dissensus best of 2018

tinashe album was 3 years too late. Tirzah was a load of hipster wank.

let's 'av ye then to kill the time before the vonc (or after.)

i have a list but not revealing it for a while. im a bit ashamed of it to be fair. not keeping my finger on the pulse as much as i would like. crowley with his american superiority complex. don't understand why we had to vote brexit when we've gotta put up with these insufferable cunts. at least you don't need to be a genius to take down german shit cos their bogs are designed so u can see the worms in yer shit from eating raw pork.

is lucius prancing around cornwall scaring all the locals on datura or what?

ok so.

Radio/mixes:
pixl jungletrain shows and noise test set. ruffneck revival dark jungle/drumfunk with heavy reeses. this scene has been going on for years. its not innovative its quite purist by 93-96 jungle standards but fuck it i can't be arsed with trying to chase the next innovation sold to us by the culture industry. chopped up amens galore.

N Type with RUFUS! - 12th April 2018 on rinse. again purist dubstep, none of that post-dubstep shite biz. I tend not to listen to it much these days but you need that sort of fix sometimes. + scenes always have their micro innovations that aren't really visible to outsiders, something its harder for the majority middle class journalist contingent to understand on here as they are directly implicated in prescriptions which generally accord with the profit imperatives of their firms. It happens no fault of yours guv.

Kampire - Sounds of Sonar.

dembo riddims meets euro synths meets edits and chunky afrohouse. uganda club sounds killing it atm. the stuff on nyege nyege tapes is more mental tho, happy hardcore kampala style. especially the bamba pana release.


Afrodeutsche - Black Forest 9th June 2018 nts. Grimey electro from the manchester soldier.

AnD - TnDB Podcast.


Pillmonster techno in a 90s dave clarke stylee but with a contemporary industrial influenced wideness of sound. one for the sneaking in absinthe massive at club. let's 'av it.

Josey Rebelle - Beats in Space. chicago/detroit bits with more UK flavas.

Alien Jams w/ Chloe Frieda & Flora Yin-Wong 22nd July 2018. avant-club sounds. I like Flora cos she knows how to get a groove going despite the off kilter rhythms and doesn't succumb to that hardstyle nonsense. Well im pretty sure she was booked/used to hang out at my mates industrial techno night so she's grounded in the culture rather than looking at this from an outsider perspective. also put in here her boilerroom although last year only just heard this year.

That's all my mixes. grievous angel's done a few nuskool bassline ones but i haven't had time to check em out. I guess they'll go on my 'heard in 2019' list.

Albums:
Autechre - Nts Sessions 1-4.
Xenakis - Persepolis. 2018 karlrecords reissue.
Eli Keszler - Stadium. intricate percussive ambient jazz that sounds like source direct going for a nice relaxing sunday cuppa.
Senyawa Sujud.
Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu. Ethio-keyboard/organ funk. you know it will be good.
va - African Scream Contest Vol.2 - Benin 1963-1980.
SOPHIE — OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES
Monae Dirty Computer.
Gabor Lazar - unfold. warmed up to this one eventually.
Neons Publishing - Creepin' In Memphis mixtape.
the pusha t one. honestly probably would have put denzel curry in this slot but i had no time to hear it.
Cardi B. prefer her gangsta bitch vol 1 mixtape tho still.
Earle Sweatshirt.
Massimo Toniutti - Il Museo Selvatico. (reissue.) strange gurgling low end microscopic concrete works from Italy. Sci-fi toilet concrete as me and a mate called it.
Mark Fell Intra.
Richard Devine - Sort\lave. Channeling the more dancefloor primed moments of Autechre Elseq 1-5.
Heather Leigh - Throne.
Guttersnipe My Mother the vent. not sure about this one like the no wave guys in hell but i like it, for now.
Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids - An Angel Fell. For all your funky Sun Ra and Weldon Irvine needs.

dunno. haven't been out for years.