The cassette and CD-R underground has been mining the knob-twiddling era of Tangerine Dream and Vangelis for more than a decade now, but the wildly popular series mixed with Dixon and Stein's diverse emotional palette will likely make this a gateway to the experimental music upside-down for years.
love this
― just another (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2016/12/12/giittvs-albums-poll-of-2016/
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
Overblown’s 10 Best Japanese Albums of 2016. Was going to cut and paste names and titles, but they've made it too difficult to do so.
(I don't know anything about Overblown.)
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link
― just another (diamonddave85), Wednesday, December 28, 2016 3:52 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Thanks, Dave, that sentence was the result of an IRL convo with a Brooklyn record store clerk who def wasn't impressed with Dixon/Stein since he's seen an entire wave of analog synth festishists come and go, and was def trendy in the BK around 2010: Emeralds, the first three Oneohtrix Point Never records, RVNG Itnl reissues, all the way through the last Boards of Canada record. I think the fact that the Stranger Things soundtrack has been a commercial and cultural success proves that it's resonating with people way beyond the universe that reads Gorilla Vs Bear and can recognize a Robert Beatty drawing. Its actually turning people on to synths and synth culture and, one would believe, eventually, this whole universe of space-rock, drone, horror soundtracks, or w/e... I do wonder if the "lol simpsons did it" attitude affected its lack of acclaim at "cool" places like The Wire, The Quietus and Pitchfork. But I'm pretty certain this is gonna have a pretty big impact on a lot of young people who never bought a record of noises and drones.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 29 December 2016 01:57 (seven years ago) link
I do wonder if the "lol simpsons did it" attitude affected its lack of acclaim at "cool" places like The Wire, The Quietus and Pitchfork.
I think in The WIre's case, it was probably more a case of "we've been covering this kind of music for a decade or so already, and frankly this iteration is...just okay." They reviewed both volumes of the soundtrack, and the Survive album, in the electronic column in the October issue, and called it "a capable xerox of gestures from 80s Tangerine Dream (the opening theme plunders The Keep), Jean-Michel Jarre and Timewind-era Klaus Schulze."
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 29 December 2016 02:11 (seven years ago) link
I think there's room for both what Whiney is saying and what Wire feels about SURVIVE/ST soundtrack. It's great if this music opens the door for youngsters though! I personally feel "It Follows" soundtrack did this thing better in the mainstream first.
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Thursday, 29 December 2016 02:17 (seven years ago) link
or "under the skin" tbh
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Thursday, 29 December 2016 07:39 (seven years ago) link
Hm, I don't really associate Mica Levi's work with retro-aesthetics.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 29 December 2016 09:00 (seven years ago) link
If anything it's utterly contemporary.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 29 December 2016 09:01 (seven years ago) link
SURVIVE/ST soundtrack is total member berries.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 29 December 2016 09:26 (seven years ago) link
whiney hypocrisy so lame that mark fisher and simon reynolds died immediately
― r|t|c, Thursday, 29 December 2016 12:59 (seven years ago) link
Thought Whiney was on team KAS Is Dull but looks like we've lost a good man
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 29 December 2016 13:28 (seven years ago) link
Keen to check out other stuff on that list though
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 29 December 2016 13:32 (seven years ago) link
Friend's list. Interesting stuff!
http://resonantspace.blogspot.com/2016/12/best-improvised-and-creative-music-of_28.html
― Evan, Thursday, 29 December 2016 13:59 (seven years ago) link
lol at "Creative Music" but that's an intriguing list
― my hangover is a time machine (seandalai), Thursday, 29 December 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
I must be a very "creative" person cos I very much like a load of that shit :p
― calzino, Thursday, 29 December 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
am dying to hear that Nuova Camerata one and have read a few people repping for it.
― calzino, Thursday, 29 December 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
http://www.offbeat.com/articles/50-best-albums-2016/
New Orleans magazine's fave Louisiana releases
1.Aaron Neville: Apache
2. Roddie Romero & the Hub City All-Stars: Gulfstream
3. Allen Toussaint: American Tunes
4. Bobby Rush: Porcupine Meat
5. Honey Island Swamp Band: Demolition Day
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
xp to miko: i see a thruline personally
i really need to listen to that touss album
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Friday, 30 December 2016 06:31 (seven years ago) link
http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/corner2016.cfm
Blogger Daddy B. Nice's list of southern soul tracks and albums
His top singles include :
“My Sidepiece” by The Louisiana Blues Brothas featuring Big Pokey Bear
“I Got This Record” by J-Wonn
“Hey Mr. Sexy Man” by Nellie “Tiger” Travis
His top albums include:
LaMorris Williams --- Mississippi Motown
William Bell --- This Is Where I Live
Bigg Robb --- Showtime Ms. Jody --- I Got The Feeling
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 December 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
Overblown’s 10 Best Japanese Albums of 2016. Was going to cut and paste names and titles, but they've made it too difficult to do so.(I don't know anything about Overblown.)
mitsume's A Long Day is fantastic. Thanks for sharing this list.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 30 December 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
2016 in review: Journeys in Acoustic, Primitive, & Experimental Folk
https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2016/12/30/2016-in-review-journeys-in-acoustic-primitive-experimental-folk/
I like all the ones I know from this list so I'm definitely going to check out the rest.
― Dinsdale, Friday, 30 December 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
http://www.soundsbetterwithreverb.com/shoegaze/shoegaze-dream-pop-albums-2016/
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 31 December 2016 00:31 (seven years ago) link
Late pass but this Fox/Soper Duo album is the shit!
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 31 December 2016 07:25 (seven years ago) link
Dinsdale - Thanks for posting that, reposted in the ilx post Fahey/takoma thread
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 31 December 2016 13:25 (seven years ago) link
U2 (Drugs A. Money)Late pass but this Fox/Soper Duo album is the shit!
Yup.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 31 December 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2017/01/01/rearview-mirror-2016
One of my favourite curators. You`ll need to wade through the google translation if you don`t read Italian.
― doug watson, Sunday, 1 January 2017 14:28 (seven years ago) link
I shouldn't leave out the stoner/psych/doom reps!
The Obeliskhttp://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2016/12/20/top-30-of-2016/
1. SubRosa, For this We Fought the Battle of Ages2. Mars Red Sky, Apex III (Praise for the Burning Soul)3. Gozu, Revival4. Asteroid, III5. Brant Bjork, Tao of the Devil6. Greenleaf, Rise Above the Meadow7. Wight, Love is Not Only What You Know8. King Buffalo, Orion9. Wo Fat, Midnight Cometh10. Slomatics, Future Echo Returns11. Mos Generator, Abyssinia12. Elephant Tree, Elephant Tree13. Zun, Burial Sunrise14. Hexvessel, When We are Death15. Fatso Jetson, Idle Hands16. EYE, Vision and the Ageless Light17. Geezer, Geezer18. Baby Woodrose, Freedom19. Conan, Revengeance20. Neurosis, Fires Within Fires21. Curse the Son, Isolator22. The Golden Grass, Coming Back Again23. Borracho, Atacama24. Black Rainbows, Stellar Prophecy25. 1000mods, Repeated Exposure To…25a. Egypt, Endless Flight26. Foghound, The World Unseen27. Beelzefuzz, The Righteous Bloom28. Droids Attack, Sci-Fi or Die29. Comet Control, Center of the Maze30. Talmud Beach, Chief31. Blaak Heat, Shifting Mirrors32. Truckfighters, V33. West, Space & Love, Vol. II34. Seedy Jeezus with Isaiah Mitchell, Tranquonauts35. Yawning Man, Historical Graffiti36. Causa Sui, Return to Sky37. Vokonis, Olde One Ascending38. Hotel Wrecking City Traders, Phantomonium39. The Wounded Kings, Visions in Bone40. It’s Not Night: It’s Space, Our Birth is but a Sleep and a Forgetting41. Beastwars, The Death of all Things42. Naxatras, II43. Holy Grove, Holy Grove44. Worshipper, Shadow Hymns45. Wretch, Wretch46. Colour Haze, Live Vol. I: Europa Tournee 201547. Zaum, Eidolon48. Bellringer, Jettison49. Young Hunter, Young Hunter50. Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard, Y Proffwyd Dwyll
Obelisk Readershttp://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2017/01/01/the-top-20-of-2016-year-end-poll-results/
1. Wo Fat, Midnight Cometh (375 points)2. Greenleaf, Rise Above the Meadow (368)3. Elephant Tree, Elephant Tree (324)4. Asteroid, III (302)5. Brant Bjork, Tao of the Devil (295)6. Gozu, Revival (274)7. Neurosis, Fires Within Fires (253)8. King Buffalo, Orion (244)9. Mars Red Sky, Apex III (Praise for the Burning Soul) (238)10. Conan, Revengeance (232)11. Cough, Still They Pray (228)12. Holy Grove, Holy Grove (218)13. SubRosa, For this We Fought the Battle of Ages (213)14. Truckfighters, V (206)15. Blood Ceremony, Lord of Misrule (200)16. Khemmis, Hunted (192)16. Red Fang, Only Ghosts (192)17. Inter Arma, Paradise Gallows (181)18. Witchcraft, Nucleus (174)19. Opeth, Sorceress (173)20. Church of Misery, And then there Were None (159)
Honorable mention to:Causa Sui, Return to Sky (157)Goatess, II: Purgatory Under New Management (157)Black Mountain, IV (148)Mos Generator, Abyssinia (144)Wretch, Wretch (140)
Outlaws Of The Sunhttp://outlawsofthesun.blogspot.com/2016/12/steve-howe-top-albums-of-2016.html
01. Geezer – Geezer02. Cough – Still They Prey03. Truckfighters – V04. Elephant Tree – Elephant Tree05. Brant Bjork – Tao Of The Devil06. Haast's Eagled – II: For Mankind07. Slomatics –Future Echo Returns08. Slow Green Thing – II09. Slabdragger – Rise Of The Dawncrusher10. Kvelertak – Nattesferd11. Holy Serpent – Temples12. House Of Lightning – House Of Lightning13. Comacozer – Astra Planeta14. Demonauta – Tierra Del Fuego15. Year Of The Cobra – In The Shadows Below16. Conan – Revengeance17. Mars Red Sky – Apex III (Praise For The Burning Soul)18. Vokonis – Olde One Ascending19. High Fighter – Scars & Crosses20. Domkraft - The End Of Electricity21. Greenleaf – Meadow22. Borracho – Atacama23. Wo Fat – Midnight Cometh24. Sourvein – Aquatic Occult25. Megatherium – Superbeast
Stoner Hivehttp://stonerhive.blogspot.nl/2016/12/the-countdown-so-far.html
1. Greenleaf - Rise Above The Meadow2. 1000mods – Repeated Exposure To…3. Asteroid – III4. Goatess – Purgatory Under New Management5. COUGH – Still They Pray6. Egypt - Doom – Endless Flight & Wasted Theory – Defenders Of The Riff7. Witchcraft – Nucleus8. Wo Fat – Midnight Cometh9. DUNSMUIR – Dunsmuir10. Sinister Haze – Laid Low in the Dust of Death & Geezer – Geezer11. Wretch – Wretch12. Holy Serpent – Temples & Curse the Son – Isolator13. Brant Bjork – Tao Of The Devil14. Truckfighters– V & Elephant Tree – Elephant Tree15. Gojira – Magma & BLACK RAINBOWS – Stellar Prophecy16. Baby Woodrose – Freedom & Mars Red Sky – Apex III (Praise For The Burning Soul)17. Mos Generator – Abyssinia18. Baroness – Purple19. Komatsu – Recipe For Murder One20. The Re-Stoned – Reptiles Return
Doom Chartshttps://doomcharts.com/2016/12/31/best-of-2016/
1. ASTEROID – III2. WO FAT – MIDNIGHT COMETH3. COUGH – STILL THEY PRAY4. ELEPHANT TREE – ELEPHANT TREE5. GEEZER – GEEZER6. BRANT BJORK – TAO OF THE DEVIL7. WITCHCRAFT – NUCLEUS8. GREENLEAF – RISE ABOVE THE MEADOW9. YEAR OF THE COBRA – IN THE SHADOWS BELOW10. VOKONIS – OLDE ONE ASCENDING11. WRETCH – WRETCH12. BORRACHO – ATACAMA13. BRIMSTONE COVEN – BLACK MAGIC14. SLOMATICS – FUTURE ECHO RETURNS15. CONAN – REVENGEANCE16. YOUNGBLOOD SUPERCULT – HIGH PLAINS17. BABY WOODROSE – FREEDOM18. GOATESS – PURGATORY UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT19. GOZU – REVIVAL20. SVVAMP – SVVAMP21. SLABDRAGGER – RISE OF THE DAWNCRUSHER22. LA CHINGA – FREEWHEELIN23. DOMKRAFT – THE END OF ELECTRICITY24. MAMMOTH WEED WIZARD BASTARD – Y PROFFWYD DWYLL25. KING BUFFALO – ORION26. FOGHOUND – THE WORLD UNSEEN27. TRUCKFIGHTERS – V28. WITCHTHROAT SERPENT – SANG-DRAGON29. MOS GENERATOR – ABYSSINIA30. HOWLING GIANT – BLACK HOLE SPACE WIZARD PART 131. MARS RED SKY – APEX III (Praise for the Burning Soul) 32. WASTED THEORY – DEFENDERS OF THE RIFF33. MEPHISTOFELES – WHORE34. DEMONAUTA – TIERRA DEL FUEGO35. 1000MODS – REPEATED EXPOSURE TO…36. BEASTMAKER – LUSUS NATURAE37. LORD VAPOUR – MILL STREET BLUES38. SALEM’S POT – PRONOUNCE THIS!39. CHURCH OF MISERY – AND THEN THERE WERE NONE…40. KHEMMIS – HUNTED41. DUNSMUIR – DUNSMUIR42. OLD BLOOD – OLD BLOOD43. FIRE DOWN BELOW – VIPER VIXEN GODDESS SAINT44. BUS – THE UNKNOWN SECRETARY45. LIMESTONE WHALE – LIMESTONE WHALE46. CHILD – BLUESIDE47. SINISTER HAZE – LAID LOW IN THE DUST OF DEATH48. AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED – ARC49. TROLL – TROLL50. THE HAZYTONES – THE HAZYTONES
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 1 January 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link
Jeff Miller's 2016 punk scrapbook at Said the Gramophone: http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/punk_scrapbook_2016.php
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
(Fairly broad definition of 'punk')
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 17:35 (seven years ago) link
That's a tracks list btw.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 17:36 (seven years ago) link
Brainwashed's Readers Poll
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 5 January 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
i suggest imago doesn't scroll down to the bottom of that page
― NickB, Thursday, 5 January 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link
this is actual fucking war
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:03 (seven years ago) link
TIL MX-80 Sound released a new album and apparently it sucks?
― Transform All Suffering Into Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
swans bros might be my new most hated group of people
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
Oh, CP, that worst-of list contains my two favourite albums of maybe the last 5 years, it's very distinguished company. Probably a good album
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
Brainwashed best-of also a noticeably POC-absent zone. Few women either. Yeah you're all so fucking experimental and hidden-reversy. Whatever. You're all cunts with boring taste
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 17:34 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^ good list imo
― Transform All Suffering Into Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:16 (seven years ago) link
Please, if I ever become this kind of insufferable dour hateful misogynistic racist snob cunt about my music*, kill me. This kind of closed-mindedness and posturing is a million times worse than any sort of pop music exclusivism. This really raises the mirror to the sorts of people who self-style as experimental music fans and reveals them for the dreadful, damaged bores that they are.
*as was vaguely threatened itt, still so :/ about that
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:20 (seven years ago) link
A category for "Worst Album of the Year?" My middle-school-aged child is more open-minded.
― doug watson, Thursday, 5 January 2017 19:41 (seven years ago) link
Sort of understand the hate for Jute Gyte in a sort of macho inadequacy 'it's just nooooise' self-pwning incurious sense but voting Weyes Blood as second-worst album of the year makes me entirely suspect the Brainwashed readership to comprise a suppurating hate-riven subreddit of actively bigoted shut-ins (probably confirmed by the seething unchecked Swans support, lack of POC or women etc etc) - it just isn't an album I could imagine anyone with any sort of acceptable social adjustment hating. Even if you can't get with its vibe it's not much more than an intricate pop-folk record with proggy touches and lots of harmonies. If this is what drives you to hatred then you're undoubtedly worthless and probably a localised threat to others.
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link
Since I'm one of the assholes who vote in their poll, let me say that you don't actively vote for a "worst album of the year", you just rate the albums you've heard (love, like, dislike, hate) so a record could get in that list simply by the matter of having a lot of people not liking it. I don't think there are that many voters either so it doesn't even have to be a lot of people.
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
I think I remember one year (probably 2012? Back when stephen ilxor was still affiliated with them) when one of their worst albums might have actually made the best albums list.
Ummm wait...Dinsdale??
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
that is a truly deranged way to run a poll at the best of times, but with such a voting public (present company excluded I suppose) it becomes actively reckless
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:23 (seven years ago) link
Lol Dinsdale am I way behind the curve in figuring out who you are, cuz it took me a whole year to realize rev changed her sn
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link
I'm not a former ilxor or anything like that, so there's no such thing as figuring out who I am
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link
I'll fucking do it
(j/k)
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:59 (seven years ago) link
Ohhh ok
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 5 January 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
I think I remember one year (probably 2012? Back when stephen ilxor was still affiliated with them) when one of their worst albums might have actually made the best albums list.― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, January 5, 2017 8:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, January 5, 2017 8:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Doesn't that routinely happen with the NME reader polls or am I imagining that
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 6 January 2017 19:59 (seven years ago) link