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2016

This comes about exactly a quarter too late, but yolo etc., hopefully better off here than in my drafts folder.

10 songs old and new I hid within/cried to in 2016

Rihanna - Close to You [Westbury Road, 2016]

Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays John Cassavetes II [Staubgold, 2002]

Bill Callahan - The Breeze / My Baby Cries [Chapter, 2004]

Future - Purple Reign [Freebandz, 2016]

Dreezy - Wasted [Interscope, 2016]

Mr. Eazi - Skin Tight (featuring Efya) [Meister, 2015]

DJ Technics - Girlfriend [Baltimore Breakbeat, 1999]

Yaroze Dream Suite - Pixel Dreams [Local Action, 2016]

OutKast - 13th Floor / Growing Old [LaFace, 1996]

Kanye West - Real Friends (featuring Ty Dolla $ign) [GOOD, 2016]

10 old songs I first heard in 2016 (and where I heard them)

Digital Justice - Profit (No Till) (Call Super @ Dekmantel)

Deep Dish - Chocolate City (Love Songs) (DJ Sotofett @ The-Club-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named, Glasgow)

PQM - You Are Sleeping (PQM Meets Luke Chable Vocal Pass) (Aidan Hanratty - Prog 2016)

Wink - One Night in Heaven / Mayonakano Angel (Mumdance on Rinse FM)

Drexciya - Digital Tsunami (DJ Stingray @ Rubadub)

Levy 9 - Running Up That Hill (nice pipes on Subcity)

Gabrielle - Rise (Deep Dish Hi-Rise Remix) (Deep Dish - Renaissance: Ibiza)

Oni Ayhun - OAR003-B (Ryan Martin @ All Caps Boiler Room)

Michel Cleis - Mir a nero (Hashman Deejay @ Graff et Grill #8, Kambo Super, Moss)

BT - Mercury & Solace (Dub / Transa Mix) (Sasha - Global Underground 013: Ibiza)

Favourite mixes

Florentino - FACT Mix 574

DEBONAIR - Blowing Up the Workshop 68

Nguzunguzu - Perfect Lullaby Vol. 3

RA: Dr. Rubinstein, Soichi Terada, Leafar Legov, Francesco Del Garda

The Large - Fever Mixtape

DJ Digits - Cheeky Trax Special

Truancy Volumes: Laurel Halo, Resom, SVANI, Jules

rRoxymore - FADER Mix

Yamaneko - Boiler Room / Nautilus Dusk (Dazed Mix)

Minimalviolence - MTRMX025

Bake - Dimension Series D5 Side B

Favourite rap/r&b/dancehall/etc.

Kevin Gates - Ain’t Too Hard

Dreezy - We Gon Ride (featuring Gucci Mane)

Rae Sremmurd - Do Yoga / Black Beatles (featuring Gucci Mane)

Young Thug - RiRi / Pick Up the Phone (featuring Travis $cott & Quavo) / King TROUP

Kanye West - 30 Hours (featuring André 3000)

Dawn Richard - Not Above That / Baptize

Alex A-Game X Swing Ting - A-Game Everyday

Last Japan - Ascend (Silk Road Assassins Remix) (featuring AJ Tracey)

Popcaan - Ova Dweet

Kash Doll - Spend It on Me (featuring Most Wanted) / Waste Your Time (featuring Tyron)

Dej Loaf - Keep Going

Konshens - Gal Gov / Bruk Off Yuh Back (Moskato Riddim)

Ariana Grande - Moonlight

Cardi B - Washpoppin

Kamaiyah - How Does It Feel

Future - Xanny Family

Sir Spyro - Topper Top (featuring Teddy Bruckshot, Lady Chann & Killa P)

Liana Banks - Plead the Fifth

YG - Who Shot Me?

Payroll Giovanni - Never Seen Money

30 favourite club traxx

DBM - Ride with U / Squeeze [DBM]

Minor Science - Underripe [Whities]

T_A_M - Watty (Tarquin’s ‘Don’t Get Lemon’ Edit) [Coyote]

DVA - Worst (Sinjin Hawke Remix) [Hyperdub]

Florentino - Bloodline [Swing Ting]

Microlith - Dance with Me [CPU]

Kid Antoine - Flood Control [Her]

Skee Mask - Panorama [Ilian Tape]

Loom - Tracksuit [Gobstopper]

Supreems - Us Together [Lobster Theremin]

MssingNo - Scope [XL]

Luke West - Litework [Sans Absence]

Mechatok - Placer [Staycore]

Truce - Uhh [Keysound]

Marie Davidson - Good Vibes (Mocking Birds) [Cititrax]

DJC - Capricorn [Night Slugs]

Boylan - Where Do You Go at Night? [Edgem]

DJ Marfox - 2685 [Principe]

Floorplan - Tell You No Lie [M-Plant]

Swimful - Bounce [SVBKVLT]

Umwelt - Gravitational Lens [Killekill] / OTSHA4TRCS2XOX [Rave or Die]

Helm - Olympic Mess (Beatrice Dillon Remix) [PAN]

Peggy Gou - Maktoop [Technicolour]

Dark0 - Luka [XL]

Willow - Untitled (B2) [Workshop]

The Exaltics - NGC 253 [SolarOneMusic]

Zeta Reticula - Euphonious [Electrix]

LNS - Guppies [1080p]

Minimalviolence - Crete Is Calling [1080p]

Powder - Afrorgan [Born Free]

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No. 1: Randy Newman - "Louisiana 1927".

Worst to Best: Musical Works w/ Years

In honor of Taylor Swift’s 1989, here is a very serious list.

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Been scrupulously avoiding the mainstream obits RE Amiri Baraka. Still could’t help noting repeated headlines throwing up the politically suspect tag ‘Polarizing Figure”. Guess that means our dude was Electro Magnetic and As Charged.

Oh they think long and hard about throwing shade...

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Let there be no love poems written until love can exist freely and cleanly.

Amiri Baraka, "Black Art" (1965)

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He was what we all want to be, a writer who was trusted by readers even when they didn’t agree with him, because they knew he was on their side. BuzzFeed music editor Matthew Perpetua put it best on Twitter: “I hope it’s not lost on my peers that people care SO MUCH about Ebert cos he was the rare critic who wrote smart stuff for normal people.” So many music critics fall prey to the temptation to speak only to people like themselves. They lard their writing with obscure references, and harangue those who don’t have the luxury to think about records all day for their lack of adventurousness and know-how. And then they wonder why nobody cares to read them.

Steven Hyden

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I talked to one of the guys who mixed My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy to potentially mix this album, and I was like, 'I love that album so much, I love the production, and I love the way it feels— but does it have to be so hot?' It literally sounds lower-fi than it probably did when they were working on it because it’s mastered so fucking hot. I was like, 'Why did you do that?' And he was like, 'That’s just what Kanye wants. He just wants it to be louder than Jay’s album.' I love that.

David Longstreth

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If it looks like this I won’t mind.

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The sound experience which I prefer, to all others, is the experience of silence. And the silence almost everywhere in the world now... is traffic. If you listen to Beethoven or to Mozart, you see that they're always the same. But if you listen to traffic, you see it's always different.

John Cage

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But most of all you’ll hear the echoes of modern multicultural London, of Jamaican, African, Chinese, Indian, American, Cockney and even Scottish accents. Reflections come off crumbling warehouses, dirty towerblocks, endless row terraces, unhinged nightbus rides, skunked-out cars and clattering overland trains. London: this is the defining influence on dubstep; that which gives it its tempered, edgy, compressed character. These are the echoes of a tense, intense city. This is mystical margin music. This is London, 2004.

Martin Clark

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I sympathised with the energy of the early punk scene and its trope of ‘three chords are enough to start a band’, however I thought, three’s already much too much and one tone should be more than sufficient. Polyphonic synthesizers were far out of reach at the time anyway…

Konrad Becker