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.

the Book of 30 Years

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.

2019 Recap

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.

Biscuits for Mole Whackas

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’.

Punks in the Post Return Receipt

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.

Biscuits for Dubble-Stuffers

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