one of the things that ive been really interested in is like... idk but the first time i ever played around with a keyboard and realized what like presets were, this kind of premade automated music i was so amazed. like its music, and you don't even to play it!
and i think theres this interesting connection btw the way demands of digital capitalism and music that is made entirely through manipulation of like precreated sounds. there are all sorts of precedents - sampling, loops &c &c - but stuff like mario paint really foregrounds the process. even s.thing like time wharp are tom cruise are 'about' this in interesting ways, stuff like dan lopatin's 'nobody here' or videogame work. its all concerned with the manipulation of data/information which is such an impt concept in our lives w/o really getting examined.
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Monday, 5 December 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
oooh shouldve edited that
something like bb 2.0 (http://inbflat.net/) is similar but here the collaborative nature seems like a bigger part. whereas theres a freedom and ingenuity in constructing a work entirely from small pieces, this kind of lego art. but i also wonder if in a way it isnt abt a kind of taste consumerism - choosing rather than 'creating' - where its abt the act of selecting ~the best~ thing.
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Monday, 5 December 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
Since people are posting some more out there techno & house stuff.. this is a good enough place to post this, I love everything this guy is doing, such a range of sounds and yet a very unified esthetic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQmkTvnt7YU&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPXyuD_YwNo&feature=related
― limabear, Monday, 5 December 2011 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
rolling train dreams
this reffing what i think it's reffing or is this some general cultural thing i'm unaware of
gonna check some of these out soon as i'm finished writing btw
― dr. strongo, Monday, 5 December 2011 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
ducktails killin the vibe is one of my favourite songs of the year
― wil smif, Monday, 5 December 2011 07:04 (twelve years ago) link
thanking u for this thread... heard / love like 25% of what's on here and have been impressed with most of the youtubes. especially that peaking lights remix my god that is right up my alley
what enya thing idgi
― magicrealism, Monday, 5 December 2011 07:31 (twelve years ago) link
^ wait nm just saw it woops
― magicrealism, Monday, 5 December 2011 07:33 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for the list! Even though I do my best to pay attention to what's going on I always realise around EOY time that I've missed most of it.
― sean doily, Monday, 5 December 2011 11:42 (twelve years ago) link
My contributions to the spirit of the thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43dvViC_IHA
Julianna Barwick had a great year; The Magic Place is superb but her Ikue Mori collab is much knottier and even more rewarding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qorhOSwROgU
As the thread title says, Metal Mountains are melting my mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7beoB7mU288
"Soft Script" cops some obvious emotionally manipulative tricks but it does it so well I can't stop it destroying me every time.
Ford & Lopatin - I Surrender (Peaking Lights Bass Ship Remix)
I thought the F&L album was a bit gimmicky but some of the remixes are ace. Including this one! (Soundcloud link)
― sean doily, Monday, 5 December 2011 11:51 (twelve years ago) link
The Crystal Ark - Touch
Maybe a bit straight-up for this thread, but my #1 Bounciest Track of the Year (Soundcloud link)
― sean doily, Monday, 5 December 2011 11:55 (twelve years ago) link
hatchback - zeus and apollo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2RkfFDCrWc
all celestial visions. i felt like this album was moving parts of my brain around.
oneohtrix point never - replica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwi7d0f91Y
this was maybe the lopatin thing i've enjoyed most since the chris de burgh thing, so squelchy and alien but based around that piano loop. something kindof anachronistic about it. i saw him live and this stuck out both times (although i fell asleep standing up the first time) and then the second time his visuals were these, like virtual sculptures, pyramids with eyes, not the fuzzy static i expected but gleamingly virtual and untouchable. i felt like that when i heard this the first time. first you see the hand play the piano, then you see the same thing again. it made sampling seem weird again for me. time repeating maybe. time out of joint.
regal safari - only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3bgp1wpdMY
this was v pretty
― judith, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
La Lechuza - Trampolin (Spotify link)
Not to be confused with La Lechera, La Lechuza brought out a 2011 album of Godspeed-affiliated chamber post-pop that the world received with apathy. The album as a whole is indeed kind of bland (I haven't listened to it in months) but "Trampolin" is an awesome clattery epic of melodic percussion.
― sean doily, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opNf23OE-Bs
If you're following this thread, you probably know this one already.
― sean doily, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
sleep over - casual diamondhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_L_NN7sS_Y
swooned so hard for this one: a tune as light and slippery as silk and yet all the instruments still buckle at the knees in an effort to carry it forwards. only the one echoey snare drum that sounds like something off an early ar kane record shows any sort of resilience
julia holter - try to make yourself a work of arthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu5QVDdThdw
still trying to get my head round this album, but this is the closest there is to a regular song on it - a rattling alarm sounding inside the queasiest of fever dreams. apparently she's buddies with linda perhacs and they're working on a record together?
motion sickness of time travel - day glowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGaMgo38TtA
spent more time falling asleep to this one album than anything else this year; tried listening to it in other -busier- situations and it hasn't really worked for me but if you want something that, when left to work undisturbed, will just slowly accrete like soft snow on the inside of your gnarled old skull, then this is pretty neat
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 5 December 2011 13:30 (twelve years ago) link
I just downloaded the Julia Holter and Motion Sickness of Time Travel albums off Boomkat yesterday! Haven't listened to them yet though.
― sean doily, Monday, 5 December 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
good choices imo. holter is the more immediately intriguing one, but they both need their own time and space to really come to life in
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 5 December 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
haha! maybe when real ilx comes back i will rebrand as la lechugathis thread is intriguing to me but it's a little impenetrable tbhi already like some of the stuff here but the rest is new (to me) and there is so much of it!
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 5 December 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
i guess 100% silk is something i should have been paying attn to but wasn't this year.
― judith, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like there was potentially a lot of stuff i would have liked on that hipster house thread partic as the john talabot remix of cheaters was like top five for me this year but atm its not accessible on google cache
― judith, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
it was a reference to the dj short novel
i really like the trampoline song
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Monday, 5 December 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
I'm going flog Gazelle Twin here, for those who missed it on the Knife-y sandbox thread. Brighton's Elizabeth Walling seems pretty comfortable / flattered with the ubiquitous Karin Dreijer Andersson comparisons.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANaabsQo-uA
The entire The Entire City streaming on Gazelle Twin's site.
― Sanpaku, Monday, 5 December 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
Again, with energy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANaabsQo-uA
― Sanpaku, Monday, 5 December 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
That Julia Holter album is brilliant, couldn't recommend it enough.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
Feel like Ryan Garbes "sweet hassle" full length fits in with this thread. He is a dude from Wet Hair.
― Mr. Farmer, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 03:51 (twelve years ago) link
looking forward to diggin into this thread
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 05:26 (twelve years ago) link
just as soon as i burn out on the tpain albumso like friday
## golden retriever - subsidence (nna tapes)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVPOWz_AW9E
adding a bass clarinet to the usual dreamy synth gives a fullness to these dudes cosmic meditations. really happy this is up on youtube, eerie and spare and bright.
## craft spells - after the moment (captured tracks)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5v_XhoO-4
ok this is just fun indie stuff but its such a jam
## laurel halo - constant index/actress violet remix (hippos in tanks)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t20RZyVfMk
someone mentioned this already on ilm but it deserves a place itt
## ben fleury-steiner - white embers (low point)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCVnNBiXoMY
composed, in the best way
## teams vs star slinger - punch drunk love (mexican summer)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx8DRVesi30
how this wasnt a big hit or at least a modest blog hit is beyond me, the whole record is fantastic and conceptually playful and bangin
― blah blah blah (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
i was really stoked when i downloading widowspeak album after hearing harsh realm but the rest was so disappointing; so bland, no exceptional lead guitar, just dragging its feet in an unremarkable way. great song, though
― wil smif, Thursday, 8 December 2011 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
what laurel halo stuff did you like this year if not logic? that youtube is fantastic
― wil smif, Thursday, 8 December 2011 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
the FRKWYS vol. 7 she collaborated on is my fave thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S7aFTb-J9Q
but i also preferred her tape on nna, 'antenna'. generally i liked her more ethereal, ambient stuff to the beat driven work on 'hour logic'. this is also p good imo:
laurel halo - supersymetry (physical therapy remix)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U95DEt6mvg
― blah blah blah (є(٥_ ٥)э), Thursday, 8 December 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
have you heard blondes? feel like you or plax might be into themthis is released on the same label that did that frkways i think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMKK8bRzNfU
― wil smif, Thursday, 8 December 2011 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
i hadnt heard that track before! 'touched' was on my best of list last year but i missed the second 12" they did on RVNG intl.
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Thursday, 8 December 2011 07:40 (twelve years ago) link
dunno how avant/weirdo this is really but I got pretty into the Gatto Fritto album over the course of the year
great thread, thanks, lots of good recommendations itt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3X1ric_zoI
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
also since we're talking frkwys the blues control/laraaji (vol. 8) has been heavy rotation for me
http://soundcloud.com/igetrvng/blues-control-laraaji-awakening-day
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Thursday, 8 December 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
holy other - touch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3qlkOBd9o
holy other remind me of a lot of stuff i've loved from the last couple years, the burial four tet collab and how to dress well in particular. parties through smoke, the gutted aftermath. i mean its sortof a cliche, the fractured voices struggling into language, the looming bassline, but it has a silky sensuality you don't always get with this. a grim, broken glamour.
― judith, Friday, 16 December 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
Think I already posted elsewhere but the Sapphire Slows album on NNF is one of the best things they've released this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md7_PVqJ61k
― sean doily, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
i'm kinda into these guys' laurel halo remix that u posted but this one just kills it imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rrH4jrhqoE
― magicrealism, Saturday, 17 December 2011 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69SE09wfcek
Really liking a lot of this Blondes stuff tbh
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
^ Meredith Monk samples on that track too apparently btw
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
This doesn't fit in with any of the other music on this thread but it suits the title I think. Except it's me posting.
This is a link to a download and pay what you like split album by Desert Island Dicks and Where Woodwose Walk called Clearance Sale
They're both from Glasgow and I found it through the Zavvi/Amoebic Industries bandcamp. Here's some blurb:
Desert Island Dicks and Where Woodwose Walk team up to reflect on the ongoing global financial crisis that started in the late 2000s. Across ten tracks (including one collaboration) named after British retail chains that went into administration following the crisis, the two groups use noise, drones, field recordings, sampling and live instrumentation to explore connections between the current malaise and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Train sounds, Cisco Houston, news reports, Woolworths, Zavvi, "Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?", corporate malfeasance and T.S. Eliot all come together for the first time in what critics are already calling "Capitalist Realism in a disused arms factory". The two groups have pledged to make an accompanying follow-up album in the event of a double-dip recession.
Across ten tracks (including one collaboration) named after British retail chains that went into administration following the crisis, the two groups use noise, drones, field recordings, sampling and live instrumentation to explore connections between the current malaise and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Train sounds, Cisco Houston, news reports, Woolworths, Zavvi, "Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?", corporate malfeasance and T.S. Eliot all come together for the first time in what critics are already calling "Capitalist Realism in a disused arms factory". The two groups have pledged to make an accompanying follow-up album in the event of a double-dip recession.
― Doran, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
natural snow buildings - this ice fortresshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGlGHPMvUWM
― R.I.P.iest (Hungry4Ban) (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
youtubers itt killin it
― wil smif, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR12Z8f1Dh8
― Professor Grossknees Grossankles, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 07:31 (twelve years ago) link
Still discovering new stuff and throwing my draft EOY ballot into disarray...
The Hauschka & Hildur Guðnadóttir album is very pretty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUt_1-rSTiQ
As is The Advisory Circle album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuckyVN5dsQ
― sean doily, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/corpse-lights/youplayaarp
i like these guys. more explicitly indebted to anco than most stuff in this vein. its got this eerily unhurried vibe, even as the vocalist chokes and splutters away.
― judith, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
lee noble - youre privilege (bathetic)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mNYIC9OWKw
spent some of the money my dad sent me on this record i like how little it presumes, how resolutely minor and low key a record this is, how it fades and stutters and never quite works up the courage to ask for yr attn
stephen mathieu - dawn (12k)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1FOeWzXTdo
dreaming
― ~*~ (є(٥_ ٥)э), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link