2010 Tippy Tops

So I'm gonna be the odd man out here that loves techno, but hurr goes...

-10. Ikonika "Contact, Love, Want, Have"


-9. John Roberts "Glass Eights"


-8. Teebs "Ardour"


-7. Actress "Splazsh"


-6. Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts "Breaking The Fourth Wall"


-5. Gonjasufi "A Sufi And A Killer"


-4. Mount Kimbie "Crooks & Lovers"


-3. Eleven Tigers "Clouds Are Mountains"


-2. Jimmy Edgar "XXX"


-1. dOP "Greatest Hits"

Mojave Off-Road Enthusiast: Goldwood.

Other honorable mentions/reissues/heavy contenders/repeat>mode offenders of 2010:

• BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa – Space Finale (Editions Mego)
• Mudboy - Impossible Duets (Hundebiss)
• Flower-Corsano Duo - You'll Never Work in this Town Again (Not On Label)
• Phurpa - Trowo Phurnag Ceremony (Sketis Music - from 2008 but loved it in 2010)
• Mel Croucher and Automata U.K. ltd. – Pimania (Feeding Tube)
• Ted Lucas – The Om Record (Sebastian Speaks/Yoga)
• Sun City Girls – Funeral Mariachi (Abduction)
• Imaginary Softwoods – Imaginary Softwoods (Digitalis re-release)
• Kevin Drumm – Sheer Hellish Miasma (Editions Mego)
• Kevin Drumm – self-titled (Thin Wrist)
• Douglas Quin – Fathom (Taiga)
• Prurient / Nico Vascellari – Jesus (Hospital)
• Seijaku - Mail From FUSHITSUSHA (Doubtmusic)
• Celer – Compositions for Cassette (Avant Archive)
• Migrations in Rust – Veiled Jewel (Razors and Medicine)
• Outer Space – Eastern Veil (Wagon)
• Smegma/Kommisar Hjular and Mama Baer - split (Goaty Tapes)
• Willie Lane - Sleepy Hands/Arrested For Decay (Cord-Art)
• Daniel Menche – Hover (Touch)
• Earn – In a Year (Jugular Forest)
• Pedestrian Deposit – East Fork/North Fork (Housecraft)
• Thomas Ankersmit - Hangar Performance, Tallin, May 29th 2010 (from Touch Radio)
• RV Paintings – Samoa Highway (Helen Scarsdale Agency)
• Gray – Shades of… (Plush Safe)
• Conny Plank/Michael Ranta/Mike Lewis – Mu (Metaphon)
• Popcorn LP (Ultra Eczema)
• Keith Fullerton Whitman – Disingenuity/Disingenuousness (Pan)
• Sissy Spacek – 15-Tet Oakland (Misanthropic Agenda)
• Jason Lescalleet - Fantasy and Electricity (Kye)

Sounds of 2010

Ken Camden-Lethargy and Repercussion

Volcano The Bear-Volrudolf / Grande Pfungst (Volfurten 2010)

Holy Sons-Survivalist Tales

Hiss Golden Messenger-Bad Debt

Umberto-Prophecy of the Black Widow

Arp and Anthony Moore-Freakways Vol. 3

Grouper and Roy Montgomery-Root Strata

2010 Rewind

"I’ve always had this desire to destroy things that already existed. Nothing pre-existing ever managed to touch me…and it’s the same when I’m creating songs. I like to destroy the relationship between arrangement and improvisation. Anything I can break, I will." – Keiji Haino

Best of 2010

30. Celer - Dwell in Possibility (Blackest Rainbow)

29. T.R. Mahalingam - Mali: Essential Recordings of Carnatic Bamboo Flute, 1969-70 (EM)

28. Yellow Swans - Going Places/Being There (Type)

27. Luc Ferrari - Ephemeres I & II (Alga Marghen)

26. Barn Owl & the Infinite Strings Ensemble - Headlands (Important)

25. Robert Ashley - Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II (Lovely Music)

24. Anton Bruhin - Deux Pipes (Alga Marghen)

23. Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Air Supply (Erstwhile)

22. Dolphins Into the Future - Ke Ala Ke Kua (Kraak)

21. Padang Food Tigers - Born Music (Blackest Rainbow)

20. Cindytalk - The Poetry of Decay (Editions Mego)

19. Bill Orcutt - Way Down South (Palilalia)

18. Ignatz - Mort Aux Vaches (Mort Aux Vaches)

17. The Books - The Way Out (Temporary Residence)

16. The Savage Young Taterbug - Syrupy Evenings (Night People)

15. Rene Hell/Three Legged Race - Violin Petal (Auden)/Whipped Secrets (Arbor)

14. Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase - Seashard (self-released)

13. Rafael Toral - Space Elements Vol. II (Taiga)

12. Food - Quiet Inlet (ECM)

11. Dead C - Patience (Ba Da Bing!)

10. VVAQRT - Than On Eother And You Have 0 Answers (Hot Releases)

9. Geoff Mullen - Bongo Closet (Type)

8. Derek Rogers - Aluminum Mirrors (Pizza Night)

7. Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides - All Cows are Sacred (House of Alchemy)

6. Kim Doo Soo - Evening River (Blackest Rainbow)

5. Chubby Wolf - Ornitheology (Digitalis)

4. X.0.4. - Exile (Open Mouth)

3. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Generator (Root Strata)

2. Direct Current - Live Qbico Unite XIII (Qbico)

1. Pan Sonic & Keiji Haino - In the Studio (Blast First Petite)

Contort Yourself with Myoelectrics

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