Ok..'08. What was the best..

[niwi]

Valerio Cosi's Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock

that's some good shit right there

[james]

Due to a very protracted house move and related expenses, I bought very little new music after spring this year and am curious to hear people's recommendations in the nebulous area of the psych/noise/drone/freefolk cassette/cdr DIY scene.

Emeralds, Ajilvsga, Burial Hex and WZT Hearts come to mind. However, I too didn't hear nearly as much stuff this year.

[joe]

06. The P Brothers - The Gas (Heavy Bronx)

I haven't finalized my list yet, but this will definitely be in my top ten. Nice to see it getting some love.

[Salty Swift]

here is my list (restricted only to Polish releases)

1. Za Siódmą Górą - Rogalów: Piosenki ku pokrzepieniu serc (Obuh)
2. Anna Zaradny - Mauve Cycles (Musica Genera)
3. L.U.C - Planet LUC (Mystic Production)
4. The Complainer & The Complainers - Power Joy Happiness Fame ! (Mystic Production)
5. Bartek Kujawski - Murlull Movies (Warsztat8r)
6. Mem & Wolfram - Koniec (Lado ABC)
7. Michał Pałosz - Cellovator (DUX)
8. Robert Piotrowicz - Lasting Clinamen (Musica Genera)
9. Maryla Rodowicz - Jest cudnie (Sony BMG)
10. Janusz Prusinowski Trio - Mazurki (Słuchaj Uchem)
11. Jacaszek - Treny (Gusstaff)
12. Kwadrofonik - Folklove (Polskie Radio S.A.)

I decided not to mention any foreign discs, because on every list posted on ihm there are (more or less) the same discs

You know Tadek, I've had that Zaradny release sitting about here somewhere.....I've no time at the moment to pop it in. Is it as strong as the Piotrowicz release?
I'm rather surprised you popped in that Rodowicz release! Was that a joke?
Last good thing I have from her is the 2 CD Osiecka compilation....

[palfoot]

1. Fursaxa - Kobold Moon (Sylph)
2. Li Jianhong - San Sheng Shi (aRCHIVE)
3. Greg Kelley - Self-Hate Index (Semata)
4. Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - The Breadwinner (Erstwhile)
5. Extra Life - Secular Works (Planaria)
6. Christian Weber - Walcheturm Solo (Cut)
7. Toumani Diabate - The Mande Variations (Nonesuch)
8. Alan Licht & Aki Onda - Everydays (Family Vineyard)
9. Valerio Cosi - Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock (Digitalis)
10. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion (Hospital)

[tadk]

1. Za Siódmą Górą - Rogalów: Piosenki ku pokrzepieniu serc (Obuh)
2. Anna Zaradny - Mauve Cycles (Musica Genera)
3. L.U.C - Planet LUC (Mystic Production)
4. The Complainer & The Complainers - Power Joy Happiness Fame ! (Mystic Production)
5. Bartek Kujawski - Murlull Movies (Warsztat8r)
6. Mem & Wolfram - Koniec (Lado ABC)
7. Michał Pałosz - Cellovator (DUX)
8. Robert Piotrowicz - Lasting Clinamen (Musica Genera)
9. Maryla Rodowicz - Jest cudnie (Sony BMG)
10. Janusz Prusinowski Trio - Mazurki (Słuchaj Uchem)
11. Jacaszek - Treny (Gusstaff)
12. Kwadrofonik - Folklove (Polskie Radio S.A.)

You know Tadek, I've had that Zaradny release sitting about here somewhere.....I've no time at the moment to pop it in. Is it as strong as the Piotrowicz release?

i think Zaradny's disc is better than Piotrowicz's one

I'm rather surprised you popped in that Rodowicz release! Was that a joke?

no, it's not a joke. I think "Jest cudnie" is her best release (at least since mid-seventies)

[Dad Noise]

Valerio Cosi's Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock

that's some good shit right there

Yeah, moving slighly off topic, what I've listened to most this year is his three volumes of Freedom Meditation Music. I'm a constitutionally glum middle-aged Northern Englishman, and this is a totally unfamiliar concept for me, but his music makes me happy!

[franz bieberkopf]

fans of Christoph Heemann should make a point of hearing 'Rings of Saturn'.
same goes for Einsturzende's latest. both are records i've enjoyed spending some time with this year. maybe not as original or exciting as some others, but both polished, imo. i'd be interested to hear other opinions on those.

[joe]

Miscellaneous things that aren’t included in the final list for whatever reason:
Lil Wayne – “A Milli”
Darkstar – Need You/Squeeze my lime
Cotti f/ Doctor – “Calm Down”
Mungo’s Hi Fi f/ Brother Culture – Wickedness Riddim
Paper Route Gangstaz/Slow motion soundz/Hood headlinaz – everything
VA – Gaza Lords 1&2
VA – Ragga Ragga Ragga! 2008
RinseFM (081126) Marcus Nasty – RinseFM set 11/26/2008 ft/ Ranking, Riskgo, Coldsteps, JME, Frisco, Sharky P, and Versatile
SIS –Tompeta

Heard too late in the year, but would have rated based on initial listens:
Zomby – where were u in 92
El remelon – pibe cosmo
Billy bao – dialectics of shit
Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker
Wale - Mixtape About Nothing

Top albums/mixtapes, rankings mean less the further down you go:
1. The Bug – London Zoo
2. G-Side – Starshipz and Rocketz
3. Grouper – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
4. Buraka Som Sistema – Black Diamond
5. Killer Mike – I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II
6. Earth – The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
7. P-Brothers – The Gas
8. VA – Cumbia Digital: ZZK Sound Vol. 1
9. Lindstrom – Where You Go I Go Too
10. Maga Bo – Archipelagoes
11. Boss Hogg Outlawz – Serve and Collect II
12. Chancha Via Circuito – Rodante
13. 410 Pharaohs – 410 Funk
14. Shed – Shedding the Past
15. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colors
16. A Forest of Stars – The Corpse of Rebirth
17. Toumani Diabate – The Mande Variations
18. Tinchy Stryder – Cloud 9
19. Vagabanda - Portas Abertas
20. Women – Women
21. Jahdan Blakkamoore - We Are Raiders
22. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace
23. Bruno Pronsato - Why Can't We Be Like Us
24. Dusk & Blackdown - Margins Music
25. Z-Ro – Crack
26. Riko – The Truth
27. DJ/Rupture – Uproot
28. Indian Jewelry – Free Gold
29. Os De Faya - Fam The Fire
30. Scarface - Emeritus
31. Natural Snow Buildings – The Snowbringer Cult
32. Trees – Lights Bane
33. Rage – Streets of Rage
34. Veil – Sombre
35. DJ C & Zulu – gods & robots
36. Fabulous Diamonds – Fabulous Diamonds
37. Kasai Allstars – In the 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into a Swimming Fish and Ate the Head of His Enemy By Magic
38. Rick Ross – Trilla
39. Scuba – A Mutual Antipathy
40. Six 2 – Affiliated
41. Nachtmystium - Assassins Black Meddle Part I
42. Ace Hood – Gutta

[frozen reeds]

My record of 2008:

[Stephen]

in some kind of very approximate order

Frederic Blondy/Thomas Lehn – obdo (another timbre)
Alfredo Costa Monteiro – Centre of Mass (another timbre)
Bryan Eubanks – Desired Climate Works (gameboy)
Eli Keszler – Livingston (rare youth)
Eli Keszler – R.L.K. (rel) - can't pick between these two
Jim Haynes – Eraldus/Eravaldus (elevator bath)
Badouin Oosterlynck – 1975-1978 (metaphon)
Deterioration Yellow Swans (modern radio)
Janek Schaefer – extended play (12k/line)
Kevin Drumm – Imperial Distortion (hospital)
Emaciator – Reflections (accidie)
Nos Phillipe – Shh… Camille (confront)
The Hub – Boundary Layer (Tzadik)
Three legged race – living order/mourning order (tonefilth)
Jason Lescalleet/ Graham Lambkin – The Breadwinner (erstwhile)
Bardo Pond – Batholith (three lobed)

[Dohol]

Three legged race – living order/mourning order (tonefilth)

Yeah...I keep missing Threes Legged Race whenever they play. I kind of prefer Beatty's other project..Eyes And Arms of Smoke, but that's a hard call.

It all deserves a wider audience, that's for sure.

Lot's of interesting stuff going on down here in Lexington..Caboladies, Warmer Milks, Hair Police...it's just too bad that I'm too fukkin' old and decrepit to show up at somebodys basement to partake of the "scene"..

Oh well..

[Raglani]

Due to the many listed appearances of the Breadwinner in this thread, I recently purchased it and am really happy to have done so. A really beautiful album. Was really into the Lescalleet LP Electonic Music but was thrown of by The Pilgrim (will revisit soon). Completely unaware of Lambkin before this release. Never heard of The Shadow Ring either. Worth checking out? Salmon Run?
First Erstwhile release I've picked up since ASO... Wasn't there another Lescalleet related release listed on forthcoming releases awhile back? Or am I confusing it with The Breadwinner?

[mudd]

there's a lescaleet/rainey duo in the works. they dead a teaser set in nyc the same night as lambkin and lescaleet played, it was pretty fine.

oh and yes to the shadow ring, yes yes yes. there's a new collection of various difficult to find releases due out about now on lambkin's kye label.

m

[MRS]

Sorry to derail, all this Lescalleet talk, what's Joe Colley up to?

[vegetable mind]

Three legged race – living order/mourning order (tonefilth)

Yeah...I keep missing Threes Legged Race whenever they play. I kind of prefer Beatty's other project..Eyes And Arms of Smoke, but that's a hard call.

It all deserves a wider audience, that's for sure.

Lot's of interesting stuff going on down here in Lexington..Caboladies, Warmer Milks, Hair Police...it's just too bad that I'm too fukkin' old and decrepit to show up at somebodys basement to partake of the "scene"..

Oh well..

plenty of older guys show up at various 'underground' shows here(nyc), i'm sure there'd be someone there within 5 years of you, maybe even someone older than you

[jkudler]

Three legged race – living order/mourning order (tonefilth)

Yeah...I keep missing Threes Legged Race whenever they play. I kind of prefer Beatty's other project..Eyes And Arms of Smoke, but that's a hard call.

It all deserves a wider audience, that's for sure.

Lot's of interesting stuff going on down here in Lexington..Caboladies, Warmer Milks, Hair Police...it's just too bad that I'm too fukkin' old and decrepit to show up at somebodys basement to partake of the "scene"..

Oh well..

hahah, sometimes i wish this were true for me. soon enough. . . .

[jkudler]

Due to the many listed appearances of the Breadwinner in this thread, I recently purchased it and am really happy to have done so. A really beautiful album. Was really into the Lescalleet LP Electonic Music but was thrown of by The Pilgrim (will revisit soon). Completely unaware of Lambkin before this release. Never heard of The Shadow Ring either. Worth checking out? Salmon Run?
First Erstwhile release I've picked up since ASO... Wasn't there another Lescalleet related release listed on forthcoming releases awhile back? Or am I confusing it with The Breadwinner?

hey joe!

man, i have been listening to shadow ring's "hold onto id" like non-stop lately. so good, and so mystifying. utterly hilarious and great lyrics, too. i find that the best shadow ring stuff completely puts a weird spell over me; i have to keep listening.

i think "hold onto id" is available from itunes (http://www.siltbreeze.com/shadowring.htm), and you can also hear it here for free:
http://www.rhapsody.com/the-shadow-ring/hold-onto-id

i can hear darren harris's voice now.. .

-j.

[dave quam]

http://davequam.blogspot.com/2008/12/ye ... eight.html

my list

[jon abbey]

my gal Yuko made a short list of 5 2008 releases plus 5 slightly older releases she was into this year. commentary is in Japanese, but here are the lists:


□2008年のベスト盤５枚

1) Graham Lambkin / Jason Lescalleet - The Breadwinner (Erstwhile)

2) Minoru Sato / Ami Yoshida - Composition for Voice Performer (1997 and 2007)

3) Otomo Yoshihide - Core Anode (Meena)

4) Toshimaru Nakamura & Annette Krebs - siyu (sos editions)

5) Keith Rowe - solo at AMPLIFY 2008: light (ErstLive 007)


□2008年以前の作品でベスト盤５枚

Graham Lambkin - Salmon Run (Kye / 2007)

Toshiya Tsunoda - Scenery Of Decalcomania (2004)

Jason Lescalleet - The Pilgrim (Glistening Examples / 2006)

Sachiko M - salon de sachiko (hitorri / 2007)

R/S (Peter Rehberg/Marcus Schmickler) - One (Snow Mud Rain) (Erstwhile / 2007)

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yukoz/20090122