Zach Hill, 2010
biscuits for… neck bracers
This mix of new-release electronica is meant to shift wildly between half-and-double-time.
Low End Activist: Engineer’s Origins
Farron: T9CE
Varuna: Autotrophic Biomass
M-Zine: The Dread
DJ Andy: Take It Back
Fumio Itabashi / Henrik Schwarz / Kuniyuki: Watarase (Henrik Schwarz version)
Asquith: Sofa Living
Acado: Hera
Iron Curtis featuring Lisa Toh & Johannes Albert: Nektar Leftie (Erdbeerschnitzel remix)
Agents of Time: Jimmy the Jester
Eleonora featuring UnderHer: All Together (version)
Saive & Kleiber: Out of Silence (ZUma Dionys remix)
Estella Boersma: Final Lap
Nicolas Duque: Bristol Love
De-Tu & Congi: Shallow Waters
Arkham Sound: Mercy (Gnisschrew mix)
Sentinel 793: a Stranger Rings
Sharp Veins: Glue Forest
D-Operation Drop: Liberation (Babe Roots & Don Fe remix)
Pleasure Jail: No Justice, No Peace
Amy Dabbs: Take It
8Ball: Only Time Will Tell
Superabundance: Fuzzy Math
Kamus: Wallce (Nikki Nair remix)
Halber Ball: Rift 3
Brain Rays & Quiet: Tigress Canisha
Sun People: Spirits
Sorrow: Paramount
Switch Back Smith: Room 2
Nicola Cruz: Aima (Auntie Flo mix)
Velmondo & Ironize Aka: Kyushu
Valentino Mora: Membrane
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)
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
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).
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
Punks in the Post: Return Receipt
A mix of new tracks and projects from post-punk originators, still innovating in what may honestly be dubbed their ‘old age’.
Wire: 23 Years too Late
Grinderman featuring Robert Fripp: Super Heathen Child
Crispy Ambulance: End Game
The Fall: Mister Rode
Savage Republic: Sons and Lovers
Mission of Burma: So Fuck It
Kim Gordon: Murdered Out
The Pop Group: St. Outrageous
Edwyn Collins: Glasgow to London
Gang of Four: Paper Thin
New Order: Academic
The Wake: If the Ravens Leave
John Foxx and the Belbury Circle: Empty Avenues and Dark Corners (Pye Corner Audio remix)
MXM.Joy: Ultraviolet
Wrangler: Clockwork
Ana da Silva & Phew: Bom Tempo
Alan Vega: Prayer
Björk: Thunderbolt (Death Grips mix)
Blurt: The Bells
Bauhaus: Mirror Remains
Public Image Ltd.: Terra-Gate
The Slits: Peer Pressure
Arto Lindsay: Unpair
The Red Krayola: Greasy Street
Paul Haig: Round and Round
The Wolfhounds: Divide and Fall
The Ex: From the Top of My Lungs
The Sexual Objects: Bluetime in Fluff ‘82
Viv Albertine: Confessions of a MILF
Dislocation Dance: Life Moves On
Siouxsie Sioux with Brian Reitzell: Love Crime
Alison Statton & Spike: Alone Together
Biscuits for… Dubble-Stuffers
A mix of fresh new techno focusing on dub—but dub as a technique more than a genre.
Lowtec: Burnt Toast
Slim Media Player: Moutfeel
TNT Roots: Chant Down Babylon (Verse II)
Floating Points: Shark Chase
Passarani: Minerals
Roza Terenzi: Electronique
Jeff Mills: Helix Nebula
Soluce: Center
Mikron: Imora
Demian Licht & Eomac: Algol
Christoph de Babalon: Endless Inside
Pearson Sound: Earwig
Kleft: Writhe, Squirm, Broken
Dayzero: Sunday on Spaceship
Lamont: XIX
Airhead: Clatter
Lemzly Dale: Go Away
Parris: Puro Rosaceaes (KMOS mix)
Isolée: Ginster
Tilliander: Respect Existence
ST / NE: ME / WE
Klein Zage: She’s Out There (Local Artist Cult mix)
Norman Nodge: Tacit Knowing
Ron Morelli: FXK Ripper
Best Available Technology: Orbitiara
Sabla: Chant 35
Tapes: Ticker Tape
(unknown): (untitled)
Pavel Milyakov: Bolotniy
Claudia Anderson: Momentum
Nekyia: Dream Within a Dream
Positive Centre: Exhibit Structures
Substance: Distance
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement: Bridgetown Dub
Phase90: Ango (Intrusion Metamorphose)
Not Glass: Ludicrum
2018 Recap
Here is my yearbook, a recap of 2018. I’ve collected songs from my 25 favorite albums of the last year into a wide-ranging mix.
Screaming Females: Agnes Martin
Shopping: Asking for a Friend
Marker: French Dress
The Ex: Silent Waste
Ben Vince with Rupert Clervaux: Sensory Crossing
Hen Ogledd: Problem Child
DJRum featuring Zosia Jagodzinska: Creature, pt.2
Autechre: TT1Pd
Matthew Dear: Can You Rush Them
NHK yx Koyxen: Strange Gesture
Jako Maron: Fanali Dann Bwa
Field Music: Checking on a Message
Against All Logic: Now U Got Me Hooked
Thomas Fehlmann: Morris Louis
Neneh Cherry: Faster than the Truth
Mast featuring Jason Fraticelli: Blue Monk
Kristo Rodzevski: Out of Key
Eric Chenaux: There’s Our Love
Ashley Paul: Breathless Air
Roy Montgomery with Katie von Schleicher: Outsider Love Ballad, no.1
Sarah Davachi: Matins
Sandro Perri: In Another Life
Toshimaru Nakamura: NIMB 56
Angelique Kidjo: The Overload
Reidemeister Move: Arcanum 17
Biscuits for… Beekeepers
A new mix of fresh selections, all hive-mind beats buzzing around your ear.
Shiken Hanzo: Khans of Takir
Bergonist: Conflict in Yemen
Osheyack: Untitled 6
Garies: Soda Springs
Nicolas Gaunin: Tumu Haari
Peverelist: Left Hand
Dauwd: Murmure Rouge (Mécanique Running mix)
The System: Vampirella
Isolated Lines: Trivium
Linkwood: Nae Drama
Toma Kami: Land of the Insane
Benoit B: Kimono
Grim Lusk: It’s My Nature
Gen Ludd: Marraskuu
Foodman: Percussion
Andrea Taeggi: Dinergy
Don’t DJ: Rag for Rudolf Rocker
Duckett: Magic Headlines Foul the Air
Randomer: Van Pelt
Boofy: Perfunktion
Ben Penn: Not Important
Palta & Ti: På Hovedet I Seng
Bambounou: Dernier Metro
Via Maris: CU2
Uwalmassa: Untitled no.6
Sin Falta: Diamonds
Dwart: Red Mambo (Impromptu)
Niagara: Siena
Arp: Folding Water
Inland / Julian Charrière: Up River
Beta Librae: Canis Major
Melly: Mineral Water
Progressive Defenses 2
A mix in defense of the unfairly maligned genre of progressive rock.
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band: Earth Hymn
Budgie: Stranded
Uriah Heap: Tears in My Eyes
The Norman Haines Band: Rabbits
Brian Auger: Oblivion Express
Robert Fripp: Disengage
Osiris: Sailor on the Seas of Fate
Can: Vernal Equinox
Gong: Master Builder
Brand X: Malaga Virgen
Volker Kriegel: Plonk Whenever
Carol Grimes & Delivery: The Wrong Time
Nucleus: Oasis
Julie Tippetts: Oceans and Sky (and Questions Why)
Amon Düül II: Telephonecomplex
Nektar: The Dream Nebula
Traffic: Dream Gerrard
UK: Thirty Years
Fuchsia: Another Nail
Hatfield and the North: Fitter Stoke Has a Bath
Yonin Bayashi: Ping-Pong Dama no Nageki
Trees: Sally Free and Easy
If you’re looking for even more progressive rock, I wanted to include the first volume here, since it was released before the start of this blog. This original missive includes a lot of the biggest names in prog, from King Crimson to Yes and Genesis.
Biscuits for… Molasses Movers
A mix focusing entirely on dance tracks that border on ‘undanceably’ slow.
Chloé: Recall (instrumental)
Hi & Saberhägen: Parachute
La Frère: N8TTT
MTV: Snow Ball
Pinklunch: Other Side
Fango: Atena
Commodo: Leeroy
Etch: Defunkt Logic
Novo Line: Triad (33)
Jako Maron: Katangaz
Streetboxxer: Memory Man
Black Zone Myth Chant: Radio Romantica
Krikor Kouchian: Plomo o Plomo
Chromatics: Lady
Suba: Wayang no.8
Move D / Benjamin Brunn: Come In
Marc Romboy: l'Universe Étrange
Overmono: Pom
Heap: Tripper
Low Jack: Brass
Brainwaltzera: Kurzweil Dame (Eva Geist mix)
Masimiliano Pagliara: Small Town Life
Synkro: Automatic Response
Steven Rutter: Memories of You
Sign Libra: Mantodea vs Furcifer Pardalis
Boothroyd: Rinsed
Jonathan Fitoussi / Clemens Hourrière: Ice Tunnel
Happy Meals: Run Round
Dual Action: Cochi Loco
Mønic: Deep Summer (Burial mix)
Oblique Portrait: William Parker
Legendary bassist William Parker is the common denominator for this mix that spans 40+ years and includes the biggest names of the jazz avant garde.
Ensemble Muntu: Flight
Billy Bang: Summer Night
William Parker & Hamid Drake: Faces
Wayne Horvitz: Psalm
Frank Lowe: In Trane's Name
William Parker / Raining on the Moon: James Baldwin to the Rescue
Cecil Taylor: Calling it the 8th
Matthew Shipp String Trio: Whole Movement
Bill Dixon: Brothers
Free Zen Society: Majestical
David S. Ware Quartet: Infi-Rhythms
Derek Bailey / John Zorn / William Parker: Noon Harras
Toxic: This Is Beautiful Because We Are Beautiful People
Charles Gayle: Touchin' on Trane
Brötzmann / Parker / Drake: Shake-a-Tear
DJ Spooky: Absentia, Absentia
Yo la Tengo: Let's Be Still
William Parker / In Order to Survive: The Square Sun
Anthony Braxton / William Parker / Milford Graves: Third Meeting
William Parker: Crumbling in the Shadows Is Fraulein Miller's Stale Cake
2017 Recap
My annual, personal albums-of-the-year mix.
Cummi Flu / Raz Ohara: Akasak
Acid Pauli: Ayam
Shackleton & Vengeance Tenfold: Spheric Ghost / Fear the Crown
Kaitlyn Aurelia-Smith: I Will Make Room for You
Soundwalk Collective: Xiao Youmei Corridor
Juana Molina: A00 B01
Kink Gong: Saisir l’Aiguille au Fond de la Mer
The Fall: Second House Now
Thurston Moore: Turn On
Mary Halvorson Quartet: Ruhiel
Nate Wooley: Knknighgh 6
Zen Mother: Strange Mother
The Telescopes: Down on Me
Sarah Davachi: For Organ
Phew: Antenna
NHK yx Koyxen: Intention
RE-TROS: At Mosp Here
Mourning [a] Blkstar: Take Two
Arto Lindsay: Uncrossed
Oto Hiax: Eses Mitre
Alvvays: Hey
Sacred Paws: Empty Body
Kristos Rodzevski: Ladybug
United Waters: Shaped like the Sea
Dans les Arbres: Flourescent
Biscuits for… Drunken Bogglers
A mix of seasick bass music.
Powell: The Bust
FYI Chris: Captain's Patilla
Coki meets Trixx: Elevate
Nomine: Slip
Grey Branches: Bevel
Ossia: Tumult (Lurka mix)
Irazu: Shtamm (Regis remix)
Thomas Xu: Alottochewon
Shit & Shine: Deva-State Nineteen 3000
Herva: Afro-Sweep
Nídia Minaj: Biotheke
DJ Osom: Glued
Lanark Artefax: Hyphen to Splice
Bandshell: Polarizing Haircut
Beastie Respond: The Truth that Hides that There Is None
Orogon Pit: Osmic Frqncy
Mumdance & Logos: FFS
DJ Krush: No One Knows
Clouds: Rush In 2 Orbit (Skinnergate)
Spatial: Spin One Over Two
Pan Daijing: A Season in Hell
Palmbomen II: Disappointment Island
Golden Oriole: Approaching of the Disco Void
Bill Converse: Threshold
Echoplekz: Acrid Acid
Zuli: Foam Home
Ismael: Cross System
Sim Hutchins: Some Men (You) Just Want to Watch the World Burn
Nene Hatun: Altruism
Perc: Wax Apple
Oblique Portrait: Bauhaus
A mix charting work of Bauhaus, and the subsequent careers of the original members.
Bauhaus: St. Vitus Dance
Bauhaus: Kick in the Eye
Bauhaus: Swing the Heartache (BBC session)
Bauhaus: Slice of Life
David J: The Promised Land
Tones on Tail: Rain
Dalis Car: Create and Melt
Love and Rockets: A Private Future
Peter Murphy: Canvas Beauty
Love and Rockets: All in My Mind
Peter Murphy: Crystal Wrists
Love and Rockets: No Big Deal
Daniel Ash: Not So Fast
David J: Fingers in the Grease
Daniel Ash: Roll On
Peter Murphy: Sails Wave Goodbye
Love and Rockets: Body and Soul
Bauhaus: Severance
Peter Murphy: Your Face
David J: In the Great Blue Whenever
Bauhaus: Undone
Peter Murphy: I Spit Roses
David J: Dagger in the Well
Daniel Ash: Too Much Choice
Peter Murphy: Boys (live)