Downtempo bass music for relaxation and early morning or late night walks.
Calibre – Planet Hearth
Schacke – Kisloty Forever
Klub Theme is like trance techno. I’m not sure if that’s a thing but I’m digging it.
Einmusik, D-Nox – Einmusik / D-Nox
Overall great techno, smooth and melodic. I like the filpside with D-Nox better, especially Escape.
Underworld – Drift Series 1
This is a vast body of work. It reaches into every corner of the electronic music world, it’s extensive, and mostly better than just good. But as one release it’s impossible to weigh or review, it’s like labelling a producer’s full discography.
Loscil – Endless Falls
Fantastic atmospheric ambient. Mostly beatless but still has a pulsation feel to it. Great for walks, thinking, and working.
Umwelt – Ecopoiesis
Powerful broken beat electro with power noise and industrial flavor.
Best of 2019
Looking back on this blog it seems like the last time I did a year-end list was in 2015. That’s… wow. I thought maybe one or two year had been missed. Anyway that’s not why I started compiling one now. It was an intense year and the other day I looked through my IMDb check-in list and had a great memory trip with it, so I thought I might as well look through some more. Besides IMDb I checked my Netflix history, and for music I browsed back on this blog and checked on Last.fm. With that data and some reminescing I came up with this.
One caveat: I decided that I’m doing this list for myself and in that sense I value the sum of my personal experiences most and don’t care about release dates. So, all stuff here are things that made my year 2019, and that’s the only criteria that’s important.
Movies
- Joker
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Ford v Ferrari
- Suspiria
- Split
- Sorry to Bother You
- Midsommar
- Bomb City
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Zombieland: Double Tap
- Hereditary
Outstanding new Christmas movie:
Klaus
Best trash:
Geostorm
Best movie franchise that I missed so far:
Mission Impossible
Best one movie that I haven’t seen in ages:
Event Horizon
Series
- The Expanse (seasons 4)
- The Final Table (season 1)
- Love, Death & Robots (season 1)
- The Witcher (season 1)
- Formula 1: Drive to Survive (season 1)
- Glow (season 3)
- Hyperdrive (season 1)
- Stranger Things (season 3)
Best comedy rewatch:
The Big Bang Theory (seasons 1-7)
Best scifi rewatch:
Firefly and also the Serenity movie
Best one show that I totally late adopted:
Shark Tank
Honorable mention foodie show:
Food, Booze & Tattoos
Memorable “TV to life” experience:
Seeing Jim Jefferies in a live stand-up show
Most inspiring interview:
Joe Rogan Experience #1342 – John Carmack
Music
Albums
- Tool – Fear Inoculum
- Korn – The Nothing
- Blaqk Audio – Only Things We Love
- The Black Dog – Post-Truth [2018]
- Kölsch – Fabric Presents Kölsch
- Jambinai – ONDA
- Monolink – Amniotic [2018]
- Rammstein – untitled
- Belief Defect – Decadent Yet Depraved [2018]
- KOMPROMAT – Traum Und Existenz
- Plaid – Polymer
- Recondite – Silk
- Snow Ghosts – A Quiet Ritual
- Robot Koch – Sphere [2018]
- FJAAK – Havel [2018]
- Nightmares on Wax – Shape The Future [2018]
- Sampa The Great – The Return
- Saint Agnes – Welcome To Silvertown
- UNKLE – The Road: Part II / Lost Highway
- VA – Furi (Original Game Soundtrack) [2016]
Best weird random music that I cannot unlike:
Rummelsnuff – Kraftgewinn [2013]
Interesting new style that I stumbled upon:
Saharan rock, and album: Mdou Moctar – Ilana (The Creator)
Singles
- Black Devil – Disco Club [1978]
- Prophets of Rage – Pop Goes The Weapon
- Red Axes – Shabak Shalom
- Kincaid feat. Blancmange – Big Fat Head
- Playboy – A Paco Di Bango’s World [1996]
- Modeselektor – Wealth [2018]
- Charlotte Adigéry – Paténipat [2018]
VA – Voodoo Rhythm Records: Records to Ruin Any Party, Vol. 3
This has been sitting on my Play Later list for quite a while because I needed to relisten it a few times. There are too many tracks to absorb at once and the selection is just all over the place, meaning there are so many things to notice and bands to look up that it needs some attention. As for the ridiculusly (and wonderfully) wide range of genres I just quote the official notes: “from ye ye garage beat over to blues trash cajun to string arrangement funeral music over to Chicago boogie blues to psychadelic garage blues then way down to outlaw country… and much much more” – so yeah, there’s a lot. Anyway, it’s awesome. Both the variety and the tunes, too.
Peggy Gou – Moment EP
Awesome disco house. Among friends we’ve been talking about two parties that would be great to go to: banger but intelligent tech-house and a cool easy-going disco. Starry Night is exactly the kind of disco I’m wishing for.
Declan Welsh & The Decadent West – Cheaply Bought Expensively Sold
No Fun is huge, Absurd is also good, rest of the album is average indie rock. I also love the cover art.