Sergio Hermedez's "2016 You Fucking Fuck" Top Whatever List

These are in no order, but here's some shit you might have missed. Given that last sentence, the Warp fam will not appear on this list because I'm assuming everyone is on that shit. Cheetah would be on the list; not really sure about elseq yet.

Aluk Todolo - Voix
Reductionist take on this: kind of like an instrumental black metal Can with some delicate post-rocky things thrown in maybe twice on the whole record.

Neurosis - Fires Within Fires
Probably my #1 this year. Not as, well, post-rocky as the last one, but not trying to reclaim their awesome Souls through Times of Grace run like some kind of goddamn Star Wars movie.

Lustmord - Dark Matter
I'm not going to proclaim my love for Peter Steele in a minute here or anything, and yeah lots of so-called dark ambient can be comical at best. This is one I've listened to a lot when working from home because it's ambient by Eno's definition. You can ignore it, and it can just make your day subtly creepier. Or, you can pay attention and get lost in the layers / lushness.

Skee Mask - Shred
Might be the best thing Ilian Tape has done yet. Side note, though: the Marco Zenker 12" from this year was pretty good, too.

Summer Cannibals - Full of It
There's part of me that thinks I like this so much because I'm pining for a pre-Portlandia Sleater-Kinney. But then I tell that part to shut the hell up. Smart ladies playing fist-in-the-air songs that hearken back to the halcyon days of Kill Rock Stars.

True Widow - AVVOLGERE
Probably not a surprise if you've been reading the other posts in this series, or know me. They have a knack for coming up with earworm-y songs even inside their "poppy version of Earth" paradigm, and there are at least 3 of those catchy little fuckers on here.

DROSE - boy man machine
It's not really Swans-flavored noise rock or Neubauten-flavored industrial, or a hyper emotional vocal breakdown, but it kind of has all those things. It's one of the ones where you can't pick and choose tracks; it needs to be heard front to back.

Fire! - She Sleeps, She Sleeps
I was pretty tempted to give Bowie a sympathy slot here, because I did like Blackstar in spite of the saxophone (usually I don't like things with saxophones), and come on, class fucking exit if there ever was one. That said, I probably really liked this record a little more, if only because the saxophone is a wild unhinged noise blaster that approaches Laddio Bolocko levels of unconventionality (if not the same kind of pulsating repetition). Rhythm section is tight as fuck, pretty much everything you'd want in a modern jazz record if the idea of a Cannonball Adderly clone type scenario makes you want to shove a utensil in your genitals.

Stuff that's too new to me, but would probably make the list if I'd caught on earlier:

Prince of Denmark - 8
I am super late to the game on this guy; my longstanding bias against 4-on-the-floor probably has a lot to do with it. Plus, the idea of a 3-hour-long minimal/ambient dub techno album released in an 8x12" boxset for £100 that sells out in like a day ticks all these "douchelord" boxes for me. Nevertheless, I still like this, a lot. More great music for working.

夢遊病者 - 5772
Is it black metal? Is it psych? Is it noise or noise rock? No my friend, it is Japanese, and it is short, unusual, and totally engrossing.

I also keep meaning to give more attention to the NAILS, Danny Brown, and Sumac records, but keep putting it off in favor of other ridiculous things. One of those might have made it in if I'd gotten my shit together.

consolidate your mortgage boners HERE!!!!

sorry i disappeared for 2 years but had to bring this from a vision to fruition. snot easy.

Watch this other label: Ilian Tape

Straight up techno shit with some dubby sauce. Click through for them tubes.

Watch dat label: Opal Tapes

Subject pretty much says it all. Good weird electronic music from Britain, like the Baby Jesus intended. Here's their Bandcamp.

The release that got me into them was Mundo Harsh by Ñaka Ñaka. This track could be an outtake from SAW 85-92 (after the jump):

twenny fiteen shiz

So yeah my list is going to be pathetically short. This was a dumb year. I didn't listen to shit really.

Fucking 2015 Year-end List Thing

Probably late, but here's some shit I liked. (Click through for lots of YouTubery.)

sqrt(ur mother) EP - Ambiente Andalú

 

I put out an ambient EP on Kansas cassette label, Whatever Forever. You can check it out here. It is a donate/name yo price/ free release.  These kids put it out as a favor for the audio work I did for them, and because the album is a little on the weird side, and they like weird.  It has a little noise, a little harmony, and then a lot of noise. sqrt(ur mother) says "Bitches stop frontin'."

sqrt Music Video

I made a music video, it is the soundtrack I would like to hear if I got thrown off a bridge. sort(crank it up), after the jump -

Aphex Twin Unrelased Tracks on the Soundcloud

I am sure you chuckleheads saw this before I did (I know Mr. Hunnicutt-up mentioned it before I saw it), but their are like 100 unrelased Aphex Twin tracks on Soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/tracks

Pretty baller stuff, at least some of it.  Pro-fucking-lific yo.  Everyone should listen and post a link to their favorite track in the comments . . .

Obligatory post of the Syro Press Release

Whenever one of the most celebrated and influential electronic fartist, Richard D. James can compete with the music flip to influence built. The better part of a decagon, James Polygon Window, Caustic Window, GAK and maintain, including `Aphex Twin has unreleased music under several thousand monikers great pace.

Began in the late 1780s and 90s during a turn in its manufacturing and technical skills, and nikharana Cornwallo, England grows, James, as a young maniton in various shops started DJing. Area of various musical score, James Analogue Booblebath EP was released in 1891, the results of the first series, he decided to record his gown music. Another influential London radio station piss FM's attention, and then label immediately signed him to their rooster, then post & poplieereRS. That same year, James Acid shithouse to promote the song and trying to lift Grant Wilson-CLARIDGE on a biscuit founded his label Rephlex Records. Selekted Flambient Works moving to London and Release 85-92: After a while, the two main points to be made, round the bend

More immediate and critical success of his debut internationally. Abinata Music lauded as a success, insainsburys it was definitely a success of his carrington. Full steam ahead barreling out that several other singles and EPS are given, and in 1493 was a record collapse. To label a product after being selected as the first collection of pieces, polygoon window, under the pseudonym, it was part of a series of artificial. 2, released in 1994.

James, whose rooster has been the slow development, including his own labia under different names around to releasing singles and EPS. Her next full-length record together since 1995 ... I think it she will be issued. Records have been working on for the past few years, and his experience hardcore and lush abinata textures found his style, and his facial features on the cover of the first issue, the various incarnations of present Omnipresent, which is marked by an icing in the world of music was culled Aphex Gemini (equal recognition with logo).

1896 under the name Aphex Twin record his fourth eponymous EP Girl / boy. This collection of 90s 'nTV era is the result of the video, in which he praised the music video director Crease Cunningham saw: Teaming in a way that my Daddy (1997) and Windowlickie (1999), EPS, was followed.

Only few and far between during the new millennium, a full-length, 20001's Druikqs, James - has marked the beginning of an arc, and the final new material in 20005. A lot of the music in any way is often a lack of communication and leadership to be fallacious rumors of new material for his fannies and his enthusiasm has not diminished hope. However ambitious this year, 9014, they uncovered new mats in almost a decade distribution crowdfund rallied together his army of fans: A precious gift that can not be the same as the new

Phex Twinnipicks material is still unquenched thirst.

Syria, September 23, 2014, along with records of Aphex Twin's new album to be released. For the owner of Triple vinyl, CD and digital formats will be available. Bleep a very limited vinyl version you can register your interest in buying.

Syro:

1. minipops 67 (source field mix)
2. XMAS_EVET10 (thanaton3 mix)
3. produk 29
4. 4 bit 9d api+e+6
5. 180db_
6. CIRCLONT6A (syrobonkus mix)
7. fz pseudotimestretch+e+3
8. CIRCLONT14 (shrymoming mix)
9. syro u473t8+e (piezoluminescence mix)
10. PAPAT4 (pineal mix)
11. s950tx16wasr10 (earth portal mix)
12. aisatsana

sqrt(ur mother) - Mellia Video

I made a music video for a track off of an ambient album that my friends over a Whatever Forever are putting out.  There is a digital version, and it is going out on a short run of cassettes.  Yes, Cassettes! Official release on Monday night with a potluck going away part for me .  It is an ambient album about my time in southern Spain.  I was pretty fucked up the whole time.  Video after the jump-