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Friday, December 21, 2012

Years
























My favorite songs of the year.  Not in order of favorite, but as a mix.


1. House - KINDNESS
2. Something Inside - JESSIE WARE
3. NYC: 73-78 (Beck Remix) - PHILIP GLASS
4. N.E.W. - ACTRESS
5. Warble Epics - NATHAN FAKE
6. Other People - BEACH HOUSE
7. Forget (Laurel Halo Remix) - LIANNE LA HAVAS
8. Lover - BLONDES
9. Angels (Four Tet Remix) - THE XX
10. Rideaux Lunaires - GONZALES
11. Hémisphère - PARADIS
12. Frozen/ Cirrus - SAM WILLIS
13. Salt - OREN AMBARCHI
14. Love Nest - CO LA
15. Follow The Leader - SHED
16. Tulips - SCUBA
17. In The Same Room - JULIA HOLTER
18. The Pining Pt 1 - CLARK
19. Work, Live & Sleep In Collapsing Space (Laurel Halo Remix) - KUEDO
20. Nocturnal Drummers - 2562
21. Kid's A Loner - CUPP CAVE
22. Rough Sleeper - BURIAL
23. Close To Me - SOPHIA KNAPP
24. Losing You - SOLANGE
25. If You Love Me - BENZEL & JESSIE WARE

Monday, December 17, 2012

2012




Hands down the greatest reissue of the year is Type's royal treatment of Porter Ricks' timeless Biokinetics.  A record that shook me up more times this year than I can count.  All things told, I spent a good part of the year listening to Seefeel, Aphex Twin and Elis Regina, however these twenty new records are all outstanding.  This was also the year I finally started to appreciate remixes.  Four Tet's ghosting of The xx's Angels completely stripped away what already wasn't there, leaving things swathed in static.  Laurel Halo's work for Lianne La Havas and Kuedo was equally top notch. 


20 Favorite Records, 2012

1. Devotion - Jessie Ware - PMR/Island
2. Quarantine - Laurel Halo - Hyperdub
3. Instrumental Tourist - Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin - Software
4. Centipede Hz - Animal Collective - Domino
5. Coexist - The xx - Young Turks
6. Valley Tangents - Blues Control - Drag City
7. Core To The Brave - Richard Youngs - Root Strata
8. Imagine Yourself Here - Zaïmph - Yew
9. Comets Come Alive - Orphan Fairytale - Blackest Rainbow 
10. Ekstasis - Julia Holter - RVNG
11. Winterlude - Sam Willis - Half Machine
12. Solo Piano II - Gonzales - Gentle Threat
13. R.I.P. - Actress - Honest Jon's
14. The Expanding Universe - Laurie Spiegel - Unseen Worlds
15. Green Just As I Could See - Andrea Neumann & Bonnie Jones - Erstwhile
16. Wound Response - Rhodri Davies - Alt Vinyl 
17. Retina Waves - Cupp Cave - Ramp
18. Sequitur - Steve Hauschildt - Kranky
19. Silencio - Laetitia Sadier Drag City
20. Interstellar - Frankie Rose - Slumberland

Monday, November 12, 2012

Veedon Fleece
























1. Strings In The Earth And Air - ROBIN WILLIAMSON
2. Tree Song - BERT JANSCH
3. Murdoch - TREES
4. Two Weeks Last Summer - FOTHERINGAY
5. Flowers Of The Forest - MIKE HERON
6. Living By The Water - ANNE BRIGGS
7. Sheep Season - MELLOW CANDLE
8. Side Roads - PLAINSONG
9. Tomorrow Time - JOHN & BEVERLEY MARTYN
10. Ask Me No Questions - BRIDGET ST. JOHN
11. Rising For The Moon - FAIRPORT CONVENTION
12. When He Came Home - C.O.B.

Sequitur


Sight & Sound






















This year marks the once-a-decade-since-1952 arrival of the BFI Sight & Sound Poll.  This year's edition is made up of 846 top ten lists from directors and critics around the world.  Ten would take too way too long, so here's my 20, alphabetically.


1. The BRD Trilogy (The Marriage Of Maria Braun, Lola, Veronika Voss) - Rainer Werner Fassbiner, 1979-82
2. Cléo De 5 À 7 - Agnès Varda, 1962
3. Copie Conforme - Abbas Kiarostami, 2010
4. Il Deserto Rosso - Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964
5. In The Mood For Love - Wong Kar-Wai, 2000
6. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - Chantal Akerman, 1975
7. Lili Marleen - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981
8. Lost In Translation - Sofia Coppola, 2003
9. Marie Antoinette - Sofia Coppola, 2006
10. Le Mépris - Jean-Luc Godard, 1963
11. My Dinner With Andre - Louis Malle, 1981
12. The Noriko Trilogy (Late Spring, Early Summer, Tokyo Story) - Yasujiro Ozu, 1949-53
13. Ordet - Carl Th. Dreyer, 1955
14. Pickpocket - Robert Bresson, 1959
15. A Time To Live, A Time To Die - Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1985
16. Trilogy Of Alienation (L'Avventura, La Notte, L'Eclisse) - Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960-1962
17. Tropical Malady - Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004
18. Werckmeister Harmonies - Béla Tarr, 2000
19. Yearning - Mikio Naruse, 1964
20. Yi Yi - Edward Yang, 2000

Friday, November 2, 2012

Stratosphere
















1. Misr Wakening - 23 SKIDOO
2. Bracken - PENDLE COVEN
3. Akwalek - TWO LONE SWORDSMEN
4. I - MAIN
5. Sleepless - ANDY STOTT
6. Emu - LEE GAMBLE
7. Surba - KIT CLAYTON
8. Flawed - MILES
9. Remnants Of What Once Was - SURGEON
10. Peschi - RELOAD
11. Bag A Wire Dub - KING TUBBY
12. KJZ - PHOTEK
13. Kick The Tragedy - DROP NINETEENS
14. Land Of The Highway - CONFORCE
15. Garden On The Palm - KEN ISHII
16. Delta Phase - GLOBAL COMMUNICATION

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Monday, October 15, 2012

One Day



































1. Dymaxian Oceanic World - CHRIST.
2. Cool Down - STEPHEN MALLINDER
3. Rettic AC - AUTECHRE
4. 1.3 - MICHAEL PISARO / TOSHIYA TSUNODA
5. Graphene - DSCRD
6. Moving Patterns - BARRY SCHLEIFER
7. Seriatim - ANDREA NEUMANN / BONNIE JONES
8. Magnetism -MIKA VAINIO
9. Integrator - HERMANN LANGSCHWERT
10. Prelude - ELODIE LAUTEN
11. Fragments One - JAN JELINEK
12. Capitale - AOKI TAKAMASA
13. Pentachrome - LAURIE SPIEGEL
14. Utilities - HARRY FORBES
15. Alberto Balsalm - APHEX TWIN
16. Warble Epics - NATHAN FAKE

Indigo Rose