good year for records - too many to quantify properly imo. apologies for getting it wrong, and also for leaving anybody out! here’s my top 40
40 Hieroglyphic Being - The Urantia Project (Further)
39 Vatican Shadow - Kneel Before Religious Icons (Hospital)
techno on 4 x cassette!
38 Jim ORourke - Old News vol 4 (Mego)
been wanting to own this material since hearing at ATP
37 Frieder Butzmann - Wie Zeit Vergeht (PAN)
best gig this year for me was by Mr Butzmanm.
36 Music From Saharan Headphones (Sahel Sounds)
35 Zomby - Nothing (4AD)
36 Actress - Twitter Trax (Twitter)
35 DJ Rashad - Just a Taste (Ghettophilles)
exactly what it says on the tin.
34 Factory Floor – Two Different Ways 12” (DFA)
a record i would have loved to have made despite it sounding like its from 87.
33 Rrose X Bob Ostertag - Motormouth Variations (Sandwell District)
really after more experimental techno like this, anybody?. outer-limits meets 4/4
32 Moon Wiring Club - Clutch in like a Gonk (Gecophonic)
there’s an underlying menace to Clutch it Like a Gonk, making sex positive moles and their long nosed snouts dance.
31 Lil B - i’m gay (and happy) (Based_World)
30 Alias G - Delite Tonight (UTTU)
loved the bathtub recorded hook.
29 Ekoplekz - Intrusive Incidentalz (Punch Drunk)
don’t throw frisbees into pylons.
28 William Onyeabor - Anything You Sow
contains a valuable lesson about success.
27 Sculpture – Toad Blinker (Dekorder)
audio flicker book on vinyl!
26 DJ Diamond - Flight Muzik (Planet Mu)
more of that space-cowboy music, hope he’s heard Charro.
25 Inga Copeland (Rush Hour)
24 Dolphins into the Future - Two Romantic Landscapes (Beniffer Editions)
subaquatic mediations.
23 Actress Harrier - ATTK / Gershwin (Nonplus)
my favourite Actress tune.
22 Keudo - Severant (Planet Mu)
red shoes footwork ballet
21 Hype Willams - One Nation (Hippos In Tanks))
20 Ghaedalia Tazartes - Granny Awards (Alga Marghen)
19 Matsuo Ohno - I Saw The Outer Limits (EM)
18 Slowdive - Pygmalion
waited for this for ages.
17 V/A Historische Aufnahmen (Gagarin)
really astonishing bizarro found-sound archive
16 V/A Play That Beat Mr. Raja Vol. 1 (CARTILAGE RECORDS)
unbelievable stockmusic Tamal library tracks
15 James Ferraro - Far Side Virtual (Hippos In Tanks)
this man seems incapable of being shit.
13 Grouper – A I A : Alien Observer (Yellow Electric)
warm hugs indeed.
12 Chris Carter - Moonlight (Optimo)
TUNE from Mondobeat
11 V/A Bangs & Works Vol 2 (Planet Mu)
10 Anti-G - Presents Kentje’sz Beatsz (Planet Mu)
exactly what i want to hear in a club.
9 Matsuo Ohno - Play On Animals (EM
!!
8 Jürgen Müller - Science Of The Sea
not that it matters but the one-sheet is a total hoax. :-)
7 Ekoplekx - Live @ Dubloaded (Further)e Sea (Digitalis)
kodak moment captured perfectly
6 James Ferraro - On Air (Underwater Peoples Records)
my favourite Ferraro record that was at least reissued on wax.
5 Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma (Touch)
how on earth does he manage to do this?!
4 Pete UM - Cant Get Started (10-inch Grist)
at last, this suckers out. got a review in the Wire, job done.
3 LES RALLIZES DENUDES - Great White Wonder
holygrail release from the heaviest band on the planet.
2 Conrad Schnitzler - Live ‘72 (Further)
blows everything.
1 Pete UM - Can’t Get Started (pre-hacked NOCHEXXX 12” draft) (Grist)
this version is way better than the released 10”, but then i would say that!
