Best of 2015/ Thoughts on 2015

Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I'd like to see a top 10 deep tech 2015 from someone. Sure there's still good stuff coming out of that.

Would like to see lists from trilliam/slackk/griftert and of course luka
 
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DannyL

Wild Horses
BREAKING NEWS! LATE CONTENDER FOR GIG OF THE YEAR!

Islam Chipsy & EEK last night at LCMF. 2 drum kits, 1 synth - absolute fire. I don't ever think I've seen a midweek gig at at a University go off like a 90s drum and bass rave. If you don't know "Kahraba", get to know:

 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
DannyL said:
BREAKING NEWS! LATE CONTENDER FOR GIG OF THE YEAR!

Islam Chipsy & EEK last night at LCMF. 2 drum kits, 1 synth - absolute fire. I don't ever think I've seen a midweek gig at at a University go off like a 90s drum and bass rave. If you don't know "Kahraba", get to know:
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ah fuck, and i meant to go to that but was about to pass out from tiredness so didn't grab a ticket. argh. How long did they play for? - I know there was loads of other stuff onbeforehand that i wasn't so interested in, hence my decision not to go....
 
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DannyL

Wild Horses
I don't know - about 40 minutes and an encore? I was enjoying myself so much I kinda lost track of time. I caught some of the earlier stuff and it was okay, interesting enough but didn't really move me hugely. So it was very funny to see the audience for what had previously been an experimental/classical gig GO THE FUCK OFF. I remember looking around at one point and everyone was dancing, whooping, clapping. It really did remind me of an old school rave, and this was an effect of the crazy music/performance. It was so exuberant it was impossible to resist.
 
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DannyL

Wild Horses
baboon2004 said:
sounds great. sigh. their gig at the tufnell park dome earlier this year (?) looked amazing too
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I don't think I was aware of him back then.

I don't know much electro/chabbai stuff at all. Would welcome some knowledge dropped! John Doran has written some great pieces for The Quietus, and there's a bunch of mental Youtube videos, I'll link some when I get a moment.

Kinda related - there's a nice Dabke comp on Sham Palaces, super sad to listen to when you think of what's happening out there now.
 
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rubberdingyrapids

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the electro chaabi film is worth checking out from a few years back...

there was a mumdance grime x chaabi sort of mixtape around the same time but i dont remember thinking it was that special at the time (though hearing egyptian mcs on eskimo obv has a certain novelty appeal)

this is good too -

but this is closer to idk, reggaeton, than the islam chipsy stuff, which sounds much more beserk.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
DannyL said:
I don't think I was aware of him back then.

I don't know much electro/chabbai stuff at all. Would welcome some knowledge dropped! John Doran has written some great pieces for The Quietus, and there's a bunch of mental Youtube videos, I'll link some when I get a moment.

Kinda related - there's a nice Dabke comp on Sham Palaces, super sad to listen to when you think of what's happening out there now.
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This one - Tbh I've only listened to the same stuff as rdr has. And yeah, John Doran's columns tipped me off to quite a lot of North African music - his columns in the Guardian always have about 4-5 gems.
 
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luka

luka

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Silento-watch me
Drake-hotline bling
Justin Beiber
Young Thug
Rick Ross-money dance
Keef-superheroes
Fetty Wap -trap Queen

Music is more and more peripheral
 
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Sectionfive

Sectionfive

bandwagon house
particularly enjoyed dismissively saying "actually, this is Ruff Sqwad" every time people ran up to the both chatting about Stormzy.
 
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grave

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1.Obnox at Cafe Oto - so fresh, a natural frontman
2.Ariel Pink at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club - earbleeding feedback and a wasted Ariel using it to channel David Lee Roth. Improv

Jac Berrocal Trio at BEB
Blazing Eye playing a wild houseshow in Manor House. A dude in front of me got hit in the face with a flying rubbish bin
Brotzmann, Adasiewicz, Edwards, Noble at Oto
The Gories at Jazz Cafe (yuck)
Keiji Haino at Oto
Dawn of Humans at Montague Arms
Annette Peacock at Oto
William Basinski at Cafe Oto
The Necks at Cafe Oto
Sheer Mag at the Dome
Total Control with a drum machine at DIY Space.
Senyawa at Oto
Anasazi at the Dome
Omar S at the Bakery
Ariel Pink at the Bakery
Una Bestia at the Dome
Marc Ribot at Oto
Lucy Cliche at Meredith
 
luka

luka

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I remarked on this last year but it's still weird to me that this forum spends the whole year discussing normal music then end of year lists are dry as dust wire reader lists. Its so strange.
 
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mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
sadmanbarty said:
Wow, there's a lot more out there than I thought, going through it all should keep me busy for a bit.

Again, I'd recommend Divine Council for something sonically similar and Slug Christ for something culturally similar. You seem to know a lot more of this stuff than me, so you may already be well acquainted with the two.

https://soundcloud.com/divine-council

https://soundcloud.com/slugchrist
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Thanks man, I don't know Divine Council; Slug Christ did one of my tunes of the year, definitely. He's really good, then awful, then really good lol.
 
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mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
The best thing I heard all year wasn’t even released, in this form. There was an mp3 of Yakuta Riddim but it has 808 claps on it and isn’t nearly as good. This is a rip from Rinse. I love everything about it. I love Novelist going “Are you sick in the face; bang to the jawside. and this one’s like crack cocaine to the nasal, or the airlobe. Hold tight all my Ghanian uncles rocking sandals right now. and it’s real.” I love it.

Novelist : Yakuta Riddim (angel mix)

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Two of my most played songs this year was actually from 2014 :

Lil Reese : So Fast

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and Slug Christ’s “On it”

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which were closely followed by

Capo : Don’t Matter

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and this little treat from Portsmouth, I think they’re from

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Best grime single ended up going to Pres T, mainly for the beat, which sounds like a sample from the Eurythmics.

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Best grime video was easily “Side by Side”. I wish the video hadn’t come out 4 months after the song, but at least they got it done.

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I also wish that had charted.

It was obviously Young Thug’s year. My favourite was “Numbers”

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Listened to lots and lots of that heroin cloud rap stuff, Night Lovell / Xavier Wulf, $uicideBoy$, basically Trillphonk’s youtube (see earlier on in the thread and what sadmanbarty said.)

Special mention goes out to Young Dot/ZVPH XLLXS for the XCXD instrumental what turned into “Garage Skank” I reckon, and I also really like this thing, I especially like that’s it’s pretty much impossible to search for them.

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