Albums of the year 2012

[blacktulip]

Thanks to everyone who mentioned Cooly G, especially dd528. Been listening to it a bit and quite like it.

 

[connect_icut]

Okay, fine!

http://bubblegumcage3.com/2012/12/15/albums-of-the-year-2012/

1. Sylvain Chauveau & Stephan Mathieu – Palimpsest (Schwebung) LP
2. Scott Walker – Bish Bosch (4AD) 2LP
3. Holly Herndon – Movement (RVNG Intl.) LP
4. The Automatics Group – Summer Mix (Entr’acte) CD
5. Woebot – Hallo (Hollow Earth) CD
6. Actress – RIP (Honest Jon’s) 2LP
7. Oren Ambarchi – Audience of One (Touch) 2LP
8. Fieldhead – A Correction (Gizeh) LP
9. Moritz von Oswald Trio – Fetch (Honest Jon’s) 2LP
10. Mark van Hoen – The Revenant Diary (Editions Mego) 2LP

Also....
My Bloody Valentine – EPs 1988-1991 (Sony) 2CD
My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything (Sony) CD
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless (Sony) 2CD
Diamond Version – EP1 (Mute) 12″
Diamond Version – EP2 (Mute) 12″
Burial – Kindred (Hyperdub) 12″
Disco Inferno – The 5 EPs (One Little Indian) 2LP
Ian Crause – The Song of Phaethon (no label) download
Plays:four – Lay Doe (no label) download
Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin – Instrumental Tourist (Software) LP
Oneohtrix Point Never/Rene Hell – split (NNA Tapes) LP
Oren Ambarchi & Robin Fox – Connected (Kranky) LP
Oren Ambarchi – Sagittarian Domain (Editions Mego) LP

 

[Sectionfive]

Best of 2012 mix by Tu-ki & Olan from All City records

http://soundcloud.com/allcitydublin/check-one-two-all-city-012

Jai Paul - Jasmine (XL)
El-P - Drones Over Brooklyn (PIAS)
Harmonic 313 - Lion (Warp)
Shining - Hey You (Young Turks)
Antibalas - Dity Money (Dapto ne)
Actress - Caves of Paradise (Honest Jons)
Theo Parish - Black Mist (Running Back)
Boddika - Acid Jackson (Swamp81)
Scuba - NE1BUTU (Hotflush)
Objekt - Porcupine (Hessle)
Kendrick Lamarr - Cartoons & Cereal
Blackhouse - Modulating (Mellow Music Group)
Shabazz Palaces - A Mess, The Booth That Soaks In Palacian Musk - Live at KEXP (Sub Pop)
JJ Doom - Wash Your Hands (Lex)
Danny Brown - Fields (Fools Gold)
Lukid - Bless My Heart (Ninja)
Dean Blunt / Inga Copeland - 2 (Hyperdub)
Burial / Four Tet - Nova (Text)
Joy O - Elipsis (Head High Remix) (Hingefinger)
Alden Tyrell - Rush (Clone)
Sunil Sharpe - Shudder Blaze (Sheworks)
MMM - Meets Tshetsha Boys (Honest Jons)
Girl Unit - Club Rez (Night Slugs)
DJ Format feat Edan - Spaceship Earth (Project Blue Book)
Bullion - Family (Deek)
GB (Gifted & Blessed) - 7 in 24 (All City)
Falty Dl - Hardcourage (Ninja)
Daphni - Yes I Know (Jialong)
Waajeed - Scorpio (Dirttek)

 

[slim jenkins]

Part 2 (with extra writing)

http://includemeout2.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/albums-of-year-redux-with-extra-writing.html

 

[Local Authority]

I haven't actually found anything that has blown me away this year, until revisiting RIP last week. The transition a lot of producers have made into house and techno stripped them of their previous innovativeness. But I have high expectations of electronic music since the amazing 2008-2010 period.

Best things I've heard this year have to be;

Actress - RIP
Aluk Todolo - Occult Rituals
Bee Mask - When We Were Eating Unripe Pears
Blut Aus Nord - Cosmosophy
Commodo
Cut Hands
Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - Black Is Beautiful
Dement3d Records
Omar S / FXHE
Hessle Audio
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994-1996
L.I.E.S
Livity Sound
Kowton
Mala - Stand Against War
Pan Records
Planetary Assault Systems
Prologue Records
Rrose / Eaux
Sex Tags / Wania
Shackleton - The Drawbar EP's/Music For The Quiet Hour

I'm starting to feel a lot of the excitement that defined the 2008-2010 period resulted in high expectations that could never have been fulfilled. We're now stuck with a lot of artists trying to push things forward by building on the house/techno framework and striving for some kind of authenticity in a world where everyone's opinion matters because of the internet.

This is just a small list of artists who have done it for me this year. Either by having a clear vision of who they are, or not giving a fuck about anyone else's expectations. Mostly a mixture of both.

Another thing that's defined this year is the hype/pr machine. But I think that's for another conversation.

There's still a lot I need to listen too so this list is still incomplete.

 

[connect_icut]

The lists I've read this year have been wildly divergent but most of them (including mine) seem to feature Actress in a fairly prominent position.

 

[Local Authority]

Probably because it's the only piece of work this year that doesnt sounds like anything else.

 

[connect_icut]

Probably because it's the only piece of work this year that doesnt sounds like anything else.

I'd argue that at least 80% of my top ten has its own unique sound. Is there really anything out there that sounds like Bisch Bosch?

 

[Local Authority]

I meant within the dance music spectrum but admittedly there's still a lot I haven't heard.

 

[Slothrop]

Probably because it's the only piece of work this year that doesnt sounds like anything else.

I like it, but doesn't it basically sound like a better executed version of quite a lot of 00s moody / housey IDM stuff?

 

[connect_icut]

I meant within the dance music spectrum but admittedly there's still a lot I haven't heard.

I guess that makes sense. Some of the things on my list come from dance music but they're definitely outside or "after" it now.

 

[Local Authority]

I like it, but doesn't it basically sound like a better executed version of quite a lot of 00s moody / housey IDM stuff?

Examples?

 

[Gombreak]

That 6 minute twinkly Jardin track just kills any enjoyment I have with R.I.P. I'd just much rather listen to Splazsh whenever I want to listen to Actress.

 

[stephenk]

r.i.p is a hot meandering mess and people need to get off his dick if he's ever going to make something concise and beautiful again

edit that's harsh but i was disappointed

 

[Slothrop]

Examples?

Ooh, now I'm on the spot...

Lusine was the one I had in mind particularly but I remember there being other similar stuff around. And the beatless bits go a bit Boards of Canada at times. I'm not saying that it's derivative, just that if it had come out on Ghostly International in 2005 I'd have been impressed but not shocked, and it seems a bit weird that some people are reacting like they've just heard Stockhausen for the first time...

 

[yyaldrin]

do you have a link to this? i keep finding dead mediafires...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7ibymx

 

[Gombreak]

r.i.p is a hot meandering mess and people need to get off his dick if he's ever going to make something concise and beautiful again

edit that's harsh but i was disappointed

Pretty much.

 

[wise]

Actress gives great interview but he's seriously over hyped

 

[baboon2004]

I listened to R.I.P. at the weekend for the first time since it came out, and it isn't too memorable - it's like he took away a lot of the things that made him distinctive, and he ends up sounding mediocre. But Splazsh is an album that was justifiably hyped imo

 

[Local Authority]

Its a difficult album to get into for sure, at first those were my impressions too. It sounded like a child got his hands on some paints and scribbled whatever came to mind. I remember listening to it on acid and pills and it resonated slightly, it was very colourful but since then I barely listened to it.

Then I put it on last week and imagined it within a club context, like over the fabric room 1 soundsystem and it made more sense. It's not what you'd imagine club music to be but it would be one of those defining moments within a set. The colourfulness of it came back to me as well and if you listen to it as a piece within itself, outside of any context, it can be very beautiful at times.

It's a different discussion, still slightly related to this though, but do you think its healthy to compare music against each other when you're trying to enjoy it?