Your Best of 2008 List???

headphone commute · Post by **headphone commute** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:23 pm

Ok, kiddies, we've got a few weeks left to finish off this year... Do you have a list of your favorite albums of the year - dubstep albums included, but not so much if that's all you're listening to... I'm looking for some IDM, ambient, modern classical, experimental, and Other Music alike...

If you have a last.fm profile, chime in with your list here : http://tinyurl.com/4has7t

If not, it should help you find an album that you missed... I've got 50 Lists and counting!!!

~HC

p.s. If you don't have a last.fm profile, submit here, and I'll cut'n'paste on your behalf...

godflesh fiend · Post by **godflesh fiend** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:30 am

Easily the best album of 2008 for me (and just in time as it was just released last week!) was Meursault's "Pissing On Bonfires/Kissing With Toungues". For those who don't know Meursault are from Edinburgh and have been turning heads with this superb album. Seriously this album will blow you away. I guess you'd call it Folky Electronica????

Anyway listen to some snippets on their myspace below...

http://www.myspace.com/meursaulta701

And here's a review from Skinny Mag.........

"After a spin of this sublime record only one word will pass your lips: Magnificent."

Much like the vino of their French regional namesake, Edinburgh's Meursault have been on a lot of lips recently. So, after establishing a fervent following with a string of spellbinding live shows over the past six months, the quartet's decision to give their debut long-player Pissing On Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues another push via Edinburgh indie label Song, By Toad couldn't have been better timed. Knee-deep in folkish narratives, rousing numbers The Furnace and Lament For a Teenage Millionaire are transformed into rapacious tidal waves by the gnarling tectonic plates of electronica that underpin them. A Few Kind Words is an aural minefield and the record's immediate stand-out, laced with bombastic percussion and the screeching banshee wail of frontman Neil Pennycook. Yet, as time flies, it's gentle cutlet A Small Stretch Of Land that springs to the fore: a tortured, weeping lament bound by introspection. Make no mistake, after a spin of this sublime record only one word will pass your lips: magnificent. [Billy Hamilton]

adikt · Post by **adikt** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:41 am

Barry Lynn - Balancing Lakes was perhaps my favorite of the year. i loved the new Otto Von Shirach - oozing bass spasms. tons of Dino Felipe releases which is always good! Madlib - King of the Wigflip + Beat Konducta vol 6 both are great. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles was great but I liked Reset more. His mixes from this year have been fucking hot tho & on constant replay in the car. New Squarepusher blew my mind...my favorite electronic artist pushing new ideas is always good to see. New Unkle is beautiful in so many new directions as well. And Ikonika - Please was one of my favorite dubstep tracks me thinks.

This year was a year of review for me tho. Sun Ra, John Coltrane & J Dilla were most frequent. Company Flow, Melt Banana & Pink Floyd as well. and my own sounds have been increasing in quality and number which always makes me happy

atomrattoe · Post by **atomrattoe** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:40 pm

some of my favs from this year:

krallice - s/t
earth - the bees made honey in the lion's skull
hair police - certainty of swarms
gang gang dance - saint dymphna
barn owl - from our mouths a perpetual light
no age - nouns
raccoo-oo-oon - s/t
nachtmystium - assassins
marnie stern - this is it and...
sunn o))) - domkirke
the Nadja releases
Harvey Milk - Life......The Best Game In Town
Aufgehoben - Khora
Yellow Swans - Deterioration Yellow Swans
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Starkey - Ephemeral Exhibits

There's probably more I'm missing.

did · Post by **did** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 2:23 am

Godflesh Fiend wrote:Easily the best album of 2008 for me (and just in time as it was just released last week!) was Meursault's "Pissing On Bonfires/Kissing With Toungues". For those who don't know Meursault are from Edinburgh and have been turning heads with this superb album. Seriously this album will blow you away. I guess you'd call it Folky Electronica????

Anyway listen to some snippets on their myspace below...

http://www.myspace.com/meursaulta701

dude they're amazing

adikt · Post by **adikt** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 12:34 am

just heard the new FSOLDigital release

Amorphous Androgynous - The Peppermint Tree & Seeds of Superconscious

really fucking amazing. beautiful & innovative in so many ways. So happy to hear the name FSOL thrown around again this might be my instant #1.

godflesh fiend · Post by **godflesh fiend** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:09 am

DID wrote:
Godflesh Fiend wrote:Easily the best album of 2008 for me (and just in time as it was just released last week!) was Meursault's "Pissing On Bonfires/Kissing With Toungues". For those who don't know Meursault are from Edinburgh and have been turning heads with this superb album. Seriously this album will blow you away. I guess you'd call it Folky Electronica????

Anyway listen to some snippets on their myspace below...

http://www.myspace.com/meursaulta701
dude they're amazing

Yeah tell me about it. If you're interested in buying the album I'd suggest getting it direct from the label as they're very cool people and sell their music quite cheap. The Meursault cd is £8 and you can purchase it on gthe below link with paypal....
http://songbytoadrecords.com/

d-T-r · Post by **d-T-r** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:35 pm

these are the ones i can remember...excluding singles and short ep's..

in no order:

Tipper- wobble factor, territory noise

Squarepusher – just a souvenier

One day as a lion - One day as a lion

Nightmares on wax – thought so

mr scruff – ninja tuna

Koushik – out my window

Hubert daviz – beatnicks tape #01

Hermitude – threads

Barry lynn - balancing lakes

40 winks – the lucid effect

immortal technique - The 3rd World

atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold

prolyphic and reanimator – the ugly truth

Dieselboy/various artists - Substance D

craig · Post by **craig** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:12 am

just look at what planet mu, rephlex, warp released this year
should have the idm ya lookin4

svonknives · Post by **svonknives** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:14 am

some great stoner/doom metal, tech/math metal, grind, post punk, freak folk, grime, hip hop, funk, blahblah albums. random mix of non-dubstep stuff i listened too far, far too much this year

earth - bees made honey in the lions skull
fucked up - chemistry of common life
dillinger escape plan - ire works
torche - meanderthal
made out of babies - the ruiner
genghis tron - board up the house
my disco - paradise
fuck buttons - street horrrsing
akron/family - love is simple (07 release in us but 08 here)
angels of light - we are him (same)
lil wayne - tha carter 3
trim - soul food vol 3
dot rotten - r.i.p young dot
erykah badu - new amerykah pt 1
jay reatard - matador singles 08
snowman - the horse, the rat and the swan
harmonic 313 - music for film, television and radio
actress - hazyville

my standout dancehall artists from the year -

vybz kartel
mavado
bugle
busy signal
and damien marley just for his work on mission riddim

alexchuck · Post by **alexchuck** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:34 am

yeah, busy/mavado/vybz were on fire and bugle just killed it. i saw him live @ rototom, such a good performance!

best reggae act was by far General Levy's album, though

somejerk · Post by **somejerk** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:08 pm

flying lotus shit on everything this year.

firky · Post by **firky** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:10 am

I fucked up... need sleep.

Try again below

firky · Post by **firky** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:11 am

Firky wrote:Nick Cave, Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!! and Roots Manuva, Slime & Reason both caught my ear this year but I was was let down by Professor Green's EP, Squarepusher's latest offering was a bit shit too

Count Bass D was pretty good too but I never seem to be in the mood to play it

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