Best of 2019

[Ben_j]

What are your favourite (non chems) tracks/albums/videos from 2019?
This year has been so full of brilliant new stuff I'm gonna need some time putting my thoughts together.

[Ben_j]

God tier albums:
Anima - Thom Yorke
Time to Run - Only Child Tyrant (aka Amon Tobin)
Modeselektor - Who Else

Good tier albums:
Long Stories - Amon Tobin
SebastiAn - Thirst
Dreems - Cassius
JPEG - Digitalism
Metronomy Forever - Metronomy


God tier tracks:
Thom Yorke - Twist
Thom Yorke - Traffic
Thom Yorke - Not The News
Tame Impala - Borderline
Only Child Tyrant - Time to Run
Only Child Tyrant - Solid Grey Zebra
Amon Tobin - One Shy Morning
Amon Tobin - Clear for Blue
Two Fingers - You ain't down
Look Mum No Computer - Grandma's Money
Work It (Soulwax remix) - Marie Davidson
Who - Modeselektor
Wealth - Modeselektor
Sober - SebastiAn
Handcuffed to a Parking Meter - SebastiAn
Blast Off - Gesaffelstein
Someday - Weval

Good tier tracks:
Doorman - SebastiAn
Beograd - SebastiAn
Chrome.exe - Digitalism
Calioppe - Cassius
Break Law - Dog Blood
The Revolution - Ross from Friends
Tic Tacs Without Strategy - Jas Shaw
The Light - Metronomy
Superdiscoteca - Myd
Nurula - Plaid
Kookoo Papa - Red Axes
Motion - Rone
Rain on Snow - DJ Shadow
Les Humains - Salut c'est cool
A Promise (Instrumental) - The Cinematic Orchestra

Best video:
Someday - Weval

IRIS - Justice

Les Humains - Salut C'est Cool

[Wolkenkrabber]

Best video:
Someday - Weval

1.13: Dublin (just north of Ha'penny Bridge)
1.14-1.16: Dublin (Trinity College)
1.43-1.46: Dublin (South bank of Liffey/Merchants Arch)
1.47: Dublin (Trinity College again)
1.48-1.55: Dublin (The Spire, O'Connell Street). I recognised a couple of the bus numbers here.

Directed & edited by Páraic Mc Gloughlin "Artist based in Sligo, Ireland."

Does anyone care besides me? Probably not.

[Ben_j]

1.13: Dublin (just north of Ha'penny Bridge)
1.14-1.16: Dublin (Trinity College)
1.43-1.46: Dublin (South bank of Liffey/Merchants Arch)
1.47: Dublin (Trinity College again)
1.48-1.55: Dublin (The Spire, O'Connell Street). I recognised a couple of the bus numbers here.

Directed & edited by Páraic Mc Gloughlin "Artist based in Sligo, Ireland."

Does anyone care besides me? Probably not.

I care too, I recognized some places from Dublin (mostly the Trinity College shiny ball) and then looked up the artist to see if he was from there

[Enjoyed]

Full list coming next week some time (gotta see how this Friday's new BT album fits into everything) but I'm pretty confident in saying that Wallop by !!! is my favourite album of the year.

[Stefan]

Good tier tracks:
Chrome.exe - Digitalism

Chrome.exe is a killer track! I think their new album is solid, but not as fantastic as their previous work. Looking forward to see their new material live in March in Vienna 

[Enjoyed]

Top 10 Albums (in order, for the first time!)
---------
!!! - Wallop
The Chemical Brothers - No Geography
Underworld - Drift Series 1
Battles - Juice B Crypts
Red Velvet (레드벨벳) - 'The ReVe Festival' Day 1
BT - Everything You're Looking For Is On The Other Side Of Fear
Highasakite - Uranium Heart
Foals - Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1
Crazy P - Age of the Ego
Friendly Fires - Inflorescent

Top 10 Songs (alphabetical order)
[normally I omit tracks that are on "top albums" but some of these were too good not to give solo dedications to]
---------
!!! - Couldn't Have Known
The Chemical Brothers - Got To Keep On
The Chemical Brothers - Fantai
Crazy P - Kari
Hot Chip - Hungry Child
Red Velvet (레드벨벳) - 친구가 아냐 (Bing Bing)
Róisín Murphy - Incapable
Róisín Murphy - Narcissus
Röyksopp - Church
(여자)아이들 ((G)I-DLE) - Senorita

I kind of struggled to put the lists together this year. Or, in fact, it was deceptively easy as there wasn't too much to contend. I guess I haven't been listening to a lot of new music outside of the artists I already follow. A little sad. But I have a 13 day playlist at our studio that makes up 90% of what I listen to - so I guess it makes sense.

I'll do better next year.

[Ben_j]

Chrome.exe is a killer track! I think their new album is solid, but not as fantastic as their previous work. Looking forward to see their new material live in March in Vienna 

My only grudge is that it's too short. It's the case with a few tracks on the new album.

[Stefan]

Oh absolutely. It is my standart complaint of quite a few tracks. And that it'a digital only release 

[FranzDT]

Best track: CJ Bolland & The Advent "Camargue 2019" (Enrico Sangiuliano Rmx)
Best album: Ellen Allien "Alientronic"
Best video: Robyn - "Ever Again"

[Bosco]

I could make a list of my favorite music from 2019, but honestly the only artist that I would be truly enthusiastic going into detail about is, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard.

Best Album: Fishing for Fishies. King Gizzard has put out a ton of albums to be admired previous to this, but this has to be the most accessible they've put out in their career. I can't force you to like the music, but you cannot deny the range of perfectly executed and fun ideas they create on this contagious boogie-licious album. 

Best Video:

, simple goofy video that has me in stitches

Best Songs: Boogieman Sam, Plastic Boogie, Real's Not Real, This Thing, Cyboogie, and from their August thrash metal release, Infest the Rats Nest - Hell.




and just because...

Favorite Movie:

Under the Silver Lake