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These are the ones I enjoyed the most and will likely "graduate" from 2019 and continue to get regular rotation from me:

1. Ode to Joy - Wilco (didn't expect to love it this much, I'd written them off)

2. Keepsake - Hatchie

3. Dedicated - CRJ

4. Warp Tapes 89-93 - Autechre

5. AE_LIVE (NA stuff) - Autechre

6. Charli - Charli XCX

 

Pretty good year, at least 40 releases which I found addictive-to-swell for a time (some others I liked a lot, but not quite enough, include the likes of Ghosteen, Fishing for Fishies, Still on my Mind and In the End).

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Earth - Full Upon Her Burning Lips

Ed Longo & Applied Arts Ensemble - The Other Fantasy

HTRK - Over The Rainbow

Bjarki - Happy Earthday

Special Request - Bedroom Tapes

Reissue:

Various Artists - here Where The Avalanche Stops - Music From The Gjirokastra Folk Festival, Albania, 1988, Volume One

Quite a weak year for electronic stuff I liked.

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Top 20 albums:

Underworld - Drift Series 1
Desperate Journalist - In Search of the Miraculous
The Future Sound of London - Yage 2019
The Divine Comedy - Office Politics
Confluent Phase - Ad Astra
Aurora - A Different Kind of Human (Step 2)
Idlewild - Interview Music
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - The Undivided Five
Mikron - Severance
Humanoid - Built by Humanoid
Sigrid - Sucker Punch
Ariana Grande - thank u, next
36 - Dreamloops
Michele Rabbia / Gianluca Petrella / Eivind Aarset - Lost River
Dobrinka Tabakova - Kynance Cove, On the South Downs and Works for Choir
Charli XCX - Charli
Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
Deaf Center - Low Distance
Off Land - Field Tangents
Pure Bathing Culture - Night Pass
 

 

Favourite reissues / box sets / compilations

Tangerine Dream - In Search of Hades
ECM Touchstones: Pat Metheny - Watercolors / Eberhard Weber - The Following Morning / Barre Phillips - Mountainscapes / Mike Nock - Ondas / Bobo Stenson Trio - War Orphans
Archive - 25
Nurse With Wound - To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl & Merzbild Schwet
Cleaners from Venus - Ginger Stepkids
Max Richter - Voyager
Mansun - Six
36 - The Lower Lights

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Lps :

Quirke - Steal a golden hail

Barker - Utility

Rian Treanor - Ataxia

Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic computation

AE - live north america

Aleksi Perälä - Sunshine 3

 

Eps 

Le dom - Schism 

Skee mask - 808BB

EOD - Ether overdose

Christoph de Babalon - Hectic shakes

Lanark artefax - Corra Linn

Fret - Fret

 

 

 

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On 11/30/2019 at 11:21 AM, Nil said:

Tons of great stuff released / listened to this years, and my fav of the bunch is :1888030903_Capturedecran2019-11-30a10_49_27.thumb.png.3949e328dc950e53737bf95c75c1b27d.png

Now, I haven't listened to the new AE LIVE sets, even though I love the older ones. Didn't have the dough when they got released, and totally forgot about them since then.

Adding Lanark Artefax’s Live - No Bounds Festival 2019. Stellar set, I can’t help considering it as a sort of LP in disguise.... and it’s stunningly good. I’m even more gutted than I was already that I couldn’t make it to No Bounds (it’s not that easy nor affordable to travel to Sheffield from abroad) while I had tickets.

re: Æ Live: bought the US sets right after posting, I was quite familiar with the previously released ones, but this time I feel equally overwhelmed by the amount of new material to discover as I’m eager to discover it all.

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a few albums i've been into -

Ibibio Sound Machine - Doko Mien

machina - archipelago

Matmos - Plastic Anniversary

clipping - There Existed an Addiction to Blood

Maurice Louca - Elephantine

NKISI - 7 Directions

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Plaid

Bibio

Bars of Gold

Full of Hell

Torche

Battles

Tool

Venom Prison

Puppy

The Number Twelve Looks Like You

Boris

Pijn and Conjurer (Curse These Metal Hands)

Opeth

Ex-Terrestrial

Giant Swan

Brutus

Liturgy

side note: my most listened genre of the decade was "Intelligent Dance Music", or so says Spotify. tehehe lololol

 

 

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Newly released Peter van Hoesen's 2008-2018 Uncovered Vol 1-2-3 might totally end in my list Obviously I haven't listened to all the 52 (!) tracks yet but the bits I've heard are stellar.

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Overall, a very good year.  Some new artists making waves, some old guns showing that they have still got it.

 

ALBUMS

Underworld - Drift

Datachi - Bones

Polypores - Flora

Ekoplekz - Metabolism

Ekoplekz - In Search of the Third Mantra

Salac - Sacred Movements

Giant Swan - Giant Swan

Sarah Belle Reid - Underneath and Sonder

Kinlaw and Franco Franco - Mezzi Umani Mezze Macchine

Chemical Brothers - No Geography

The Vomit Arsonist - Nihil Dicit

Soft Issues - Soft Issues

Lorn - Drown the traitor within

Himukalt - Come October (technically a reissue but with new material and first time on CD / download)

Technoist - Maximal Techno

Xosar - The Possessor Possesses Nothing

The Caretaker - Everywhere, An Empty Bliss

 

EPs

Kilig - Cry

Karim Mass - Blakk Rainbow

UKAEA - Dead Paths

VFH - Blub Blub Blub

Lee Riley - Radiant Waves

Andy Stott  - It Should Be Us

Chafik Chennouf and Katsunori Sawa - Fragments of Reference

Ruby My Dear - Altair

 

Compilations / Reissues

Avon Terror Corps - Avon Is Dead

Avon Terror Corps - No Sleep Til Avon

Venetian Snares - Greg Hates Car Culture

Various Artists - REPEAT (Gasman curated ACID / rave comp)

Fabric Presents - Amelie Lens

 

 

 

 

 

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