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sidewinder Grand Master

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Recently tried to do a top 10 of the decade on another forum. Then I just did the Pitchfork poll and entered slightly different results. But here are some top ones for me:

Ty Segall - Manipulator (2014)
White Fence - For the Recently Found Innocent (2014)
Clinic - Free Reign II (2013)
Sunken Foal - Friday Syndrome Vol. 2 (2013) (actually all 3 are great)
Total Control - Typical System (2014)
Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated at Last (2015)
Liars - Mess (2014)
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (2010)
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (2010)
Mutant Beat Dance - Mutant Beat Dance (2018)
Parquet Courts - Human Performance (2016)
Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze (2013)

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12 hours ago, dr lopez said:

wild but interesting list. don't agree with it at all but i'm glad we can still post together 

hah thanks, and no worries because I like your unapologetic opinions on here. there's this unique informed shit-talking, hot takes, and perhaps most essentially - relentlessness braindance snobbery maintained by a number of members that makes WATMM what it is. that list makes me feel like a NPR listening dad poptimist normie here and yet on r/indieheads and elsewhere it's likely "eclectic"

I digested a lot more music via tapes, singles, streaming and personal playlists, EPs, etc. - I didn't come up with many albums partly I couldn't think of many more I played on repeat. I couldn't for example settle on a 0PN or Angel Olsen album - 3 or 4 excellent tracks from each album for me. the vast majority of vaporwave, hypnagogic pop, lo-fi house, footwork, witch house, chillwave, etc. was rarely released in cohesive, standalone albums that stood out. stuff like sunset corp on YT, the BoC Societas tape,  grainy footwork battle videos, and the smashtv memorex mix were among my favorite "releases" of the year and they aren't albums. that whole broad scene of this post-social media "fuck it why not?" creativity by DIY producers is why elite gymnastics, macintosh plus, and grimes ended up on there. they were the pinnacle of those artists' creative spurts that I don't think could ever by matched or replicated. Grimes in particular

oh well, we all know in the music journalism circles Kanye will be deemed the apt flag-bearer of the 2010 meta AF zeitgeist (and I'm a-ok with that) but shit like Random Access Memories will get another completely unwarranted circlejerk in all of the lists too. most importantly this decade saw the return of RDJ and my bucketlist check off of seeing him live, a BoC promo campaign album I got to actively follow and enjoy firsthand, the IDM stalwarts cranking out a plethora of solid releases

4 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Recently tried to do a top 10 of the decade on another forum. Then I just did the Pitchfork poll and entered slightly different results. But here are some top ones for me:


Mutant Beat Dance - Mutant Beat Dance (2018)
 

never heard of this, i'm intrigued

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On 9/14/2019 at 9:07 AM, zkom said:

When I was digging for the WATMM best album of the year lists for the past decade I came across this list by @MaartenVC that actually covers the whole decade

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C4EuNqCyg6AmScJXHWXEdDvah4IRPcojjyX49gyTqZ0/edit#gid=29851072

Lots of stuff I had completely forgotten..

Yup. I love making me some lists. 

Wanted to post something earlier this month on this thread but my internet was fragged. 

So: 

According to our yearly WATMM Album of the Year:

and using my list at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C4EuNqCyg6AmScJXHWXEdDvah4IRPcojjyX49gyTqZ0/edit#gid=29851072

2019 so far: 

01. 7 Plaid - Polymer
02. 7 Autechre - AE_LIVE_ASHEVILLE_081015 (Live Recording)
03. 6 Le Dom - Schism (EP)
04. 5 Bogdan Raczynski - Rave 'Till You Cry (Anthology)
05. 5 Fennesz - Agora
06. 5 Rian Treanor - ATAXIA
07. 4 Ekoplekz - Kirlian Visionz
08. 4 VC-118A - Inside

2018:

01. 37 Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4 (Best Tracks: 104, 206, 303, 403)
02. 34 Aphex Twin - Collapse (EP)
03. 18 EOD (Stian Gjevik) - Named
04. 16 Oneohtrix Point Never (OPN) - Age Of
05. 14 Skee Mask - Compro
06. 11 Meat Beat Manifesto (MBM) - Impossible Star
07. 10 James Shinra - Vital Heat
08. 9 Alva Noto - Unieqav
09. 8 Ceephax - Camelot Arcade
10. 8 Morphology - Traveller
11. 8 Thomas Fehlmann - Los Lagos
12. 7 Dunal (Stian Gjevik) - Dunal Chronicles II
13. 7 Gabor Lazar (Gábor Lázár) - Unfold
14. 7 Low - Double Negative
15. 6 Beach House - 7
16. 6 Lorn - Remnant
17. 6 Mr. Fingers - Cerebral Hemispheres
18. 6 Richard Devine - Sort-Lave
19. 6 The Caretaker (Leyland Kirby) - Everywhere At The End Of Time (Stage 4 or 5)

2017:

01. 19 AFX - London 03.06.17 (Field Day)
02. 10 Rolando Simmons - World Building
03. 9 Aleksi Perälä - Simulation
04. 9 Blanck Mass - World Eater
05. 9 Dunal (Stian Gjevik) - Dunal Chronicles I
06. 9 Slowdive - Slowdive
07. 9 Thundercat - Drunk
08. 9 zvλd - Baklava
09. 8 Gas - Narkopop
10. 7 Bola - D.E.G.
11. 7 Brainwaltzera - Poly-Ana
12. 7 Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata
13. 7 Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
14. 7 Laurel Halo - Dust
15. 7 Lee Gamble - Mnestic Pressure
16. 6 EOD (Stian Gjevik) - Swurlk (EP)
17. 6 36 - Black Soma
18. 6 Clark - Death Peak

2016: 

01. 34 Autechre - Elseq 1-5 (Best Tracks: 104, 402, 403, 503, 504)
02. 18 Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
03. 15 Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
04. 14 Plaid - The Digging Remedy
05. 12 EOD (Stian Gjevik) - EODS (Compilation)
06. 12 Datach'i - System
07. 11 Aphex Twin - Cheetah (EP)
08. 11 Lone - Levitate
09. 10 A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
10. 10 David Bowie - ★ (Blackstar)
11. 10 Huerco S. - For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
12. 10 Ital Tek - Hollowed
13. 9 The Caretaker (Leyland Kirby) - Everywhere At The End Of Time (Stage 1)
14. 8 1991 - No More Dreams
15. 8 2814 (２８１４) - Rain Temple
16. 8 Biosphere - Departed Glories
17. 8 Venetian Snares - Traditional Synthesizer Music
18. 7 Angel Olsen - My Woman
19. 7 Demdike Stare - Wonderland
20. 7 Patten - Ψ

2015:

01. 25 Oneohtrix Point Never (OPN) - Garden Of Delete
02. 19 Autechre - AE_LIVE_KRAKOW_200914 (Live Recording)
03. 14 user48736353001 (Aphex Twin) - SoundCloud (Archive) (Best Tracks: Part 1: 009, 022, 041, 045, 051, 052, 053, 058, 092, 096, 097, 101, 109, 112; Part 2: 141, 146, 147, 151, 157, 174, 180, 202, 207, 214, 229, 230)
04. 12 Holly Herndon - Platform
05. 10 A·F·X - Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-08
06. 10 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
07. 9 Arca - Mutant
08. 8 Aleksi Perälä - The Colundi Sequence Level 10
09. 7 Luke Vibert - Bizarster
10. 7 Oneohtrix Point Never (OPN) - Commissions II
11. 7 Tame Impala - Currents
12. 6 Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol.3
13. 6 Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
14. 6 Floating Points - Elaenia
15. 6 The Orb - Moonbuilding 2703 AD
16. 5 BadBadNotGood and Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul
17. 5 CN (Stian Gjevik) - Artifacts
18. 5 Jlin - Dark Energy
19. 5 Kerrier District - Kerrier District 4
20. 5 Lakker - Tundra
21. 5 MNLTH - Time

2014:

01. 72 Aphex Twin - Syro
02. 32 Plaid - Reachy Prints
03. 26 VHS Head - Persistence of Vision
04. 22 Clark - Clark
05. 20 Caustic Window - Caustic Window LP
06. 20 CN (Stian Gjevik) - Nu
07. 17 Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers
08. 13 Aleksi Perälä - The Colundi Sequence Level 7
09. 11 Ben Frost - Venter, Nolan
10. 9 Actress - Ghettoville
11. 9 Grouper - Ruins
12. 8 Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
13. 8 Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Pinata
14. 8 Jodey Kendrick (EDM) - EDM C2, D4, E1
15. 8 Kangding Ray - Solens Arc
16. 8 Lone - Reality Testing
17. 7 Objekt - Flatland
18. 6 FKA Twigs - LP1
19. 6 Gesloten Cirkel - Submit X
20. 6 Legowelt - Crystal Cult 2080

2013:

01. 66 Autechre - Exai
02. 48 Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
03. 28 Oneohtrix Point Never (OPN) - R Plus Seven
04. 25 Ceephax - Cro Magnox
05. 23 Jon Hopkins - Immunity
06. 21 Bibio - Silver Wilkinson
07. 17 µ-Ziq - Chewed Corners
08. 16 The Kniφe - Shaking the Habitual
09. 16 Tim Hecker - Virgins
10. 14 Machinedrum - Vapor City
11. 13 Photodementia - Fig.04c
12. 12 EOD (Stian Gjevik) - Volume 2
13. 12 Holden - The Inheritors
14. 12 My Bloody Valentine - m b v
15. 12 µ-Ziq - Somerset Avenue Tracks (1992-1995)
16. 11 Atom™ - HD
17. 11 EOD (Stian Gjevik) - Volume 1
18. 8 Darkside - Psychic
19. 8 DJ Rashad - Double Cup
20. 8 Forest Swords - Engravings

2012:

01. 43 Actress - R.I.P
02. 34 Photodementia - Fig. 03
03. 30 Lone - Galaxy Garden
04. 28 Squarepusher - Ufabulum
05. 24 Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
06. 23 Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
07. 22 Grimes - Visions
08. 21 Vladislav Delay - Kuopio
09. 19 Drexciya - Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller II (Compilation)
10. 19 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
11. 18 Four Tet - Pink  (Compilation)
12. 18 Clark - Iradelphic
13. 17 CN (Stian Gjevik) - Obscure Research
14. 16 Death Grips - The Money Store
15. 16 Grischa Lichtenberger - And IV [Inertia]
16. 16 Holy Other - Held
17. 16 Shackleton - Music For The Quiet Hour
18. 16 Shackleton - The Drawbar Organ
19. 15 Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
20. 15 Swans - The Seer

2011: 

01. 30 Machinedrum - Room(s)
02. 29 Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
03. 24 Dave Monolith - Welcome
04. 23 Oneohtrix Point Never (OPN) - Replica
05. 22 Lego Feet - Lego Feet
06. 21 Bibio - Mind Bokeh
07. 20 Andy Stott - Passed Me By
08. 20 Andy Stott - We Stay Together
09. 19 Wagon Christ - Toomorrow
10. 18 Com Truise - Galactic Melt
11. 18 Plaid - Scintilli
12. 18 Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
13. 17 Africa Hitech - 93 Million Miles
14. 17 NHKyx - yx aka 1ch aka Solo
15. 16 2562 - Fever
16. 16 Kuedo - Severant
17. 15 The Caretaker (Leyland Kirby) - An Empty Bliss Beyond this World
18. 14 Alva Noto - Univrs
19. 14 Leyland Kirby - Eager To Tear Apart The Stars

2010: 

Sorry, couldn't find any poll for 2010 (or any year before that), but maybe:

01. 0 Acid Kirk - Out Of The Blew (EP)
02. 0 Eprom and Eskmo - Hendt, Lands and Bones (Single)
03. 0 Africa HiTech - Hitecherous
04. 0 ANBB - Mimikry
05. 0 Autechre - Move Of Ten
06. 0 Autechre - Oversteps
07. 0 Bonobo - Black Sands
08. 0 Ceephax Acid Crew - United Acid Emirates
09. 0 DMX Krew - The March To The Stars
10. 0 EOD (Stian Gjevik) - Utrecht
11. 0 Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
12. 0 Lorn - Nothing Else
13. 0 Oriol - Night And Day
14. 0 Solar Bears - She Was Coloured In
15. 0 Squarepusher presents Shobaleader One - d'Demonstrator
16. 0 Swindle - Airmiles
17. 0 Teebs - Ardour
18. 0 VHS Head - Trademark Ribbons of Gold

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A lot of albums to enjoy this decade but a few albums that hit me hard were (in no particular order):

Autechre - Oversteps

M83 - Hurry Up We're Dreaming

My bloody Valentine - m b v

Boards of canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

Archive - The False Foundation

Fear Factory - Genexus

Plaid - Reachy Prints

Bicep - Bicep

Astral Projection - GOA classics Remixed

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On the one hand it feels like "wasn't it just 2009?" but on the other hand when seeing something like Cosmogramma or the NHKyx album on the list and remembering hearing them for the first time it feels like it was ages ago, like my life has changed completely several times since then. fuk

I'm still pretty sure I've listened to the whole Shobaleader album only once..

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playbynumbers and I did this over email last year. Nothing from 2019 would make the cut besides the Autechre WXAXRXP stuff and maybe Kelela's mix.

Top 30 albums:

1. Bibio, Mind Bokeh
2. Toro y Moi, Causers Of This
3. The Radio Dept., Clinging To A Scheme
4. Machine Drum, Room(s)
5. Lone, Galaxy Garden
6. Beach House, Teen Dream  
7. Machinedrum, Vapor City
8. Grimes, Art Angels
9. Beach House, Bloom  
10. Kelela, Take Me Apart  
11. Kuedo, Severant
12. Heterotic, Love & Devotion
13. Bibio, Silver Wilkinson
14. Martyn, Ghost People
15. µ-Ziq, Chewed Corners
16. Toro y Moi, Anything In Return
17. Shed, The Killer
18. Clark, Iradelphic
19. Bnjmn, Black Square
20. Flying Lotus, Cosmogramma
21. East of Oceans, 121 Years
22. Evian Christ, Kings And Them
23. Fennesz & King Midas Sound, Edition 1  
24. Grimes, Visions
25. Bibio, A Mineral Love
26. Gold Panda, Lucky Shiner
27. Clams Casino, Instrumental Mixtape
28. Jessy Lanza, Oh No
29. Massive Attack, Heligoland
30. Tokimonsta, Midnight Menu
 
Top 50 Songs:
 

 

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Sounds that made a difference to me:

2010 

2011

2012

2013

2014

  • AFX — Side A of Syro
  • Beatrice Dillon — Blues Dances
  • Luke Vibert — Instant Vibe
  • mindblowing "reissue" of the year : AFX — sc dump

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019 

  • doesn’t feel over yet.
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Actress - R.I.P.

Aphex - Syro

Autechre - NTS Sessions

Aleksi Perala - Colundi Series

Ceephax - United Acid Emirates

CN - Nu

Demdike Stare - Elemental

Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

Doppleffekt - Cellular Automata

Equiknoxx - Bird Sound Power

Fennesz - Agora

Flying Lotus - Cosmograma

Grass Widow - Internal Logic

Grouper - Ruin

Huerco S. - For Those Of You..

Jodey Kendrick - EDM Series

Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me

Kassem Mosse - Workshop 19

Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994-96

My Bloody Valentine - mbv

NHK - Dance Classics

Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica

Rashad Becker - Traditional Music...

Shinichi Atobe - Butterfly Effect

Shackleton - Sferic Ghost Transmits

Swans - To Be Kind

VHS Head - Trademark Ribbons

Xosar - Let Go

 

 

 

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imo


1. weyes blood - titanic rising (2019)
2. alessandro cortini - avanti (2017)
3. beach house - bloom (2012)
4. rafael irisarri - shameless years (2017)
5. jeremy soule - skyrim ost (2011)
6. sky ferreira - night time, my time (2013)
7. autechre - nts sessions 1-4 (2018)
8. burial - tunes 2011-2019 (2019)
9. radiohead - a moon-shaped pool (2016)
10. dirty beaches - badlands (2011)
11. lotus plaza - spooky action at a distance (2012)
12. boards of canada - tomorrow's harvest (2013)
13. en - the absent coast (2010)
14. the caretaker - an empty bliss (2011)
15. signaldrift - two agents (2010)
16. rafael irisarri - the north bend (2010)
17. gas - narkopop (2017)
18. en - already gone (2012)
19. awvfts - atomos (2014)
20. beach house - thank your lucky stars (2015)
21. george clanton - slide (2018)
22. washed out - paracosm (2013)
23. fleet foxes - crack-up (2017)
24. dirty beaches - drifters + love is the devil (2013)
25. kelly lee owens - s/t (2017)
26. autechre - exai (2013)
27. george clanton - 100% electronica (2015)
28. 2814 - s/t (2014)
29. rafael irisarri - solastalgia (2019)
30. casino versus japan - night on tape (2010)
31. no joy - ghost blonde (2010)
32. max richter - sleep (2015)
33. washed out - within and without (2011)
34. grouper (nivhek) - after its own death / walking in a spiral (2019)
35. death grips - money store (2012)
36. deerhunter - halcyon digest (2010)
37. mbv - m b v (2013)
38. a tribe called quest - we got it from here... (2016)
39. deaths dynamic shroud.wmv - i'll try living like this (2015)
40. rainer veil - new brutalism (2014)
41. vampire weekend - modern vampires of the city (2013)
42. black swan - sentimental drift (2019)
43. crystal castles - ii (2010)
44. grouper - a i a (2011)
45. real estate - atlas (2014)
46. dirty beaches - night city (2010)
47. h.f. - latin (2010)
48. washed out - tour cd-r (2010)
49. spiritualized - sweet heart sweet light (2012)
50. kendrick - to pimp a butterfly (2015)
51. white rainbow - thru?.?u (2014)
52. surf city - kudos (2010)
53. the field - looping state of mind (2011)
54. fleet foxes - helplessness blues (2011)
55. 2814 - birth of a new day (2015)
56. julianna barwick - magic place (2011)
57. v/a - smm: context (2011)
58. lana del rey - nfr! (2019)
59. the field - cupid's head (2013)
60. nhkyx - yx aka 1ch aka solo (2011)
61. kyle bobby dunn - infinite sadness (2014)
62. alessandro cortini - forse 3 (2015)
63. autechre - elseq 1-5 (2016)
64. alex zhang hungtai - divine weight (2018)
65. ramin djawadi - westworld s1 ost (2016)
66. father john misty - god's favorite customer (2018)
67. slowdive - s/t (2017)
68. yellow swans - going places (2010)
69. pausal - lapses (2010)
70. pye corner audio - stasis (2016)
71. jefre cantu-ledesma - on the echoing green (2017)
72. william basinski, on time out of time (2019)
73. kanye - yeezus (2013)
74. black rain - dark pool (2014)
75. valet - nature (2015)
76. andy stott - we stay together (2011)
77. lcd soundsystem - this is happening (2010)
78. weyes blood - front row seat to earth (2016)
79. beach fossils - s/t (2010)
80. awvfts, five (2019)
81. roosevelt - young romance (2018)
82. big thief - two hands (2019)
83. mike krol - power chords (2019)
84. pye corner audio - hollow earth (2019)
85. white rainbow - 21 exoticism escap (2015)
86. lana del rey - ultraviolence (2014)
87. kanye / jay-z - watch the throne (2011)
88. julianna barwick - nepenthe (2013)
89. daft punk - r.a.m. (2013)
90. m83 - hurry up, we're dreaming (2011)
91. beach house - teen dream (2010)
92. belong - common era (2011)
93. rafael irisarri - la equidistancia (2017)
94. william basinski - cascade (2015)
95. toro y moi - what for? (2015)
96. telepathe - destroyer (2015)
97. martin courtney - many moons (2015)
98. neon indian - vega intl night school (2015)
99. billow observatory, s/t (2012)
100. bitchin bajas, tones/zones (2010)
 

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These are the ones that have stuck with me:

  • Exai
  • Re:ECM
  • Owl Splinters
  • Returnal
  • Who Has the Biggest Sound ?
  • An empty bliss beyond this World
  • 8 Faces of Ixchel in Autumn
  • Chromanatron
  • An empty bliss beyond this World
  • Soar (John Wall & Alex Rodgers)
  • I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell (but I honestly listened to this one so many times that I don't like it anymore)
  • New Slaves++ (not that one)

I am still discovering amazing new stuff from this decade every day so this list is nowhere close to any semblance of accuracy, and I'll probably hate it in a week.

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Using the list provided above as a guide

It's Elseq by Autechre and (I actually played it yesterday) Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter. Tomorrows Harvest by Boards of Canada I guess needs a mention.

I'm definitely not much into new music of this last decade. 

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Westside Gunn - Hitler Wears Hermes 1 - 7

Westside Gunn - Fourth Rope

Westside Gunn - Flygod is an Awesome God

Roc Marciano - Rosebudd's Revenge 

Roc Marciano - Behold a Dark Horse

Jlin - Black Origami 

Patricia - Several Shades of the Same Color

All of Aphex, Autechre, and BoC that was released this decade

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid Maad City

Drake - Scorpion (first half, still haven't listened to the R & B side)

J. Cole - 4 Your Eyez Only

Mozex - selected tracks posted on WATMM

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