WATMM's Favourite Releases Mid-2019

Now that it is July 1st, my official half-yearly list:

1. Keepsake | Hatchie

2. Dedicated | Carly Rae Jepsen

3. AE_NA | Autechre

4. Warp Tapes 89-93 |Autechre

5. Fishing for Fishies | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

6. Still on my Mind | Dido

7. We Dance Alone | Yaporigami

8. Let's Ride | Roza Terenzi

9. Circling Architecture | Rings Around Saturn

10. Smash Gate | Caramel Chameleon

Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising  

Deerhunter - Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

Darkthrone - Old Star

Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

Broken Social Scene - Let's Try The After Vol. 1 / Vol.2

Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY!  

Rafael Anton Irisarri - Black Pitch 

Somesurprises / supercandy - Some Candy

SASAMI - SASAMI

Atariame - Voiceless  

Prefab Sprout - I Trawl the Megahertz (Remastered/Reissued)

Merz, Laraaji, Shahzad Ismaily - Dreams of Sleep and Wakes of Sound
Shlohmo - The End
Black Taffy - Elder Mantis
Jay Glass Dubs - Epitaph
The Bright Light Social Hour - Jude Vol. I
William Tyler - Goes West
Malibu Ken- Malibu Ken
James Blake - Assume Form
Townes Van Zandt - All I Need
Lukid - Drips EP
Solange - When I Get Home
DJ Seinfeld - Galazy EP
Cherushii, Maria Minerva - Cherushii & Maria Minerva
Octo Octa - Bodies Meld Together
Prefab Sprout - I Trawl the Megahertz (Remastered)
High Tides - Paradise Daze
Chris Moss Acid - Machine Heavy
Sneaks - Highway Hypnosis
Fennesz - Agora
Cygnus - Deep Analysis
Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
WURVE - Memory Bleach
EQ Why - KELZ
Com Truise - Persuasion System
Odd Nosdam - FLIPPIES BEST TAPE
Ekoplekz - Kirlian Visionz
Jai Paul - Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)
Burial - Claustro / State Forest

probably missing some, this is fairly quickly thrown together

1. Michael Pisaro - Nature Denatured and Found Again (4 hours of musique concrete in 5 parts, amazing work with sound, it's long but it's a light listen that goes easy on the ears)

2. Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society - Mandatory Reality (very cool post-minimalism kind of rock/jazz, recommended for fans of the concept of constancy in music)

3. Sote - Parallel Persia (a cleaner, studio recorded take on the Persian music/electronic manipulation hybrid of Sacred Horror In Design)

4. George Lewis & Roscoe Mitchell - Voyage and Homecoming (George Lewis has been working on this AI performer called Voyager for decades now, it controls a piano here and they have a weird jazz trio.  Also features some really cool electronic manipulations on the first track)

5. AE_LIVE

6. Lifted - 2 (this is music constructed from studio improvisation, so there's all sort of weirdness but it's been edited to keep things focused. Co La and Motion Graphics are in this group so naturally the production is amazing)

7. Bass Clef - 111 angelic MIDI cascade (some high detail great sounding synthesis, I love the way on the track Dear John what starts out as a little flutter in the sound at the end of the phrase gets stretched out into a whole rhythm, lots of really great touches like that)

8. Myriam Bleau - Lumens & Profits (cool stuff that's sort of like Mark Fell except the music is generated from spinning tops or something so the tempo is all over the place)

9. June Chikuma - Les Archives (archival reissue release of music from the composer of many of the Bomberman games, including the celebrated Bomberman Hero soundtrack.  It does include a 7 inch with two completely unreleased songs)

10. Nebulo - ASCII SNAKE (a bonkers computer music IDM EP)

Looks like i’ve got some catching up to do as there’s a load of releases that i’ve yet to hear. 

i spent the first few months of 2019 working through Chris Douglas’s Bandcamp releases. Still plenty to keep me going from those.

Others that stick out from this year so far that I don’t think have been mentioned above (although apologies if they have)

Mikron - Severance

SDEM - Index Hole (this and the above seem like a slightly different approaches from CPU)

Bot1500 - English Beach EP

North Manc Beds - GazOhmEater

  On 7/3/2019 at 10:18 AM, petsim said:

Looks like i’ve got some catching up to do as there’s a load of releases that i’ve yet to hear. 

i spent the first few months of 2019 working through Chris Douglas’s Bandcamp releases. Still plenty to keep me going from those.

Others that stick out from this year so far that I don’t think have been mentioned above (although apologies if they have)

Mikron - Severance

SDEM - Index Hole (this and the above seem like a slightly different approaches from CPU)

Bot1500 - English Beach EP

North Manc Beds - GazOhmEater

 

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Aw man I forgot how much I loved that Mikron. Too many great releases this year already.

The ones I keep returning to the most are....

Chemical Brothers - No Geography

Ekoplekz - Metabolizm

Ekoplekz - Kirlian Visionz

Technoist - Maximal Techno

Xosar - The Possessor Possesses Nothing

Tape Dekay – Decadimento Del Nastro - Decadenza Di Tutto

The Caretaker - Everywhere, An Empty Bliss

Looking forward to:

Datach'i - Bones

Polypores - Flora

Sam KDC - Omen Rising

Special Request - Vortex

Special Request - Bedroom Tapes

Nathan Micay - Blue Spring

Bjarki - Happy Earthday

Bogdan Raczynski - Rave 'Till You Cry

VC-118A - Inside

Placid Angles - First Blue Sky

RX-101 - Dopamine

Yagya - Stormur

Robag Wruhme - Venq Tolep

Anthony Naples - Fog FM

CFCF - Liquid Colours

Leif - Loom Dream

Ondo Fudd - Eyes Glide Through The Oxide

John Beltran - Hallo Androiden

Logos - Imperial Flood

  On 7/19/2019 at 9:26 PM, species8472 said:

VC-118A - Inside

This one slipped past me, thanks for the tip.

Here's a link to a sheet with all nominations for the WATMM - Album of the Year - Mid 2019: 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14SgreGYyrstQd5DSNSs8A_Kf6QVZov-nMXZf0WDSLtE/edit?usp=sharing

Multiple mentions are highlighted green. Google search links are included. In alphabetical order.

If you're too lazy to check the Sheet in the link above, below is a quick alphabetical list of the albums which got mentioned multiple times:

• Autechre - AE_LIVE
• Bass Clef - 111 Angelic Midi Cascade
• Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
• Biosphere - The Senja Recordings
• Bjarki - Happy Earthday
• Bogdan Raczynski - Rave 'Till You Cry
• Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation
• Chemical Brothers - No Geography
• Concealed Sequence - A Form of Fusion
• Cygnus - Voyager VII
• DMX Krew - Glad to Be Sad
• Ekoplekz - Kirlian Visionz
• Fennesz - Agora
• Holly Herndon - Proto
• Lada Laika - Quiet Songs for Sad People on a Lonely Planet
• Le Dom - Schism EP
• Lifted - 2
• Logos - Imperial Flood
• Malibu Ken - Malibu Ken
• Meat Beat Manifesto - Opaque Couché
• Mikron - Severance
• Mispyrming - Algleymi
• Placid Angles - First Blue Sky
• Plaid - Polymer
• Prefab Sprout - I Trawl the Megahertz
• Pyramids of Space - FROM AtoM
• Rian Treanor - ATAXIA
• Rings Around Saturn - Circling Architecture
• Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
• Sote - Parallel Persia
• Special Request - Vortex
• Sunn O))) - Life Metal
• The Caretaker - Everywhere at the end of time (Stage 6)
• The Caretaker - Everywhere, an empty bliss
• The Seneschal Arrives - Worldscape
• Underworld - Drift series
• VC-118A - Inside
• Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
• Xosar - The Possessor Possesses Nothing
• Yagya - Stormur

Have fun. 

I've been listening to:

Le Dom - Schism

Weval - The Weight

RAS - Circling Architecture

Plaid - Polymer

Yosi Horikawa - Spaces

Clark - Kiri Variations

FlyLo - Flamagra

And countless of older albums

phineus ii - meridian response

phineus ii - going postal EP

squarepusher - warp 30 set

AE - Warp Tapes 89 - 93
Aleksi Perala - Starlight 3 & Sunshine 3
Big Business - The Beast You Are
Fennesz - Agora
Malibu Ken - S/T
Millieu - Shallow Earth
Our Lady Of The Flowers - Holiday In Thule
Pye Corner Audio - Hollow Earth
Rian Treanor - Ataxia
Shlohmo - The End
Simon Scott - Soundings
Special Request - Bedroom Tapes
Sunn O)) - LifeMetal
TR/ST - The Destroyer 
VC-118A - Inside
0f. Digital - STTC

Updated List: 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C4EuNqCyg6AmScJXHWXEdDvah4IRPcojjyX49gyTqZ0/edit#gid=29851072

To be honest, most of the things that have caught my attention this year, so far, are punk records. But these are ones I've listened to a lot this year:

Torso - Build and Break

Khiis - Bezoar

Prettiest Eyes - Vol. 3

RX-101 - Dopamine

The first release of 2019 I listened to was: 

Lena Raine - Oneknowing

and I think it secretly is still one of my favorite releases of 2019 so far... 

It just hits a sweet spot for me. Maybe I'm getting more soft as the years go by, lol. 

Apparently she also wrote the soundtrack for the Celeste, the videogame. Guess I should check that game and soundtrack out. 

Also outstanding in 2019 imho so far:

Aleksi Perälä - Sunshine 3 

Bjarki - Happy Earthday

I still have a lot of catching up to do though.

So more favorites will follow undoubtedly. 

  On 10/5/2019 at 6:34 PM, MaartenVC said:

The first release of 2019 I listened to was: 

Lena Raine - Oneknowing

and I think it secretly is still one of my favorite releases of 2019 so far... 

It just hits a sweet spot for me. Maybe I'm getting more soft as the years go by, lol. 

Apparently she also wrote the soundtrack for the Celeste, the videogame. Guess I should check that game and soundtrack out. 

Also outstanding in 2019 imho so far:

Aleksi Perälä - Sunshine 3 

Bjarki - Happy Earthday

I still have a lot of catching up to do though.

So more favorites will follow undoubtedly. 

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Love Bjarki, but Earthday was kinda a letdown for me. Some great tracks....and too much filler imo.

  On 10/6/2019 at 3:04 AM, Extralife said:

Love Bjarki, but Earthday was kinda a letdown for me. Some great tracks....and too much filler imo.

Yeah there were a few bangers and the rest kind of fell to the wayside for me. There’s been so much good shit this year though, I probably also haven’t given it the right amount of attention. I’m struggling to keep up.

Never heard of Bjarki, intrigued by the cover. Samples sound good. 

RX-101 - Dopamine

Awesome, love it. 

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