rino Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 My picks of 2009, despite there is still some making up to do, would roughly look like this: Jeff Mills - Sleeper wakes (Third Ear) (what is this? Does this guy get only better the more wrinkles he gets? One of his best albums yet!!!) Joris Voorn - Balance 014 (EQ Recordings) Planetary Assault Systems - Temporary suspension (Ostgut Ton) Those would be the albums, as for vinyls, these made a mark: Ancient Methods - Third method (Ancient Methods) Ancient Methods - Fourth method (Ancient Methods) *for me, Ancient Methods are the best project I have listened to since the demise of BMB Surgeon - Hello Oslo (Counterbalance) Ugandan Methods - Mat Oput - 1/2 (Downwards) Oscar Mulero:Svreca - As this as christ (2009) Robert Hood - Superman/Range (M-Plant) Your turn now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exotic Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 Sven Weisemann - xine (absulotely brilliant if you're into ambient, what a grower) Rameses III - I Could Not Love You More ( lovely drone ) Moderat- Moderat (one of the most stunning electronic albums of the year. you gotta hear this one if you're a techno + dub fan) DJ Sprinkles- Midtown 120 Blues ( killer house record) Quantec- Cauldron Subsidence ( like sven ) Mokira - persona ( another one for ambient fans) Mind Over Midi- Habitat (gorgeous) Telefon Tel Aviv- Immolate Yourself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yard Hippie Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Have really enjoyed: Scanner - Rockets unto the edges of edges (very powerful experimental stuff. In a league of it's own) Brock Van Whey - White clouds drift on and on (drone music to really get lost in plus a 2nd more dubby mix of the whole thing by Intrusion which may as well be a totally different release) Lissom - Nest of iterations (more lovely drone. Extremely atmospheric) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapinho Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Damn, I was so hoping for a topic like this and had some things I wanted to add here, but the only one I can think of right now is: Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue (WARP) highly original mix of styles, there's a little bit of everything in here which can be both a turnoff for purists and a huge turn on for eclectici like myself. More will follow! Wisp - The Shimmering Hour Clubroot – Clubroot deep, dark dubby & steppy tunes. Yagya - Rigning excellent theme-based album with a lot of atmosphere. for rainy daze. Contenders that I haven't yet explored myself (how weird is that?) but that I feel can still make a big impact on me. (Where to buy, by the way?) Telefon tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself The Black Dog – Further Vexations Ochre - Like Dust Of The Balance Monolake - Silence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 My favourites for 2009 (in no particular order). It was a great year for non-psy trance music. Total 10 (Kompakt) Solomun - Dance Baby Max Essa - Continental Drift Bodycode - Immune Silicone Soul Modeselektor - Body Language vol. 8 Joris Voorn - Balance 14 Holger Ziksje - Holz Tirk 02 Claro Intelecto - Warehouse Sessions Matias Aguayo - Ay, ay, ay Mihalis Safras - Cry For the Last Dance Monolake - Silence Pixel - The Drive Alva Noto - Xerox vol 2 Phantom Ghost - Thrown Out of Drama School Martyn Great Lengths Kompact Pop Ambient 2009 Lawrence - Until then, good bye Neil Landstrumm -Bambaattaa Eats His Breakfast Todd Bodine - Forms Will Saul - All Night Long My favourite things vol. 2 Enjoy the Silence (Mule) Yagya - Rigning 5 Years of Hyperdub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 EMPUSAE - MORTUSAE SUNN O))) - MONOLITHS THE RESIDENTS - THE UGHS ! LAIBACH - KUNST DER FUGE LEGOWELT - VATOS LOCOS LEGOWELT - AMIGA RAILROAD ADVENTURES TOTAKEKE - THINGS THAT DISAPPEAR WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES DADAMNPHREAKNOIZPHUNK - THE CHEERLEADERS ARE SMILIN'' AT YOU DR. MOTTE & GABRIEL LE MAR - DR. MOTTE MEETS GABRIEL LE MAR PETE NAMLOOK & GABRIEL LE MAR - NAMLOOK LE MAR THE FIELD - YESTERDAY AND TODAY SOLIQUID - TRANSPORTATION UNION JACK - PYLON PIGS GABRIEL LE MAR - DUBWIZE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTP Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Royksopp - Junior One tiny punch and pop sounds great. I mean you can not dislike those vocals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapinho Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Clubroot - Clubroot Very nice atmospheric, chilled down dubstep-influenced stuff. Worth a listen for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapinho Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 I'm kinda disappointed in the amount of response here... this is a topic I was looking forward to, a lot! Bring on the recommendations, guys. I got such a lot of inspiration out of last year's topic... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laserflip Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Dominik Eulberg - Sensorika & Perlmutt Extrawelt - Deine Beine Rmxs Monolake - Atlas / Titan Optic - Distant Memories EP [free release] Mantsevich Dzenis & Myszkowski - A Little Autumn Poem [free release] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amphiton Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 I'm kinda disappointed in the amount of response here... this is a topic I was looking forward to, a lot! Bring on the recommendations, guys. I got such a lot of inspiration out of last year's topic... I will, as well as I will post in the 2008 thread, which I started and didn't post anything there There's just so much outside of psytrance, that it takes lots of time to track down and actually listen Looking forward to more posts as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawfly Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 Bar 9 - Triple Drop EP Proem - Till There's No Breath DJ Hidden - The Words Below Marching Dynamics - The Workers Party Of Haiti Vir Unis - The Winter Ghost Implex And Enei - Sublife Michael Black Electro - Stripped Anatomy Of Stendeck - Sonnambula Black Sun Empire & State Of Mind - Sandbag / Animal EP Yagya - Rigning Yggdrasil - Prose Edda Atrium Carceri - Phrenitis Mokira - Persona Kryptic Minds - One Of Us Solar Fields - Movements Burial + Four Tet - Moth / Wolf Cub EP Clint Mansell - Moon Aes Dana - Leylines Ex_Tension - Legacy Defrag - Lament Element 36 - Hypersona Various - Imaginary Friends Rafael Anton Irisarri - Hopes And Past Desires EP Cell - Hanging Masses Talbot & Deru - Genus Porn Sword Tobacco - Everything Is Music To The Ear Clubroot - S/T Imminent - Cask Strength Loess - Burrows Boxcutter - Arecibo Message Lusine - A Certain Distance Various - 5 Years Of Hyperdub There might be more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapinho Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 Ok, now I agree with a lot of your stuff, Sawfly, but wouldn't mind a description of what you are posting and why I should listen to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murphythecat Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 In no particular order Nosaj Thing/Drift: very moody and glitchy instrumental hip oriented music. ----------------------------------------------- Ochre/Like Dust Of The Balance: Great IDM album innovative,refreshing stuff. ---------------------------------------------- Worriedaboutsatan/Arrivals All about Minimal aspect of sound not my favourite but still enjoy some part of the album Favs tracks here:7-8 & 10 ---------------------------------------------- Lawrence English/A Colour For Autumn ---------------------------------------------- Monolake/Silence ---------------------------------------------- Kettel/Myam James 2 ---------------------------------------------- Port-Royal/Dying In Time ---------------------------------------------- Last Days/Safety of the North another masterpiece by n5MD record !!! ---------------------------------------------- Ametsub/The Nothings Of The North ---------------------------------------------- Access To Arasaka/Oppidan ---------------------------------------------- Wisp/The Shimmering Hour --------------------------------------------- Venetian Snares/Filth completly insane!! -------------------------------------------- That what I've listen from 09 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamWalker Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 My favorite non-psy of 2009 was Yagya's Rigning. http://www.discogs.com/Yagya-Rigning/release/1611805 If you haven't heard it, get...it...now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawfly Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 Of course I left out two amazing comps. Miwak Twelve on Hymen Records and Emerging Organisms Vol. 3 on Tympanik Audio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawfly Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 More of some very nice IDM stuff.. I kinda gave up on the stuff back in 2007 and been discovering again this year Oxyd - Astral Border Aphorism - Surge Access To Arasaka - Oppidan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redington Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 Access and Aphorism are great. Haven't checked out Oxyd though. But now I definitely will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawfly Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 Access and Aphorism are great. Haven't checked out Oxyd though. But now I definitely will. Well, it's a bit tricky album imo, there's a bunch of choir samples going on which made me laugh at it first, but it has some melodies and I know I'm going to like it more once I've had more listens e. And I can't understand how I could've left out the real gem released last year: End - The Dangerous Class !!! I always knew Mr. Charles Peirce had something good growing inside of him and he finally was able to let it all out, the album is freakin' brilliant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drosophila Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 DR. MOTTE & GABRIEL LE MAR - DR. MOTTE MEETS GABRIEL LE MAR Great release sort of dubish techno (which I really like) , also one of my favorites this year... but I can see I need to check out a lot of stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yard Hippie Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 F*** Buttons - Tarot Sport This is some pretty cool noise stuff from last year (according to Discogs. Thought it was a 2010 release myself). At first I wasn't so sure as it's quite abrasive and very exhausting to the ear but after a few listens I'm digging what they've done here. The first track on the album, 'Surf Solar', has an awesome repeating sample right the way through and when they eventually drop the thing it feels like your anchorpoint has been dissintegrated and you just float higher and higher. Cool and unlike anything else I own. Lusine - A Certain Distance Again I thought this was a 2010 but discogs says not Very nice, warm, techno beats underlaying nice pop stylised vocals. Two Dots is the most pop-ish of the tracks on show here (gotta love her voice), the rest are more abstract with less of an obvious chorus structure (excluding 'Twilight' which is extremely vocal driven but perhaps personally weaker than 'Two Dots'). My favourite on here has to be 'Gravity' in which the beat is generated through majorly chopping up spoken word segments. Lusine's previous work 'Language Barrier' is absolutely outstanding also but is in a very different style, so much so that it's difficult to compare the two. I'd say that as a whole I enjoy 'Language Barrier' a lot more, but that's because I'm an ambient head at heart Pillowdiver - Sleeping Pills Does exactly what it says on the digipack; this provokes an extremely pleasent feeling of warmth and sluggishness that can only be nice after a long days graft... Messes with my brain so much but I don't really know what to say about it. It's experimental, guitar driven and gloopy slow. Awesome release even if I can't express how nice a piece this is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redington Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 I would have to say that Broken Note's Terminal Static is one of the best albums in 2009. Can't believe I didn't mention this sooner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawfly Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 These too SE - Epiphora Shadow Huntaz - Dark Matter The_Empath - At The Heart Of It All Downlink - Ignition EP Balkansky - Kuker L'Ombre - Letting Go At The Steering Wheel Undermathic - Return To Childhood Tapage - Fallen Clouds SubtractiveLAD - Where The Land Meets The Sky Jega - Variance Broken Note - Terminal Static Sick Cycle / Sook - Hive Mind EP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longloststar Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Markus Guentner - Doppelganger (Sending Orbs) Best ambient I've heard in years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exotic Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 These too SE - Epiphora Shadow Huntaz - Dark Matter The_Empath - At The Heart Of It All Downlink - Ignition EP Balkansky - Kuker L'Ombre - Letting Go At The Steering Wheel Undermathic - Return To Childhood Tapage - Fallen Clouds SubtractiveLAD - Where The Land Meets The Sky Jega - Variance Broken Note - Terminal Static Sick Cycle / Sook - Hive Mind EP The downlink EP is just sick filth sick sick filth ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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