2016 Picks

^ It has indeed been an excellent year. 

Guldbamsen wrote: Roj wrote: Oh my God I am just so far behind this year.....  Can I just forget about this year and start afresh from 2017?  It will take me months to catch up . Well you have all of December and January to make new musical acquaintances in before the infamous AOTY starts Before all of that you may want to dive into the Tangerine Dream Official Bootleg series from last year Volume 1 has been spinning continuously ever since it landed in my lap.

Well Dave, I have been giving both volumes a serious listen over the last week and you are absolutely right, Volume 1 is outstanding.  That Reims Cathedral set is possibly the best live TD I've heard ever.  Volume 2 has the 1978 recordings and I'm not a big fan of the vox and drums line up but the 1980 material is great and makes up for it.  They really are expensive though, thank God for Spotify .

Guldbamsen wrote: Roj wrote: Oh my God I am just so far behind this year.....  Can I just forget about this year and start afresh from 2017?  It will take me months to catch up . Well you have all of December and January to make new musical acquaintances in before the infamous AOTY starts Before all of that you may want to dive into the Tangerine Dream Official Bootleg series from last year Volume 1 has been spinning continuously ever since it landed in my lap.

Yeah, those are on my radar too.  I may actually cheat and just listen on spotify as they are pretty expensive!

Every spare moment I've had this year (not enough of those moments this year) I seem to have been listening to new music, but in reality I've barely scratched the surface.  The year seems to have flown by in the blink of an eye.

Roj wrote: Oh my God I am just so far behind this year.....  Can I just forget about this year and start afresh from 2017?  It will take me months to catch up .

This year as PHENOMENAL, so many extraordinary albums like:

ET is good for the joints I find. Something like a Spanish Zac de la Rocca teaming up with One Shot. Warms up those joints in a jiffy.
Ukandanz is for those who seek the original twist. Sounds like a possessed Ethiopean tweeker singing along to an African take on zeuhl. Fusion for felines and larger animals.

zravkapt wrote: My faves for the year... PA: <span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span> <span style="line-height: 1.4;">Three Trapped Tigers - Silent Earthling</span> David Bowie - Blackstar Ulver - long alphabetical title  Kayo Dot - Plastic Base On House Of Sky Tortoise - The Catastrophist A.P.A.T.T. - Fun With Music Winstons - s/t Swans - The Glowing Man Disen Gage - Snapshots Mogwai - Atomic Deerhoof - The Magic (I just realized no one added the album yet) Thy Catafalque - Meta The Moulettes - Preternatural Non-PA: Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D-Evolution Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat The Robert Glasper Experiment - ArtScience Floating Points - Kuiper Aphex Twin - Cheetah EP Anna Meredith - Varmints Kweku Collins - Nat Love Minor Victories - s/t The Range - Potential Flume - Skin BadBadNotGood - IV Nice As f**k - Nice As f**k William Tyler - Modern Country Thunder Tillman - Jaguar Mirror Of Montreal - Innocence Reaches Preoccupations - s/t Death Grips - Bottomless Pit and Interview 2016

Nice list there Darryl and good to see Death Grips mentioned. I think they are riding a musical high atm that started out back when The Money Store came out.

Btw why no Éléphant Tôk (or Ukandanz)? No kit-kats in Canada?


Edited by Guldbamsen - November 28 2016 at 08:59

Guldbamsen wrote: Oh and hi John Please stick your head in this thread as much as you can. We're a wonderfully zany crowd willing to sell you musical sand whenever we feel like it. 2016 is da shizzle and you should get on board this juicetrain asap. Personal recommendations from me to you include: Our Solar System - In Time (Mad Krautjazz from outer space) Violeta de Outono - Spaces (Great new album from them...with a jazzy touch to it no less) The Winstons - s/t (feel good Caravan/early Softs throwback to Canterbury but with an honest and warm feel to the proceedings) Ingranaggi della Valle - Warm Spaced Blue (Huge bombastic prog rock with small hints of psych. Ending track even has something akin to zeuhl) Utopianisti - Third Frontier (Wild and infinitely tight Canterbury-like fusion outta Finland that quite simply will take your breath away) Syd Arthur - Apricity (If you loved the last one you'll dig this one as well. Just remember that the fun REALLY starts after the first three tracks;) Gong - Rejoice! I'm Dead (Old Daevid would've been proud of Kavus and his cohorts. This is a real Gong album - certainly feels like it...and a great one at that!) Hope all is well with you my friend. Myself, I am wearing red pants and drinking cocoamilk whilst listening to the most recent Goat album Requiem. I'd recommend that as well if you can dig a little modern day Amon Düül ll with your funk-psych-krautfolk-rock

Oh and hi John
Please stick your head in this thread as much as you can. We're a wonderfully zany crowd willing to sell you musical sand whenever we feel like it. 2016 is da shizzle and you should get on board this juicetrain asap.
Personal recommendations from me to you include:
Our Solar System - In Time (Mad Krautjazz from outer space)
Violeta de Outono - Spaces (Great new album from them...with a jazzy touch to it no less)
The Winstons - s/t (feel good Caravan/early Softs throwback to Canterbury but with an honest and warm feel to the proceedings)
Ingranaggi della Valle - Warm Spaced Blue (Huge bombastic prog rock with small hints of psych. Ending track even has something akin to zeuhl)
Utopianisti - Third Frontier (Wild and infinitely tight Canterbury-like fusion outta Finland that quite simply will take your breath away)
Syd Arthur - Apricity (If you loved the last one you'll dig this one as well. Just remember that the fun REALLY starts after the first three tracks;)
Gong - Rejoice! I'm Dead (Old Daevid would've been proud of Kavus and his cohorts. This is a real Gong album - certainly feels like it...and a great one at that!)

Hope all is well with you my friend. Myself, I am wearing red pants and drinking cocoamilk whilst listening to the most recent Goat album Requiem. I'd recommend that as well if you can dig a little modern day Amon Düül ll with your funk-psych-krautfolk-rock