BEST LABELS OF 2019

what if amnesia scanner wasn't "[a] Berlin-based music duo, performing arts group, experience design studio and production house, created by Finnish-born Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala.

Founded in 2014, Amnesia Scanner's approach is informed by a unique perspective on technology and the way it mediates contemporary experience. System vulnerabilities, information overload and sensory excess inform their work, which has found a home in both clubs and galleries.

Building on their mixtape 'AS Live [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]' (2014), Amnesia Scanner’s critically acclaimed audio play 'Angels Rig Hook' (2015) laced a potpourri of dancefloor tactics with a machinic narrator. Their dual EPs for Young

Turks, 'AS' and 'AS Truth' (2016), distilled this immersive environment into an abrasive collection of cryptorave tools. The most striking detail of ‘Another Life' is Amnesia Scanner's use of both human and inhuman voices. The latter is provided by the latest addition to the production unit, a disembodied voice called Oracle, which represents the sentience that has emerged from Amnesia Scanner.

Oracle's vocal performance ranges from exuberant mania to anxious dread and beyond. Coupled with the pop song structures that Amnesia Scanner employs for the first time, the avant-EDM productions

of ‘Another Life’ evocatively explore a schizophrenic present marked by narratives of a slow apocalypse or salvation via technology. Indeed, the lullaby of 'AS Another Life' swings between trill hope and casual

threat, lending a precarious gait to the song's staggering rhythm. The album's first single, 'AS Chaos', is its most powerfully direct track, with Pan Daijing’s English and Mandarin vocals taking over for Oracle. At its peak intensity, as in ‘AS Faceless’, Amnesia Scanner's doombahton overheats into nu-metal-gabba.

Amnesia Scanner has presented work at art institutions such as ICA London, HKW Berlin, and the Serpentine Gallery Marathon in London. They collaborate with PWR Studio for their design and visual direction. The AS live experience is co-created with Stockholm-based Canadian designer Vincent De Belleval. When unplugged from the Amnesia Scanner stream, Haimala works as a composer and producer with a wide range of musical and visual artists, and Kalliala co-directs the think tank Nemesis..."

and just made an unbelievable song that was uploaded to souncloud and nobody really listened to it

3) Ciej SF - Lean Rch ft. Ra Child (self-released)

best midwestern duo

4) HUUMO - Be My Dance (KBK REC)

focused

5) Gretchen Lawrence - Ugly (self-released)

spit punk ground zero

7) N-Y-P - Fo Dr. G _live (self-released)

smeared melodrama

8) NEMOKAI - CROP MY FLOCKS (self-released)

maybe couple this with the inaugural v/a comp from XPOHNKA

10) Bedouin Ascent - Compositon C for Neutral Space (Lo Recordings)

nice ))

Chinabot //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Sote - Parallel Persia (Diagonal)

Cyanching - Shadow of a shadow (Bezirk)

IMA - The Flowers Die in Burning Fire - 炎の中で死にゆく花 (Buh records)

LI YILEI - “0:00” (Ferric:Flux)

Astrid Sonne - Cliodynamics (Escho)

Jung An Tagen - “Proxy States” (Editions Mego)

Tavishi - মশ্তিষ্কের কণ্ঠশ্বর | Voices in my head (Chinabot)

LA FUREUR DE VOUIVRE - “L’Herbe Qui Rend Amoureux" (Stenze Quo)

Galen Tipton - Fake meat (Orange Milk Records)

Ayankoko - Kia Sao ກ້ຽວສາວ (Chinabot)

Cudighi //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Orville Peck - Pony (Sub Pop)

Litku Klemetti - Ding ding dong (Luova)

MIAUX - Black Space, White Cloud (Ultra Eczema)

Eric Copeland - Trogg Modal Vol. 2 (DFA)

Pont-à-Mousson - Bye Bye Mirello (Santé Loisirs)

Astrid Sonne - Cliodynamics (Escho)

M. Geddes Gengras - I Am the Last of That Green and Warm-Hued World (Hausu Mountain)

Natalie Rose LeBrecht - Mandarava Rose (GALTTA)

Exiles //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

OOO - live at Trafó (self-released)

MA’IWA - Goldfishing (self-released)

TH Anatol - Boletus (Daddypower)

VA - To Tbilisi With Love (support release)

Adam Krasz - Forty-two (Műhely)

Radak - Color Bars EP (Dalmata Daniel)

VA - We are Lahmacun – 1st Year (Lahmacun Radio)

Fausto Mercier - FULLSCREEN (Genot Centre)

Nemerov - Six Recital Pieces (Czaszka)

Tigrics - Albu n (self-released)

+ va - kossava (kossava)

Genot Centre //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Ain - ع (Quantum Natives)

Bath Consolidated - Narryer Gneiss Terrane (Orange Milk Records)

Chuquimamani-Condori - quirquincho medicine (self-released)

galen tipton - fake meat (Orange Milk Records)

hmurd - Boycott Ethical Consumption (TT)

Loft - and departt from mono games (Tri Angle)

Oli XL - Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer (Bloom)

Our.v - GoToTheRescue (Organic Deadra)

Sean McCann - Puck (Recital)

Yem Gel - NettleHelix (Quantum Natives)

Gin&Platonic //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

12 albums

Crown Shyness - Isonautics (Quantum Natives)

Тихий Куст - Растения / Razteniya (Raw Russian)

The Newcomer - Inner Being (Astro Nautico)

Vlad Dobrovolski - Non-deterministic Polynomial Poems (Klammklang)

Evil Medvěd - Fictionkin (Red for Colour Blind)

Kindohm - Meme Booth (Conditional)

Oli XL - Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer (Bloom)

Xyn Cabal - Perfect Oracle (The Death of Rave)

Jpegmafia - All My Heroes Are Cornballs (EQT Recordings)

ice_eyes - Individual Drops (Genot Centre)

Pépé Bradock - What a Mess! (Atavisme)

Klein - Lifetime (ijn inc.)

6 movies

An Elephant Sitting Still (dir. Hu Bo)

Beats (dir. Brian Welsh)

Welcome to Sodom (dir. Florian Weigensamer, Christian Krönes)

The Beach Bum (dir. Harmony Korine)

The Dead Don’t Die (dir. Jim Jarmusch)

Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (dir. Chris Smith)

Heel, Clam (Giancarlo Brambilla) //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

SENOR SERVICE & REPTILIAN EXPO

VORONHIL

LYY SÜNNŒTTY PÆKKÜLYTTÏ (AKA DJ LSP)

011668 & S280F

Hoge Tapes //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Juu & G. Jee - New Luk Thung (EM Records)

bonnounomukuro - My Pretty Pad (φonon)

民謡クルセイダーズ (Minyo Crusaders) - ECHOES OF JAPAN (P-VINE)

Monaural Mini Plug - Samurai Mekong Activity (P-VINE)

shibata & asuna - doeru park ((wake up to) Go to bed! records)

ANTIBODIES Performance (2019/11/09)

全感覚祭

Ψυχή (DJ Set : 2019/11/02)

OBOO (吉田ヤスシ + 神田剛誌)

三代目DJひょっとこ

Hot Releases //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

E.N. - The Heart Is Just An Organ (Cephia's Treat)

Milieu / Coppice Halifax - A Dusty Box of Old Memories (Illuminated Paths)

Shimmer - And I Revel (Decoherence)

Dracula - Dorys & Eli (Sweat Records Records)

Juma - Selected Works (Bitter Lake Recordings)

Remora - Symbiotic EP (Kraftjerkz)

Hand of Food - Tropical Income Tax (More Records)

Angels In America - Uptown Funk (Ormolycka)

Johann Moon - Dependable Theater (Carpet Group Recordings)

Nina Ryser - Laughing Tears (Ranch Jams)

Haves & Thirds - You Didn't Ruin It, You Just Changed It (Ted Records)

Cornelius F Van Stafrin III - Birds of Praise Return ... (Enmossed)

Russian Tsarlag - Shallow Edge (Wasp Video Roadhouse)

Balance of Terror - No Fats, No Fems, Uncut reissue (Minoy Cassetteworks)

Nick Klein & Lack - ii (Enmossed)

Leila Bordreuil - Headflush (Catch Wave Ltd)

Yohimbe / Kyle Flanagan - Summer Scum 2019 Tour Split (self-released)

DJ Sledgehammer - Sterilize Yourself (Pain Records Hardcore)

Wall Wymyn - tape

Proud/Father - Symbolic Exchange and Emptiness (Orb Tapes)

live & misc:
Paidea @ Nightlight & International Noise Conference Miami
Haves & Thirds / Slack / SHV / Dracula / Control Point / Andrea Pensado / Cube / Nail Club / Annie Blech & Financial Collapse / Gyna Bootleg & Tamio Shiraishi / Bob Bellerue / Quran Karriem and too many others to list @ Savage Weekend
KND & Takahiro Kawaguchi duo @ Ftarri
Kjostad @ Cathedral ii
Ironing / Ancestor Piratas / Liquid Asset @ Nightlight
Leila Bordreuil & Bookworms collab @ Windjammer
Valerie Martino @ Black Lace
Gashrat / Desert Secretary / MK Ultra @ Ursa
Patrick Gallagher @ Berk's Warehouse
Lady Mecahnics II @ Collision
Nick Klein / Liquid Asset / Rescinder / Housefire / Mille @ Nightlight
Parasite @ Nightlight
King of Herrings @ Nightlight
Lauren Tosswill @ Nightlight
Floor Model / Mille @ Spazzfest
Governance @ All Data Lost
Manas @ Duke Coffeehouse
Ben Clack @ Swamp
Dave Public / Evicshen @ Aviary
Cathedral ii Halloween Party
"Antenna To God" (video) and "Gates of Plasma" (graphic novel) by Carlos Gonzales
prints by Laura Charlton
Attachments area
Preview YouTube video Haves & Thirds @ Savage Weekend 9 Nightlight Chapel Hill NC 6/15/19

International Winners //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

DJ NJ Drone - The Cold Habit (Mind Club)

Gooooose - Rusted Silicon (SVBKVLT)

INSIN - SADSUN (HIZZ)

IVVVO - doG (self-released)

Klahrk & Roxas - QUAVIS (Activia Benz)

Levan Shanidze - Celofani (BLUE YOGURT)

LOFT - sSLABicks (Tri-Angle Records)

Modulaw - Fifteen Trails (self-released)

__0 11 ___6 68 - o6 (self-released)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quQh9viIjyk

+ Hoshina Anniversary - Nihon No Ongaku / 日本の音楽 (YOUTH)

Jerome //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Jawnino - It's Cold Out (self-released)

Superficie - Nxame EP (self-released)

House Of Suns - House Of Suns EP (self-released)

Jaeho Hwang - Non self (Chinabot)

Alec Pace - Absolute Pressure (All Centre)

F5 - Surco (HiedraH Club de Baile)

Bela - Dream Journal (self-released)

Ethbo - EEL (self-released)

BFTT - Mauldeth (All Centre)

Jollies //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Melting Bridge - 我們從明天來 / We Come From Tomorrow (Evening Chants)

Moor Mother - Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes (Don Giovanni Records)

Simulation - Death's Head Speaks (Hausu Mountain)

Új Bála - Kerti Parti (Dalmata Daniel)

Heejin Jang - #Stigmata (Muzan Editions)

Houschyar - Beginn Der Zeit - Die Reise Zum (Self-Released)

Stereotyp - Look Things (Seagrave)

African Ghost Valley - UERREE (Jungle Gym Records)

Rey Sapienz - Mushoro (Hakuna Kulala)

Ale Hop - Apophenia (Buh Records)

Kumo Communication //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

woopheadclrms - Asaga Fu and Fumoragu Aria (Ukiuki atama)

リョウコ2000 - 4/6 リョウコ2000 GABBAmix (self released)

bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb - aparment (self released)

パソコン音楽クラブ - Night Flow Remixes (self released)

8d audio (YouTube search results)

TCLB (label)

Tasho ishi - Dentsu2060 (Presto!? Records)

(Sandy) Alex G - House of Sugar (Domino)

Tohji - angel (self released)

7FORM (label)

Lillerne //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Mr. Water Wet - Bought the Farm (West Mineral Ltd.)

Strawberry Swisher - Strawberry Swisher (Reserve Matinee)

Kyle Landstra/Dominic Coppola - Split (Oxtail Recordings)

DJ Nate - Take Off Mode (Planet Mu)

Pontiac Streator & Ulla Straus - 11 Items (West Mineral Ltd.)

Sofie Birch - Island Alchemy (Constellation Tatsu)

anthéne - Lost Channel (Archives)

Rhucle - Photosynthesis (Patient Sounds)

W00dy - My Diary (self-released)

Euglossine - Coriolis (Hausu Mountain)

BennY RevivaL - I Never Knew You (self-released)

Mondoj //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Sea Urchin - Mish Hata'ref tesHa? (from Tahtib / Bokeh Versions)

Joseph Shabason - Don't Want to Be Your Love (feat. Dan Bejar) (from Anne EP / Western Vinyl)

galen tipton - touch w/ Holly Waxwing and Giant Claw (from fake meat / Orange Milk Records)

Velf - Revelation (from In a Sense / Orange Milk Records)

関根真理 Mari Sekine - Beginning (original long version) (from Beginning / EM Records)

Piotr Kurek - Polygome (from Polygome / Hands In The Dark Records)

M. Sage - Polish Triangle (form Catch a Blessing / Geographic North)

JAB - Planner’s Beauty (from Erg Herb / Shelter Press)

NTsKi + 7FO - D’Ya Hear Me! (from D’Ya Hear Me! / EM Records)

Lo Kindre - I Don’t Really (from Chlorophytum / 12th Isle)

Ulla Strauss - Net (from Big Room / Quiet Time)

ARCHIVAL:
Robert Ashley - The Park (from Private Parts / Lovely Music Ltd.)

Carl Stone - Okajouki (from Baroo / Unseen Worlds)

Jeff Majors - Yoka Boka (For Us All / Invisible City Editions)

Reiko Kudo - Son of Man (from Rice Field Silently Riping In The Night / TAL)

Jay U Experience - Abuja (from Abuja / Left Ear Records)

Benjamin Lew - Bamako ou ailleurs (from Bamako ou ailleurs / Stroom)

Most Dismal Swamp //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

10 releases no particular order:

S280F – ALL DOGS GO TO HELL /1 ҈ (Self released)

xin - MELTS INTO LOVE (Subtext)

Jenna Sutela – nimiia vibié (PAN)

Star Searchers - Avatar Blue (Pacific City Sound Visions)

Exploited Body - Touching Without Feeling (Changeless)

Never Worse - Gutter (Strange Therapy)

Jennifer Walton - WHITE NURSE (Mutualism)

V3STA & Yorgas Helmet - Gene (Q.P Records)

Thegn - Loss (Absurd TRAX)

eva01 - Oskerushe (Bio Future Laboratory)

Assorted artists, labels, organisations, nights, and spaces keeping 2020 vital/weird:
Haunter Records, Jennifer Walton, recsund, Whitespace, Anni Nops, Alien Jams, BCAA, Gondolin Records, Zinomorph, Natural Sciences, Mang, Genome 6.66Mbp, core.pan, New Models, Changeless, Cobweaver/Yem Gel/Labyrinth Body, Iceboy Violet, Quantum Natives, Omsk Social Club, ¥€$Si Perse, Nyx Unchained, Naked, Gossamer Fog, Tzvetnik, Pacific City Sound Visions, The Glove That Fits, Ormside Projects, Rhizome Parking Garage Int'l, Décalé, Young Girl Reading Group, OH141, Confraternity of Neoflagellants, Body Drift, Last Yearz Interesting Negro, Fold (Lab), Terribilis, Cru Servers, New Scenario, Final Hot Desert, HQI, Hyperlink Athens, @pathologyloop, Arika, The Mycological Twist...

Organic Daedra //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Macintosh Plus — Sick & Panic (Chronos & Vermilion)

OUR.V — ПЕРСОНАЛ 11/05/19

Fire-Toolz - Field Whispers (Orange Milk)

מזמור (Mizmor) - Cairn (Gilead)

Bath Consolidated - Narryer Gneiss Terrane (Orange Milk)

Rabit - STAR BELLY (Self-released)
also check his "THE DOPE SHOW" and "KOLD SUMMER" mixtapes

LATE NIGHT VHS — LATE NIGHT VHS EP (Pacific Plaza)

E B U – Hinge (NoCorner)

lumb - lumb (Self-release)

Працтал Фрактал - Московский ПИМП (Self-released)

Outlines //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

DRAPING (DJ Fulltono - CRZKNY - Skip Club Orchestra) (self release)

DJ Fulltono - Before The Storm (Exit Records)

CRZKNY - CURSE EP (good weather sounds)

Skip Club Orchestra - itsnoone (Dubliminal Bounce]

Skip Club Orchestra - DMF1 (Dubliminal Bounce)

Kindohm - Meme Booth (Conditional Records)

Renick Bell & Fis - Emergence Vol. 1 (Saplings Records)

Ena - Baroque (Different Circles)

Nicola Ratti ‎– Continental (Students Of Decay)

Duke - Uingizaji Hewa (Nyege Nyege Tapes)

Sisso - Mateso (Nyege Nyege Tapes)

JAKUB LEMISZEWSKI - 2019 (Pointless Geometry)

SHIT & SHINE - NO NO NO NO (OOH-sounds)

Thomas Brinkmann - Raupenbahn (Editions Mego)

Andrew Pekler ‎– Sounds From Phantom Islands (Faitiche)

Fischerle - Gmatwacz (czaszka records)

IFS - MONG DISC (Pointless Geometry)

YAC - Full Moon Insomnia (Don't Sit On My Vinyl)

Sa Pa - In a Landscape (MANA)

Piernikowski - The Best Of Moje Ghetto (Asflat Records)

Pampsychia //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Countess Malaise - HYSTERIA (self-released)

EMPLOYEE - Temple Of Glendor (PLAQUE)

Kenji - 愛の響き (AbsurdTRAX)

Kuthi Jinani - Mocking Catch (HEEL.ZONE)

Jap Kasai - babanbabanbanban (GORGE.IN)

KZLK - LSTEFA (HIZZ)

Polonius - Anaxia / Shades of Paradise (Artetetra)

Tender Cruncher - Juicy (Haord Records)

Vic Bang - Blop (ABYSS)

Yoto - Psico Sauer (self-released)

Pointless Geometry //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Like last year, I can't ignore the fanatastic growth of labels and music in my country, so I decided to show you the releases closest to my heart. I am proud of the work that was done in 2019. I give you examples of what you can find digging up independent local music from Poland. Have a nice trip!

paszka - rozmnóżka (Pointless Geometry)

Bartuś419 - W domu źle (BAS)

Akwizgram - Nü Romantik (Glamour)

FOQL - Dumpster Diving Know-How (CGI Records)

=U= - New Unaesthetic Things (Audile Snow)

ciamkam - Play-doh Dog (Enjoy Life)

julek ploski - śpie (Gin&Platonic)

Lensk - Incised Shards (Hypermedium)

Loufr - SDH Kokos (Dym)

Stanisław Welbel - Poems (Szara Reneta)

Poly Chain - Currency (Mondoj)

Ostrowski - Further Fluctuations (Pawlacz Perski)

bakblivv / katarina gryvul - NAW03 (Nawia)

V/A - grids 1 (Outlines)

Pablo Frizzi - Spirit Conjurer (Pionierska rec.)

Fischerle - Gmatwacz (Czaszka rec.)

V/A - Subtransmission System (K-Hole TRAX)

Astma - Mountain Scream (Intruder Alert)

Zaumne - Błysk (Super)

Ku Ku - Ogromna Ilość Ptaszków (Fajniość)

Qba Janicki - Intuitive Mathematics (Bocian rec.)

Mazewski - Untitled (Brutaż)

Chino - The Cave (Syntetyk)

Nac/Hut Report - Wszystko Jeszcze Jest (Crunchy Human Children Records)

Torpur - Gobland (Dreamland Syndicate)

Mike Majkowski - Between Seasons (Endless Happiness)

Space by Pleq + Philippe Lamy - Space (Plaża Zachodnia)

Primordial Void //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Sun Kil Moon - I Also Want to Die in New Orleans (Caldo Verde Records)

Vanessa Rossetto - you & i are earth (Tone Glow Records)

Bill Orcutt - Odds Against Tomorrow (Palilalia Records)

Constant-Pattern Solutions - Sketches for Functional Music (Cuvée Freddy)

2222222222222222222222 - AND WHY? WTH is "I am not X"? (Daddypower Records)

Swan's Chamber - Swan's Chamber (Leaving Records)

Anne Laplantine - Élucidé (Midi Fish)

Pool - Jim Day 1995 (No Rent Records)

Mukqs - SD Biomix (Orange Milk Records)

Matthew Revert - The Inpatient (Round Bale Recordings)

Floris Vanhoof - The Fluid Computer (KRAAK)

Tasho Ishi - Dentsu2060 (Presto!? Records)

Luciano Maggiore - Locu (Dinzu Artefacts)

Gobby - Beats By Gobby 2 (UNO NYC)

Meitei - Komachi (Métron Records)

メトロノリ Metoronori - "?" letter (Cudighi Records)

Helm - Chemical Flowers (PAN)

R. Bhoodhoo & The Blue Hell - Themes For ‘Hell On A Hill’ (HOSS Records)

Lorenzo Belli - immigration and love songs (Psalmus Diuersae)

Georgia - Side Tracks (Métron Records)

Quantum Natives (Awe IX) //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Speaker Music - of desire, longing (Planet Mu)

Truest noir & romance

Khonnor -This Is Our Music documentary

Where a present friend and future collaborator is in the past time-capsuled in poignant railroad-track americana

Dark Crystal (Netflix series)

For the psytrance puppet scenes and the stone-stylus golem with the hauntology voice

Blender 2.8

Free dimensional space and movement

swiʌelized souηds - in city stone / Opal Beau - Don't Worry (Future Proof)

alien resident perspectives in Taipei, huge mildewed rocks sinking under bossa no-waves

Jojo golden wind

Kawaii no Doppio

Cultist simulator

Choose life. Choose a job. Stave off the dread. Juggle the mundane and arcane incursions.

The Vorrh - B. Catling / Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons

Have been relearning to read off-screen, books dealing with non-linear time and nested narration, colonial fantasy and Chaucerian space opera respectively.

Baclava / Babà Napoletano/ Huājiāo

Flavours of visitations and homes this year

Tower of the sun

Currently toiling in this creatures gaze.

Vinahouse

Gurning relentless Viet pulse

ganbreeder / artbreeder

Endless mutations convening with the vast taxonomy of search-engine hypernature

Object blue - FIGURE BESIDE ME / Iceboy Violet - MOOK / Oli XL - Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer / Loraine James - For You And I

Slinky traumatised light-touch beauty music

Gotham (all seasons)

rogues gallery of camp trash & oily pulp

Gabber Modus Operandi - HOXXYA (SVBKVLT)

Pure zone clamour

Brad Troemels’s instagram

Post-3dgelord jokerface Neo memes vs millenial art school debt matrix

AAA 3: Utopias: Navigating Without Coordinates

Currently unrealised but full of promise, as all utopias are.

grgranrurr playground 15-19 - happy123

Bottomless sound sliding like ice

Yeti Adventure

Modular jrpg social messenger app adventure sticker fragments

Rhinoceropolis //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Free Music – NPJ (Restaurant Music)

Labelle – Orchestre Univers (InFiné)

Erika de Casier – Essentials (Independent Jeep Music)

G.S. Sultan – Jeremy (Mondoj)

Tollund Men – The Autoerotik Demos (Auto-da-Fé)

Coleman Mummery – Philosopher-Priest of the Worm (self-released)

Laurence Pike – Holy Spring (TheLeafLabel)

Craig Leon – Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music, Vol. 2 (RVNG Intl.)

Nonlocal Forecast – Bubble Universe! (Hausu Mountain)

Pontiac Streator & Ulla Strauss – 11 Items (West Mineral Ltd.)

Slagwerk //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

djb - dood & verderf (Opal Tapes)

bby eco - ecodrome (Symbiosis)

loraine james - for you & i (Hyperdub)

boothroyd - pure country (Fnord Communication)

eartheater - trinity (Chemical X)

lockbox - neo druid (Primordial Void)

ssiege - fading summer (YOUTH)

triad god - triad (Presto!?)

ssaliva x nj drone - SSxNJ1

beachboijeffri - hoodrich ft. shona (prod. puss99)

SUM //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

4 seasons w/ amber - just for once… (self-released)

Angelspine - Inferno (self-released)

Attractor - Attractor (self-released)

ETERNITY GOD - TEARDROPSINMYSUBARU *~feat. Y2KRI$I$ x NAYR~* (self-released / Crackden Records)

HOME SHOPPER - LUXURY WEAPON (Ikea Temple)

James Emrick & Joshua Adam Acosta - Stasis (speculations editions)

Kenji - 愛の響き (Absurd TRAX)

LORETTA ABERDEEN - little duplex on the prairie (self-released)

Matthew Sullivan - Matthew (self-released)

scarecrow - friend (self-released)

ŠOP //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

foreign:

Earl Sweatshirt: Feet of Clay (Warner)

Moor Mother: Analog Fluids of Sonic Black (Don Giovanni)

.clipping: There Existed an Addiction to Blood (Sub Pop)

33EMYBW: Arthropods (SVBKVLT)

Carla Dal Forno: Look Up Sharp (self-released)

Strange Antiquark: Unterschiedliche (Evel)

Loraine James: For You and I (Hyperdub)

Trigger: Pull (Shhpuma)

Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise (International Anthem)

Caterina Barbieri: Ecstatic Computation (Editions Mego)

Little Simz: Grey Area (Age 101)

Paal Nilssen-Love: New Brazilian Funk (PNL Records)

homies:

SAMOČ: SAMOČ (self-released)

Preslišano: Kompilacija (Zvočni prepihi)

SsmKOSK: Pajser in mleko (Zvočni prepihi)

Boštjan Simon There Be Monsters: The Ark (self-released)

Širom: Svet, ki speče konju cvet (Glitterbeat)

Rush to Relax: Rush to Relax (Look Back and Laugh)

Vlaknasta: Alejandra I (Botanic)

Brgs & Umdhlebi: Red Moon - Eclipsing (Zvočni prepihi)

Darla Smoking: Extinct (Kapa)

Warrego Valles: Save As (Kamizdat)

Irena Z. Tomažin: Cmok v grlu

best album not from 2019: Joe Meek with the Blue Men: I Hear A New World (1960)

best transition from chorus to verse: Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Crime Pays (Bandana, 2019)

“Fly like the wind, it's time to begin your life. You've got control to start again and do it right. Look to the sky and you will feel how to live a life that's real, to the perfect harmony, when the spirit is free! Crime pays, nigga, crime pays!”

Unizone (ancestral vision) //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Xyn Cabal - Perfect Oracle (The Death Of Rave)
Dirty K - Panorama (Genome 6.66 Mbp)
Lanark Artefax - Cora Linn (Numbers)
Tanya Tagaq - Toothsayer (Six Shooter)
100 gecs - 1000 gecs (Dog Show)
E-Saggila - My World My Way (Northern Electronics)
Giant Swan - 55 Years Old Daughter (KECK)
Oli XL - Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer (Bloom)
r hunter - rrrrrrafael (Genot Centre)
fka twigs - Magdalene (Young Turks)

personal wowzers 💔

revelation of Dorian Electra
every single release on High Heal
Paul Jebanasam @Silent Night, Prague
cosmic grieving of Nick Cave
requiem for Siberia by Moa Pillar
discovery of Sound Matters podcast