Reflections : One, Two, Three Years Ago : April

Three years of music… No… I’m not about to try and summarize all of the amazing albums that have made it to my rotations list – that is nearly impossible. Instead, I want to point my time machine to this exact month of April, over a period of one, two, and then three years, to see what I have been enjoying back then. Thanks to my membership of last.fm, I was able to gather these statistics and tabulate the top played albums going back three years. Many of you already know that I don’t believe in ‘dating’ music – a great album is a great album, regardless of when it was released. So here’s a very short flashback to the music of my past, that will no doubt be played again today in my rotations…

(all entries are listed in alphabetical order by artist name)

Top 15 of April 2009:
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Ametsub
Bluetech
Boxcutter
Celer
Dakota Suite
H.U.V.A. Network
Hammock
Harmonic 313
Hecq
Hildur Guðnadóttir
Mono
Porn Sword Tobacco
Prefuse 73
Solar Fields
Windy & Carl
Top 15 of April 2008:
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Clark
DJ Kentaro
DJ Shadow
Emanuele Errante
Gridlock
Evol Intent
Julien Neto
Life Toward Twilight
Morning Recordings
Onra
Skalpel
The Field
Wagon Christ
Welder
Wes Willenbring
Top 15 of April 2007:
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A Lily
Bitcrush
Dictaphone
Hammock
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Library Tapes
Loess
Machinefabriek
Marsen Jules
Murcof
Pole
Tycho
Ulrich Schnauss
Xela
Zbigniew Presiner

This quick revisit maybe me already dust off Xela‘s For Frosty Mornings And Summer Nights, as well as three albums by Marsen Jules: Herbstlaub, Yara, and Lazy Sunday Funerals. I’ll be definitely queuing up some Pole, Dictaphone, Murcof, and Julien Neto soon enough! Here’s to more wonderful times, with good old friends!!!

[Original photography by Luis Argerich – Reflections at Navarro by lrargerich]