List season 2016 Okay so here's part two in this Juno-inspired look back at 2016, from DJs, label heads, writers and friends. Lists, words, thoughts and reflections.  Barry Redsetta (Major Problems) I bought more new records than old this year. Despite that, here are five 12"s I was pleased to find in the bargain bins of three shops in Dublin, aka smug list 2016. Ralph Lundsten 'Discophrenia' Thomas Melchior 'Let's Go Deep' David Emmanuel 'Giving It Up For Love' Mr Fingers 'Stars' (1992 version) Bedouin Ascent 'Ruthless Compassion' Ben UFO (Hessle Audio, Rinse FM) I've revisited this mix by Hunee, compiled to celebrate the Be With Records re-release of Air's self-titled LP, more than anything else this year. Perfect music for the in-between times, elegantly compiled. Chloe Frieda (Alien Jams, Juno Plus) 10 mysterious, reflective and dream-inducing records from 2016 Cindytalk - The Labyrinth of the Straight Line (Editions Mego)  Decimus - Decimus 7 (Further Records) Michal Turtle - Phantoms of Dreamland (Music From Memory) Beatrice Dillon/Rupert Clervaux - Two Changes (Paralaxe Editions) Sarah Davachi - Vergers (Important Records) U - Vienna Orchestra (Where to Now?) Ectoplasm Girls - New Feeling Come (iDEAL recordings) Lanark Artefax - Glasz EP (UIQ) An Trinse - Corpses From the North (self-released) Broshuda - Ooze Vector (Paralaxe Editions) Flora Pitrolo (Juno Plus, A Colder Consciousness) Infinite party in the sun 2016 Rex Ilusivii  - Koncert SNP 1983 (Offen) Caroline K - Now Wait for Last Year (Blackest Ever Black) The Tapes - Selected Works 1982-1992 (Ecstatic) Vangelis Papathanassiou – Amore (Monster Melodies) Heinrich Dressel - Mons Testaceum (Mannequin) This Heat - Health and Efficiency (Light in the Attic) Nesmeyana – Shas Ty Ne Zvonish (Baran) Rolf Trostel - Two Faces (Bureau B)  Šizike – U Zemlji Čuda With Lost Data Tracks (Discom) Midland Ten albums that made me forget the world is going to shit  1. Convextion - 2845 2. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears  3. Julianna Barwick - Will 4. Arthur Russell - World of Echo  5. Solange - A seat at the table  6. Makam - Then Sadat  7. Mark Pritchard - Under the Sun  8. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens 9. Huerco S - For Those Of You Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) 10. L.U.C.A - I Semi Del Futuro Pic by Ben Eagle Richard Brophy (First Cut, Juno Plus) Death to 2016! 11 LPs Convextion: 2845 (Artless) MGUN: Gentium (Don’t Be Afraid) JTC: JTC (Bopside) Omar-S: The Best (FXHE) The Smoke Clears: The Smoke Clears (All City) Linear Movement: The Linear Way (Minimal Wave) VC-118A: Shift Register (Tabernacle) Abul Mogard: Works (Ecstatic) Alpha 606: Afro-Cuban Electronics (Interdimensional Transmissions) Mick Chillage: (M​)​odes (Carpe Sonum) Jóhann Jóhannsson: Arrival (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Deutsche Grammophon) 22 12”s Various Artists: Moustache X (Moustache) Reggie Dokes: New York EP (Psychostasia) DJ Metatron: 2 The Sky (Giegling) Snorre Magnar Solberg & Kristoffer Drevdal / DJ Fett Burger – No-No (Club No-No) MM: Holding You (Mick Wills Cut) (Bio Rhythm) Tagwell Woods: Mecca (Photic Fields) Convextion: Untitled (Acido) Odessa: Private Disco Show (Bordello A Parigi) Boneless One: 5 (Ride the Gyroscope) O B Ignitt: 8 (Obonit) Lost Trax: Flatliner (Shipwrec) Gavin Russom: Psychic Decolonization (Lux Rec) Pepe Bradock: Baby Craddock (Atavisme) DJ Après Ski: Après Ski (Major Problems) Monoak: Resolute EP (Freerotation) Mirror Man: Blood Is Truth (Biorhythm) TR One: Chicarlow EP (Lunar Disko) The Groupies: The Groupies Are Insane (Baltermore) Metropolis: Angstpolitiek (Broken Dreams) Xaõ Seffcheque: KESS02 (Kess Kill) Fit Siegel + Tim Love Lee: Living Is Serious Business (Fit Sound) Unknown Artist: Hardcore Edits 1 (Going Good) Scott Wilson (Juno Plus, FACT Magazine) 10 nostalgic musical events that made 2016 feel like a total hallucination 10. A Tribe Called Quest releasing We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service and it's actually great 09. Zack de la Rocha finally launching that solo career with ‘Digging For Windows’ 08. At The Drive-In - Governed by Contagions 07. The vinyl crackle on Burial's 'Young Death 06. The trance stabs on Danny L Harle and Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Super Natural’ 05. Dido’s ‘Thank You’ hiding inside Rihanna’s ‘Never Ending’ 04. Annie Mac introducing Justice’s ‘Safe & Sound’ on Radio 1 like the past 10 years never happened 03. Hearing Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein’s Stranger Things theme for the first time 02. Belinda Carlisle’s ‘Heaven Is A Place On Earth’ book-ending Black Mirror’s ‘San Junipero’ episode 01. South Park’s Memberberries do ‘Africa’ by Toto Tom Lea (Local Action) Dear Bandcloud, This year was fucked — personally, professionally and politically. I don’t mean fucked in the sense that it was all bad for me, in many ways it was the best of my life, but there was a lot to take in, and it was all hard work. London feels like an unsustainable nightmare that’s eating itself and I - as well as many of the artists I work with - dream of getting out, but then I just moved into a beautiful flat with my beautiful girlfriend in a (mostly) beautiful area, so why am I complaining?  Musically the label made its biggest moves yet - we released a classic single and a classic album by Dawn Richard, which is the sort of thing I thought we could only dream about, and seems to open a new door every day for us (usually with a clueless industry dickhead behind them), but in a way it just makes me feel that it’s more vital for us to release records by underground weirdos who otherwise might not have a platform. But then I look at the sales figures and realise I’m probably being stupid. I want Local Action to do massive, popular things and cult, niche, obscure things at the same time, but when the latter often takes up the same amount if not more of your time then balancing this whole circus really becomes a struggle.  Anyway, this is ridiculous. I felt like this year went at 100mph but we're hardly saving lives here. Hopefully we enrich them from time to time. In a year that seemed to have most people questioning everything, these aren’t necessarily my favourites of the year, but the ones I found myself relying on to stay sane. R.I.P. Juno Plus.  P.S. Special shout to Joe Yamaneko, one of my best friends who makes music that is truly appropriate for our time. He’s destined to be a cult artist rather than a star, and he’d probably get a lot more hype if he was some kid bringing the woke club music dawn to Twitter rather than someone who wouldn’t dream of shouting about their music on social media, but he’s one of a kind. He had a disaster of a personal year, but I couldn’t feel more honoured to release and help facilitate his music. Yamaneko - Project Nautilus  D∆WN - Not Above That 67 - Let’s Lurk Mist - MIS to the T EP ATCQ - We Got It From Here Stranger Things OST Kanye - Pablo & Dark Twisted Fantasy  Daft Punk Essential mix Relaxing Final Fantasy IX Music YouTube  T_A_M - Silk/Sweat FM mix Xinlisupreme - Tomorrow Never Comes Jammz - Warrior Tony Poland (Juno Plus) Although there have been plenty of albums and singles I enjoyed this year, I don't think 2016 has been an amazing year for music in these formats and I've gravitated more towards podcasts and mixes. However, a list of my favourite episodes of Seincast is a bit too niche, so there is this instead..... A list of musical discovery through the medium of variable bit-rate mixes that proved inspirational in this most heinous of years Sanpo Disco 030 by bb yu BUS Editions 19: UVA_roots_and_destruction by John T. Gast Blowing Up The Workshop 65 - Works On Progress by Rupert Clerveaux Kern Vol. 3 by Objekt   Butter Mix #050 by DJ Dogg Tape Echo Mix by Ossia Wah Wah Wadio 1 - 5 by Wah Wah Wino Flow Bap Rap Mix by Max D   Animals Dancing mix by Powder Libramix 075 - Sassy J Presents There Is A Love (Kaleidoscopes Vol 6) Mega Bonus by Bahamian Moor So there you have it. After nearly three years I'm still shocked that people want to read these mails; all I ever want is to share music with you, so I'm thankful for the opportunity. I'm also hugely grateful to everyone above who gave their time and energy to this project.