seahorsegenius
It's just me.
Nah, it's by Black Dice. They're on DFA records.
It's a blend of noise, dub, experimental, dance, tropically. Really good.
It's a blend of noise, dub, experimental, dance, tropically. Really good.
Favorite Albums of 04
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mind_philip
saw the light
Minibar - Fly below the radar.
It's the only one I can remember hearing.
It's the only one I can remember hearing.
I've just had to turn in my annual top 20 for work, so we can have a 'staff top 50' - I hate doing it because there's usually only about 5 LPs that i've REALLY liked all year, with the other 15 stuff that I can tolerate when I hear it...
Boredoms - Seadrum
OOIOO - Kila Kila Kila
Acid Mothers Temple - too many to mention
RTX - Transmanaicon
Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light
Ghostface - Pretty Toney
Madvillain
Gideon Conn - Something Happening
Build An Ark - Peace With Every Step
Espers
Homelife - Guru Man Hubcap Lady
Gary Wilson - Mary Had Long Hair
Phoenix - Alphabetical
Moodymann - Black Mahogany
Theo Parrish - Rotating Assembly
Tortoise - It's All Around You
Kenji Jammer - Hula Hula Dance Series
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
Har Mar Superstar
Go Team
GO TEAM?!! What am I writing?!!
Ash
Boredoms - Seadrum
OOIOO - Kila Kila Kila
Acid Mothers Temple - too many to mention
RTX - Transmanaicon
Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light
Ghostface - Pretty Toney
Madvillain
Gideon Conn - Something Happening
Build An Ark - Peace With Every Step
Espers
Homelife - Guru Man Hubcap Lady
Gary Wilson - Mary Had Long Hair
Phoenix - Alphabetical
Moodymann - Black Mahogany
Theo Parrish - Rotating Assembly
Tortoise - It's All Around You
Kenji Jammer - Hula Hula Dance Series
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
Har Mar Superstar
Go Team
GO TEAM?!! What am I writing?!!
Ash
I already mentioned this on the other thread but has anyone listened to that Golden Apples of the Sun compilation of new folk? Got wicked tracks by Jana Hunter, Vetiver, Jack Rose, Joanna Newsom, Josephine Foster etc, and the beautiful title track of Rejoicing in the Hands with Vashti, which was also a great album.
First time i heard Creature Comforts i thought it was total shit, just a bunch of stoners playing around with effects pedals, but it definately has grown on me, everytime i listen to it it seems to get better and better. Anyone dig Miles of Smiles? I did very much so.
Why haven't we mentioned Gang Gang Dance? Revival of the Shittest is brilliant, BRILLIANT i say!
Fennesz's Venice was beautiful. Sheets of decaying noise shimmering like the sun. Lovely.
I thought Villalobos' Alcachofa came out last year? Great still
Oren Ambarchi's Grapes from the Estate - very good. Thats one up for Melbourne! (but the bastard didn't release on Synaesthesia, grrrrr!) Still, another good one for Touch
Speaking of Melbourne, can't go by two Syn releases - Pateras, Baxter, Brown - Ataxia - if you aint got this, GET IT. Crunchiest release this year, fantastic. And Snawklor - It Could Have Lived Here - beautiful!
Steve Roden - Speak No More About the Leaves - beautifully lowercase, man - dig!
And ofcourse the Grime output has been fantastic. Showtime, great (too much been written about to even start again - rapping and production both tighter, for better or worse etc etc) - anyone seen the video to Dreams?? Hilarious!
'Treadin'....' amazingly good. Title track my favourite - both revamps of Ground Zero great
'GRIME' - very cool, very insane. Haven't heard the new one, anyone yet? Apparently just grimier dubstep.
Ahhhh, what a great Year its been!!! Everyone agree OR WHAT???
First time i heard Creature Comforts i thought it was total shit, just a bunch of stoners playing around with effects pedals, but it definately has grown on me, everytime i listen to it it seems to get better and better. Anyone dig Miles of Smiles? I did very much so.
Why haven't we mentioned Gang Gang Dance? Revival of the Shittest is brilliant, BRILLIANT i say!
Fennesz's Venice was beautiful. Sheets of decaying noise shimmering like the sun. Lovely.
I thought Villalobos' Alcachofa came out last year? Great still
Oren Ambarchi's Grapes from the Estate - very good. Thats one up for Melbourne! (but the bastard didn't release on Synaesthesia, grrrrr!) Still, another good one for Touch
Speaking of Melbourne, can't go by two Syn releases - Pateras, Baxter, Brown - Ataxia - if you aint got this, GET IT. Crunchiest release this year, fantastic. And Snawklor - It Could Have Lived Here - beautiful!
Steve Roden - Speak No More About the Leaves - beautifully lowercase, man - dig!
And ofcourse the Grime output has been fantastic. Showtime, great (too much been written about to even start again - rapping and production both tighter, for better or worse etc etc) - anyone seen the video to Dreams?? Hilarious!
'Treadin'....' amazingly good. Title track my favourite - both revamps of Ground Zero great
'GRIME' - very cool, very insane. Haven't heard the new one, anyone yet? Apparently just grimier dubstep.
Ahhhh, what a great Year its been!!! Everyone agree OR WHAT???
hamarplazt
100% No Soul Guaranteed
childOftheBlogosphere said:
Eh, no, not at all. Last year there was at least three albums that ended up among my all time favorites. So far, nothing like that this year.
I never said the best year dude. There has been a lot of good releases as this thread is evident of. You may argue that its the same every year, and it may very well be, but its not like i'm going to ask you to excuse me for being optimistic - just trying to be positive 
Anyway, what were these three releases?
Anyway, what were these three releases?
hamarplazt
100% No Soul Guaranteed
childOftheBlogosphere said:I never said the best year dude. There has been a lot of good releases as this thread is evident of. You may argue that its the same every year, and it may very well be, but its not like i'm going to ask you to excuse me for being optimistic - just trying to be positive
Anyway, what were these three releases?
Oh, I'm aware that you didn't say it was the best year, but you did say it was great, and, well, to me it have just been very flat... some good releases for sure, but nothing that have really excited me. (But then, my reluctance towards calling it a great year could also have something to with the fact, that it have been a truly awful year for me in a lot of other ways).
My three top records of 2003: Boy in da Corner, Inushini: Inushini (Ohm 52), Kevin Blechdom: Bitches without Britches. And there was the Remarc compilation too... but that was old stuff. And some amazing EPs with LFO Demon.
S
simon silverdollar
Guest
how come no one's mentioned Kanye yet?
[or may be they have, + i didn't notice]
i mean i'm not one to get all hyperbolic and excitable, he he, but the college dropout is definitely the best album of the last 50 years, isn't it?
[or may be they have, + i didn't notice]
i mean i'm not one to get all hyperbolic and excitable, he he, but the college dropout is definitely the best album of the last 50 years, isn't it?
S
simon silverdollar
Guest
childOftheBlogosphere said:
-standard.
Terror Danjah Australis
Active member
What is up with people who don't rate College Dropout anyway? Is it not cool enough? not innovative enough? i suppose I haven't listened to it for a while but when my housemate got it we smoked a spliff and listened to it religiously every day for at least two weeks. then it started to spread to all kinds of people who don't even listen to hiphop, and everybody learned all the words, and I STILL didn't get sick of it
It's that "haven't listened to it for a while", that's what's wrong with it.
I, and everybody else, had it on repeat for a month or so when it first came out and haven't felt the need to listen to it since. Whereas Dizzee and Wiley (for example) are still getting play. I dunno, it's a very up front record, I think. You can't excavate new layers of meaning from it in the way you can with Showtime. Its first listen impact is pretty much unsurpassed this year, but I still don't think that makes it a great record...
Anyway:
1. Dizzee Rascal - "Showtime"
2. Marz - "Wir sind hier"
3. Big and Rich - "Horse of a different colour"
4. Trick Daddy - "Thug Matrimony"
5. Tiefschwarz - "Misch Masch"
I reckon that makes it a pretty decent year...
I, and everybody else, had it on repeat for a month or so when it first came out and haven't felt the need to listen to it since. Whereas Dizzee and Wiley (for example) are still getting play. I dunno, it's a very up front record, I think. You can't excavate new layers of meaning from it in the way you can with Showtime. Its first listen impact is pretty much unsurpassed this year, but I still don't think that makes it a great record...
Anyway:
1. Dizzee Rascal - "Showtime"
2. Marz - "Wir sind hier"
3. Big and Rich - "Horse of a different colour"
4. Trick Daddy - "Thug Matrimony"
5. Tiefschwarz - "Misch Masch"
I reckon that makes it a pretty decent year...