Urban 75's Albums of the Year... The Results!
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beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Don't understand - do you mean stuff you already own?I realised I only really listen to old music so I canceled my account
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
http://thequietus.com/articles/11007-gifwave-groundhog-day-hyperstasis-retromania
great piece.
and pertinent to some of the best records of the year.
in a slightly pseudy way
great piece.
and pertinent to some of the best records of the year.
in a slightly pseudy way
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Exactly
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
What about new old music? 
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
slightly?
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
matter of opinion tbf
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I thought that at first, but then got into the habit of searching for tracks I know I like and then playing whatever obscure compilation album they came up on. Instant way to find similar tracks you haven't heard before. Then look up the album they come from and play it. The interface makes it so easy.
articul8
Dishonest sociopath
think only royalty can do that
don't bother. we don't want you anyway.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
You can do almost all the above for a £5 a month account as well. For the extra fiver you get it on your mobile device and can listen to playlists offline (as long as you've already synced them
krink
I'll do it this afternoon
now that sounds like a plan! cheers for the info.
krink
I'll do it this afternoon
fiver even better - i don't play music on my phone or owt so that sounds canny good to me!
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Yeah and this year was particularly good. There's another 10-20 albums that are very good and were hard to cut out.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
I was put off Spotify for ages as a lot of the stuff I searched for wasn't on there. Seems to have improved dramatically over the past couple of years. Might have to go premium.
Corax
Luke 5:16
The Queen has one of them.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
it really has. There's still quite a bit not on there, but just trying to do a playlist for the AotY has become a lot easier - one year only 18 or so tracks were available, now its 25 (I think). No X-TG, or Earth, last years Om tho not this years, and a couple of obscure dancy things. Tis well worth doing,imo
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
This was probably posted at the time, but pertinent to this discussion:
http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/8993-the-cloud/
http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/8993-the-cloud/
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
I'm conflicted about that too. but then I don't use spotify.
Yet anyway.
I thought that as they got bigger(more subscribers etc.) they had slightly increased the laughable amount they pay in royalties?
I would definitely buy the argument that spotify is a better deal than most musicians get from radio
- if they can even get on to it in the first place.
It's also hard to judge how many plays are equal to one sale don't you think?
an album sale is a one off deal. let's say it's got 12 songs, that the purchaser can play as much as they like for the couple of dollars you made after recording, pressing and shipping costs.
It's been more like 25p per sale on major label CDs hasn't it?
I've heard the untested idea that even if you buy just one new CD a year and download everything else free you're doing more for the artist than subscribing to spotify.
I don't know if that's true, but it's not impossible and either way having bought your copy you can also sell it.
to someone like me who has always bought a lot of second hand stuff.
sales from which the musicians get not a fucking bean - I've never seen the need to feel bad about that.
perhaps I should. although it makes no sense to.
Yet anyway.
I thought that as they got bigger(more subscribers etc.) they had slightly increased the laughable amount they pay in royalties?
I would definitely buy the argument that spotify is a better deal than most musicians get from radio
- if they can even get on to it in the first place.
It's also hard to judge how many plays are equal to one sale don't you think?
an album sale is a one off deal. let's say it's got 12 songs, that the purchaser can play as much as they like for the couple of dollars you made after recording, pressing and shipping costs.
It's been more like 25p per sale on major label CDs hasn't it?
I've heard the untested idea that even if you buy just one new CD a year and download everything else free you're doing more for the artist than subscribing to spotify.
I don't know if that's true, but it's not impossible and either way having bought your copy you can also sell it.
to someone like me who has always bought a lot of second hand stuff.
sales from which the musicians get not a fucking bean - I've never seen the need to feel bad about that.
perhaps I should. although it makes no sense to.
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
blah blah blah
I think my point is that streaming services are the future of music consumption for a lot of people
and it's probably just a case of making it pay a little batter to artists...
I think my point is that streaming services are the future of music consumption for a lot of people
and it's probably just a case of making it pay a little batter to artists...
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
yeah, streaming pretty much has to be the way to go in the mid to long term, tho quite how they are ever going to get it to work, i dont know. Even if half your fiver a month goes straight to the artists, I dont see how it can ever get past 0.5p per track.
Making money directly from sales of physical records will be seen as the aberration in any history of popular music written in a few decades time. For most of the twentieth century, it was a minor way of making money, and so it will become again.
Making money directly from sales of physical records will be seen as the aberration in any history of popular music written in a few decades time. For most of the twentieth century, it was a minor way of making money, and so it will become again.
The_Reverend_M
More bass, vicar?
Totally forgot to vote this year but if I had then Yamantaka // Sonic titan would've definitely made my Top 5 
Listen here: http://yamantakasonictitan.bandcamp.com/
On their recent self-made, self-titled album, the duo draw inspiration from their respective Asian-Canadian upbringings as they "negotiate clashes between dominant cultures and those who are oppressed" by fusing Western and Eastern sounds. Like stoner-rock imaginings of Chinese opera and flower-child psychedelia, the music blends philosophies of Buddhism, meditation, and mantra with the band's love of extreme sounds like black metal, industrial, and noise. Their name, for example, pins a reference to the Buddhist deity Yamantaka with a song title from doom metal band Sleep's Dopesmoker. Alaska says their ideal sound would "take Iron Butterfly and the Melvins and put them together."
Listen here: http://yamantakasonictitan.bandcamp.com/
On their recent self-made, self-titled album, the duo draw inspiration from their respective Asian-Canadian upbringings as they "negotiate clashes between dominant cultures and those who are oppressed" by fusing Western and Eastern sounds. Like stoner-rock imaginings of Chinese opera and flower-child psychedelia, the music blends philosophies of Buddhism, meditation, and mantra with the band's love of extreme sounds like black metal, industrial, and noise. Their name, for example, pins a reference to the Buddhist deity Yamantaka with a song title from doom metal band Sleep's Dopesmoker. Alaska says their ideal sound would "take Iron Butterfly and the Melvins and put them together."
Spotify's great yeh. In every way other than what it pays to artists. Makes record labels look like Santa Claus in terms of royalties.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
They are shit ghost noises but they're ace shit ghost noises.
it would've made my list too. in 2011.Totally forgot to vote this year but if I had then Yamantaka // Sonic titan would've definitely made my Top 5
Listen here: http://yamantakasonictitan.bandcamp.com/
On their recent self-made, self-titled album, the duo draw inspiration from their respective Asian-Canadian upbringings as they "negotiate clashes between dominant cultures and those who are oppressed" by fusing Western and Eastern sounds. Like stoner-rock imaginings of Chinese opera and flower-child psychedelia, the music blends philosophies of Buddhism, meditation, and mantrawith the band's love of extreme sounds like black metal, industrial, and noise. Their name, for example, pins a reference to the Buddhist deity Yamantakawith a song title from doom metal band Sleep's Dopesmoker. Alaska says their ideal sound would "take Iron Butterflyand the Melvinsand put them together."
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
26 Voices from the Lake – Voices from the Lake
It's some of the most inventive techno in ages, it's some of the prettiest ambient you'll hear on any German techno label, and it's a unique kind of entrancing that would feel hokey if it weren't so undeniably attractive.
So this is one I missed that looks like my type of thing
anyone?
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
on track 2 - could go either way at this point...
