Tag: best of

Albums, EPs, and live performances:

1. Death By Misadventure - The Green Pajamas (Green Monkey Records)
2. Lonerism - Tame Impala (Modular)
3. Dead Air - Atomic Bride
4. Santee- Live at Hollow Earth Radio 5-26-12. (Santee doesn’t have an official album out yet, but they have a full album’s worth of great songs. You can find their awesome 5-26-12 Hollow Earth Radio live set in the podcast pages.)
5. A Voice Hears You From Mysterious Places - Marianne Nowottny and Barry Schwabsky (Abaton Book Company)
6. Static - Tiny Knives (Stankhouse Records)
7. 1 Outta 6 Ain't Bad (When I Still Loved You) - Sip's Odyssey
8. Special Explosion!
9. Awe Naturale - THEESatisfaction (Sub Pop)
10. Adult Soft Record - Rusty Willoughby
11. Nod and the Hobgoblins (Lost Sound Tapes)
12. Danzig In The Moonlight - Ken Stringfellow (Spark and Shine)
13. Spectral Disorder - Black Hat (Debacle Records)

Songs:

1. Apocalypse Dreams - Tame Impala
2. What You Give - Rusty Willoughby
3. Jesus Was An Only Child - Ken Stringfellow
4. Curse The Night - The Raveonettes
5. Sweat - THEESatisfaction
6. This Is How It Goes - Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons
7. Song 4 of 8 Live at Hollow Earth Radio 5-26-12 - Santee
8. Miranda - Marianne Nowottny & Barry Schwabsky
9. Tomato Kitty - Special Explosion
10. You Can't Look - The Green Pajamas
11. Pine Bender - Nod and the Hobgoblins
12. Endors Toi - Tame Impala

Konspiracy Korner airs every Thursday night from 9 to 11 PST.

This last year I have had the pleasure of hosting both The Inland Buoy radio program and The Buoy and The Bellow. Through these programs, I have discovered a lot of new music, but this year I mostly focused on older music, given my current musical obsessions are classic disco and electrofunk. So the following list isn't definitive, as I know there is a lot I haven't heard that I would probably have loved if I heard it.

1. Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales and in general all the Ghost Box/hauntological stuff, I can't get enough of it.
   
2. Demdike Stare - Elemental Part 1 & 2
   
3. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
   
4. Actress - R.I.P
   
5. Carter Tutti Void - Transverse
   
6. Mykki Blanco - "Wavvy"
   
7. Anticipating Scott Walker's Bish Bosch. I still haven't heard it.
8. Terrence Dixon - "Dark City of Hope (Main Mix)"
9. Todd Terje remixes in general, especially his remix of "Love is the Drug"
10. Kuedo - Severant
    
11. Games - "Strawberry Skies". Not a new song, but I couldn't stop listening to it and the Gatekeeper remix this year. I am a bit behind the times.
    
12. Marielle Jakobsons - Glass Canyon
    
13. Stuff I haven't heard everything by but I enjoyed immensely: Andy Stott, SpaceGhostPurrp, Burial, Flying Lotus, X-TG, Richard Youngs' new album, Swans.
    
14. Lee Hazlewood - The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes and Backsides
    
15. Om - Advaitic Songs
    
16. Black to Comm - Earth
    
17. Dull Knife - Dull Knife on the lovely Debacle Records.
    
18. Motion Sickness of Time Travel everything.
    
19. The Conrad Schnitzler CON anthology show I did with Gen Ken Montgomery
    
20. Marrying DJ Dusty Mantle to the sounds of our favorite post-punk band.