![]() ![]() ![]() Reaching back to grab the grooves of '70s disco/funk and the gadgets of electronic composition, Electronica soon became a whole new entity in and of itself, spinning. The 1. 00 Best Albums of the 1. Like this? You can read FACT’s rundown of the 1. Best Albums of the 1. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to The 1. Best Albums of the 1. We’ve been chewing over this selection for nearly two years now, on and off. It’s not a process into which we’ve entered lightly, but along the way we’ve tried to keep the debate fluid, fun and above all personal. Torrent Search. Torrents.me combines popular torrent sites and specialized private trackers in a torrent multisearch. Beside The Pirate Bay, Kickass Torrents and. A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses or gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. In simple language, a hedge is used to. Yes please, more (2011) new releases! 20 DECEMBER 2011 > Common - The Dreamer/The Believer CD (Think Common) New independently. The Money Market Hedge: How It Works Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to The 100 Best Albums of the 1990s. We’ve been chewing over this selection for nearly two years now, on and off. ![]() The result is a list that above all reflects our preferences and our prejudices. We’ve sought to include as many personal favourites of our staff members as possible (we’ve also gathered quotes and requested blurbs from some of our favourite contemporary musicians), and above all we’ve done our best to be honest: these are records that we truly love, records that we truly enjoy listening to even now. No false nostalgia, no sacred cows, no going through the motions. Many of the chosen LPs we discovered during the 9. At the end of the day, this is a list of the best albums of the ’9. If we had compiled the list last year, or next year, it would look broadly similar to the one you’re looking at now, but certainly not identical. Our perception and understanding of the past is always changing and always, we hope, improving. And so it begins. Today we’re publishing the first 2. Friday. So strap in, prepare to pump your fists in agreement and shake them in outrage, as we lift the lid on FACT’s 1. Best Albums of the 1. Lil Wayne. Tha Block Is Hot(Cash Money, 1. In case you missed the memo, Lil Wayne’s more interested in skating than rapping these days, and it explains a lot – bar a few moments on recent- ish mixtape Sorry for the Wait, he’s been one of the laziest stars on the genre’s frontline for quite some time. ![]() Either way, if the coming years are to see the dust settle on Weezy’s career, don’t be surprised if 1. Tha Block is Hot becomes reevaluated as his best: less drug- addled and spluttered- out than his work in the next decade, it captures Wayne naive, confused and trying to find his way in a cold world – several tracks (. ![]() Painkiller. Buried Secrets(Toy’S Factory / Earache, 1. More atmospheric and less silly than debut EP Guts of a Virgin, the second transmission from Painkiller (John Zorn, Mick . Godflesh’s Justin Broadrick and G. C. Green even join the party at points, making Buried Secrets as close to a jolly as grindcore ever got. ![]() The Olivia Tremor Control. Sadly, the recent death of founding member Bill Doss was the first time we’d heard people mention the group in years. Codeine. Frigid Stars(Glitterhouse / Sub Pop, 1. Released right at the start of the decade, and a clear influence on Mogwai and others, what’s still remarkable about Frigid Stars is how classic it sounds from your very first listen. None of its songs have had the advantage of being buried into the trans- Atlantic subconscience the way that the most recognisable tracks by Pixies or even Pavement have, yet from that first guitar lick, the first time “D for effort. It’s no coincidence that Frigid Stars features a track titled . Source Direct. Exorcise The Demons(Science / Virgin, 1. Jim Baker and Phil Aslett’s extraordinary run of 1. By the time their major label debut album, Exorcise The Demons, arrived, their best days were already behind them; this was an album boasting all the precision- engineered brutality of their previous work, but lacking its beauty, and its humanity. It remains nonetheless a thrilling document of smacked- out, misanthropic jungle for stalkers, serial killers and ne’er- do- wells – no wonder opening track . Exorcise the Demons is the flawed, at times frustrating but still essential culmination of their mid- 9. Scott Walker Tilt (Fontana, 1. Scott Walker’s journey is a pretty unique one: from ’6. Valium- addled MOR decrepitude. Climate Of Hunter marked the singer’s return from obscurity, but it’s the 1. Tilt , that really sees him hit his stride. Walker’s lyrics verge on impenetrably dense, pivoting lithely between the starkly personal and the cryptically political, and the arrangements follow suit: from the industrial clatterings of . They can save your soul, they are super- humans.”9. Reload. A Collection Of Short Stories(Infonet, 1. Before Global Communication really become a going concern, Messrs Pritchard and Middleton dreamt up this sprawling dreamtime techno opus, complete with ambient interludes, industrial hissy fits, dusty breakbeats and a booklet of cosmic pulp fiction to boot. Company Flow. Funcrusher Plus(Rawkus, 1. Airlock jams and soapbox proselytizing from Brooklyn’s nimblest operators. There were tougher and tricksier rap records, but few had Funcrusher Plus’s furious panache. El- P: “It was different back then: We were in The Source, DJ Premier was rocking our shit on his mixtapes, KRS- One was rapping above our instrumentals. We kind of came out at the perfect time because people hadn’t yet created subgenres so we were thrown into the pantheon of rap music in general. There wasn’t a lot of people being like, . Erykah Badu. Baduizm(Universal, 1. If D’Angelo’s 1. 99. Brown Sugar fired the starting gun on what came to be termed Neo- Soul, then Baduizm, released in 1. Compared to the sprawling, symphonic and increasingly auteurish ambitions present in Erykah Badu’s later work, her debut album feels lightweight – but its streamlined, unfailingly smooth exterior conceals a sharply observed lyrical core. From quietly heart- rending socio- political commentary (the exquisite . Arab Strap. Philophobia (Chemikal Underground/Matador, 1. It’s hard to talk about Arab Strap without falling into cliche, or even sounding condescending: yes, on the surface it’s depressing music about depressing subjects played by depressed- sounding Scots, but to focus on that would be to do Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton several disservices. Firstly, for a pair of miserable c**ts they pen a euphoric climax better than most trance producers (Tiesto’s never written anything as soaring as the close of . It’s been said before, but who else could write a song as heart- breaking as Philophobia? Bratmobile. Pottymouth(Kill Rock Stars, 1. Bratmobile: the definition of three- chord amateur punk, with lyrics straight out of a high school diary (“I don’t wanna hear how many friends you have / I don’t have any anymore”), but by God did it work, and just how ridiculously welcome would it be now? T- Power. The Self Evident Truth Of An Intuitive Mind(Sour, 1. Sumptuous drum . Self Evident Truth came out the same year as the far more fauned- over Timeless, but while Goldie’s debut looked to slick jazz- funk and soul for off- piste inspiration, T- Power’s creation felt more aligned with the Detroit techno of the early ’9. Carl Craig was a junglist, he might have made something like the sublime . Spell. Seasons In The Sun(Mute, 1. A collaboration between controversy- bating noise terrorist Boyd Rice (NON) and goth pin- up Rose Mc. Dowall (Strawberry Switchblade), Seasons In The Sun is a surprisingly sweet, faithful covers album of rock . Under the wry, breezy, Nancy’n’Lee- ish exterior lurk demons and mischief: lyrics are modified to sound darker and more fatalistic, references to Hell and death are introduced. There is poison in this cherry pie. The biggest surprise, though, is Boyd’s voice: an oaky croon of uncommon warmth and gravitas. Felix Kubin. Filmmusik(Gagarin, 1. Filmmusik is the sort of capriccio the forward slash was made for: an album/OST/radio show/scrapbook/verbatim piece/dream journal that offers unprecedented insight into the German artist’s cluttered mind. Felix Kubin: “All I know about Felix Kubin personally is that he claims to have telepathic connections to outer space intelligence, especially to Jurij Gagarin and his humming protones. I wouldn’t want to share a room with him but I respect his music. Concerning music he is . Porter Ricks Biokinetics (Chain Reaction, 1. Serous art- techno from Thomas K? Can’t I just disappear?”8. E- Dancer. Heavenly(Planet E, 1. A collection of tracks made by Kevin Saunderson under his E- Dancer moniker, including remixes by Juan Atkins, D- Wynn, Kenny Larkin and Carl Craig that fit seamlessly into the flow of future- rushing, maximalist machine- funk. You won’t find a better one- shot demonstration of mid- ’9. Detroit techno’s soul, vision and studio invention. Kevin Saunderson (E- Dancer): “The most important part for me is creating a sound that is unique. Getting within the parameters and the oscillators, you know, I like that kinda shit, create magic. Most people don’t know that, there’s a bunch of new kids, they just look for presets.”8. Bungle. California(Warner Bros, 1. California: aka what happens when Mike Patton’s original band – not quite his weirdest one, but certainly not his poppiest, either – decide they’re going to. I doubt anybody, even Mr. Bungle themselves, quite knew what they were aiming for with California, bar some loose idea of making a “pop” record, but it emerged as a bona fide classic. Hotel lobby piano, doo- wop style harmonies, vaudeville swing, rockabilly and surf- pop so laid back that it bought the hammock before the beach house all feature, and somehow all find space to breathe on a mine- cart ride full of violent twists, sudden gear shifts and more. California then: how to cram 1. Girl Talk, take note. Carlton The Call Is Strong(Ffrr, 1. Summery, silky- smooth but rave- savvy Bristol soul from the man who vocalled Massive Attack’s debut 1. Despite its all- but- forgotten, bargain bin status today, this record has stood the test of time a lot better than Soul II Soul’s similarly oriented Club Classics Vol. It’s a lost classic, make no mistake, and quite how it got so lost – especially given its clear abundance of pop and club appeal – is an absolute mystery. Beastie Boys. Ill Communication (Grand Royal Records, 1. In the Beasties’ Homeric odyssey of self- definition, Ill Communication remains the port where they sounded most comfortable. Snotty, funky and screwy, it showed these unlikely journeymen at the peak of their game. Photek. Modus Operandi(Science/Virgin, 1. LUNA m u s i c. missed.. DECEMBER 2. 01. 1. Common- The Dreamer/The. Believer CD (Think Common). New independently released album from the hip- hop star. Nas and John. Legend.> Roscoe Dash- J. U. I. C. E. CDEP (Geffen). A balance of hip- hop, pop, and R& B rhythms from the. Atlanta rapper.> Kevin Hearn- Cloud Maintenance CD/LP. Celery Music). New solo release from Barenaked Ladies member Kevin. Hearn. The album features an appearance by Garth Hudson. The Band.> Young Jeezy- TM 1. Hustlerz Ambition. CD (Def Jam). Jeezy’s new album is a raw chronicle of his rise from the. Atlanta to international stardom. Guests. include T. I., Plies, and Lil Wayne. DECEMBER 2. 01. 1. Charlotte. Gainsbourg- Stage Whisper CD (Elektra). Stage Whisperincludes seven. Many of the. studio tracks come from sessions for the Beck- produced. IRM.> Gucci. Mane/V- Nasty- Baytl CD (WB). Off the heels of his first official Bricksquad. Waka Flocka Flame. Gucci Mane presents a new “street. Anthony Hamilton- Back To Love CD. RCA)New. album from the R& B singer - - available in Regular and. Deluxe editions. Deluxe adds four bonus. The Marvelettes- Forever More: The Complete. Motown Albums Volume 2 4x. CD (Hip- O Select). Collects the final four albums of their career. Marvelettes,Sophisticated. Soul,In Full Bloomand. The Return Of. The Marvelettes), plus 2. Nero- . Welcome To Reality CD (Interscope). Nero are a new electronic music act from London. England.> Rammstein- Made In Germany. CD/2x. CD/2x. CD+3x. DVD (Vagrant). The German industrial rock stalwarts have released six. Made In. Germanyis a compilation of the. Available in Regular single- disc. Deluxe double- disc, and Super Deluxe editions. Super. Deluxe is packaged in a metal box and includes three. DVDs.> Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band- Live At The. Iveagh Gardens 2x. CD+DVD (Josh Ritter). Ireland July. 2. 01. Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa- Mac & Devin Go Back To. High School CD (Atlantic). Original soundtrack to the motion picture starring. Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa.> Soundtrack- We Bought A Zoo CD. Columbia). Original soundtrack to the new motion picture, composed. Sigur Ros frontman/songwriter. Jonsi.> Wold- . Freermasonry CD (Profound Lore). Extreme Canadian band Wold, hailing from the vast. Freermasonryis a raging. DVDs. + Blu- ray: > X- . The Unheard Music: Silver Edition DVD/Blu- ray (Angel City. Media). X: The Unheard. Musictakes long, detailed, and. L. A. 8. 4. minutes. Vinyl: > Drake- Take Care LP. Cash Money). Recently released on CD - - now available on vinyl. New. album from the runner up from the NBC show. The Voice - . Season 1. Originally a member of Meg. Dia with her sister, Dia is preserving her indie. Freddie Gibbs And Madlib- Thuggin’ 1. Madlib. Invazion). Gibbs' rough- hewn raps landing atop smoldering soul and. Contains vocals, instrumentals and. The Grateful Dead- Built To Last. Some 2. 2 years after it began, The. Dead's recording- studio odyssey drew to a close with this. Arista LP.> Tim Hecker- Dropped Pianos LP (Kranky). Recently released on CD - - now available on vinyl. Sharp blast of punk energy. Lou Reed + Metallica- Lulu 2x. LP (WB). Recently released on CD - - now available on vinyl. Includes the. albums. Star Booty(1. 98. Umber(1. 98. 9). and. Ben Hur(1. 99. 0).> The Black Keys- El Caminio CD/LP+CD. Nonesuch). An exhilarating, stadium- sized sound produced by Danger. Mouse with no- nonsense brilliance. The pace is fast, the. Black Truth Rhythm Band- Ifetayo CD/LP+7”+MP3. Soundway). Super- rare 1. Afro- centric Caribbean album. Singer. Oluko Imo went on to record with Fela Kuti and perform. Fela's Egypt 8. 0 band.> Chevelle- Hats Off To The Bull CD. Epic). Sixth album from the Chicago alt- rock. Elvis Costello- The Return of the. Spectacular Spinning Songbook . Each set is. individually numbered with a special commemoration card. Elvis Costello, and includes a 4. Costello's musings from each tour stop, a 2. Released as a single CD and a. The Cure- Bestival Live 2. CD. (PIAS). The Cure headlined the Isle Of Wight- based festival in. September 2. 01. 1, playing a 3. The tracks. oscillate between a decadent, greyish, post- industrial. Finnish landscape.> Dome- . CD/5x. LP (Editions Mego). Complete recorded works in deluxe box sets. Dome was a. forward- thinking, early- . CD (Cherry Red). 2. Manchester. alt- rock band fronted by the always- lovely Mark E. Quiet. restful ambient piano and effected guitar. Fleetwood Mac- Preaching The Blues CD. Secret). Live album from the post- Peter Green Fleetwood Mac with. John Mc. Vie, Mick Fleetwood, Christine Mc. Vie, Jeremy. Spencer and Danny Kirwan.> Dia Frampton- Red CD (Universal Republic). New album from the runner up from the NBC show. The Voice - . Season 1. Originally a member of Meg. Dia with her sister, Dia is preserving her indie. Giant Sand- Backyard BBQ Broadcast. Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. In the years. following, Mehldau, along with bassist Larry Grenadier. Jorge Rossy, released a series of recordings. The Art Of The. Triotitle.> Merzbow- Lop Lop 2x. CD (Rustblade). On. Lop. Lop. Merzbow takes a step in a new. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones- The Magic Of Youth CD/LP. Big Rig). Ninth studio from the veteran ska/pop/punk. Peter Murphy- The Secret Bees Of Ninth CD. Nettwerk). Features B- sides from Peter Murphy's recent studio. Ninth.> Gary Numan- Dead Son Rising CD (Mortal). New album from the electronic pop. Lee . Also available on stand- alone. DVD.> The Roots- Undun CD (Def Jam). New concept album from the influential hip- hop. Shakira- En Vivo Desde Paris. CD/CD+DVD (Sony). Live release from the Latin superstar - - available in. Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe adds a DVD featuring. Should- A Folding Sieve. Includes bonus. tracks.> sunn O))). At the time, core members. Stephen O’ Malley and Greg Anderson were joined by guest. Stuart Dahlquist (Burning Witch. Goatsnake) along with contributions from. Petra Haden and Pete Stahl (Goatsnake. Sweet Exorcist- Retroactivity 2x. CD (Warp). Features the whole Sweet Exorcist back catalogue on Warp. Testone,Clonkand. CCEP/CCCDas well as five. Pioneering early- . This reissue features bonus. Robin Thicke- Love After War CD (Geffen). Fifth album from the R& B singer featuring guest. Usher, Maxwell, Faith Evans, and Pharrell. Deluxe includes. three bonus tracks.> Carl Thomas- Conquer CD (Verve Forecast). New album from the R& B vocalist.> Throbbing Gristle- Throbbing Gristle’s. Greatest Hits . CD version comes with a bonus disc of. T- Pain- Revolver CD (RCA). New release from the hip- hop superstar - - available in. Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe adds three bonus. Traffic Sound- Virgin . The time is. 1. 95. Union Avenue in. Cleveland, Ohio, home of the Boddie Recording Company. LPs and 4. 5s in its impressive. Various Artists- Rangarang. Pre- Revolutionary Iranian Pop 2x. CD/2x. LP. Compilation of forgotten jewels from pre- revolutionary. Iran. Varies from funky workouts and soulful pop to jazzy. Various Artists- Original Sound Of Cumbia. The History Of Colombian Cumbia & Porro As Told By. The Phonograph 1. CD/3x. LP/3x. LP (Soundway). Available on CD and across two separate volumes on. Various Artists- Warren Haynes Presents The. Benefit Concert Vol. CD (Evilteen). The fourth volume in this series of the acclaimed benefit. Warren Haynes. Includes tracks from. Robert Randolph, John Hiatt, Bob Weir, Gov't Mule, Jerry. Joseph and many others.> Amy Winehouse- Lioness: Lost Treasures CD. Universal Republic). Posthumous collection of previously unreleased tracks. Vinyl version due. December 1. 3.> Wives- Roy Tapes CD/LP (Post. Present Medium). Wives is Dean Spunt and Randy Randall's band before No. Age. Wound tight and energetically experimental,Roy. Tapesslightly overdoses on melodic. DVDs. + Blu- ray: > Primal Scream/MC5- Black To Comm/Live at The. Royal Festival Hall London DVD (Easy Action). Features the complete performances by two of the world's. Various Artists- A Brief History In Moving. Pictures: A Polyvinyl Music Video Collection DVD. Polyvinyl). Polyvinyl celebrated its 1. As. part of looking back, they’ve compiled and curated this. DVD compiling 6. 0 music videos. Vinyl: > Arctic. Monkeys- . Suck It And See b/w Evil Twin 7” (Domino). The third single from Arctic Monkey’s recent. Suck It And. See. LP. Features non- album B- side. Debut album from the LA- based alt rock/hip- hop. Childish Gambino- Camp LP (Glassnote). Recently released on CD - - now available on vinyl. A. unique blend of hip- hop with multiple genres, combined. Gambino has gone from a viral cult. William Fowler Collins- Resurrections Unseen LP. Type). Howling field recordings are trapped between walls of. What. remains are bleak, windswept textures, spine- chilling. Cooly G- Landscapes b/w It’s Serious. Hyperdub). Producer and singer Cooly G returns after a lengthy. Hyperdub that's a. Playing. due early next year.> Dalek I- Compass Kum'pas. HQ- 1. 80 hot pink vinyl with bonus. Deardarkhead- Oceanside: 1. LP. (Captured Tracks). The New Jersey- based band’s sound perfectly blends. Pale Saints and. Ride.> Dungen- Ta Det Lugnt . The first single and title track to their. Mike Mogis in. Omaha, NE.> Chris Forsyth- Dreams . RIYL: Jack Rose, James Blackshaw. Jim O'Rourke.> Free Agents- 3. LP (Drag City). Named after it's original price, the Free Agents LP culls. Tiller Boys show (Cookson. Eric Random and, when available, Pete Shelley) with. Guided By Voices- Doughnut For A Snowman 7”. Fire). New single features four B- sides. New album. Let’s Go Eat. The Factorydue. 1/1. Indignant Senility- Consecration Of The. Whipstain 2x. LP (Type). Double- LP of wheezing industrial ambience that owes more. Iannis Xenakis and Lustmord than to the contemporary. At times. Consecration Of The. Whipstainsounds like a decaying sound. Milt Jackson And Wes Montgomery- Bugs Meets Wes! Some. of today's most prominent artists, DJs, and producers. Zedd, Goldfrapp, Foster the People, Wild. Beasts, The Weeknd & Ilangelo, Michael Woods, The. 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