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been an appreciative lurker on this thread for a while now. thanks to everyone for many many great tips. also, feelin the bassline on this hannah wants track that just popped up:

in no particular order, and I'm sure I've forgotten some things I liked maybe better than what's on here. lots of good music this year. also, the list includes reissues. Ariel Pink - Worn Copy Vex’d – Degenerate Black Dice – Broken Ear Record Gang Gang Dance – God’s Money Clipse – We Made it...

Gimme Gimme Gimme with Chavo on vocals no Henry Rollins for me!

lord wllin' has got to be one of the best hip-hop albums in the last five years unfortunately their second record has been delayed for a couple of years now. however, any fan of the clipse has got to find "We Got it 4 Cheap Vol. 2". on this mixtape clipse basically remake many of the best...

I'd also love to be involved. It is a great idea btw!

I'll also reaffirm the love for Berrocal. I think my favorite track on Paralleles is 'Post-card' which was recorded in a pig sty. All throughout the tumbling improv it sounds like giant machines are crushing some unknown type of animal to death in the background. I will admit I do get a...

yes men's recovery project is sam mcpheeters. great stuff too, kind of like eerily cogent writings of a schizophrenic with decrepit synth tunes in the back ground. also, the new khanate record is soul destroying. I have to give them my vote for top of the doom metal heep, even above sunn o))...

Zola seven! Following on Tim F's point about the diversity of styles in house: I think it is easy to forget that house music is extraordinarily international, and extends not only throughout many many subcultures within the US, Europe, and other "first world" countries but into many other...

in specifically canonical terms, not necessarily my favorites, but what I think will be remembered in top ten lists covering the past 10 years or so: I’ll reiterate the neptunes and timbaland for all things pop, electronic, or hip-hop the boredoms, boris, keiji haino, and maybe lightning bolt...

actually the most interesting time I've encountered this sentiment was in an interview with autechre (in interview magazine, sorry I don't know the issue offhand). they almost never record in stereo they say, and they give a rather interesting reason, that relates to some people's comments...

van dyke parks circa "song cycle" broadway meets lsd, what could be better?

Buick6 I completely agree with rock being hybrid, and dance music being referential to rock, and the general point that there is no clear way to completely separate out what is rock from what's not. I also agree with the implication that this makes criticism of rock music as rockist...

Two interconnected points here… I’ve always thought that rock music is actually electronic (or at least highly technological) music in an important (and depersonalizing) sense. Rock’s entire existence, and the ways of listening it has created are dependent upon the recording medium. Not...

One of the central problems with this debate, as with many of this kind, is the use of politically powerful terms whose incredibly varied meanings are repressed. I don’t think we can find one definition. However… I agree with k-punk that rockism, if seen in a critical light, is a particular...

I thought I should drop a line in support of Ariel Pink. Although I don't necessarily buy any of that outsider-artist fluff, I think you really don't need to in order to appreciate his music. I posted something about DJ Screw a few days ago and it seems like Pink and Screw are both able to dig...

I agree, and yet this is just what's so ridiculous about trainspotters and dj-worship. If the point of mixing (in more traditional house/trance formats especially) is to provide a seamless neverending experience, then those who are sitting there trying to notice the slightest mistake are...

More trauma There is definitely a difference in my mind between Khanate and Sunn O)) along with other more droney Earth-worshippers. SunnO)), following in the wake of Earth, has this very reductionist aesthetic, playing very long, very repetitive songs that seem to place the emphasis on...

I would agree both that C&S has certain limitations and that much of it is pretty legitimately incredible. Comparing the C&S movement to dub is an interesting, but perhaps unfair one. Certainly, musicians in both genres have discovered alternative emotional, structural, and narcotic...