Top ten releases for 2008?
Posted by: jcs_smith on 25 December 2008
Well it’s about that time again – so how about your top ten releases for 2008.
Mine are, in no particular order:
1. Pete Namlook./Klaus Schulze – Dark Side of the moon XI
2. DJ Kentaro – Tuff Cuts
3. Deadwood – Ramblack
4. Sunn o))) - Dømkirke
5. Fanu/Bill Laswell – Lodge
6. Skitliv – Amfetamin
7. Der Blaue Reiter - Silencis
8. London Elektricity – Syncopated City
9. Hospital Mix 6 - mixed by Cyantific
10. Sartori – Contemptus Mundi
Mine are, in no particular order:
1. Pete Namlook./Klaus Schulze – Dark Side of the moon XI
2. DJ Kentaro – Tuff Cuts
3. Deadwood – Ramblack
4. Sunn o))) - Dømkirke
5. Fanu/Bill Laswell – Lodge
6. Skitliv – Amfetamin
7. Der Blaue Reiter - Silencis
8. London Elektricity – Syncopated City
9. Hospital Mix 6 - mixed by Cyantific
10. Sartori – Contemptus Mundi
Carla Bley Big Band - Appearing Nightly
Stephan Micus - Snow
Richard Galliano - Love Day-Los Angeles Sessions
Helge Lien Trio - Hello Troll
Abdullah Ibrahim - Senzo
Rabih Abou-Khalil - Em Portugues
Jonas & Norberg,Johan Knutsson - Skaren:Norrland III
Wolfgang Haffner - Acoustic Shapes
Quadro Nuevo - Antakya
Alboran Trio - Near Gale
Misha Alperin Trio - Her First Dance
Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Avatar
These were standing out for me in 2008. Special mention:
cheers
Stefan
Stephan Micus - Snow
Richard Galliano - Love Day-Los Angeles Sessions
Helge Lien Trio - Hello Troll
Abdullah Ibrahim - Senzo
Rabih Abou-Khalil - Em Portugues
Jonas & Norberg,Johan Knutsson - Skaren:Norrland III
Wolfgang Haffner - Acoustic Shapes
Quadro Nuevo - Antakya
Alboran Trio - Near Gale
Misha Alperin Trio - Her First Dance
Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Avatar
These were standing out for me in 2008. Special mention:
cheers
Stefan
Enough turbulences and tension in my life, Adrian 
Well spotted,
cheers
Stefan
Well spotted,
cheers
Stefan
Reissue of the year has to be
Electrosonic by the late great Delia Derbyshire
Delia Derbyshire was ahead of her time and one of the earliest creators of electronic music, she is most famous for her work with the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop in Maida Vale, at which she created the haunting original Dr Who theme in an age before synthesisers.
Delia also came up with a piece of electronica in the late 60s that sounds like it was recorded in the mid-90s.
Delia favoured the use of a green metal lampshade as a musical instrument and said she took some of her inspiration from the sound of air raid sirens, which she heard growing up in Coventry in the Second World War.
Electrosonic is a work of unparalleled genius; if you didn't snap it up when the limited reissue was released then chances are you'll need to pay upwards of 500 notes for a copy. Which is a shame as it means most will miss out on this absolute gem and never be able to hear just how wonderful Delia's compositions were.
ATB Rotf
Electrosonic by the late great Delia Derbyshire
Delia Derbyshire was ahead of her time and one of the earliest creators of electronic music, she is most famous for her work with the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop in Maida Vale, at which she created the haunting original Dr Who theme in an age before synthesisers.
Delia also came up with a piece of electronica in the late 60s that sounds like it was recorded in the mid-90s.
Delia favoured the use of a green metal lampshade as a musical instrument and said she took some of her inspiration from the sound of air raid sirens, which she heard growing up in Coventry in the Second World War.
Electrosonic is a work of unparalleled genius; if you didn't snap it up when the limited reissue was released then chances are you'll need to pay upwards of 500 notes for a copy. Which is a shame as it means most will miss out on this absolute gem and never be able to hear just how wonderful Delia's compositions were.
ATB Rotf
quote:Originally posted by sjust:
Enough turbulences and tension in my life, Adrian
Well spotted,
cheers
Stefan
Stefan, have you heard the Quadro Nuevo Weihnacht CD? Definitely, a seasonal stressbuster. Must have been a fabulous concert last night, I had to make do with a recording on BR-α from Burghausen in 2004
Well, for me the greatest 2008 release is the Cannonball Aderley Somethin' Else reissue of classic records on 45RPM clarity vinyl.
It's a beautiful box set of 4 single sided 200 grams 45 RPM vinyl.
It comes with the latest vinyl profile of classic records VSP-II (deep grooves) and with the new vinyl formulation named clarity vinyl (transparent) that is beautiful and is suposed to be static and distortion free over time (doesn't have the metal particles of the black carbon that black vinyl have that gets magnetized over time and many listenings).
Well, what I really know is that also the Bernie Grundman mastering from the master tapes is superb.
The sound is really awsome, incredible, soo transparent and without distortion, big bass and treble, spacious, what a sound...it doesn't get out of my head.
I already had an USA Blue Note audiophile 180g reissue and the diference is amazing.
This clarity vinyl 45RPM box sets of classic records are truly special and will be very expensive in the future 2nd hand market.
Is already out of print but you still can get it if you search some sites quickly.
classic records are no longer pressed at RTI, classic found a pressing plant in California that makes the 200g records for them with semi automatic pressing machine that is suposed to have a better stable temperature than the automatic from RTI. That's why this classic box comes with the "hand made" description on it.
Anyway seems that it was RTI that refused to press the 200g classic records because they have plenty of 180g waiting to be pressed and is easyer for them to press everything in 180g.
Also seems that the previous vinyl profile of classic records VSP-I were a problem in quality control for RTI.
just as a curiosity seems that RTI have 500.000 new vinyl titles waiting to be pressed (with almost a 3 months waiting list at the pressing plant), let's hope that they don't start messing it up again with vinyl as in the 80's the industry did.
Anyway this classic records clarity vinyl box is Somethin' Else
It's a beautiful box set of 4 single sided 200 grams 45 RPM vinyl.
It comes with the latest vinyl profile of classic records VSP-II (deep grooves) and with the new vinyl formulation named clarity vinyl (transparent) that is beautiful and is suposed to be static and distortion free over time (doesn't have the metal particles of the black carbon that black vinyl have that gets magnetized over time and many listenings).
Well, what I really know is that also the Bernie Grundman mastering from the master tapes is superb.
The sound is really awsome, incredible, soo transparent and without distortion, big bass and treble, spacious, what a sound...it doesn't get out of my head.
I already had an USA Blue Note audiophile 180g reissue and the diference is amazing.
This clarity vinyl 45RPM box sets of classic records are truly special and will be very expensive in the future 2nd hand market.
Is already out of print but you still can get it if you search some sites quickly.
classic records are no longer pressed at RTI, classic found a pressing plant in California that makes the 200g records for them with semi automatic pressing machine that is suposed to have a better stable temperature than the automatic from RTI. That's why this classic box comes with the "hand made" description on it.
Anyway seems that it was RTI that refused to press the 200g classic records because they have plenty of 180g waiting to be pressed and is easyer for them to press everything in 180g.
Also seems that the previous vinyl profile of classic records VSP-I were a problem in quality control for RTI.
just as a curiosity seems that RTI have 500.000 new vinyl titles waiting to be pressed (with almost a 3 months waiting list at the pressing plant), let's hope that they don't start messing it up again with vinyl as in the 80's the industry did.
Anyway this classic records clarity vinyl box is Somethin' Else
quote:Originally posted by Lontano:
Peres - I have been waiting for the Analogue Productions Hoffman remastered 45 RPM version of Something Else which comes out this month. I wonder which will sound better?
I was also waiting for that one, but it is being recheduled again and again, I wonder why? perhaps they can't do it better than clarity vinyl...who knows...
Well anyway, now I am not waiting for it anymore.
But I also have some Analogue Productions 45's like the Blue Train (so I will not buy the clarity vinyl of the Blue train) and the analogue productions are also great.
But I bet the Somethin' Else on clarity vinyl will be really better than somethin' else
Even if they can do it better is impossible to be mutch better than that, and the package of the box is better for sure.
quote:Originally posted by munch:
I can never do these top ten lists.
For me one of the best last year was this re release.
And they sent it to me from Canada with there best wishes on it.
GREAT choice Munch
On CD is one of the best releases of 2008, but I have both of the records on vinyl from other older years
the Cd is a package of the albums "Danseparc" and "Mystery Walk", the former being a broad-shouldered, boisterous, in-your-face kind of album, while "Mystery Walk" is cooler, more distilled.
Nice music