2007 Rewind

50 Records Of The Year

Robert Wyatt Comicopera (Domino)
Burial Untrue (Hyperdub)
Panda Bear Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
OM Pilgrimage (Southern Lord)
LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver (DFA/EMI)
Von Südenfed Tromatic Reflexxions (Domino)
Pram The Moving Frontier (Domino)
MIA Kala (XL)
Battles Mirrored (Warp)
Ricardo Villalobos Fabric (36 Fabric)
Grinderman Grinderman (Mute)
Kassin+2 Futurismo (Luaka Bop)
Matthew Dear Asa Breed (Ghostly)
Strategy Future Rock (Kranky)
Laub Deinetwegen (AGF Producktion)
Björk Volta (One Little Indian)
Pole Steingarten (~Scape)
Harmonia Live 1974 (Grönland)
John Butcher The Geometry Of Sentiment (Emanem)
Akio Suzuki K7 Box (ALM)
Deerhunter Cryptograms (Kranky)
Lil’ Wayne Da Drought 3 (mixtape) (NO label)
Peter Evans Quartet Peter Evans Quartet (Firehouse 12)
James Blackshaw The Cloud Of Unknowing (Tompkins Square)
Kemialliset Ystävät Kemialliset Ystävät (Fonal)
Pandit Pran Nath Raga Cycle Sri (Moonshine)
Flower-Corsano Duo The Radiant Mirror (Textile)
Electrelane No Shouts, No Calls (Too Pure)
Zeitkratzer & Lou Reed Metal Machine Music (Asphodel)
Gudrun Gut I Put A Record On (Monika Enterprise)
Marnie Stern In Advance Of The Broken Arm (Kill Rock Stars)
Throbbing Gristle Part Two: The Endless Not (Mute)
Rhys Chatham The Crimson Grail (Table Of The Elements)
Radiohead In Rainbows (www.inrainbows.com/xl)
The Focus Group We Are All Pan’s People (Ghost Box)
The Terminals Last Days Of The Sun (Last Visible Dog)
Sightings Through The Panama (Load)
Anthony Braxton 9 Compositions Iridium 2006 (Firehouse 12)
Steve Jansen Slope (SamadhiSound)
Haswell & Hecker Blackest Ever Black (Warner Classics)
Colleen Les Ondes Silencieuses (Leaf)
Dial 168K (Cede)
Wooden Shjips Wooden Shjips (Holy Mountain)
fORCH Spin Networks (Psi)
PJ Harvey White Chalk (Island)
Hanne Hukkelberg Rykestrasse 68 (Nettwerk)
Susan Howe & David Grubbs Souls Of The Labadie Tract (Blue Chopsticks)
Lichens Omns (Kranky)
Low Drums And Guns (Sub Pop)
Frank Bretschneider Rhythm (Raster-Noton)

Genre Charts A–Z

Avant Rock

Sir Richard Bishop Polytheistic Fragments (Drag City)
Loren Connors The Hymn Of The North Star (Family Vineyard)
Ghost In Stormy Nights (Drag City)
High On Fire Death Is This Communion (Relapse)
Kousokuya Ray Night (Ray Night Music)
Liars Liars (Mute)
Mouthus Saw A Halo (Load)
MV & EE With The Bummer Road Green Blues (Ecstatic Peace)
Six Organs Of Admittance Shelter From The Ash (Drag City)
Yellow Swans At All Ends (Load)

Critical Beats

Benga Crunked Up (Tempa)
Blackdown & Dusk The Bitz (Keysound)
The Bug Featuring Flowdan Skeng (Hyperdub)
Durrty Goodz Axiom Ep (No Label)
Petre Inspirescu Tips (Cadenza)
Junior Boys Like A Child (Carl Craig Remix) (Domino)
Kalabrese Rumpelzirkus (Stattmusik)
Thomas Melchior No Disco Future (Perlon)
Shackleton Blood On My Hands (Ricardo Villalobos Apocalypso)
Now Mix) (Skull Disco)
Skull Disco Soundboy’s Ashes Get Chopped Up And Snorted (Skull Disco)

Dub

Bullwackies Allstars Free For All (Wackies)
Disrupt Foundation Bit (Werk)
D-Roy Band Mawamba Dub (D-Roy/Badda Music)
Keith Hudson Nu Skin Up (Pressure Sounds)
Kiddus I Rockers: Graduation In Zion (Dub Store)
Carlton Patterson Meets King Tubby Black And White In Dub (Hot Pot)
Lee Perry & The Upsetters Ape-Ology (Trojan)
The Revolutionaries Drum Sound: More Gems From The Channel One Dub Room 1974–1980 (Pressure Sounds)
King Tubby Meets Aggrovators At Dub Station (Trojan)
Wailing Souls Classic Cuts 1978–1984 (Greensleeves)


Electronica

Deepchord Presents Echospace The Coldest Season (Modern Love)
Thomas Fehlmann Hönigpumpe (Kompakt)
Fennesz & Sakamoto Cendre (Touch)
Giuseppe Ielasi August (12k)
Murcof Cosmos (Leaf)
September Collective All The Birds Were Anarchists (Mosz)
Signal Robot (Raster-Noton)
Andy Stott Fear Of Heights Ep (Modern Love)
Underground Resistance Electronic Warfare 2.0 (Underground Resistance)
Uusitalo Karhunainen (Huume)

Global
Tony Allen Moyege (Mark Ernestus Mix) & Ole (Moritz Von Oswald Mix) (Honest Jons)
Bob Brozman Lumiere (Riverboat)
Extra Golden Hera Ma Nono (Thrill Jockey)
Group Doueh Guitar Music From The Western Sahara (Sublime Frequencies)
Group Ineane Guitars From Agadez (Sublime Frequencies)
Abdel Hadi Halo & The El Gusto Orchestra Of Algiers Abdel Hadi Halo & The El Gusto Orchestra Of Algiers (Honest Jons)
Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex & Guests Moa Anbessa (Terp)
Mohammed Jimmy Mohammed Hulgizey: Always, Forever (Terp)
Omar Souleyman Highway To Hassake: Folk And Pop Sounds Of Syria (Sublime Frequencies)
Rachid Taha Diwan 2 (Wrasse)

Jazz & Improv

Derek Bailey Standards (Tzadik)
Anthony Braxton 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (Firehouse 12)
John Butcher The Geometry Of Sentiment (Emanem)
Peter Evans Quartet Peter Evans Quartet (Firehouse 12)
Susie Ibarra’s Electric Kulintang Dialects (PR)
The Necks Townsville (ReR)
William Parker & Hamid Drake Piercing The Veil Aum (Fidelity)
Cato Salsa Experience/The Thing/Joe Mcphee Two Bands And A Legend (Smalltown Superjazzz)
Matthew Shipp Piano Vortex (Thirsty Ear)
David S Ware Quartet Renunciation Aum (Fidelity)

Hiphop

Black Milk Popular Demand (Fat Beats)
Coughee Brothaz Waitin’ Our Turn Coughee (Brothaz Entertainment)
Devin The Dude Featuring Snoop & Andre 3000 What A Job (Rap-A-Lot)
Flying Lotus Reset Ep (Warp)
Jay-Z American Gangster (Roc-A-Fella)
Lil’ Wayne Da Drought 3 (Mixtape) (No Label)
7L & RaZor Bladerunners (Five Day Weekend)
Shape Of Broad Minds Craft Of The Lost Art (Lex)
Trim Soulfood Vol 2 (No Label)
UGK Featuring OutKast International Players Anthem (Ear 2 Da Street)

Modern Composition

Earle Brown Tracer (Mode)
Philip Corner Extreme Positions (New World)
Morton Feldman String Quartet No 1 (Hat Art)
Morton Feldman Three Voices (Col Legno)
Jonathan Harvey Angels (Soupir Editions)
Jonathan Harvey Choral Music (Soupir Editions)
Tim Hodgkinson Sketch Of Now (Mode)
Mauricio Kagel Quirinus’ Liebeskuss (Winter & Winter)
Karlheinz Stockhausen Stimmung (Harmonia Mundi)
Charles Wuorinen Cyclops 2000/A Reliquary For Igor Stravinsky (London Sinfonietta)

Outer Limits

Astral Social Club Neon Pibroch (Important)
Axolotl Memory Theatre (Important)
Eyes And Arms Of Smoke A Religion Of Broken Bones (Cenotaph)
Henry Flynt Nova’billy (Locust)
Ben Frost Theory Of Machines (Bedroom Community)
Moha! Norwegianism (Rune Grammofon)
Charlotte Moorman Cello Anthology (Alga Marghen)
Charlemagne Palestine The Golden Mean (Shiin)
RST Other Machines Celebrate (PSI Phenomenon)
Stephen Vitiello Listening To Donald Judd (Sub Rosa)

Compilations

Achilifunk: Gipsy Soul 1969–1979 (Lovemonk)
After Dark (Italians Do It Better/Troubleman)
DJ Dixon: Body Language Vol 4 (Get Physical)
Box Of Dub: Dubstep And Future Dub (Soul Jazz)
Brazil 70: After Tropicalia: New Directions In Brazilian Music In The 1970s (Soul Jazz)
Broken Flag: A Retrospective 1982–1985 (Vinyl On Demand)
Cries From The Midnight Circus: Ladbroke Grove 1967–1978 (Castle)
Doom & Gloom: Early Songs Of Angst And Disaster 1927–1945 (Trikont)
Larm: From Mouth Cavity To Laptop (Kning Disk)
Mute Audio Documents 1978–1984 (Mute)
Psychedelic Phinland: Finnish Hippie And Underground Music 1967–1974 (Love)
Remove Celebrity Centre (Junior Aspirin)
Savage Pencil Presents Lion Vs Dragon In Dub (Trojan)
Silver Monk Time: A Tribute To The Monks (Play Loud!)
Skull Disco: Soundboy Punishments (Skull Disco)


Reissues

Neil Campbell Sol Powr (Mundane Music)
Miles Davis The Complete On The Corner Sessions (Sony)
Vladislav Delay Multila (Huume)
Fairport Convention Liege And Lief (Island)
Noah Howard The Black Ark (Bo’weavil)
Keith Hudson Brand (Pressure Sounds)
Annea Lockwood Early Works 1967–82 (Em)
Ju Suk Reet Meate Solo 78/79 (De Stijl)
Nico The Frozen Borderline: 1968–1970 (Rhino)
Daphne Oram Oramics (Paradigm)
Pentangle The Time Has Come (Castle)
Eliane Radigue Jetsun Mila (Lovely Music)
Terry Riley Music For The Gift (Elision Fields)
Terry Riley Poppy Nogood And The Phantom Band All Night Flight)
(Elision Fields)
Seefeel Quique Redux Edition (Too Pure)
Sly & The Family Stone There’s A Riot Goin’ On (Epic)
Sun Ra Strange Strings (Atavistic Unheard Music Series)
Sun Ra The Complete Disco 3000 Concert (Art Yard)
Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth (Domino)




The Electorate

This year’s charts were compiled from the votes of the following contributors (with individual records of the year shown in brackets): Jennifer Allan (Ghost: In Stormy Nights) Steve Barker (Disrupt: Foundation Bit) Mike Barnes (Murcof: Cosmos) Clive Bell (Robert Wyatt: Comicopera) Lisa Blanning (Strategy: Future Rock) Abi Bliss (Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam) Marcus Boon (The Reveries: Play The Music Of Sade) Nick Cain (Haswell & Hecker: Blackest Ever Black) Philip Clark (Tim Hodgkinson: Sketch Of Now) Mia Lily Clarke (PJ Harvey: White Chalk) Julian Cowley (John Butcher: The Geometry Of Sentiment) Christoph Cox (Francisco López: Wind) Alan Cummings (Akio Suzuki: K7 Box) Jon Dale (Róisín Murphy: Overpowered) Sam Davies (The Field: Here We Go Sublime) Mark Fisher (Burial: Untrue) Phil Freeman (Baroness: Red Album) Susanna Glaser (Matthew Dear: Asa Breed) James Goggin (Strategy: Future Rock) Louise Gray (Grinderman: Grinderman) Andy Hamilton (Karlheinz Stockhausen: Stimmung) Richard Henderson (Robert Wyatt: Comicopera) Tony Herrington (Gudrun Gut: I Put A Record On) Hua Hsu (MIA: Kala) David Keenan (The Cherry Blossoms: The Cherry Blossoms) Rahma Khazam (Alvin Lucier: Ever Present) Biba Kopf (Akio Suzuki: K7 Box) Alan Licht (Luc Ferrari: Far West News Episodes 2 & 3) Martin Longley (fORCH: Spin Networks) Marc Masters (Yellow Swans: At All Ends) Keith Moliné (Tuxedomoon: Vapour Trails) Will Montgomery (John Butcher: The Geometry Of Sentiment) Brian Morton (Zaum: I Hope You Never Love Anything As Much As I Love You) Anne Hilde Neset (Sightings: Through The Panama) Edwin Pouncey (OM: Pilgrimage) Mosi Reeves (El-P: I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead) Simon Reynolds (Black Moth: Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum) Tom Ridge (LCD Soundsystem: Sound Of Silver) Bruce Russell (Anthony Pateras: Chasms) Chris Sharp (Stars Of The Lid: And Their Refinement Of The Decline) Adrian Shaughnessy (Hanne Hukkelberg: Rykestrasse 68) Philip Sherburne (September Collective: All The Birds Were Anarchists) Nick Southgate (Grails: Burning Off Impurities) Joseph Stannard (Cobalt: Eater Of Birds) Dave Stelfox (Trim: Soulfood Vol 2) David Stubbs (Burial: Untrue) Nick Sylvester (Baby Oliver: Primetime (Uptown Express)) Derek Walmsley (Dopplereffekt: Calabi Yau Space) Dan Warburton (Susan Alcorn: And I Await The Resurrection Of The Pedal Steel Guitar) Matthew Wuethrich (James Blackshaw: The Cloud Of Unknowing) Rob Young (Zeitkratzer & Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music)