ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

oooh yeah New York is great

More spookiness, was just playing New York like half an hour ago, same train ride. (Maybe Epizootics! will be up next! Channelling!)

it does make me want to listen to 'i love you always forever' a lot.

― my chemtrails romance (c sharp major), Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:25 AM Bookmark

that was one of the exact songs on my mind (also "Lovefool")

"New York" is cool but I voted for "Werkin' Girls" instead. hope it's still to come.

I really like the Angel Haze album but haven't had enough with it to separate into fave tracks. She is great though.

I'm Saaaatan, and I'm gonna take yr ass to church now.

this whitman's pretty aight but if i really wanted kinda smarmy atavism i'd probably stick to todd terje or whatever

But yeah 'New York' sticks out as a highlight now I listen to it again. Love the sinnerman handclaps, gabba-style kick drum and the 'I run Neyak' refrain.

feels like a menacing Pass that Dutch, in a really good way

yeah def

Love the KFW and Angel Haze, voted for both. This list is going solid so far!

loving this Haim song. I just hope they don't go the "epic indie" route

wtf does that mean

this is the horror film-style video for "new york" btw - dunno why it's not on youtube any more http://vimeo.com/45790839

omg thank you, i've been looking for it again, thought it had been scrubbed from the internet

Angel Haze was a relatively late in the year discovery for me, but I adore her. Think lex is right re: vote-splitting, though.

the Angel Haze song sounds like it's sampling Lumidee "Never Leave You (Uh Oh)"

the one i'm curious about is angel haze's version of "cleaning out my closet". on the one hand, the most viscerally powerful thing i've heard maybe this decade. on the other, it would feel weird to be all "voting 4 this in a poll" about a song i could only listen to once.

the lumideers

lol. i would enjoy hearing a version that actually does (xp re: lumidee)

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57. MUNGOLIAN JETSET "Toccata" [220 points, 6 votes]

Spotify / Youtube

whooops

lol tiny

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this track rules a lot, i think i voted for their other nominated one though

KFW's music has focused (at least recently) more on chance, non-repeatable elements. For this he sets up an algorithms and lets them play out, leaving them to their own devices. My guess is that this is the sense in which Generators is an homage to Eliane Radigue's music. Her synthesizer pieces worked with the idea of slight tonal automations that gradually become apparent, a seemingly unchanging block of sound that gradually drifts. Her music sounds like it would be boring, and probably is for anyone not into absolute minimalism, but it also is beautiful and (to me) very spiritual

<i>wow this Haim really sounds like a lost late-90s pop hit</i>

I saw a YouTube comment that compared it to sounding like Michael Penn's This and That which is a lost late-80s pop hit.

the one i'm curious about is angel haze's version of "cleaning out my closet". on the one hand, the most viscerally powerful thing i've heard maybe this decade. on the other, it would feel weird to be all "voting 4 this in a poll" about a song i could only listen to once.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, January 22, 2013 6:38 PM (52 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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It was my number one. I felt like putting it anywhere else would just be weird, unfitting, uncomfortable. I've listened to it a lot more than once, but it's not like a 'favourite song' on repeat rotation, because it is just too raw. But yes, viscerally powerful is spot on.

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Liliputian Jetset

make 'tocatta' bigger! my number 2. just feels timeless.

this is officially credited to "mungolian jetset presents jaga jazzist vs. knights of jumungus", lol (but actually i don't lol cuz i can't really take their wackiness)

by itself this is pretty nice but i didn't listen to the album more than once

damn this was only my 3rd fav mungolian jetset track. voted for 'smells like gasoline' because no-one nominated 'knights of jumungus'

i haven't been into the mungolian jetset stuff i've heard in the past but this is gorgeous

Liked a bunch of Jetset tracks this year (esp. "Smells Like Gasoline" and the Lissvik remix of "We are the Shining") but didn't vote for any in the end.

yeah i'm liking this

this one was my fav. really want to hear someone end a set with it.

Raw is how I heard New York.

Not seeing it re: Whitman, not enough Buddha.

ooh this one does sound great

whoa at 4:45. this is kind of quietly intense. two amazing new discoveries already today.

Toccata is so gorgeous - my number 5. :)

this track sounds like it's either mimicking or sampling music for 18 musicians, not sure which

The mungolian jet set track is the first that I just don't care about at all. Always found them extremely flat pan save for maybe one or two tunes

"toccata" is sounding kinda gorgeous right now actually. maybe should give the album another chance

can't remember if i voted for toccata or not. my other tuned percussion jam of 2012 was the hnny edit of reich's nagoya marimba > http://music4robots.tumblr.com/post/37358480496/released-by-nrr-on-limited-12-sold-out-no

Smells Like Gasoline is the best track on the album but Toccata probably the prettiest.

Thought the album was a mess tbh.

Mungolian Jetset love their Steve Reich huh? xps

i expect the album will place, it's euphoric

I had to go back and reacquaint myself with Haim's "Forever". It's cool enough, but "Don't Save Me" is oodles better. Like Rudipherous said, I hope it's still to come.

yeah toccata really is something special, also think the album is kind of a mess but still really good

Toccata was my #19. Album was half great, half ok, I should probably just edit out the couple of tracks I wasn't so into and listen to it a lot more than I have been.