Brian's Top Tens

Since we were all talking top tens, I put some lists together with a few links to downloads. Lists are in no particular order.

Matthew Young is in line with Roach's new ageness and was a college radio LP heavily embodying "synth-wave" when released in '81. Young put it all together on a homemade synthesizer and the songs range from ambient sounds to synthesizer space rock.

The Murcof album takes 17th century baroque classical sounds from flutes, harpsichords, violas, mezzo soprano singers and merges them into cavernous electronic spaces merging in and out of microbeats and low end bass throbs.

Nicolas Tone is a noise/jazz 3" cdr that I enjoyed this summer.

Top ten new releases 2008:
Ilyas Ahmed – The Vertigo at Dawn (time-lag)
Scott Tuma –Not for Nobody (digitalis)
Sic Alps – us ez (siltbreeze)
Fire Room – Broken Music (Atavistic)
Pants Yell! - Allison Statton (soft abuse)
Lucky Dragons – Dream Island Laughing Language (Marriage Records)
Phillip Jeck – Sand (Touch)
Kurt Vile – Constant Hitmaker (Gulcher Records)
Murcof – The Versailles Sessions (Leaf)
Atlas Sound // Deerhunter – Let the Blind // Microcastle (Kranky)

Top ten rereleases 2008:
George Mitchell Collection – Vol. 1 - 45 (Fat Possum)
Lowell Davidson – Trio (ESP-Disk)
Jandek – Ready for the House (Jackpot Records)
Dennis Wilson – Pacific Ocean Blue (Sony)
Erkin Koray – Elektronik Turkulur (turku la)
The Peace – Black Power (Groovie)
Gary Wilson – You think you really know me (Cry Baby Records)
The Toms – s/t (Black Sheep Records)
Matthew Young - Recurring Dreams and Travelers Advisory (Yoga Records)
V/A - Sprigs of Time, Songs of the Brokenhearted, and Living is Hard (Honest John’s)

Singles, Cassettes, and CDRs 2008:
Kraus – The Facts (Dreamtime Taped Sounds)
Sex Vid – Nests (Dom US)
Jim O’Rourke – Despite the Water Supply (Touch)
Nicolas Tone – I’m Tone Deaf (Thor’s Rubber Hammer)
Cold Cave – The Trees Grew Emotions and Died (Dais Records)
Dead Reptile Shrine – Burning Black Intensity (antihumanism)
Calvin Johnson Mixtapes "US Wimpy Powerpop," "Bump your Booty," & "Everybody Hustle"