By now you've made your way through all the end-of-year lists you can stomach, I'm sure. But wait! There's more: my favorite songs of 2011. I've made a mix of my 24 favorite tracks, excluding anything from my favorite albums of the year because it's a given that those albums each contain multiple favorites. The tracks below are not ranked, but are ordered for an ideal two-hour mix. (And for what it's worth, I don't think a lot of these tracks showed up on others' lists, so hopefully a lot of this will be new to you.) Click [...]
By now you've made your way through all the end-of-year lists you can stomach, I'm sure. But wait! There's more: my favorite songs of 2011. I've made a mix of my 24 favorite tracks, excluding anything from my favorite albums of the year because it's a given that those albums each contain multiple favorites. The tracks below are not ranked, but are ordered for an ideal two-hour mix. (And for what it's worth, I don't think a lot of these tracks showed up on others' lists, so hopefully a lot of this will be new to you.) Click [...]
I found a lot of great music this month, more than I can (or wish to) fit on this playlist. I purposefully ignored everything I featured in this post , also all discovered this month and highly recommended (and ps, some of these songs come from the same sources). Shugo Tokumaru: Lahaha [via Rawkblog ] Centro-Matic: Only In My Double Mind [via Pop Headwound ] Jason Urick: The Crying Song (Album Mix) [...]
Given our name, it's no secret that we gorge on electronic sound, be it discomforting or transcendent. Guttural or sublime. We're forever wary of confirmation bias but this year does seem to have seen wave upon wave of synth based music. Not just music that features a synth but music that's built around the synth, great cathedrals constructed to encapsulate the idea of making synthetic sounds that by their design are alien and other . Except, they're not anymore. Thirty years of indoctrination has made the music of the synths mean something else. A piece of retro nostalgia at one [...]
Been wanting to use this image by TagliaMani for a while - thanks to the ever wonderful 50 Watts . Quickly (in 20JFG time*) following on from last week's post about Peepholes ' laboratory-fresh detour, Tunnels, comes the Moon Gang s remix. Combining a decaying Techno drum sequence - seemingly heard from beneath midnight-black ocean waves - with reconstructed Chi-House synth hooks, Tunnels is turned from a cyclopean night drive into something (even) more cosmic. Which you'd expect from Moon Gangs. Katia's vocal forced into a distant endless [...]
I am remiss to have not posted Moon Gangs immediately upon hearing "Sea" on 20jazzfunkgreats , and further to have not posted it in the interim. I've been listening to it A LOT. At least once a day, but usually much more. Via car stereo, computer speakers, headphones and phone speakers. Paranoid waves of steely cool sound, placated by warmer oscillations of a sun-burnt hue. Like the slip of sun that banishes the shiver of night and sets in motion the scurry of a summer's day. Ambient, kosmische, meditative, New Age, [...]
(Image by Natsuo Noma via the infallible 50 Watts ) Thank you Cindy, nice tiara by the way, really loving the mystic look! It seems that the Summer doesn't want to get started yet. Heavy winds and some rain in Brighton - not great if you want to picnic in the beach, but a total blast if you are one of the hawksmen who live on top of Sussex Heights. We hear the jokers have spent the whole afternoon swirling above the centre of town and dive-bombing the shopping crowds. All in good [...]
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