Memorable Releases for 2011

what the fuck is that

  On 11/25/2011 at 6:07 AM, Dan C said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyx6JDQCslE&ob=av2e

troll, get back under your bridge

It's a good song.

so far

Bibio - Mind Bokeh

Kuedo - Severant

Austin Peralta - Endless Planets

Africa HiTech - 93 Million Miles

Wagon Christ - Toomorrow

Global Goon - Quones

Machinedrum - Room(s)

Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse

wAgAwAgA Hyper Typewriter

Daedelus - Bespoke

Björk - Biophilia

2562 -Fever

africa hitech - 93 million miles

automatic tasty - Life after Debt

bvdub - All 6 albums

cex - Tiny Creatures

gil scott-heron & jamie xx - We're New here

Kerrier District - Kerrier District 3

lone - echolocations

mark fell - Manitutshu

maschine -Machine

Machinedrum - Room(s)

NHKyz - Yx aka 1ch aka Solo

sebastian - Total

suriusmo - Mozaik

surgeon - Breaking The Frame

Tim hecker - Ravedeath 1972

wagon christ - Toomorrow

zomby - Dedication

zwischenwelt - Paranormale Aktivitat

Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise is from 2010, but is indeed some top notch shit.

Here's a far from complete list of a number of releases I've been obsessed about from this year:

In bold means it's extra sick.

Pete Swanson - Man With Potential (Type)

Low Leaf - Chrysalis EP (self-released)

Distal - Angry Acid (Tectonic)

Surkin - USA (Marble)

Noob - Spell EP (Sound Pelligrino)

Steve Hauschildt - Tragedy & Geometry (Kranky)

Patrice & Friends - Cashmere Sheets (Sulk.)

ASAP Rocky - LiveLoveA$AP (Self-Released)

Mark Fell - Manitutshu (Editions Mego)

Mark Fell - Periodic Orbits Of A Dynamic System Related To A Knot (Editions Mego)

Blackout Beach - Fuck Death (Dead Oceans)

Powell / Karl O'Connor (Regis) - The Ongoing Significance Of Steel And Flesh (Diagonal)

Heatsick - Intersex (Pan)

Davis - Davis (Leaving Records)

Dak - Ntoo (Poo-bah Records)

Ras G - Space Base Is The Place (Poo-bah Records)

Ital - Ital's Theme (100% Silk)

Ital - Culture Clubs (100% Silk)

Sir Stephen - By Design (100% Silk)

Bangs & Works Vol. 2 (Planet Mu)

GhettoTeknizianz EP (Planet Mu)

Venetian Snares - Cubist Reggae (Planet Mu)

Machinedrum - Room(s) (Planet Mu)

Machinedrum - Alrma (LuckyMe)

Funkineven - Apron EP (Apron Records)

Dimlite - Grimm Reality (Now-again Records)

Willie Burns - = House (Crème Organization)

Seaside Houz Boyz - Deephouz Yall (Crème Organization)

Blouse - Blouse (Captured Trakcs)

G.H. - Ground EP (Modern Love)

Andy Stott - We Stay Together (Modern Love)

Andy Stott - Passed Me By (Modern Love)

Miles - Facets EP (Modern Love)

Jonwayne - Bowser (Alpha Pup)

Young Montana? - Limerence (Alpha Pup)

DJ Clap - Premiere (Self Released)

Yves Des May - Counting Triggers (Sandwell District)

Canblaster - Master of Complication (Nightshifters)

Blawan - What You Do With What You Have (R&S)

Rustie - Glass Swords (Warp)

Bibio / Clark - Willenhall / Baskerville Grinch (Warp)

Hudson Mohawke - Satin Panthers (Warp)

Jam City - Water Worx EP (Nightslugs)

Kingdom / Girl Unit - Ride it Every Time / Fogs (Nightslugs)

Farben - Xango (Faitiche)

Samiyam - Sam Baker's Album (Brainfeeder)

Ceephax Acid Crew - The Unstoppable Phax Machine (030303)

NHKyx – yx aka 1ch aka Solo (Skam)

Julio Bashmore - Everyone Needs A Thme Tune (PMR)

Javeon McCarthy - Love Without a Heart (PMR)

Lil Silva - The Patience EP (Good Years)

Clams Casino - Rainforest (Tri Angle)

XXXY - You Gotta Do You (Orca)

Hype Williams - Kelly Price W8 Gain Vol II (Hyperdub)

Ossie - Set The Tone EP (Hyperdub)

Emptyset - Demiurge (Subtext)

Capsule - World of Fantasy (Yamaha Music Communications)

Bullion - You Drive Me to Plastic (Young Turks)

Dirty Beaches - Badlands (Zoo Music)

Ifan Dayfdd - No Good/Miranda (Not-On Label)

Enchante - North End (Greco-Roman)

LiL JaBBA - Swisher (Watercolor)

Global Goon-Carbon

  On 11/25/2011 at 8:41 PM, Dan C said:

It's a good song.

But it is not.

  On 11/28/2011 at 5:44 AM, essines said:

  On 11/25/2011 at 8:41 PM, Dan C said:

It's a good song.

But it is not.

But it is.

apparently electronic music has degraded to the point of arguing over whether or not a LMFAO song is good. Music is dead, just like painting.

FaltyDL - You Stand Uncertain

Steffi - Yours & Mine

end of year charts from the guys of planet mu

http://planet.mu/news/135

Finally got around to hearing Replica & it is sweeeet

I think OPN's main strength is being able to take electronic music concepts that once seemed mysterious until they were way overused (IE echoing synth arpeggios on Rifts, wandering reverbed-out melodics on Returnal, & pitched snippet loops of old media on Replica) & somehow reinvigorating them with more transdimensional weirdness than one would have expected from them even in the old days.

Severant was probably my favorite 2011 album. I'm not really into the Wonky beats. But I just love the old school synthesizers on this thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsz4L-IzQZo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en-HmMPpze4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D93uYqM-iGU

2011 was a pretty uneventful year for me musically. I liked a couple of albums, but nothing that everyone else was smitten with or that got much attention. And, to be totally honest, nothing that blew my mind like previous years. None the less, I enjoyed these most:

CoH - IIron

Mondkopf - Rising Doom

Blood Ceremony - Living With the Ancients

Ford & Lopatin - Channel Pressure

That Mondkopf album is actually really something special, kinda miffed that watmm didn't get on that. Listening to it now feels like I've been listening to it for years.