Favorites of 2016
by bentcrayon on 12/30/2016ALBUMS:
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honorable mention:
al dobson jr-rye lanes volumes ii & iii (rhythm section international)
alex coulton-gamma ray burst (tempa)
cape-my own jungle (savor music)
christian löffler-mare (ki)
eomac-bedouin tracks (bedouin)
equiknoxx-bird sound power (demdike stare)
glorias navales-cofradia nautica (kye)
goat-requiem (sub pop)
graham lambkin-community (kye)
john roberts-plum (brunette editions)
klara lewis-too (editions mego)
lake ruth-actual entity (great pop supplement)
leon vynehall-rojus (designed to dance) (running back)
les points-anthoms (les points)
lucy-self mythology (stroboscopic artefacts)
makam-than sadet (dekmantel)
mogador-overflow pool (further)
nhk yx koyxen-doom steppy reverb (diagonal)
nick solé-privat collection one (nick sole trax)
ossia-control (berceuse heroique)
planetary assault systems-arc angel (ostgut ton)
raime-tooth (blackest ever black)
rebolledo-mondo alterado (hippie dance)
romans-valere aude (bunker new york)
second woman-s/t (spectrum spools)
sendai-ground & figure (editions mego)
sw.-untitled (sued)
telephones-vibe telemetry (running back)
the bibs-from the fish houses (soft abuse)
valerio tricoli-clonic earth (pan)
REISSUES/ARCHIVAL:
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honorable mention:
anal magic & rev dwight frizzell-beyond the black crack (paradigm)
anna homler & steve mosher-breakwoman & other tales (rvng intl)
burnt envelope-alien nation: collected singles thus far (feeding tube)
cristian vogel-classics remastered (1993-1998) (sub rosa)
egisto macchi-pittura contemporanea/pittura moderna n.1/pittura moderna n.2 (cinedelic)
france-do den haag church (mental groove)
hastings of malawi-vibrant stapler obscures characteristic growth (sub rosa)
joan la barbara-tapesongs (arc light editions)
korea undock group-s/t (penultimate press)
la monte young/marian zazeela-dream house 78’17” (aguirre)
michael snow-musics for piano, whistling, microphone & tape recorder (song cycle)
paul bowles-music of morocco (dust-to-digital)
sterac-scorp (token)
steve reich/philip glass-information, transmission, modulation & noise (modern silence)
the 7th plain-chronicles i (a-ton)
the fall-live at the witch trials (superior viaduct)
third eye foundation-semtex (ici d’ailleurs)
visitors-poet’s end (telephone explosion)
various-space echo: the mystery behind the cosmic sound of cabo verde (analog africa)
various-sky girl (efficient space)
SINGLES/EPs:
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honorable mention:
adriana lopez-percepciones (modularz)
black merlin-issue n. fourteen (jealous god)
c-rau – orakel x-files 2 (die orakel)
elemnt-water (hidden hawaii)
fugal-oil panes (secondnature)
future9192-s/t (continuum series 1991-1998)
lapien-something to show you pts 1 & 2 (mistress)
louh-the guardian of the shrooms (les points)
mike gervais-surrounded (system)
patrice scott-detroit upright (sistrum)
private press-s/t (technosoul)
prostitutes-straightened out (cgi)
steve bicknell-modes of thought (6dimensions)
ulli with tom ace & beijer-ullis tapes v1 (ullis tapes)
von grall-a secant line (midgar)
wareika hill sounds-mass migration (honest jon’s)
wata igarashi-mood of the machines (bunker new york)
wata igarashi-ciphers (midgar)
zarate_fix & dj sotofett-planetary involvement (thug)
zennor/andy mac-rosevale ii/ideazzz (deep street)