| 4.0 excellent |
| Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda |
| Anthony Shakir Frictionalism 1994-2009 |
Perhaps the best techno/house compilation out there? I'm certainly nowhere near experienced enough to make a solid statement like that but who else can presume of making a 3 and a half long
compilation of techno and not have a single track be disposable? Just listen to the bassline from Roaming or the energy of The Fake Left, or the beauty of Arise (A good entry song for fans of the
likes of Discovery-era Daft Punk) and you'll understand why this is a holy grail within circles of techno fans. |
| Anti Cimex The Records 81-86 |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom |
| Arthur Russell World of Echo |
| Assuck Anticapital |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark |
| Cantus Colln Bach: Johannes-Passion [Junghanel] |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica |
| Cecil Taylor Nailed |
| Chico Buarque Construção |
| It has been a long time... Actually I can't recall the last time an album wrapped itself around my quite the way this did. I can't recall when was the last time an album enthralled me with its painstaking beauty to the extent that this has. This is gorgeous, gorgeous music, music that evokes every soft, airy feeling of calmness and warmth at its most "Ballad-y" and even at its most intense and melancholic ("Construo"). Everyone, and I do mean *everyone* should listen to this. At leat once. But they really should listen to it multiple times. |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury |
| Coroner No More Color |
| Corrupted Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos |
| Crossed Out Crossed Out |
| D'Angelo Voodoo |
| David Bowie Station to Station |
| Disclose Tragedy |
| diSEMBOWELMENT Transcendence into the Peripheral |
| Fela Kuti Roforofo Fight |
| Ghazal As Night Falls on the Silk Road |
| How do you get more mesmerizing than this? How can you listen to the "My Eyes, My Heart" without picturing yourself in an entirely alien, unknown world with just enough similarities that it feels beautiful and fascinating just observing it? How can the grandness of "Traces of the Beloved" not feel like living observing the stars forever? I'm starting to think Hindustani Classical Music is one humanity's greatest inventions. It seems every time I listen to it or something inspired it, I'm more amazed than anything since the last HCM-inspired work. |
| Hatred Surge Deconstruct |
| Henry Flynt You Are My Everlovin' / Celestial Power |
| Horatiu Radulescu Streichquartett No. 4, Op. 33 |
| Jeff Mills Live at the Liquid Room, Tokyo |
| John Coltrane Ascension |
| John Fahey Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice) |
| Jorge Ben África Brasil |
| Judee Sill Heart Food |
| Whenever I think I've heard all the lovely voices the human ear could listen to an album like this comes along and completely destroys that belief, and that makes me so happy |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| La Petite Bande Bach: Matthaus-Passion [Kuijken] |
| Michael Mayer Fabric 13 |
| Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges Clube da Esquina |
| Morton Feldman String Quartet No. 2 |
| Necrophobic The Nocturnal Silence |
| Ornette Coleman Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation |
| Prince Dirty Mind |
| Slayer Show No Mercy |
| Sonny Sharrock Black Woman |
| Sulfuric Cautery Chainsaws Clogged With The Underdeveloped Brain... |
| Putrefaction in progress, but with songs! Kind of! |
| T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Zoundegnon Bernard 'Papillon' guitariste principal |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| Various Artists An England Story |
| Various Artists Ethiopian Soul and Groove |
| Weekend Nachos Torture |
| Weekend Nachos/Lack Of Interest Split EP |
Damn, damn, damn! Is all I can say. Their last couple of records aren't bad, but I did not think
WN could sound this good ever again - Easily on the level of Torture and Punish and Destroy at
least. These 5 minutes alone are better than the existence of the load of Spazz/Crossed Out/Man Is
The Bastard wanna be shitslitters we get today for Powerviolence. Here, instead of just playing
droney sludge with some vaguely hardcoreish moments, with 5 minutes WN figure they'd just throw
all the hardcore in and leave the sludge second and got damn it works. It's hard to argue that
something like this could honestly be among your favorites because it's so brutally short, but
I've been listening to this release non stop for well over half a year now with over 300 plays
(and that's only based on last.fm) and none of these tracks have gone stale, so I'd be lying to
myself if I told you I didn't love this to death. Fabulous job; I'm gonna miss these fucking
pricks. ---- Oh yeah, and Lack of Interest is there as well. They're pretty cool too, check them
out. But damn that A side tho. |
| Yacopsae Timeo Ergo Sum |
