Bests of 2010
Best of 2010
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...