Real Airports
Walls – Walls
The Future Sound Of London – Enviroments 3
Eraldo Bernocchi and Blackfilm – Along The Corridors
Ital Tek – Midnight Colour
Dryft ‘Ventricle’
Ambiguous ‘Stone Cross’
5F-X ‘Flight recorder 5.0′
Matta ‘Prototype’
Undermathic ’10:10PM’
Access To Arasaka ‘void();’
Boy Is Fiction ‘Broadcasts In Colour’
Squaremeter ‘Heliogabal’
Roel Funcken ‘Vade’
Jonsi ‘Go’
AdNoiseam
Tympanik
Ant-Zen/Hymen
top 10 favorite full-length albums. On each line write ARTIST – ALBUM.
Max Richter – Infra
Kattoo – l–ll-ll l-ll ll-ll- l-ll- l–l-ll l–l-ll ll– ll– l-
The Future Sound of London – Environments 3
On (Reworked by Fennesz) – Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not
Brian Eno – Small Craft on A Milk Sea
Autechre – Oversteps
Candle Nine – The Muse In The Machine
Philip Jeck – An Ark for The Listener
Wisp – We miss you
Bonobo – Black Sands
Top 3 favorite labels of the year. On each line write the LABEL.
Warp
Tympanic Audio
Touch
Top 2 favorite new artists of the year. On each line write the ARTIST.
Mount Kimbie
Candle Nine
Top 10 favorite albums (in no particular order):
Diaphane – Samdhya
SE – L36
Boy Is Fiction – Broadcasts In Colour
Access To Arasaka – void();
Deru – Say Goodbye To Useless
Lights Out Asia – In The Days Of Jupiter
Four Tet – There Is Love In You
Eskmo – Eskmo
Tapage & Meander – Etched In Salt
Dryft – Ventricle
Top 3 favorite labels:
n5MD
Ad Noiseam
Tympanik Audio
top 10 albums:
1. Access to Arasaka – void();
2. Ginormous – The Sound Of Love Impermanent
3. Lights Out Asia – In The Days Of Jupiter
4. Architect – Consume Adapt Create
5. Dryft – Ventricle
6. Autechre – Oversteps
7. Nebulo – Artefact
8. Boy Is Fiction – Broadcasts In Colour
9. SE – L36
10. Geomatic – 64 Light Years Away
top 3 labels:
1. Tympanik Audio
2. n5MD
3. Hymen
Top 10 favorite full-length albums:
Access To Arasaka – void();
Architect – Consume Adapt Create
Carbon Based Lifeforms – Interloper
Diaphane – Samdhya
Dryft – Ventricle
Geomatic – 64 Light Years Away
Lights Out Asia – In The Days Of Jupiter
Niveau Zero – In_Sect
Subheim – No Land Called Home
Tapage & Meander – Etched In Salt
Honorable mentions:
the_empath – Meanwhile
Candle Nine – The Muse In The Machine
Mnemonic – Hörsinn
Ocoeur – Les Hommes Ne Savent Pas Voler
Top 5 favorite compilations or mixes:
n5MD – The Reconstruction Of Fives
Headphone Commute – Subheim Mix
A Strangely Isolated Place – Inspirations Mix
Abstrakt Reflektions – Researching Networks
Headphone Commute – Our Shelter, Our Tomb
Top 3 favorite labels of the year:
Tympanik Audio
n5MD
Ad Noiseam
(Ant-Zen/Hymen)
Top 3 favorite new artists of the year:
Niveau Zero
Candle Nine
Diaphane
Since I’m allways discovering new music I don’t really take that much notice of the release dates, but here’s some I Liked:
Ghosts of the 29 Megacycles – Hummingbird Dream
Chrome Dome – S/t
Will Thomas Long – Sequoia
Michael Santos – Memory Maker
Pan Sonic – Gravitoni
Shaula – Oneiroi
Loscil – Endless Falls
Kontinnent – Opal Island
Indignant Senility – Plays Wagner
The Green Kingdom – Prismatic
Emeralds – Does it Look Like i’m Here?
apologies if any of these are 2009 vintage
Top 3 New (to me) favourite Artists:
Offthesky
The Green Kingdom
Ian Hawgood
Top 3 Labels:
Home Normal
Hibernate
Audio Gourmet
Top Mixes:
Low Light Mixes – Driftage
Donnacha Costello – Bodytonic 75
Jacaszek – Resident Advisor 192
Greg Davis -Tracers
Headphone Commute – At Home with Home Normal
Cheers!
My Top 10 favorite full-length albums for 2010:
1- Dryft – Ventricle
2- Geomatic – 64 Light Years Away
3- Eraldo Bernocchi / Blackfilm – Along The Corridors
4- Subheim – No Land Called Home
5- Candle Nine – The Muse In The Machine
6- Sysyphe – Running Up That Hill
7- Casino Versus Japan – Night On Tape
8- Architect – Consume Adapt Create
9- Metaform – The Electric Mist
10- Matta – Prototype
My Top 5 favorite compilations or mixes:
1- N5md – The Reconstruction of Fives
2- Aleph Zero Records – Dark Room Beats
3- Tympanik Audio – Emerging Organisms 3
4- EQ Recordings – Agoria – Balance 16
5- HC – Subheim
My Top 3 favorite labels of the year:
1- Tympanik Audio
2- N5md
3- Ant-Zen
My Top 3 favorite new artists of the year:
1- Candle Nine
2- Matta
3- Sysyphe
Note that the number have no weight in my favorites, I do not like more 1 than 5…
Oh my, i like these too:
Good Weather For An Airstrike – Signals
Brian McBride – The Effective Disconnect
(And because i like Eluvium’s previous releases – Similes must be mentioned here.)
Anders Ilar – Stories Of Old
Rafael Anton Irisarri – The North Bend
Rafael Anton Irisarri – Reverie
Naono – Sleppy Pebbles
NCThompson – Another Quiet Winter
Loscil – Endless Falls
Subheim – No Land Called home
Penjaga Insaf – Sama Sadja
Max Richter – Infra
The Sight Below – It All Falls Apart
Loscil – Endless Falls
Nils Frahm & Anne Muller – 7 Fingers
Olafur Arnalds- “…and They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness”
Actress – Splazsh
Anders Ilar – Stories of Old
Darkstar – North
Seaworthy + Matt Rösner – Two Lakes
Pantha Du Prince – Black Noise
The Sight Below – It all Falls Apart
Labels:
12k
Brainfeeder
Miasmah
and even though they didnt have any notable releases this year echospace[Detroit]
Albums: (In no particular order)
Year of No Light – Ausserwelt
Slow Six – Tomorrow Becomes You
Rafael Anton Irisarri – The North Bend
Oceansize – Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up
Ous Mal – Nuojuva Halava
Holy Fuck – Latin
65daysofstatic – We Were Exploding Anyway
Loscil – Endless Falls
Olan Mill – Pine
Bachar Mar-Khalifé – Oil Slick
Definitely missed a few, but these are all definite stand outs
Top 10 favorite full-length albums:
Access to Arasaka – void();
Autoclav1.1 – All Standing Room in the Goodnight Saloon
Bitcrush – Of Embers
Candle Nine – The Muse in the Machine
Dryft – Ventricle
Eskmo – Eskmo
Igorrr – Nostril
Jónsi – Go
Matta – Prototype
Undermathic – 10:10PM
Top 3 favorite labels of the year:
Ad Noiseam
n5MD
Tympanik Audio
Top 3 favorite new artists of the year:
Candle Nine
Matta
Niveau Zero
2010 was a big year for music. So I found it impossible to narrow my list to 10 after I heard over 200 new releases. The best I could do was 14. Hope that’s OK! Lists are in alphabetical order.
Top 10 (14) favorite full-length albums.
Access To Arasaka – void();
Actress – Splazsh
Bing Satellites – Twilight Sessions Vol 1, 2 ,3
Demdike Stare – Voices of Dust
Deru – Say Goodbye To Useless
Eluvium – Static Nocturne
Frequent Sync – Coalesce
Guideo – Anidea
Nest – Retold
Pjusk – Sval
Scuba – Triangulation
The Fun Years – God Was Like, No
The Sight Below – It All Falls Aparts
Yellow Swans – Going Places
Top 5 favorite compilations or mixes.
Alan Howarth – Resident Advisor 230 Podcast
Ghost Box Study Series Volumes 01-04
Scuba – Sub:Stance
Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa
Surgeon – Fabric 53
Top 3 favorite labels of the year.
Blackest Ever Black
Ghost Box
Silent Season
Top 3 favorite new artists of the year.
Raime
Eleh
Nettless
Happy Holidays!
Thanks for contributing! The more the merrier!!! I like your comp selections as well!!
Albums
1 – Lucidstatic – Symbiont Underground 2010
2 – C.H. District – Conclusion (2010)
3 – Tetarise – k.a.m.a. (2010)
4 – Totakeke – On the First of November 2010
5 – Tzolk’in – Tonatiuh (2010)
Top 5 favorite compilations or mixes. On each line write LABEL – TITLE.
dont now
Top 3 favorite labels of the year. On each line write the LABEL.
1 [T y m p a n i k A u d i o]
2 [A n t - Z e n]
3 [Hymen Records]
Top 3 favorite new artists of the year. On each line write the ARTIST.
dont now . best is from old school
mb C.H. District
Top labels:
Miasmah
Raster-Noton
Samadhi Sound
Favourite New Artists:
Jacazsek
Concern
Offthesky
Never quite sure about release dates, so I hope these three kind of fit into this category!
Steph
Albums:
dryft – ventricle
bitcrush – from arcs to embers
maserati – pyramid of the sun
zoe keating – into the trees
Labels:
tympanik
n5md
Top 10 favorite full-length albums (in no particular order).
Her Name is Calla – The Quiet Lamb
riverrun – Pentimento
Clem Leek – Holly Lane
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Engineers – In Praise of More
The Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning
Midlake – The Courage of Others
Stars – The Five Ghosts and the Seance
Spoon – Transference
The Posies – Blood/Candy
Hammock – Chasing After Shadows… Living with the Ghosts
Boy is Fiction – Broadcasts in Colour
Bitcrush – Of Embers
Top 3 favorite labels of the year.
Merge
Denovali
n5md
Top 3 favorite new artists of the year.
Apparatjik
Halves
Clem Leek
Totally LOVE Clem Leek (:
My favorites for 2010 (in no particular order):
Albums:
Actress – Splazsh
anbb – Mimikry
Autechre – Oversteps
Brian Eno – Small Craft On A Milk Sea
Forest Swords – Dagger Paths
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
Gonjasufi – A Sufi And A Killer
Lorn – Nothing Else
Mount Kimbie – Crooks & Lovers
Senking – Pong
Labels:
R&S Records
raster-noton
Warp
Artists:
Balam Acab
Forest Swords
James Blake
Compilations/Mixes:
Demdike Stare – Osmosis
My Top 10 albums of 2010 are:
Max Richter- Infra
Eluvium- Similes
Brian McBride- The Effective Disconnect
Johann Johannsson – And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees (official release)
Beach House- Teen Dream
Olafur Arnalds- “…and They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness”
Indignant Senility- Plays Wagner
The Sight Below- It All Falls Apart
Scissor Sisters- Night Work
Marcus Fjellstrom- Schattenspieler
So I know a few of these would never be featured on HC, but I am just being honest. Also, I have to add that the soundtrack to A Single Man is one of my favorites this year, though it was technically released the last week of 2009, but not on CD until Jan….
Thanks for a great year Headphone Commute!
You never know what could be featured on here :) Oh, look, I just published a review of Brian McBride’s “The Effective Disconnect” plus Two and a Half Questions!
Top 5 albums might as well be a tie here… love them all so much! :D
Albums:
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
Lorn – Nothing Else
Mount Kimbie – Crooks & Lovers
Horsepower Productions – Quest for the Sonic Bounty
ASC – Nothing is Certain
Autechre – Oversteps
Jamie Lidell – Compass
The Flashbulb – Arboreal
Senking – Pong
Vex’d – Cloud Seed
Labels:
R&S Records
Hotflush Recordings
Night Slugs
New Artists:
James Blake
Girl Unit
Balam Acab
Top 10 favorite full-length albums
Laura Gibson And Ethan Rose – Bridge Carols
Forest Swords – Dagger Paths
Jan Bang – …And Poppies From Kandahar
Taylor Deupree – Shoals
Federico Durand – La Siesta Del Cipres
Morgan Packard – Moment Again Elsewhere
F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm – Music For Lovers Music Versus Time
Bill Wells & Stefan Schneider – Pianotapes
Gutta Percha – Tube Overtures
Pawn – Above The Winter Oaks
Top 5 favorite compilations or mixes (podcasts)
New Motor Stereo – There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of) (any or the whole series of minimixes)
DJ Gonzo – Deep Water Horizon’s Oily Holiday
Dogura Magura – Science is Fiction (this one and the whole series in general)
Astromatt – Liquid Vibes: Circling around Anemones and Corals
Nicolas Jaar – Resident Advisor RA.211 + Clown & Sunset podcast CS 002 (sorry, can’t pick one)
Top 5 favorite compilations or mixes (officially released)
[demdike stare self-released] Demdike Stare – Osmosis + Industrial Desert (sorry, can’t pick one)
[nonplace] v/a – 10th anniversary edition
[mule] Sebastian Mullaert (Minilogue) – WaWuWe
[theAgriculture] Deadbeat – Radio Rothko
[statik entertainment] Deepentertained mixed by Leonid
Top 3 favorite new artists of the year
James Blake
Forest Swords
Banjo or Freakout
Top 10 favorite full-length albums:
Hammock – Chasing After Shadows…Living With The Ghosts
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Love Is A Stream
Wisp – We Miss You
Bitcrush – Of Embers
Peter Broderick – How They Are
The Album Leaf – A Chorus of Storytellers
Hauschka – Foreign Landscapes
Nils Frahm & Anne Muller – 7 Fingers
Hummingbird – Our Fearful Symmetry
Eluvium – Similes
Very poppy list, haven’t given it much thought and of course (as always) missing loads of great stuff that also came out this year. Very bummed out that Rameses III’s I Could Not Love You More is from 2009, definitely one of my most sacred refuges of this year.
Top 5 favorite compilations or mixes:
HC – Muttley: Exponents of the Guitar
HC – Lowlight: pno 2010
HC – Our Shelter, Our Tomb
HC – Subheim
HC – :papercutz
I know, looks very groupie-like. I normally don’t listen to mixes or buy compilations, but since i discovered that HC mixes are f*ing awesome…
Top 3 favorite labels of the year:
Type (although this is always my favorite ^^)
n5MD
Fluid Audio
wanted to included Erased Tapes, but Fluid audio is ROCKING IT!
Top 3 favorite new artists of the year:
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Hummingbird
Field Rotation
Believe me, I truly appreciate all of your selections for best mixes! Just wait till I unveil Best of Modern Classical 2010 in two parts! :)
Haha, great (:
Looking forward hearing them!
i can’t wait :)
@bask:
a damn fine collection … field rotation got me pretty hard too!
Top 10 favorite full-length albums:
World’s End Girlfriend – Seven Idiots
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
Loscil – Endless Falls
Yasushi Yoshida – Grateful Goodbye
Mount Kimbie – Crooks and Lovers
Take – Only Mountains
Eleven Tigers – Clouds are Mountains
Teebs – Ardour
Menomena – Mines
Feedle – The Evening wore on
Top 5 Mixes:
Brainfeeder – Dublab Radio Session
Headphone Commute – Our shelter, our tomb
Four Tet – Essential Mix
The Haze – Podcasts @ Tumblr
Cole Peirce – Zombies vs. Vampires
Labels:
Noble
Brainfeeder
N5md
Artists:
World’s End Girlfriend
Flying Lotus
Teebs
I can’t find that World’s End Girlfriend album anywhere! Very annoyed!!! Where should I get it from?
i’ve got it from the virgin babylon store: http://www.virgin-babylon-records.com/
i don’t know if there is another chance to get it, but its worth to order it there. they’ve got some pretty envelopes :D
if you can’t wait, you can listen to almost every track on youtube
2010 was a big year for music. So I found it impossible to narrow my list to 10 after I heard over 200 new releases. The best I could do was 14. Hope that’s OK! Lists are in alphabetical order.
Top 10 (14) favorite full-length albums
Access To Arasaka – void();
Actress – Splazsh
Bing Satellites – Twilight Sessions Vol 1, 2 ,3
Demdike Stare – Voices of Dust
Deru – Say Goodbye To Useless
Eluvium – Static Nocturne
Frequent Sync – Coalesce
Guideo – Anidea
Nest – Retold
Pjusk – Sval
Scuba – Triangulation
The Fun Years – God Was Like, No
The Sight Below – It All Falls Aparts
Yellow Swans – Going Places
Top 5 favorite compilations or mixes.
Alan Howarth – Resident Advisor 230 Podcast
Ghost Box Study Series Volumes 01-04
Scuba – Sub:Stance
Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa
Surgeon – Fabric 53
Top 3 favorite labels of the year.
Blackest Ever Black
Ghost Box
Silent Season
Happy Holidays!
Sean