Headphone Commute’s Best of 2011 : Music For Crawling Through Abandoned Cities

Abandoned places and desolate spaces, covered with rain, snow and ash, wrapped in a blanket of white noise and pulsating bass, somewhat metallic, chilly and wet. These are the images for these sounds for these places of my mind. Something is trembling with the beat of my heart. Tick-tock. Time rewinds to the mid nineties, and I’m back in Berlin, and Moritz Von Oswald is cutting the wax with his Basic Channel imprint. Fast forward, and I’m immersed in the DeepChord sounds of Rod Modell and Mike Schommer. Flip to the present, and I am crawling among the empty streets of Detroit, which is slowly receding into the concrete cobwebs. These events may come and go, in an endless cycle of oceanic waves. But the music stays with us. Always.

NOTE: ALL ENTRIES ARE LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY ARTIST


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Resistance Is Beautiful
Darla

Deadbeat
Drawn And Quartered
BLKRTZ

DeepChord
Hash-Bar Loops
Soma Quality

Marow
+ – 0 (Plus Minus Null)
Mille Plateaux / Force Inc.

Martin Schulte
Treasure
Lantern

Mokira
Time Axis Manipulation
Kontra-Musik

Moritz Von Oswald Trio
Horizontal Structures
Honest Jon’s

Overcast Sound
Beneath The Grain
Entropy

Resoe
The Black Void Of Space…
Echocord

Sven Schienhammer
Altostratus Translucidus
BineMusic
More…

Make sure to return here tomorrow for yet another thematic list of favorite albums! See our selections in Headphone Commute’s Best of 2011.