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5
Johnson, Robert – Complete Recordings
Shackleton – Soundboy’s Nuts Get Ground up Proper EP
Skream – SSDubstar007
Skream – Traitor BW Angry [ITAL001]
Technical Itch – Winter Stone Breaker
Thievery Corporation – Radio Retailiation
4
GMOS – West African Heat Mix [20080700]
Johnson, Blind Willie – Complete Recordings, The
Lil Wayne – Carter III The Rebirth
Mustard Pimp – Demolition March Mix
NASA – Spirit [...]
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5
Mehldau, Brad – Art of the Trio, The, Volume 04 Back at the Vanguard
Reich, Steve – Music for 18 Musicians
Tjader, Cal- Grace Cathedral Concert
Wyatt, Robert – No. 11 Comicopera
4
Natural Self – Art of Vibration, The
Nomo – Ghost Rock
V/A – Luaka Bop 10th Annniversary_ Zero Accidents On The Job
Wiley – See Clear Now
3
Mathhead vs Elemental – [...]
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5
Cut Chemist and Shortkut – Live at the Future Primitive Soundsession
Liquid Liquid – Slip In And Out Of The Phenomenon
Mantronix – Mantronix The Album
Mantronix – Music Madness
Mantronix – Best of Mantronix, 1985-1999
4
DJ Shadow – Four-Track Era, The, Volume 01
DJ Shadow – Four-Track Era, The, Volume 02
Kool Keith and Kutmasta Kurt – Diesel Truckers
Mala – Left [...]
Earlier today, I tried starting a blog post series of my favorite–note, not best–songs. The first one was going to be Reverend Gary Davis’ I am the Light of this World (which would have been followed by about eight other Davis songs; I sweat him hard), but the limits of blog software led me to [...]
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Terrible—>Fantastic
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4
Alias – Resurgam
Baptista, Cyro – Banquet of the Spirits
Bembeya Jazz National – Syliphone Years, The
Budos Band, The – Budos Band II, The
Budos Band, The – Budos Band, The
Buraka Som Sistema – Black Diamond
Buraka Som Sistema – From Buraka to the World EP
Collins, Bootsy – Back in the Day The Best of Bootsy
Cranes – Cranes
Franz Ferdinand [...]
1——>3—–>5
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5
Clinic – Do It!
Craig, Carl – Sessions
Flying Lotus – 1983
Flying Lotus – July Heat
Flying Lotus – Reset EP
Gas – Nah und Fern
Hancock, Herbie – Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions
Hooker, John Lee and Miles Davis – Hot Spot, The
V/A – Music of Islam, Volume 10 (Qur’an Recitation, Istanbul, Turkey)
V/A – Music of Islam, Volume 11 (Yemen, [...]
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5
V/A – Music of Islam, Volumes 1-9
4
Black Angels, The – Directions to See a Ghost
3
Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
DJ Surgeon – Ghetto Tech Mixin Phase 5
Gutterbreakz – Annex Audio, Process Part 096
Pash – Best Gun, The
Welch, Gillian – Revival
2
Be Your Own Pet – Get Awkward
Cyantific – Hospitalised 10 Years of Hospital [NHS100CD] (CD03)
DJ Slugo – [...]
Top albums released this year, according to my ear and brain:
Ratatat Classics – That tiger sample not only rocks, but had an influence in fashion.
Knife, The Silent Shout – Simply the best.
Be Your Own Pet Be Your Own Pet – YYYs for the kids!
Sounds, The Dying To Say This To You – Finally, a non-idiotic [...]
Here are the best albums I heard, but not released, this year:
Dolphy, Eric Out To Lunch – Amazing.
Pitch Black Afro Styling Gel – If this country has any taste, whatsoever, African hip hop will blow up soon.
Knife, The Deep Cut’s – The Knife’s three albums are on my best albums heard in 2006 list. Need [...]
A friend asked me to introduce her to the world of hip hop by sending her some music. I imposed a four to five album limit, primarily because of the amount of time it would take me to gather the music and send it to her but also because I figured too much more and [...]
Also tagged EZ, hip hop, Music