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Bests of 2010 [2010-12-23]

2010 has been another splendid year for many great and highly rewarding releases, below you’ll find lists of releases that made 2010 special for our writers. And in keeping with our sites remit they span a large and varied selection of different musical & sonic genres.


Roger Batty( site owner, editor, review & article writer)
1:Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Parai - In O To Infinity’ [Important Records]
2:Unearthed - Self Titled [Zvukovina]
3:Oblive - Falsehoods [HarshFuckedForLife]
4:Seaworthy & Matt Rösner - Two Lakes [12K ]
5:Phase II - Afterglow   [Ahnstern ]
6:Grain Belt - Self Titled [Small Doses/Phage Tapes/ White Centipede Noise ]
7:A View From Nihil - Triumph Of The Broken Will [Order of The HNW ]
8:Insurgent/TFT - The Shape of Static To Come [TTM Incisioni Musicali]
9:Museums of Sleep - Self Titled[Prairie fire Tapes]
10:TenHornedBeast - Hunts & Wars [Cold Spring Records]
11:Nightbringer - Apocalypse Sun [The Ajna Offensive ]
12:HiM - ‚ñ [Hip Hip Hip ]
13:Various Artists - Stasis:001 [Stasis ]
14:Taylor Deupree- Shoals[12k]
15:Sturmpercht - Schattenlieder [Percht]
16:Frank Bretschneider - EXP [Raster-Noton]
17:…...Massacre - After Party Massacre [Fusty Cunt Tapes ]
18:Dead Body Collection - Throat [Monolithische Aktion]
19:Zeitkratzer - Whitehouse Electronics [Zeitkratzer Records ]
20:Dustin O Halloran - Vorlerben [Sonic Pieces]
21:North Korea - Untitled [Phage Tapes ]
22:Bördel Noïr - Self Titled [Spider Tapes ]
23:Shining Sex - Tender Flesh [Zvukovina]
24:Mike Patton - Mondo Cane [Ipecac]
25:Circle-Rautatie [Ektro]
26: Various Artists – Brainkiller (boxset) [Toxic Industries]
27: Robin Crutchfield - The Hidden Folk [Important Records ]
28: Gomeisa - Gauze of Blackened Veil [self release]
29:I Dreamt of Her Beautful Tentacles - Concrete Vamp[Toxic  Industries]
30:The Secret Geography - It Seems this too has come to an end [Unlimited Drift Recordings]

 

Russell Cuzner (review & article writer)
1 Coil: Colour Sound Oblivion
2 Cyclobe: Wounded Galaxies Tap at the Window
3 BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa: Space Finale
4 Autechre: Oversteps
5 Colin Potter & Michael Begg: Fragile Pitches
6 The Fall: Your Future, Our Clutter
7 The Bug: Infected EP
8 Monos: Above The Sky
9 Swans: My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
10 Current 93: Baalstorm, Sing Omega
11 Philip Jeck: An Ark for the Listener
12 Alva Noto & Blixa Bargeld: Mimkry
13 Oneohtrix Point Never: Returnal
14 Andrew Chalk: The Cable House
15 Russell Haswell: Value + Bonus
16 Unicazurn: Propeller Guru
17 Irr. App. (Ext.): Josephine & Elsewhere
18 Lichens: Litio Folk
19 Eleh: Location Momentum
20 Emeralds: Does It Look Like I'm Here?
21 Foetus: Hide
22 Hildur Gudnadottir: Mount A
23 Big Sexy Noise: s/t
24 Colin Potter / Phil Mouldycliff: Grey Skies on Asphalt
25 Master Musicians of Bukkake: Elogia de la sombra
26 Monos & Coleclough: Slowly Sinking
27 No Fun Acid: This is No Fun Acid 3
28 Paul Bradley & Colin Potter: The Simple Plan
29 Rameses III: For Jose Maria
30 Angles: s/t

Duncan Simpson(review & article writer)
1:Jan Bang - …and Poppies from Kandahar
2:Current 93 – Baalstorm, Sing Omega
3:Deepchord – Liumin
4:Nils Frahm and Anne Muller – 7 Fingers
5:Forest Swords – Dagger Paths
6:Yrsel – Requiem for the 3 Kharites
7:The Necks – Silverwater
8:Stefano Battaglia and Michele Rabbia - Pastorale
9:Darkstar - North
10:Cyclobe - Wounded Galaxies Tap at the Window
11:Wicked Messenger - Officium Nocturnum
12:Erik K Skodvin - Flare
13:Teebs – Ardour
14:Rafael Anton Irisarri – The North Bend
15:Yellow Swans – Going Places
16:Guido – Anidea
17:The Alps – Le Voyage
18:Richard A Ingram – Consolamentum
19:The Black Dog – Music for Real Airports
20:Seasons (Pre-din) – Occasionally I Forget to Breathe
21:Scott Tuma – Dandelion
22:Simon Scott – Traba
23:Anworth Kirk – Anworth Kirk
24:The Sight Below – It all Falls Apart
25:Demdike Stare - Forest of Evil / Liberation Through Hearing / Voices of Dust 3 x 12”
26:Laurel Halo - King Felix EP
27:Games - That we can Play EP
28:Balam Acab - Sea Birds EP
29:OOoOO - oOoOO EP
30:Ghost Box Records - Study Series 7” 1 – 4

 

Josh Landry(review & article writer)
1. Autechre - Oversteps [Warp]
2. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope to the Sky [Young God]
3. Steve Roach - Sigh of Ages [Projekt]
4. Oval - O [Thrill Jockey]
5. Meat Beat Manifesto - Answers Come In Dreams [Metropolis]
6. Cyclobe - Wounded Galaxies Tap at the Window [Phantom Code]
7. Current 93 - Baalstorm, Sing Omega [Coptic Cat]
8. Cephalic Carnage - Misled By Certainty [Relapse]
9. Bastard Noise / The Endless Blockade - The Red List [20 Buck Spin]
10. Locrian - The Crystal World [Utech]
11. Bill Horist - Covalent Lodge [North Pole]
12. Scorn - Refuse; Start Fires [Ohm Resistance]
13. Proem - Enough Conflict [n5MD]
14. Mi Ami - Steal Your Face [Thrill Jockey]
15. Robert Rich - Ylang [Soundscape]
16. Avey Tare - Down There [Paw Tracks]
17. Paintings For Animals - Thee Forest Ov Psalms [Painted]
18. Von Thronstahl - Conscriptvm [Cold Spring]
19. Autechre - Move of Ten [Warp]
20. Fire In The Head - Confessions of a Narcissist [Cold Spring]
21. Foetus - Hide [Ectopic Ents.]
22. Atom™ - 1i3835tra3um3 [Rather Interesting]
23. Byron Metcalf / Dashmesh Khalsa / Steve Roach - The Dream Tracker [Projekt]
24. Tho-So-Aa - Identify [Tesco Organisation]
25. Thou - Summit [Gilead Media]
26. Phaenon - His Master's Voice [Malignant]
27. The Lickets - Eidolons [International Corporation]
28. Jon Mueller - The Whole [Type]
29. Nickolas Mohanna - Transmission Hue [Low Point]
30. Brandon Nickell - And If You Set This Mind Of Mine Afire Then On My Bloodstream I Yet Will Carry You [Isounderscore]


Viktorya Kaufholz( review writer)
1.Hell Militia –Last Station on the Road of Death
2.Aun – Black Pyraminds
3.Watain- Lawless Darkness
4.Urfaust- Der Freiwillige Bettler
5.Agalloch- Marrow of the Spirit
6.Alcest –Ecallies de Lune
7.Goatvargr- Black Snow Epoch
8.Blut Aus Nord- What Once Was…Liber I
9.Cathedral – The Guessing Game
10.Hauschka- Foreign Landscapes
11.Mystified- Passing Though The Outer Gates
12.Triptykon- Eparistera Daimones
13.Les Discrets- septembre et Ses Dernieres Pensees
14.Electric Wizard- Black Masses 
15.TenHornedBeast- Hunts and Wars
16.Dead Voices on Air- From Afar All Stars Spark and Glee   17.Imperium Dekadenz- Procella Vadens 
18.Deathspell Omega- Paracletus
19.Library Tapes- Like Green Grass Against a Blue Sky
20.Drudkh- Handful of Stars
21.Dementia and Hope Trails- Depress
22.Gnaw Their Tongues-L’Arrivee de la Terne Mort Triomphante
23.Scorn- Refuse; Start Fires
24.Delicate Noise- Filmezza remixes
25.Ghost- Opus Eponymous
26.Obliteration- Nekropsalms
27.The Black Angels- Phosphene Dream  
28.Shining- Blackjazz  
29.Nachtmystium- Addicts: Black Meddle Part II
30.Negura Bunget- Maiestrit


David Bourgoin(review writer)
1:Coil - Colour Sound Oblivion (16 x DVD Live performances)
2:Cyclobe - Wounded Galaxies Tap At The Window (LP)
3:Grinderman - Grinderman 2
4:Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
5:Catherine Christer Hennix -The Electric Harpsichord
6:Fenn O'Berg - In Stereo
7:Fennesz - Endless Summer (2010 reissue)
8:Pan Sonic - Gravitoni
9:Loop – The World In Your Eyes (2010 reissue)
10:Iggy Pop and James Williamson - Kill City (2010 reissue)
11:Einsturzende Neubauten – Strategies Against Architecture Vol 4
12:Crass- Feeding of the 5000 (2010 reissue)
13:Moon Duo - Escape
14:Wooden Shjips - Vol 2
15:PTV - Alien Vs Maggot Brain
16:Zeitkracker _ Whitehouse Electronics
17:Big Sexy Noise - S/T
18:Nurse With Wound - Larsen Eronous
19:Tabata Mitsure - Mankind Spree
20:Eno - Small Craft On A Milk Sea
21:Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here
22:Various Artists - In Search of Hawkwind
23:Bo Ningen – S/T
24:The Dead C - Patience


Lawrence J Patti(review writer)
1:Death In June-Peaceful_Snow
2:Danny Saul Harsh-Final
3:Ni- Self titled
4:Birch Book- A handful of days
5:Arkhonia-Trails/traces
6:Eric Lunde-Music is meat
7:Infallen Three Days of Darkness
8:Various Artists - "Bacterium (băk-tîr'ē-əm)"
9:Praying For Oblivion-Turm Schweigen
10:Various Artists-No Nazi Noise compilation put out by RJ Myato
11:Realicide Resisting- the Viral Self
12:Nyodene D- Good and Country tape
13:Dead Beef-"Pigs"
14:Bereft Your Messiah will Fail
15:Obskuria Drowing in a sea of green
16:Aun VII
17:Phantom  Smoke and Mirrors
18:Alex Durlak- Catalyst
19:Disco Hospital Hidden Driveway Ahead
20:K11 -Waiting for the Darkness
21:Manuscripts Don't Burn - The Breathing House
22:Minamo -Duree
23:Pontiak-Living
24:Tree- freed of this Flesh
25:White-Dog Harvestman
26: Blackhouse-25th Years Anniversary + Hope...

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