Post by matt on Feb 5, 2006 11:04:54 GMT
2005 Rewind
50 Records Of The Year
The Books: Lost And Safe (Tomlab)
MIA: Arular (XL)
Animal Collective: Feels (FatCat)
Richard Youngs: The Naive Shaman (Jagjaguwar)
The Lappetites: Before The Libretto (Quecksilber)
The Focus Group: Hey Let Loose Your Love (Ghost Box)
LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem (DFA)
Tetuzi Akiyama: Route 13 To The Gates Of Hell: Live In Tokyo (Headz)
CocoRosie: Noah's Ark (Touch And Go)
Boards Of Canada: The Campfire Headphase (Warp)
Antony & The Johnsons: I Am A Bird Now (Rough Trade)
Ariel: Pink Worn Copy (Paw Tracks)
The Chap: Ham (Lo Recordings)
Black Mountain: Black Mountain (Jagjaguwar)
Isoleé: We Are Monster (Playhouse)
David Behrman: My Dear Siegfried (XI)
The Sealed Knot: Unwanted Object (Confront Collectors Series)
Kokono No 1: Congotronics (Crammed Discs)
Edan: The Beauty And The Beat (Lewis Recordings)
Jackson & His Computer Band: Smash (Warp)
Lightning Bolt: Hypermagic Mountain (Load)
Lau Nau: Kuutarha (Locust Music)
Thuja: Pine Cone Temples (Strange Attractors Audio House)
Sunburned Hand Of The Man: Wedlock (Eclipse)
Kanye West: Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella)
John Fahey: The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick (Water)
Mouthus: Slow Globes (Troubleman)
Sufjan Stevens: Illinoise (Rough Trade)
Rova :: Orkestrova: Electric Ascension (Atavistic)
John Wall: Cphon (Utterpsalm)
Jamie Lidell: Multiply (Warp)
Susan Howe & David Grubbs: Thiefth (Blue Chopsticks)
Broadcast: Tender Buttons (Warp)
Om: Variations On A Theme (Holy Mountain)
Low: The Great Destroyer (Rough Trade)
Akron/Family: Akron/Family (Young God)
John Coltrane: One Down, One Up: Live At The Half Note (Impulse!)
Brian Eno: Another Day On Earth (Hannibal)
Josephine Foster: Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You (Locust Music)
Prurient: Black Vase (Load)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney: Superwolf (Domino)
Sightings: Arrived In Gold (Load)
Masayuki Takayanagi: Action Direct (Tiliqua)
Einstürzende Neubauten: Grundstück (www.neubauten.org)
Pelt: Untitled (VHF)
Matthew Herbert: Plat Du Jour (Accidental)
Buck 65: Secret House Against The World (Warners)
Six Organs Of Admittance: School Of The Flower (Drag City)
Keiji Haino: Global Ancient Atmosphere (PSF)
Eliane Radigue: Elemental II (ROSA)
Avant Rock
Birchville Cat Motel: with Lee Ranaldo: 30th December 2004 (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
Burning Star Core: The Very Heart Of The World (Thin Wrist)
Double Leopards: Out Of One, Through One And To One (Eclipse)
Earth: Hex; Or Printing In The Infernal Method (Southern Lord)
Hisato Higuchi: 2004 11 2005 4 (Ghost Disc)
Jandek: Glasgow Sunday (Corwood)
Mouthus: Slow Globes (Troubleman)
MV/EE & The Bummer Road: We Offer You Guru (Child Of Microtones)
Om: Variations On A Theme (Holy Mountain)
Skullflower: Orange Canyon Mind (Crucial Blast)
Sunburned Hand Of The Man: Wedlock (Eclipse)
Sunn O))): Black One (Southern Lord)
Jack Rose: Kensington Blues (Beautiful Happiness)
Yellow Swans/Grey Daturas: Copper/Silver (JYRK)
Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice: Buck Dharma (Time Lag)
Critical Beats
Isolée: My Hi-Matic (Playhouse)
DJ Koze: Don't Feed The Cat (Kompakt)
Motiivi:Tunetmaton: 1939 (Freundinnen)
Don Atom featuring Tea Time: Mueve La Cintura (Essay Recordings)
Skream: Midnight Request Line (Tempa)
Tori Alamaze: Don't Cha (Universal)
Les Visiteurs: Snoop's Acid Drop (white label)
Lindstrom: I Feel Space (Feedelity)
Paul Kalkbrenner: Tatü-Tata (Bpitch Control)
Matias Aguayo: Drums & Feathers (Kompakt)
Hell: Follow You (Dominik Eulberg Remix) (Gigolo)
Aswefall: Ride (Der Schmeisser Lovelysplintermix) (Kill The DJ)
Rude 66: Die Starke Der Vernichtenden Schlage (Bunker)
George Issakidis: Understand What I'm Saying (NovaMute)
MANDY vs Booka: Shade Mandarine Girl (Get Physical)
Dub
The Bug featuring Warrior Queen: Dem A Bomb We (Ladybug)
Bush Chemists: Raw Raw Dub (ROIR)
Coki Officer/Mood Dub (DMZ)
Digidub & Fairshare: Unity Sound System I Scream/No Way/Versions (David)
Prince Far: I Silver & Gold (Blood And Fire)
Kode9 & Space Ape: Kingstown/Kingstown Dub (Hyperdub)
Damian Marley: "Welcome To Jamrock" (Tuff Gong International)
Ranking Joe: World In Trouble (M Records)
Ricky Ranking: Can't Trick I (Banana Klan)
Ossie All Stars: Leggo Dub (Hot Pot)
Phillip Smart Productions: Five Borough Fire: Digital Dancehall NYC Style (Street Platinum & Gold)
Tempa: All Stars Tempa All Stars Vol 2 (Tempa)
Travellers Black: Black Minds (Pressure Sounds)
Various: Jack Ruby Hi-Fi (Auralux)
Various: Studio One Roots 2 (Soul Jazz)
Electronica
Alva Noto: Transpray (Raster-Noton)
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto: Insen (Raster-Noton)
Biosphere: Dropsonde (Touch)
Susanne Brokesch: Emerald Stars (Chicks On Speed)
Colleen: The Golden Morning Breaks (Leaf)
C-Schulz: 5.Flicker Tunes (Sonig)
Tod Dockstader: Aerial (Sub Rosa)
Markus Guentner: 1981 (Kompakt)
Hulk Silver Thread Of Ghosts (Osaka)
Inch-Time: Any Colour You Like (Static Caravan)
Kyo: Ichinose Lontano (Cubic Music)
Jan Jelinek: Kosmische Pitch (~Scape)
Minamo: Shining (12K)
Mountains: Mountains (Apestaartje)
Venetian Snares: Rossz Csillag Allat Született (Planet Mu)
Global
Abdullah Chhadeh & Nara: Seven Gates (ABYC)
Konono No 1: Congotronics (Crammed Discs)
Oki: Tonkori (Chikar Studio)
Lobi Traoré: The Lobi Traoré Group (Honest Jon's)
Various: Afro Baby: The Evolution Of The Afro-Sound In Nigeria 1970Ð79 (Sound Way)
Various: Albania: Labë Country Complaints And Love Songs (Ocora)
Various: Congotronics 2: Buzz 'N' Rumble From The Urb 'N' Jungle (Crammed Discs)
Various: Folk And Pop Sounds Of Sumatra Vol 2 (Sublime Frequencies)
Various: Molam: Thai Country Groove From Isan (Sublime Frequencies)
Various: Out Of Cuba: Latin American Music Takes Africa By Storm (Topic)
Various: The Naked Prey OST (Latitude)
Various: The Rough Guide To The Music Of Central Asia Uzbekistan To Kazakhstan: Sounds Of The Silkroad (World Music Network)
Various: Tibetan Buddhist Rites From The Monasteries Of Bhutan Vol 1 (Sub Rosa)
Various: Sleeping In The Market: Ethiopian Music & Sounds From Amhara (Latitude)
Various: Thai Beat A Go-Go Vol 3 (Subliminal Sounds)
Hip Hop
Aasim: Hip-Hop 101 (AV8)
Edan: Beauty And The Beat (Lewis Recordings)
Ghostface: Kilos (Def Jam)
Ellay Khule: Califormula (Decon/Project Blowed)
Legendary KO: George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People (N/A)
Mac Dre & Mac Mall: Dredio (Thizz)
Mistah FAB: Super Sic Wit It (Thizz)
Quasimoto: The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas (Stones Throw)
Sadat X: Experience And Education (Female Fun)
Juelz Santana: There It Go (Def Jam)
Beanie Sigel: The B.Coming (Roc-A-Fella)
13 & God: EP (Alien Transistor)
Three 6 Mafia: Stay Fly (Columbia)
TTC: Batards Sensibles (Big Dada)
Tuff Crew & Krown Rulers: Phanjam (Traffic)
Jazz and Improv
Chris Abrahams: Thrown (Room 40)
Derek Bailey: Carpal Tunnel (Tzadik)
Clive Bell & David Ross: Mystery Lights/Nightflowers (Metier Jazz)
Bill Carrothers: Civil War Diaries (Illusion)
Cold Bleak Heat: It's Magnificent, But It Isn't War (Family Vineyard)
Cooper-Moore & Assif Tsahar: Tells Untold (Hopscotch)
Crowther/Franklin/Marsh: Amherst Dislodged (Slam)
Paul Flaherty & Chris Corsano: Steel Sleet (Tyyfus)
Mochizuki Harutaka: Solo Document 2004 (Bishop)
Kerbaj/Sehnaoui/Sehnaoui/Zach: Rouba3i5 (Al Maslakh)
Mat Maneri: Pentagon (Thirsty Ear)
MEV & AMM: Apogee (Matchless)
Owl Sounds: Owl Sounds with Arrington DeDionyso (Colour Sounds Recordings)
ROVA :: Orkestrova: Electric Ascension (Atavistic)
Modern Composition
David Behrman: My Dear Siegfried (XI)
Harrison Birtwistle: The Triumph Of Time/Gawain's Journey (NMC)
Candlesnuffer: Apsomeophone (Lexicon Devil)
Henry Cowell: A Continuum Portrait (Naxos)
Gérard Grisey: Le Noir De L'Étoile (Accord)
Alvin Curran: Maritime Rites (New World)
Morton Feldman: Violin And Orchestra (Col Legno)
Morton Feldman/Christopher Fox: Clarinet Quintets (Metier)
Tristan Murail: Complete Piano Music (Metier)
Terry Riley & Michael McClure: I Like Your Eyes Liberty (Sri Moonshine)
David Rosenboom/JB Floyd/Tricky: Sankaran Suitable For Framing (Mutable)
Giacinto Scelsi: Suotono Rotondo (Wergo)
Salvatore Sciarrino: Fiato (Stradivarius)
James Tenney: Pika-Don (Hat Hut)
Iannis Xenakis: Orchestral Works Vol 4 (Timpani)
Outer Limits
Avarus: Ruskeatimantti (Tumult)
Keith Berry: The Ear That Was Sold To A Fish (Crouton)
Maurizio Bianchi & Land Use: Psychoneurose (Manifold)
Boris with Merzbow: Sun Baked Snow Cave (Hydra Head)
Andrew Chalk: The River That Runs Into The Sand (Faraway Press)
Double Leopards & Wolf Eyes: Breeding Turbines (American Tapes)
Sophie Durand & Manu Holterbach: Verres Enharmoniques: Un (Cloudmirror)
Henry Flynt: Purified By The Fire (Locust Music)
Grouper: Way Their Crept (Free Porcupine Society)
Keiji Haino: Uchu Ni Karami Tsuiteiru Waga Itami (PSF)
Inca Ore: A Knit Of My Own Fibers/When You Are Sleeping I Tell You Secrets (JYRK)
Paavoharju: Yhä Hämärää (Fonal)
James Plotkin: Kurtlanmak (Utech)
Prurient: Black Vase (Load)
Alexander Tucker: Old Fog (ATP)
Compilations A-Z
American Primitive Vol II: Pre-war Revenants 1897-1939 (Revenant)
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music Third A-Chronology 1952-2004 (Sub Rosa)
Archives GRM (INA/GRM)
Berlin Super 80 (Monitorpop)
By The Fruits You Shall Know The Roots (Eclipse/Time-Lag)
Can You Jack? Chicago Acid And Experimental House 1985-95 (Soul Jazz)
Doctor Who At The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Vol 1: The Early Years 1963-69 (Mute)
freq_out (Ash International)
Ghana Soundz Vol 2 (Soundway)
Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-37 (Old Hat)
Die Grosse Untergangsshow: Festival Genialer Dilletanten (Vinyl-On-Demand)
Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog)
New Thing! Deep Jazz From The USA 1970-85 (Soul Jazz)
Run The Road Vol 1 (679 Recordings)
Spire: Live In Geneva Cathedral, Saint Pierre
(Touch)
10 Yrs Series (Carbon)
The Sexual Life Of The Savages: Underground Post-Punk From Sao Paulo, Brazil (Soul Jazz)
Tokyo Flashback 5 (PSF)
Total 6 (Kompakt)
Qbico U-Nite New York I/Bruxelles II (Qbico)
Re-Issues A-Z
AFX: Hangable Autobulb (Warp)
Borbetomagus: Barbed Wire Maggots (Agaric)
Shirley Collins & Davy Graham: Folk Roots, New Routes (Fledg'ling)
Comus: Complete Recordings (Sanctuary)
Contemporary Jazz Quintet: Actions 1966-67 (Atavistic Unheard Music Series)
Bill Fay: Time Of The Last Persecution (Eclectic)
GI Gurdjieff: Harmonic Development: The Complete Harmonium Recordings 1948-49 (Basta)
Toshi Ichiyanagi: Opera From The Works Of Tadanori Yokoo (Bridge)
Kemialliset Ystävät: Kellari Juniversumi (Fonal)
Basil Kirchin: Abstractions Of The Industrial North (Trunk)
Gottfried: Michael Koenig Acousmatrix 1/2 (Bvhaast)
Ennio Morricone: Crime And Dissonance (Ipecac)
Last Exit: Köln (Atavistic)
Moondog: Moondog (Honest Jon's)
Naked City: Complete Studio Recordings (Tzadik)
Steve Reich & Musicians: Live 1977 (The Kitchen)
Sonny Sharrock: Black Woman (Water)
Judee Sill: Dreams Come True Hi I Love You Right Heartily Here (Water)
Soft Machine: Out-Bloody-Rageous: An Anthology 1967-73 (Sony)
Sonic Youth: Goo Deluxe Edition (Geffen)
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: A New Distance (Emanem)
Mark Stewart: Kiss The Future (Soul Jazz)
The Stooges: Heavy Liquid (Easy Action)
Super_Collider: Raw Digits (Rise Robots Rise)
Masayuki Takayanagi: Angry Waves DIslocation (Jinya)
The Electorate
This year's charts were compiled from the votes of the following contributors (with individual records of the year shown in brackets):
Steve Barker (Huan Qing Yi Kuai Tong Pi), Mike Barnes (SFT Lana Lara Lata), Clive Bell (Sufjan Stevens Illinoise), Marcus Boon (Josephine Foster Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You), Philip Clark (Jelly Roll Morton The Complete Library Of Congress Recordings), Mia Clarke (Oneida The Wedding), Julian Cowley (Alvin Curran Maritime Rites), Christoph Cox (März Wir Sind Hier), Alan Cummings (Masayuki Takayanagi Action Direct), Jon Dale (Broadcast Tender Buttons), Sam Davies (Konono No 1 Congotronics), Phil England (Rhythm & Sound See Mi Ya), Phil Freeman (John Coltrane One Down, One Up: Live At The Half Note), Susanna Glaser (The Books Lost And Safe), Louise Gray (Tracy + The Plastics Culture For Pigeon), Andy Hamilton (Bill Carrothers Civil War Diaries), Jim Haynes (Keith Berry The Ear That Was Sold To A Fish), Richard Henderson (Kraftwerk Minimum-Maximum Ð Live), Tony Herrington (Various Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box), Matthew Ingram (Jackson & His Computer Band Smash), David Keenan (Mouthus Slow Globes), Rahma Khazam (Various freq_out), Biba Kopf (Einstürzende Neubauten Grundstück), Alan Licht (Mindflayer Expedition To The Hairier Peaks), Dave Mandl (Noel Akchoté Sonny II), Brian Marley (Keith Rowe/Sachiko M/Toshimaru Nakamura/Otomo Yoshihide ErstLive005), Marc Masters (Mouthus Slow Globes), Keith Moliné (Magma KA), Will Montgomery (John Wall Cphon), Brian Morton (KTU 8 Armed Monkey), John Mulvey (Sufjan Stevens Illinoise), Anne Hilde Neset (Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney Superwolf), Edwin Pouncey (Earth Hex; Or Printing In The Infernal Method), Mosi Reeves (M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us), Simon Reynolds (Ariel Pink Worn Copy), Tom Ridge (Akron/Family Akron/Family), Peter Shapiro (Konono No 1 Congotronics), Chris Sharp (Pelt Untitled), Philip Sherburne (Isolée We Are Monster), Nick Southgate (Julian Cope Citizen Cain'd), David Stubbs (Susanne Brokesch Emerald Stars), Dave Tompkins (Jay Dee Donuts), Derek Walmsley (Various Run The Road Volume 1), Dan Warburton (Rova :: Orchestrova Electric Ascension), Barry Witherden (Last Exit Köln), Rob Young (Dangerdoom The Mouse And The Mask)
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This chart first appeared in issue 263, January 2006.
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