My "little" TOP 50 of 2012. Happy Holidays everybody.

1. Shed - The Killer




2. Scuba - Personality




3. Voices from the Lake - Voices from the Lake



4. Alex Under - La Maquina De Bolas




5. Deepchord presents Echospace - Silent World




6. Deepchord - Sommer




7. Manuel Tur - Swans Reflecting Elephants




8. Barker & Baumecker - Transsektoral




9. Peter van Hoesen - Perceiver




10. Forward Strategy Group - Labour Division






11. John Talabot - Fin
12. Nina Kraviz - Nina Kraviz
13. Delta Funktionen - Traces
14. Tommy Four Seven - Monad XIII
15. Redshape - Square
16. Jacob Korn - You & Me
17. Blondes - Blondes
18. Brendon Moeller - Works
19. Sync24 - Comfortable Void
20. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems

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21. The Chemical Brothers - Don't Think
22. Orbital - Wonky
23. Gary Beck - Bring a Friend
24. Burial - Kindred
25. Phon.o - Black Boulder
26. Monoloc - Drift
27. Petar Dundov - Ideas from the Pond
28. Shifted - Crossed Paths
29. Claro Intelecto - Reform Club
30. Terrence Dixon - From The Far Future, Part 2

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31. Vatican Shadow - Ghosts of Chechenya
32. S_w_z_k - S_w_z_k
33. Quantec – 1000 Vacuum Tubes
34. Daphni - Jiaolong
35. Actress - R.I.P
36. Puresque - Letimotiv
37. Sigha - Living With Ghosts
38. Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
39. Smallpeople - Salty Days
40. Dino Sabatini - Shaman's Paths

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41. Juju & Jordash - Techno Primitivism
42. Simian Mobile Disco - Unpatterns
43. Luke Hess - Keep On
44. Francis Harris - Leland
45. Nick Curly - Between The Lines
46. Christian Loofler - A Forest
47. Jam City - Classical Curves
48. NHK'Koyxeи - Dance Classics Vol.1
49. NHK'Koyxeи - Dance Classics Vol.2
50. Oscar Mulero - Black Propaganda


Best Compilations / Mix Albums:
1. Ben Klock - Fabric 66
2. Levon Vincent - Fabric 63
3. Modeselektion Vol.2
4. Delta Funktionen - Inertia // Resisting Routine

My Albums of the year:
Studio Album: Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra - Theatre Is Evil

Live Album: Don't Think

And you have listened to all of these 50 albums?

Csar, on 21 December 2012 - 10:52 PM, said:

Of course. Those were listened couple of times each (some even many many times). I do most of my work at home on my computer so music plays almost all the time . I've been listening to more than those 50 and don't take it to seriously in the lower part of the list. The order doesn't matter there that much. Just listed - maybe somebody will find somethiing he likes.

Yeah... I don't know any of those albums Kosek. I'm out of touch! Last album I bought was Portishead's first album XD

Same as Iggy, there are 2 albums on your top 50 list I know.

I was dissapointed this year by albums. Heard some good tracks over the year but no good albums. Let down by Muse, Bloc Party, Beth Orton which are familiar names for which I had some great hopes.
Here in Holland this years best album is by Alt-J which I again found rather dissapointing.

oh well we'll see in 2013

that voices from the lake album is the fucking tits - stripped back ambient techno, abstract sounds creating the emotion.

sorry, that sounds a bit wanky, but it is a really good album, exquisite production.

@Mipps: I'll have to give that one a listen. The last album I gave a listen to you that you described as having excellent production was Trentemoller's The Last Resort. Good call.

Two Fingers - Stunt Rhythms
Yppah - Twenty One
Orbital - Wonky
Boys Noize - Out of the Black
Lorn - Ask the Dust
DJ Food - The Search Engine
Plug - Back on Time
Pepe Deluxe - Queenswave
C2C - Tetra
Proxy - Music From The Eastblock Jungles
Amon Tobin - Amon Tobin boxset
The Chemical Brothers - Don't Think

this year was one othe years i do listen a lot more to specific songs rather than listening to complete albums, so it's going to be a short list

Orbital - Wonky
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (yes, it's from 2011, but i did play it a lot this year)
Feist - Metals (same as the Noel Gallagher record)
Purity Ring - Shrines Django
Django - Django Django


and for most played songs (not all are this year releases):

MNDR - Faster Horses
The Subs - Mitsubitchi
Massive Attack - Psyche (Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid Remix)
Chemical Brothers - Snow / Surface To Air
Console - 14 Zero Zero
Console vs. Tocotronic - Freiburg 3.0
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Stop The Clocks
Dynamite Deluxe & Eißfeld 65 - Grüne Brille
some more

An addition, because I bought the record yesterday:

For me Wonky was by far the best album of the year. Don't Think doens't count as album IMO so I gladly don't have to make up my mind of what I did like more.

I've been listening a lot to Ninja Tune this year but most of it is older stuff. Their back catalogue is amazing!

2012 was also the year of the mashups for me, because that is a thing my girl also really enjoys listening to. this is (except for the first 5 mins) the absolute best i've encountered so far when it comes to mashing.

https://soundcloud.com/mashupgermany/mashup-germany-back-to-the-1

In no particular order:

Chems - Don't Think
Leftfield - Tourism
The Beat Connection - The Palace Garden
Yeasayer - Fragrant World

Grimes - Visions
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Flume - Flume
Hermitude - Hyper Paradise

I rather enjoyed Synkro's 'Broken Promise' EP too.

Die Antwoord are okay for a bit of fun. I hate it when people take then too seriously.

There's others that I can't think off right now..?

Don't Think live, is my spirit child.

Eis-T, on 11 January 2013 - 6:40 PM, said:

Yeah ! No other label compares to them in term of quality (well maybe Warp, but I mostly like the Ninja Tune "jazzy" sound better.

They've put an incredible number of great albums out this year (well I count Big Dada and Brainfeeder too, but they're NT's little brothers), I hope you listened to them all :

Plug - Back on Time (although it consists of tracks from old lost masters from around 1995, but it's still tons of fun listening to old school drum'n'bass !)
DJ Food - The Search Engine
Yppah - Eighty One (if you like Boards of Canada then you have to listen to this !)
Grasscut - Unearth
Kid Koala - 12 bit blues
Lorn - Ask the dust (very dark and moody but it's a masterpiece !)
Blockhead - Interludes after midnight (not as good as his older stuff but still quite good !)
Amon Tobin boxset (for ISAM live and the Royal Albert Hall orchestral concert mostly, but the unreleased stuff is nice to hear too, and some ISAM remixes are awesome)
Two Fingers - Stunt Rhythms (Amon Tobin again, all about the beats and the sreaming basslines)
DJ Kentaro - Contrast
Offshore - Bake Haus (unfortunately, Offshore died earlier this year, but he had the time to put out this amazing album)
The Gaslamp Killer - Breakthrough (his debut album, and it's a pretty good one !)

Ben_j, on 19 January 2013 - 3:12 AM, said:

I wouldn't go so far with the 'no other'. I would name many labels just this year with superior quality stuff.
Off the top of my head: Stroboscopic Artefacts, Prologue, Modern Love

I need to catch up with some of those Ninja Tune albums, altought it's not always 'my' sound.
Needles to say, that Plug record is OH MY GOD. I don't listen much to dnb, as mostly it sucks big time.
But this one! I can put it right there with Photek's 'Modus Operandi, Adam F - Colours or LTJ Bukem - Journey Inwards.
Really good.

That Lorn albums is cool too

Ben_J you have got to check out the new FaltyDL album. It's coming out on Ninja Tune this time. I'm only after first listen, but it sounds great.
His previous one was one of my best in 2011.

ThePumisher said:

Not really my cup of tea but that remix is really nice:

Kosek, on 19 January 2013 - 10:58 AM, said:

Well that's my very own opinion anyway ^^

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I'm not really fond of FaltyDL. It sounds more like the kind of stuff that would come out on Brainfeeder, and there's a good number of Brainfeeder stuff that I'm not really into

Also, I'm not sure what to think about the turn that Big Dada is taking. It has always been a hip hop label and lately they've been releasing odd, mostly very bad electro