Wire 2004 Rewind

Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost Box Set
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
Fennesz - Venice
Deathprod - Deathprod
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Devendra Banhart - Rejoice In the Hands
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
Wilco - A Ghost is Born
PG Six - The Well Of Memory
Einstüzende Neubaten - Perpetuum Mobile
Athurl Russell - Calling Out Of Contest
Ellen Fullman & Konrad Sprenger - Ort
Brian Wilson - Smile
Akira Rabelais - Spelle...
Radian - Juxtaposition
Bark Psychosis - Codename : Dustsucker
Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
Keiji Haino - Black blues
Bkork - Medulla
Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori - Phantom Orchard
cLOUDDEAD - Ten
Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Rare Wood
Ramon Sender - Worldfood
Alvin Curran - Lost marbles
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Steve Harris & Zaum - Above Our Heads
The Hafler Trio - How To Slic A Loaf of Bread
Electrelane - The Power Out
Deerhoof - Milk Man
Antena - Camino Del Sol
MV + EE - Lunar Blues
Kazuo Imai - far & Wee
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
Kanye West - The College dropout
Boredoms - Seadrum/House Of Sun
Sunn0))) - White 2
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Anthony Braxton Quartet - 23 Standards
Rammellzee - Bi-Conicals Of The Rammellzee
Jack Rose - Raag Manifestos
Stereolab - Margarine Eclipse
Nick cave & The Bad Seeds - Abbatoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus
Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral
Keijia Haino - Next' Lets Try Changing The Shape
Niobe - Voodooluba
Soft Pink truth - Do You Want new Wave Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth
Thalia Zadek - Trust Not Those In Whom Without Some Touch Of madness
Tucker Martine - Broken hearted Dragonflies
Black Dice - Creature Comforts

Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral
Corrupted - se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos
Cul De Sac & Damo Suzuki - Abhayamudra
Coco Rosie - La Maison De Mon Reve
Excepter -- Ka
Josephine Foster & The Supposed - All the Leaves Are Gone
My Cat is An Alien/Various - From The Earth To the Spheres
The Stars - Will
Thee Silver Mountain Reveries - Pretty Little Lightning paw
Trapist - Ballroom

Critical Beats:

Ada - Blondie
Steve Barnes - Cosmic Sandwich
Donnacha Costello - Colour Series
Diplo & MIA - Piracy Funds Terrorism
Le Dust Sucker - Le Dust Sucker
Abe Duque & Blake Baxter - What Happened
Recloose - Cardiology
Ricardo Villalobos - The Au HaremD'Archimedes
Tim Wright - The Ride
Robag - Wruhme

DUB:
Mikey Dread
Dub Trio
Hightone
Keith Hudson
Iration Steppers
Wayne Jarrett
Little Tempo
Lee Perry
Slip-A-Cup Family
Various - Aquarius Rock

Electronica:
Bola
Coil
Dielectric Minimalist All Stars
Fennesz
Fourcolour
Icarus
Niobe
Pan Sonic
Akira Rabelais
Martin Siewert

HipHop:
Connoisseurs
Dangermouse
Diplo
Madvillain
The Federation
Jadakiss
Rob Sonic
Sixtoo Feat Damo Suzuki
Too Short
Kanye West

Jazz & Improv:
Alterations
Fred Anderson & hamid Drake
Gail Brand & Morgan Guberman
John Butcher & Toshimaru Nakamura
Steve Harris & Zaum
Charlotte Hug & Chantale laplante
Mattin & Radu Maifatti
+minus
Alex Von Schlippenbach
John Tilbury & Eddie Provost

Modern Comosition:
Harrison Birtwistle
Michael Von Biel
Henry Bryant -
Cornelius Cardew
James Dillon
Morton Feldman - Patterns In A Chromatic Field
Morton Feldman - Triadic Memories
Gyorgy Ligeti
James Tenney
Christian - Wolff

Outer Limits :
Steve Beresford
Andrew Chalk
Dead machines
John Duncan & Edvard Graham Lewis
Ellen fulman
Double Leopards
The Hafler Trio
Mats Gustafsson/Sonic Youth
Norbert Moslang
Wolf Eyes & Smegma

Also, where's Anniemal? ;)

Pbly the one-sided Isolée mix of the title track that came out on Playhouse?

i voted for dizzee, the streets, kanye, and ada. . . and rio baile funk, and some other stuff i'm forgetting.

(I'll get me coat)

simon's comments were a mini-grime primer weren't they?

this is on my mind a bit with the talk yesterday on blissblog about IDM being in supplication to ragga/crunk/grime/etc- surely the battle isn't 'won' until the 'dub' page starts covering music made in jamaica since 1979...

I am sometimes a little embarassed at how totally techno-centric my column has become, but fuck it.. that's what I think is good these days.

BTW, I never did vote for the Favela Funk comp anywhere in part because I don't think it's the best of the genre. I think a lot of people voted for the genre, not the specific comp. And while there are some great moments on there, I think there are others that are better. And odd rationale, perhaps, but there you go.

(Don't ask me why I'm so frequently defending myself against nonexistent accusations. The dialogue in my head seems especially voluble lately.)

i'd prefer snoop any day, that appalingly stupid wife beater track notwithstanding.

and where is wiley?

it's also quite the opposite of the claustrophobia my dichotomy comment might imply. (i don't know what claustrophobic psychedelia would be in this context, maybe that crazy basteroid record?)

i really like everything i've heard by steve barnes/process. the "another day" 12 is also phenomenal.

the tim wright album was good - an interesting mixture of detroitish techno (with a garnier touch, perhaps) and skippy two-step, but really big and meaty. but it alone never would have made my top 50, much less my top 10. no, the corker is luciano's mix (only available on 12"), which stretches it out, loses the skip, injects that weird psychedelic quality he's been flirting with lately, and then superimposes this fucked up, rap-like vocal, which he phases out of time across the stereo spectrum. it is monstruous and massive and every time i have ever played it out, people have lost their shit. i don't think i've ever heard anyone else play it, but the fucker is a joy to behold.

oh, i just found my review of tim wright's album, from the wire's "critical beats" column, june 2004. here you go.

DIN-ST
YAMU D’DIN
Schematic CD
TIM WRIGHT
THIRST
Novamute NOMU 106 CD

Berlin’s DIN-ST and London’s Tim Wright both seem to think that Techno would be better off with a bit more swing. As DJ Maxximus, DIN-ST released 2001’s “Mercedes Bentley vs Versace Armani,” a blistering breakstep track; Yamu D’Din is closer in spirit to the hardcore bombast of last year’s Club Goods EP. Fragmented electro patterns dissolve into DSP meltdowns, rhythms stop and start; it’s as if the crashing hard drive had been elevated to a performance tactic in its own right. But tunes like “Take Verithing,” an uneasy two-step track anchored by black hole bass, assume responsibility for the dance floor with all the gravitas of Atlas shouldering the globe. Wright, with a similar love of dark bass stabs and whipcrack snares, comes from some parallel plane where breakbeat hardcore and hard Techno never parted ways. Reynolds’s term “avant yob” probably applies here – what else could account for the sly substitution of an elephant’s bellow for the typical rave siren? Wright plows through fierce, two-steppy Techo, overdriven darkcore drum’n’bass, and skippy, sample-free analog garage with gusto (and without irony). Where DIN-ST constantly suggests alternatives to dominant forms, only to change his mind and try another tack after a few minutes, Wright forges ahead as though history were on his side.

as for doc martin: i've been banging on for a while now about how elitist european house is veering closer and closer to west coast deep house. anyway you might want to start with these mixes: unlock your mind and sounds you can feel.

sorry to derail the thread.

It's odd that this is a controversial point to make - Doc Martin, Derrick Carter/Classic Records, Mei Lwun/Andy Caldwell... I would have thought it quite clear that these were all only just on the other side of Music For Freaks from all the German stuff. Swag's another good example, albeit from the UK I think.

I don't know, I think they picked some interesting people for their opinions. Arto Lindsay, Christopher Cox, Dennis Cooper.

i know i've been beating this dead horse for years, so forgive me, all who are sick of my single-issue campaign.