Album of the year?

Tough to choose. This time last year I was devouring new music; in 2009 it's been more about discovering old classics. In that vein my favourite record of 2009 is probably a reissue or compilation; at the moment I'm loving The True Story Of Abner Jay

James Blackshaw's The Glass Bead Game.

luke eargoggle - lightwriters infovox

The Field - Yesterday & Today

Grizzly Bear - Vecakatimest

Engineers - Three Fact Fader

Dinosaur Jr - Farm

Subway - Subway II

Elephant Stone - The Seven Seas

The Horrors - Primary Colors

2009 has been amazing so far...

i dont get why people like bibio so much

i'm glad i see so many bands listed that i've never heard of, lots of new music for me to discover!

now i've just got to see how much i can find on the sordomusic database as i'm on a mac now which doesn't do soulseek

they do

Sun Ra and his myth science solar arkestra - Nidhamu & Dark Myth Equation Visitation (re-issue)

Mika Vainio - Black Telephone of Matter

SND - Atavism

Hecker - Acid in the Style of David Tudor

Tim Hecker - an Imaginary Country

Clark - Totems Flare

Dr Who Dat? - Beyond 2morrow

J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid

these are what i remember

merriweather post pavilion

but i hope i am forced to change this when/if a new boc or aphex comes this yare

would like to add Major Lazer - Guns dont kill people, lazers Do

  On 8/23/2009 at 12:54 PM, Grizz said:

Either Clark's or Keaver & Brause - The Middle Way.

 

Not been many mindblowing albums but a lot of decent ones.

AHAHGHHGAA! why in the fuck did this boring band rip off the name of an obscure 60s's synthesizer group Beaver & krause? i mean it just raises my expectations so much that would never think in a million years it was boring indie shit which it is, its 10,000 times less interesting than the cheesy synthesizer shit made by B & K.

  On 8/23/2009 at 8:41 PM, Brian Tregaskin said:

luke eargoggle - lightwriters infovox

where can one find this? I heard some luke eargoggle stuff from brian e that blew me away, some of the most interesting electro i've heard.

my own -

tortoise - beacons of ancestorship

Reformed Faction (Z*F) - I am the source of light, I am not a mirror 3xcd

SND - Altavism

Brian E - Yellow Light District

Wisp - Shimmering Hour

Nommo Ogo - Across Time and Space

DJ Stingray and Heinrich Mueller - Drexyian connection

Ceephax - Drive Time

Kush Arora - Boiling Over

Soisong - xAj3z

Terminal 11 - Kaleidoscope Eyes

The Field - Yesterday And Today

Intrusion - The Seduction Of Silence

the year isn't over yet?

i haven't heard much this year. i'm pretty bored with what i have heard. maybe it's time to dig a little deeper.

  On 8/23/2009 at 10:04 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 8/23/2009 at 8:41 PM, Brian Tregaskin said:

luke eargoggle - lightwriters infovox

 

where can one find this? I heard some luke eargoggle stuff from brian e that blew me away, some of the most interesting electro i've heard.

i'm quite sure it's easy to order on the web. of course i didn't buy it, you know how i am lol

yeah the drexciyan connection ep is great! it's just weird to listen to the first track at this tempo when you've heard it already on stingray's myspace at a way faster tempo.

ceephax's drive time was great too.

brian e - yellow light district: what is it with the weird EQ/mastering? i think it spoils the whole thing because the tracks are fucking great apart from that. now it might be just me but really, the first versions of these tracks sounded better imo

Clark - Totems Flare

Wisp - The Shimmering Hour

Bibio - Vignetting the Compost and A. Avenue

Kettel - Myam Jams Part 2

Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 2

Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective

Pan American - White Bird Release

Luke Vibert - We Hear You

Hecq - Steeltongued

The Field - Yesterday & Today

Richard Skelton - Marking Time

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

... but lots more to look forward to, so I don't think we've seen AOTY yet.

  On 8/23/2009 at 11:06 PM, Brian Tregaskin said:

 

brian e - yellow light district: what is it with the weird EQ/mastering? i think it spoils the whole thing because the tracks are fucking great apart from that. now it might be just me but really, the first versions of these tracks sounded better imo

the record sounds pretty standard mastering to me, what format did you hear it in? if you bootlegged the mp3s i wouldn't be surprised if it sounded different. i'm honestly pretty surprised that the mastering would be weirding you out in any way (if you heard it proper), the pre mastered tracks VS the final ones sound pretty similar.

Out of curiosity I just checked out the Scorn release on RLR on an mp3 blog where it had been ripped. I was very pleased that the idiot who ripped it did it at 45rpm and not 33 1/3rd and the treble was turned up insanely high. i have to lol at people who only downloaded it and didnt bother to buy.

i grabbed 320k mp3s on the web. i hope it's just these mp3s that sound awful.

  On 8/23/2009 at 11:32 PM, Brian Tregaskin said:

i grabbed 320k mp3s on the web. i hope it's just these mp3s that sound awful.

it bothers me a lot that people will judge an exclusive vinyl record release based on a bootleg mp3 rip.

according to my last.fm my album of the year is still nah und fern; the newest material on this is eight years old

go figure

ok you know what, i just listened to the tracks again but with headphones this time (real good ones - theyre not mine though boohoohoo) and 3 things surprised me:

1- the mastering is pretty good actually - i think it was just my speakers that fucked up the sound

2- the masters are indeed quite similar to the originals. i compared the 2 versions of tokyo rock and the EQ is the same actually

3- the mp3 rip i grabbed is awful! the sounds are saturated a bit. blame the fucker who ripped the album! *shakes fist*

to sum up, my apologies, my speakers are shite and some people can't even rip a vinyl properly

  On 8/23/2009 at 12:44 PM, mikew5th said:

at first i thought animal collective's new one was really good

but then i heard grizzly bears newest (awsome live show at the pabst from this tour too) and i've read on some other places that they say this album is

but that was before i heard the new megafaun - holy shit

all tiny creatures - also awesome

but now i've downloaded the new single from volcano choir, sounds amazing, this might be the album of the year

 

what is your fav of this year so far?

Are any of those albums "electronic"?

Sorry guy, no disrespect intended but for real...

Anyways...the Harmonic 313 deal is alright, same with Clark, but if those are the best records of the year it's been a sad year indeed.

Haven't heard the new Vibert. Need to though...also my planet-mu listening pleasures have been limited this year.

Why does everyone like SND - Atavism?

I can't get that album, I try really hard but its nothing but repedetive annoying noise to me

  On 8/24/2009 at 1:15 AM, chenGOD said:

  On 8/23/2009 at 12:44 PM, mikew5th said:

at first i thought animal collective's new one was really good

but then i heard grizzly bears newest (awsome live show at the pabst from this tour too) and i've read on some other places that they say this album is

but that was before i heard the new megafaun - holy shit

all tiny creatures - also awesome

but now i've downloaded the new single from volcano choir, sounds amazing, this might be the album of the year

 

what is your fav of this year so far?

 

Are any of those albums "electronic"?

 

Sorry guy, no disrespect intended but for real...

is the name of the thread 'electronic album of the year'?

  On 8/24/2009 at 1:21 AM, thehauntingsoul said:

Why does everyone like SND - Atavism?

 

I can't get that album, I try really hard but its nothing but repedetive annoying noise to me

i have to be in a particular mood to listen to SND

  On 8/24/2009 at 1:29 AM, kaini said:

 

i have to be in a particular mood to listen to SND

Same. I've listened to Atavism once and while I like a lot of the sounds, I don't think saying "think of it as origami" saves it from the fact that sometimes it just sounds uninspired.

And I second Moderat, great album. Surprisingly great.

  On 8/23/2009 at 11:38 PM, kaini said:

according to my last.fm my album of the year is still nah und fern; the newest material on this is eight years old

 

go figure

Your musical compatibility with KainiIndustries is Super

Music you have in common includes The Focus Group, Autechre, Belbury Poly, Animal Collective and The Fall.

keaver and brause - middle way

micachu - jewellery

j dilla - jay stay paid ...might not count as '09..

paul white - the strange dreams of paul white

falty dl - love is a liability

and probably hudson mohawke - butters...when its out

single : guido - way u make me feel