Its been an odd year for Music in general, boxing day being the traditional day we hold our autopsy on all things good, bad and ugly music wise.
We cover stuff new this year as well as things new to us, so lets get on with the good.
Chris Carter Chemistry Lessons 1.
Part of Chris and Cosey, which is in turn one half of Throbbing Gristle, I got this in September after an indifferent break away. Its a good mix of modular sketches and sounds from long ago to present day. Worth a listen for any synth head.
Aphex Twin. Collapse EP.
We saw the actual posters up on Elephant and Castle tube, and the EP while great, Is overshadowed by the whole pop up shop thing, where you could by the bears from Donkey Rhubarb and an umbrella styled on the ones in Windowlicker EP. All very nice but the video to T69 Collapse is possibly the best thing all year and harks back to the old IDM days.
Ceephax Acid Krew. Fossil Funk Piano Mix
Another great video this and a stellar track to go with it as well. With his cat Byron spinning around on an office chair and shouts out high street shops, in other words the typical Ceephax style.
Ramz Barking.
A half track for me with the acapella showing up on Youtube, I normally hate grime, with a passion so its nice to see a track that isn't terrible or not entirely so. True its not my thing, but its not terrible and you can alter the lyrics to say I'm Barking, She's Barking.
Billie Humphrey. Black and Blues.
70's jazz that sounds like it should have come out on Ninja Tune and the like back in the day, don't know if any of the tracks were played on Solid Steel but its definitely something that crowd would enjoy.
Fabric 100,
The final ever metal tin box edition of the track goes out with a 3 CD set from Craig Richards Terry Francis and Keith Reilly. You know what to expect, techno and some deep house mixed well.
A fitting end.
Larry Heard Cerebral Hemispheres.
Mr Fingers himself returns to form with some brilliant acid a collaboration with Paul St Hilaire from Rhythm and Stealth's Dub Techno and a stunning 12 with mixes which are the dogs bollocks, Most definitely my track of the year.
BAD STUFF.
My bad stuff is not so much this year with few terrible things, for once I'm not at work to hear Kiss Breakfast so that is in itself a blessing.
Maroon 5 Cardi Gan B
This is a half awful track, I hate Maroon 5 and Cardi B seems to be the Budgens Nicki Minaj, which no one ever asked for. The song isn't so bad and if you can get the instrumental version off of Youtube there is some not terrible guitar work which is saying something from me who usually hates guitar. The worst thing is every time I've tried to edit it, I make it worse, want to make this stripped back as fuck, literally like the acoustic guitar clicking away and not much else.
Clean Bandit With Selena Gomez Woof Woof Woof or whatever its called.
Its garbage and I can't stop singing along to the chorus, woof woof woof indeed.
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