THE 2007 REVIEW: Joe Muggs
By Joe Muggs
Posted on Dec 20th 2007 11:23 pm
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In the year when Dubstep proved its staying power and went international, it still produced few artist albums: the mainstream of the sound still with its heart in the mixtape – but London’s Burial, Bristol’s Pinch and Nottingham’s Geiom produced absolutely brilliant spooky, soulful and brooding (respectively) takes on the sound. Further dub variations came with fizzing post-Basic Channel stuff from Germany (Disrupt) and Detroit (Echospace), while techno veteran Neil Landstrumm added the dubstep template to old-school rave on Restaurant Of Assassins.
The folktronic-indietronic-organic-electronic interface continued to be fertile, with Tunng, Muscovite producer Gultskra Artikler, Icelanders Múm, Canadian-in-London Caribou and Danes Efterklang further blurring the band/producer boundaries, while the brain-boggling Battles and Yeasayer produced a new strain of post-dance prog rock. Fennesz Sakamoto and Michaela Mélian produced some of the most beautiful pure ambient music of recent years, while the techno continuum showed its diversity with Cristian Vogel’s futurism, Supermayer’s good-natured fun, and Matthew Dear’s darkside pop. The Hot 8 Brass Band fused generations of funk to show that even near-destruction couldn’t still the heart of New Orleans, while The Black Dog’s terrifyingly rare early 90s rave-tronica tracks got a welcome re-issue.
1.
BURIAL
Untrue
Hyperdub
2.
DISRUPT
Foundation Bit
Werk Discs
3.
FENNESZ SAKAMOTO
Cendre
Touch
4.
TUNNG
Good Arrows
Full Time Hobby
5.
GULTSKRA ARTIKLER
Kasha Iz Topora
Miasmah Recordings
6.
CRISTIAN VOGEL
The Never Engine
Tresor
7.
PINCH
Underwater Dancehall
Tectonic
8.
MICHAELA MELIAN
Los Angeles
Monika Enterprise
9.
DEEPCHORD PRESENTS ECHOSPACE
Coldest Season
Modern Love
10.
SUPERMAYER
Save The World
Kompakt
11.
MATTHEW DEAR
Asa Breed
Ghostly International
12.
GEIOM
Island Noise
Berkane Sol
13.
NEIL LANDSTRUMM
Restaurant Of Assassins
Planet Mu
14.
HOT 8 BRASS BAND
Rock With The Hot 8
Tru Thoughts
15.
MÚM
Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy
Fat-Cat Records
16.
THE BLACK DOG
Book Of Dogma
Soma Quality Recordings
17.
BATTLES
Mirrored
Warp Records
18.
CARIBOU
Andorra
Merge Records
19.
YEASAYER
All Hour Cymbals
We Are Free
20.
EFTERKLANG
Parades
The Leaf Label
David Abravanel
Eleventh Volume
Max Schaefer
themilkman
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