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KILLED in CARS is a 'thank you' to the musicians who enrich my life, and a way to reach people curious about expression through sound.
This site has thrived as a destination for discussion and listening thanks to its disregard for the canon and its dedication to making esoteric genres accessible. I appreciate your readership, and I hope that you choose to participate!
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I have a mix today on @NTSlive, check the schedule!
nts.live/schedule/2
My Top 30 for the last month, in reverse chronological order, sorted by RYM score.
My Top 30 for the last month, in reverse chronological order, sorted by RYM score.
Here are all of my 5-3.5* albums so far for 2016.
These are my favorite 100 albums of 2015!
Alfred Schnittke - Piano Music (Boris Berman) (Chandos, 1998)
Aldo Clementi / Riccardo Nova - Caput Ensemble (Stradivarius, 1993)
Walter Zimmermann - The Echoing Green (Mode, 2005)
Giacinto Scelsi - Giacinto Scelsi (INA-GRM, 1993)
Luigi Nono - Composizione per orchestra n. 1 (Wergo, 2004)
In figuring out what to do with this post, I was looking around Spotify, and it really opened my eyes to how times change. When these were posted, they either weren’t in the RYM database, or they had a few ratings. Now they have many, many ratings, and, not only that, are easily streamable on Spotify, among many other places. It’s that reality that has changed this site from one that writes about music to one that simply links to it, for better or worse. If you want more depth, you can read about many of these here.
2562 - Aerial (Tectonic, 2008)
The Field - Sound of Light EP (Heartbeats International, 2008)
Sascha Funke - Double-Checked (BPitch Control, 2008)
The never-ending relocation from the Blogger site continues, this time with a few early posts that seemed out of place at the time, but now fit nicely in with what I’m listening to 6+ years later.
Each of these records was actually submitted by different authors, although I don’t think any of these names is particularly esoteric by this site’s standards. It more speaks to what was happening around 2008, a point where people deep into other areas were taking a step into not only the classics of 80s and 90s techno, but looking at contemporary electronic music and genres as a field (no pun intended) worthy of much more attention and critical analysis.
I’ve long felt that people who were always there, and there from the beginning, saw this as dilettantism, as trend hopping, and, potentially, fragmenting and destructive to their scene. In the intervening years, I think that concern hasn’t come to pass. Indeed, it has worked the other way. More and more of what constitutes “outsider” or “experimental” music has incorporated beats and taken on a great deal of the austere techno aesthetic, with more than a few complaints being the result.
Regardless, each of these releases are somewhat of their time, but they’re good, and I think are worthy of a spin. Enjoy!