>>>>>>>best of 2008<<<<<<<

anders ilar / sworn / level rec

anders ilar wins my heart this year with his release sworn. sworn will make you swoon with its melodic warm washes, deep drifting ambient undercurrents and glitchy woven beats.


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claro intelecto / metanarrative / modern love

mark stewart manages to fuse together a euphoric blend of dubby basslines with grooving house melodies for a superb arrangement that is bound to leave you in awe.


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andy stott / unknown exception / modern love

like label mate and friend claro intelecto, andy stott creates a delicious hybrid of infused dub and techno sounds with mesmerizing basslines and ingenious percussive shifts.


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rod modell / incense + black light / plop

rod modell submerges us into some dark driven blends of watery techno pops and delicately shifting dub rhythms.


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tape / luminarium / hapna

tape's third album luminarium, takes us on an atmospheric instrumental journey through mind juggling melodic structures, quirky electronic crackles and rhythmic soft guitar strums that soothe and entertain the mind. tape's best album to date.


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byetone / death of a typographer / raster noton

raster noton delivers again with this amazing release by byetone. raster noton isn't just a label but should be recognized as a genre unto itself. olaf bender takes the raster noton aesthetic and pushes it to a whole new level of awesomeness. plastic star is easily one of the best techno tracks i've heard all year.


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hauschka / ferndorf / fat cat

volker bertelmann creates gorgeous contemporary orchestral music with exquisite layered piano melodies. the finest in minimal modern classical music.


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library tapes / a summer beneath the trees / make mine music

library tapes constructs gorgeous heart-wrenching tender cinematic ambiance. the strings, electronics and violins create an utterly chilling and hauntingly beautiful array of nostalgia, making me feel like i'm lost in the darkest fog in the stillness of the night.


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kangding ray / automne fold / raster noton

i fell in love with kangding ray's first release stabil in 2006 for its crunchy digital beats, quivering rhythmic explosions and fuzzy organic static sounds. automne fold is just as engaging but exudes darker acoustic warmth with diffused sombre moody beats and introduces raspy vocals for the first time to create an unforgettably awesome dark glitchy second release.


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sten / the essence / dial

peter m. kersten, also known as lawrence, (one of my favourite artists), delivers his second release under his sten alias. for the most part this album rocks it with his solidly assembled minimal dub house sounds that are infectious and will make you want to bob your head.


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peter broderick / float / type

peter broderick's compositions are stunningly gorgeous. he manages to paint the most beautiful cinematic dreams with his unique talent of perfectly juggling piano, horns, strings, and percussion. at only 21 years old, peter broderick balances subtle delicate moments of almost silence with charming gradually climbing climaxes that will make you feel like you're floating.


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polder / poldermodel / intacto

well-crafted, quality grooving minimal tech-house from holland. a must own.


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helios / caesura / type

i love every helios album and caesura is no exception. gorgeously layered epic shoegaze compositions that will make every cold sunday afternoon in the winter feel warm.


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grouper / dragging a dead deer up a hill / type

grouper's mysterious ghostly vocals are hauntingly gorgeous, almost as if she's reaching through lo-fi filtered acoustic layers to say something so sweet and touching you'll forever feel enthralled.


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quantec / thousands of thoughts / quietus

organic delicious minimal dubby ambiance that slowly glides you through blissful deep throbbing shifts.


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emanuele errante / humus / somnia

italian composer emanuele errante creates lovely delicate organic flowing minimal classical music that is bound to soothe and relax the soul.


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booka shade / the sun + the neon light / get physical

booka shade's music is extremely well produced and polished. the sun and the neon light has addictive dance floor tracks that are bound to get your feet moving. i couldn't get enough of this release in the summer.


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morgan geist / double night time / environ/revolver

if you love the junior boys you're bound to love this, well-crafted collaborative work between morgan geist and sexy vocalist jeremy greenspan. geist's disco melodic synthlines are superb.


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shed / shedding the past / ostgut

shed manages to combine padded basslines with lovely arranged strings, creating grooving warm rhythmic techno.


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cut copy / in ghost colours / modular recordings

i have a love hate relationship with cut copy. it's my guilty pleasure. i'm not into new wave but i continue to listen to in ghost colours despite the grating old rave peaks and epic sounds. cut copy mashes old and new into delightfully addictive party tracks that i continued to groove to all summer.


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Happy Holidays!!!

Gregory Crewdson

grit / expanse / shoreless recordings
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deep chord + mike huckaby / the detroit remixes / cache
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Esther Stocker

booka shade / cinematic shades (the slow songs) / get physical
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xela / in bocca al lupo / type
boomkat review
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Nadine Byrne

va / between the lines 2007 / sound protector
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va / between the lines 2008 / sound protector
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Maarten Vanden Eynde

taylor deupree / northern / 12k
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starskie / memory chord ep / plastic city
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pantha du prince / live @ rokolectiv / 04/08
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Markus Hofko

claro intelecto / when the time is right round + round ep / modern love
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alex under / azul terio ep / cmyk
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piemont / central mouth ep/ my best friend
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Kevin Cyr

sylvain chauveau / the black book of capitalism / type
boomkat review
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anders ilar / everdom / shitkatapult
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Andrea Galvani

luke hess + marko fuerstenberg / campfire dialogue ep / echocord
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arne weinberg / onmuta meckanics ep / echocord
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arvo pärt / alina / ecm
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va / recognition: techno - episode green / le bien et le mal recordings
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lindstrom / where you go i go too ep / feedelity
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Kate MccGwire

medu / osho zen / miniatura
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eric cloutier / live at down / 20/11/08
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m50 / oh the new live mix / 24/11/08
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Oleg Duryagin

raster-noton artists / podcast, chile / 10/08
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level / opale / spekk
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andrey kiritchenko / misterrious / spekk
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Aaron Bagley

studio pankow / linienbusse / city centre offices
boomkat review
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mathias kaden / moron shetani ep / vakant
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Adam Parker Smith

va / compilation 2008 / soma
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pigeon funk / the largest bird in the history of the planet... ever! / musique risquee
boomkat review
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balmorhea / rivers arms / western vinyl
pitchfork review
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Weston Takeshi

efdemin / america/the pulse ep / curle
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mihalis safras + gummish / cats ep / trapez
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popnoname / surrounded by weather remixes ep / italic
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Daniel Canogar

arve henriksen / cartography / ecm
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robbie avenaim / rhythmic movement disorder / room40
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CANstructing

imps / remixed vol 1 ep (minilogue + jan jelinek remixes) / mule
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pan-pot / lost tracks ep / true to form recordings
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guillaume + the coutu dumonts / l'ete des indiens ep / oslo
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Spy

dj olive / triage / room40
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someone else / kitchens and cacti ep / gluckskind
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pigon/marcel dettmann / kamm/plain ep / beat street
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Filip Dujardin

ursula bogner / recordings 1969-1988 / faitiche
ra review
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julien chaptal / tokens / remote
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dml / gruenfeld net label
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Patrick Moberg

submersion / cicada / silent season net label
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organon / chili space, slovenia / 19/08/08
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Mohammadreza Mirzaei

tickles / today the sky is blue and has a spectacular / madagascar
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efdemin / carry on: pretend we are not in the room / curle
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mikael stavöstrand / crushed ep / imprimé
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martinez / organic theme ep / lomidhigh
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Gwendolyn Huskens

justin martin / chaos restored 2 / buzzin' fly records
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richie hawtin / sounds from can elles / dj mag
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Do-Ho Suh

extrawelt / schone neue extrawelt (bonus) / cocoon
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Fritz Panzer

Brian Bress

mikkel metal / peaks and troughs / echocord
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evan marc + steve hillage / dreamtime submersible / somnia
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Alex Synge

stephan mathieu / radioland / die schachtel
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Vicki Dasilva

helios / caesura / type
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gaiser / blank fade / minus
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move d / ra.125 / resident advisor
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Jake Longstreth

uzi and ari / headworms / own records
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motionfield / optical flow / somnia
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Varelsen

sasse / toinen / mood music
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lee jones / electronic frank / aus
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va / famous when dead 6 / playhouse
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Irena Zablotska

library tapes / a summer beneath the trees / make mine music
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Julien Vallée

murcof / the versailles sessions / leaf
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peter broderick / home / bella union
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extrawelt / schone neue extrawelt / cocoon
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dapayk solo / devil's house / mo`s ferry productions
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Steve Bishop

populous with short stories / drawn in basic / morr
boomkat review
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b. fleischmann / angst is not a weltanschauung / morr
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her space holiday / xoxo panda and the new kid revival / mush
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