ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

lol

ftr i didn't coin the phrase "'wot do u call it' moment"

http://i.imgur.com/rC13zTr.png?1

60/ KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN "Issue Generator (for Eliane Radigue)" [216 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote]

Spotify

i have no idea which version of "issue generator" on youtube is this "issue generator", so if anyone wants to post that link itt feel free

first thing i voted for thats shown up i think

more experimental synth drone shite

Weird start to the day. Listening now on soundcloud. So what's the story?

Hurrah, my #1! My favourite synth odyssey in forever. Def not one for the 5-seconds-and-boast crew. Full 17-minute version is on Spotify.

wot's the story

Cool! Love KFW.

Highest points per vote average in the 77?

i dunno about this, it's hardly a choon now is it?

I knew this was popular in certain quarters but I'm surprised to see it place

i like KFW but didn't really have time to digest this when i was racing thru all the tracks nominations last week, plus its not really the type of thing i usually vote for on tracks poll

Less a choon, more a drooooooon.

I've listened to so much stuff like this it kind of has to have some kind of gimmick or extra little thing for me to be interested anymore. But it might also cause I stopped smoking weed. Does this bust out into psych-synth weirfness or is all droney like the first three minutes have been?

Is KFW the same person as Hrvatski?

couldn't make it more than 16 minutes in, what rubbish x-(. (great chooooooon, v nice and surprising to see it here.)

Hrvatski is KFW, yes.

Is he/she Croatian?

This whitman fellow needs to write more choons the milkman can bosh to.

(I like this one, great list so far!)

don't have access to spotify at work, but this should evolve from drone into multiple overlapping arpeggios. has a great live sound

enjoying the 6-min soundcloud version (don't have spotify) but this music will rarely be more than pleasant background sound for me. don't think it's weird or even that impenetrable/droney, nice to see it place.

having said all that the 6-min version just ended and i definitely felt the lack of it, i wanted it to go on!

whitman is american. this is good but its no http://youtu.be/RAQESTUHqSQ

Weird.

having said all that the 6-min version just ended and i definitely felt the lack of it, i wanted it to go on!

Yeah, you can just get lost in it!

Highest points per vote average in the 77?

yep

whitman is american. this is good but its no http://youtu.be/RAQESTUHqSQ

― ogmor, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 18:03 (48 seconds ago)

yeah, echoing what lex said. i thought to myself this sounds nice but i'll never listen to it twice then was kinda sad when it faded out.

i pretty much forgot what i voted for (is there anyway to access one's ballot on google docs?) but i'm pretty sure this was one of my choices. KFW is amazing.

j0rdan, did you see the duplicate spreadsheet I made for you?

the track as it was made shouldn't fade out. It does attenuate nicely at the end, though

yeah this piece kinda jamz the fuck out, not really 'synth drone' or w/e, love the lingering farewell at the end, whole thing is a party

http://i.imgur.com/UGcqgZW.jpg

59. HAIM "Forever" [218 points, 8 votes] (135 points for Lindstrom remix)

Youtube / Remix Youtube / Spotify

is there a reason this track in particular was highlighted out of what - i assume - is an album full of alike tracks

j0rdan, did you see the duplicate spreadsheet I made for you?

― questino (seandalai), Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:05 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yes thanks

i remember hearing this in maybe the campaigning thread, even on my 2nd listen idk what to think of it (re: keith fullerton whitman)

ha re: KFW not haim, i haven't got round to having an opinion on them yet

the OG haim track is nice for what it is, remix is p banging tho

the track as it was made shouldn't fade out. It does attenuate nicely at the end, though

― Dan S, Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:06 AM Bookmark

there's a 6-minute exerpt on soundcloud

Re: the KFW: I've listened to a lot of music like this, and I think this is an exceptional example of it (and I only discovered it from the nominations). This was one of my votes that I thought of as a wild card in terms of whether it would place or not. Surprise.

Thoroughly kicks the ass of all that celebrated post-dub-step stuff.

is there a reason this track in particular was highlighted out of what - i assume - is an album full of alike tracks

it's from an album called Generators with two tracks, each of which is about 17 minutes long
http://www.allmusic.com/album/generators-mw0002295254

is there a reason this track in particular was highlighted out of what - i assume - is an album full of alike tracks

Only two tracks on the album, the other one is a lot more "challenging" and I more or less never listen to it. I jammed to "Issue Generator (for Eliane Radigue)" on repeat a lot this year.

lol

RELEASE DATE
2012
DURATION
35:08
GENRE
Electronic
Pop/Rock
STYLES
Alternative/Indie Rock

Only Haim track I need is "Don't Save Me". The Lindstrom remix is nice enough, though.

xp lol

Spooky... Haim appeared just as I was finishing listening to the Lindstrom remix.

first track I voted for.

for some reason it clicked for me after hearing this live take: http://youtu.be/hrQ1BFRKr8Y

Re: KFW -- this isn't really my idea of any amazing synth sound-scape or whatever. I've heard much better bleeps and bloops! It was nice but it didn't really seem to go anywhere or do anything or explore sounds in any highly interesting way. Gonna listen to the Corey Haim Band now.

wow this Haim really sounds like a lost late-90s pop hit. i was kinda skeptical at first but it's really good.