As long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to put together one of those year’s top 10 songs or top 10 artists or albums. I’ve done nearly every conceivable thing that encourages that sort of behavior: record stores, radio stations. podcasts, blogs, etc. I’ve been given just about every platform that would allow me put the music I love on a shrine.
But I’ve never done it.
One of the reasons is that there’s only so many hours in a day and attempting to look back over the year and draw some sort of meaning or theme out of it while presenting what you think is the best that year had to offer in electronic music-well, it gets a bit daunting and induces fits of narcolepsy. But despite those obstacles, I have, on numerous occasions, attempted to arrange in a neat and concise list and have failed at every turn.
Why just this year my attempt at putting together just such a list was botched when my iPod died. I salvaged the thing but all that carefully ordered data containing what songs I had listened to, by who, and how many times was gone!
But it occurred to me today that the show is actually what I consider to the best releases in a given year because my tag line is my mission statement: I’m hear to play for you the very best of all genres of electronic music.
Take today’s show.
I was recently turned on to Weiss and he has already become one of my favorite recording artists. I love “04.22.38” but I would have been just as happy to play “Rezykla.” Keep your ears open for this guys because he’s very good. Upside Down Umbrella appears courtesy of Record Label Records excellent compilation album, Drinking the Goats Blood, which I’ve been meaning to play on the show for months (go check out my label showcase featuring Record label Records to hear more of their weird and wonderful music). If I had a list of top 10 releases in 2010 Geometry would definitely be on it. Tripswitch has a lush sound with an emotional core that I can’t help but fall in love with. And then there’s Signal Path. Their Imaginary Lines would also be on my imaginary list of top 10 releases in 2010. Imaginary Lines was fun and inventive and had a perfect mix of traditional instruments and electronics. I could go on but you get the point.
What was your favorite releases for 2010 that you want to share with the world?
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- Weiss “04.22.38” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- Sql “Border Dot”
- Autechre “Nth Dafuseder.b”
- Upside Down Umbrella “Egg In The Head (Excerpt)”
- Flying Lotus “Recoiled”
- Lali Puna “Future Tense”
- Max Cooper “Chaotisch Serie (Echaskech Strange Attractor Remix)”
- Signal Path “Mystery of the Yeti”
- Shlohmo “Post Atmosphere (Baths Remix)”
- Matthew Dear “Honey”
- Tripswitch “Harmonic Mean”
- Funki Porcini “Moog River”