Sunday, January 09, 2022

the lists of 2021

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1. edit select “far north” (kontrafaktum, 12”)

2. gremlinz & jesta / overlook “infinity “ / “lone pine” (droogs, 12”)

3. ramson badbonez “dark city” (boot, 12”)

4. kool keith, scorn & submerged “distortion” (ohm resistance, 12”)

5. the declining winter “the definition glance” (acuarela, 7”)

6. overlook & karim maas “heart of darkness” (uvb-76, 12”)

7. spine “himnos mambises” (practiced hatred, lathe-cut 7”)

8. low end activist “engineers origins” (low end activism, 12”)

9. memoriam “failure to comply” (reaper entertainment)

10. red sleeping beauty ft. mary wyer “second time” (matinee recordings)

 

11. future materials “on the other side” (osiris music)

12. gee bag x illinformed “foreigners” (dinked, 7”)

13. gremlinz & jesta “albatross” / “RRLCO” (UVB-76, 12")

14. juga naut & jazz t “marble & granite” (boot, 7”)

15. sophie “BIPP (autechre mix)” (numbers, 12”)

16. blockdata “vacuum decay” (ohm resistance, 12”)

17. monrella/jk flesh “see red” (avalanche)

18. altern-8 “hard crew” (stafford north, 12”)

19. headie one “2 chains” (single on relentless)

20. sam krats ft. craig g, mysdiggi, ramson badbonez, gee bag, phoenix da icefire & jazz t “culture” (revorg, 12”)

 

21. lewis parker “all I got” (king underground, 12”)

22. mick harris “hednod” - any of "five." to "nine." (bandcamp)

23. ryuji takeuchi “no life, no music ep” (local sound network)

24. tulip88 ft. ash the author “out here” (self-released single)

25. stars on fire “ready, steady, go!” (cloudberry records, 7”)

26. exhumed "worming ep" (relapse)

27. zomby “chaos reigns” - any of I to V (Warehouse Rave, 12” series)

28. unis “proletarijat 009” (proletarijat)

29. carcass “kelly’s meat emporium” (nuclear blast)

30. blackdown/burial “shock power of love ep” (keysound recordings, 12”)


31. unknown t “ww2” (universal)

32. secret shine “empyrean” (bandcamp)

33. SZA “good days” (top dawg, 10”)

34. tech level 2 “depths ep” (avalanche recordings)

35. the dividing line “hypocrite” (new age records)

36. low end activist “get dark” (low end activism, 12”)

37. uniiqu3 “heartbeats” ep (local action)

38. peace test “40%” (to live a lie)

39. low end activist ft. sikka rymes “invite chaos (kill dem)” (low end activism, 12”)

40. the great leap forward “revolt against an age of plenty” (a turntable friend)


41. swansea sound “indies of the world” (7” on skep wax, hhbtm and formosa punk - there’s also a cassette on lavender sweep)

42. arrest! charlie tipper “trust me” (breaking down, lathe-cut 7”)

43. sven wittekind “whiplash” (ipsographic)

44. killa’s army & XL mad “badman ting” (numa recordings, 12")

45. the noise floor “2000 fingers ep” (local sound network)

46. krys “dampfmaschine” (sick weird rough)

47. hella ft. logan_olm “chattings” (songtrust)

48. sir beans OBE “part Of it” (7” single on AE productions)

49. overlook / karim maas “video nasties” / “dimensions” (droogs, 12”)

50. iller instinct “smr001” (scared money records, 12”)


51. eklipse “london city” (self-released)

52. sandro galli “bass line 134” (acidworx)

53. sarah strandberg “back from hell” ep (fallen angels)

54. swansea sound “swansea sound” (lavender sweep, cassette)

55. your old droog & MF doom “dropout boogie” (mongoloid banks/nature sounds)

56. nolay “You don’t know” (self-released)

57. conflicto de interes “abolicion” (give praise records)

58. the catenary wires “mirrorball” (skep wax, 7”)

59. jammz “dark & light” (i am grime)

60. would-be-goods “saturn’s child” (bandcamp)


61. rolo tomassi “cloaked” (e-one)

62. real numbers “brighter then ep” (slumberland recordings, 12”)

63. lars klein & ryuji takeuchi “old soldiers never die” ep (local sound network)

64. holsten “sealed in time” (droogs, 12”)

65. urban carnage “nihai infilak” (give praise records)

66. matt love “little ray of sunshine ep” (hillbilly heaven)

67. pessimist “all hope lost” (berceuse heroique, 12”)

68. low Order “unification” (low order, 12”)

69. the total rejection “paul’s eye john’s teeth” (raving pop blast! 7")

70. satrumentalz with big toast and the strange neighbour ft. oliver sudden, gee bag, mysdiggi and bee unreal “dust off the vinyl” (revorg, 7”)


71. various artists “1fgrm007” (1forty)

72. nomine & youngsta ft. riko dan “dark & light” (sentry records)

73. roughneck jihad “the little assassination handbook” (boot, 12”)

74. various “virus panic red” (maximum minimum, 12”)

75. mercston “4th Quarter” ep (klm Records)

76. jk flesh vs echologist “echology vol 2” (avalanche recordings)

77. karen “extended play” (shambotic)

78. insolate “sins ep” (symbolism)

79. sidetracked / autodidact split cd (problems they persist)

80. seon / tassid / jacidorex & david asko “virus panic red” (maximum / minimum)


81. swindle ft. knucks, ghetts, akala & kojey radical “blow ya trumpet” (single on bmg)

82. your old droog & that god fahim ft. pharoahe monche “slam dunk” (mongoloid banks)

83. styles p ft. ibrahim maalouf “stay true” (guilty by association, 7”)

84. tape waves “tired” (emotional response)

85. jme, frisco & shorty “norf face ep" 

86. slow crush “hush” (church road)

87. jetstream pony “misplaced words” (spinout nuggets, 12”)

88. serum “cut & shut” (souped up, 12”)

89. cesrv “the underground” (tijolo, 12”)

90. kazuya kawakami “845” (local sound network)


91. proc fiskal “lothian buses ep” (hyperdub, 12”)

92. fatima al qadiri “malaak” (hyperdub)

93. warcollapse “bound to die ep” (bye bye productions)

94. roachee “rebels” (self-released)

95. cerebral rot “vile yolk of contagion”

96. charlotte de witte “formula“(KNTXT, 12”)

97. kobe jt ft. lyrical strally “on my way” (1forty)

98. benoit pioulard “silencer” (bandcamp)

99. disentombed “purity severed by the antediluvian” (unique leader)

100. gage “back 2 bell!ngham” (2 b real)


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1. lock up “the dregs of hades” (listenable)

2. ROCK s/t (home assembly music)

3. carcass “torn arteries” (nuclear blast)

4. an autumn for crippled children “as the morning dawns we close our eyes” (prosthetic records)

5. dean wareham "i have nothing to say to the mayor of l.a." (double feature)

6. scorn “the only place” (ohm resistance)

7. death toll 80K “the future is yours” (to live a lie)

8. astatine “carcosa” (arbouse)

9. western edges “dependency” (sound of silence)

10. blockheads “trip to the void” (LIXIVIAT records)

 

11. the great leap forward “revolt against an age of plenty” (a turntable friend)

12. a new line related “love in a unitary authority (parts 1 to 9)” (home assembly music, cassette)

13. gatecreeper “an unexpected reality“(relapse)

14. the catenary wires “birling gap” (skep wax)

15. memoriam “to the end” (reaper entertainment)

16. the bug “fire” (ninja tune)

17. swansea sound “live at the rum puncheon” (skep wax, hhbtm, lavender sweep etc)

18. final “oblivion Vol 1” (avalanche recordings)

19. nothing clean “disappointment” (psycho control)

20. the declining winter "recordings of weird air” (signal records, cassette)


21. sweeney “misery peaks” (sound in silence)

22. ollie jackson “south foreland”

23. g36 vs jk flesh “disintegration dubs” (pressure)

24. astatine “la fréquentation assidue des lisières” (arbouse Recordings)

25. observatories “flowers bloom, butterflies come” (iikki)

26. the dividing line “owe you nothing” (new age records)

27. world peace “COME AND SEE” (twelve gauge records)

28. unknown t “adolescence” (stay solid)

29. terminal bliss “brute err/ata” (relapse)

30. david lance callahan “english primitive i” (tiny global productions)


31. haiku salut “the hill the light the ghost” (secret name)

32. noctule “wretched abyss” (church road records)

33. the humble bee “light trespassing” (motion ward)

34. martha argerich “schumann: kinderszenen op 15 & kreisleriana op 16” (deutsche grammophon)

35. regional justice center “crime and punishment“ (closed casket activities)

36. boyracer “assuaged” (emotional response) 

37.  chime school s/t (slumberland recordings)

38.  scotch rolex “tewari” (hakuna kulala)

39.  manni dee “a low level love” (perc trax)

40.  møl “diorama” (nuclear blast)


41. misery for a living “life is but the shipwreck of our plans” (against the sun / 5 feet under / italian extreme underground / passion means struggle / sedation / sp discos)

42. panoptique electrical “decades (2001-2021)” (sound in silence, cd-r)

43. isnaj dui “bright star”

44. cerebral rot “excretion of mortality” (20 buck spin)

45. david christian & the pinecone orchestra “for those we met on the way” (tapete)

46. jarhead fertilizer “product of my environment” (closed casket activities)

47. vilify “illusion of self” (ohm resistance)

48. karim maas & stave “godless” (uVB-76)

49. rey sapienz & the congo techno ensemble “na zala zala” (nyege nyege tapes)

50. dj overdose “emulator armour” (l.i.e.s)

 

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1. sophie “BIPP"(autechre mix) (12” on numbers)

2. future materials “the human image” (scorn dub version)

3. demonik “labyrinthe” (raw mix)

4. the noise floor “tnf010102” (ryuji takeuchi remix)

5. kwartz “reinforced control” (monrella remix)

6. satrumentalz ft. big toast, the strange neighbour, oliver sudden & gee bag “fuck off london” (curt cataract remix)

7. cimm & youngsta ft. riko dan “hear that” (trends & boylan remix)

8. dj pleasure “watch ur step” (skore & logan remix) (low down deep)

9. low end activist ft. razor “get dark” (silas r. remix)

10. the fog bank “the age of today” (the declining winter remix)

 

reissues on 33

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1. hood “the hood tapes” (acuarela discos)

2. leatherface “mush” (dire / call of the void)

3. the pop group “y in dub (dennis bovell mixes)” (mute)

4. insect warfare “world extermination”

5. x-o-dus “english black boys” (factory benelux)

6. squarepusher “feed me weird things” (warp)

7. blackbeard “i wah dub” (plg)

8. lull “moments”(cold spring)

9. doom “the complete peel sessions 1988-1989” (sonarize)

10. the fall “rock against racism xmas party (stretford civic theatre, 23.12.77)” (ozit dandelion)


11. keith hudson “the black breast has produced her best, flesh of my skin blood of my blood “ (vp records)

12. u-roy “natty rebel” (umc)

13. ultramagnetic MCs “critical beatdown“ (music on vinyl)

14. chaotic discord “fuck religion, fuck politics, fuck the lot of you “ (radiation reissues)

15. morbid angel “domination” (earache records)

16. wolfhounds “bright and guilty “ (optic nerve)

17. extreme noise terror “phonophobia” (back on black)

18. girls at our best “pleasure” (optic nerve)

19. king tubby “majestic dub” (demon)

20. sacrilege “ambulance station squat london 1985” (back on black)


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1. mobb deep “shook ones (parts I and II)” (get on down, 7”)

2. blueboy “john peel session 03.12.94” “good news week” (precious recordings of london, 2x7”)

3. stakker humanoid “sT8818r humanoid” (de: tuned, 12”)

4. eric b & rakim “eric b for president” (king underground, 7”)

5. demonik “labyrinthe” (mint condition, 12”)

6. epmd “i'm housin’” (mr bongo, 7”)

7. fret “fret” (osiris Music)

8. twang “where’s the rub?”, “sharp“, “kick and complain”, “snapback” (all on shambotic - thank you so much for these)

9. the jasmine minks “janice long session 24.11.86” (precious recordings of london, 2x7”)

10. wu-tang clan “gravel pit” (45 kings, 7”)


11. ice cube “it was a good day” (throwdown, 7”)

12. heavenly “john peel session 07.05.94” (precious recordings of London, 2x7”)

13. the jasmine minks “john peel session 17.02.86” (precious recordings of London, 2x7”)

14. downpour “do you remember when it was all about the drums? Parts I and II” (home assembly, cassette)

15. jasmine minks “as always “ (shambotic)

16. krs-one “sound of da police" (jive, 7”))

17. bmx bandits “long session” (precious recordings of London, 2x7”)

18. mobb deep “drink away the pain” (old chillin’, 7”)

19. kool g rap & dj polo “road to the riches” (5 borough breaks, 7”)

20. nexus 21 “progression logical” (network, 12)


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1. beatnik filmstars “pop scum / not the worst of...” (the old bad habits label)

2. television personalities “some kind of trip (singles 1990-1994)” (fire records)

3. culture “children of Zion - the high note singles collection “ (cherry red)

4. insect warfare “Entomological siege” 3xLP (f.o.a.d, 2019)

5. cody “the habit of understanding (singles 1997-2002)” (shinkansen)

6. television personalities “some kind of happening (singles 1978 to 1989)” (fire)

7. errol brown & the revolutionaries “tip top dub” (cherry red)

8. the loft “ghost trains and country lanes “ (cherry red)

9. terrorizer “before the downfall: complete demos live and unreleased tracks 1987-1989” (f.o.a.d)

=10. kissamatic lovebubbles "kissamatic lovebubbles" (shambotic)

=10. new age steppers “stepping into a new age 1980-2012”(on-u-sound)

=10. conflict “statements of intent 1982-1987” (cherry red)


gigs

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covid forced a truncated list:


1. svalbard @ tufnell park dome

2. wolfhounds & the great leap forward @ 229

3. the jesus and mary chain @ the roundhouse

the lists of 2021

singles [home] 1. edit select “far north” (kontrafaktum, 12”) 2. gremlinz & jesta / overlook “infinity “ / “lone pine” (droogs, 12”) 3. ...