2021: Your favourite music

Exael                                             Flowered Knife Shadows

Plastikman                                    Narkosis / Spektre / TripTideThud

Cam Deas / Jung An Tagen         Presentism

Lakej                                              Conditions Of Experience

Paraadiso                                      Unison

Rat Heart                                       Rat Heart

Joy Orbison                                   Still Slipping Vol.1

Karim Maas & Stave                      Godless

Xphresh                                          Xephon

Holy Other                                      Lieve

Sky H1                                             Azure

All-Time:

Richie Hawtin DJ Sets.                  (Time Warp / BPM / Contact / Fold /

                                                         Club Fauna / Junction, etc.)

Wize edits 1-4
https://wizetheproducer.bandcamp.com/album/the-edits-series-4

Soisong broadcasts 1-9 
https://coh-official.bandcamp.com/track/soisong-broadcast-9

Amhain - all the stuff he's put out this year 
https://amhain.bandcamp.com/album/bc-dec-21

Steve Roach - again multiple awesome albums 
https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-earth-sky

Skee Mask - Pool

Shackleton - Departing like rivers

Burial & Blackdown - Shock Power of Love 

Fred again - Actual life 1 & 2

Dolphin- Ebbs & flows

Dj Seinfeld - Mirrors

Ross from friends- Tread

Dark0 - Eternity 

Lee Gamble - Flush real Pharynx

Dj Manny - Signals in my head

Mogwai - As the love continues 

Mortiz Von Oswald trio - Dissent  

Joy O - Still Slipping Vol 1

Appleblim  - Infinite hieroglyphics 

Holly other - Lieve 

Only just out and not listened enough but think Deathmachine Mutability and the new Pye Corner Audio will make the cut as well

Looking forward to checking out some of the stuff recommended, always a gold mine these threads! 

ok, from the top of my head and i'm sure i'm forgetting a lot of stuff

'blue' gene tyranny - degrees of freedom found

dilloway / dalt - lucy & aaron

ora clementi - sylva sylvarum

richard youngs - cxxi

john cage - number pieces (apartment house)

bonnie/sweeney - superwolves

shackleton - departing like rivers

jan st werner - polyarrythmia

low - hey what

Ok...here we go. I listened to a lot this year, but these are some ones without many mentions that have risen to the top.

My albums/eps/releases of the year 2021:

Priori - Your Own Power

Modern, psychedelic take on early 90s trance tunes.  Think Sun Electric meets Namlook's Air series.

Healion - In Light, It Undoes Nothing

Another appearance from Francis Latreille aka Priori - this time as a collab with Ex-Terrestrial.  Crazy rhythms meets the warm pads of both of their individual works.  

36 and Awakened Souls - The Other Side of Darkness

Epic collab between 36 and the husband/wife duo of James and Cynthia Bernard.  This one got me kept me grounded over a really tough stretch of time after it came out.  

Trichome - Mind Body Complexing

Subterranean electro a la Phonecia's Brown Out.  So many repeat plays for this one.  Also check out his many jam sessions available on his Soundcloud.

Tangents - Timeslips & Chimeras

Chilled out jazzy post-rockish fusion from a super talented group of guys.  Fans of Tortoise take note.

downtairs J - basement, etc

Highly impressive debut of dubbed out 90s homages.  Also let me to discover his incredible beat tapes under the name of Snacs.  

not even noticed - Muted Noises

Maybe my favorite new artist of the year for me.  This coupled with his Neophyta ep make for some of the most lush breakbeat based tracks I've heard in awhile.  They also have an album on the way on Dec. 31st!

Mike Shannon - Cygnus Sutra

Jazzy deep techno from one of the most underrated producers of the past 20 years.

Martinou - Rift

Really epic minimal journey perfect for late evening bike rides.  Thanks to @species8472for this rec (among others). 

Eomac - Cracks

His best album (including the Lakker stuff) in my opinion.  Banger after banger on here, but still flows so well as a whole.

Humanoid - 7 Songs (bonus edition)

These 14 tracks are some of the best acid tracks I've ever heard.  Love this pared back sound compared to the last album of his. 

Simon Pyke - Motion #1

I will never not love Simon's music.  This new ep hearkens back to some of his later Freeform-era productions.  So good. So fun.

Christoph de Babalon - 044 (Hilf Dir Selbst!)

"Cool Priest" is my anthem.  Whole ep slaps though.

TM404 - Syra

Never heard acid so tripped out.  Right up my alley.

Bigeneric - Helva

My AOTY.  Magical moments from deep in the Alps.

I'm about to LIST

@Extralife great list! and beautifully formatted and bandcamp linked. 

Calum Gunn - Excessive Step
William Fields - Fluidity
Notein - Salire
Melted Self - Distants
Proswell - People Are Giving And Receiving Thanks At Incredible Speeds
Nil Hartman - [~]
DJ Stingray 313 - Molecular Level Solutions
Zabutom - Resolution
Synalegg - Computer Series
0.syx - Radials
Kindohm - VR Sunset
Rime Trails - Youth
tsrono - n-v center
Rian Treanor - Obstacle Scattering & File Under UK Metaplasm
Hello Spiral - unknown unknowns
Amhain - jbvjvjkvkh, bc-dec-21
bitroast - in motions
encym - Rask Evighet EP
Marc Hasselbalch - I really don't want to die

good chance i'll remember a few more

wayne krantz - music room 1985 (although it's actually an unreleased album from 1985) 

Instrumental:
HOLOVR - Ethereal Forces
The Future Sound of London - We Have Explosive 2021
The Future Sound of London - Mind Maps 2
36 & Awakened Souls - The Other Side of Darkness
Humanoid - 7 Songs
Hauschka with Rob Petit & Robert Macfarlane - Upstream
The Future Sound of London - Mind Maps
Nurse With Wound - 3 Lesbian Sardines
The Future Sound of London - Music for 3 Books
36 - Music for Isolation (Suite)
The Future Sound of London - Music from Calendars
Max Richter - Exiles
Ffion - Unfurling
Claire Rousay - A Softer Focus
36 - Weaponised Serenity
Illuvia - Irridescence of Clouds
Off Land - Drone Variations Vol VI
Max Richter - Voices 2
Various - Strain, Crack & Break: Music from the Nurse With Wound List Volume 2
Humanoid - sT8818r Humanoid

Vocal:
Desperate Journalist - Maximum Sorrow
Chvrches - Screen Violence
Lande Hekt - Going to Hell
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
The Joy Formidable - Into the Blue
The Weather Station - Ignorance
Margo Cilker - Pohorylle
Pearl Charles - Magic Mirror
Roddy Woomble - Lo! Soul
The Anchoress - The Art of Losing
Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament
NYX & Gazelle Twin - Deep England
Cleaners From Venus - Penny Novelettes
Swim School - Making Sense of it All

  On 12/3/2021 at 3:22 AM, aencre said:

Some stuff that helped out and hasn't been mentioned yet:

Aaron Diloway & Lucrecia Dalt — Lucy & Aaron

Aidan Girt (1-Speed Bike)'s series of monthly EPs.

Sam Gendel — Fresh Bread

 

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Dilloway and Dalt is absolutely stunning. Gonna be high up my list when I write it down. 

this track 
 

@Extralife

that martinou album is so lush. “Thunder Road” is crazy good 

  On 12/7/2021 at 1:55 AM, Alcofribas said:

@Extralife

that martinou album is so lush. “Thunder Road” is crazy good 

No doubt. Solid groove.

nice post @Extralife quite a bit to check out there - much appreciated 

A few other things I liked:

CiM - Unselected ProTracker Mods

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle

Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders - Promises

Oklou - Galore Extended

Joe Vann - Found In The Smoke

Danny Wolfers - Song of Moss
Sky H1 - Azure
Eartheater - Phoenix: La Petite Mort Édition

Hope the Boomkat lists are up soon, always enjoy going through their stuff because most of it Ive never heard of. And once I've played a few seconds of most of the tracks, I won't want to hear them ever again 

Jesting. Sort of. 

Loess - Totems 5/5. Exactly the music I needed this year.

Andy Stott - Never The Right Time 3.5/5. "Answers" is a huge track! Such an enrichment for my music collection. 

Lone - Always Inside Your Head 3.5/5. Could have been 4.5/5 but the mastering, probably also the mixing of this album is a mess. Compression killed dynamics, so annoying cause the tracks itself are heavenly!

Nordsun - Tales of a Beautiful Life nr/5. It's a personal thing as this album is my own creation. It's the first album I was brave enough to put out on vinyl. I invested a huge amount of money while having 0 people listening to it cause I saw this album on vinyl all the time during production. It's out since June but had almost no plays, no streams and of course no transactions but holding this thing in my own hands which turned out to be a beautiful vinyl record because of high quality manufacturing still makes my heart beat faster. I talk about my financial ruin later fml... Can't deny it has a special place on my "records of 2021" list.

Hopefully all of our lists in 2022 will have a new BOC record on it!

Favorite album this year

  On 12/12/2021 at 2:40 PM, beerwolf said:

Hope the Boomkat lists are up soon, always enjoy going through their stuff because most of it Ive never heard of. And once I've played a few seconds of most of the tracks, I won't want to hear them ever again 

Jesting. Sort of. 

 

Phonica and Norman usually have good lists of stuff under the radar, although Phonica usually focuses on dance music 

I listened to the The Police discog this week.  Does that count?

My other important 2021 discoveries were Japanese Breakfast and The Go! Team.  New Failure album Wild Type Droid was also really good.   Maybe their best since Fantastic Planet.

Top fav's

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Made Out Of Sound
Arp Frique - The Seed
Space Afrika - Honest Labour
Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2 (+ the dubs)
Loraine James - Reflection
Work Money Death - The Space In Which The Uncontrollable Unknown Resides, Can Be The Place From Which Creation Arises
Danny Wolfers - Song of Moss
Lugubrum - Bruyne Kroon
Mark Fell & Rian Treanor - Last Exit To Chickenley
Terrence Dixon - Reporting From Detroit
DJ Manny - Signals In My Head

Honourable mentions

Aleksi perala's 2021 output
Amhain's 2021 output
Hieroglyphic Beings 2021 output
Mushroom Hour Half Hour - On Our Own Clock
Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 
Cylob - Placeholder
De Schuurman - Bubbling Inside
Salvatorin - BRICKWORKS/RANDOM ANCIENT SALVS
MEMBERS ONLY - The Worst Edits vol. 2
Darkthrone - Eternal Hails...... 
RP Boo - Established!
The New Boyfriends - The New Boyfriends 3
Pamela Z - A Secret Code
Madlib - Sound Ancestors

EP's

SDEM - SYNCAV
Sophie – Bipp (Autechre Mx)
Omar - S - Still Fucking Resident Advisor + What's Good for the Goose
Rian Treanor - Obstacle Scattering
Theo Parrish - In Motion
Billy Lo – It's The Life
DJ Stingray 313 - Molecular Level Solutions
NWAQ – Above EP
Humanoid - sT8818r Humanoid
Dollkraut - Vuile Leugenaar
DMX Krew - Peripheral Visions + Overseer
Various - Private Party (030303)
Caramel Chameleon - Solitario
Capsule Network – Colundi Interception 3

Compilations

Sounds Of Pamoja 
Swave Villi Us
Club Coco
Essiebons Special 1973-1984
Onderwereld - SCHENK1
Shadow Wolf Cyberzine Cover Tape 1

The album best encapsulating the pandemic in 2021

https://fakeestates.bandcamp.com/album/a-mechanical-joey

https://vladislavdelay.bandcamp.com/album/rakka-ii

https://moormother.bandcamp.com/album/black-encyclopedia-of-the-air

https://hhelmm.bandcamp.com/album/axis

https://rancapduoi.bandcamp.com/album/ng-ng-y-ngay-ng-y-t-n-th

https://theyouthlabel.bandcamp.com/album/fumu-almost-never-nearly-where

https://www.axisrecords.com/product/zachary-lubin-abeona-adiona/

https://daughterprodukt.bandcamp.com/track/artificial-transmutation

https://dopplereffekt.bandcamp.com/track/hadron

  On 12/10/2021 at 2:04 PM, Enthusiast said:

A few other things I liked:

CiM - Unselected ProTracker Mods

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle

Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders - Promises

cheers for the Coltrane recommendation