Back track 2008

[jazzy_dave]

So let see what was the Top 50 releases in Wire magaizne for 2008.

2008 Rewind: Top 50 Releases of the Year


The Bug London Zoo (Ninja Tune)
Philip Jeck Sand (Touch)
The Hospitals Hairdryer Peace (No label)
John Butcher Resonant Spaces (Confront)
Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna (The Social Registry)
The Advisory Circle Other Channels (Ghost Box)
Evangelista Hello, Voyager (Constellation)
William S Burroughs Real English Tea Made Here (Audio Research Editions)
The Fall Imperial Wax Solvent (Sanctuary)
The Caretaker Persistant Repetition Of Phrases (Install)
Kevin Drumm Imperial Distortion (Hospital Productions)
Ryoji Ikeda Test Patterns (Raster-Noton)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! (Mute)
Eric Chenaux Sloppy Ground (Constellation)
Kasai Allstars In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His Enemy By Magic (Crammed)
Autechre Quaristice (Warp)
Dusk + Blackdown Margins Music (Keysound)
Luomo Convivial (Huume)
Bill Dixon 17 Musicians In Search Of A Sound: Darfur (AUM Fidelity)
Stephan Mathieu Radioland (Die Schachtel)
Lukas Ligeti Afrikan Machinery (Tzadik)
Hercules & Love Affair Hercules & Love Affair (DFA)
Group Inerane Guitars From Agadez (Music Of Niger) (Sublime Frequencies)
Jandek Glasgow Sunday 2005 (Corwood)
Robert Ashley Concrete (Lovely Music)
Tricky Knowle West Boy (Domino)
Arthur Russell Love Is Overtaking Me (Audika)
Scorces I Turn Into You (Not Not Fun)
Earth The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull (Southern Lord)
Terry Riley The Last Camel In Paris (Elision Fields)
Malcolm Goldstein A Sounding Of Sources (New World)
Christina Carter Masque Femine (Many Breaths)
Stereo Image S/T (Frog Man Jake)
Harvey Milk Life… The Best Game In Town (Hydra Head)
Vampire Weekend -  Vampire Weekend (XL)
Emeralds Solar Bridge (Hanson)
Maryanne Amacher Sound Characters 2 (Tzadik)
Portishead Third (Universal)
Toumani Diabate The Mande Variations (World Circuit)
Jakob Ullmann Voice, Books And FIRE 3 (Edition RZ)
David Grubbs An Optimist Notes The Dust (Drag City)
Vajra Live (PSF)
Murcof The Versailles Sessions (Leaf)
Josephine Foster This Coming Gladness (Bo’ Weavil)
Peter Rehberg Works For GV 2004-2008 (Editions Mego)
Alva Noto Unitext (Raster-Noton)
Mark Stewart Edit (Crippled Dick Hot Wax)
Sic Alps US EZ (Siltbreeze)
Ellen Fullmann & Monique Buzzarté Fluctuations (Deep Listening)
Sao Paulo Underground The Principle Of Intrusive Relationships (Aesthetics)
Aufgehoben Khora (Holy Mountain)
Burning Star Core Challenger (Plastic)
Birchville Cat Motel Four Freckle Constellation (Conspiracy)
Black Mountain In The Future (Jagjaguwar)
The Dead C Secret Earth (Ba Da Bing)
Eat Skull Sick To Death (Silbreeze)
Fabulous Diamonds Fabulous Diamonds (Siltbreeze)
Growing All The Way (The Social Registry)
Hair Police Certainty Of Swarms (No Fun)
The Hospitals Hairdryer Peace (No label)
Hototogisu Under The Rose (Blossoming Noise)
Religious Knives Remains (No Fun)
Scorces I Turn Into You (Not Not Fun)
Alexander Tucker Portal (ATP)
Valet Naked Acid (Kranky)
Louis Guilliaume Soulpoint (Syncom Data Records)


This was when i was into my DJ sets , playing and spinning records at pubs in Brighton, and thus more of a soul ,jazz and funk overlap than anything avant garde or totally way out there. Hence only two CD's i have from this year. Portishead and Vampire Weekend


Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma

Portishead - Hunter