Alva Noto - Xerrox vol. 2 I'm not usually a fan of the Raster-Noton label. I find the music too academic - the musical equivalent of a white paper on acoustics. However this album fuses the micro-tonal blips and crackles of Raster-Noton with samples from Michael Nyman, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Stephen O'Malley and in the process creates some beautiful noisy soundscapes.
Essential bedtime listening!
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Paul Watts - Best of 2008
ANGRY & GLOOMY
1. The Bug featuring Tippa Irie, "Angry"
2. Evangelista, "Smooth Jazz"
3. Antoine Chessex & Keith O'Brien, "Was Tun?"
4. The Master Musicians of Hop-Frog, "Song of the South"
5. The Hospitals, "this Walls"
6. ESP Kinetic, "Under the Bed"
7. Portishead, "We Carry on"
8. Supersilent, "8.7"
9. Philip Jeck, "Shining"
10. Asva, "A Game in Hell, Hard Work in Heaven"
11. Melvins, "Suicide in Progress"
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MELLOW & DOWNTEMPO
1. The Michael Adkins Quartet, "Silent Screen"
2. Antietam, "Turn it on Me"
3. Wire, "Hard Currency"
4. Stereolab, "Pop Molecule"
5. David Grubbs, "Holy Fool Music"
6. Brethren of the Free Spirit, "In Him Is No Sin"
7. Matmos, "Ainsoph"
8. Emeralds, "The Quaking Mess"
9. Kasai Allstars, "Kafuulu Balu"
10. X-102, "The Flyby"
11. Kings & Queens, "Olbers' Paradox"
12. Black Mountain, "Night Walks"
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UPBEAT & POPPY
1. Gang Gang Dance, "Bebey/First Communion"
2. Kyoka, "Danscable"
3. B12, "32 Lineup"
4. The Fall, "Senior Twilight Stock Replacer"
5. The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, "The Ragged Rock"
6. Santogold, "Lights out"
7. Growing, "Innit"
8. Sparks, "Lighten up, Morrissey"
9. Melt-Banana, "Cracked Plaster Cast"
10. Eat Skull, "Shredders on Fry"
11. Arthur Russell, "Love Is Overtaking Me"
12. David Byrne & Brian Eno, "Wanted for Life"
13. Gescom, "A2"
14. Max Tundra, "Orphaned"
15. Autechre, "fwzE"
16. Astral Social Club, "Queezee-e"
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