Happy new year!
It's over and here's my best of 2008 music list. I took this task very seriously, yet I am sure I'll discover many great 2008 releases in upcoming months and years. Hope you'll like my suggestions. Feedback is welcome.
I wish you all the best. Take care.
Sincerely Fredy Brown
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Personal top 100 in alphabetical order:
A-fei - Nymphéas (2008)
Ah Cama-Sotz - Declaration of Innocence (2008)
Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker - Fantasma Parastasie (2008)
Akira Kosemura - Tiny Musical (2008)
Alexander Turnquist - Faint at the Loudest Hour (2008)
Alva Noto - Unitxt (2008)
Anders Ilar - Sworn (2008)
Balmorhea - River Arms (2008)
Basquiat Strings - Basquiat Strings With Seb Rochford (2008)
Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior (2008)
Bersarin Quartett - Bersarin Quartett (2008)
Blackfilm - Blackfilm (2008)
Bracken - Eno About The Need (2008)
Brael And Tokyo Bloodworm - Living Languages (2008)
Burning Star Core - Challenger (2008)
Celer - Discourses Of The Withered (2008)
Chris Abrahams and Mike Cooper - Oceanic Feeling Like (2008)
Christian Fennesz - Black Sea (2008)
Clark - Turning Dragon (2008)
Elliot Brood - Mountain Meadows (2008)
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (2008)
Equus - Eutheria (2008)
Empusae - The Hatred of Trees (2008)
Entia Non - Fold (2008)
Ensemble Economique - At The Foot Of Nameless Roads (2008)
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale (2008)
Evan Marc & Steve Hillage - Dreamtime Submersible (2008)
Ez3kiel - Battlefield (2008)
Fabio Orsi & Valerio Cosi - We Could For Hours (2008)
Fjordne - The Last 3 Days Of Time (2008)
Flying Lotus - Los Engeles (2008)
Food For Animals - Belly (2008)
Geist - Apocalyptica (2008)
Geomatic - Blue Beam (2008)
Goldmund - The Malady of Elegance (2008)
Goro Watari - Hinode Tracks (2008)
Grails - Take Refuge in Clean Living (2008)
Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow (2008)
Hauschka - Ferndorf (2008)
Helios - Caesura (2008)
Havoc Unit - H.IV+ [Hoarse Industrial Viremia] (2008)
Hecq - Night Falls (2008)
Horse Feathers - House With No Name (2008)
Irezumi - Endurance (2008)
Jacaszek - Treny (2008)
James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes (2008)
Janek Schaefer - Alone at Last (2008)
Jasper TX - This Quiet Season/Black Sleep (2008)
Jerome Chassagnard - (F)Light (2008)
Joe Grimm - Brain Cloud (2008)
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlândia (2008)
Juxta Phona & offthesky - !Escape Kit! (2008)
Kangding Ray - Automne Fold (2008)
Kasai Allstars - Congotronics 3 : In the 7th moon, the chief turned into a swimming fish... (2008)
Lil Wayne - Carter III (2008)
Machinefabriek - Dauw (2008)
Machinefabriek - Tapes Of The Day (2008)
Machinefabriek - Vloed
Machinefabriek & Freiband - Oahu (2008)
Marihiko Hara - Reflexion, Und Dann, Metamorphose (2008)
Merzbow - Dolphin Sonar (2008)
Merzbow & Richard Pinhas - Keio Line (2008)
Metaform - Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants (2008)
Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness (2008)
Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance Of The Moon And The Sun (2008)
Natural Snow Buildings - Slayer of the King of Hell (2008)
Peter Broderick - Float (2008)
Philip Jeck - Sand (2008)
Pocahaunted - Island Diamonds (2008)
Prolyphic & Reanimator - The Ugly Truth (2008)
Prurient - The Black Post Society(2008)
Rovo - Nuou (2008)
Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern (2008)
RZA - Digi Snacks (2008)
Sadistik - The Balancing Act (2008)
Shed - Shedding The Past (2008)
Sleepingdog - Polar Life (2008)
Stephan Mathieu - Radioland (2008)
Steve Reich - Daniel Variations (2008)
Steve Roach - Arc Of Passion (2008)
Steve Von Till - A Grave is A Grim Horse (2008)
Strand - Madrid 2 Los Angeles (2008)
Small Town Boredom - Autumn Might Have Hope (2008)
Spyweirdos / Floros Floridis / John Mourjopoulos - Epistrophy At Utopia (2008)
Strom Noir - Ylomejja (2008)
Sumner Mckane - What A Great Place To Be (2008)
Richard Skelton - Marking Time (2008)
Taiga Remains - Descend Form Ivory Cliffs (2008)
Taylor Deupree & Kenneth Kirschner - May (2008)
Terje Isungset - Ice Concerts (2008)
The Abbasi Brothers - Something Like Nostalgia (2008)
The Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow (2008)
The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside (2008)
The Sight Below - Glider (2008)
Totakeke - ELekatota - The Other Side Of The Tracks (2008)
Tzolk'in - Haab (2008)
Ulaan Khol - I (2008)
UpcDownCLeftCRightCABC+Start - Embers (2008)
Windy & Carl - Songs For The Broken Hearted (2008)
Xela - In Bocca al Lupo (Into the Mouth of the Wolf) (2008)
Awards:
Honorable mentions:
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
(Not exatly my cup of tea, but this is quite original material.)
The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases
Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
Summons Of Shining Ruins - Summons Of Shining Ruins
Kenneth Kirschner - Filaments and Voids
(these four joints are great, they just don't seem to click with me)
Band of the year: Natural Snow Buildings
Artis of the year: Machinefabriek
Guilty pleasure: Britney Spears - Circus
Go Britney! Go!
