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2004 Rewind
- Issue #251 (January '05) | Charts
Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost: Rare & Unreleased Recordings (1962-70) (Revenant)
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse (Geffen)
Fennesz - Venice (Touch)
Deathprod - Deathprod Box (Rune Grammofon)
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (Fat Cat)
Devendra Banhart - Rejoice In The Hands (XL)
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind (Sub Pop)
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
PG Six - The Well Of Memory (Amish)
Einstürzende - Neubauten Perpetuum Mobile (Mute)
Arthur Russell - Calling Out Of Context (Audika)
Ellen Fullman & Konrad - Sprenger Ort (Choose)
Brian Wilson - Presents Smile (Nonesuch)
Akira Rabelais - Spellewauernygesherde (Samadhi Sound)
Radian - Juxtaposition (Thrill Jockey)
Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker (Fire)
Dizzee Rascal - Showtime (XL)
Keiji Haino - Black Blues (Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier)
Björk - Medúlla (One Little Indian)
Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld (Drag City)
Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori - Phantom Orchard (Mego)
cLOUDDEAD - Ten (Big Dada)
Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Rare Wood (Spirit Of Orr)
Ramon Sender - Worldfood (Locust)
Alvin Curran - Lost Marbles (Tzadik)
Madvillain - Madvillainy (Stones Throw)
Steve Harris & Zaum - Above Our Heads The Sky Splits Open (Slam)
The Hafler Trio - How To Slice A Loaf Of Bread (Phonometrography)
Electrelane - The Power Out (Too Pure)
Deerhoof - Milk Man (Kill Rock Stars)
Antena - Camino Del Sol (Numero Group)
MV + EE - Lunar Blues (Child Of Microtones)
Kazuo Imai - Far & Wee (PSF)
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free (697 Recordings)
Kanye West - The College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella)
Boredoms - Seadrum/House Of Sun (Warners Japan)
Sunn0))) - White 2 (Southern Lord)
Arcade - Fire Funeral (Merge)
Anthony Braxton Quartet - 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (Leo)
Rammellzee - Bi-Conicals Of The Ramm:ell:zee (Gomma)
Jack Rose - Raag Manifestos (Vhf/Eclipse)
Stereolab - Margarine Eclipse (Duophonic UHF)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (Mute)
Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop)
Keiji Haino - 'Next' Let's Try Changing The Shape (Swordfish)
Niobe - Voodooluba (Sonig)
Soft Pink Truth - Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth? (Soundslike)
Thalia Zedek - Trust Not Those In Whom Without Some Touch Of Madness (Thrill Jockey)
Tucker Martine - Broken Hearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica From Southeast Asia (Sublime Frequencies)
Black Dice - Creature Comforts (DFA)
Avant Rock
Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop)
Corrupted - Se Hace Por Los Sueńos Asesinos (HG)
Cul De Sac & Damo Suzuki - Abhayamudra (Strange Attractors Audio House)
Coco Rosie - La Maison De Mon Ręve (Touch & Go)
Excepter - Ka (Fusetron)
Josephine Foster & The Supposed - All The Leaves Are Gone (Locust Music)
My Cat Is An Alien/Various - From The Earth To The Spheres Split LP Series Vols 1-3 (Opax)
The Stars - Will (Pedal)
Thee Silver Mountain Reveries - Pretty Little Lightning Paw (Constellation)
Trapist - Ballroom (Thrill Jockey)
Critical Beats
Ada - Blondie (Areal)
Steve Barnes - Cosmic Sandwich (MBF Ltd)
Donnacha Costello - Colour Series (Minimise)
Diplo & MIA - Piracy Funds Terrorism Vol 1 (Hollertronix)
Le Dust Sucker - Le Dust Sucker (Plong!)
Abe Duque & Blake Baxter - What Happened (Abe Duque)
Recloose - Cardiology (Isolee Remix) (Playhouse)
Ricardo Villalobos - Thé Au Harem D'Archimedes
Tim Wright - The Ride (Luciano mix) (NovaMute)
Robag Wruhme - Wuzzlebud "KK" (Musik Krause)
Dub
Mikey Dread - African Anthem Deluxe Edition (Auralux)
Dub Trio - Exploring The Dangers Of (ROIR)
Hightone - Bass Temperature (Jarring Effects)
Keith Hudson - Flesh Of My Skin, Blood Of My Blood (Basic Replay)
Iration Steppers - Dubs From The Higher Regionz (Dubhead)
Wayne Jarrett - Showcase Vol 1 (Wackies)
Little Tempo - Fireblender (Speedstar Records/M Records)
Lee Perry - Dub-Triptych (Trojan)
Sip-A-Cup Family - Hail Rastafari Dub (Sip-A-Cup)
Various - Aquarius Rock: The Hip Reggae World Of Herman Chin-Loy (Pressure Sounds)
Electronica
Bola - Gnayse (Skam)
Coil - Black Antlers (Threshold House)
Dielectric Minimalist All-Stars - Dielectric Minimalist All-Stars (Dielectric)
Fennesz - Venice (Touch)
Fourcolour - Water Mirror (Apestaartje)
Icarus - I Tweet The Birdy Electric (Leaf)
Niobe - Voodooluba (Sonig)
Pan Sonic - Kesto (Blast First)
Akira Rabelais - Spellewauernygesherde (Samadhi Sound)
Martin Siewert - No Need To Be Lonesome (Mosz)
Global
Azzddine with Bill Laswell - Massafat (Barbarity)
Tsehaytu Beraki - Selam (Terp)
Ostad Elahi - The Celestial Music Of Ostad Elahi (Le Chant Du Monde)
Kayhan Kalhor & Ali Akbar Moradi - In The Mirror Of The Sky (World Village)
Tucker Martine - Broken Hearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica From South East Asia (Sublime Frequencies)
Various - Bats' I Son: The Music Of The Highlands Of Chiapas, Mexico (Latitude)
Various - Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Folk And Pop Music Vol 1
(Sublime Frequencies)
Various - Leaf Music Drunks Distant Drums: Recordings From Laos, Cambodia, Thailand And Myanmar (Anomalous)
Various - Radio India: The Eternal Dream Of Sound (Sublime Frequencies)
Various - Suburban Bucharest (Trikont)
Hip Hop
Connoisseurs - UV/R&B (Dis-Joint)
Danger Mouse - Grey Album (promo)
Diplo - Florida (Big Dada)
Madvillain - Madvillainy (Stones Throw)
The Federation - Hyphy (Virgin)
Jadakiss - Why? (Interscope)
Rob Sonic - Telicatessan (Definitive Jux)
Sixtoo featuring Damo Suzuki - Storm Clouds And Silver Linings (Ninja Tune)
Too Short - Burn Rubber (Jive)
Kanye West - College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella)
Jazz and Improv
Alterations - Voila! Enough (Unheard Music Series)
Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - Back Together Again (Thrill Jockey)
Gail Brand & Morgan Guberman - Ballgames And Crazy (Emanem)
John Butcher & Toshimaru Nakamura - Cavern With Nightlife (Weight Of Wax)
Steve Harris & Zaum - Above Our Heads The Sky Splits Open (Slam)
Charlotte Hug & Chantale Laplante - Brilliant Days (For 4 Ears)
Mattin & Radu Malfatti - Whitenoise (WMO/R)
+minus - A Rainy Koran Verse (trente oiseaux)
Alex Von Schlippenbach - Broomriding (Psi)
John Tilbury & Eddie Prévost - Discrete Moments (Matchless)
Modern Composition
Harrison Birtwistle - Theseus Game (Deutsche Grammophon)
Michael Von Biel - Michael Von Biel (Edition RZ)
Henry Brant - The Henry Brant Collection Vol 1 (Innova)
Cornelius Cardew - Material (hat HUT)
James Dillon - A Book Of Elements (NMC)
Morton Feldman - Patterns In A Chromatic Field (Tzadik)
Morton Feldman - Triadic Memories (Mode)
György Ligeti - The Ligeti Project Vol 5 (Teldec)
James Tenney - Postal Pieces (New World)
Christian Wolff - (Re): Making Music (Mode)
Outer Limits
Steve Beresford - I Shall Become A Bat (Qbico)
Andrew Chalk - Fall In The Wake Of A Flawless Landscape (Three Poplars)
Dead Machines - Human Brain Wasting Syndrome (Ecstatic Peace)
John Duncan & Edvard Graham Lewis - Presence (All Questions)
Ellen Fullman - Staggered Stasis (Anomalous)
Double Leopards - Urban Concussion (Qbico)
The Hafler Trio - How To Slice A Loaf Of Bread (Phonometrography)
Mats Gustafsson/Sonic Youth with Friends - Hidros 3 (Smalltown Supersound)
Norbert Moslang - lat_nc_ (For 4 Ears)
Wolf Eyes & Smegma - The Beast (De Stijl)
Compilations A-Z
Afro Baby: The Evolution Of The Afro-Sound In Nigeria 1970-79 (Soundway)
Chicago Soul: Electric Blues, Funk & Soul (Soul Jazz)
Compilation #2 (DFA)
Crooklyn Dub Outernational Presents Certified Dope Vol 4: Babylon's Burning (Wordsound)
Difficult Easy Listening (Nonplace)
Dread Meets B-Boys Downtown: The HipHop Sound Of New York 81-82 (Heavenly)
England's Dreaming (Trikont)
Guitar Series Vols I & II (Table Of The Elements)
Haunted Weather: Music, Silence & Memory (Staubgold)
Insight (Xing-wu)
Kompakt 100 (Kompakt)
Pisa 1980 Improvisors Symposium (Psi)
Post Office 2 (Telegraph)
Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats (Essay)
Roll And Tumble Blues: A History Of Slide Guitar (Indigo)
Rough Trade Counter Culture (Mute)
Split Series 9-16 (Fat Cat)
Studio One Dub (Soul Jazz)
The Truman And Eisenhower Blues: African-American Blues And Gospel Songs 1945-60 (Agram Blues)
Undecided (PSF)
Re-Issues A-Z
A Certain Ratio - To Each... (Universal Sound)
Masaki Batoh - Collected Works 95-96 (Drag City)
Blurt - Let There Be Blurt Vol 1: The Fish Needs A Bike (Salamander)
Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer (Very Friendly)
Burning Spear - Sounds From The Burning Spear (Soul Jazz)
Can - Monster Movie/Tago Mago/Ege Bamyasi/Soundtracks Remastered Editions (Spoon/Mute)
DNA - DNA On DNA (No More)
Einstürzende Neubauten Kalte Sterne: Early Recordings (Mute)
The Fall - Grotesque Deluxe Edition (Sanctuary)
Gamelan - Son Of Lion The Complete Gamelan In The New World (Locust)
Orlando Julius & His Afro Sounders - Orlando's Afro Ideas 1969-72 (Ekosound)
Mars - The Complete Studio Recordings: NYC 1977-78 (G3G Records/Spooky Sound)
The New Blockaders - Changez Les Blockeurs: 21st Anniversary Edition (Vinyl On Demand)
Organum - Vacant Lights/Rara Avis (Die Stadt)
Harry Partch - The Harry Partch Collection Vols 1 & 2 (New World)
The People Band - 1968 (Emanem)
Popul - Vuh Affenstunde (Spalax)
Dean Roberts And The Black Moths - Play The Grand Cinema (Staubgold)
Jack Rose - Two Originals Of... (Beautiful Happiness/Vhf)
Sun Ra - Disco 3000 (Art Yard)
Cecil Taylor - Conquistador! (Blue Note)
Die Tödliche Doris - Strudelsölle: Die Tödliche Doris Tape Releases (Vinyl On Demand)
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (Thrill Jockey)
Upsetters - 14 Dub Blackboard Jungle (Auralux)
Virgin Prunes - A New Form Of Beauty (Grey Area Of Mute)
The Electorate
This year's charts were compiled from the votes of the following contributors (each contributor's individual record of the year is shown in brackets):
Steve Barker (Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost), Clive Bell (The Magnetic Fields - I), Marcus Boon (Various: Radio Morocco), Ben Borthwick (Holkham - Komatta Saru), Philip Clark (Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost), Mia Clarke (A Hawk And A Hacksaw - A Hawk And A Hacksaw), Julian Cowley (Beth Anderson - Peachy Keen-O), Christoph Cox (Various: Radio Java), Alan Cummings (The Stars - Will), Geeta Dayal (Dizzee Rascal - Showtime), Phil England (The Ex - Turn), Susanna Glaser (Mice Parade - Obrigado Saudade), Louise Gray (Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Sings Greatest Palace Music), Andy Hamilton (Michiel Scheen Quartet - Dance, My Dear?), Jim Haynes (The Hafler Trio - How To Slice A Loaf Of Bread Part I), Richard Henderson (Arto Lindsay - Salt), Tony Herrington (Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost), Hua Hsu (Dungen - Ta Det Lungt), Rahma Khazam (Morton Feldman - Triadic Memories), David Keenan (MV & EE - Lunar Blues), Biba Kopf (Most - Most Most), Art Lange (Various: Music From The ONCE Festival 1961-66), Alan Licht (Bill Fay - From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock), David Mandl (Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost), Brian Marley (+Minus - A Rainy Koran Verse), Marc Masters (Gang Gang Dance - Gang Gang Dance), Keith Moliné (Arm - Open Reminder), Brian Morton (Bruce Russell - Los Desastres De Las Guerras), John Mulvey (Sufjan Stevens - 7 Swans), Anne Hilde Neset (Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse), Edwin Pouncey (Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost), Mosi Reeves (M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, And Lost Ghosts), Simon Reynolds (Dizzee Rascal - Showtime), Tom Ridge (Radian - Juxtaposition), Chris Sharp (Jóhan Jóhannsson - Virthulegu Forsetar), Nick Southgate (Pharaoh Overlord - The Battle Of The Axehammer), David Stubbs (Fennesz - Venice), Dave Tomkins (Rob Sonic - Telicatessan), Dan Warburton (Akira Rabelais - Spellwauerynsherde), Ben Watson (THF - Drenching Fight-Bus 4 Life), Barry Witherden (Steve Harris & Zaum - Above Our Head The Sky Splits Open), Rob Young (Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker)© The Wire 2010