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

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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)
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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-

Please remove some posts w/ YouTube embeds

Can't load or use my favorite website anymore k thx.

Asperger prog goths stuff blocks chock full of cocks

Read this article, but here's the tl;dr: "black midi" composed by self-identified "blackers" is basically a goth version of the most extreme single-instrument prog-rock ever, so prog it can only be performed by computers. tl;dr - go watch this video.

All I can say is Malcolm X would have a field day with the appellation "blackers" in this context.

Top 10 Radio Hitz- sqrt style

I listen to a disproportional amount of the KC Metro radio to and from work. So here is my top 10 radio singles.   No real rhyme or reason, these are just the ten singles I could remember at this time I liked, even if for non-musical reasons.

10 (or 9), 2103

Mine are super predictable, but (in no order):

Run The Jewels
XTEP (don't sleep)
Tomorrow's Harvest
Long.Live
Surgical Steel
Rephlex EDM A2
My 1st Chemistry Set
Old
Street Eagles

That's about it.  Not super stoked on last year.  Looking forward to checking out the shit on y'alls lists tho.

My Top 10

Okay, I suppose I'll take a crack at this. I'm just going to do top 10 tracks of the year rather than albums, since apparently I'm too ADD to listen to full albums anymore, and there just haven't been that many full-lengths to get me too excited of late. So in no particular order:

Your top 10 for 2013

C'mon, y'all, lez do this. No pondering / overconsideration; it's just us.

I'll embarrass myself first.

10 - Surgical Steel by Carcass
Yes, it's that good. Yes, I will be going to see them when they come through. Even though I didn't really like that Gorguts record all that much. Yes, all that review stuff that says "it's like Swansong never happened" is at least 95% correct.

9 - Sunbather by Deafheaven
This record deserves some but not all of the accolades heaped on it this year. I like black metal and shoegazer, so this is right up my alley, but I can see why a lot of black metal purists are butthurt about it. Then again, those people are dicks.

8 - Black Friday by Big Black Cloud
Portland band. This label (Eolian Empire) has been releasing all sorts of good heavy stuff this year, most of which I liked, notably Honduran's Street Eagles. Black Friday is so manic, noisy, dissonant, but still punk... I feel like Sonic Youth were never really all that punk. They were always an art band; if they'd been punker, this may have been what they would have sounded like.

7 - Summon the Faithless by Lord Dying
Another Portland band. These dudes are resurrecting pure thrash but throwing in just a little bit of stoner metal on top of it. Tight as hell, riffs are enormous, fun as shit to watch. I like the sound of their demo a little more than this record (less "produced"), but this is still a damn fine metal record.

6 - Soma by Windhand
Holy shit this is heavy doom. Probably the heaviest doom since Dopethrone. Really. There's a real sense of dynamics and wisdom to this record, unlike a lot of doomy bands going right now. Contrasting example: We are Here by Blackout. That record is good, but Soma just blows it out of the water. No contest. The Blackout record feels like a sludgy doomy record that's good and raw, but at the end of it you don't feel like they really told you anything; they're just riding a wave of FUCK YEAH. This record feels like it told you something at the end.

5 - mBv by My Bloody Valentine
Yeah, there's a little bit of nostalgia factor here. The first side of this just makes you feel all warm and cuddly like Loveless has returned. For a record built up as much as this... that's pretty impressive. Unfortunately the DnB shit on the second side is pretty cringeworthy, otherwise this would have been higher.

4 - Manifest Decimation by Power Trip
This band sounds like Chuck Schuldiner playing tastefully short guitar solos and singing while backed by Hell Awaits-era Slayer (but with better songwriting). This should make you want to run not walk to their bandcamp page.

3 - Tomorrow's Harvest by Boards of Canada
After living with it for a while, I think this manages to recapture a lot of the wonderment and haziness of Music Has the Right without resorting to the same sonic exact palette. It's a different sort of feeling than Music Has the Right, though. They've grown up with us? The last 25 minutes of the record are some of their best shit ever, I think.

2 - Abandon All Life by NAILS
This is, no question, the heaviest band out there right now. Period. It's a sonic assault that still holds up to multiple listens. It's insanely well-crafted. I could write a lot more effusion regarding how crazy awesome this band is.

1 - Circumambulation by True Widow
Shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who's been looking at my tumblr. I am fully head over heels for this band and have been for about 2 years now. They kept the essence of what makes them good, but evolved it subtly. This record is creepier than their others, in a good David Lynch kind of way.

Honorable mentions: General Dome by Buke and Gase; Amen by Death Engine; Run the Jewels; EDM B2.

Kickass rereleases: Touch and Go reissued almost the entire Big Black catalog on vinyl (no Atomizer or Songs About Fucking, but everything else).

Cuppetelli & Mendoza: Transposition at the Denver Art Museum

I got to check out this cool install at DAM by Cuppetelli & Mendoza while we were near Denver looking at mountains and being crunchy instead of eating turkey with family.  You move in the room, the installation makes sound.  There were strings,projectors, feedback-frequency-mod-tastiness and wobbly lines.

I have not posted anything in a while that wasn't a gem encrusted king skull

i haven't posted in a while, and this is the best i cold come up with

Wish i was more tech savvy and knew how to post a link to spotify or whatever but...
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