Electronic Music 411 - Favorites of 2010

11/20/10 + jack123

nice. i'll check these out shortly. i've been incredibly out of the loop this year. moar recommendations plz!!!!

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Nov 20* + hecanjog

Awesome - lots of stuff to check out here, I only know Marcus' EP from the above lists.

For the first time ever I've been keeping a list all year, here's mine so far:

Tanner Menard - You Had Not Changed But Your Cameras Were No Longer Identical [HLM]
- Microtonal pianos, deep ambience, and generally Not Your Average Drone.

Jason Kahn & Jon Mueller – Phase [FSS]
- A really really really nice, incredibly static slab of thick airy drone.

John Tilbury / Sebastian Lexer - Lost Daylight [Another Timbre]
- A handful of very pretty untreated piano pieces, and a realization of a Cage piano & electronics piece that totally blows me away. Sound design, pacing, everything is gorgeous - and totally aleatoric, heh. Sounds meticulously composed though, Tilbury killed the realization dead. Big favorite.

Robin Fox - A Handful Of Automation [Editions Mego]
- Best computer music record I've heard in a long time, or maybe ever. Synthesis that will reach through your computer, shove a handful of acid down your throat and blast lasers into your eyes. Insane detail.

Def Harmonic - Figs [Listening Party]
- I was lukewarm on this for a little while, but it's grown into a huge favorite. Hip hop anthems for chorus-dripped pink spray-painted synths.

Jenks Miller & Nicholas Szczepanik - American Gothic [Small Doses]
- This is a really fresh one. But it's gotten 10 listens or more in the last three days. Like if Ligeti orchestrated a Múm record for Tortoise to perform. But spookier.

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11/20/10 + DrexonField

hecanjog: NICE! those are all amazing releases that I totally missed. I know all the artists, but somehow didn't catch their recent output. that's why I love year end best of lists.

Thanks for sharing!

jack123: Cool! hope you dig the tracks.

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Nov 20* + djugel

hecanjog said: "Robin Fox - A Handful Of Automation [Editions Mego]
- Best computer music record I've heard in a long time, or maybe ever. Synthesis that will reach through your computer, shove a handful of acid down your throat and blast lasers into your eyes. Insane detail."

meh... I still don't buy this "insane detail" comments that glitch gets. It always seems to have a small over-compressed sound. If the sound had more balls and was larger ... the detail's flaw's would be more exposed.

played with a guy last night that sounded just like this record...but some nice sloppy beats added... Drone Baez. Good stuff,.. but suffers some of the typical sonic flaws I've been hearing in the scene for years.. teeth hurts sounds aren't as punk as they make out to be.

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11/20/10 + AtlusZero

I'm really feelin thar PVT (formerly Pivot) album "Church with no Magic".
Mux Mool put out a nice one back in March; "Skulltaste".

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11/20/10 + hecanjog

djugel said: "

hecanjog said: "Robin Fox - A Handful Of Automation [Editions Mego]
- Best computer music record I've heard in a long time, or maybe ever. Synthesis that will reach through your computer, shove a handful of acid down your throat and blast lasers into your eyes. Insane detail."

meh... I still don't buy this "insane detail" comments that glitch gets. It always seems to have a small over-compressed sound. If the sound had more balls and was larger ... the detail's flaw's would be more exposed.

played with a guy last night that sounded just like this record...but some nice sloppy beats added... Drone Baez. Good stuff,.. but suffers some of the typical sonic flaws I've been hearing in the scene for years.. teeth hurts sounds aren't as punk as they make out to be."

Sounds like you've made up your mind, but if you do feel like giving it another shot at some point, try listening to this record while watching it on a spectrograph to help sus out some of that deliciously detailed spectromorphological movement happening all over...

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11/21/10 + yghartsyrt

djugel said: "

hecanjog said: "Robin Fox - A Handful Of Automation [Editions Mego]
- Best computer music record I've heard in a long time, or maybe ever. Synthesis that will reach through your computer, shove a handful of acid down your throat and blast lasers into your eyes. Insane detail."

meh... I still don't buy this "insane detail" comments that glitch gets. It always seems to have a small over-compressed sound. If the sound had more balls and was larger ... the detail's flaw's would be more exposed.

played with a guy last night that sounded just like this record...but some nice sloppy beats added... Drone Baez. Good stuff,.. but suffers some of the typical sonic flaws I've been hearing in the scene for years.. teeth hurts sounds aren't as punk as they make out to be."

i think Robin Fox is quite dynamic and the complete opposite of compressed sound. never saw him live, but if he's similar to alva noto live, than he's seriously kicking ass. that stuff was unbelievably good and intense

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Nov 21* + djugel

Sounds like a sculpture made of toothpicks.. Seriously ... I can't even hear synths... all I hear is a compressor...

link

I have a tin ear... my heart likes this stuff... but my ears can only like it so much,

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11/22/10 + Mechanism

Thanks for the recommendations guys.

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11/22/10 + Highdropod

I must be getting old... I haven't heard of any of these cats before.

I tend to agree with djugel in that I want to like alot of new music/ artists, but most of the shit is so compressed that I can't listen to it for more than 10 minutes at a time.

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11/22/10 + DrexonField

Also, excellent new label with dope mixes: link

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11/24/10 + DrexonField

The netlabel Audio Gourmet really blew me away this year. amazing releases. link

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11/24/10 + ignatius

link

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11/24/10 + DrexonField

ignatius: I was just listening to that 12" last night! totally one of my favorite EP's of the year. You should definitely press more vinyl.

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11/25/10 + chrisallen

Funny you should mention, I checked out a few other secret station releases after checking your last trxlisting and I really dug the last Paneye release.

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