2022
Rap:
Chicken P - BussaBrick Vol.2 : BussOne 101 / BussaBrick Vol.1 Deep In The Pot
Bandgang Lonnie Bands - Creatures In Paris / Scorpion Eyes / Hard 2 Kill Reloaded
Billy Woods - Aethiopes / Church
Rx Papi - Dope Deals And Record Sales Vol. 2 / First Week Out (Deluxe)
SME TaxFree - This One For My Brothers / Unexpected / Im Off The West / Cant Write This Shit vol. 2
Bear1boss - BEAR1BOSS
Cash Cobain & Chow Lee - 2 SLIZZY 2 SEXY (DELUXE)
DevStacks - Now They Know Us 3
MarijuanaXO - Da Under Dog / Growth & Development / Windshield Tinted
Quelle Chris - Deathfame
Big Ouee - Dreams Money Can Buy I & II
Tony Shhnow - Plug Motivation / Kill Streak 2 (deluxe) / Reflexions
Hook - From, Hook
CEO Trayle - Loosies Compilation / HH5 / The Collection / Vier
Joe Pablo - Blow the World
Wizz Havin - Mr. Too Sticky
YoungBoy Never Broke Again - 3800 Degrees
RRB Duck - Still Standing / Top Side
DaeMoney - Slayer's Coming
Papo2oo4 - Ballerific
Shaudy Kash - On The Yeah Side / Young CBFW (Deluxe)
Certified Trapper - I'm Certified
42 Dugg x EST Gee - Last Ones Left
NoCap - The Main Bird
MarijuanaXO & Joe Pablo - Window Service / Window Service 2
$ilkMoney - I Don't Give a Fuck About This Rap Shit, Imma Just Drop Until I Don't Feel Like It Anymore
Mike - Beware of the Monkey
Sexyy Red - Ghetto Superstar
454 - FAST TRAX 3
Top$ide - Lost Files
MHPG Sound - Sound or Drown
Goldenboy Countup - Coach Golden 2 / Golden Ticket / The Rawest / Chicken Man 3 / Chill Golden
Baby Smoove - Im Still Serious 2
Babytron - Megatron
Boldy James - Fair Exchange No Robbery / Be That as It May / Mr. Ten08
LUCKI - FLAWLESS LIKE ME
E L U C I D - I Told Bessie
Karma2zz - New St Louis / Rookie Of The Year
Fly Anakin - Frank
Ayoolii - Personal Compilation 2022
Tisakorean - 1st Round Pick
Los and Nutty - 25 Features, Vol. 2
WB Nutty - City of Addiction
Hm:
1100 Himself & Mitchell - 2 Headed Goat
AKAI SOLO - Spirit Roaming
Ame - At The Fore / No Mans Land
Babyface Ray - FACE (Deluxe Edition)
Bandmanrill - The Singles
Cash Cobain - SLIZZY TIMING
Damedot - The Umbrella Again
Dopeboy Ra - Book of PSlums Chapter 36 (Deluxe)
Duwap Kaine - Underdog 3 / Family Guy / Kaine's Diary / A Doggs Influence / Faith Like Esther
Four50 - Glasshouse
Ghetto Baby Boom - Ghetto Mode
Izaya Tiji - WASP / Nevameant2b
Jelly - Wolf of Peachtree 2
Ka - Woeful Studies / Languish Arts
KanKan - WAY2GEEKED
Kodak Black - Kutthroat Bill Vol. 1
Lil Baby - It's Only Me
Lil Uzi Vert - RED & WHITE
Mavi - Laughing so Hard, it Hurts
Moh Baretta - DOGMA II
Money Waters - The Porch II
Open Mike Eagle - Component System with the Auto Reverse
Princesa 28 - Princesa WorldWide V2
Reed - Reed
Roc Marciano - The Elephant Man's Bones
Rodneyy - #OGTG
RXK Nephew - BEEN BALLIN IN OUTER SPACE / My Wrist Need Rehabilitation / Universal Slither
Sickboyrari - City Of Crows
Shawny Binladen - Wick City (Deluxe)
Summrs - FALLEN RAVEN
Tae Rackzz & Javi Turnt - Our Year
WiFiGawd - Charge It To The Game
Wiki & Subjxct5 - Cold Cuts
WTM Milt - Dog$hit & Ammunition / RAFA
Young Bleed - Dare' Iza' God
Young Nudy - EA Monster
Yeat - 2 Alivë (Geëk Pack)
R&B:
Cruel Santino - Subaru Boys - FINAL HEAVEN
Jacquees - Sincerely For You
Brent Faiyaz - WASTELAND
Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales, Mo’ Tales The Deluxe
Contemporary :
Olli Aarni - Suontee- 23112021
Clara de Asís & Ryoko Akama - sisbiosis
Malin Bång - Works for Orchestra
Natasha Barrett - Heterotopia
Björk - Fossora
Joshua Bonnetta - Innse Gall
Brannten Schnüre - Das Glück vermeiden
Björg Brjánsdóttir - VÍDDIR
Isaiah Ceccarelli - Toute clarté m’est obscure
Delphine Dora - a l'abri du monde
Jacob Dwyer - The Devil Museum
Jürg Frey - Borderland Melodies
goo age - Open Zone
Howard Stelzer - The Flemish Giants (Suburban Observances Vol. 5)
Atte Elias Kantonen - POP 6 SUSURRUS
Nile Koetting - Remain Calm
Lance Austin Olsen - Fukushima Rising
Michael Pisaro & Keith Rowe - Venerable Bede
Francis Plagne - The Refrain
RLW - Tunnel
Manja Ristic - Him, fast sleeping, soon he found In labyrinth of many a round, self-rolled
Vanessa Rossetto - The Actress
Wojciech Rusin - Syphon
Sombra acústica - Sombra acústica
Stateside - Mouthfeelings Sessions
Stefano Scodanibbio - String Quartets
Havadine Stone - Old Young
Valerio Tricoli - Say Goodbye To The Wind
Simon Whetham - Invitation to Migrate to a New Planet
Digital Beats:
qua - Hasbulla ep
DJ Travella - Mr Mixondo
islurwhenitalk - ☥skkkult r𖤐dio☥
Model Home - Model Home 20
Jana Rush - Dark Humor
BILLY G - billy.exe
HiTech - HiTech
Vivid The Producer - HEALING
Theo Parrish - Ooh Bass
Andy Loebs - Flexuous Vertex
Jazz ?:
Andrew Cyrille / Wadada Leo Smith / Qasim Naqvi - Two Centuries
BI BA DOOM - graceful collision
LIFTED - 3
New Old:
Henning Christiansen - OP.163 PENTHESILEA
Luc Ferrari - Solitude Transit
Jigen - Blood's Finality 狂雲求敗
Miles Davis - That's What Happened 1982-1985 The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7
Nature - 98' Nate
Universal Liberation Orchestra - Communion
Iannis Xenakis - Electroacoustic Works
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Olli Aarni/Grand River/Nickolas Mohanna/Antti Tolvi — Longform Editions 11 (Longform Editions)
Longform Editions is a label curated by Andrew Khedoori, and the music, released in groups of four pieces each of which this is number 11, poses and answers questions that reach the core of musical expression and experience. Khedoori speaks, in interviews, of slowing down, of taking the time to listen in a world in which such pursuit is diminishing. Similarly, the composers all speak of various modes of listening that go beyond mere absorption into a realm of activity, or depth. The briefest of these four pieces is 20 minutes and the longest 45, so some commitment is expected, and, even in a market saturated with music of similar pretensions, this is the real deal! The trick for the writer experiencing these composers and their singular visions for the first time is to heap verbiage on experiences meant to transcend it. Here goes!
If there is a model for Olli Aarni’s Haalea, it might be the opening minutes of Yes’s “Close to the Edge,” meaning the long bird-song-imbued fade-in to the track proper. Aarni expands a similarly but much more broadly and enigmatically constructed sonic universe to encompass forty-five minutes, chronological time, but the effect is vast and infinitely more colorful. Pedantically, the piece exists somewhere among chord, scale and drone, beholden to none while never quite circumventing them. He eschews the glacial harmonic changes and barely audible motivic development, hanging amidst nowhere, that we hear in Eliane Radigue’s synthesizer pieces in favor of singly emergent pitches. While a single tone pervades the first six minutes, others in lower register gradually swim into focus, and even that most prominent pitch shimmers, swells and fades in overtonal motion. The beauty of hearing that pitch slowly assimilated, other related tones taking its place around the twelve-minute mark themselves then gently to be usurped, is palpable but indescribable in a few words. Even to posit that the rest of the piece involves that chord, or mode, slowly shattering into bright, hard but deliciously transparent upper partials says nothing about experiencing its slow ascent toward a peak and gradual descent toward silence.
The first impressions of New York composer Nickolas Mohanna’s Throwing the Chain involve grit and power, but even these are superficial when engaging in a bit of the deep listening he mentions in his notes. A post-Angus MacLisian take on fractiously free-form rhythm and on the encroachment of extramusical timbre is enhanced by attention to delicately internal and sometimes external rhythmic structures that never quite congeal into a meter. By internal, I mean that pulse emanates from the drone itself rather than from percussion. Faint looping and juxtaposition are paramount as this music weaves a non-conventionally formal and stark path forward, any semblance of pitch finally replaced by one of those insect-riddled landscapes such as Naked City was exploring in the early 1990s.
In Olivier Messiaen’s early organ piece “Celestial Banquet,” rhythmically falling drops of blood slowly pervade the texture. Something bordering on similar happens in the Dutch-Italian composer Grand River’s Light Index Opening, but that’s only one facet of the constantly evolving space she creates, a hybrid world in which articulations of all sorts joust and blend, from the dull shocks of what might be rasped guitar and plummy piano to the up-ramping of enigmatic reversals, all set with surprising ease against a droning backdrop. The rhythmic interjections become orchestral and part of the fun is guessing where they might land on the soundstage before the low-register beats change the entire rhythmic landscape of this extraordinary environment. Eventually, even tonal center becomes problematic, and those up-ramping reverses turn the sound world into the raw Romantic place it becomes before, like one of James Joyce’s Nighttown apparitions, all recedes.
Finnish composer and performer Antti Tolvi’s Just Gong is, on one level, the most easily explained offering of this batch, as it’s made on only one instrument, but of course, nothing is quite as straight-forward as might appear to be the case. Drone doesn’t even begin to describe the sound emerging from the instrument Tolvi’s playing. It absolutely cannot encompass the myriad vibrations, in and out of pulse and rhythm, the choral or organ tones ebbing and flowing in transitory stasis, all frequency spectra united, or the staggeringly slow dynamic flux that isn’t really flux at all but a kind of expansion, at least until the twenty-minute mark. There, remarkably, delicately, the all-enveloping sound fades but does not disappear. Its subsequent slow ascent and descent, unbelievably exquisite, leads ultimately, incredibly, to a single pitch. Is it the fundamental?
That word certainly does describe something about all four of these pieces and about everything I’ve heard from this label, which is now becoming one of my favorites when only music that fosters deep listening will do. This is music of fathomless depth but somehow also music laid bare. A directness of purpose emanates Even from the most elaborate soundscape, creating areas of experience in which Eliane Radigue might be at home to create her unique blend of melody and harmony. The vision Khedoori fosters seems healthier than ever in a time of rather stunning upheaval and, time permitting, really should be experienced.
Marc Medwin
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2020
Rap:
Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake
Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red
Polo G - The Goat
Los and Nutty - Panagnl4e Vol. 2
Preservation - Eastern Medicine, Western Illness
Sada Baby - Skuba Sada 2 (Deluxe)
Medhane - Cold Water
$ilkMoney - Attack Of The Future... / G.T.F.O.M.D
Akai Solo - Eleventh Wind
Roc Marciano - Mt. Marci
Chief Keef - Ferrari Musik
Rio Da Yung Og - City On My Back
Armand Hammer - Shrines
Max_B - Charly
Tony Shhnow & 10kdunkin - Rp's & Plan B's
Shawny Binladen - Merry Wickmas
Babyface Ray - For You
Tae Dawg - Ooze God / Dawgprint 2
Lil Baby - My Turn (Deluxe)
TisaKorean - Wasteland
Lil Uzi Vert - Luv vs The World 2
R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages
Ka - Descendants of Cain
03 Greedo - Load It Up Vol. 01
TyFontaine - 1800 / Virtual World
Moor Mother & billy woods - BRASS
Boldy James - The Price Of Tea In China (Deluxe)
Mad Moon - Mad Space
Smino - She already decided mixtape
G Herbo - PTSD B Side
WTM Scoob - A Beautiful Drug / Don't Be Proud / I Went to Plu2o
Young Nudy - Anyways
KanKan - B4 AMGs & SRTs
Drakeo the Ruler - We Know the Truth (Deluxe)
Tree - The Blue Tape
Yak Gotti - Gotti Outta Here
KrispyLife Kidd & Ysr Gramz - Kid N Play
CeeFineAss - Welcome to My City
H31R - ve·loc·i·ty
Baby Smoove - Hardwood Classic
Lucki - Almost There
Bandgang Lonnie Bands & Bandgang Javar - The Scamily
Damedot - Mafia Lord (Chapter I)
Hm:
18veno – R4z / Pablo
21 Savage - Savage Mode II
Akai Solo - Ride Alone, Fly Together / Like Hajime
Autumn! - Ils Verront / Solitary
DaBoii - Tour Vibes
Dopeboy Ra - Mobstyle
Duwap Kaine - Bad Kid From The 4
Flo Milli – Ho, why is you here
Goonew - Big64 2
Hook - I Love You 2, Hook
Key Glock - Yellow Tape
Lil Durk - Just Cause Y'all Waited 2 (Deluxe)
Lil Keed - Trapped On Cleveland 3 (Deluxe part)
Lil Shane Krush - 5000 Degrees in the Field
Los - Carlos \ G Shit Vol. 1
Master Holy - A Holy Journal
Megan Thee Stallion - Good News
MIKE - weight of the world
NLE Choppa - Top Choppa
PG RA - God's Gift
Rod Wave - Pray 4 Love (Deluxe)
Rylo Rodriguez - G.I.H.F
Rx Papi - The Real Dominic Toretto/ Mood
Sada Baby - Bartier Bounty 2
Spotemgottem - Final Destination
Starlito – Paternity Leave
Su'lan - Baby Glock Gang
WB Nutty – TWYH (That's What Ya Heard)
Yhung T.O. x DaBoii - Demon and Mufasa
YN Jay - Coochie Land (Deluxe)
R&B:
amaarae - The Angel You Don't Know
Brent Faiyaz - Fuck The World
Teyana Taylor - The Album
Liv.E - Couldn't Wait to Tell You...
Brandy - B7
Kehlani - It Was Good Until It Wasn't
keiyaA - Forever, Ya Girl
Amplify20 (info @ amplify2020.blogspot.com) :
Michael Pisaro-Liu - Tai Pi
Bryan Eubanks - Qualia-Cosmos
English - Democracy
Keith Rowe - an assemblage - construct for 45 voices / GF SUC
TARAB - 41 containers
Vanessa Rossetto - perhaps at some time you have acted in a play- even if it was when you were a child
Bonnie Jones - An Hour is a Sea
Joe Foster - Since I Don't Know When
Michael Rosenstein - Outer Cape Sojourn
Lionel Marchetti - L'ignorance
Kevin Drumm - Q
Manja Ristić - Out Of Thin Air
Benedict Drew - Music for crawling inside a costume
Marc Baron - Elle a traversé deux fois la même rivière
Shira Legmann - The Ganges
Heather Frasch - The sound of objects helps me remember
Zhu Wenbo - Open
Reinier van Houdt - friction sleep maze (22 april 2020) / horizon without traveler (22 may 2020)
Moniek Darge - Quarantine Butterfly
Ivan Palacký - Sanctuary
Contemporary:
Choi Joonyong & Jin Sangtae - Hole In My Head
Olli Aarni - Mustikoita ja kissankelloja
Linda Catlin Smith - Meadow
Naomi Pinnock - Lines and Spaces
Dominique Lemaître - De l’espace trouver la fin et le milieu
Manuel Pessôa de Lima - Realejo
Sarah Hughes - I love this city and its outlying lands
Philip Sulidae - Tupik
Paolo Coteni - Nel Corso Del Tempo
Lil Jurg Frey Live 5-2-2020 / Live 5-14-2020
Delphine Dora - L'inattingible
Greg Stuart - Colluvium
Du Yun - A Cockroach's Tarantella
Clara Ianotta - Earthing
Timothy McCormack - Karst
Lucy Liyou - Welfare
YIN YUE- An Amateur Compilation
Digital Beats:
DJ Diaki - Balani fou
DJ MC - DA LEGENDARY HIT FACTORY
Equiknoxx - Equiknoxx Music in 2020
Gooooose & DJ Scotch Egg - jac
DJ Lycox - Kizas do Ly
NÍDIA - Badjuda Sukulbembe
FELIX - Oito ou Oitenta
Nice forms:
Elysia Crampton - ORCORARA 2010
Joanne Robertson - Painting Stupid Girls
Lorenzo Senni - Scacco Matto
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Dylan Henner - The Invention of the Human
Brannten Schnure - Ei, wir tun dir nichts zuleide!
Space Afrika - hybtwibt
Autechre - PLUS
James Ferraro - Neurogeist
Mohammad Reza Mortazavi & Burnt Friedman - Yek 2
Mark Fell & Will Guthrie - Infoldings
Merula - Sleep
Eiko Ishibashi - Hyakki Yagyō
Various - Kulør 006
Employee - Hold Music Vol. 1
Techno / House?:
Serwed - Serwed II
33EMYBW - Arthropods
Terrence Dixon - Galactic Halo
Actress - 88 / Karma & Desire
Nkisi - Initiation
Speaker Music - Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry
Lord of the Isles - Whities 029
Jazz?:
Moor Mother - Circuit City
Nick Malkin - A Typical Night in the Pit
Lemon Quartet - Crestless
Moor Mother and Olof Melander - ANTHOLOGIA 01
Jon Hassell - Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two)
Moor Mother - Clepsydra
Pop?:
Charli XCX - How i'm feeling now
LISACHRIS - uchushimin
meat computer - virtual house arrest
FROMTHEHEART - things happen- it's ok!
EM Records - S.D.S -零- (Subscription Double Suicide -Zero-)
New Old:
Foul Play - Origins
Roland Kayn - Requiem Pour Patrice Lumumba
George Lewis - Rainbow Family
Henning Christiansen - Op.201 L´Essere Umano Erravando La Voca Errabando
Adult Fantasies - Towers of Silence
Notchnoi Prospekt - Курорты Кавказа (Health Resorts of the Caucasus)
Charles Curtis - Performances & Recordings 1998-2018
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