Best of 2015/ Thoughts on 2015

droid

droid

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Actually forgot to mention something I got from you Matt - the Mikachu LP. Its brilliant.
 
Woebot

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droid said:
Think that might be going a touch too far. Reminded me a bit of coffee table 90s house without the beats. Not offensive, just bland, oh - and very, very, sincere.
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no comment. i'm reacting to the hype certainly.
 
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sadmanbarty

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Pop:

Major Lazer & DJ Snake- Lean On

Skrillex, Diplo and Justin Beiber- Where Are U Now

The Weeknd- Can’t Feel My Face


R & B:

Abra- U Go I Go

Abra - Sick Girl

Tink- Million

Tinashe- Party Favours

Snakeships- All My Friends

Jeremih- Pass Dat

Jeremih- Drank

Jeremih- Royalty




Dance/ Nuumish:

Abra- I Guess (PRMD remix)

Tazer x Tink- Wet Dollars

Lady Leshurr- Queen’s Speech Ep. 1-4

Craig David x Big Narstie- When The Bassline Drops

DJ Earl- Funk From 2905

DJ Earl- Open The Door

DJ Rashad- Cause I Know

DJ Rashad- CCP2
 
trza

trza

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i thought floating points had released better singles but i haven't gotten around to listening to the album yet. i was surprised someone even signed him to an album deal because i thought he had his own label.
 
Leo

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yeah, a few of the floating points singles are ok but man is that album boring. if that exact album had been released by someone else, we'd have never even heard about it, not sure why the record label and media think it's so special.

and speaking which...not to turn this into a haters/"i don't get it" thread but i don't get arca. i appreciate the sound design blah blah blah, but his whole thing bores me. as rubberdingyrapids said about the logan sam fabric mix, i recognize it as an achievement but have no interest in listening to it.
 
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mistersloane

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sadmanbarty said:
Pontification time.

The closest thing to new this year was Trap Goth; mainly Goth Money Records artists and affiliates, but also artists like Slug Christ.

Sonically it was more recombination than innovation, but nonetheless this particular cocktail of cloud rap, chopped and screwed, lo-fi, horrorcore, Withch House and Triple Six Mafia was refreshing.

The more paradigm shifty quality of the music was seeing black culture (and those imitating it) embracing Goth aesthetics; in particular fetishising depression and suicide.

There has been suicidal ideation in rap before, but it has never been cultivated into an aesthetic in and of itself in the way Ian Curtis or Kurt Cobain did.

This seems to be part of a larger processes of the whiteboy-ification of rap that can be seen in Rap Rock, the neptunes, Odd Future, emo rap, etc.
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I did a mix of them this year; and agree with you, here's what I done wrote then :
http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=13538


Finnatude mix - James B.L. Hollands

http://we.tl/aT8okskPoE

This was me going through thousands of youtube and soundcloud videos to find some nice new music, so you don't have to. This is some, probably independent, American hip hop. Trilliam, you might like it.

Lovely, isn't it?

What I like about where this bedroom hop is going is the regret it's sonically expressing, in a kinda Pornography-era Cure type way. The bombast is doubtful, and melancholy; smoking LSD-laced skunk and preferring to be lost inside a screen because going outside is too difficult. Pertinent.

Tracklisting :

Front, Back, Side To Side - VanCityBeats

Red Tear Drops Goth Crip - Black Kray
FedEx - xoxaineDEEZY

Chad Butler - Rizzo Blaze

Cold World (instrumental) - Swagg B

Flodgin' - $uicideboy$

"How We Planned It" ft Skippa Da Flippa - OG Maco
Land Of The Lost - RAMIREZ

WASSUP - YUNG JUUG ft HUNNEDMILL

The Handle - JGRXXN

3RD WARD DOVES - Black Kray
 
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trza

trza

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I overheard some guy I know complaining about some new country guy being like the ja rule of modern country, so i put together what he was talking about and then I look it up and damn:
 
matt b

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Woebot said:
ekoplekz: reflekionz

that's a great record. definitely in my list. only got it a couple of days ago - but really brilliant.
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Seconded.


Other stuff from 2015, as if anyone gives a fuck:

With The Dead S/T album- A couple of weeks ago I was in a second hand record shop and saw a Cathedral LP selling for £65. I'd just buy the With The Dead album, tbh.

Evol Purple Melters/ Flapper That EPs- Continuing the good works of distilling rave and then selecting a single element to consider for meditational purposes/brain confusion. Love it. Excellent too, for baffling friends with. The Hecker Leckey LP is good in a similar, but less rave vein.

Kurt Vile LP- Continues the hazy stoned (not really stoned) vibe of the last one, although reports of his live show were even worse than my low expectations.

Isanlar 'Kime Na'- Transcendant Turkish folk/ slow burn house. Good Villalobos versions.

Richard Dawson- Seen live a couple of times, but in a church in Todmorden; 'Geordie', well fuck me.


End of Year lists come round with such increasing frequency, it's scary
 
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sadmanbarty

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mistersloane said:
I did a mix of them this year; and agree with you, here's what I done wrote then :
http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=13538


Finnatude mix - James B.L. Hollands

http://we.tl/aT8okskPoE

This was me going through thousands of youtube and soundcloud videos to find some nice new music, so you don't have to. This is some, probably independent, American hip hop. Trilliam, you might like it.

Lovely, isn't it?

What I like about where this bedroom hop is going is the regret it's sonically expressing, in a kinda Pornography-era Cure type way. The bombast is doubtful, and melancholy; smoking LSD-laced skunk and preferring to be lost inside a screen because going outside is too difficult. Pertinent.

Tracklisting :

Front, Back, Side To Side - VanCityBeats

Red Tear Drops Goth Crip - Black Kray
FedEx - xoxaineDEEZY

Chad Butler - Rizzo Blaze

Cold World (instrumental) - Swagg B

Flodgin' - $uicideboy$

"How We Planned It" ft Skippa Da Flippa - OG Maco
Land Of The Lost - RAMIREZ

WASSUP - YUNG JUUG ft HUNNEDMILL

The Handle - JGRXXN

3RD WARD DOVES - Black Kray
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Nice one, apologies for the inadvertent plagiarism. All this stuff pretty much fits into what I was talking about; the name $uicide boy$ perfectly encapsulates the amalgamation of the Gangsta and Goth aesthetics/subcultures.
 
trza

trza

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and just like that resident advisor rolls out a best albums list with floating points at number one, i think they had put his singles at number one or very close in previous years.
 
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rubberdingyrapids

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actually, still only heard snippets on bookmat and a few other places, but that FP record doesnt sound bad at all.

quite tasteful - perfect for restaurants, in that sort of cinematic orchestra/4hero kind of vein, but not badly, or poorly done. seems quite intelligently executed, a bit matthew herbert even in places, a bit carl craig, and with a surprising - to me at least - musicality. not saying that its 'better' than his old stuff, but i never really cared for his music before. its still got one foot in cold electronic stuff too - it sounds like a good middle ground (and yes, slightly MOR as a result, but not in a terrible way).

lots of bits i heard sounded like he had been listening to a lot of 70s herbie hancock. the silhouettes single could easily have been by marc and dego (i know no one cares about 4hero anymore, cos theyre not cool). i know people on this site hate anything 'tasteful' but yknow, not everything has to be raw, ruff n rugged, big n bad etc, or on the other side, futuristic, etc. sometimes you want to hear something 'classy' and good playing (and this isnt exactly full of lush saxophones or smoky chanteuses or anything).

could have come out about 15 years ago though and you wouldnt know the difference.
 
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mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
sadmanbarty said:
Nice one, apologies for the inadvertent plagiarism. All this stuff pretty much fits into what I was talking about; the name $uicide boy$ perfectly encapsulates the amalgamation of the Gangsta and Goth aesthetics/subcultures.
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Not at all man, thanks for your links too. I was just amazed someone else was listening to that stuff tbh. Trillphonk on youtube is really good for posting up tracks by all of that lot x
 
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