Headphone Commute’s Best of 2012 : 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


Cristian Vogel
The Inertials
Shitkatapult

DeepChord Presents Echospace
Silent World (OST)
echospace [detroit]

John Talabot
ƒIN
Permanent Vacation

Lindstrøm
Smalhans
Smalltown Supersound

Mark Fell
Sentielle Objectif Actualité
Editions Mego

Monolake
Ghosts
Imbalance Computer Music

Redshape
Square
Running Back

Robert Hood
Motor: Nighttime World 3
Music Man

Shed
The Killer
50Weapons

Sigha
Living With Ghosts
Hotflush