WATMM's 2013 Album Of The Year - Nominations

mix tapes / podcasts

Four Tet - Beats in Space

Air France Fact

 

favorite albums:

 

1. Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
2. Busta Rhymes + Q-Tip - The Abstract and the Dragon
3. Nocow - Solus
4. Disclosure - Settle
5. Four Tet - beautiful rewind
6. Jon Hopkins - Immunity
7. Tim Hecker - Virgins
8. Axel Boman - Family Vacation
9. Forest Swords - Engravings
10. Bibio - Silver Wilkinson

 

Mentions

 

Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain

Zomby - With Love

Yosi Horikawa - Vapor

Autechre - Exai (just haven't had a chance to digest all of it yet)

Darkside - Psychic

FaltyDL - Hardcourage (I've seen it listed as a 2012 album, if its 2013 it would no doubt be top 5)

 

Favourite EP

 

Burial - Truant / Rough Sleeper

Todd Terje - Spiral

FKA Twigs

Edited December 23, 2013 by digman

Holden - The Inheritors.

 

That is all.

Autechre - Exai

Fluorescent Grey - Antique Electronic / Synthesizer Greats 1955-1985 Pt. 2 & 3

ERAAS - Initiation

Scald Rougish - Bytreqw

The Wyrding Module - Subtemple Session II

µ-Ziq - Somerset Avenue Tracks

I forgot:

 

tricot - THE

Toro Y Moi - Anything In Return

Photodementia - Fig. 04c

Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven

John Wizards - John Wizards

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

Bibio - Silver Wilkinson

 

Good year!

Was Sacred Tapestry - Shader this year?

  On 12/6/2013 at 4:02 PM, murphythecat8 said:

wow, no kettel unreleased 2002-2012. Songs like Dream collapse, haule whom, her smells fades away, jongebeer, bob and bod, Drowse are all profound masterpieces. You may whish to go revisit.

Damn, I didn't hear about this one. Cheers!

Get 'em in, get 'em in! Nominations end on New Year's. Voting to follow shortly.

approximate order

 

Luke Wyatt | Teen Hawk

Benedek | Untitled (Peoples Potential Unlimited Test Pressing)

Maxmillion Dunbar | House Of Woo (+ Woo Daps Mixtape)

Colleen | The Weighing Of The Heart

Elliphant | A Good Idea

DJ Overdose | Bizarro World

Phoebe Kiddo | Artefacts Of Broken Dreams

Cosby | Hands Together

Galcher Lustwerk | 100% Galcher

DJ Sprinkles | Queerifications & Ruins

Jessy Lanza | Pull My Hair Back

John Heckle | Desolate Figures

Beautiful Swimmers | Son

Demi Lovato | Demi

Gunnar Haslam | Mimesiak

Omar S | Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself

Forest Swords | Engravings

EOD | Volume 1

Atom TM | HD

NRSB 11 | Commodified

Katie Gately | Katie Gately

Top 5

Kettel - Unreleased 2002-2012

U-Ziq - Chewed Corners

Lapalux - Nostalchic

BoC - Tomorrow's Harvest

Jon Hopkins - Immunity

Suite for top 10

Arovane - Ve Palor

John Wizards - John Wizards

Drexciya - Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller IV

DeepChord - 20 Electrostatic Soundfields

OPN – R+7

11-15

Atoms for Peace – Amok

Bochum Welt - Good Programs (To Be Coloured In Yellow)

(Ghost) - Departure

Vondelpark - Seabed

Ocoeur - Light as a Feather

16-20

Arca - &&&&&

Grouper - The Man Who Died In His Boat

Tim Hecker - Virgins

The Haxan Cloak – Excavation

Cristian Vogel – Eselsbrücke

Ambient and modern classical

Greg Haines - Where We Were

Rafael Anton Irisarri - The Unintentional Sea

Rhian Sheehan - Stories From Elsewhere

Ex Confusion - With Love

Netherworld - Alchemy Of Ice

Bluetech - Dreaming Into Being

Aaron Martin & Christoph Berg – Day Has Ended

Lustmord - The Word As Power

Ludovico Einaudi - In A Time Lapse

Robert Haigh - Darkling Streams

Ryuichi Sakamoto + Taylor Deupree – Disappearance

Fabrizio Paterlini – Now

Julia Kent – Character

Marsen Jules - The Endless Change of Colour

Honorable mentions

The Cyclist - Bones In Motion

bEEdEEgEE – SUM/ONE

Forest Swords - Engravings

Blank Banshee - Blank Banshee1

Recondite – Hinterland

Jasper TX - An Index Of Failure

Lusine - The Waiting Room

Ruxpin - This Time We Go Together

Shpongle - Museum of Consciousness

Ochre - National Ignition

Dean Blunt - The Redeemer

Krill.Minima – Sekundenschlaf

Bibio - Silver Wilkinson

Melorman – Waves

Zomby - With Love

Jessy Lanza - Pull My Hair Back

µ-Ziq - Somerset Avenue Tracks (1992-1995)

Mixes and Podcast

ASIP MIX 37: Rafael Anton Irisarri

ASIP 41: Arovane

Loscil : Secret Thirteen Mix 052

Grischa Lichtenberger: Secret Thirteen Mix 053

Fact Mix 372 Lapalux

Fact mix 388 Jon Hopkins

i'll add: raum - the event of your leaving, it's liz harris and some other dude i don't care about. it took me a while to get into it because it's just so static and uneventful on the surface but i really like it now, very meditative ambient, excellent winter listening.

Edited December 27, 2013 by eugene

Vector Graph - Irrational Numbers

Okinawa Pixel - Undermines

Tubdrain - Creaky Wobbles

Scrape - Severed nerve

Ugh, I seem to have been apart from watmm this year but here are a few of mine:

 

Atom TM - HS

Jon Hopkins - Immunity

Bibio - Silver Wilkinson

Bonobo - The North Borders

Cosmin TRG - Gordian

Space Dimension Controller - Mikrosektor 50 -- So lush!!

Jon Wayne - RAP ALBUM ONE

 

 

Shitbags!!! I've still got 50 albums on my little spreadsheet from this year that I haven't bought yet. God knows when I'll catch up.

fav labels of 2013

1 mego

2 lies

3 3-way tie! planet mu/dark entries/death waltz

  On 12/27/2013 at 11:31 PM, eugene said:

i'll add: raum - the event of your leaving, it's liz harris and some other dude i don't care about.

 

Have you not heard any of Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's solo material? Grade A stuff. Check out:

 

Love Is A Stream

Shining Skull Breath

Garden Of Forking Paths

Conversations With Myself

OK nominations are done. I'll set up the voting here soon. As usual voting will be for releases that got more than one nomination. Voting blocks are of 50 at a time. Hoping to get the top ones down to a number under 50 and have a runoff at the end so it's completely fair. It will be vote for as many as you want.

Mark Pritchard with his 3 EPs

Atom TM — HD
Boards of Canada

Edited February 1, 2014 by squadgazzz

1. Daftpunk - Random Access Memories

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

Autechre - Exai

Jackson and His Computer Band - Glow

Photodementia- Fig. 04

Holden - The Inheritors

Haxan Cloak - Excavation

William Onyeabor - World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor?

Machinedrum - Vapor City

Arcade Fire - Reflektor

Jon Hopkins - Immunity

Ceephax - Cro Magnox

Trackermatte - Shadow Festival

Edited February 4, 2014 by guidewire

so like i said, yeezus and exai is the shit of 2013 in 2014