2021: Your favourite music

Dit Sese - Dit Sese

Wet Mirror - Wet Mirror

Me Lost Me - The Good Noise

Neil Campbell & Nick Edwarsds - The State We're In

Shackleton - Departing Like Rivers

Mark Dicker - Flyalarm

Himukalt - Knifed Through The Spine

Lucidet - Life Chaos Death Order

Scald Hymn - Instance of Home

Knifedoutofexistence - No Healing

Trou Aux Rats - Le Cloaque Apres La Romance 

Ekoplekz - Revenant Tapes

Speed Dealer Moms - SDM-LA8-441-114-211

Kjostad - Warlord

I put some more info and links on my blog if anyone is interested in my thoughts.  

The Best Albums of 2021 (Resident Advisor)

Top 50 Albums of the Year 2021 (Bleep)

>>ALBUMS

Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Un Hiver En Plein Été

Vatican Shadow - SR-71 Blackbird Survivors

Dean Blunt - BLACK METAL 2

The Hellp - Vol. 1

Daniel Avery - Together In Static

Sweet Trip - A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals

Xiu Xiu - OH NO

Beach House - Once Twice Melody

>>EPs/ SINGLES

Dean Blunt - STOOZY (Kwake Dubs)

Oli XL - Go Oli Go! / Cartoon Smile

The Hellp - Enemy

  On 12/17/2021 at 9:52 PM, dcom said:

The Best Albums of 2021 (Resident Advisor)

Top 50 Albums of the Year 2021 (Bleep)

What are yours?

2021 was kind of a weak year musically 

Inkipak - Slightly Salted/Inkipak
Pye Corner Audio - Entangled Routes
Heogen - Odd Radio Circle
Dryft - From Stasis
4rd - Infinite Speedbump
Serge Geyzel - aux4426
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Interim Report, March 1979/People and Industry
Concretism - Teliffusion
Clocolan - This Will End In Love
Dalham - Fünf
Obay Alsharani - Sandbox
Muziq & Mrs Jynx - Secret Garden
Crumb - Ice Melt
Loess - Totems
Various Artists - Brabuhr Q-ih
Love Horses - A Personal & Confidential Chat
Idlefon - COLDSTREAM
Utopia Cloak ‎- Tears EP
Fire-Toolz - Eternal Home [Instrumentals]
Ocoeur - Connections
The Heartwood Institute & HAWKSMOOR ‎- Concrete Island
Jorja Chalmers - Midnight Train

  On 12/18/2021 at 7:49 AM, nikisoko said:

2021 was kind of a weak year musically 

Seems like all of the projects artists worked on and released during/after the initial 2020 lockdown had them burnt out for this year

  On 12/18/2021 at 11:11 AM, ARPA said:

Dryft - From Stasis

I meant to add this to my list, epic stuff

Rick Myers & Matt Krefting - Movements For Reginaphone + Cassette

Peter Zinovieff - South Pacific Migration Party

FUJI||||||||||TA - KŌMORI

  On 12/18/2021 at 7:49 AM, nikisoko said:

2021 was kind of a weak year musically 

  On 12/15/2021 at 3:03 PM, Herr Jan said:

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

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Totally forgot to include Senga Ferreira - Take The Evil Spirit Away, which definitely deserves to be in there somewhere. Top tip. 

Alva Noto - HYbr:ID I

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Monomom

Alva Noto & Joeb Beving - Hanging D

Aleksi Peralta - (He put out way too much good music this year, and I enjoyed so much of it)

Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - An Evening at Home With Silk Sonic

Celer - It Would Have, But It Wasn't

Chihei Hatakeyama - Late Spring

Chihei Hatakeyama - Void Xxiivoid Xxiiii

Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders - Promises

Loscil - Lux: Refractions

Miho Hatori - Between Isekai and Slice of Life

OPN -Magic Oneohtrix Point Never

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Flying Fish Ambience

Sebastian Mullaert & Wa Wu We - Wa Wu We 005

Sedibus & The Orb - The Heavens

Sei A - Universal Love

Taylor Swift - evermore

tsrono - starless, cloudless

https://karelvo.com/2021-music/

Will be updated sometime soon

My top 20

Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Haram
Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
Lice - WASTELAND: What Ails Our People Is Clear
R.A.P. Ferreira - Bob's Son: R.A.P. Ferreira in the Garden Level Cafe of the Scallops Hotel
R.A.P. Ferreira - The Light Emitting Diamond Cutter Scriptures
Liars - The Apple Drop
Failure - Wild Type Droid
Helvetia - Essential Aliens
Nation of Language - A Way Forward
Sunken Foal - Two Moon Junction
Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
L'Orange & Namir Blade - Imaginary Everything
Spirit of the Beehive - Entertainment, Death
Moin - Moot!
Writing Squares - Chart for the Solution
Madlib - Sound Ancestors
J.R.C.G. - Ajo Sunshine
Anika - Change
µ-Ziq - Scurlage
Darkside - Spiral

Things could change, as they do. I listened to the µ-Ziq & Mrs Jynx album just this past weekend for the first time, and again this morning. It's quite good I just don't know where to put it yet. It's probably better than Scurlage but can't make that call yet. I also listened to Space Afrika's Honest Labour a couple of times late in the year and right now it's #21 but I could see that climbing. 

  On 11/30/2021 at 11:40 AM, Nil said:

William Fields - Fluidity

combing this thread and I'm so glad I checked this out, fantastic album

  On 12/20/2021 at 8:52 PM, Boxus said:

combing this thread and I'm so glad I checked this out, fantastic album

Thank you so much ! I'm pretty sure I've listened to the tunes more than anyone else on this planet hehe (preparing the release, mastering it etc...) and Fluidity's an astonishing grower of an album. A true pleasure to work with William too.

My main man Melon is up with his favourite EPs

I forgot to add these fab eps:

Splitradix - Philatelic Diethylamide/51º53'43"Nord 8º25'09"Waldorf

Plenty more I forgot I guess, 2021 went by even faster than 2020 ... blurriest decade start in my lifetime.

  On 12/21/2021 at 4:22 PM, ARPA said:

I forgot to add these fab eps:

Splitradix - Philatelic Diethylamide/51º53'43"Nord 8º25'09"Waldorf

Plenty more I forgot I guess, 2021 went by even faster than 2020 ... blurriest decade start in my lifetime.

oh damn yes ... Barker - BARKER002 ep

  On 12/21/2021 at 4:35 PM, ARPA said:

oh damn yes ... Barker - BARKER002 ep

That definitely deserves a spot on mine as well.

Yeah I forgot about Barker as well!

Haven't seen many mentions to Ceephax Acid Crew - Box Steady

Will work out a list as well

These are the ones I listened the most:

Ceephax Acid Crew - Box Steady
Madlib / Four Tet - Sound Ancestors
Lone - Always Inside Your Head
Mitch Murder - Then Again
µ-Ziq & Mrs Jynx - Secret Garden
µ-Ziq - Scurlage

  On 12/20/2021 at 8:51 PM, sidewinder said:

Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost

Damn, can’t believe I forgot this one on my list. Stormer.