"Best" of 2002
in no order, except the audio.nl comp was my favorite album of the
year, a collection of strong, intriguing, tracks from start to finish.
albums:
v/a audio.nl (audio.nl)
v/a Post Office (telegraph)
COH (mort aux vaches)
v/a Futuristic Experiments #004 (background)
Process: Re'processed (traum)
v/a Digital Disco (force tracks)
Tomas Jirku "Entropy" (intr_version)
Pub >Single (ampule)
rechord "skokoll" (audio.nl)
maetrik "quality exertion" (triebstoff)
G-Man "Avanti" (force inc)
Theorum THX (minus)
Kompakt "Total 4"
Morris/Audio Presents Club & Home Entertainment (2x12") (Morris/Audio)
singles/eps:
Oral 06 (Brinkmann/Nicolai/Pettigand) (oral)
Luomo "Body Speaking/Diskonize me" (force tracks)
Betrieb "Schecte Vorbilde" (klang)
High Tide "Paluka Pir (etc)" (punkt)
Dexter "I Don't Care"
Theo Parrish "Solitary Flight" (sound signiture)
Ricardo Villalobos "Halma"
Matthew Herbert vs. Karen Krog "Meaning of Love" (crippled dick)
Dryer "2nd EP" (klang)
Distillat "Azur" (klang)
Robert Hood "Black and White Lab" (m-plant)
special mentions: Akufen. I actually didn't like the album, My Way,
so much, as it spent so much time with his ultimately cloying radio
cut-up thing. However, he put out a slew of fantastic compilation
tracks and remixes this year.
And if I wasn't starting to be embarrassed by how much tech-house-y
stuff I was putting on my list, I would have added the Konvex/Konkav
"Midas Touch" and the Trapez "Selection 1" comps which are also very
good.
As for totally non-electronica related releases, Arvo Part's
"Occident Orient" on ECM was pretty interesting, showing a thicker,
almost late-romantic style unlike a lot of the early-music-inspired
stuff he's well known for. And Bob Brozman and Rene LaCaille's "Dig
Dig" is, well, I think of it as being "NPR music" because it's one of
those somewhat artificial world music concoctions. However, it's
ripping fun and I recommend it for Brozman's ace Hawaiian guitar
playing and LaCaille's French Creole balladeering and accordion
playing. You know, for when you're sick of kickdrums and those weird
chirpy digital glitch highhat sounds.
happy new year
kurt
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