Ok I was going to stick this in the off topic as I know Twisted will appear in it but anyway just wondered what everyones top 5 were for the year and gives people a chance to track down something decent which may have been missed or recommended….

Here goes…the results are now in…

1. Ineffable Mysteries - Shpongle - kinda goes without saying.

And in no particular order…

Daydreamer - (Val) Liam - Celestrial Dragon - Beautiful ambience, I love this label and they always put out great compilations. I think there is a new comp in the new year.

Solar Fields - Moments - Ultimae - this guys a genius and I’d love to hear a collaboration between him and Posford, he’s always putting albums out too.

Unidentified Floating Ambience - Various - Silent Records - this label is now long gone but the stuff they put out in the early 90’s was way ahead of it’s time, you can still track down the ablums (just) and the back catalogue is huge. Real deep space stuff…

Music for Zen Medition - Tony Scott - Verve records (1964) - TS plays the Clarinet, Shinichi Yuize plays the Koto and Hozan Yamamoto the Shakahaci.  It was all played without any rehersal, is very simple but is beautiful and holds your attention..

Argaman - My Little Forest
Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries
Solar Fields - Movements
Bluetech - The Divine Invasion
Jon Hopkins - Insides

Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries (duh)
Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin (some of her best work is on here imo)
Infected Mushroom - Legend of the Black Shawarma (yea i like it, sue me)
Luke Vibert - We Hear You (sweet ass acid funk)
Cosmosis - Fumbling for the Funky Frequency (just a solid goa album, but i couldn’t think of anything else I purchased that was from 09)

Tool - Lateralus
The Doors - Soft Parade
Shpongle - Are you Shpongled
Battles - Mirrors
Jamiroquai - Traveling without Moving

Portishead - 3rd (2008)
U2 - No Line On the Horizon
Muse - The Resistance
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries o.S.

Shpongle is a given for me at #1, so the following five are:
Tosca- No Hassle
DJ Koze- Reincarnations
La Baaz & Kara Maehl- Kinky Beats Lollipop
DJ Lucy (Meerestief)- Submerge
Koan- When the Silence is Speaking

I have to say the Ultimae releases I got this year are fantastic. But tops is Ineffable

no order

portishead -3rd
tv on the radio - dear science
jon hopkins- insides
steve reich- music for 18 musicians(old but 1st time i heard was with simon and ru from younger brother after a long recording session—we were all amazed!)
animal collective- merriweather post pavilion

hope some ya have YB 3 in there for 2010…..................

Benji x

Solar Fields - Movements (and more from Ultimae records)
Filteria - Daze of our Lives (and other Suntrip records releases)
Ghreg on Earth - T

Damn, I haven’t even heard enough albums to put in the top 5…But Ineffable Mysteries, Solar Fields’s and H.U.V.A. Network’s are among the best I’ve heard in the 2009.

i just realized this thread was “of 2009”.

/facepalm

Cloudwalker - 31 December 2009 11:10 AM

Argaman - My Little Forest
Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries
Solar Fields - Movements
Bluetech - The Divine Invasion
Jon Hopkins - Insides

Nice.  Same here.

I’d like to add:

Easily Embarrassed - Planet Discovery
Capsula - Sense of a Drop
Third Ear Audio - Self Titled
Chronos & C.J. Catalizer - Quid Es Veritas?
Field Rotation - Licht und Schatten

Ineffable Mysteries - Shpongle.
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Jon Hopkins - Insides (saw him at the Opera House and all 3 impro concerts with Eno)
Imogen Heap -Eclipse (yeah yeah its Pop)
Solar Fields - Moments

yumyum tree-Ozric Tentacles
Ineffable, of course

Penguarky - 04 January 2010 10:19 AM

I’d like to add:

Easily Embarrassed - Planet Discovery
Capsula - Sense of a Drop
Third Ear Audio - Self Titled
Chronos & C.J. Catalizer - Quid Es Veritas?
Field Rotation - Licht und Schatten

Love both of those albums, though haven’t listened to them as much as I’d like! I am surprised no one has mentioned any of DJ Zen’s compilations—-Air, Water, and Fire are all great though it’s hard to squeeze them all into a top 5! Let’s see here…
1. Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries (of course)
2. DJ Zen - Water
3. Solar Fields - Movements
4. H.U.V.A. Network - Ephemeris
5. Aes Dana - Leylines

Honorable Mentions:
Other DJ Zen Compilations
Cosmosis - Fumbling for the Funky Frequency
La Mila - Search Your Dream
Sunkings - Before We Die (really just a few tracks on there I love, namely Barleycorn)
Hallucinogen In Dub Live

Prometheus - 02 January 2010 02:01 AM

steve reich- music for 18 musicians(old but 1st time i heard was with simon and ru from

Nice one!