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Rubin Farr

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this is the stuff i listened to a lot this year:

 

united waters - the narrows (that's surely my no. 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khp6q1CKvug

 

beach house - b-sides and rarities

colleen - a flame my love, a frequency

six organs of admittance - burning the threshold

mogwai - every country's sun

laurel halo - dust

juana molina - halo

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Personally a tie between

zvλd - Baklava

AFX - Field Day London [Extended, full version of course]

 

I'm not counting the old stuff from AFX Bleepstore added with the extras. Other honorable mentions go to

 

0F.digital - I C O N

Beathaven - Acid Flange

EDM i

Jacob Portam - Illegal Albatross

RX-101 - Transmission +EP3+EP4

Trepaneringsritualen - Kainskult

Vytear - Kingtrips EP1

ZONE EATER vs. SEA OF DOGS - Zone Eater Vs. Sea Of Dogs

 

Based on the samples I've heard would also say Hellboii - Darkest Hour Pt. 1&2 and Lycurgus-Panzer1020 but thanks to zero digital output can't say for sure. Yet, worth to check out.

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impressed how u guys can make such huge lists I have a hard time even remembering a few releases ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

things I've listened to which I think possibly can be listened to without cringe two years on:

 

John Maus - Screen Memories

Roland Kayn - A Little Electronic Milky Way Of Sound

Actress - AZD

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana

Fret - Over Depth

Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata

Gabor Lazar - Crisis Of Representation

Jaap Vink - s/t

The Necks - Unfold

Patronen - C/D

 

in no particular order

adding:

Prurient - Rainbow Mirror

 

fkn enjoying it a lot

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Will update soon probably... also on mobile so I can’t make those idm letters for Baklava or Qebrus

Still need to listen to that Qebrus boxes LP too, fuck

 

update:

 

1. Blanck Mass - World Eater

2. AFX - London 030617 [field day]

3. Qebrµs - ◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙

4. Blue Hawaii - Tenderness

5. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream

6. RAMZi - Péze-Piton

7. Zen Mother - I Was Made to Be Like Her

8. Four Tet - New Energy

9. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun

10. Arcade Fire - Everything Now

11. Dunal - Dunal Chronicles I

12. Laurel Halo - Dust

13. Koen Holtkamp - Beast Vol. 1/Vol. 2

14. Fever Ray - Plunge

15. Nordra - Nordra

16. zvλd - Baklava

17. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens

18. Pharmakon - Contact

19. Mafgar - Mountain Songs

20. Rolando Simmons - World Building

21. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid

22. FIRE-TOOLZ - Drip Mental

23. Björk - Utopia

24. Nadia Struiwigh - Lenticular

25. Jlin - Black Origami

26. Lantern - Summer Knight

27. St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION

28. Austra - Future Politics

29. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers

30. Brainwaltzera - Poly-ana

 

i'm still slacking on my metal releases this year, haven't listened to elder or bell witch yet. gonna be playing catchup till february

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I'm only in love with the top 8 or so?  Still, a bit better than last year ...

 

Also I really need to start posting here again lol.

 

 

1. irisarri  - the shameless years

2. gas  - narkopop

3. fleet foxes  - crack-up

4. kelly lee owens  - s/t

5. esprit  - 200% electronica

6. slowdive  - s/t

7. various   - blade runner 2049 ost

8. ramin djawadi  - westworld ost

9. claro intelecto  - exhilarator

10. o9  - jagged plains

11. bibio  - phantom brickworks

12. beach house  - b-sides and rarities

13. leyland kirby  - we, so tired ...

14. beach fossils  - somersault

15. washed out  - mister mellow

16. king krule  - the ooz

17. rostam  - s/t

18. lcd soundsystem  - american dream

19. kendrick  - damn.

20. no joy   - creep 

21. bola  - d.e.g.

22. st. vincent  - masseduction

23. clark  - rellik

24. NKHyx  - exit entrance

25. billow observatory  - plains/patterns

 

 

 

standout tracks imo (roughly in order):

 

kvb  - white walls (invada extended mix)

irisarri  - indefinite fields

ramin djawadi  - this world 

boards of canada  - sometimes remix

gas  - narkopop 10

slowdive  - star roving

shields/eno  - only once away my son

king krule  - dum surfer

girl talk  - live at panorama 2017

washed out  - floating by

villalobos  - widodo

kelly lee owens  - arthur

burial  - rodent

no joy  - hellhole

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Still haven't listened to a lot of albums that I have meant to, but so far:

 

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic

Lee Gamble - Mnestic Pressure

UnicaZürn - Transpandorem

NHK yx Koyxen - Exit Entrance

Neil Scrivin - Twenty Years on Ben Nevis

Actress - AZD

Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata

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i'm still slacking on my metal releases this year, haven't listened to elder or bell witch yet. gonna be playing catchup till february

 

 

same here - besides godflesh and the new Darkthrone and this randomly 

 

if you like black metal there's an Austin radio show doing a three part 'best of' review of albums

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I'm only in love with the top 8 or so?  Still, a bit better than last year ...
 
Also I really need to start posting here again lol.
 
 
1. irisarri  - the shameless years
2. gas  - narkopop
3. fleet foxes  - crack-up
4. kelly lee owens  - s/t
5. esprit  - 200% electronica
6. slowdive  - s/t
7. various   - blade runner 2049 ost
8. ramin djawadi  - westworld ost
9. claro intelecto  - exhilarator
10. o9  - jagged plains
11. bibio  - phantom brickworks
12. beach house  - b-sides and rarities
13. leyland kirby  - we, so tired ...
14. beach fossils  - somersault
15. washed out  - mister mellow
16. king krule  - the ooz
17. rostam  - s/t
18. lcd soundsystem  - american dream
19. kendrick  - damn.
20. no joy   - creep 
21. bola  - d.e.g.
22. st. vincent  - masseduction
23. clark  - rellik
24. NKHyx  - exit entrance
25. billow observatory  - plains/patterns
 
 
 
standout tracks imo (roughly in order):
 
kvb  - white walls (invada extended mix)
irisarri  - indefinite fields
ramin djawadi  - this world 
boards of canada  - sometimes remix
gas  - narkopop 10
slowdive  - star roving
shields/eno  - only once away my son
king krule  - dum surfer
girl talk  - live at panorama 2017
washed out  - floating by
villalobos  - widodo
kelly lee owens  - arthur
burial  - rodent
no joy  - hellhole

 

woah pbn

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zvλd ‎- Baklava

Norwell - Follow The Sea

Mrs Jynx - Jynx's Garden

Milieu - Fugue State Phases

Coppice Halifax - Pink Acre

Rolando Simmons - World Building

Brainwaltzera - Poly-ana

Call Super - Arpo

Dunal - Dunal Chronicles I

Ochre - Beyond The Outer Loop

Karen Lust - Vigilax

Karsten Pflum ‎- Love Canticles

Binary Digit - Acid Drop

Belief Defect - Decadent Yet Depraved

Franck Kartell - Alaska

Alessandro Cortini - AVANTI

Ryuichi Sakamoto ‎- Async

JASSS - Weightless

E-Saggila - Lux Campaign

Procedural Braindance - Pentachroma

Akrenaut - Dim Sokette

Bandhagens Musikförening - Protokoll A

Ariadne's Labyrinth - Twists & Turns

Bola - D.E.G.

Barry Lynn - '01 - '04 Tracks

Roel Funcken ‎- Balaklavskiy Prospex

Osamu Sato ‎- All Things Must Be Equal

Noumen - Apeiron

Nadia Struiwigh - Lenticular

Biogen - Halogen Continues

I need to add these Aleksi Perälä albums which grabbed my ears & heart at the brink of year's end:

 

Aleksi Perälä - Simulation

Aleksi Perälä - Paradox

 

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In previous years, I’ve posted fairly long lists but I think I’ll keep it short this time. There were others but these in particular are great albums that kept me spooked or blissed out.

 
Claude Speeed - Infinity Ultra
William Basinski - A Shadow in Time
Niggas With Guitars - Ethnic Frenzy
Ossining - I Will Be Missed
Danny Wolfers - Swan Song of the Skunkape
Pessimist - Pessimist
The Hardy Tree - Through Passages Of Time
Sky H1 - Motion
Konx-om-Pax - Caramel
Depeche Mode - Spirit
Martial Canterel - Lost At Sea
Ciaran Byrne - Galtrim
Broken Lift - Kosmosu
The Focus Group - Stop-Motion Happening
Gatekeeper - Optimus Maximus
Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch - Blade Runner 2049
Naaahhh - Themes
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Sky H1 - Motion
Konx-om-Pax - Caramel

 

2016?

 

btw, adding to my list the excellent  Three settlements four ways EP by Loft. Super fresh, weird club computer music.

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We really need to start doing this after January 1st, I've literally added a half dozen releases to my list based entirely off stuff that either came out this week and/or I finally got around to listening to

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Good lists all. Some stuff that I missed in this thread so far:

 

Yung Lean - Stranger

Avalon Emerson - Whities 013

James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits

X.Y.R. - Labyrinth

Rico Puestel - Caravel

Kettel - Alasca

Niels Broos - s/t

Dauwd - Theory Of Colours

Bola - D.E.G.

 

Also, it's not unnatural that I came to love the music that we as a label put out this year (most likely because we listened to it time and time again), but most notably

 

Noinonoinonoino - s/t

Karen Lust - Vigilax (pseudonym of Karsten Pflum)

 

really struck a chord and I'm happy to name them amongst my fav albums of the year

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Albums:

Dunal - Dunal Chronicles I

Osamu Sato - All Things Must Be Equal

Boris - Dear

Thundercat - Drunk

Code Orange - Forever

Clouds - HTID

Kiefer - Kickinit Alone

Karsten Pflum - Love Canticles

Brainwaltzera - Poly-ana

Elder - Reflections of a Floating World

Aleksi Perala - Simulation

Karen Lust - Vigilax

Milo - Who Told You To Think?!??!!?!?!?!

 

EP's:

EOD- Swurlk

Coryayo - Wolves

Lone - Ambivert Tools Vol. 1 & 2

Brainwaltzera - Aescoba EP

zvλd - Baklava

wAgAwAgA - gLitcH Test EP

Rognvald - R.O.G.N.V.A.L.D.

 

Things I haven't listened to yet, but would probably add if I did:

Cleric - Retrocausal

Rognvald - Lord Rover

Aleksi Perala - Paradox

wAgAwAgA - totangled

wAgAwAgA - pHudupHud

Claro Intelecto - Exhilirator

Bola - D.E.G.

Jodey Kendrick - EDM i & ii

Ishq - Sen

Qebrus - [insert Symbols]

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My 2017 pick was

The Valley & The Mountain - Gentle Waters Keep Moving

Released:
12 Dec 2016


afx - London 03.06.17 [field day]
Aleksi Perälä - Paradox
Aleksi Perälä - Simulation
Aleksi Perälä - Simulation X
Alessandro Cortini - AVANTI
Aphex Twin - Gerald Remix / 24 TSIM 2
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Brainwaltzera - Aescoba EP
Brainwaltzera - Outdives EP
Brainwaltzera - Poly-ana
Cadans - 1 Bar FU
Ceephax Acid Crew - Acid Fourniture EP
Ceephax Acid Crew - Byron's Ballads EP
Chris Moss Acid - Ambient
Cucumb45 Slysó - EP4 Something Weirdcore
CUCUMB45 Slysó - EP5 Cyclops I Poka
Datassette - Mannequin on the Run EP
DB1 - Zwischenwelt
DMX Krew - Strange Directions
Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata
Dunal - Dunal Chronicles I
Earl Grey - Headwinds LP
EDM - EDM i
EOD - Swurlk EP
Erik Van Den Broek - Expressed
Heorge Garrison - Shortridge EP
J. Mono - Zzz
Jack Peoples - Laptop Cafe
Karen Lust - Vigilax
Karsten Pflum - Love Canticles
Kunst - Kunst
Lanark Artefax - Whities 011
Laner Fax - 97 Firebound / Dranzer Beatin
MEGGABLOCKX - "Blockx"
Microlith - Subtle Variance
Minor Science - Whities 012
MNLTH - TRAX EP
Morah - #006
Nu Era - GEOMETRICKS EP
Passarani - Analog Fingerprints, Vol.1
Rhys Celeste - Microlith
Rognvald - R.O.G.N.V.A.L.D
Rolando Simmons - World Building
Ruby My Dear - Basic
RX-101 - "EP 4"
Shinra - Meteor EP 4
Sprawl - Time Tunnel
Todd Osborn - Elastic
Various Artists - aux446
Various Artists - aux445
Various Artists - aux447
Various Artists - Cirque De La Musique
Various Artists - GALACTIC JACKSON'S BALLA COMPLEANNO
Various Artists - Voiceless Y
Various Artists - Voiceless Z
Volruptus - Hessdalen
Volruptus - Homeblast EP
zvλd - Baklava
36 - Black Soma
4rd - Remote Listening
 

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