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Artists of 2009

My Top 100 Artists of 2009 (by last.fm)

Highly Recommended

The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs With Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon

(2009 / Warner Bros. Records)

psychedelic / indie rock / experimental


Santa came early this year!

My Rating: Brilliant

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Classic Christmas Movies

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
James Stewart, Donna Reed
Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
IMDb Rating: 8,7

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Natalie Wood, Maureen O'Hara
Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
IMDb Rating: 8

White Christmas (1954)
Bing Crosby
Comedy | Musical | Romance
IMDb Rating: 7,2

A Christmas Carol (1938)
Gene Lockhart
Drama | Fantasy
IMDb Rating: 7,5

The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Cary Grant, Loretta Young
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
IMDb Rating: 7,5

Holiday Inn (1942)
Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
IMDb Rating: 7,4

Tags of 2009

Gigs of 2009

Highly Recommended

V.A. - North/South/East/West

(2009 / Warp Records)
electronic / wonky / dubstep / experimental

Tracklist
01. Daedelus - A Bloodwort
02. Hudson Mohawke - FUSE
03. Geeneus - Ultrafunkula
04. Flying Lotus - Comet Course (Matthew David Alternative Mix)
05. Headhunter - Collecting Butterflies
06. Falty DL - Some Day My Queen Will Come
07. Flying Lotus - Rickshaw
08. Skream - Slumfunk
09. Mike Slott - Giants Meet
10. Kotchy - You Know You
11. Rustie - Bad Science
12. Taz Buckfaster - Au Revoir

My Rating: 4,5/5

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Albums of 2009

1
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

2-10 (alphabetical order)
Art Brut - Art Brut Vs. Satan
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul
Hudson Mohawke - Butter
King Midas Sound - Waiting For You
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
The Boats - Words Are Something Else
The Dead Weather - Horehound
The Horrors - Primary Colours

11 - 30 (alphabetical order)
10-20 - 10-20
BEAK> - BEAK>
Bike For Three! - More Heart Than Brains
Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand
Blockhead - The Music Scene
Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Condo Fucks - Fuckbook
Flying Lotus - L.A. EP 3 X 3
Girls - Album
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Kissogram - Rubber & Meat
Lambent - Smoothness Extract
Luke Vibert - We Hear You
Mike Slott - Lucky 9Teen
Pan American - White Bird Release
Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
Ras G & The Afrikan Space Program - Brotha From Anotha Planet
The Archivist - The Keeper Of The Library
The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition Of Phrases
The Long Lost - The Long Lost

Highly Recommended

Perverelist - Jarvik Mindstate

(2009 / Punch Drunk)
dubstep / dub / minimal

Jarvik Mindstate—named after Robert Jarvik, the inventor of the artificial heart, a self-contained, integrated pneumatic unit—conceptually fuses man with machine, theorising Tom Ford's interplay with synthesis structurally, as he forges forward, humanising the computer's array of voices and timbres. Those familiar with Ford, AKA Peverelist, and his work will no doubt have already noted his pristine command of space, his hankering for the bass heavy feel of dub music and his habit of drawing out melodic evolutions for eons; and it is undoubtedly these factors that make this collection of songs so potent. (residentadvisor.net)

My Rating: 3,5/5

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Introducing... King Midas Sound

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Highly Recommended

Reso - Temjin EP

(2009 / Civil Music)
dubstep / electronic / bass

Reso’s third release for Civil Music, Temjin EP, is 6 tracks across 2 slabs of musical genius that simultaneously moves a whole spectrum of electronic genres forward while further cementing his place as the overlord of hi-tech dubstep. On Temjin wobble, hypercrunk, breaks, wonky, hip-hop and D n B all receive the treatment. Reso’s deep musicality, incredible skill, intricate programming and wildly diverse references place him at the peak of a new breed of electronic producers. (civilmusic.com)

My Rating: 3,5/5

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Björk - Innocence (Alva Noto Unitxt Remodel)

Björk & Jneiro Jarel

Putting Out Fire With Gasoline

Tom Hines

Highly Recommended

Lone - Ecstasy & Friends

(2009 / Werk Discs)
ambient / electronic / instrumental

After making waves with his 'Lemurian' long player and more recent tracks for Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Bubblers comp, Lone aka Matt Cutler delivers an album of lush woozy electro-hop prog with a soul-melted centre for Werk Discs. Lone blends Boards Of Canada styled 'lectronic nostalgia and Flying Lotus style funk-impressions, causing folks like Warp's Bibio to swoon "...he has a personality in his music that's vivid", with many favourable comparisons to everyone from Dilla to Madlib in respected corners of the music press. (boomkat.com)

My Rating: 4/5

No Future

Patrick Hoelck

Jane Burton

Kristamas Klousch

Highly Recommended

Mike Slott - Lucky 9Teen

(2009 / Lucky Me)
instrumental hip-hop / wonky / future beat / experimental

The talents of future hiphop prodigy Mike Slott come to fruition with his debut mini-album 'Lucky 9teen' landing on the Lucky Me co-operative imprint. You've no doubt spotted his name and heard his beats sprawled all over the electronic scene over the last couple of years, from inclusions on Mary Anne-Hobbs 'Wild Angels' comp to a part on the Beat Dimension series and a slew of highly collectable 7"s, setting him apart as a beat auteur operating at the highest echelons of the scene alongside Flylo and Dabrye. He flips 80's boogie, jazz arrangements and electronica into new shapes on 'Amanallah', dices with exotic sci-fi beat organisms on 'Six AM' and craftily nudges classic hiphop/electronica templates with 'Gardening'. The neck snappin' beat of '40 Winx' twinkles and under a constellation of gorgeous synthline sequences and 'Snow Birds' trips into sci-fi jazz scapes, like Mad Mike jamming with Jamie Vex'd in anti-gravity, continued into deep space with the digital only 'Expansion' version. Like everything else he's put his name to, this record is stunning. (boomkat.com)

My Rating: 4,5/5

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