Album of the Year 2003
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ska invita
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I've never heard the album before....i know it was rated at the time but even so its a lot better than i expected...i absolutely hated Hes Just a Rascal and was expecting more crossover tunes like that - - just been reading and thats the one tune he didnt produce and he thought it was shit too
had to be talked into going with it....the production is so raw and youthful on the album i love it.... seems like its all in mono (apart from hes Just a Rascal)....doesnt really sound great when cranked but so what.....flashback to when grime had that real punk energy...kind of a shame he went down the stadium pop dance thing though, oh well
theres a 20th anniversary release of this out now with some raw unreleased tracks from the early days on it plus instrumentals...some of those unreleased tracks are really great ....the rawer the better IMO.
LIke this one
Cant think of another one teenager doing all the production and the lyrics with no musical training or just much experience and coming up with something as good
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner (20th Anniversary Edition). XL Recordings.
Buy Boy In Da Corner (20th Anniversary Edition) by Dizzee Rascal on XL Recordings.
shop.xlrecordings.com
also
Track By Track: Dizzee Rascal’s Boy in Da Corner
From "Jus a Rascal" to "Wot U On," grime's golden son breaks down his seminal 2003 album Boy in Da Corner track by track
daily.redbullmusicacademy.com
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AverageJoe
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Here's a few of mine that will be on the list that haven't been mentioned yet.
Black Eyed Peas - Elephunk
White Stripes - Elephant
The Desert Session volumes 9 and 10 - Various artists (pretty much Queens of the Stone Ages, Ween, PJ Harvey and associates forming a supergroup).
Meteora - Linkin Park
Strapping Young Lad - Strapping Young Lad
Still Life - Aqualung
Golden Age of the Grotesque - Marilyn Manson
Coral Fang - The Distillers
Shootenanny - Eels
Sumday - Grandaddy
The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place - Explosions in the Sky
Hybrid - Gary Numan
Black Eyed Peas - Elephunk
White Stripes - Elephant
The Desert Session volumes 9 and 10 - Various artists (pretty much Queens of the Stone Ages, Ween, PJ Harvey and associates forming a supergroup).
Meteora - Linkin Park
Strapping Young Lad - Strapping Young Lad
Still Life - Aqualung
Golden Age of the Grotesque - Marilyn Manson
Coral Fang - The Distillers
Shootenanny - Eels
Sumday - Grandaddy
The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place - Explosions in the Sky
Hybrid - Gary Numan
Indeliblelink
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I imagine Urban hates this but I was quite partial to it at the time.
Easy Star All-Stars - Dub Side Of The Moon
They released "Ziggy Stardub" earlier this year.
Easy Star All-Stars - Dub Side Of The Moon
They released "Ziggy Stardub" earlier this year.
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts. Walls of synths , drum machines and French dream pop
AverageJoe
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That's my Number 1. It's a stunning album.
I remember buying it when I was on a father/son bonding trip. We went to Australia for two weeks and it was the first ever album I had seen get a 10 in NME. Found it in a small record store whilst driving up the East Coast from Brisbane to Coolangata.
That soundtracked the trip. Listening to this at 7am whilst driving incredibly straight roads stretching out into the distance left an indelible mark on me.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
That's a great memory and yes its perfect as driving/travelling music
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Complex , quite brilliant imo ambitious set of perfectly arranged, performed and diverse songs occasionally interspersed with short sort of Philip Glass type snippets. Supposedly based on Michigan but interwoven with his religious beliefs. It's the nearest an album can come to being a musical without being a musical.
Complex , quite brilliant imo ambitious set of perfectly arranged, performed and diverse songs occasionally interspersed with short sort of Philip Glass type snippets. Supposedly based on Michigan but interwoven with his religious beliefs. It's the nearest an album can come to being a musical without being a musical.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
The Clientele - The Violet Hour .
Niche band , niche music , criminally underrated. This is reverb and echo with hushed vocals dealing with memories and recollections tinged with wistful melancholy . It's beautiful and made for October nights.
Niche band , niche music , criminally underrated. This is reverb and echo with hushed vocals dealing with memories and recollections tinged with wistful melancholy . It's beautiful and made for October nights.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
In 2003 I went to the Sonar Festival in Barcelona. I went for the techno but had a road-to-Nazareth style conversion to the electroclash scene while I was there. One of those moments where you don't know you're looking for something new, but find it anyway and then it's hard to believe you'd been missing it.
And to an extent I had missed it. By 2003 the initial electroclash scene of basic synthpop with a DIY punk attitude was all but over. But I came back from Barcelona and dived into the exploding scene it had influenced. It's hard to remember now how unremembered the pre-house 80s dance scene was at the beginning of the 00s, as in the last 20 years almost every aspect of the 80s has been rediscovered, reissued, played to death and most people are sick of hearing it again. But in 2003 it all sounded fresh after 15 years of non-stop house/techno/trance/DnB/garage/breakbeat music all night long. Much of the 90s dance scene had been commercialised and/or siloed into micro-genres that had nothing to do with each other. And then along came DJs like 2 Many DJs, Erol Alkan and James Murphy who were playing anything goes sets. Where you were as likely to hear Motorhead, or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, or Devo, or Liquid Liquid, or Sonic Youth, or Kylie, or Beyonce as you were the latest dance tracks from Berlin or Belgium or NY, all thrown together onto a glorious drug fuelled messy dancefloor with a total mix of saucer eyed people devoid of dance music tribalism.
There were compilations coming out like New York Noise (Dance Music From The New York Underground 1978-1982), Mutant Disco: A Subtle Discolation Of The Norm, or Teutonik Disaster (which came out at the end of 2002, but only got a vinyl release for DJs in '03), making long out of print pre-house dance music available for DJs to play. There was the Automan series of (then) obscure italo-disco and proto-house coming out. Then there was the new stuff. DFA put out their Compilation 1. But mostly it was singles rather than albums, all to throw together in a what's coming next? DJ mix. Here's some of my favourites:
Dondolo - Peng
Clashcorner vs Unknown Artist - Timebomb Radio (The Original Bomber Mix)
Manhead - Birth, School, Work, Death
Spektrum - Kinda New (Tiefschwarz Mix)
Black Strobe - Italian Fireflies
and what is my favourite track of the whole 00s:
!!! - Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story)
It lasted a year or so before, as is always the case with those moment-in-time scenes, it started going off in different directions. The italo-disco revival became it's own thing, everyone got to know the once obscure early 80s tracks, the bands became their own scene, some of the new stuff turned into electro-house, which briefly bothered the pop-charts in the mid-00s, before turning into mindless EDM and taking the US mainstream by storm 20 years after the US house underground had started.
None of which has anything to do with the album of the year 2003.
And to an extent I had missed it. By 2003 the initial electroclash scene of basic synthpop with a DIY punk attitude was all but over. But I came back from Barcelona and dived into the exploding scene it had influenced. It's hard to remember now how unremembered the pre-house 80s dance scene was at the beginning of the 00s, as in the last 20 years almost every aspect of the 80s has been rediscovered, reissued, played to death and most people are sick of hearing it again. But in 2003 it all sounded fresh after 15 years of non-stop house/techno/trance/DnB/garage/breakbeat music all night long. Much of the 90s dance scene had been commercialised and/or siloed into micro-genres that had nothing to do with each other. And then along came DJs like 2 Many DJs, Erol Alkan and James Murphy who were playing anything goes sets. Where you were as likely to hear Motorhead, or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, or Devo, or Liquid Liquid, or Sonic Youth, or Kylie, or Beyonce as you were the latest dance tracks from Berlin or Belgium or NY, all thrown together onto a glorious drug fuelled messy dancefloor with a total mix of saucer eyed people devoid of dance music tribalism.
There were compilations coming out like New York Noise (Dance Music From The New York Underground 1978-1982), Mutant Disco: A Subtle Discolation Of The Norm, or Teutonik Disaster (which came out at the end of 2002, but only got a vinyl release for DJs in '03), making long out of print pre-house dance music available for DJs to play. There was the Automan series of (then) obscure italo-disco and proto-house coming out. Then there was the new stuff. DFA put out their Compilation 1. But mostly it was singles rather than albums, all to throw together in a what's coming next? DJ mix. Here's some of my favourites:
Dondolo - Peng
Clashcorner vs Unknown Artist - Timebomb Radio (The Original Bomber Mix)
Manhead - Birth, School, Work, Death
Spektrum - Kinda New (Tiefschwarz Mix)
Black Strobe - Italian Fireflies
and what is my favourite track of the whole 00s:
!!! - Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story)
It lasted a year or so before, as is always the case with those moment-in-time scenes, it started going off in different directions. The italo-disco revival became it's own thing, everyone got to know the once obscure early 80s tracks, the bands became their own scene, some of the new stuff turned into electro-house, which briefly bothered the pop-charts in the mid-00s, before turning into mindless EDM and taking the US mainstream by storm 20 years after the US house underground had started.
None of which has anything to do with the album of the year 2003.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Willard Grant Conspiracy - Regard The End .
Jesus this is such a lush beautiful set of Americana, slave songs, and Appalachian folk type stuff. There's a warmth in its melancholy and strength in its message, which to be fair is dread and death.
Jesus this is such a lush beautiful set of Americana, slave songs, and Appalachian folk type stuff. There's a warmth in its melancholy and strength in its message, which to be fair is dread and death.
ska invita
back on the other side
Theres a I think really great LFO album came out on WARP called Sheath
I think its most in the spirit of Aphex Twin Ambient Works 1, in that it goes from dreamy melancholy, to hard attack mode , to general squelch and scrunch....has a lot of innovative sounds in it, and doesn't ever go glitchy.
Also I've read that Mark Bell told in an interview: “This album came about by accident when my friend made a cassette for his car with my stuff on that I’d made over the past seven years,” “I was and am quite happy just making music for myself though when I heard the tape I thought ‘Brilliant, I can give this to Warp and they’ll stop pestering me every two years for new material.”
---so thats almost exactly like Ambient Works Vol 1 in origin.
www.discogs.com
BANDCAMP
EIther forgot or didnt know Mark Bell died in 2014 age just 43
en.wikipedia.org
I think its most in the spirit of Aphex Twin Ambient Works 1, in that it goes from dreamy melancholy, to hard attack mode , to general squelch and scrunch....has a lot of innovative sounds in it, and doesn't ever go glitchy.
Also I've read that Mark Bell told in an interview: “This album came about by accident when my friend made a cassette for his car with my stuff on that I’d made over the past seven years,” “I was and am quite happy just making music for myself though when I heard the tape I thought ‘Brilliant, I can give this to Warp and they’ll stop pestering me every two years for new material.”
---so thats almost exactly like Ambient Works Vol 1 in origin.
LFO - Sheath
Explore songs, recommendations, and other album details for Sheath by LFO. Compare different versions and buy them all on Discogs.
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BANDCAMP
EIther forgot or didnt know Mark Bell died in 2014 age just 43
Mark Bell (British musician) - Wikipedia
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I have been preparing over the weekend
The Bug - ‘Pressure’
Vibes very hard for early Urban75 nights out, hard Dubversion and Tankgirl
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Such a strong album, one-man-and-his-guitar in form but with clubs and going out sensibilities and a dark (yet optimistic) underlay
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I imagine you never heard of them but they were genuinely superb - a bunch of Swiss lads who relocated to Bristol because Portishead/Tricky/Massive Attack.
They composed their songs on Logic or something, and their demos were genuine techno bangers, but then they would flesh them out as indie rock anthems, augmented with electronic bleepery and live scratching.
In Switzerland they were moderately successful because they would record songs in Romansh, which would ensure a certain amount of radio airplay. But in Bristol, in Britain...
Seriously, check them out
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I loved me all the sampling and spoken word and interpolation, and whilst arty, this was well-received in the mashup/bootleg milieu. Playful, musical, dancefloor-friendly
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Memories of getting absolutely mycologically battered on public transport from Sutton to Hackney and then getting baked under an awesome light show at Ocean to Adam unfolding the whole album at an anti-war benefit
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Ultimately this was probably my favourite Massive LP, possibly a perspective helped along by an awesome live show at Queen Square (less so at Lloyds Amphitheatre), a light show that felt like a tanning salon, and a fine blend of mushies and MDMA
I've never heard the album before....i know it was rated at the time but even so its a lot better than i expected...i absolutely hated Hes Just a Rascal and was expecting more crossover tunes like that - - just been reading and thats the one tune he didnt produce and he thought it was shit too
....the production is so raw and youthful on the album i love it.... seems like its all in mono (apart from hes Just a Rascal)....doesnt really sound great when cranked but so what.....flashback to when grime had that real punk energy...kind of a shame he went down the stadium pop dance thing though, oh well
theres a 20th anniversary release of this out now with some raw unreleased tracks from the early days on it plus instrumentals...some of those unreleased tracks are really great ....the rawer the better IMO.
LIke this one
Cant think of another one teenager doing all the production and the lyrics with no musical training or just much experience and coming up with something as good
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner (20th Anniversary Edition). XL Recordings.
Buy Boy In Da Corner (20th Anniversary Edition) by Dizzee Rascal on XL Recordings.
also
Track By Track: Dizzee Rascal’s Boy in Da Corner
From "Jus a Rascal" to "Wot U On," grime's golden son breaks down his seminal 2003 album Boy in Da Corner track by track
It was one of the better first wave of grime albums, once they got signed to labels. See also Wiley and Kano's debuts.
Still, Dizzee appeared on a better album in 2003:
The Village Voice list is a pretty good one, although some of the release dates are American rather than here, e.g. Hate by the Delgados, which came out in 2002 here.
