Best of 2014

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CrowleyHead

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rubberdingyrapids said:
lol, the 2pac line is meant to be funny.
and jammer talking about coke, post-rick ross, is also not really something anyone but the most pedantic should care about i think in 2014.
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Yeah, Jammer being delusional and a hack shouldn't be forgiven? He's got to take his stupid goat face out the camera these days? Rick Ross doesn't work as Jammer's got a long-standing public persona?

And it's not funny, Skepta's bars are SHIT. They're awful. I don't care how many good things Skepta's done in his life (because believe me I know of them) it's hardly worthwhile to call that a good grime tune just because he dug up the eski sounds.
 
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luka

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leaving aside washed up grime hacks dos anyone know if there are a lot of other songs like freeze tag booty? me and jim daze want a whole mix of that stuff asap
 
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CrowleyHead

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"Do Yo Gudda" definitely made me attempt to hit a reject and break my head open on the kitchen floor at someone's house though, so that needs to be used as an example of shining quality.
 
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trza

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I didn't get to spend as much time on new music this year, and the end of the year lists are reminding me of that.

Clap! Clap! album and ep
Mr Assister - Bala was played on podcasts last year but only released this year.
Ariana Grande and Cashmere Cat - Be My Baby
online magazine articles about pcmusic
Cineplex - Bailar
 
Patrick Swayze

Patrick Swayze

I'm trying to shut up
tbf jammer and d double have been spitting bars everyone knows aren't true for a long long time

doesn't novelist have bars about shanking/hotting guys? lol...
 
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paolo

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I liked what I heard of the 'weightless' grime sound. That Yamaneko tape is quality, as is the track that Rabit did with Riko.

I really enjoyed this mix from Logos and Mumdance -
 
Patrick Swayze

Patrick Swayze

I'm trying to shut up
if you want an honest grime mc you end up with those guys who just write bars about writing bars.

or "I'll lyrically murder..." x100
 
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Leo

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a few things i enjoyed often this year came out at the end of 2013 but what the hell: steve moore "pangaea ultimo", daniel avery "drone logic", harold budd "perhaps", "kill yourself dancing" 80s house compilation. a related 80s chicago house comp i played tons this summer was "122 bpm", which is from 2012 but new to me this year.

charles cohen "a retrospective" was definitely a highlight of the year.

call super "suzi ecto" grew on me, not amazing but solid.

liked "string figures" by boomlorn, some maurice fulton-style lo-fi off-kilter house.

"heart & soul", a CD-r collection of singles and remixes by rising sun was a nice summer soundtrack of chilled, spacey dance grooves.

enjoyed "mess" by liars, probably mostly because i saw them about six months before it came out and dug the live versions of weird keyboard tracks that eventually became the album.

for some reason, i also went through a wolfgang voigt phase and spent the summer listening to lots of his stuff from the past year or so: "zukunft ohne menschen", "ruckverzauberung 9", a couple of recent voigt & voigt albums ("erdingertrax" singles collection and "die zauberhafte welt der anderen") and the mohn album he did with jorg burger.
 
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Leo

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oh, and the beck album "morning phase" is actually quite good.

and for as much as i like aphex, i can't seriously consider "syro" as a best of the year. if anyone else put out that album, it would be just about clever techno record on boomkat. not bad, but nothing special.
 
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rubberdingyrapids

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skepta has always had some of the funnier lines in grime. thats what makes him good. saying something is tongue in cheek is usually a cop out but it really is with him, which is what makes him good. if you dont like to hear humour in grime, and only want deadpan murder threats in the name of 'realness', then ok, i can see why someone might not like it (but even kronik has a certain kind of OTT humour in his lyrics). and if you want to hear genuinely poor/hilariously bad lines, check out flowdan on the bug's dirty. expecting true authenticity (whatever the fuck that means anymore) from any MC is just bizarre i think, or at least, it should be, to anyone over a certain age.
 
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paolo

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I was disappointed by the Aphex Twin and The Bug albums. They weren't bad, they just weren't that great

If I had to pick an album of the year it would be After Forever by Joey Anderson
 
luka

luka

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heard a song last night that was so good it has to go on my list.
Rick Ross - Quintessential (Ft. Snoop Dogg)
 
yyaldrin

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
bruno said:
1970s algerian folk and pop (sublime frequencies)
this excellent compilation has two of the most hauntingly beautiful tracks you could imagine wahdi by kri kri and silence des cendres by ahmed malik (algeria's morricone, according to the liner notes). there is a parallel with 70s chile here in feeling and aesthetic that is hard to explain but very gratifying, if melancholy.
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That Silence des Cendres song, wow.
 
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CrowleyHead

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Anyone thinking the issue is authenticity is really missing the point and the over analysis of terrible bars as being a well-thought process suggests you guys might be better suited for crowding around Monty Python movies.

Also terrible rapping is terrible rapping whether it's from Flow Dan or Skepta or Ghetto. The "IF YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE BAD BARS" logic doesn't suit you.
 
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rubberdingyrapids

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well i dont want to bang on about the greatness of skepta (though i actually could), but honestly, if wiley had that line about 2pac, everyone would be like 'LOL wiley, what a genius'!

anyway, the new dangelo single, sugar daddy is in my top 2014 list.
weirdly upbeat NOLA style funk (and kinda like how dilla would have made gang starrs manifest).
 
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