Dec 2008
Looking back...
Dec/12/2008 Filed in: music
reviews
Favorite Jams of
2008
as selected in an alley by members of the SBWS
DJ Fundi
Top 10 Tier
Fleet Foxes "Sun King" + self-titled
Al Green "Lay It Down"
Gnarls Barkley "The Odd Couple"
Stephen Malkmus "Real Emotional Trash"
Erykah Badu "New Amerykah"
Cat Power "Jukebox"
Flying Lotus "Los Angeles"
Girl Talk "Feed the Animals"
Bon Iver "For Emma, Forever Ago"
Q-Tip "The Renaissance"
Second 10 Tier
DJ/rupture "Uproot"
"The Very Best" mixtape by Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit (available for free download at http://www.myspace.com/theverybestmyspace.)
The Roots "Rising Down"
Jamie Lidell "Jim"
Dusk + Blackdown "Margins Music"
The B-52's "Funplex"
Bob Dylan "Tell Tale Signs" (B-sides, outtakes, rarities, etc.)
Toumani Diabate "The Mande Variations"
Neil Young "Sugar Mountain : Live at Canterbury House 1968"
Quantic "Flowering Inferno"
Honorable mentions: Orchestra Baobab, Santogold, Amadou & Mariam, Nina Simone boxset
Best concert experiences of 09: Bassnectar in B'ham, Fleet Foxes at WWU, Horning's Hideout bluegrass festival in OR, John Scofield in Vancouver
Biggest disappointments: Beck, My Morning Jacket, Thievery Corporation & Michael Franti
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as selected in an alley by members of the SBWS
Robin Pecknold of the Fleet Foxes at WWU.
DJ Fundi
Top 10 Tier
Fleet Foxes "Sun King" + self-titled
Al Green "Lay It Down"
Gnarls Barkley "The Odd Couple"
Stephen Malkmus "Real Emotional Trash"
Erykah Badu "New Amerykah"
Cat Power "Jukebox"
Flying Lotus "Los Angeles"
Girl Talk "Feed the Animals"
Bon Iver "For Emma, Forever Ago"
Q-Tip "The Renaissance"
Second 10 Tier
DJ/rupture "Uproot"
"The Very Best" mixtape by Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit (available for free download at http://www.myspace.com/theverybestmyspace.)
The Roots "Rising Down"
Jamie Lidell "Jim"
Dusk + Blackdown "Margins Music"
The B-52's "Funplex"
Bob Dylan "Tell Tale Signs" (B-sides, outtakes, rarities, etc.)
Toumani Diabate "The Mande Variations"
Neil Young "Sugar Mountain : Live at Canterbury House 1968"
Quantic "Flowering Inferno"
Honorable mentions: Orchestra Baobab, Santogold, Amadou & Mariam, Nina Simone boxset
Best concert experiences of 09: Bassnectar in B'ham, Fleet Foxes at WWU, Horning's Hideout bluegrass festival in OR, John Scofield in Vancouver
Biggest disappointments: Beck, My Morning Jacket, Thievery Corporation & Michael Franti
Click here to listen to a Rhapsody playlist based on the SBWS Favorite Songs of 2008 lists.
More lists after the jump...
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Flying Lotus
Dec/12/2008 Filed in: music
reviews
Steven Ellison is a tall, soft-spoken twenty-five-year-old who works under the name Flying Lotus. As part of a peer network, with outposts in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Glasgow, Ellison is helping to lead a small group of producers toward a new strain of hip-hop. He has been signed to the highly regarded London-based label Warp, which made a name in the nineties by releasing esoteric electronic recordings by Autechre and Aphex Twin. Ellison and his contemporaries have come up with a fusion of the extreme detail allowed by software programming (fractal spidering of sounds, a backdrop of crackles, and prickling, feverish rhythms no human hands could play) and the bedrock thump of hip-hop, the grounding beat that has bled into almost all pop music in the world. Ellison’s Flying Lotus releases this year—an album titled “Los Angeles” and a series of EPs—are a good index of how one branch of hip-hop is going to move into the next decade, detaching itself from traditional hip-hop rhyming and forming new splinter genres.
To listen to Flying Lotus' "Essential Mix" for BBC Radio One, visit Radio Free Fundi.
To listen to Flying Lotus' remix of Radiohead's "Reckoner, click right here.
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