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2018 Remarkable Music

Late as every year, and list grows as i’m now logging music when playing from pc.... 2018 remarkable music, thrown down on paper as i remembered, no specific order... 

i haven’t listed any release on which i’ve worked/collaborated otherwise Jura from Marco Malasomma would have made it. 

Elysia Crampton - Elysia Crampton

Dedekind Cut -  Tahoe 

Y-Bayani and Baby Naa & their Band of Enlightenment Reason and Love - Rehwe Mie enyim

Zeal and Ardor - Stranger Fruit

Hadi Zeidan - Taksim Analog

Waaju - Waaju

Basa Basa - Homowo

VA - We Out Here

Khalab - Black Noise 2084

Nils Frahm - All Melody

Vakula - A Vojage To Arcturus

Silvia Kastel - Air Lows

Johnny Jewel - Themes For Television / Digital Rain

Dengue Dengue - Son de Los Diablos

Hilary Woods - Colt

The Pineapple Thief - Dissolution

Shuttle358 - Field

ADT - Insecurities

Domiziano Maselli - Ashes

Luciano - Sequentia, Vol2

Peter Zummo - Frame Loop

Bombounou - Parametr Perkusja

k. Leimer - Threnody

Burnt Friedman - The Pestle

Hany Mehanna - The Miracles Of The seven Dances

Waelder - Omr 

Brainwaltzera - Bunker EP

Liberez - Way Through Vulnerability

The Maghreban - 01DEAS

Aphex Twin - Collapse EP

Rafiq Bhatia - Breaking English

Tangents - New Bodies

Nu guinea - Nuova Napoli

Henny Hval - The Long Sleep

Szun Waves - New Hymn To Freedom

Dhafer Youssef - Sound of Mirrors

Dead Can Dance - Dionysus

Julia Holter - Aviary

Dungen - Myths 003

Christina Vantzou - No. 4

Odeko - Rose Tinted Vision Implant

Sarah Davachi - Gave in Rest

Various - Gumba Fire

Giraffes? Giraffes! - Memory Lame

Tross - The Overview effect

Eartheater - Irisiri

Chancha Via Circuito - Bienventuranza

Mika Vainio - Lydspor One & Two

Alien Weaponry - Tu

Subelo Cuba! - Havana Cultura 

Siti & the Band - fusing the roots

Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch

Pablo’s eye - Spring Break

Waak Waak Djungi - Waak Waak ga Min Min

Abdul Mogard - Above All Dreams

Pina - Larm

Space Afrika - Somewhere Decent To live

Kareem Lotfy - QTT10

Ben LaMar Gay - Downtown Castles Never Block The Sun

Aine O’dwyer - Gallarais

Zazou Bikaye - Noir Et Blanc

Thou - Rhea Sylvia

Forma - Semblance

Barrio Sur - बड़ा शोक (heart break)

Moontribe - Moontribe

Mike Cooper - Tropical Gothic

Carl Gari - Shipster

Dj Lilocox - Pax & Amor

Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss

Richard Devine - Sort\Lave

Objekt - Cocoon Crush

Vessel - Queen of Golden Dogs

Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu

Between The Buried And Me - Automata I & II

The Great Sabatini - Goodbye Audio

Anaal Nathrakh - A New Kind of Horror

dBridge - A Love I Can’t Explain

Deena Abdelwahed - Khonnar

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Favorite Sounds of 2018

For the eighth year in a row, I have collected my favorite sounds of the year! Here’s 2018.

Throughout the year, I make a note when something sticks out to me as I’m listening to music. At the end of year I isolate the sounds from their songs, string them all together, and type up these notes.

Press play on the player above and follow along with the list below. There are pieces from 68 tracks in about 12 minutes in this year’s collection.

(Previously: 2011 and 2012 and 2013 and 2014 and 2015 and 2016 and 2017!)

Angélique Kidjo — Once in a Lifetime Vocal chopped and scrambled.

Aphex Twin — T69 Collapse The collapse.

Avey Tare — When You Left Me (Geologist Remix) Delayed, rolled vocal snippets.

Beach House — Black Car Eighth-note echo on the staccato rock-skipping vocal refrain.

Beach House — Lemon Glow Drum rush.

Beta Librae — Just Drift High-pitched rhythmic clicks.

Blawan — Stell Clattering sample slowing and speeding up.

Cavern of Anti-matter — Automatic Morning Polyrhythmic synth guitar-pluck loop.

Christina Vantzou — Sound House Choral sample speed warp.

CHVRCHES — Miracle Doubled-up “oh!”s.

Daniel Avery — Sensation Overdriven synth drenched in reverb.

DBridge — Gen 19 Flanged, gulping cymbal hit.

DJ Koze feat. Róisín Murphy — Illumination Background vocals quick-delayed, horn squeal merging with “whoa-oh” vocals.

DJ Koze — Nein König Nein Rhythmically chopped and panned guitar strums.

Eleanor Friedberger — In Between Stars Sudden key change into a cappella outro.

Fatima — Somebody Else Pitched up vocal chop at the end of the drum loop.

Flasher — Punching Up Rhythmic gate.

Forest Drive West — Nothing Else Overdriven synth bed with scattering fills.

Gacha Bakradze — Stray Hard-panned rising chirps.

Grouper — Driving Multi-tracked harmonic vocal peak.

J Balvin feat. Carla Morrison — Vibras Vocals dramatically side-chained to ghost kick.

James Blake — If the Car Beside You Moves Ahead Pitched-up, time-stretched repeating vocals.

James N. Murray — City of the Comedown Chiming sample.

Jay — Balsam Drum Field recording loop with thrum.

John Hopkins — Emerald Rush Reversed, pining vocals.

Kacey Musgraves — Butterflies Vocoder’d “chrysalis.”

Lena Raine — Quiet and Falling Bubbly arps and white noise. 

Loma — Dark Oscillations Chops and stutters.

Low — Fly “Flyyy” vocal sample pitched up and drawn out.

M. Geddes Gingras — Kalapana Volca FM synthesizer’s metronome used as melodic element.

Marcelus — Parenthesis Clipped bits and heavy reverb.

Maribou State — Kāma Quarter rest and inhale.

Mark Van Hoen — Weathered Buried vocal samples.

Mary Lattimore — Never Saw Him Again Swooping delay trails.

Matthew Dear — Bunny’s Dream Chopped-up sample forming the lyrical refrain (”You and I… in this world with you”).

Matthew Dear feat. Tegan & Sara — Horses Time-stretched guitar.

Miya Folick — Stock Image Overblown noise descending into chorus.

Moonface — Minotaur Forgiving Poseidon Rising vocoder litany.

Moonface — The Cave Matana Roberts’ saxophone arpeggio.

Neko Case — Pitch or Honey Barely audible discordant tone that calls back the lyrical refrain: “I hear overtones/that make this another song.”

Nils Frahm — #2 Tightly clipped and echoing ‘ah—’ vocal sample.

Perfume Genius — Braid (mmph Remix) Backing vocals staggered before the lead vocal (isn’t arranged that way in the original).

Perfume Genius — Just Like Love (Jam City Remix) Silence to orchestral rush

Persuasion — In the Atrium Panned, syncopated, woody clacks.

Positive Centre — Composite Particles Syncopated, textured, distorted beep.

Rival Consoles — Phantom Grip Xylophone hit ringing out, then damped.

Robyn — Human being Echoed background cry.

Rosalia — Pienso en Tu Mirá Squealing percussive hit, auto-tuned “mm-mmmm” embellishment.

Ross from Friends — Thank God I’m a Lizard Volume dip.

rRoxymore — Run… Feet Backwards snare to crowded kick pattern.

Second Woman — Instant II Randomly tapped strings with miles of reverb.

serpentwithfeet — bless ur heart Rising whistles into the chorus.

serpentwithfeet — messy Ping-ponging “Each-each-each-time!” vocal embellishment.

Sevendeaths — SH4A Delayed, filtered synth stabs.

Shy Layers — Gateway Wailing vocoder’d background vocal embellishment.

Shy Layers — Midnight Marker Sudden low-end cut and loop transition.

Skee Mask — Rev8617 Chopped and reversed melody repeated in high bell tones.

Sudan Archives — Nont for Sale Heavy side-chain + snap off-beat.

Sylvia Kastel “Lay back—”

Takecha — Factory 141 Stretched factory-floor sample.

Tangents — In the Beginning Morass of delay with looping piano figure and drums.

The Fourth Wall — Infinite Other Shimmering reverb.

Tirzah — Do You Know Rhythmic loop that interrupts and syncopates the song itself.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra — If You’re Going to Break Yourself Light synth wash and garbled vocals.

Witch Prophet — Weight of the World Echoing, pitch-shifted drum loop.

Young Thug — High Thug’s voice dipping during the sample.

Yumi Zouma — Crush “Fl-flame” echo.

Yves Tumor — Economy of Freedom Filtered, pitched-down three-note vocal sample.

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Silvia Kastel Target (2018)

From the album: Air Lows (Blackest Ever Black)