Music For Your Tape Recorder

This year was by far the most contemporary year I've had since I stopped listening to Radio 1 - only two songs from this year's selection pre-date my living memory. This is probably because I stumbled into the "chillwave" genre and am currently consuming all the in-print material available. The lack of releases from the eighties or earlier is also because I haven't obtained any offbeat and out of print albums. Or rather, I'm not willing to shell out £30+ for an out of print album (again) and can't get it by 'alternative means'. As such, there is no now-out-of-print-good-band-your-parents-shunned award this year. Since this is the year of chillwave, I will instead present the Roygbiv-eargasm award to Imprint After by Toro Y Moi. Not since said BoC track has a song withstood incessant listening and accelerated toward the top of my most played Top 50.

So in the early hours of the New Year I'll be doing the same thing I did last year. Yes, listening to Geogaddi backwards. What's antisocial about that?

January
Primal Scream - Slip Inside This House ; Screamadelica (1991)
Harmonic 313 - Quadrant 3 ; When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence (2008)
Charlotte Hatherley - Full Circle ; New Worlds (2009)

February
Akira Yamaoka - The Reverse Will ; Silent Hill 2 OST (2001)

March
Metronomy - Peter's Pan ; Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe) (2006)
Elektric Music - Esperanto ; Esperanto (1993)
Bear McCreary - The Shape of Things to Come ; Battlestar Galactica Season One (2005)

April
Dam-Funk - Mirrors ; Toeachizown (2009)
Squarepusher - Star Time 2 ; Just a Souvenir (2008)
Boards of Canada - 5.9.78 ; A Few Old Tunes (1996)

May
Ulrich Schnauss - Between Us and Them ; Far Away Trains Passing By (2001)
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms ; Psychic Chasms (2009)

June
Clark - The Magnet Mine ; Growls Garden (2009)
Freescha - Boyrgurl ; Kids Fill The Floor (2001)

July
Bear in Heaven - Wholehearted Mess ; Beast Rest Forth Mouth (2009)
Toro Y Moi - Imprint After ; Causers of This (2010)
Deadmau5  - Waking Up From The American Dream ; Get Scraped (2006)
Linde - Heights ; Lander (2010)
Animal Style - Slash Back ; Trenchvent (2010)

August
Lone - Once In A While ; Once in a While/Raptured EP (2010)
Oneohtrix Point Never - Pelham Island Road ; Returnal (2010)
Actress - Wrong Potion ; Splazsh (2010)
Everything Everything - Weights ; Man Alive (2010)

September
Coldplay - Twisted Logic ; X&Y (2005)
Digitonal - 93 Years On ; Save Your Light For Darker Days (2009)
Melissa Williamson - You're Not Here ; Silent Hill 3 OST (2003)

October
Bibio - The Apple and The Tooth ; The Apple and The Tooth (2009)
A Certain Ratio - Lucinda ; Sextet (1982)
Danny Elfman - Gratitude (12") ; So-Lo (1985)

November
Penguin Prison - A Funny Thing ; Animal Animal (2009)
Passion Pit - Smile Upon Me ; Chunk of Change (2008)

December
Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed (Boards of Canada Remix) ; So Soon (2001)
Kylie Minogue - Better Than Today ; Aphrodite (2010) ---- What? It's catchy.
Hans Zimmer - Dream is Collapsing ; Inception OST (2010)

Prij will return with something, but probably a meta-blogging post cause those are easy.