Best Of 2014 [2014-12-18] 2014 has been another excellent year for music & sound in all of it’s many genres. Below you’ll find a list of releases that really meant something to our writers over the last 12 months.Roger Batty (Site owner, Editor, reviewer & article writer) 1: Albert Ayler - The Albert Ayler Story [ESP Disk] 2: Steve Roach - Structures From Silence-30th Anniversary 3CD Edition [Projekt] 3: Vomir - Deliverance - The Living Dead Noise Box [Victimology Records] 4:Bleak Existence - Love Earth Hate People [Narcolepsia] 5:Fantome De Sang - Desespoir [Vomit Bucket Productions] 6:Figures Of Solitude - The Night Watchman [Bad Rip Series/ Ink Runs Recordings] 7: Peter Ablinger - Augmented Studies [World Edition] 8: Where Is This - Stumbling Lips [Ink Runs Recordings] 9: Glottalstop - Woodsmoke [Tartaruga] 10: Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestite [Artemisia Records] 11: Cosmic Noise Waves / Ataraxy - Valles Marineris [Vomit Bucket Productions] 12: Nar - Vlad [Self Release] 13: I Watched You Die - Watching My Body Burn- 12 Suicides vol 4 [Altar Of Waste] 14: Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus [Season of Mist] 15: Frank Lowe Quartet-OUT LOUD [Triple Point Records] 16: Thewhitehorse - The Returned Man [Vagary Records] 17: Halo Manash - Caickuwi Cauwas Walkeus[Aural Hypnox] 18: Mortualia - Blood of the Hermit [Moribund Records] 19: Rutger Zuydervelt - Stayed Tune [Baskaru] 20: Nightmare Castle - Potential Psycho [Bored Bear Recordings] 21: Dawn - Nær Sólen Gar Niþer For Evogher [Century Media] 22: Sadistic Fall - The Ruined Castle [Ink Runs Records] 23: Roger Ruskin Spear - Electric Shocks [Esoteric Records/Cherry Red] 24: Superslient-12[Rune Grammofon] 25: Small Hours/ Clive Henry - Split [Self Release] 26: Ennio Morricone - Una Lucertola Con La Pelle Di Donna [Beat Records ] 27: Auditor - When I Was A Little Kid I Was Just Like Anyone Else [Altar Of Waste] 28: Electric Wizard- Time To Die [Spinefarm Records] 29: Bisclaveret - Theu Anagnosis [Zoharum/Steinklang Industries] 30: Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik: German Home Recording Tape Music Of The 1980s[ Finder Keepers] Josh Landry (review & article writer) 1. Hakkah - Libalayera Entrance [Ektoplazm] 2. Spruce - Bel Vys Osma [Anomalistic Records] 3. Pyrrhon - The Mother of Virtues [Relapse Records] 4. Aphex Twin - Syro [Warp Records] 5. Flucturion 2.0 - Fluid [KissTheSound Records] 6. Mastodon - Once More Around the Sun [Reprise Records] 7. Reizoko CJ - Deafening Blast EP [Independent] 8. The Mixing Chef - Intense Meditative Trip Sessions Vol. 2 & 3 [Cyan Music] 9. Dekhat Bhuli & Babas [Samana Records] 10. Steve Roach & Kelly David - The Long Night [Projekt] 11. (Avey Tare's) Slasher Flicks - Enter the Slasher House [Domino Records] 12. VA - Not A Fairytale [Lunatic Alien Records] 13. Romeodark - Fragments [Jellyfish Frequency Recordings] 14. Cynic - Kindly Bent to Free Us [Season of Mist Records] 15. Bly de Blyant - Hindsight Bias [Hubro Records] 16. Neutral Motion - Zero Point Field [Wild Things Records] 17. Quadrant, Iris, Homemade Weapons & D-Struct - Pembroke / Sexy Beam [12"] [Intrigue Music] 18. VA - Passing Through Vol. 1 [N-Joi Music] 19. Shamanizm Parallelii - The World in a Drop of Rain [Neogoa] 20. Bogtrotter - Catawompus EP [Shanti Planti] 21. Dastardly - All Outta Sorts EP [Wormhole Music Group] 22. VA - Heart of Goa [2xCD] [Ovnimoon Records] 23. Perkulat0r - Transcension [Gravitas Recordings] 24. Invid Mind - Inimaginable EP [Alkhimia Records & Anomalistic Records] 25. Cristian Vogel - Polyphonic Beings [Shitkatapult] 26. Flembaz - Wild Horse EP [Blind Arc] 27. Juicy Bits - Moon Sine [Ektoplazm] 28. Urban Fury - Quadron Obdema [Ektoplazm] 29. Casualties of Cool [Hevydevy Records] 30. The Westerlies / Wayne Horvitz - Wish the Children Would Come On Home [Songlines Recordings] Martin P(review & article writer) 1:Aby Ngana Diop - Liital (Awesome Tapes From Africa) 2:Albert Ayler - The Albert Ayler Story (ESP Disk) 3:Ataraxy – Cyanobacteria (Vomit Bucket Productions) 4:Caustic Window - Caustic Window (Rephlex) 5:Dave Phillips – Homo Animalis (Schimpfluch Associates) 6:Dave Seidel: ~60 Hz (Irritable Hedgehog) 7:Diane Cluck - Boneset (important records) 8:Dominic Lash/Will Montgomery - Real As Any Place You’ve Been/Thames Water Live (Every Contact Leaves A Trace) 9:Fatgirl – A Failure To Pause (Corpse-Grained Series) 10:Fugazi - First Demo (Dischord) 11:GRY SMK - Rendition (Altar Of Waste) 12:Krokofant - Krokofant (Rune Grammofon) 13:Martyr Of Sores - Yesterday Morning...By The Hand (H Series hnw) 14:Nawa – Ancient Sufi Invocations & Forgotten Songs From Aleppo (Electric:Cowbell Records/Lost Origin Sound Series) 15:Nightmare Castle/Robert Ridley-Shackleton - Split (Hissing Frames) 16:Nurse Unit - Town Life (H Series hnw) 17:Pauline Oliveros - Reverberations: Tape & Electronic music 1961-1970 (Important Records) 18:Rudolf Eb.er - Brainnectar (Schimpfluch Associates) 19:Seth Cooke - Sightseer (Organized Music From Thessaloniki) 20:Shift - Altamont Rising (Cold Spring/Unrest Productions) 21:Sleaford Mods - Divide And Exit (Harbinger Sound) 22:Slint - Spiderland Boxset (Touch And Go) 23:Tavshed - Ramt (Bad Rip Series) 24:Various - Hard Panning (Triangle/Somnolent Shelter Records) 25:Various - Hatred Is Nothing Without Action (Unrest Productions) 26:Various - Separated (Urine Soaked Rag) 27: Various - Voodoo Walls From Slow Death Records (Nahàsh Atrym Productions) 28:Washington Phillips – What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? (Mississippi Records) 29:Werewolf Jerusalem – Church Songs (H Series Hnw) 30:Wires & Relays – Wires & Relays (Turmeric Magnitudes) Hal Harmon(review & article writer) 1:Various - Big Florida Noise Compilation [HalTapes] 2:Ahlzadevelopr - Collaboration [Factotum Tapes] 3:Ozone Leash - Sur Les Terres Du Metal Mort [Brise-Cul Records] 4:AODL - Debris of Romanticism [Rive] 5:Human Fluid Rot - Simplicity is Destiny [Saint Petersburg Institute of Noise] 6:xAllxForxThisx - This is the Disease You Chose [FTAM] 7:Newton - Untitled (INC 2014) [Breathmint Recordings] 8:Failures - Decline and Fall [Youth Attack] 9:Puce Mary - Persona [Posh Isolation] 10:Full of Hell & Merzbow - Full of Hell & Merzbow [Profound Lore Records] 11:Black Beast of Arrrghhh/Su Sous Toulouse en Rouge - Split (reissue) [Saint Petersburg Institute of Noise] 12:Orphan Fairytale - My Favorite Fairytale [Aguirre Records] 13::Trepaneringsritualen - Perfection & Permanence [Cold Spring] 14Juice Machine - Spiritual Nutrition [Dumpster Score] 15:Facialmess/Developer - Split [Factotum Tapes] 16:No Faith - Dead Weight [Clean Plate] 17:Waves Crashing Piano Chords - Childhood [Bookend Recordings] 18:Hal McGee & Black Beast of Arrrghhh - Hal McGee vs. Black Beast of Arrrghhh [HalTapes] 19:Breakdancing Ronald Reagan - Trip Metal [Self-released] 20:Clotting - Sensory Secretion [Self-Released] 21:Power Monster - Love is a Lie [Altar of Waste] 22:Mass Control - Raven in Reactor’s Shadow [Self-Released] 23:Parasyte - Demo MMXIV [Self-released] 24:Path to Lobster Believers/Su Sous Toulouse en Rouge - Split [Saint Petersburg Institute of Noise] 25:Bagman - Welcome to My Fucking Misery(reissue) [Crucial Blast] 26:The Rita - Ballet Feet Positions [Old Europa Cafe] 27:Trumans Water/Octagrape/Permanent Makeup - Lotions & Creams [Ghoulhouse Records] 28:Aube - Substructural Penetration (reissue) [Iris Light] 29:Pharmakon - Bestial Burden [Sacred Bones] 30:“Weird Al” Yankovic- Mandatory Fun [RCA] Paul Casey(review & article writer) 1:Wand - Ganglion Reef 2:Donnie & Joe Emerson - Still Dreamin' Wild: The Lost Recordings 1979-1981 3:Boris - Noise 4:King Buzzo - This Machine Kills Artists 5:V/A - Hard Panning 6:Richard Ramirez - In Passing 7:Outer Space - Phantom Center 8:NUM SKULL - Ritually Abused 9:Melted Toys - S/T 10:V/A - Bay Area Retrograde V.1 & 2 11:Death - Leprosy (Deluxe Reissue) 12:Glottalstop - Woodsmoke 13:Gravecode Nebula - Sempiternal Void 14:Die Antwoord - Donker Mag 15:Skullflower - Draconis 16:Dissecting Table - Ultra Box 17:Bitchneck - No Power 18:Cripple Bastards - Nero In Metastasi 19:Contact - First Contact 20:Hal Hutchinson - Wreckage Installations & Metalworks 21:Lewis - L'Amour 22:Requiem - Provenance 23:Shift - Altamont Rising Tyler L( review & article writer) 1. Noble Beast – Noble Beast 2. Darkspace – III I 3. Nightbringer – Ego Dominus Tuus 4. Slugdge – Gastronomicon 5. Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta III 6. Mare Cognitum – Phobos Monolith 7. Gridlink – Longhena 8. Ilfing – Against This Weald 9. Sargeist – Feeding the Crawling Shadows 10. Varathron – Untrodden Corridors of Hate 11. Thantifaxath – Sacred White Noise 12. Panopticon – Roads to the North 13. Innsmouth – Consumed by Elder Sign 14. Woods of Desolation – As the Stars 15. Folge dem Wind – To Summon Twilight 16. Horrendous - Ecdysis 17. 13th Moon – Abhorrence of Light 18. Sammath – Godless Arrogance 19. Skáphe – Skáphe 20. Satanic Warmaster – Fimbulwinter 21. Bastard Sapling – Instinct is Forever 22. Entartung – Peccata Mortalia 23. Death Fortress – Among the Ranks of the Unconquerable 24. Eastern Front – Descent into Genocide 25. Triumphant –Herald the Unsung 26. Coltsblood – Into the Unfathomable Abyss 27. Young and in the Way – When Life Comes to Death 28. Midnight – No Mercy for Mayhem 29. Moloch – Verwüstung 30. Vader – Tibi Et Igni Viktorya Kaufholz (review & article writer) 1. Epistasis- Light Through Dead Glass 2. Blut Aus Nord- Memoria Vetusta III Saturnian Poetry 3. Nebelung- Palingenisis 4. Blood Bright Star- The Silver Head 5. Sabbath Assembly- Quaternity 6. Kriegsmaschine- Enemy of Man 7. Blood Farmers- Headless Eyes 8. Kyle Bobby Dunn- Kyle Bobby Dunn and the Infinite Sadness 9. S.T.A.B. Electronics- Instrument For Operating On Mutant Women 10. Coffinworm- IV.I.VIII 11. Blut Aus Nord/P.H.O.B.O.S- Triunity 12. Nightbringer- Ego Dominus Tuus 13. Dry Insides- Sacrifice 14. Dead Congregation- Promulgation of the Fall 15. Thantifaxath- Sacred White Noise 16. Wrekmeister Harmonies-Then It All Came Down 17. Insomnium-Shadows of the Dying Sun 18. Kampfar- Djevelmakt 19. Godflesh- A World Lit Only By Fire 20. Svartidaudi- The Synthesis of Whore and Beast 21. Sun O))) & Ulver- Terrestrials 22. Agalloch- The Serpent and The Sphere 23. Lawrence English- Wilderness of Mirrors 24. Scott Miller/Lee Camfield/Merzbow- No Closure 25. Doctor Livingstone- Contemptus Saeculi 26. Tycho- Awake 27. Mayhem-Esoteric Warfare 28. Jacaszek &Kwartludium- Catalogue des Arbes 29. Kuolemanlaakso- Tulijoutsen 30. Triptykon- Melana Chasmata
Duncan Simpson(review & article writer) 1:Erik Truffaz & Murcof - Being Human Being (Mundo Recordings) 2:Grouper - Ruins (Kranky) 3:Lumen Drones - S/T (ECM) 4:Ketil Bjørnstad - A Passion for John Donne (ECM) 5:Supersilent - 12 (Rune Grammofon) 6:Future Sound of London - Environment 5 (FSOLDIGITAL) 7:The Soundcarriers - Entropicalia (Ghost Box) 8:Micha Jacaszek - Catalogue des Arbres (Touch) 9:Nils Petter Molvaer - Switch (Sula Recordings) 10: Dalhous – Will to be well (Blackest Ever Black) 11:Deaf Center – Recount (Sonic Pieces) 12:Erik K Skodvin – Flame (Sonic Pieces) 13:Janek Schaefer – Lay-by Lullaby (12K) 14:Lussuria - Industriale Illuminato (Hospital Productions) 15:Neotantrik – Blue Amiga (Pre-Cert) 16:Pinkcourtesyphone – Description of Problem (Line Segments) 17:Wife – What’s Between (Tri-Angle) 18:The Advisory Circle - From Out Here (Ghost Box) 19:David Sylvian - There's a Light That Enters Houses With no Other House in Sight (Samadhisound) 20:Current 93 - I am the Last of all the Field that Fell 21:Lawrence English + Stephen Vitiello - Fable (Room40) 22:Lawrence English - Wilderness of Mirrors (Room40) 23:David Shea - Rituals (Room40) 24:David Chaim Smith, Bill Laswell, John Zorn - The Dream Membrane (Tzadik) 25:Swans - To be Kind (Mute) 26:Black Rain - Dark Pool (Blackest Ever Black) 27:Shivers - S/T (Miasmah) 28:Fhloston Paradigm - The Phoenix (Hyperdub) 29:FKA Twigs - LP1 (Young Turk Recordings) 30:Ensemble Economique - Melt Into Nothing (Denovali) Russell Cuzner(review & article writer) 1:Russell Haswell & Pain Jerk: Electroacoustic Sludge Dither Transformation Smear Grind Decomposition nO!se File Exchange Mega Edit (Editions Mego) 2:Skullflower: Draconis (Cold Spring) 3:Einstürzende Neubauten: Lament (Mute) 4:Hildur Gudnadottir: Saman (Touch) 5:Fire! Orchestra: Enter (Rune Grammofon) 7:The Bug: Angels & Devils (Ninja Tune) 8:Swans: To Be Kind (Young God Records) 9:Andrew Chalk: Circle of Days (Faraway Press) 10:Aphex Twin: Syro (Warp) 11:Gallon Drunk: Soul of the Hour (Clouds Hill) 12:Andrew Liles: The Maleficent Monster & Other Macabre Stories (Blackest Rainbow Records) 13:Laibach: Spectre (Mute) 14:English Heretic: The Underworld Service (self-released) 15:Drew Mulholland: The Norwood Variations (self-released) 16:én: op.80530 (Peripheral Conserve) 17:irr. app. (ext.): I Made This For Someone Else, But They Didn't Want It, So I'm Giving It To You Instead (Errata In Excelsis) 18:Current 93: I Am the Last Of All the Field That Fell (Coptic Cat) 19:Carter Tutti: Carter Tutti Remix Chris & Cosey (CTI) 20:Ian Middleton: Well of Sorrows (Skire) 21:Kemper Norton: Loor (Front & Follow) 22:Human Greed: World Fair (Omnempathy) 23:Gustavo Santaolalla: Camino (Masterworks) 24:Nurse With Wound/Graham Bowers: ExcitoToxicity (Red Wharf) 25:BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteya/Anla Courtis: Golden Circle Afternoon (Editions Mego) 26:Cut Hands: Festival of the Dead (Blackest Ever Black) 27:Anjou: Anjou (Kranky) 28:Scorpion Bowl: b-sides: 1978-1983 (claderec) 29:Francisco López: The Epoché Collection - Vol. 1-3 (self-released) 30:Darren Tate: Secret Mantra (Fungal) 31:Peter Christopherson: Time Machines II (Threshold House Various
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