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2011
LISTS ! ‘Cause it’s been a while since you read one (with a short comment or description when i feel like it).
- Rap :
Boldy James - Trapper’s alley : Trap rap ; east coast beats; this guy brains is a dope producer ; perfect for walking under the snow in my city’s streets.
Danny Brown – XXX : Everyone read enough about it.
Dj Quik - Book of david : The greatest rapping producer ever at his best.
E-40 - Revenue retrievin : Forty waters is totally unique and knows how to make a ton of good songs.
Fat Trel - April foolz : An incredible (young) talent displaying his most wild and spirited side.
French Montana - Coke Boys 2 : IMO French is the only rapper able to bring some heat to a new yorkish kind of rap right now.
G-Side – ISLAND : Beautiful productions & good enough raps.
Kendrick Lamar – Section.80 : Ambition + talent = great music.
King Louie - Man up band up : Incredibly talented rapper, the best one discovered this year.
Meek Mill – Dreamchasers : Happy he broke through this year. I need better rappers on the radio. Several classic songs on this tape.
Mouse on tha track - Swagga Fresh Freddie : The best club rap producer doing what he does best : club rap producing.
Starlito & Don Trip - Step brothers : Maybe my favorite of all, great chemistry, they should make a sequel, the beats are everything rap beats should be : unobtrusive but not forgivable. The rappers are everything rappers should be : good at rapping.
TKO Capone - Tropical swaggin duh : Swag rap with a texan-style flow over zaytoven like productions… says enough.
Waka Flocka Flame – DuFlocka Rant : Waka is the most consistent rapper of the last 2 years, this is his best thing this year.
Stuff i liked a bit less but want to mention anyway :
Criminal Manne-Blow 2 / DB Tha General-The Young OG II / Dj Chose-Picture this / HD-Fresh / Kevin Gates-I don’t know what 2 call it / Open Mike Eagle-Rappers will die of natural causes / Plies-Aristotle / Rich Boy-12 Diamonds / Sen City -Til the lights turn out / Shady Nate-Still Based On A True Story / Waka Flocka Flame & Slim Dunkin-Twin towers 2 / Young Jeezy – TM103 Hustlerz ambition
- R’n’B :
Beyonce - 4
Dawn Richard - The prelude to a tell tale heart : I can only hope the album will be as good. Very much in the vein of Diddy Dirty Money.
Diddy Dirty Money - Love love vs hate love : Dope remixes from the best album of ‘10.
Nikkiya - Speakher
Trey Songz - Anticipation 2
- Techno:
BNJMN - Plastic world : Great city lights techno music.
Container - LP : Rough, rough, rough tekno.
Emptyset - Demiurge : Industrial techno stripped down to the bones.
Legowelt - The teac life : A great collection of rough analogue ‘forest’ techno tracks.
Morphosis - What have we learned
Perc - Wicker & steel : This album embodies perfectly the spirit of the darker edge of UK’s electronic music scene.
Surgeon - Breaking the frame : Techno legend fucking with avant-guarde minimalism (and a bit of idm).
Tommy Four Seven – Primate : This has the best production, i hope i’ll hear more field recordings in techno.
- Drone, ambient, noise, electronics, field recordings, w/e… :
Cindytalk - Hold everything dear : He had a good idea to add piano & field recordings to his walls of electronic sounds.
Cut hands - Afro noise : The best shieeeeet ever.
Daniel Menche - Guts : This either sounds like it was recorded in a piano (which it was), or like it was recorded in hell (which it was not).
Golden Retriever - Light cones : The bass clarinet is quite heavy.
Grouper - AIA : Folk songs send from space.
Israel Martinez - El hombre que se sofoca : Stunning electroacoustic music.
Julianna Barwick - The magic place : Adlibs, but not like lil jon, quieter & nicer.
Kplr - s/t & Tek no muzik : These guys are taking their machines elsewhere.
Lawrence English -The peregrine : Music to listen to when you’re dreaming of being a bird.
Mark Fell and Peter Rehberg - Kubu/Zikir
Oneohtrix point never - Replica : His first one i’m completely into.
Paul Jebanasam - Music for the Church of St John the Baptist I – IV : I need more brutal/beautiful music.
Prurient – Bermuda drain : This should have been the soundtrack to Drive (the movie).
Ricardo Donoso - Progress chance
Roly Porter - Aftertime : see Paul Jebanasam
Stephan Mathieu - A static place : Eternal bliss.
The haxan cloak - s/t : see Roly Porter
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Vampillia - Alchemic heart : Two rising tracks rising until they can’t rise anymore.
Vladislav Delay quartet - s/t : Noisy industrial & jazz.
Vladislav Delay - Vantaa
Xela - Exorcism
- Hip stuff i couldn’t help but like :
James Ferraro - Far side virtual
Kuedo - Severant
Rustie – Glass sword
Wild Beasts - Smother
Zomby - Dedication
- Other :
Wolves in the throne room - Celestial Lineage : This surely must be to metal what the legowelt album is to techno, right ? Or this is me knowing nothing about metal and doing like these indy guys putting asap rocky as their favorite rap album.
Taragana Pyjarama – s/t : So lovely. Dare i call this ‘ethno-dreamy-bedroom-house » ?
