2012 Albums Poll Afterparty of Stats, Ballots and Differential Calculus

they should get together and be the WTF People

soooo surprised to have Alex in MTL as my top neighbor

I just googled "wtf people" and uh...

oh -- i didn't google, not sure i wanna know?

how does the LOL boys you voted for compare to "changes", reverend?

I think they've broken up now which is sad.

kind of lol but...

I'm a big LOL Boys/Jerome LOL stan but wasn't really that into "Changes" so I'm possibly not the best one to ask. But anyway, it's a mix album and isn't very reliant on their own productions (only has a few of them), and it's mostly a lot more upbeat than "Changes". A lot of the tracks on it are from Body High artists and related ppls. It kind of sounds like what the cover looks like:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xYIjWJNBHe8/UAca3J6aO6I/AAAAAAAAEuo/xxux3A8w0O4/s1600/LOL%2BBoys%2B%25E2%2580%2594%2BEnter%2BThe%2BUnknown%2B%255BDj%2BMix%255D%2B%25282012%2529.jpg

Jerome LOL is still doing really good stuff. I haven't really checked for the other guy's solo stuff tho.

Jerome LOL did a great remix of The Dream's H.A.T.E. U

huh, i voted for...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2t859S1ej1rnanb8o1_500.jpg

Weighted:

Amanda Mair - Amanda Mair
Taylor Swift - Red
Maria – VIII
iamamiwhoami - Kin
Alina Devecerski – Maraton
Grimes - Visions
Mylene Farmer - Monkey Me
Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
UFOmammut - Oro: Opus Primum
Charlie Straight – Someone With A Slow Heartbeat
Goat - World Music
Dawn Richard - Armor On
Future - Pluto
Zdob Si Zdub - Basta Mafia
Ivan Dorn - Condorn
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Ke$ha - Warrior
Charli XCX - Super Ultra
Die Antwoord - Ten$ion
Katy B - Danger EP
Crystal Castles - (III)
Serebro - Mama Lover
Chromatics - Kill For Love
Carly Rae Jepsen - Kiss

xp, yahhhh. same mix series on Unknown To The Unknown

i'm being forgetful. not sure i can face emailing them again to get them to post a cd.

Alina Devecerski – Maraton

oooooh i really liked flytta pa dej, i should get around to this

I ordered the DJ Q mix and it arrived eventually but the whole thing is a skip-monster :-(

This has discouraged me from ordering anything else from the label.

as in the CD skips?

yes

not scratched, but skips ridiculously on every cd player i've tried

I can ilx mail you ripped mp3s if its of interest

LOL Boys Fader Mix is incredible:

https://soundcloud.com/fadermedia/lol-boys-fader-mix

Lil Wayne – Nightmares of the Bottom
Cloud – Turning
Avicii – Levels
John Legend – Tonight
Radiohead – Talk Show Host
Fiona Apple – Every Single Night
Christina Milian – Chameleon
Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
Kanye West – Mercy
Jeremih – Keep It Moving
Kreayshawn – Summertime
R . Kelly & Jeremih – Misunderstood
Basement Jaxx – Romeo (Acoustic Version)

^^

yes. note that those are all their own edits of those tracks, which are available here:

http://www.freshselects.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/FRSH-SLCTS-LOL-Boys-Edits.zip

yes, crucial point

weighted

01. farrah abraham - my teenage dream ended

weighted

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
The Men - Open Your Heart
Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Liars - WIXIW
School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
Torche - Harmonicraft
Bear in Heaven - I love you, it's cool
Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
Matthew E. White - Big Inner
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Purity Ring - Shrines
Krallice - Years Past Matter
Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Scrappy Happiness
Metz - Metz
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
DIIV - oshin
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Grizzly Bear - Shields

ogmor, tim, grady check yr emailz

good lookin out rev

Music is a weird and wonderful thing, especially as heard by different humans!

Thanks, again, for the great work on both polls. Lots of stuff here to keep me interested for a while

(btw....I honestly hadn't known about Quietus until 5 minutes ago)

mad I could have put Elle Varner on my list and kicked out AnCo and didn't :(

didn't vote, but i meant to. my top 20 can, nonetheless, be seen here:
http://walkingthelongmileshome.wordpress.com/

monotony, you too

my weighted ballot

Voices From The Lake - Voices From The Lake
Fucked Up - Year of the Tiger
Blondes - Blondes
Disappears - Pre Language
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
Burial - Kindred EP
Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
The Men - Open Your Heart
Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
Swans - The Seer
Goat - World Music
Lone - Galaxy Garden
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Mohn - Mohn
Sand Circles - Motor City
Unsane - Wreck
John Talabot - Fin
Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships
El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
Dead Can Dance - Anastasis
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Mirrorring - Foreign Body
Killing Joke - MMXII
Demdike Stare - Elemental

kind of embarrassed about how high I put the animal collective album. It's the first thing by them I've liked since Feels, so I am by no means a superfan, but I felt the album was unfairly maligned so put it higher hoping it would make the top 77 (yesss!)

Weighted:

John K. Samson - Provincial
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
Chromatics - Kill For Love
Dar Williams - In The Time of Gods
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City
Joel Plasket Emergency - Scrappy Happiness
Jack White - Blunderbuss
Tinashe - Reverie
Amelia Curran - Spectators
Bob Dylan - Tempest
Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur
Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man in the Universe
Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze
Aimee Mann - Charmer
Why? - Sod in the Seed

I forgot to post my ballot. I'm already having serious second thoughts about the Phenomenal Handclap Band (which I'd only discovered from the nominations). There are some brilliant things about I'm not comfortable with the excess of irony that seems to be involved.

Weighted:

Sa Dingding – The Coming Ones
Matthew Shipp – Elastic Aspects
Zaki Ibrahim – Every Opposite
Zazen Boys - Stories
Elio Villafranca/Arturo Stable – Dos y Mas
Phenomenal Handclap Band – Form & Control
NHK’Koyxeи - Dance Classics Vol. I & II
Cooly G – Playin’ Me

xp: cheers rev

rale - the moon regarded and the bright one sought
Le1f - Dark York
innergaze - mutual dreaming
Vatican Shadow - Ghosts of Chechnya
Air - Le Voyage Dans La Lune
Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Motion Sickness Of Time Travel
Rick Ross - Rich Forever
Young Smoke - Space Zone
Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One
Mount Eerie - Clear Moon

not the best ballot, thought i voted for blondes but i guess i didnt. also not that representative of what i really liked this year, most of which wasnt nominated.

is that lol boys fader mix available for d/l anywhere? the link at the fader has expired.

I can send it to you, prob tomorrow. I'm tired.

cool, i can wait

Weighted ballot, non-placing in bold:

Chromatics - Kill for Love
Jessie Ware - Devotion
Goat - World Music
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Blondes - Blondes
Dawn Richard - Armor On
Nina Kraviz - Nina Kraviz
Levon Vincent - Fabric 63
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Laurel Halo - Quarantine
Best Coast - The Only Place
Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
Graveyard - Lights Out
Jam City - Classical Curves
Vatican Shadow - Ghosts of Chechnya
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
Cooly G - Playin' Me
The Internet - Purple Naked Ladies
Burial - Kindred EP
Schoolboy Q - Habits And Contradictions
iamamiwhoami - Kin
Gucci Mane - Trap Back
Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended

mine was weighted

Trust - TRST
Chromatics - Kill for Love
Goat - World Music
Amanda Mair - Amanda Mair
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Todd Terje - It's The Arps
John Talabot - Fin
Purity Ring - Shrines
Divorce - Divorce
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Kindness - World, you need a change of mind
Metz - Metz
Daughn Gibson - All Hell
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
DIIV - oshin
The Men - Open Your Heart
Tame Impala - Lonerism
LA Vampires and Maria Minerva - The Integration LP
Grimes - Visions
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Taylor Swift - Red
Voices From The Lake - Voices From The Lake
Wild Nothing - Nocturne
Orbital - Wonky
Blondes - Blondes

TheeSatisfaction - awE naturalE (*)
(*) I voted for this one, but it's not on the spreadsheet.

I voted for that too, I can see it on the spreadsheet #392 42 points, 3 votes

Oops, my powers of observation are failing me...

ha my position on the albums and singles graph is near identical

Here are mine. Non-charters in bold

Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
Eyvind Kang - The Narrow Garden
Swans - The Seer
Chairlift - Something
John Talabot - Fin
Young Smoke - Space Zone
DJ Rashad - Teklife Vol 1: Welcome to the Chi
Neneh Cherry & The Thing - The Cherry Thing
David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant
Black Dice - Mr Impossible
Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn
Goat - World Music
Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
Om - Advaitic Songs
iamamiwhoami - Kin
LHF - Keepers Of The Light
Holly Herndon - Movement
Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended
Slugabed - Time Team
Mala - Mala in Cuba
Dawn Richard - Armor On
UFOmammut - Oro: Opus Primum
Nite Jewel - One Second of Love
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Lone - Galaxy Garden

A bit about the albums I chose that didn't place:

Eyvind Kang - The Narrow Garden
This immediately knocked Swans off my number 2 spot. It's simply gorgeous - a blend of classical, ambient, psych and world music with incredible vocals courtesy of Kang's wife Jessika Kenney. Totally fantastical, epic and alluring.

Young Smoke - Space Zone
The most accessible (would love to call it a crossover) footwork album so far. Fans of everything from Daft Punk to that Lone album should check. More thoughts here

DJ Rashad - Teklife vol 1 Welcome to the Chi
A more traditional-sounding footwork album, but nevertheless envelope-pushing. Dance music in a pressure cooker in some sort of laboratory or something.

David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant
Two of my favourite musicians collaborate on a unique, horn-driven record that spans everything from jazz, hip-hop and marching band music. Took me a while to get into, but now I love pretty much every cut.

Black Dice - Mr Impossible
Hardcore band turn noise terrorists turn bass-driven techno animals. Thoughts here.

Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn
Completely overblown, ridiculously ambitious Scandinavian prog.

Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
Bluesy rock for the Jools Holland set, maybe, but the performances and songs on here really stand out from the crowd.

Om - Advaitic Songs
I should have voted this higher. This is atmospheric doom metal, but really it's barely even metal any more, just slowly unfurling psych-rock with Middle Eastern influences all over it. Great for spacing out/zoning in to.

LHF - Keepers Of The Light
I thought this would place higher. This is a really far out post-dubstep double album made by a shady clan of producers. It's a really surprising collection, loads of disparate samples, really cleverly interwoven. A real enigma.

Holly Herndon - Movement
Somewhere between Villalobian house, Laurel Halo-esque drapery and Laurie Anderson sound-art. Some tracks are danceable, others are strange voice sketches and experiments. A really odd record, not for everyone, but I like it.

Slugabed - Time Team
I just find this guy's production really satisfying. He's got this Aphex Twin-style knack for twisty melodies and interesting beats.

Mala - Mala in Cuba
A flawed album, with a few redeeming moments. More thoughts here

UFOmammut - Oro: Opus Primum
Epic space rock, not dissimilar to the OM album, but a different vibe in itself.

weighted:

Le1f - Dark York
Windhand - s/t
Black Bananas - Rad Times Xpress IV
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Pharaoh Overlord - Lunar Jetman*
Fushitsusha - hikari to nazukeyo
Dawn Richard - Armor On
Sungod - Cuts from the Ether
Sylvester Anfang II - Perzische Tapijten
Ice Dragon - Dream Dragon
Golden Void - s/t
Starring - ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ
Sun Araw & M Geddes Gengras meets the Congos - Icon Give Thank
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Pinkish Black - s/t
Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock
Flavor Crystals - Three
Bardo Pond - Yntra
Aqua Nebula Oscillator - Third
Sula Bassana - Dark Days
Neneh Cherry & the Thing - The Cherry Thing
Astra - The Black Chord
Fuxa - Electric Sound of Summer
Saint Vitus - Lillie F-65
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city

*unbelievably forgot to nominate the Pharaoh Overlord so I ended up just swapping it out with For Lee Jackson in Space

Here is my weighted list.

iamamiwhoami - Kin
Hot Chip - In Our Heads
Dexys - One Day I'm Going to Soar
Saint Etienne - Words & Music by Saint Etienne
Sebastien Tellier - My God Is Blue
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Lindstrøm - Smalhans
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
Melody's Echo Chamber - Melody's Echo Chamber
Jessie Ware - Devotion
Tindersticks - Something Rain
Solange - True
Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
Niki & The Dove - Instinct
Twin Shadow - Confess
Santigold - Master Of My Make Believe
Paul Buchanan - Mid Air
Nite Jewel - One Second of Love
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Schoolboy Q - Habits And Contradictions
Chairlift - Something
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Grimes - Visions
The Chap - We Are Nobody
Keyshia Cole - Woman To Woman

High five to the other two Dexys voters.

Ha you pegged me - I read a lot of p4k

I voted dexys