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A fourth Soleil Vert album in 2009!

"Génétiquement modifié is now available in full on last.fm!

As a concept album about genetically modified food, Génétiquement modifié is made of interrupted sequences, spliced fragments, all modified in the lab at the cellular level usign foreign dna... translated into sound manipulation and textures.

Heavy bass pedal notes under harsh percussion and flickering synths. Tangerinesque monosynth solos over a minimal tapestry. Glitch, ambient, minimal, this album is a departure from the techniques Soleil Vert used before. This is Soleil Vert, but Genetically Modified!

Leaning towards harsh idm beats at first, with Première mutation opening in the vein of Autechre and all, with a very classic industrial sound, then going towards Poison, one of the very strong tracks in defining Soleil Vert's sound for this album. After some more broken beats, Docteur Frankenfood appears in a more melodic fashion reminiscent of Jean-Michel Jarre... Other notable nod to the past is Synthétique versus organique giving a flasback to Tangerine Dreams fans...

Some fresh sounding takes on classic feels that can please fans of Pink Floyd to King Crimson, with some new territories explored along the lines of ambient and industrial mixed together in various proportions, "Génétiquement modifié" is a must try for discerning contemporary instrumental electonica listeners.

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Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R [Interscope, 2000]
Genre: rock
Best track: The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret




Bjork - Vespertine [One Little Indian, 2001]
Genre: bjork
Best track: Pagan Poetry




Clinic - Internal Wrangler [Domino, 2000]
Genre: rock, experimental
Best track: Distortions




D'Angelo - Voodoo [Virgin, 2000]
Genre: soul, funk, hip hop
Best track: Spanish Joint




Cat Power - You Are Free [Matador, 2003]
Genre: indie rock
Best track: Werewolf




Basement Jaxx - Rooty [XL, 2001]
Genre: electronic
Best track: Romeo




Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit [Rough Trade, 2006]
Genre: indie rock
Best track: The Blues Are Still Blue




MU - Afro Finger And Gel [Output, 2003]
Genre: electronic
Best track: Destroying Human Nature




Erykah Badu - New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War) [Universal Motown, 2008]
Genre: funk, soul, hip hop
Best track: Soldier




Autechre - Quaristice [Warp, 2008]
Genre: electronic, ambient
Best track: Altibzz




The Streets - Original Pirate Material [679, 2002]
Genre: hip hop, garage
Best track: Weak Become Heroes




Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner [XL, 2003]
Genre: grime, hip hop
Best track: Fix Up, Look Sharp




Sunn O))) - Black One [Southern Lord, 2005]
Genre: drone, black metal, experimental
Best track: It Took the Night To Believe




Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury [Zomba, 2006]
Genre: hip hop
Best track: Momma I'm So Sorry




The Avalanches - Since I Left You [Modular, 2000]
Genre: electronic
Best track: Since I Left You




Portishead - Third [Universal Island, 2008]
Genre: trip hop, industrial
Best track: Machine Gun




Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull [Southern Lord, 2008]
Genre: rock, avantgarde
Best track: Engine of Ruin




Stars of the Lid - ...And Their Refinement Of The Decline [Kranky, 2007]
Genre: ambient
Best track: Dungtitled (In A Major)




Daft Punk - Discovery [Virgin, 2001]
Genre: electronic, house
Best track: Voyager




Radiohead - Kid A [Parlophone, 2000]
Genre: alternative rock
Best track: Everything In Its Right Place

idm / electronica / dubstep / uk funky / bassline / breakbeat / drum and bass / hardcore

1 Altibzz Autechre
2 Lightworks Astrobotnia
3 Home Various Production
4 Anywhere Anyone Dntel
5 Drone 1 The Rollercoaster Project
6 The fifth one Cex
7 Rain Breakage
8 Sine, Saw, Square Late
9 J.W. On A Good Night Martyn
10 Miracles (Jamie Vex'd remix) Starkey
11 Hunter (12th Planet remix) Portishead
12 Love Is A Losing Game (Moody Boys Remix) Amy Winehouse
13 Control feat EMU (Skream Remix) 12th Planet
14 Soles Sweat (feat 215tfk & Stray - Reso remix) DeBruit
15 Get it (12th Planet remix) Grand Puba
16 Art Of Revolution Bassnectar
17 Get Digital (Boody B & Andreas rmx) Purple Crush ft. Leif
18 Depth In The Middle (Remixed by Led Piperz) High Tone
19 Creator Santogold
20 In for the Kill [Skream's Let's Get Ravey Mix] La Roux
21 Blinded By The Lights (Nero Remix) The Streets
22 Soundboy Bar 9
23 Physics Impulse Headhunter
24 Night Vision (Skream's So Nasty rmx) Distance
25 Get On Up Babylon System
26 A Storm In My Heart SPL
27 The Terminator Caspa
28 Jah Way RsD
29 Hit That Gash feat. DJ Primecuts Foreign Beggars, Rouge a levre
30 Eastern Jam (High Rankin Remix) Chase & Status
31 Dancing In The Dark VIP Ollie! & Bare Noize
32 Angry feat. Tippa Irie The Bug
33 This Sweet Love (Drums Of Death Remix) James Yuill
34 UMF (SUPRA1 Remix) Blackfinger
35 Mookie - Math Head VIP Remix Acid Jacks
36 Drop It To The Floor Machines Don't Care
37 Jump Bounce Wayne P
38 Whoop! Whoop! Dub Frequency
39 Party All Knight-True Pseudo Remix Eli Smith
40 Bulletproof (Zinc Remix) La Roux
41 Just Be Mowgli
42 Boom Riddim (Sharkslayer Remix) Rico Tubbs
43 Xpand Switch, ANT, DNA
44 Keep On Dancin' (Let's Go) Perpetual Motion
45 Yeke Yeke (Hardfloor Mix) Mory Kante
46 Everybody Needs A 303 Fatboy Slim
47 Warrior's Dance - Kicks Like A Mule remix The Prodigy
48 Headcharge (Ribs & IG88 remix) Backdraft
49 Pistols At Dawn Warlock
50 138_trek- DJ Zinc
51 Lovers not Fighters (Blim Remix) Evil Nine
52 War (Blatta & Inesha Go To Luanda Remix) Rampage
53 Hey ! (Foamo Remix) Diplo & Laidback Luke
54 Moombah (Afrojack mix) Silvio Ecomo / Chuckie
55 United_Groove L-VIS 1990
56 Pon de floor' feat. Vybz Kartel Major Lazer
57 Mega - Dub Version The Count And Sinden
58 Gotta Have It (MJ's Funky dubb) MJ Cole feat Digga
59 Kid Conga (feat MC Miltinho) Daniel Haaksman
60 I_Want_You_(Bok Bok_remix) Dre Skull
61 Make The Party Schenk Mini K HP
62 The Change Up Rob Threezy
63 Face Blast duranduranduran
64 Watching You Instra:mental
65 Stray (Icicle Remix) Alix Perez
66 Organiser Spectrasoul
67 Some Other Funk Spor
68 Clear Skyz - Break Remix Die
69 Planet Dust Bad Company
70 Grimey Dillinja
71 Pacman [RAM Trilogy Remix] Ed Rush & Optical
72 Aztec Spor
73 Hyperion Crossfire
74 I Am A Star! Chrissy Murderbot
75 Pump This Party DJ Paul Elstak
76 Silke Ilsa Gold
77 Acid Rain Wedlock
78 The Crying Chimera The Teknoist
79 have you ever fucked on cocain Michael White Line
80 Diplodocus Noisia
81 Hubble Raiden
82 Original Sin feat. Teure Sabre
83 Wonder Where d bridge

Well, it had to be done, and it's a handy excuse to go back and listen to all of these again. Limiting myself to one release per artist and with apologies to
Lawrence English, Sylvain Chauveau, Black Dice, Jan Jelinek, Jasper TX, The Wrens, The Unicorns and all the others I either forgot or didn't have room for, here's one way of looking at my favourite records of the decade:


1. Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds Of... (2001)
I can't think of another album in my adult life that has influenced the music I listen to more than this one, and it's fitting that it was released at the beginning of a decade that for me personally was a discovery of ambient music. Together with its successor, ...And Their Refinement Of The Decline, this is where I go when I get paralysed by the agony of choice. Like a Rothko painting, it appears from a distance to be simplistic, but when you stand and stare for a long while, it turns out to be as detailed as your own imagination. A soundtrack to thought.


Stars of the Lid - Requiem For Dying Mothers, Part 1


2. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops I-IV (2003)
From bohemian New York rooftops to drab and wintry Southwick chimney pots, but the spellbinding melancholic beauty of these records transcends circumstances and back stories. Condensation on windows, graffiti furtively scratched into plastic, long necklines and grids of railings. Just some of all possible worlds that exist in these loops.


An excerpt from William Basinski - D|P 1.1


3. Joanna Newsom - Ys (2006)
With courageously poetic and challengingly inventive lyrics set to the subtlest and most absorbing arrangements, Ys took a good few listens before you could stand back far enough to see the whole picture. I love the way her voice seems to have a different sound for almost every word on some stretches of this album, and I still find myself smiling at the wonderful rhymes, assonance and alliteration of the lyrics:

But walk a little faster
And don't look backwards
Your feast is to the East which lies a little past the pasture
When the blackbirds hear tea whistling, they rise and clap
And their applause caws the kettle black
And we can't have none of that!
Move along, Bear; there, there; that's that.
Monkey & Bear


4. Machinefabriek - Marijn (2006)
This spot could have gone to one of about a dozen or so of his releases (including the fantastic Ranonkel, Dauw, Box Music with Stephen Vitiello and Drawn with Soccer Committee , such has been the prolific and consistently brilliant nature of Rutger Zuyderfeldt's output over the last 6 or 7 years, but, after over 1600 plays according to my lastfm stats, I might as well give it to the one which started it all off for me, Marijn. The most interesting experimental musician working today.


Machinefabriek - Dauw (from the album Dauw)


5. Deaf Center - Pale Ravine (2005)
Although this wasn't itself on the Miasmah label, it was made by its founder, Erik Skodvin (a.k.a Svarte Greiner) and seemed to me to be the father of a succession of fantastic albums (for example, from Elegi, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Jacaszek and Gultskra Artikler) that bore the label's trademark mixture of elegaic beauty and sinister sonic debris.


Deaf Center - White Lake


6. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat (2004)
One of the most ambitious, entertaining and defiantly individual bands of the decade's finest achievement, Blueberry Boat is an out-of-control splatter-gun attack of ideas, characters and melodies.


7. Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36 (2007)
Clicks, pops, sparks, beats, bangs, twangs, loops, hoots, snaps, whirls, claps, crackles, hisses, rips, taps, ticks, thumps, whacks, jumps, darts, dunks, barks, blinks, zips, bumps, rumbles and ripples. Earphone heaven from a Chilean genius.




8. Burial - Untrue (2007)
Darkly beautiful, like the glint of a knife.


9. Jacaszek - Treny (2008)
Electronics, samples. live strings and haunting soprano voices curl around one another in this heartbreaking album from last year.


Jacaszek - Zal


10. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
This seems to be a divisive choice, but from where I am, a million miles away from the source and the chatter and the associations that surround the band, this completed a trio of flawless art-pop albums. It's kind of cool to hear a band who are into ideas like synthesis, harmony and family as well, a kind of.


Animal Collective - My Girls


11. David Thomas Broughton - David Thomas Broughton Vs. 7 Hertz (2007)


12. Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet (2006)


13. Junior Boys - Last Exit (2004)


14. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs (2002)


15. Autechre - Confield (2001)


16. Broadcast - Tender Buttons (2005)


17. Claro Intelecto - Neurofibro (2004)


18. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (2002)


19. Chihei Hatakeyama - Minima Moralia (2006)


20. Library Tapes - Feelings For Something Lost (2006)


21. Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon (2002)


22. Goldmund - Corduroy Road (2005)


23. Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI:Ambleside (2008)


24. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks (2004)


25. Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co. (2003)


26. Charalambides - A Vintage Burden (2006)


27. Panda Bear - Person Pitch (2007)


28. Gonzales - Solo Piano (2004)


29. The Books - Thought for Food (2002)


30. Natural Snow Buildings - Dance Of The Sun And The Moon (2006)


31. Fennesz - Endless Summer (2001)


32. Gas - Pop (2000)


33. Rameses III - Basilica (2008)


34. Lucien-N-Luciano - Blind Behaviour (2004)


35. Colleen - The Golden Morning Breaks (2005)


36. Akron/Family - Akron/Family (2005)


37. Menomena - Friend & Foe (2008)


38. Voices And Organs - Orphanage (2006)


39. Christopher Willits & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ocean Fire (2008)


40. Robyn Hitchcock - Spooked (2004)


41. Pan American - Quiet City (2004)


42. Oren Ambarchi - Grapes From The Estate (2004)


43. Lichens - Omns (2007)


44. Rolan Vega - Documentary (2007)


45. Four Tet - Rounds (2003)


46. Gultskra Artikler - Kasha Iz Topora (2007)


47. Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill (2008)


48. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun (2000)


49. Emeralds - What Happened (2009)


50. The Notwist - Neon Golden (2002)

glitch / electronica / idm / dubstep

1 Xerrox Phaser Acat 1 Alva Noto
2 Blown Glass Typewriter Mountains
3 Black Sea Fennesz
4 Sketch Of Sounds ... Liik Viktorija Cop Viky
5 Black Light BJ Nilsen
6 Lightworks Astrobotnia
7 paralel Suns Autechre
8 Forgive Burial
9 All Is Full Of Love Bjork
10 We Share Our Mothers' Health The Knife
11 Lose You Peaches
12 when i grow up Fever Ray
13 My Girls Animal Collective
14 Agoraphobia Deerhunter
15 Bunker DJG
16 Kemancheh Moving Ninja
17 Hamas Rule Shackleton
18 Under The Dancing Feet Clouds
19 The Time Is Now (Bambino Casino Remix) Moloko
20 Suddenly is Sooner than You Think Dntel
21 Sweet Love For Planet Earth Fuck Buttons
22 In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country Boards of Canada
23 Analyse (Acoustic xfm) Thom Yorke
24 Time to find me Seefeel
25 Point and Gaze Thriller
26 Fever Eliot Lipp
27 Hubble Thriller
28 Swarm Thriller
29 Freak For You Thriller
30 Birds Of Prey (Kelpe remix) Architeq
31 Machine Gun Portishead
32 Smartbanging Fulgeance
33 Murder Us feat. Jahcoozi King Cannibal
34 Mmm Skyscraper I Love You Underworld
35 Autobahn Kraftwerk
36 J.W. On A Good Night Martyn
37 Rain Breakage
38 Dominion Benga
39 Rise Up (DJ Pinch Remix) Henry & Louis featuring Steve Harper
40 In for the Kill [Skream's Let's Get Ravey Mix] La Roux
41 DVNO (robot koch Remix) Justice
42 Police feat. Mikey Murka (Disrupt Remix) Mahanee
43 Blinded By The Lights (Nero Remix) The Streets
44 Soles Sweat (feat 215TFK & Stray - Reso remix) DeBruit
45 My Own World Synkro
46 Kontrol 2562
47 Saints 'N' Sinners DJ Distance
48 Attack Of The Giant Robot Spiders Pinch
49 Hide and Seek (Enigma Remix) Imogen Heap
50 Debbitx Marcus Intalex
51 Watch We (Pinch Mix) Ashley Beedle & Horace Andy
52 You & I Pangaea
53 I'm Not A Sound (Akufen Rmx) Sieg uber die Sonne
54 Again The Addiction Actress
55 Piano dust Vector Lovers
56 Drone 1 The Rollercoaster Project

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Acid house - Sub-genre of house. Repetitive, hypnotic and trance-like style.
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Adamski

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Breakcore - High tempo. Influenced by hardcore and industrial.
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Venetian Snares

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Chiptune - Sounds synthesized by a video game console sound chip.
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8 Bit Weapon
Anamanaguchi
Bit Shifter
Din Stalker
Dubmood
Gidropony
Fighter X
Firebrand Boy
Nullsleep
Pixelh8
Psilodump
Random
RushJet1
Sabrepulse
Saskrotch
she
Shirobon
Stu
Superpowerless
Trash80
virt
viznut/pwp
Xinon
YMCK

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Electroclash - Fusion of New Wave and EDM.
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Add N to (X)
Chicks on Speed
Felix da Housecat
Fischerspooner
Miss Kittin
Ladytron
Le Tigre
Peaches

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Electropop - Fusion of pop and EDM.
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Goldfrapp
The Knife

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House - Uptempo. Influenced by disco. soul and funk. Four-on-the-floor.
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Armand van Helden
Basement Jaxx
Bob Sinclar
Daft Punk
David Guetta
Kaskade

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IDM - Individualistic experimentation. "electronic listening music."
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Amon Tobin
Aphex Twin
Autechre
B12
Boards of Canada
The Black Dog
The Future Sound of London
The Orb

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Progressive house
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Deadmau5
Deep Dish

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Trance - "Trance-inducing". Club music.
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Paul van Dyk

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Trip hop - Fusion of hip hop, electronica and dub.
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Massive Attack
Moloko
Portishead
Slow Train
Sneaker Pimps

Top 10 Electronic albums of 2000-2009:
1. Alva Noto - Xerrox 2 (2009)
-Just passing through.
2. Coil - the Ape of Naples (2005)
-Bed of sound.
3. Skinny Puppy - Mythmaker (2007)
-It had to end.
4. Covenant - SkyShaper (2006)
-"Endings are sometimes necessary to find out what is next."
5. Download - Helicopter (2009)
-Away we go.
6. Haujobb - Polarity (2001)
-"Perception is a distance in a closed in space."
7. Architect - the Analysis of Noise Trading (2005)
-Gateway into noise.
8. Haus Arafna - Butterfly
-Shattering and rebuilding.
9. Imminent - Cask Stregnth (2009)
-Surreal landscape.
10. Autechre - Untilted (2005)
-Maddening repetition.

Rating this in terms of life influence over anything else. Curious what others think about music over the last decade.

1. Autechre
Two nerdy white boys from England making non-rhythmic instrumental "music" on extremely complex and expensive equipment, then they have the gall to mention hip-hop in an interview. Yeah, you're so totally hip-hop.

Another thing: Quaristice sucks. It used to be that your music was confusing because it was so abstract and otherworldly. Quaristice is confusing because I can't tell whether I loathe it or love it.

It's totally obvious that you're using Machinedrums exclusively now, by the way. Please go back to your old way of making music--EXPERIMENTING! If your next album is another Quaristice-type affair, then you're pretty much dead to me. Just being honest.

2. Download
No matter how hard they try, they're never going to make anything as good as The Eyes of Stanley Pain ever again. But with Fixer it seems like they're trying to, and so they're probably never going to make anything as good as III ever again either.

3. Skinny Puppy
You're taking too much influence from "IDM" cliches like snare rushes and all that bullshit. Don't turn into Aphex Twin or I will hate you forever. Also, Mythmaker is very hit-or-miss, which frustrates me, but I'm not really expecting you to make anything as good as Last Rights or Too Dark Park again.

4. Black Dice
Your first four albums are amazing. Well, perhaps that's an overstatement, but they were really good because even though you were working with some very amusical sounds, the results were almost undeniably musical, but still quite experimental. With Load Blown, you pretty much perfected your skills in turning obtuse noises into pop songs.

That's enough complimenting though. Repo fucking blows. You've become just another "experimental" (notice the quotes) band. As I listen to Repo, half of me is enjoying the weird sounds and textures you make, while the other half is crying softly because of those fucking drumloops. You've lost your experimental edge, and for what? Your sound was perfect, and you tainted it with one of the most cliche things in electronic music. I hate drumloops in experimental music. They're so overused and fucking BORING as hell. Maybe you could've saved yourselves if they were at least drenched in effects, but all you did to them was a little bit of distortion. Fuck drumloops, fuck Repo, and fuck you.

5. Dead Voices on Air
Shap, Frankie Pett Presents..., and Piss Frond were all really great records, so what the hell happened with From Labrador To Madagascar? It's pretty wanky. You have a new album out that I haven't gotten yet. I hope it's better.

6. Scorn
I really liked the first track on Stealth, but not enough to want to hear it seven more times.

7. Prurient
Just because Pleasure Ground was pretty good doesn't mean you should start using melodies all the time. If I wanted melodies, I wouldn't be listening to you. What happened to the emptiness of Black Vase and the action-packed ragefest of Church of Ammunition? The latter was an EP of two tracks, and it's still my favorite thing you've ever done. TWO TRACKS! That is NOT enough! Do more in that style and drop this melodic bullshit.

8. Gorillaz
Sometimes I feel like I shouldn't be listening to music this cool. Why was this project retired? Also, I keep forgetting to check out that new (old now) "Monkey" album. I don't remember what it's called.

9. Swans
Why so serious?

10. La Peste
I seriously hate Second Life because of people like you. Instead of making your music available in the real world, you perform concerts in Second Life. That is fucking lame as hell. I don't want to get an account on Second Life just to hear new songs by you. Seriously, work on the Hangars-Liquides website. Make some music available for free. You have no idea how hard it was for me to find the little that I got, and most of it was from your speedcore/throwaway era, not the flashcore I was expecting. I hate to end my rant about you on a good note, but the three flashcore albums I do have by you are fucking amazing. Do more of that, and not in Second Life. Please.

11. Final
Why is it that the further I get from my #1, the harder it is to come up with criticisms of these artists? Shouldn't it be the opposite? Well, anyway, I don't like the online distribution thing you're doing. I'd rather just get actual CDs. 3 was a great album, and I really don't expect anything after it to be as good, so I guess the online distribution thing isn't really that big a deal to me. Just from what I've read, it sounds like they're going to be drone made from guitar. I prefer the highly-processed form of drone like Burning Star Core and your first three albums. If I wanted guitar drone, I'd listen to Boris with Merzbow.

12. Mindless Self Indulgence
You'll Rebel to Anything and If were jokes. And I don't mean "joke" in the "Mindless Self Indulgence is a joke" sense of the word. I mean that you sold out, and fuck you. "If" is just pure pop-punk bullshit. MSI is dead to me.

13. Boredoms
Chocolate Synthesizer and Super Ae were good. Seadrum/House of Sun went on for far too long. I get the feeling that when you FINALLY release your next album, it won't be very good.

14. Gridlock
Further was too long, Trace was too "IDM" and Formless's tracks all sound the same. I rarely listen to an album by you all the way through. Also, your music can be very colorless and boring unless I'm in the mood for it.

15. Ryoji Ikeda
Dataplex was good enough; we didn't need another one in the form of Test Pattern. But we also didn't need See You At Regis Debray, because it sounds like a fucking joke.

16. Burning Star Core
Did you run out of ideas with Challenger? You released TWO amazing albums in 2007, so it shouldn't be that hard to make something for 2009. Time is running out, and so is my patience.

17. Gescom
See #1. Let's be honest here--Gescom is hardly an "umbrella project". It's probably 99% Autechre, and maybe somebody from Boards of Canada helps out once in a while. If it isn't, it sure sounds like it.

A1-D1 suffers from the same problem that Quaristice does--some tracks are just mindblowingly good, while others are just mindblowingly bad.

18. Krovo
Self-conscious humor can be kind of lame sometimes, but I don't care. The current image you have up is really lame. For how much you claim to hate MySpace, you sure don't have any problem with taking pictures in that stupid MySpace way--holding your own camera at a vomit-inducing angle and then applying some angsty black-and-white effect.

Skk was better than Senkyder. Senkyder was a fucking sell-out, and the title track is just ridiculous. You seem to have dissolved into self-parody. Some of your tracks go on for a few minutes too long for the amount of ideas they have. Just because you have semidecent writing skills and can thus make your project sound cool in the biography doesn't mean you should, because you make it sound a lot more experimental than it is. (I'd like to note, though, that I do have tracks in the works that are much more experimental than the things currently on last.fm... Also, if you haven't caught on by now, Krovo is my project. Shameless self-promotion alert!)

19. Pan Sonic
When you limit yourself to a VERY small sound palette, it's inevitable that some of your songs are going to sound pretty much the same. Contrary to popular opinion, Kesto probably isn't your best album. (I really like A better.) But I can't say for sure, since I've never listened to the whole thing. You know why I haven't? It's FOUR FUCKING DISCS LONG!

20. Pigface
DO ANOTHER REMIX ALBUM, WHY DON'T YOU? Oh, and I see on RYM that you have another album in the works. Took you long enough!

21. Venetian Snares
It pisses me off that you're in the top artists for the tag glitch. (If you want to know why, read my shout on that page.) It saddens me that your recent work is so melodic. You're so much better with rhythm, but it seems like you're downplaying that aspect of your music. Doll Doll Doll is a great album, but it's doubtful that you're going to make anything as different and atmospheric as that was ever again. Maybe I should stop assuming things about the future of artists in order to diss them, though.

22. Merzbow
It's too bad that your songs are usually so long, because I really love your sounds, but they go on for too long most of the time. Anyone who has OCD about their music collection hates you, by the way, because it's pretty much impossible to get everything you've ever done. I'm glad I don't have OCD. Unfortunately, I do have a bit of ADD, hence the hatred for your long songs.

23. ohGr
Maybe you should've left it at two albums. Devil's In My Details is decent but it's got the same problem as Mythmaker in that it's far too hit-and-miss for my tastes. Some of the songs are just stupid, like that one with the chicken clucking.

24. Winterkälte
Disturbance's beats were too obvious, Structures of Destruction's beats went on too long, and Drum N Noise was too samey. You have yet to make your perfect album, but it would seem you've dropped off the face of the Earth. That's too bad, because a lot of the other power noise acts I've listened to are pretty cheesy IMO.

25. Plastikman
Your lyrics are terrible, and Closer as a whole wasn't very good, especially compared to Musik and Consumed. I don't know if you've got another album in the works, and I don't even care enough to check right now.