SIMcommander 2009 list

As allways making lists is asking for trouble. I really try to keep up during the year   (I even have a file on my desktop the whole year on named toplist!!). What do I listen to, what stays on my turntables, ipod. Sometimes I listen to a track to long so I bore myself (stupid) and some tracks stay in my head forever.
This year was great for the abstract beats and everything that developed from this. Dubstep as a genre is becoming problematic: to harsh, not subtle, to much copying formulas and then again people like Kryptic Minds (just didn’t get my list, place 21) and some others like Akira Kiteshi were amazing but Skweee really did it for me. The adventure is great, going from funk to idm-ish to dubstep-ish! But the most amazing track was Sluga’s rework of Pharoah Monchs Simon Says. All lists in no order…!

12″
JAMIE VEX’D – In System Travel EP (Planet Mu)
MARK PRITCHARD & OM’MAS KEITH – Wind It Up (Planet Mu)
SLUGABED / COCO BRYCE – Myor 02 (Myor)
DEBRUIT – Let’s Post Funk (Civil Music)
DVA – The Gimp Mask EP (download @ dubplate)
NEIL LANDSTRUMM / RUSTIE – Jagz The Smack / Neil Landstrumm Remix (Stuff Records)
UNTOLD – Stop What Your Doing (James Blake Remix) (Hemlock)
JOY ORBISON – Hyph Mngo (Hotflush)
RUSTIE – Bad Science (Wireblock)
JOKER – Do It / Psychedelic Runway (Kapsize)
INVASION VS SHACKLETON – Wizards In Dub (This Is Less Music)
PROFISEE / EPROM – Zoning (Cloak & Dagger)
HYBAKUSHA – Gameboy Lover (Lo-fi funk)
BD1982 – Shotta Pon the Corner/Space Boots (Suclusiasis)
AKIRA KITESHI – Pinbal / Noglitch (Black Acre)
MONO/POLY – The George Machine EP (Faces Records)
KELPE – Microscope Contents (DC recordings)
OFFSHORE – Offshore EP (Stuff records)
SOOM T – Dirty Money (Jahtari)
NASTYNASTY – The Reef (Frite Nite)

With the LP’s/CDs it was as difficult. I tried to concentrate on the stuff which got stuck in my ipod and cdplayer. I also played a lot of Beirut, The 3EP by Shackleton, ATOM TM, SND on Raster Noton, and stuff like DIRTY PROJECTORS and the Girls are to fresh to decide if they would end up in my list. Moritz Von Oswald Trio was oke but in the end not enough playtime, like ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, Shafiq Husayn, SUNN O))).

LP’s
HARMONIC 313 – When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence  (Warp)
MULATU ASTATKE / THE HELIOCENTRICS - Inspiration Information 3 (Strutt)
NEIL LANDSTRUMM - Bambaataa Eats His Breakfast (Planet Mu)
DORIAN CONCEPT – When Planets Explode  (Kindred Spirits}
RANDY BARRACUDA – Randy Barracuda  (Flogsta Danshall)
FEVER RAY – Fever Ray (Rabid)
THE XX – The XX (Young Turks)
YO LA TENGO – Popular Songs [Matador]
INVASION – The Master Alchemist (This Is Less Music)
MIKE SLOTT – Lucky 9teen (Lucky Me)
ROBOT KOCH – Death Star Droid (Project: Mooncircle / HHV.DE)
DISRUPT – The Bass Has Left The Building (Jahtari)
EXILE – Radio (Plug Research)
OH NO – Music Library vol 1 (Now Again)
MAJOR LAZER – Major Lazer (Mad Decent)
PAUL WHITE – Strange Dreams (One-Handed)
Q-TIP – Kamaal the abstract (Jive)
J DILLA – Jay Stay Paid (Nature Sounds)
GASLAMP KILLER - I spit on your grave (Low end theory)
RAS G – Brotha From Anotha Planet (Brainfeeder)

Compilers / Mix CD’s
dødpop vol. 1 (dødpop)
INTERNATIONAL SKWEEE vol 2 (Harmönia)
SKWEEE TOOTH (Ramp Recordings)
EARTH 616: Winter samplers (EARTH 616)
TROUBLE & BASS Scion Sampler (Trouble & Bass)
EDAN Echo Party (Five Day Weekend)
SHACKLETON / VARIOUS Soundboy’s Gravestone Gets Desecrated By Vandals (Skull Disco)
7×7 BEAT (All City)
HELIOCENTRICS Fallen Angels the Singles Collection (Now Again)
BEAT DIMENSIONS Vol 2 (Rushhour)

Next to this list I went to a lot of great parties and concerts. The best for ages has been Kode9 with Spaceape at Bimhuis in Amsterdam. It was the most generous exciting trip! The first Gaslamp Killer show in Trouw was amazing as was the Akira Kiteshi show at Lowriders. Lunice and Hovatron‘s bash at Raw Rhythm was a blast.
Too many good mixtapes in 2009. The Skweee tape of Metske, an AK mixtape and the Kidkanevil for ML comes to mind as the ones that realy stuck!
Rediscovered my Basic Channel and dubtechno collection, my Raveonettes and new beat, re-read my regae books. It was a busy year….