RIP. A weekly roundup of releases on Bandcamp and Soundcloud selected and delivered by Aidan
List season 2017
Hello and welcome to part two of Bandcloud's now annual collation of lists from friends, artists, DJs and writers. Not much for me to add here — enjoy!
Anastasia Kristensen
Best DJ attributes according to Anastasia Kristensen's Mum
My mum sometimes sees my itineraries and she always comments on something in it:
Best Itinerary Description: Unsound Festival
Best Event Name: Techno Interests Me
The city she wanted most photos from: Edinburgh!
Ben UFO (Hessle Audio, Rinse FM)
Top 3 Records On Lovely Music
David Behrman – On The Other Ocean
Pauline Oliveros – Accordion & Voice
Jon Hassell – Vernal Equinox
Ellll (Gash Collective)
Good things (and one gross thing) from 2017:
LPs:
Aleksi Perälä - Simulation - Clone Basement Series
1800haightstreet - Endless - Lobster Theremin
Peverelist - Tessallations - Livity Sound
Tzusing - 東方不敗 - L.I.E.S
Compilations:
5 years of No Corner - No Corner
Light of Consciousness - Phormix Records
NH V/A Vol. 2 - Nervous Horizons
Most rinsed club bangers that I loved so much I can’t play any more (time heals all wounds):
Cassegrain - Trappist (The Mover Remix) - ARCS - 03
Hodge & Peder Mannerfelt - All my Love - PMHO001
Isabella - Ominate - PMVA 001
Most fun radio mix that got me psyched on life:
Mumdance b2b Pinch - 12th September - RinseFM
Fav thing from December that deserves its own category:
Rroxymore - Thoughts of an Introvert Pt.1 - Don’t be Afraid
Fav record to do a facemask* to:
Masahiro Sugaya - Music from Alejo
Fav show I watched:
Yuri on Ice
Fav food I ate:
Rice bowl (see Yuri on Ice).
Grossest drink I drank:
Aperol Spritz (gross, don’t drink this)
*Pro tip — store facemasks in the fridge for ultimate relaxation.
Objekt
11 brilliant DJs I found out about in 2017
NB. My gigging schedule this year didn’t really leave me with much free time to go out to clubs Just For Fun, but I feel like I played with so many really great DJs this year — many of whom I’m embarrassed not to already have known — that I could put together a list of these alone. Which is (mostly) what this is.
Amourette
Antenes
Ash
CCL
Eris Drew
Kiernan Laveaux (especially this mix)
Re:ni
Sleepy G
Tutu
Upsammy
Wasps
Pic by Kasia Zacharko
Tony Poland (Boiler Room)
Tony Poland’s ‘submitted far too early’ Best of 2017 list
The most joyful 12 minutes of music in 2017:
LNS & DJ Sotofett - “Jugando Con Fuego (Club Mix)” (Wania)
Favourite album of 2017 hardest to articulate the reasons I love it:
Teresa Winter - Untitled Death (The Death of Rave)
Favourite album of 2017 consisting of mythical early 2000’s acetates:
Shinichi Atobe - From The Heart, It's A Start, A Work Of Art (DDS)
Favourite album of 2017 which actually came out last year:
Daniel Schmidt And The Berkeley Gamelan - In My Arms Many Flowers (Recital)
Favourite album I heard this year that probably won’t be out until 2019:
Young Echo - TBC (Young Echo Records)
Favourite album of 2017 that was weirdly slept on despite being the sort of ambient new age snake charmer that normally tickles everyone’s fancy:
Vera Dvale & Psykovarius – Udu (Sex Tags Amfibia)
Album released in December I am looking forward to most diving into fully in 2018:
RAMZi - Pèse-Piton (12th Isle)
Record label I got happily sidetracked buying up the back-catalogue of instead of dropping money on new records in 2017:
FXHE
Artist whose house I was most envious of when I went to interview them in 2017:
Karen Gwyer
Favourite JR Seaton alias in 2017:
Ondo Mudd
Favourite music industry doggo:
Magic Wire’s bull terrier Colin
Most impressive DJ I saw in 2017:
Jayson Wynters for mixing killer electro on vinyl like a fckn boss and giving zero attention to idiotic track requests.
Most impressive DJ I didn’t see in 2017 but whose online/physical mixes were special/unique each and every time:
Silvia Kastel
Favourite live performance I saw in 2017:
Wolf Eyes vs Jamal Moss at New River Studios
2017 Live Performance I wish I saw in a dark basement club full of people on gurners rather than Cafe Oto:
RAMZi
Favourite new producer discovery of 2017:
Upsammy — shouts to Abel V!
The ‘FRAK!!!!’ award for band most satisfying to tweet about in all caps and exclamation marks in 2017:
TORESCH!!!!
Artist with best track titles in 2017:
Shared honours for Equiknoxx and Cru Servers
Artist I wish would moonlight as voice-overs for audio-books:
Shared honours for Chester Giles and Paleo Logos
Best Moustache of 2017:
Charles Drakeford