Thread: Best of 2008

I guess it is time. What are your favorite albums, singles, podcasts and/or mixes of 2008? Any particular DJs you saw live or events that stand out?

Here are some favorite albums of mine. I have several more, but I'm limiting myself to ten right now:

Anders Ilar - Sworn
Claro Intelecto - Metanarrative
Andy Stott - Unknown Exception
Kangding Ray - Automne Fold
Arve Henriksen - Cartography
Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco
Deadbeat - Roots and Wires
Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs from the Beehive

Some particularly good comps/boxed sets:

Gas - Nah und Fern
Shackleton & Appleblim - Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated by Vandals
Sascha Funke - Watergate 02

One particular podcast really stood out:

Pole's Resident Advisor [RA.091] which RA released back in February. It did a fantastic job of mixing classic dub with contemporary dubstep.

Hi there!!!

My favorite albums of 2008 include

Modern guilt by Beck,

Army way, Islands and

M83 Saturdays.


Ruhi sheikh,
Financial Reviewer,
http://economynews.in/

Originally Posted by Ruhi Sheikh

Modern guilt by Beck,

Army way, Islands and

M83 Saturdays.

Thank you for posting but this is the Electronic forum. I'm asking for strictly favorites from this genre.

Here are some lists from elsewhere:

Resident Advisor Top 20 albums:

20. Scuba - A Mutual Antipathy [Hotflush Recordings]
19. Claro Intelecto - Metanarrative [Modern Love]
18. Kenny Larkin - Keys, Strings, Tambourines [Planet E]
17. Dave Aju - Open Wide [Circus Company]
16. Quiet Village - Silent Movie [!K7]
15. Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco [Perlon]
14. Minilogue - Animals [Cocoon Recordings]
13. Ezekiel Honig - Surfaces of a Broken March Band [Anticipate Recordings]
12. Deadbeat - Roots & Wires [Wagon Repair]
11. Prosumer & Murat Tepeli - Serenity [Ostgut Ton]
10. Loco Dice - 7 Dunham Place [Desolat]
09. Bruno Pronsato - Why Can't We Be Like Us? [Hello? Repeat]
08. Portishead - Third [Mercury]
07. Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too [Smalltown Supersound]
06. Lee Jones - Electronic Frank [Aus Music]
05. The Mole - As High as the Sky [Wagon Repair]
04. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair [DFA Records]
03. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles [Warp Records]
02. Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs from the Beehive [Smallville Records]
01. Shed - Shedding the Past [Ostgut Ton]

And two lists from The Wire:

Critical Beats

Louis Guillaume - Soulpoint [SD Records]
Joker & Rustie - Play Doe [Kapsize 12"]
King Midas Sound - Cool Out [Hyperdub 12"]
DJ Koze - I Want To Sleep [International Records Recordings 12"]
Martyn - Vancouver/Natural Selection [3024 12"]
Peverelist - Infinity Is Now/Junktion [Punch Drunk 12"]
Rustie - Zig Zag [Wireblock 12"]
Trim - Soulfood Vol. 3 [no label]
Scuba - Twitch (Jamie Vex'd Remix) [Hotflush 12"]
Shackleton - Death Is Not Final [Skull Disco 12"]
Shackleton - Soundboy's Suicide Note [Skull Disco 12"]
Skream - Skreamizm Vol. 4 [Tempa 2x12"]
Tobias - I Can't Fight The Feeling EP [Wagon Repair 12"]
Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco [Perlon 12"]
Ricardo Villalobos - Enfants [Si Es Drum 12"]

Electronica

Benge - Twenty Systems 1968-1988 [Expanding]
Blevin Blectum - Gular Flutter [Aagoo]
Bochum Welt - ROB [Rephlex]
Byetone - Death Of A Typographer [Raster-Noton]
Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto [Touch]
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles [Warp]
Koen Holtkamp - Field Rituals [Type]
Machinefabriek - Dauw [Dekorder]
Matmos - Supreme Balloon [Matador]
Move D - Drøne [Modern Love]
Theo Parrish - Sound Sculptures Vol. 1 [Sound Signature]
Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour [Fat Cat]
Schlammpeitziger - Schingstelle Für Rauschabzug [Sonig]
snd - 4, 5, 6 [snd]
Tape - Luminarium [Hapna]

Intrigueing lists, Jon.

Makes me realise how little I know about your favourite genre...

I feel this needs to be addressed.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to recommend five from those lists which you think I have some chance of liking, and I'll promise to buy all five (if available on CD) before the end of the year, purely on your recommendation.

Sir, you have just been gently slapped on your left cheek with a pair of pale blue kid gloves...

Hmm, okay. Five...

Kangding Ray - Automne Fold
Ezekiel Honig - Surfaces of a Broken March Band
Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour
Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs from the Beehive

Excellent, all are available from Amazon (my preferred interweb retail experience), and all score OK on AllMusic (my preferred interweb musical reference experience).

You're on !!

First order will be placed at the weekend.

Cheers Jon.

I'm waiting to know what you think.

Right, my first choice is the Ezekiel Honig disc, because it's the lowest rated on AllMusic (Always save the best till last says I !!). It's on order, and will report back soon.

Originally Posted by JonG

I guess it is time. What are your favorite albums, singles, podcasts and/or mixes of 2008? Any particular DJs you saw live or events that stand out?

Here are some favorite albums of mine. I have several more, but I'm limiting myself to ten right now:

Anders Ilar - Sworn
Claro Intelecto - Metanarrative
Andy Stott - Unknown Exception
Kangding Ray - Automne Fold
Arve Henriksen - Cartography
Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco
Deadbeat - Roots and Wires
Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs from the Beehive

Some particularly good comps/boxed sets:

Gas - Nah und Fern
Shackleton & Appleblim - Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated by Vandals
Sascha Funke - Watergate 02

One particular podcast really stood out:

Pole's Resident Advisor [RA.091] which RA released back in February. It did a fantastic job of mixing classic dub with contemporary dubstep.

Deadbeat - Roots and Wires and Arve Henriksen - Cartography is what i like...they please me....

Ruhi Sheikh
Music reviewer
www.freedownloadsongs.in