Album of the year 2008

[Gavin]

What is your album of the year?

Best album of the year:

Portishead ,Third

Not quite but nearly:

Autechre ,Quaristice

Blood Red Shoes ,Box Of Secrets

Nine Inch Nails ,Ghosts I-IV

Lykke Li ,Youth Novels

Twelve,Houston We Have No Problem 2

[Dubsounds]

I've just checked my OCD Database and it appears that I've only bought 30 albums that were actually released this year. I've spent a lot more of my money on retrospective material to be honest, dipping back in time and mopping up every obscurity I could find (everything from the Gang Of Four to Xmal Deutschland)...

Anyhow, this is my thirty that I was persuaded to cough up dosh for:

Autechre - Quaristice
Grace Jones - Hurricane
Groove Armada - Late Night Tales (Mix Album)
Hexstatic - Videos, Remixes & Rarities
John Foxx - Glimmer (Best Of...)
John Foxx & Louis Gordon - Impossible / Neuro Video / Box Set
Jori Hulkkonen - Errare Machinale Est
Keith Leblanc - Chess Moves (Future Blues)
Legendary Pink Dots - Plutonium Blonde
Mad Professor - The Dubs That Time Forgot
Miss Kittin - Batbox
Mr Scruff - Ninja Tuna
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip / Ghosts
OhGr - Devils In My Details
Pendulum - In Silico
Pete Namlook & David Moufang - There!
Pete Namlook & Klaus Schulze - Dark Side Of The Moog 11
Pete Namlook & Move D - Travelling The Silk Route / Sexoid
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Christopher Willits - Ocean Fire
The Cure - 4:13 Dream
The Grid - Doppelgänger
The Herbaliser - Same As It Never Was
Thievery Corporation - Radio Retaliation
Tycho - Adrift From Home
Up, Bustle & Out - Istanbul's Secrets
ZerodB - Heavyweight Gringos

Unfortunately, I don't think any of these would make it to my favourite albums of all time list so either, it's been a poor year for music, I've missed some good shit or I'm getting all retro

[nervejam]

Nowt. Except maybe the Metamatic double-CD. (That WAS 2008, wasn't it?) And then only for the alt mixes.

[vortex]

Without a doubt



Gordon and Gunn - The Shortwave Sessions

A superb melange of;

Jarre before he became ultra pretentious and digital (and for that matter before he tried to become analogue anew but had lost what musical inspiration he had)

OMD before they lost themselves in pointless sampling and then POPTASTIC hell.

Talking heads and their funky grooves

and Devo-esque vocals (with a bit of Byrne thrown in) and a bit of Joy Division on top.

Most of all it is itself.

Unmissable even though the premise, a CD of a jam session, sounds less than promising. In fact its so good and coherent that I wonder if the session story is just hype. No matter...Buy it.

[toffee]

Jan 15, 2009 2:31:10 GMT vortex said:

Without a doubt



Gordon and Gunn - The Shortwave Sessions

A superb melange of;

Jarre before he became ultra pretentious and digital (and for that matter before he tried to become analogue anew but had lost what musical inspiration he had)

OMD before they lost themselves in pointless sampling and then POPTASTIC hell.

Talking heads and their funky grooves

and Devo-esque vocals (with a bit of Byrne thrown in) and a bit of Joy Division on top.

Most of all it is itself.

Unmissable even thought the premise, a CD of a jam session, sounds lees than promising. In fact its so good and coherent that I wonder if the session story is just hype. No matter...Buy it.

A nice review - cheers very much!

It was a 'session' in every sense of the word, still getting over it!

Gunn ;D

[Dubsounds]

Jan 15, 2009 2:31:10 GMT vortex said:

In fact its so good and coherent that I wonder if the session story is just hype. No matter...Buy it.

What Matt said Joe, that's a great bit of feedback thanks ;D

The way you've got to look at it is for every minute of coherence, there's another five minutes of material that wasn't included so in a sense, a six hour improv' edited down to an hour can sound less meandering and more structured.

Anyhow, there's going to be more of these sessions soon and we're playing live at the Rainbow, Arts Quarter, Digbeth, Birmingham on the 28 March.

When I say "we", Lou & Matt want me to get involved in future projects to help out with what Matty calls "Subliminal Rhythmic Enhancements, Spacial and Sub Bass Extentionism, Tape Delay Sciences and Applications, Electro-Harmonix Blending and Concatenation."

It would be great if some of you could come and see this and if you're interested here's some links:

Gig info - www.whitenoisefestival.co.uk
Tickets - whitelabel-music.co.uk/musicshop/

So yeah, hopefully a few more improv albums and spaced out gigs to come