What’s everyone’s music highlights of the year? I’m really hoping someone mentions an incredible album brimming with electronics that I’ve missed.
I only bought very less music this year and if, it was mostly old stuff…
I like this user’s music (probably a forum memeber as well) Very prolific guy, good to listen to in between. Very 90’s that’s why I like it !
https://soundcloud.com/rondostudios
https://soundcloud.com/rondostudios/nightclub
This Mix was on heavy rotation, 70’s Japanese Disco, incredible : D
https://soundcloud.com/sameheads/japan-blues-live-dj-kashual-plastik-night-250915-sameheads?in=sameheads/sets/kashual-plastik
Favourite performance also from a forum member @jjbbllkk on the LXR
https://youtu.be/30ALDLB7b2Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-EH3pKnpG4
This Mix was on heavy rotation, 70's Japanese Disco, incredible : D
https://soundcloud.com/sameheads/japan-blues-live-dj-kashual-plastik-night-250915-sameheads?in=sameheads/sets/kashual-plastik
Enjoyed the Linkwood and LNRDCROY LPs from Firecracker. Gear-wise: Push 2 is incredible. And I still love my friend’s recently acquired Jupiter 8. :0
Amongst all the year end summaries, this looks like it should be more elucidating, ennobling and thoughtfully curated than most: https://boomkat.com/charts/2015
I tried to look up some songs from the mix on YouTube, but I couldn’t find those. Maybe, Rajie and Miki Matsubara. I should track some of the songs but it’s not really my thing to do this ; )
The music is very poppish not very alternative, but this doesn’t matter… @LibertineLush.
I’m gonna look up Soichi Terada soon, don’t know him yet…
It seems that most of the new music I’ve listened to in 2015 doesn’t come from this year but this thread will help to redress that balance.
This Mix was on heavy rotation, 70's Japanese Disco, incredible : D
https://soundcloud.com/sameheads/japan-blues-live-dj-kashual-plastik-night-250915-sameheads?in=sameheads/sets/kashual-plastik
I’m going to sample the shit out of this! Thanks for sharing dude!
I tried to look up some songs from the mix on YouTube, but I couldn't find those. Maybe, Rajie and Miki Matsubara. I should track some of the songs but it's not really my thing to do this ; )
The music is very poppish not very alternative, but this doesn't matter... @LibertineLush.
I'm gonna look up Soichi Terada soon, don't know him yet...
I ended up listening to the whole mix. There’s a lot to like. Most of it however, especially the first two-thirds or so, was not so much disco as the mix synopsis claims but various genres of pop music from an era when it was called Kayokyoku (or Showa Era pop). You can look that up and may find songs to your liking. There’s also a few enka songs thrown in.
The highlight of 2015 for me is this short piece by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith which is organic and beautiful in equal measure:
That is immensely beautiful. The fluttery sequences are so beautifully supported by that warm bass hum. I came across her through the other performance video on her Youtube page this year.
@libertinelush I stubbled across her on a few years ago, really love her work. That Buchla video is also amazing, it really shows the possibilities of the music easel. She has a classical composition sensibility but applied to synthesis and brings out expression in electronics that I find refreshing.
https://1080pcollection.bandcamp.com/album/i-want-to-believehttps://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chlorine
https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hes-not-real
https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gemini
https://bootlegtapes.bandcamp.com/album/redshift
https://ohbliv.bandcamp.com/album/raw-spirit-jewels
https://cindystapes.bandcamp.com/album/primaparte-matatabi
https://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/album/buy-now
https://astralblack.bandcamp.com/album/95-mindfulness
Fav tape label stuff this year.
Nice list my dude!