Dissensus Best of 2011 Discussion

Tentative Andy

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
Official disappointments – stuff I thought had potential to be good but turned out not to be:
Joker – The Vision (though I should have known really)
SBTRKT – self-titled
Damu – Unity
Katy B - On A Mission (the album)

Potentially big stuff I still haven’t got round to hearing:
Sully – Carrier
Pinch and Shackleton album
Martyn – Ghost People
Jackmaster Fabric CD
Butterz Rinse CD
Silkie – City Limits Vol 2
The DJ Roc thing on Planet Mu
Tyler – Goblin plus loads of other OF stuff
Zomby – Nothing EP
New Redinho and Randomer EPs on Numbers
Actress free giveaways

In terms of labels I thought Hessle, Keysound and Numbers had particularly strong and consistent. Local Action, Butterz, Hyperdub and a few others had good moments but for me were not quite as consistent. Swamp 81 I still have very mixed feelings about. Night Slugs didn't quite click with me this year compared to 2010, though this might be my memory misleading me.
 
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Elijah

Elijah

Butterz
What would you call the inconsistency out of interest?

This is what we did in 2011

Royal-T - Orangeade
S-X - Woooo
Swindle - Mood Swings
S-X v Ramadanman - WooooGlut
P Money & Blacks - Boo You
Swindle / Royal TMood Swings & Orangeade VIPs
Trim - I Am
 
Tentative Andy

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
New faces - producers/artists who impressed me this year that either first came through this year, or had been off my radar before, or that I felt made major strides compared to previously:

Preditah
Royal T
Formula
NKC
Jae Elle
Scrufizzer
Ruby Lee Ryder
Matt IQ
Walton
Dutty Dan
DJ Pantha
Deamonds
Beneath
Smokeoffski
Carnao

This one isn't really in order, and obv is particularly subjective as I'm sure there will be some people out there who were hearing demos from these guys 5 years ago or whatever.
Edit: it would prob be fair to include a few hip-hop producers too, like Clams Casino, Araab Muzik, even Lex Luger I wasn't really familiar with until recently.
 
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Tentative Andy

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
Elijah said:
What would you call the inconsistency out of interest?

This is what we did in 2011

Royal-T - Orangeade
S-X - Woooo
Swindle - Mood Swings
S-X v Ramadanman - WooooGlut
P Money & Blacks - Boo You
Swindle / Royal TMood Swings & Orangeade VIPs
Trim - I Am
Click to expand...

Boo You and Mood Swings weren't really my cup of tea. Orangeade was good but maybe not quite as good as I was hoping.
 
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Ory

warp drive
probably pretty boring by dissensus standards but here's the list i've been keeping. it's missing a lot of footwork and dancehall stuff. also not mentioned are the trap mixtapes i've been enjoying recently (mostly the juicy j/lex luger side of things). i keep poor track of anything that's not on vinyl.

one tune per artist.

Tunnidge - Tribe
Bad Autopsy - Ginmixer (Scratcha DVA Remix)
Aramac - Kololi Drop
GuGu - AC Riddim
DJ Spinn - Studio
Ill Blu - Chelt
Contakt - Not Forgotten
Funkystepz - Shocker
Double Helix - Chamber Of Light
Ossie - Moves
Slackk - Synthetic
Adele & Jamie XX vs Cecile, Mr Lexx & Timberlee - Rolling In The Heat (The Heatwave Refix)
Burial - Street Halo
Hype Williams - Break4love
Jam City - Aqua Box
Flight Facilities - Crave You (DJ Trizzy's Bongo Groove Mix)
Pinch - Swish
Zomby - Natalia's Song
Blawan - Getting Me Down
Dark Sky - High Rise
Darq E Freaker - Cherryade
Lil Silva - Cheese N Bun
Champion - Lighter
Teeth - Shawty
Busy Signal ft. Mavado - Badman Place (Coki Remix)
Peverelist - Dance Til The Police Come
Roska - Roskallion
Araabmuzik - Streetz Tonight
Levon Vincent - Man Or Mistress
D.O.K. ft. Terror Danjah - West Coast
Anti-G - A Hype Up System
The Weeknd - Loft Music
Bias & Gurley - Roll (Blackdown's 'A Debt Repaid' Remix)
Andy Stott - Dark Details
Egyptrixx - Liberation Front (Mike Q Remix)
Walton - Aggy
Spooky - Talkin' Funky
King Midas Sound - Earth A Kill Ya (Mala Remix)
Rustie - Glass Swords
Sully - It's Your Love
Spice - Fix Me
Mavado - Star Bwoy
Kuedo - Ant City
Martyn - Viper
The Phantom - Arctic (Devil Mix)
Kingdom - Stalker Ha
Cooly G ft. Karizma - It's Serious
DJ Rashad & Gant-Man - Heaven Sent
TMSV - Dem A Talk
LD & Cluekid - Guerilla Warfare
DJ Funeral - Bounce Dat
 
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Phaedo

Well-known member
Go on then I'll do a actual list of some tracks i have liked...

Techno/house
Levon Vincent - Revs/Cost
Levon Vincent - Man or Mistress
Andy Stott - Passed Me By
Szare - Document
pretty much everything Skudge did

Post dubstep/whatever
Blawan - Shader
Mickey Pearce - I Am
Pinch - Retribution
Kuedo - Whisper Fate
Objekt - Catcus
Om Unit - The Corridor
Instra:mental - 8

Dubstep/grime
Shackleton - Deadman
Everything Kahn did
Everything Commodo did
Coki - Emergency
Desto, Clouds & Jimi Tenor ft. Cha Cha - Time Bird
Headhunter - Clone
Preditah - Solitare
Faze Miyake - Blackberry

HipHop
Danny Brown - XXX
ASAP Rocky - Leaf
Asap Nast - FUCK SWAG

Altered Natives album and DJ Assassin - A Face In the Crowd (Reissue) get a mention too. Personally feel like theres been great music from all over the place this year.
 
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sgn

Well-known member
I liked a bunch of stuff that's already been covered, but didn't see this album mentioned so I might as well:

2562 - Fever
 
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PadaEtc

Emperor Penguin
Had a bit of a weird year musically - got a bit lost :eek:

New releases
Mr Tickle - Grinding (tune of the year)
Levon Vincent, Vakula, Omar S, Steffi - Yours

Re-issues/Old Stuff
Fela Kuti - Sorrow Tears and Blood (re-issue of year)
Ebo Taylor, Sofrito, Sun Ra, Universal Robot Band - Barely Breaking Even, Numerous MK dubs - Given and Freakin' You especially, Mixed Grill - Brand New Wayo, Theo Parrish, Moodymann
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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Don't have the energy to draw together a full overview, its not been a particularly exciting year though has it? Only really bothered to follow funky. With the Hip hop stuff I think theres been a lot (too much?) good stuff but I'm pretty content to just dip in now and then to youtube vids and the odd free mixtape. I usually just check the (rather excellent) dissensus thread for that stuff and thats enough for me.

Funkystepz have been by far the best producers in dance music this year. No one else has really touched them. Just a constant stream of great EPs, remixes, soundcloud give-aways and dubs on their radio shows. And they show no signs of slowing down. It amazes me how they can do so many different styles and yet each track sounds quintessentially Funkystepz. Too many great tracks to mention but my faves have probably been 'Dirty Dutch', 'Shocker', 'Half on a baby remix', 'Backseat remix', 'Hold Yuh remix' and the new Rhianna one obv. There are many many more...

These get top marks too. i think we can all agree on these...

Ill Blu - Meltdown EP, The Wave (with Sneakbo)
Champion - Sensitivity,
Fuzzy Logik - All My Love, 'Casanova remix', Playground

Honourable mentions have to go to

Mad One - the glut of recent devine releases, 'People keep dancing' finally coming out
LR Groove - '1st step', 'Device' if you want trribal
Over (Toby Ioi remix) - is this 2011 though?
My Body - Tanesha
Greenmoney - lots of good tracks
The free Donaeo album 'Indigo' (minus the crap breakbeat tracks)
Andy J and S-Tee radio raving mix
etc etc (Andy's already mentioned most of the other good ones in his list)

Away from Funky the best things I've heard have been the DJ Rashad album 'Just a taste', and the various Rashad and Spinn mixes that have been floating around. Really looking forward to the new Rashad album, could be a classic.

erm, what else...that free zipfile from DJ Pantha was fantastic, and I like the JG stuff I've heard too but I haven't follow bassline very much. Or grime, but I actually really enjoyed the Wiley album and most of the Butterz stuff I've bothered to check, especially Orangeade and the DJ Q remix of Woo riddim (I think the original's overrated though!). Most new MCs I hear nowadays all sound the same to me, they just wash over me. Same with Road Rap on the whole.

I gave the Zomby album a chance but it was very underwhelming, and I do actually rate him as a producer. Haven't properly listened to the Rustie one yet but it sounds totally the opposite of the Zomby one: overwhelming and probably a bit tiresome to listen to.

I agree with whoever it was that mentioned 'Like a G6', that was a great tune.

Ah! I just remembered one of my fave tracks this year was the garage remix of 'Shopaholic' by Wideboys feat. Sway and McLean. Really cheesy and retro but completely irresistible to me. Have a listen it will put a smile on your face!
 
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trilliam

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rap is hitting me less and less. rick ross had a great year, released the best single (i'm a boss) and put on meek millz. i rate ross without liking him but if the alternative is take care then he wins all day. sad that the biggest hip hop release of the year was mostly r&b. i find it worrying how asap rocky, odd future and this whole fader rap thing is gaining traction so quick. styles p, gucci mane, uncle murda etc didn't drop enough fire this year and french montana signed to bad boy.

rate: just blaze (lord knows), pusha t, lex luger and the south, ar-ab, araabmuzik, kreayshawn (gucci gucci), jay z and kanye west (otis), fekky (this ones on me)

i listened to 50% house this year. last year it was 5% (generous). it's influencing a lot of music coming out of here both underground (post dubstep/funky) and mainstream (weird r&b euro pop) so i think it's only natural for it re-emerging in popularity (?). will drop a more detailed list in the relevant thread.

rate: fcl - let's go, deetron - balance 020, underground quality, noir & haze - come around (solumun remix)

not really feeling post dubstep (where it's at so far?). the stuff brackles plays is nice but the rest of it i find boring, yet it tries so hard to be interesting. that said it's played a vital part in uk music reaching a wider audience (europe/us). dubstep blew up in a big way obviously. the post-dubstep or "uk bass" guys are making in roads with the techno/house crowd (bok bok/tom trago). hope the sound catches up the with scene.

rate: ben ufo, monki, r&s, hessle audio, deep teknologi, hypercolor, rinsefm, boiler room, bristol.

i can't be bothered to type anymore but funky has to make the right moves next year is champion - sensitivity needs some recognition.
 
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Numbers

Well-known member
Looking at the play counts, what I enjoyed most this year was:

* Kuedo - Severant
* Ennio Morricone - Early Works
* Zomby - Dedication
* Fennesz - Seven Stars
* Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quintet Live in Europe

Others that didn't get played that much, but are worth a mention:

* Shackleton - Fireworks
* Rustie - Glass Swords
* Ohneotrix Point Never - Replica
* Dave Monolith - Welcome
* Donato Dozzy - K
* Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer - Re:ECM

That said, 2011 was probably the year I lost my obsession with new music and started looking backwards, mostly for jazz.
 
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routes

we can delay.ay.ay...
My favourite out of the 5 vinyls I bought this year is Heatsick - Dream Tennis

looking forward to Ka's album
 
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