Friday, January 04, 2008
RAW's Belated Best-Of's
Seeing as most people managed to get their end of year polls out several weeks ago and certainly in time for the new year, I figured I'd best get on the case really.So, for what they're worth, here's my contribution for the pot of what rocked in 2007. There's bound to be loads of great stuff that I wasn't fortunate enough to hear, things that I've forgotten and probably some things that I may not rate so highly as the years go by but as Langer has already noted, 2007 definitely produced some absolute gems!!!
Tracks of 2007:
1. Rekorder - Rekorder 8.1 // Rekorder
2. Max Romeo - One Step (Matty G Remix) // War001
3. Redshape - Black Dust // Present
4. Henrick Schwarz - Robert & Dornroosje // White Label
5. Disrupt - Selassi I Continually // Werk
6. Agoria - Les Violons Ivres // PIAS
7. Moderat (Featuring Paul St Hillare) - Let Your Love Grow // BPitch Control
8. Heartthrob - Baby Kate (Sascha Funke Remix) // M_nus
9. Simon Baker- Plastik // Infant
10. Unknown Artist - Seldom Felt1 (B1) // Seldom Felt
11. Burial - Etched Headplate // Hyperdub
12. Rustie - Clipper // Stuff Records
13. Bob Marley - War (Matty G Remix) // WAR001
14. Andy Stott - Massacre // Modern Love
15. Franki Valli - Beggin' (Pilooski Edit) // 679
16. Burial - Archangel // Hyperdub
17. Andy Stott - Hostile // Modern Love
18. Battles - Atlas (DJ Koze Remix) // Warp
19. Dubfire - I feel Speed (Audion Mix) // Sci + Tec Digital Audio
20. Beck - Cellphone's Dead (Villalobos Entlebuch Remix) // Interscope
21. Substance & Vainquer - Libration // Scion Versions
22. Minilogue - Elephant's Parade // Wagon Repair
23. Quietpoint - Caffeine Awakening // Pasta Musik
24. Dixon - Thom In The City // White Label
25. Convextion - Miranda (DeepChord Remix) // Matrix
26. Modeselektor - The White Flash (Feat Thom Yorke) // BPitch Control
27. Ellen Allien - Go // Bpitch Control
28. Thom Yorke - The Clock (Surgeon Remix) // XL
29. Nanorhythm - Continental Breakfast // Soliton Research
30. Gui Boratto - Mr Decay // Kompakt
31. Stephan Bodzin - Luka-Leon // Herzblut
32. Ame - Enoi // Innervisions
33. Stamp Release - LAC // Stamp Release
34. Samim - Heater // Get Physical
35. Nanorhythm - Woden's Discotheque (The Wild Hunt Mix) // Soliton Research
36. Najem Sworb - Teranidian // AI
37. Dubfire - Rib Cage // Desolat
38. Shackleton - Blood On My Hands (Villalobos Apocalypso Remix) // Skull Disco
39. LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum // DFA
40. Audion - Noiser // Spectral Sound
Albums of 2007:
1. Burial - Untrue // Hyperdub
2. Disrupt - Foundation Bit // Werk
3. Modeselektor - Happy Birthday! // BPitch Control
4. DeepChord Presents Echospace - The Coldest Season // Modern Love
5. Gui Boratto - Chromophobia // Kompakt
6. Echaskech - Skechbook // Just Music
7. Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss // Dial
8. Stephan Bodzin - Liebe Ist // Herzblut
9. Argenis Brito - Micro Mundo // Cadenza
10. Lusine - Podgelism // Ghostly International
Mixes / Compilations of 2007:
1. Ellen Allien - Fabric 34 // Fabric
2. Modeselektor - Boogybytes Vol III // BPitch Control
3. Basic Replay 1 // Basic Replay
4. Cadenza Contemporary 01 & Cadenza Classics // Cadenza
5. Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36 // Fabric
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i don't get it..why you're so in love with bodzin and his rekorder stuff. highly overrated bully-techno. from bremen..(his town)....cheers
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: 3:42 pm
Lists are all about personal preference and charts such as these are always going to be extremely subjective - on a different day I'd probably order my selections differently too.
However, as far as my no. 1 track for the year goes, I'd stick with it because it contains so many of the elements that I like in music.
The key thing here is that it's danceable but more than that; the track evolves, it has a liberal helping of dirt and it's got a great breakdown / buildup for that hands in the air moment.
Sometimes, music is just too serious and seeing Bodzin live at Sonar last year was such a refreshing break from the mass of dull minimal stuff that was being piped out by too many others (don't get me wrong, I love the minimal stuff too but no peaks in a 2 hour set can be a bit much!) as both his music and enthusiasm for what he was doing (oh, and not to forget those white gloves!) injected a very healthy dose of fun into the proceedings.
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However, as far as my no. 1 track for the year goes, I'd stick with it because it contains so many of the elements that I like in music.
The key thing here is that it's danceable but more than that; the track evolves, it has a liberal helping of dirt and it's got a great breakdown / buildup for that hands in the air moment.
Sometimes, music is just too serious and seeing Bodzin live at Sonar last year was such a refreshing break from the mass of dull minimal stuff that was being piped out by too many others (don't get me wrong, I love the minimal stuff too but no peaks in a 2 hour set can be a bit much!) as both his music and enthusiasm for what he was doing (oh, and not to forget those white gloves!) injected a very healthy dose of fun into the proceedings.
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