Music I really dug and/or listened to a lot of in 2008:
Plastic City label (Jean Thibault! The Timewriter!)
Kompakt & Kompakt Pop & Kompakt Speicher labels
Burial and Hyperdub label, in general
Shackleton and Skull Disco label
v/a – The Modernist presents Popular Songs mix and 12″
Massive Attack – Blue Lines
Kawabata Makoto
Ivy, as ever
2 Many DJs- As Heard On Radio Soulwax mix series
Windy & Carl (Windy Weber – I Hate People on peacock splatter vinyl!)
Porno For Pyros – s/t
E.S.G. – A South Bronx Story
James White & The Blacks – Off White
Samiyam – Rap Beats Vol. 1
Aki Tsuyuko and Childisc Records in general
Everything But The Girl, as ever
Gina X Performance – Nice Mover (black sheep!)
Brendon Moeller – Electricity 12″
Nitzer Ebb circa ‘87-’88
Sheep On Drugs – Greatest Hits
The B-52’s – Cosmic Thing
Gas – Nah Und Fern
Fern Kinney – Groove Me 12″ (OMFGdisco)
Drinking Electricity (what a great ’80s band name)
Quietus Recordings
CV313 – Subtraktive 12″ (thankfully reissued, since I missed the tiny-edition-of-100-copies 3″ CD version last year..)
Intrusion – Tswana Dub 12″
Alexander Kowalski – Response
Rino Cerrone – Rilis 12″ series
The Advent
v/a – Disco Not Disco : Post Punk, Electro and Leftfield Disco Classics (Maximum Joy!)
Arthur Russell & Loose Joints
Polaris – Music From The Adventures of Pete & Pete
80z Guy’s Rare Hits of the 80s torrent series (Sophie & Peter Johnston! Friends! The Passions!)
Jan Jelinek – Kosmicher Pitch
The Dark Side Of Disco 12″ series
Iz & Diz 12″s
British Murder Boys (All The Saints Have Been Hung 12″!)
Styrax Leaves label (In Loving Memory 12″ series!)
Echocord label
Chicago Acid House, in general
Larry Heard (When Summer Comes 12″!)
Jahtari netlabel
Blind Melon – s/t
The Dead Milkmen (joejacktalcum.com bootleg of the month!)
Lots of other stuff too, and maybe a few too embarassing to mention here…
I’ve got a Sirius radio unit but 99% of the time I’m using it to listen to Howard Stern…
Let the music hit you, you won’t feel no pain…
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