Chris’

These albums were the most memorable to me because I can remember where I was and what I was doing during the time I was listening. To me that’s the magic of music. It can mark a time in your life and become your life’s soundtrack. </p>

It’s been an experience to hear all the great music from artist around the world. To y’all – keep at it. To you, if our selections help you discover something new or inspire you, then we are happy. That’s part of the goal here, to curate and cultivate the culture. Happy listening in 2010!</p>

Top Ten</strong></p>

Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue</a>
Kona Triangle –
Sing a New Sapling Into Existence</a>
Nosaj Thing –
Drift</a>
A.M. Architect –
The Road To The Sun</a>
Lone –
Ecstasy Friends</a>
Mike Slott –
Lucky 9teen</a>
The Gaslamp Killer –
My Troubled Mind – EP</a>
Washed Out –
Life of Leisure</a>
Moderat –
Moderat</a>
Prefuse 73 –
Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian</a></p>

Plus One</strong></p>

Astro Nautico – Atlantics EP</a></p>

Most Honorable Mention</strong></p>

Mux Mool – Just Saying is All</a>
Paul White –
The Strange Dreams of Paul White</a>
Mos Def –
The Estatic</a>
Dak –
Standthis</a>
Blue Daisy –
Strings Detached EP</a>
Jamie Vexd –
In System Travel EP</a>
K-OS –
Yes!</a>
Grizzly Bear –
Vekatimest</a>
Mount Kimbie –
Maybes</a>
1000 Names –
Toys Room Combat</a></p>

WTF is a

So I combed through my favorite albums of 2009. It has occurred to me as I look over the list that picking favorites is kinda nutty. As I write this I’m wondering if selecting the cream of the bunch helps you as a reader filter things. One big ole list can be a little daunting. Ok, OK, I’m selecting my favs of the favs – I do think ranking stuff as most people do . . . is for the birds. Oh my 10 is really 12.</p>

Grizzly Bear – Vekatimest</a>
Pheonix – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart</a>
Maxwell – BLACK</span>summers’night</a>
The Clonious – Between the Dots</a>
Hudson Mohawke – Butter</a>
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca</a>
Mount Kimbie – Maybes</a>
Mount Kimbie – Sketch on Glass EP</a>
Astro Nautico – Atlantics EP</a>
The XX – XX</a>
Glen Porter – Falling Down</a>
Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue</a></p>

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TTV</span> – Immolate yourself
U2 – No line on the Horizon
Buillon – Young Haeartache E.P.
Yppah – They Know What Ghost Know
Theresa Andersson – Hummingbird , GO!
SiFunk & Garmunkle – Blooperz
Passion Pit – Manners
Mos Def – The Ecstatic
Deradoorian – Mind Raft
Julian Winter – L’art pour l’art
Lushlife – Cassette City (Bonus Track Version)
Brian Blade – Mama Rosa
Dak – Standthis
Ben Frost – By the Throat
Mike Slott – Luck 9teen
Flying Lotus – Decademix by GLK</span></p>

The image was yanked from here.</a> So Great.</p>

Marma

It’s hard to believe another year is gone. It’s even harder to look back on the music that caught my attention in 2009 and narrow it down to a top ten. It was much, much harder than I imagined it would be this year. There was a lot of really great music that came out. </p>

After sleeping on the list and changing it, sleeping some more, and changing some more, I finally have a list to present to you in no particular order that I’m somewhat comfortable with. I’d like to add that every year I create a list I wish I could redo and update the almost immediately after posting but I digress. </p>

2009 Top Ten</strong>
•</strong> Miike Snow – Miike Snow
•</strong> Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
•</strong> Maxwell – Blacksummers’ Night
•</strong> Fink – Sort of Revolution
•</strong> Wale – Attention Deficit
•</strong> The Temper Trap – Conditions
•</strong> Hudson Mohawke – Butter
•</strong> JJ – JJ Nº 2
•</strong> The xx – xx
•</strong> Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue</p>

Honorable Mention</strong>
(or other music that’s held me down & done me well)
•</strong> Me’ Shell NdegeOcello – Devil’s Halo
•</strong> Kyp Malone – Rain Machine
•</strong> BLK</span> JKS</span> – After Robots
•</strong> Oh No – Dr. No’s Ethiopium
•</strong> Clipse – Til the Casket Drops
•</strong> Nicolay – City Lights Vol. 2 Shibuya</p>

Maxwell - BLACKsummers’ Night

We posted the video to the amazing track Pretty Wings previously. But I find it necessary to post this as the my last post mentions the album and it really deserves your attention. It’s easily made my top 10 list for 2009. If you appreciate soul or well crafted music – I’d strongly STRONGLY recommend you purchase this album.

“…he believes, passionately, in dynamics. Many of the songs on “BLACKsummers’ Night,” the first part of a trilogy Maxwell plans to unfold over the next few years, are structured around a short musical phrase, played on a keyboard or guitar, on which everything else loops and builds. (Doesn’t that sound like Radiohead’s approach? That’s an inspiration Maxwell has cited in interviews.)”

Pulled from the Los Angeles Times. Read the full review here.

Buy the album here.

http://yesyesyall.org/files/music/HelpSomebody.mp3

Ness’s

There are parts of me that absolutely hate doing a top ten because I’m a lover baby – a lover of lots of music. So I decided to put this list in NO particular order and have a follow up list for other albums that really caught my attention in 2008.</p>

Send us some of your lists – we’d love to see them.</strong></p>

So here goes – 2008 in no particular order.</p>

• Aether – Artifacts
• 88 Keys – The Death of Adam
• 14KT – The Golden Hour
• Lil Wayne – Tha Carter 3
• The Teenagers – Reality Check
• Praveen and Benoit – Songs Spun Simla
• Flying Lotus – Los Angeles
• TV on the Radio – Dear Science
• Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
• Jazzanova – Of All The Things</p>

Additional Albums, Mixes, and music that grabbed me</strong></p>

• Nebulo – Avutma
• The Foreign Exchange – Leave it all behind
• Blue Sky Black Death – Late Night Cinema
AFTA</span>-1 – Aftathoughts Vol 1.
• M83 – Saturdays = Youth
• The 7X7 Beat Series
• Mixing Monthly by Full crate and FS Green
• Mary Anne Hobbs Podcasts – in particular Rustie, Hudmo, and Flylo mixes</p>

Chris’ 2008

Choosing only ten albums to highlight for ’08 was difficult. I chose to include and Honorable Mention list. If this year was any indication of what’s to come then we have a lot to look forward to in ’09. </p>

Top Ten Albums</strong></p>

Flying Lotus – Los Angeles
Milosh – III</span>
Kelpe – Ex-Aquarium
Onra – Chinoseries
Lone – Lemurian
Ad Bourke – Trebelo Beat Tape
Nebulo – Avutuma
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Drippers
Metaform – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
K’naan – The Dusty Foot Philosopher</p>

Honorable Mentions</strong></p>

Radius – Neighborhood Suicide
Vordul Mega – Megagraphitti
Beck – Modern Guilt
Dday One – Heavy Migration
Obfusc – Cities of Cedar
Moka Only – Clap Trap
One Divided Soul – One Divided Soul
Mux Mool – Drum E.P.
Architeq – Birds of Prey
Suff Daddy – EFIL4FFUS</p>

Ben’s 2008

OK
this took forever. 08 was kinda epic. </p>

ALBUMS</span>
1) Aerial – 2562
2) Desert Crossroads – Etran Finatawa
3) Space Case – Heyoka
4) For Emma, Forever Ago – Bon Iver
5) Nomad – Headhhunter
6) Los Angeles – Flying Lotus
7) A Trebleo Beat Tape – Ad Bourke
8) Lemurian – Lone
9) B.A.D. Volume 2 – Various
10) Diary of an Afro Warrior – Benga</p>

TRACKS</span>
1) Night Thunder – Nero
2) Jah War feat Flowdan (Loefah Remix) – The Bug
3) Eastern Jam – Chase & Status
4) Revenge of the Nerd – Fulgeance
5) We Are The People – Empire of the Sun
6) Slums Dub – DZ
7) Pump et Up – Subvert
8) Wow (Modeselektor Edit) – Sirius Mo
9) Spliff Dub (Rustie Remix) – Zomby
10) Where U Been 7.0 – LL Meltdown Deluxe</p>

~PORKCHOP</p>

Jon’s 08

Make’em Say Ughh!!! My top ten randomized…</p>

Albums</strong></p>

MHE</span> – (no title)
EL-P Weareallgoingtoburninhell Megamixx2
Santogold – Santogold
Samiyam – Rap Beats Vol.1
DE SIGNER</span> – Designerrulestheworld
Tobacco – F****D Up Friends
AEther – Artifacts
Heliocentrics – Out There
Beat Konducta – Vol. 6 Dil Withers Suite
Trill Bass – Trill EP
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Songs</strong></p>

DZ – Down
The Gaslamp Killer – Show Stopper
Blank Blue – Blank Blue (flylo remix)
The Otherside – Courting Sunshine
Nosaj Thing – 1685
DE SIGNER</span> – Eyes Lies (remix)
Matthew Dear – Down On You
Mayer Hawthorne – Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out
Busta Rhymes – Don’t touch Me
Evangelicals – Bellawood</p>

Joshua’s 08

In no particular order…</p>

Top 10 Releases</p>

1. Glen Porter – Blessed by a Young Death
2. D. Gookin – When You’re Lonely Everybody’s a Celebrity
3. Samiyam – Rap Beats, Vol. 1
4. The Flashbulb – Soundtrack To A Vacant Life
5. Kilmek – Dedications
6. K’Naan – The Dusty Foot Philosopher
7. Ratatat – LP3
8. Milosh – III</span>
9. Mwesslee – Megaplast EP
10. Lupe Fiasco – The Cool</p>

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Top 10 Songs</p>

1. Robo Tussin (A Milli Remix/Lil Wayne) – Flying Lotus
2. Still on It – Hud Mo – Ooops
3. Meine – Daso – Meine Idee EP
4. Remember – D. Gookin – When You’re Lonely Everybody’s a -Celebrity
5. For Steven Spielberg & Azza El-Hassan – Klimek – Dedications
6. Move – Q-Tip – The Renaissance
7. Whirlwound (Stormy Version) – Kelpe – Extraquarium
8. Drama (Chris De Luca Vs. Phon.O Remix) – Fool – Drama E.P.
9. Dreams – Onra – 1.0.8
10. Olympic Airways – Foals – Antidotes</p>