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the shizzle => shootin' the shit => music, art and culture => Topic started by: csl on December 14, 2017, 07:39:11 am
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I have no idea why I'm kicking off this thing again.. Can someone else kick it off next year?
Spotify informed me I'd listened to 50,000 minutes of music this year, so here's what stuck in my mind from it. Looking forward to hearing about the stuff I've missed so lets have your favourites?!
Thundercat - Drunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pxpTZpdZ-U
Sinkane - Life and living it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3-6eHxhcag
Sam O.B. - Positive Noise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jUPKpW0MFI
Slowdive - Slowdive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDIDLIE7Z1E
Aldous Harding - Party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4dVkoOMjLo
Kelela - Take me apart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePi5BLJogyA
Pumarosa - The Witch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMG8H4yFtmU
Toro y Moi - Boo Boo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWObFsWjrco
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWKIWNJnlzI
Four Tet - New Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pH5dCoy1Hg
Cosima - South of Heaven (technically December 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F0cvSZR7Fo
A House in the trees - Summertime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC34rs3VB-8
Bloody Knees - Maybe its easy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgNPYYan_7c
Move Closer - Frequency Cowboy (ukb shurt)
https://soundcloud.com/frequencycowboy/movecloser
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Favourite tracks of the year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GThfDn07eMQ
Best metal track I've heard for a long time, the perfect blend of heaviness and melody and power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRf_2zA6jL0
This might be the 2nd one just for the opening riff.
There's been some seriously deep and deadly dnb pressure too....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRNKybkEIc
Uncompromisingly proper business.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWruH9JjqHk
And this is stunning, razor sharp and abyss deep.
I love how DnB artists keep coming up with fresh and awesome stuff even after 20+ years. The same applies to metal too I guess.
Of course sometimes you just need a straight up banger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS8o9EpwUHg
And for those who want the tempo slowed, this should put a smile on your face:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUIOCSZe99w
Other than that, I've got a lot of favourite dubstep tracks from Distance, but nothing from this year....
HTH x
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Some fine tunes there!
This one caught me by surprise. Yes, it's pop. But good pop. And the mother of all earworms IMO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR84fX7O9t8
Also, my singer put out our first official album. Although I'm not on this track, this one has passed 1 million plays on Spotify which is cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBzC0gvdRf8
Jamie Lenman continues being one of the UK's best songwriters if you fancy something more gutsy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxGG_u36-cU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc8Arha2Kzg
I liked Loyle Carner's offering at first, though possibly overplayed it now...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUqn7_KWNUY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yky_htnpImQ
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Also, pretty much everything on this.
http://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/blog/2017/12/5/asip-reflection-on-2017
(which, well coincimentally, contains the two track I posted above.)
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Nice one Connor - the baton is yours from now on :thumbsup:
I’ll be along later with some suggestions.
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Algiers - The Underside of Power. Beefy Northern.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGZXzmM1smM
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Nice one CSL.
Here's some things that have made the world a better place for me this year.
Moritz von Oswald & Ordo Sakna: 2 x 10" EP.The other half of techno-dub pioneer's Basic Channel and Rhythm and Sound collaborates with the folk musicians of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kawIB6zmMzE&list=PLI1QDlgN3uN59PHbdxxXGSX3utM55_vU5
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kawIB6zmMzE&list=PLI1QDlgN3uN59PHbdxxXGSX3utM55_vU5)
Silenced: Donald Sturge Anthony McKenzie II.
Heavy, as f*ck, musically amazing and a valuable piece of political art inspired by #blacklivesmatter. Donald SAM the II'nd is a solid jazz/hip-hop/rock drummer - this album (available as a download from Bandcamp and on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbDuOjCSQ5GOp5i724HSS4UDALFfDNHR8) (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbDuOjCSQ5GOp5i724HSS4UDALFfDNHR8)) is in six pieces. All improvised duets with each collaborator based around the deaths of seven black people killed by police over the past five years.
Max Richter: Three Worlds - Music from Woolf Works
Richter's score to accompany a dance piece based upon three Virginia Woolf novels. It's absolutely wonderful stuff..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVLFh0tPTlQ
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVLFh0tPTlQ)
Weaves - #53
A brilliant spiky pop-punk band. Listened to this track a lot to wake up and get moving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTvcpD7t7wg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTvcpD7t7wg)
Cornelius & Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Umbrella EP
Lush collaboration between these two covering their favourite of each others music from the last few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efJp-0GHKp0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efJp-0GHKp0)
Various – Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973
A double LP from Light in the Attic full of virtually unknown Japanese music from the late sixties and early seventies. It's absolutely lovely..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAwV4QUITYY
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAwV4QUITYY)
Andrew Weatherall: QualiaI was at a Faber social event earlier in the year when David Keenan was doing a reading from his book 'This Memorial Device'. Weatherall played some music and it was brill. Couldn't find it anywhere but it turns out it was his own stuff that he was working on and released later in the year. Love it.
https://soundcloud.com/andrew-weatherall/between-stations
(https://soundcloud.com/andrew-weatherall/between-stations)
Colin Stetson: All this I do for Glory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSaVYSpqRNg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSaVYSpqRNg)
Experimental saxophonist and minimal beats.. quality (and not as mental as it sounds)
Lots of fab reissues out this year.
Emanuelle Perrenin: Maison Rose
Breathy folky magic from France in the early 70's. Poor Emanuelle opened (alongside members of Gong) for The Clash on their first tour in France.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVLFh0tPTlQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVLFh0tPTlQ)
Barney Wilen: Moshi
Wilen took an extended trip through Africa in the early 70's with a load of recording gear and French musicians. Moshi was the result.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14jyrNjLvIY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14jyrNjLvIY)
Okay Temiz and Johnny Dyani: Witchdoctors Son
Turkish/African Jazz Funk from '76
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvJZA8OOlxc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvJZA8OOlxc)
Alice Coltrane: Turiyasangitananda
Alice's devotional music recorded at the Ashram
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCscgiV1RQGJlUhBP5oFZIvA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCscgiV1RQGJlUhBP5oFZIvA)
I think that's it for now... I'm sure I've forgotten lots of things so will share as and when they crop up. Looking forward to all the other suggestions.
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I actually listened to some music that came out this year this year. Liked this, was played a bit on 6music.
Drahla - Fictional decision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POYpLXrEQtI
https://open.spotify.com/track/4YnmYe3KDV2tPHyAA3AH2D
More later
*liked Maison Rose, haven't listened to anything else yet
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So much good music this year. As well as the aforementioned Four Tet, Thundercat, Max Richter, etc I enjoyed this lot. Saw Bonobo live too.
Kllo and dvsn prbbly my fvrts...
Bicep - Bicep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvlym4g9SQQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvlym4g9SQQ)
Bonobo - Migration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmitHcHqsCI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmitHcHqsCI)
Com Truise - Iteration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Ri6vk-Vfk
Daphni - Joli Mai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhAowDZ_si4
Daye Jack - Surf the Web
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK5n7HY4nfA
dvsn - Morning After
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baxImKUepXM
Kllo - Backwater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_40CxC8hP6A
Little Dragon - Season High
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUt5aYtaGQE
Mura Masa - Mura Masa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJM4AQSbZDk
Novo Amor & Ed Tullett - Heiress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiue6baSGMo
SOHN - Rennen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGYEDquZv5I
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Sorry, pain linking on phone, but new stuff mostly listened to this year;
Royal Blood - How did we get so dark?
Four Tet - New Energy
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
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Lots of new stuff for me to get through there!!
Best album for me was The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding. Better than Lost in the Dream in my opinion.
Also enjoyed;
Goldie - The Journeyman
Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life
Paramore - After Life
Four Tet - New Energy
Passenger - The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Nick Mulvey - Wake Up Now
My Band of the year though goes to Vulfpeck - super funky sounds, amazing basslines. New album Mr Finish Line (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3T8d50jzTk&t=1631s) is superb!
Old artist I heard for the first time this year - Darwin Deez (https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B00C2I22VS?ref=dm_sh_b552-ab21-dmcp-15cb-0bcd1&musicTerritory=GB&marketplaceId=A1F83G8C2ARO7P) - awesome!