WATMM Album of the Year 2017 Nominations

  On 1/2/2018 at 7:48 AM, ganus said:

Yeah, I'd be into that!

 

By the way, I wasnt trying to guilt folks. I totally relate to the dozens or more of unlistened albums, and I have the priviledge of listening to music at work...

no your post was very well put. and I've been guilty of it too. i typically trainwreck towards the end of the year and then stabilize though... lots to catch up on in january!

If someone who has been attentive to this thread could give a rough estimate of the top 5 albums mentioned I would be thankful.

As a casual observer it seems like:

Feel dae

Pony-anal

Colon sequence/stimulation

Dang

Whirldeeter

Rolando Simmons - World Building

Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins

Zvad - Baklava

Mastodon - Emperor of Sand

Ochre - Beyond the Outer Loop

Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

Aphex Twin - Field Day

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland

Havok - Conformicide

and as far as EPs go

Ceephax- Acid Fourniture

  On 12/13/2017 at 12:07 AM, eugene said:

 

juana molina - halo

Didn't even know she had a new album out, good looking out. Will check.

Without any organization:

Starcadian - Midnight Signals

Siriusmo - Comic

Perturbator - New Model

The Octopus Project - Memory Mirror

Meatbingo - The Error of My WAVs

Kangding Ray - Hyper Opal Mantis

Extrawelt - Fear of an Extra Planet

Clark - Death Peak

Bola - DEG

The Flashbulb - Piety of Ashes (oops)

hey i love voting in this

adding George Clanton's 200% Electronica - I think someone mentioned it earlier

nice cohesive "post-vaporwave" album

I bumped its own thread the other day but "OL - Height Difference" (aka Oлег Буянов ‎– «Перепад высот») deserves a mention. Magical house album.

forgot Johnny Jewel - Windswept. that's a very excellent album that I've listened to a lot and still do.

it was also useful in remembering all the nice and cool moments throughout twin peaks season 3, which would otherwise have been soured by its atrocious ending. too bad not more stuff from the album showed up in it.

I enjoyed the discussion about watmm artists and the lack of their mention of these lists. I do feel as though there is amazing talent here and I'd love it to be made more obvious when people put out major releases. Like it should be a separate landing page entirely before you get onto the forums or something with links. Celebrate the art!

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  On 12/31/2017 at 5:41 AM, ganus said:

I just would like to see more discussion and appreciation of things people here put out. The Artwork thread and the Latest Creations forum are genuinely positive and constructive, but the EKT album forum can be so dead, and that is the culmination of so much of what many of us do, right? if you've been skimming the Boomkat and Bleep lists, and you havent listened to trent hawkins, Auditor, ladalaika, owen gilbride, BCM, IMPAKT, ANTAPE, ATRIUM, MOPFUNK, Phyla Zen, Gareth Clarke, DAVID PECK, Jonas The Plugexpert, beathaven, Blaž, thidiot, sepha or whoever else published and posted in EKT this year, why not?

^ tons of good artists around these parts. Wonderful community.

edit: "David Peck" , don't recognize that one.

  On 2/4/2018 at 10:36 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

edit: "David Peck" , don't recognize that one.

https://soundcloud.com/davidpeck

  On 1/9/2018 at 5:09 AM, Hail Sagan said:

 

  On 12/13/2017 at 12:07 AM, eugene said:

 

juana molina - halo

 

 

Didn't even know she had a new album out, good looking out. Will check.

 

checked and it's great. definite inclusion in my aoty contenders.

EOD - named

dunal - chronicles vol1
batfinks - mosisac
thidiot - patworld

  On 12/22/2017 at 11:58 PM, Extralife said:

 

1

Zwischenwelt

Hidden Hawaii

In comparing Zwischenwelt to a "mysterious obelisk," Mark Smith aptly summarised the album's enigmatic sound. It draws equally from dub techno and drum & bass, but resembles neither style. That's partly down to its use of Euclidean rhythms, each one taking turns to draw the ear. Not that much of this would cross your mind on a dance floor—you'd probably just ask, awestruck, "What the hell is this?"

 

Listen: Apple Music / SoundCloud / Spotify

 

How could I forget this one?? Way too much great stuff put out this year.

Thought I would skim through this thread to check out some good shit I may have missed... and pleased I did cause this is just what I needed! Thanks for the recommendation!

  On 2/5/2018 at 11:39 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

 

  On 2/4/2018 at 10:36 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

edit: "David Peck" , don't recognize that one.

https://forum.watmm.com/user/3202-deepex/

https://soundcloud.com/davidpeck

 

ah deepex! Nice, not sure why I didn't connect the two. 

=)

So are we gonna have a poll/vote on these nominations?

No

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also

zwischenwelt - DB1

porter ricks - anguilla electrica

alvvays - antisocialites

juana molina - halo

nmesh - pharma

photay - onism

  On 2/10/2018 at 7:49 PM, ghOsty said:

So are we gonna have a poll/vote on these nominations?

sure, if you are offering to compile it all

  On 2/8/2018 at 1:14 AM, perunamuussi said:

dunal - chronicles vol1

batfinks - mosisac

rolando simmons - world building

afx - field day

thidiot - patworld

Where do I listen to Patworld? 

  On 2/10/2018 at 6:24 PM, kirm said:

 

  On 12/22/2017 at 11:58 PM, Extralife said:

1

Zwischenwelt

Hidden Hawaii

In comparing Zwischenwelt to a "mysterious obelisk," Mark Smith aptly summarised the album's enigmatic sound. It draws equally from dub techno and drum & bass, but resembles neither style. That's partly down to its use of Euclidean rhythms, each one taking turns to draw the ear. Not that much of this would cross your mind on a dance floor—you'd probably just ask, awestruck, "What the hell is this?"

 

Listen: Apple Music / SoundCloud / Spotify

 

How could I forget this one?? Way too much great stuff put out this year.

Thought I would skim through this thread to check out some good shit I may have missed... and pleased I did cause this is just what I needed! Thanks for the recommendation!

 

You're welcome.  Pretty much everything on the Hidden Hawaii label is buy on sight.