Magazine/website/record store BEST OF 2011 end-of-year list pile-up

P.A.S.S.I.O.N. got him in a jam again

This Objekt track would be fantastic if the beat would commit to something

I don't know if this version of "Sicko Cell" on Spotify is the same one they picked but, if it is, GOOD JOB FACT, this gets really really creepy and tense once the beat drops out; it does a good job of making me want to hear the entire mix I pulled it out of.

This XXXY song is kind of generic but simply having a driving house beat puts it above most of the other tracks FACT picked, lol

did you like the blawan track dan?

Suburbanite: You might be overestimating the magazine's "wide range of coverage" -- it's mostly just me writing about pop records, someone else profiling local indie bands, and a classical critic. Aventura's probably "pop" enough to fall inside my purview (i.e., you could write about it as a pop thing, without any big background in Latin/Caribbean music), but I rarely feel like I have time to do that sort of thing justice; I'd want to take a while to really learn what I'm talking about! It'd be great if we had a regular freelancer with the background to cover that stuff quickly. (Also, I should get better at pitching.)

i felt sure the wire top ten would include the grouper recs

Blawan wasn't on Spotify so I haven't tracked it down yet.

Has anyone mentioned Anthony David as yet?

Bleep's top ten albums:

1. Byetone - SyMeta (raster-noton)
2. Rustie - Glass Swords (Warp)
3. John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves (Upset The Rhythm)
4. patten - GLAQJO XAACSSO (No Pain In Pop)
5. Martyn - Ghost People (Brainfeeder)
6. Peaking Lights - 936 (WW / NNF)
7. Surgeon - Breaking The Frame (Dynamic Tension Records)
8. Roll The Dice - In Dust (The Leaf Label)
9. Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise (Circus Company)
10. Roly Porter - Aftertime (Subtext)

http://bleep.com/?page=podcast&module=EOY
Buy

x-post to Nabisco--what's pop sometimes depends on how it is pitched and who is your editor I guess.

hmm this Blawan track is basically just a Brandy remix; it's good but not really killing me (tho headphones might be letting me down again)

again though, the presence of an actual beat elevates it above most of the other selections on the list

I have a top ten to write and I one have 9 records--AND I'm worried that one won't even count. Argh.

Sorry--"only have".

in my experience at different publications, writers have a much bigger hand in coverage than editors. yes, sometimes you're assigned a story, but much more often you make a strong case for something new's inclusion

That Bleep top ten is decent, would be interested to hear the record at #1.

Also Dan you'd better do this when the RA list turns up rather than wasting your 2011 dance listening on this FACT list.

byetone are p good iirc

still surprised to see a noton record at #1 of anything

On first listen I though the Byetone would be top ten of the year for me but I dunno, it didn't hit me as hard on subsequent listens. Still great though. Needs to be played very loud.

Also Dan you'd better do this when the RA list turns up rather than wasting your 2011 dance listening on this FACT list.

lol, I honestly thought the FACT list would tie into my sensibilities; this really says more about how little I actually pay attention to FACT than anything else

Byetoncé

Three women in the Wire to ten: Eliane Radigue, Laurel Halo and half of Hype Williams iirc

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and cindytalk

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/3329667/Cindytalk+SecretsFalling_PressRelease.jpg

Cindytalk weren't even in the top 10, anyway. Which is what we were considering.

SPIN top 40 rap albums list, starring blurbs by at least three goons: http://bit.ly/amilliondollars

when did fact become a parody of themselves?

it is kind of hilarious to see pubs that at the beginning of the year would've been CLAMORING to have an odd future release to put in their top 10 just quietly shuffling goblin in the middle of their lists

lots of stuff i haven't heard in that spin list, must investigate

yeah very useful list for sure

I don't know if it's that have become a parody of themselves, more that their brief has become easier to parody now that it's so familiar and entrenched.

Probably part of the life cycle of every publication with a really clear aesthetic.

yeah lots i haven't heard in the spin list, good blurbs for the most part too. though most of the rap albums/mixtapes i was most excited by weren't ther ;_;

nice to see the serengeti album on the spin list (albeit at the bottom of the list) - one of my favorite underrated albums of the year

also re: the spin list: is it weird that they frame death grips as zach hill's project? i thought he just played drums on some of the stuff but wasn't really the creative force behind it, but also i don't really know much about how they operate so i could be wrong.

i don't normally point to specific pieces of my writing on here but i'm making an exception to point out that I totally used the best possible quote for my Gunplay blurb

Am I missing out on Das Racist? I have been ignoring them for a couple years now.

they aren't necessarily going to be everyone's type of thing but they have gone some way past "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" on their album this year

setting the bar high there

they aren't necessarily going to be everyone's type of thing

Lex, if you suddenly start digging Das Racist I will shocked, amazed and somewhat baffled!

i would be surprised if scotty magee liked das racist

Checked a few jams out, no go for me.

Magnet - Best Of 2011: Electronic
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2011/12/07/best-of-2011-electronic/

1. AÉREA NEGROT Arabxilla (B-Pitch)
2. THUNDERCAT The Golden Age Of Apocalypse (Brainfeeder)
3. MACHINEDRUM Room(s) (Planet µ)
4. DOG LEATHER Greezy Man And Stinky Man Meets Smutty Ranks On Tarantula Hill (Ehse)
5. WASHED OUT Within And Without (Sub Pop)
6. HUDSON MOHAWKE Satin Panthers (Warp)
7. PANDA BEAR Tomboy (Paw Tracks)
8. SBTRKT SBTRKT (Young Turks)
9. SEBASTIAN Total (Ed Banger)
10. JAMES BLAKE James Blake (Universal Republic)

Magnet - Best Of 2011: Noise
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2011/12/08/best-of-2011-noise/

1. CHRISTINA KUBISCH Magnetic Flights (Important)
2. TELECUT POWERS Zion Traveler (Baked Tapes)
3. PETER J. WOODS Songs For Nothing (After Music)
4. SKIN GRAFT Dystrophy (Hanson)
5. YELLOW TEARS The Cult Of Yellow Tears (Hospital)
6. PETE SWANSON I Don’t Rock At All (Three-Lobed)
7. BLOOD STEREO Tape Hiss For Brainwash (Feeding Tube)
8. WHITE SUNS Waking In The Reservoir (ugEXPLODE)
9. C. SPENCER YEH 1975 (Intransitive)
10. SIGHTINGS Future Accidents (Our Mouth)

that electronic list is terrible imo

Magnet - Best Of 2011: Hip Hop
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2011/12/04/best-of-2011-hip-hop/

1. CURREN$Y Weekend At Burnie’s (Warner Bros.)
2. STALLEY Lincoln Way Nights (Intelligent Trunk Music) (SMC)
3. JAY-Z + KANYE WEST Watch The Throne (Def Jam)
4. SHABAZZ PALACES Black Up (Sub Pop)
5. MAIN ATTRAKIONZ 808s & Dark Grapes II (self-released)
6. BIG K.R.I.T. Return Of 4Eva (self-released)
7. RICK ROSS God Forgives, I Don’t (Maybach)
8. EVIDENCE Cats & Dogs (Rhymesayers)
9. TYLER, THE CREATOR Goblin (XL)
10. ACTION BRONSON Dr. Lecter (Fine Fabric Delegates)

More Magnet lists here:
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/category/best-of-2011/

got stalley. wtf people

i dare a human on this earth to tell me a stalley lyric off the top of their heads

i bet stalley doesnt remember his own lyrics

Arabxilla is a pretty weird #1. It has its moments but a bunch of it is unlistenable imo.

7. RICK ROSS God Forgives, I Don’t (Maybach)

lol so they made this list, what, 2 months ago assuming that this album was going to come out in december?

a lot of editors are really bad at their jobs