Music highlights of 2007
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Favourite fifteen albums/mixtapes/comps:
01 Shining - Grindstone
02 Mystery Palace - Flags Forward
03 Durrty Goodz - Axiom
04 Lusine - Podgelism
05 Burial - Untrue
06 Onur Ozer - Kasmir
07 Skepta - Greatest Hits
08 Fridge - The Sun
09 Roll Deep - Rules and Regulations
10 Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss
11 Low - Drums and Guns
12 Thee Stranded Horse - Churning Strides
13 Amandine - Solace in Sore Hands
14 Thrushes - Sun Come Undone
15 The Death Set - Rad Warehouses, Bad Neighbourhoods
Others: Trim, Chipmunk, Bearsuit...
Mixes:
Fuck radio 5 (probably my favourite piece of music all year)
Unique set w/ Chipmunk/Griminal and Skepta/Ghetto clashes
the four minutes of Plastician/God's Gift/Skepta from Jme's bday @ fwd
Toddla T's Ghettoblaster #1
Lower end spasm blogariddims
Faggatronix walk the night mix
Continuum's bassline mixes
Singles:
Everything the Bug did
Air France - On Trade Winds EP
Asobi Seksu - Walk on the Moon
Benga & Coki - Night
Skepta - Stageshow Riddim
01 Shining - Grindstone
02 Mystery Palace - Flags Forward
03 Durrty Goodz - Axiom
04 Lusine - Podgelism
05 Burial - Untrue
06 Onur Ozer - Kasmir
07 Skepta - Greatest Hits
08 Fridge - The Sun
09 Roll Deep - Rules and Regulations
10 Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss
11 Low - Drums and Guns
12 Thee Stranded Horse - Churning Strides
13 Amandine - Solace in Sore Hands
14 Thrushes - Sun Come Undone
15 The Death Set - Rad Warehouses, Bad Neighbourhoods
Others: Trim, Chipmunk, Bearsuit...
Mixes:
Fuck radio 5 (probably my favourite piece of music all year)
Unique set w/ Chipmunk/Griminal and Skepta/Ghetto clashes
the four minutes of Plastician/God's Gift/Skepta from Jme's bday @ fwd
Toddla T's Ghettoblaster #1
Lower end spasm blogariddims
Faggatronix walk the night mix
Continuum's bassline mixes
Singles:
Everything the Bug did
Air France - On Trade Winds EP
Asobi Seksu - Walk on the Moon
Benga & Coki - Night
Skepta - Stageshow Riddim
matt b
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viktorvaughn
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Live
-Richie Hawtin, Marc Houle and Troy Pierce at The End
-Reflective Bassline all-nighter at Plug, Sheffield
-People going mental for some reason for Skream Vs Benga on a Thursday eve at Night in the Life of Rinse FM at Cargo and reminding me how much fun Dubstep can be.
-Co-Op at Plastic People the other week – amazing house and techno rhythms being drawn out of the broken beats. What a great atmosphere also.
-Saul Williams in Stoke-Newington
-Davy Graham at Mosely Folk Festival.
CDs
Trim – Soulfood I
Kronik – Blaze More Dan U
D.E.Velopment – RE-Development
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
Agent X – The Official Agent X Mix CD
Vinyl
-The Bug’s incredible trinity of ragga-bass grimey dubsteppy bangers – Poison Dart, Skeng and Jah War
-Mala – Bury da Boy/Hunter.
-Kode9 – Find My Way and Magentic City
Labels
Adamantium. Good quality control means that if you just pick up all the release from this label you get a nice steady trickle of decent stuff without too much effort.
Hyperdub.
Old Stuff
-Whole RZA back cat. Even tho it’s patchy his voice is incredible, so grimey and rough.
-Gravediggaz – 6 Feet Deep
-DE9: Transitions
-Lord of the Mics 1
-Muslimgauze Vs The Rootsman – City of Djinns
-Discovering the true genius of Lewi White and trying to get all the early Jah Mek EPs of ebay etc. Better than Jammer of the same period, and a bit like the sublow sound but wonkier and better.
-Discovering the true genius of Nasty Jack (possible the most captivating Grime MC ever at his best…seriously!) and listening to loads of NASTY sets from 01-04.
-An old Hindzy D EP I got for 99p with this incredibly rinsing tune on that plays in the background of the Radio1 Newstep documentary at one point.
-Richie Hawtin, Marc Houle and Troy Pierce at The End
-Reflective Bassline all-nighter at Plug, Sheffield
-People going mental for some reason for Skream Vs Benga on a Thursday eve at Night in the Life of Rinse FM at Cargo and reminding me how much fun Dubstep can be.
-Co-Op at Plastic People the other week – amazing house and techno rhythms being drawn out of the broken beats. What a great atmosphere also.
-Saul Williams in Stoke-Newington
-Davy Graham at Mosely Folk Festival.
CDs
Trim – Soulfood I
Kronik – Blaze More Dan U
D.E.Velopment – RE-Development
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
Agent X – The Official Agent X Mix CD
Vinyl
-The Bug’s incredible trinity of ragga-bass grimey dubsteppy bangers – Poison Dart, Skeng and Jah War
-Mala – Bury da Boy/Hunter.
-Kode9 – Find My Way and Magentic City
Labels
Adamantium. Good quality control means that if you just pick up all the release from this label you get a nice steady trickle of decent stuff without too much effort.
Hyperdub.
Old Stuff
-Whole RZA back cat. Even tho it’s patchy his voice is incredible, so grimey and rough.
-Gravediggaz – 6 Feet Deep
-DE9: Transitions
-Lord of the Mics 1
-Muslimgauze Vs The Rootsman – City of Djinns
-Discovering the true genius of Lewi White and trying to get all the early Jah Mek EPs of ebay etc. Better than Jammer of the same period, and a bit like the sublow sound but wonkier and better.
-Discovering the true genius of Nasty Jack (possible the most captivating Grime MC ever at his best…seriously!) and listening to loads of NASTY sets from 01-04.
-An old Hindzy D EP I got for 99p with this incredibly rinsing tune on that plays in the background of the Radio1 Newstep documentary at one point.
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Me too on both counts. we've probably been outbidding each other...
Is this the best of 2007 thread then...?
Ok...
best/favoured/of note albums:
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
Pantha du Prince - This Bliss--- the most haunting album of the year, near perfect emo-techno. Whilst others may have mined the bell-riff angle on minimal (cf efdemin) none sounded like this- an icily melancholic yet expansive take on the genre, exceptionally melodic and filled with a surprising grace... its horrifying to me that The Field should have predominated as the crossover techno album of the year when this is superior in every single way (also interesting when much minimal headed towards an entirely dry reverb-free aesthetic this album took the diametrically opposed approach, every chiming bell-riff caked in a sea of reverb... the overriding effect being of a kind of holy wonder)
Thomas Fehlman - Hongpumpe
Stephan Bodzin - Liebe Ist
Distance - My Demons
Cyrus - From The Shadows--- everything I ought to hate in Dubstep but somehow it just works- the total antithesis of the Geeza-step which emerged mid year from Rusko/Caspa etc, turgid, yes, but filled with a cracked 4am liminal lysergic quality, almost alarmingly peaceful but filled with an implicit unease, not spliffed out but like a brain sitting in the dregs of drugs, surveying the landscape at dawn, entirely depopulated and eerie in its crispness and disconnection... and with the overriding aesthetic being one of hypnosis, there was no need for either aggressive mid-range bassline action or skipping techno-emulating drum work...
Burial - Untrue
Pinch - Underwater Dancehall
Nadja - Radiance of Shadows--- vast molten psychedelic drone/bliss metal, in a year filled with various acts takes on the metal/drone/shoegazer/post rock nexus this one hit the mark the best- being both grindingly rock, heroin-flatline-bliss-death droneful and crucially psychedelically all-consuming, coming as close as possible to the descriptions of MBV given by fans (but which the band themselves lets be fair never even came close to) an awe-inspiring wall of seething feeling, a sonic plane of pure immanence...
Ben Frost - Theory of Machines--- cunningly filled in the gaps between minimal datamatic electronica, metal, and guitar/noise composition, only to reconfigure them into a readily digestible listener friendly synthesis. I think Zhao might have recommended this one, so cheers for that...
COH - Strings
David Toop - Sound Body--- pan global lower case improv, beautiful and filled with unexpected sonic juxtapositions, all masterfully curated...
Studio - The West Coast--- waaay superior to Yearbook 1.
KTL - 2
Singles and other stuff to follow...
Ok...
best/favoured/of note albums:
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
Pantha du Prince - This Bliss--- the most haunting album of the year, near perfect emo-techno. Whilst others may have mined the bell-riff angle on minimal (cf efdemin) none sounded like this- an icily melancholic yet expansive take on the genre, exceptionally melodic and filled with a surprising grace... its horrifying to me that The Field should have predominated as the crossover techno album of the year when this is superior in every single way (also interesting when much minimal headed towards an entirely dry reverb-free aesthetic this album took the diametrically opposed approach, every chiming bell-riff caked in a sea of reverb... the overriding effect being of a kind of holy wonder)
Thomas Fehlman - Hongpumpe
Stephan Bodzin - Liebe Ist
Distance - My Demons
Cyrus - From The Shadows--- everything I ought to hate in Dubstep but somehow it just works- the total antithesis of the Geeza-step which emerged mid year from Rusko/Caspa etc, turgid, yes, but filled with a cracked 4am liminal lysergic quality, almost alarmingly peaceful but filled with an implicit unease, not spliffed out but like a brain sitting in the dregs of drugs, surveying the landscape at dawn, entirely depopulated and eerie in its crispness and disconnection... and with the overriding aesthetic being one of hypnosis, there was no need for either aggressive mid-range bassline action or skipping techno-emulating drum work...
Burial - Untrue
Pinch - Underwater Dancehall
Nadja - Radiance of Shadows--- vast molten psychedelic drone/bliss metal, in a year filled with various acts takes on the metal/drone/shoegazer/post rock nexus this one hit the mark the best- being both grindingly rock, heroin-flatline-bliss-death droneful and crucially psychedelically all-consuming, coming as close as possible to the descriptions of MBV given by fans (but which the band themselves lets be fair never even came close to) an awe-inspiring wall of seething feeling, a sonic plane of pure immanence...
Ben Frost - Theory of Machines--- cunningly filled in the gaps between minimal datamatic electronica, metal, and guitar/noise composition, only to reconfigure them into a readily digestible listener friendly synthesis. I think Zhao might have recommended this one, so cheers for that...
COH - Strings
David Toop - Sound Body--- pan global lower case improv, beautiful and filled with unexpected sonic juxtapositions, all masterfully curated...
Studio - The West Coast--- waaay superior to Yearbook 1.
KTL - 2
Singles and other stuff to follow...
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Trim - Soulfood vol 1
Dopplereffekt - Calabi Yau Space - this is great stuff. like an extention of arpanets inertial frame album, sounds like drexciya in outer space!
The Tuss - Rushup Edge
Low - Drums and Guns
Threshold Houseboy's Choir - Form Grows Rampant - its like coil never ended.
F*ck Radio 5
various bits of niche / bassline ive heard
the rise of chipmunk, griminal and maniac
Wileys 6 minute nightbus war dub!
Ruff Sqwad ft Maxwell D - Im From A Place
there is so much stuff i havent got around to listening to yet; burial, murcof, fovea hex, bruce springsteen etc
Dopplereffekt - Calabi Yau Space - this is great stuff. like an extention of arpanets inertial frame album, sounds like drexciya in outer space!
The Tuss - Rushup Edge
Low - Drums and Guns
Threshold Houseboy's Choir - Form Grows Rampant - its like coil never ended.
F*ck Radio 5
various bits of niche / bassline ive heard
the rise of chipmunk, griminal and maniac
Wileys 6 minute nightbus war dub!
Ruff Sqwad ft Maxwell D - Im From A Place
there is so much stuff i havent got around to listening to yet; burial, murcof, fovea hex, bruce springsteen etc
you changed your mind then?
Yes definitely.
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gek said:
that's a really excellent description as well
viktorvaughn
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I could listen to the Lewi White stuff all day, it's soooo good! Definately my shout for most underrated grime producer. 'Death 2 Dem' is everything 'dark' dubstep should be - huge menacing growing bassline but with all this weird percussive energy too. It would rip up FWD differently...shame nobody who DJs there will ever play it.
This year seemed to be lacking in any decent song-based records (ie- last year had an abundance of treasurable albums: Scott Walker, The Knife, Junior Boys, Hot Chip etc)... so I was left listening to a lot of predominantly instrumental based music. Which meant that overall it was a slightly disappointing year. Also- Rhianna/T2/a few Timba productions aside it was a pretty duff year for chart pop...
Anyone willing to point me in the direction of something I missed...?
Anyone willing to point me in the direction of something I missed...?
matt b
Indexing all opinion
vocally speaking?
chezidek's lp is really good
that LV 12" on hyperdub (esp. the b side) plus skeng, jah war, poison dart etc
mungo's hifi 10"s, esp kenny knots' 'rasta meditation'
or are they too instrumentally based?
LOTS of other reggae stuff, but i can't remember names until at home.
sing_minimal
Well-known member
albums;
new;
-devendra banhart
-robert wyatt
-pj harvey
-pan sonic
-bjork
-panda bear
-kieran hebden & steve reid
-jeff mills (one man spaceship)
-savath & savalas
-happy mondays
gigs;
-triosk
-fennesz
-felix kubin
-anthony pateras (prepared piano)
-i have a feeling it could be plaid next week, they play in a movie theatre..
new;
-devendra banhart
-robert wyatt
-pj harvey
-pan sonic
-bjork
-panda bear
-kieran hebden & steve reid
-jeff mills (one man spaceship)
-savath & savalas
-happy mondays
gigs;
-triosk
-fennesz
-felix kubin
-anthony pateras (prepared piano)
-i have a feeling it could be plaid next week, they play in a movie theatre..