Eric Dolphy, 1963
biscuits for… stutter strutters
This mix of new-release techno highlights stammering and stuttering sample usage.
DJ Sports: The Sourcecode (mix 2)
Pearson & Clara!: Mi Cuerpo (DJ Python mix)
Studio Barnhus: Sverige
Mmyylo: Venamy
Samaran: London Madness
Hypho: Why You Here?
Corporeal Face: Just the Way to Be
Nick Anthony Simoncino: Survive
Chicks Luv Us: You Can’t Tell Me Nothin’
Lekind: Sample Madness
Diego Lima: Downtown
Carlo Gambino: Trust Me
Gruuve: Loko
Sqnc.d: Perspective
Luca M / Just2: Late Show
East End Dubs: London Thing
Anz: Stepper
Daniel Sanchez: Dutch Sniper (Fer Br remix)
Deborah de Luca: Kick It
Enzo Leep: Ro (Marwan Sabb Vision remix)
T.Raum: Breath Control
Stefan Ringer: Shakyabody
Radial Gaze: Authentic Patterns
Martin Herrs featuring Clemente: Manifesto
RE:You: Sunlight (Alican remix)
AMEME: Gaou (Beat Dub)
Joyce Muniz: Crystalline
Mitte Housing Authority: Natural High
Denial of Service: Disaster Protocol
Rabu Mazda: Mago Mazda
Folded Voices: 2 TV Talking
Bored Lord: Never Felt this Way
2020 recap
My annual yearbook of my favorite albums.
The Rentals: Conspiracy
Guided by Voices: Steely Dodger
Shopping: Expert Advice
Deerhoof: O, Ye Saddle Babes
OOIOO: Bulun
Horse Lords: Against Gravity
Peter Evans: Double Drone
Ashley Paul: Light Inside My Skin
Kristo Rodzevski: Gauze
Throwing Muses: Bo Diddley Bridge
Good Sad Happy Bad: Shades
Hen Ogledd: Trouble
Sonic Boom: I Feel a Change Coming On
Thomas Köner: Substance (Suicide)
Junk Magic: Sargasso
More Eaze / Claire Rousay: Pre-Op
Offthesky & the Humble Bee: Fallen Fruit to Navigate by
Bill Callahan: The MacKenzies
Eiko Ishibashi: Hyakki Yagyō, part 1
Papillon: Aqueducts
Matmos: On the Team
Sun Araw: 78 Sutra
Decolonize Your Mind Society: Through the Prism
Richard Youngs & Daniel O’Sullivan: Oblivion Riviera
Autechre: TH Red A
biscuits for… rump roasters
A mix of fresh techno, this time focusing on straight floor fillers.
Slow Glass: Release (Thunder Tillman remix)
Luca Dell'Orso: Dub Occurrence (Cosmo Vitelli remix)
Steve Marie: Romanée Conti
KG: 808 (BSNYEA edit)
Mark Pritchard: LFO Special
Russell EL Butler: Blah Blah
Mytron & Ofofo: Miteinander
Zakmina: Church of Madness (Gnork's Ezoteric Breakdance remix)
Too Smooth Christ: Uhuueeii
Dro Carey: Hush Biome
DJ Slyngshot: B2
Brigade: Lost Your Number :'(
Bufiman: Blow Your Head (Rhythm Trax)
Volcan la Pete featuring Quentin Rollet: Ipnosi Ventilatore
Yu Su: Watermelon Woman
Tom Jarmey: Shimmer
Sound Support: Stab by Stab
Krust: Antigravity Dub (Masters at Work remix)
Elphino: One Day
Kenny Glasgow: Something Special
Lamont: I Won't Ask
Pearson Sound x Clara!: Mi Cuerpo (instrumental)
Damian Lazarus x Jem Cooke: Into the Sun (Mano le Tough P20 remix)
Studio Mule: Carnaval (Superpitcher Dub)
Pangaea: Like This
Matt Tolfrey featuring Lil' Mark: Under the Skin
DJ Plead: Espresso
Bitstream: Glycon
Lament 3
A long-nursed mix of sad-sack indie tunes.
The Wake: Something Outisde
Pet Shop Boys: Miserablism
Jonathan Richman: True Love Is Not Nice
St. Vincent: Severed Crossed Fingers
Suzanne Vega: Last Year’s Troubles
The Walker Brothers: No Regrets
Tracey Thorn: Swimming
Cowboy Junkies: Square Room
Nyam Nyam: Mining Different Seams
The Psychedelic Furs: Torch
Robyn Hitchcock: I Used to Say I Love You (live)
PJ Harvey: The Desperate Kingdom of Love
Our Arthur: Clinging to the Records
Galaxie 500: When Will You Come Home?
Embrace: Building
Godflesh: Voidhead
The Futureheads: Hard to Bear
The And: Around the Corner
A Mote of Dust: A Fundamental Problem
Hood: The HIdden Ambience of a Lost Art
REM: Sad Profressor
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions
Jozef van Wisemm: Detachmentt
Orchestre National de Jazz featuring Arno & Yael Naïm: Just as You Are
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: I Need You
Antony and the Johnsons: Hope There's Someone
David Sylvian: Small Metal Gods
Biscuits for… Whiffs
A mix of recently released dance tracks that really on alternate methods of propulsion.
James Shinra: Gyorgy
Alessandro Adriani: Mutate, pt.3
Mezey & Nosho: Zeus Dub
Pink Gloves: Dancing on My Own (instrumental)
Tableau Vivant: End Orb
Dance: Murmur
Akasha System: Rain Theme
Ramzi: La Nuit l'Ete 1996
Overland: Rain
Peter Dundov / Marc Romboy: Ex Machina
Das Ding: Alien Insane
KӣR: Negentropia
James Ruskin: KN AM3
Interstellar Funk & Robert Varlera: Klangin
Ido Plumes: Which Way Is Up
Metrist: KJ Receder
Levon Vincent: Reverse Stockholm Syndrome
Christian Engh: Blakong (Prins Thomas Bonusmiks)
Rainbow Island: Simmia
The Fear Ratio: Small World
Anton Klint: Eld
Joy Overmono: Still Moving
Bochum Welt: More Light (James Zabliela mix)
MinaeMinae: Vorwegnahme
Nocow: Oasis
Lorelle meets the Obsolete: Unificado (Pye Corner Audio mix)
Girl Unit: Stuck
Tamburi Neri: Religion Rebel
Metronomy & Oscar Crash: Glide Trumpet (the Light)
Deerhoof
Feb.20, 2019—Grey Eagle; Ashville, NC
Illinois Glossolalia
Micheal Zerang & Spires that in the Sunset Rise, 2017
Personal Rock / Kosmischer Pitch / Sonne = Blackbox / Farben presents James Din A4 / Signals Bulletin
Gramm, 1999
Jan Jelinek, 2005
Ursula Bogner, 2011 (?)
Farben & James Din A4, 2014
Jan Jelinek & Asuna, 2019
the book of thirty years
A mix chronicling 30 years of musical obsessions, collecting the album I picked at the end of each year as my favorite for that year.
1998: Archers of Loaf, Slick Tricks and Bright Lights
2008: Zach Hill, Dark Arts
2000: The Fall, Sons of Temperance
1990: Fugazi, Reprovisional
2010: The Ex, Bicycle Illusion
1993: Edsel, Penaluna
2005: Jesu, Tired of Me˚
2014: United Waters, Out of Flight
2009: Cold Cave, Life Magazine
1996: DJ Shadow, the Number Song
1997: the Sea and Cake, the Argument
1991: Saint Etienne, Kiss and Make Up
2012: Matthew Dear, Temptation
1992: The Orb, Assassin˚˚
2001: Vladislav Delay, Anima
2003: David Sylvian with Fennesz, a Fire in the Forest
2013: Attenuated, Slackened Threads
2015: Ricardo Dias Gomes, Pèta-a-Ride
2002: Lambchop, Flick
2019: Mega Bog, Diary of a Rose
2017: Mary Halvorson Quartet, Chaskiel˚˚˚
2018: Eric Chenaux, Slowly Paradise
1999: Autechre, Dropp
2006: Nightmares on Wax, Damn
1995: Spiritualized, Lay Back in the Sun
2007: Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid, the Sun Never Sets
2011: Humcrush with Sidsel Endresen, Ha! 9
2004: Clouddead, Rifle Eyes
1994: Laika, If You Miss
2016: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Rare Things Grow
˚ this technically came out in the last weeks of 2004, but I don’t remember being able to find it until well into ‘05. Either way it defined my year.
˚˚ this track was on the bonus cd originally sold with the UFOrb album.
˚˚˚ written by John Zorn and released as a part of his Masada book II, the Book of Angels series
Sarah Louise
Feb.2, 2019—the Mothlight; Asheville, NC
Bivouac / Orange Rhyming Dictionary / Forgetters
Jawbreaker, 1992
Jets to Brazil, 1998
Forgetters, 2012
diorama of disaster
Lou Reed, 1979
Lasted / Orcas / Perils
Benoît Pioulard, 2010
Orcas, 2012
Perils, 2015
hibernation listening
Juana Molina, 2013
2019 Recap
Here is my annual musical yearbook mix.
Major Stars: Echo
Lower Slaughter: Some Things Take Work
Kim Gordon: Air B ‘n B
Kukangendai: Hi-Vision
Nate Wooley: With Condolences
The Telescopes: Don't Place Your Happiness in the Hands of Another
Bill Callahan: Ballad of the Hulk
Alexander Tucker: Precog
Paco Sala: Minories
Maayan Nidam: Acid Kiss*
Stepehn Mallinder: Satellite
rRoxymore: Hectadrums
Gonzo: Estorvo
Lambchop: The Lasting Last of You
United Waters: Arrowheads
Andy Stott: Promises
Tunes of Negation: Rückschlag
Rupert Clervaux: Make Nature Speak
Amirtha Kidambi / Elder Ones: Dance of the Subaltern
Fire! Orchestra: Weekends (the Soil is Calling)
Mega Bog: Truth in the Wild
Tomeka Reid Quartet: RN
You Tell Me: Springburn
Robert Forster: I’m Gonna Tell It
Sacred Paws: What’s So Wrong?
* the internet claims this album was officially released mid-December 2018, but I am fairly certain, at least where I live, it was not available until the new year (and have seen it on at least two other best-of-2019 lists).
Field Recordings from the Cook County Water Table / Sycamore
Brokeback, 1999 / Douglas McCombs & David Daniell, 2009
Biscuits for… Mole Whackas
A mix of fresh techno stompers.
Konx-Om-Pax: Optimism Over Despair
Biome: Empire
Yak: Wide Eye
Dance System: Wind 'em Up
Negroni Nails: Collision
Karenn: Rek
Eliphino: Disc Rhythm
Identified Patient: Chantal’s Chant
Aasthma: Los Angeles
Tommy Four Seven: 2084
Lena Willikens: Paredo (Mapstation Mega Dubmix)
Howes: (untitled)
Homemade Weapons: Crewcut
Hypho with Rakay: Graft
Loom: SE5
Basic Rhythm: Buss It
DOK: 06
Mr. Oizo: Viandes Légumes Véhicules
Jack Sparrow: Double Time Skank
SP:MC: Slugfest
Terror Danjah: Last Days
Anunaku: Bronze Age
Proc Fiskal: Smith's Deli
Gila: Tons
Faizal Mostrixx: Chicken Groove
Charlotte Bendiks: Bon-Sexy
J Chrysalis: A Kind Robin
Olaf Blanch: Nur Yawa (Suzanne Kraft mix)
Pedro Vian: Flexible Girl (Cardopusher mix)
Khidja: I Can Never Relax
Cosmo Vitelli: Kuldip
Pugilist: Encrypted
Both Yes, and Yes
Yes featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman, 2018
Yes, 2019
Jon Spencer
Jan.15, 2019—the Grey Eagle: Asheville, NC