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Inspired by a What.cd thread

1. Bon Iver ~ For Emma, Forever Ago




2. Headless Heroes ~ Silence Of Love



3. She & Him ~ Volume One


Oh and of course, there's Coldplay ~ Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends but that's too damn difficult to draw xO

With the Festive 50 now over, we get back to regular shows - plus a new DJ, Katherine Godfrey.

Andrew Morrison:
Andy's 2-hour February show offers much more than the sum of its parts. small crew are exclusive session guests, providing four excellent new tracks. Brand new music comes from The Race, Y Diwygiad, James Yuill, Joy formidable and Shortwave Fade as well as a storming new remix of a Bomb the Bass classic. There's striking sounds from Andy's unsigned new find Raw Milk, and further unsigned tracks from Galchen, The War Crimes and others. Add Scott's Funky Five Minutes and Teresa's Tasty Tips into the equation, and there really is no reason not to factor the show into your leisure time calculations this February!

Jeff Grainger:
Jeff croaks his way through his first show of 2009 with thankfully enough brilliant tunes to distract you, dear listener, from the fact he totally lost his voice, to tonsillitis, the day after he recorded this show.
Jeff will be playing some of this months and recent releases; Carosel, A Middle Sex. The Joy Formidable and Headless Heroes. Along with some 'Northern Soul', 'Dub' and a few freebies; I Have Clones, Red Steers and Healey Island.
The countdown to The 'All Tomorrows Parties' Festival gives him the ideal opportunity to play classic tracks by Throwing Muses and Shellac. There'll be a small tribute to folk singer Odetta, who sadly died at the end of last year and for reasons that will be most apparent; a track by Julie London.

Katherine Godfrey:
Katherine's first show for Dandelion was recorded in a loft during a storm. Listen carefully and you'll hear the wind howling across the microphone. Or is that just the dark, atmospheric soundscapes of music from Italy's Alampo records?
Keeping your ears toasty warm this February will be music from Torsten Profrock, Tanlines, Ala Muerte, and a featured EP from Oxford newbies UTE, whilst Action Beat will be crashing onto the airwaves with the force of a hurricane in the featured album for the month The Noise Band from Bletchley.
With Distance and Reso's foundation shaking dubstep, and the glorious clatter of HAWKS, Yowie and K.I.T. in the mix, you'd better batten down the hatches.

Marcelle:
The good old medieval days

Marcelle displays in her new show a keen interest for music made years, even centuries ago. She plays an electronic music musician who draws his inspiration from 17th century baroque instruments and reveals which British band who dabbled in 14th century Italy ,eh, only 18 years ago.
She has a Zomby in her show, and Animals: An innocent little dog opens her show, appearing in an oil drum and Suicidal Birds fly side on side with Nightingales. 26 giants make an appearance alongside kung fu zulus. Men are also welcomed, especially as they use a John Peel sample in of their tracks. The Chicks in this month's show are On Speed and sing that everything is alright.
Marcelle investigates which song is a certain 'party ruiner' and champions Monty Python-esque words like 'Libythth' and 'Vinkepeezer'. She laughingly plays a 78 RPM record on 33 1/3 RPM and gets pushed aside twice by a very strong Cardopusher in three hours.
The Look Back Bore Records Of The Month (February 1979) are oddly shaped and an eight minute reggae cover. By the end of the show we speak French and come to the conclusion that we have drunk one beer too much; no wonder Mark E. Smith appeared twice in the show. With so many musical adventures we can only say: I Tank U. (77% Vinyl Guarantee)

Mark Cunliffe:
We are getting nicely into the New Year now and that resolution to cut back your food intake by only eating the filling of Custard Creams is getting a bit shaky. So far it's only been a whole Bourbon but a full Custie is only a matter of time....
So what do we have in this months show? King Clarentz does some seductive cooking and we get down to some punctuation in the Ghetto. Asian Dub Foundation sit on the fence for once and regret it with some singed crack hairs. Tigerstyle and Panjabi MC go dhol to dhol in a classic bhangra face off. Maga Bo & Xuman might have well been the pyromaniacs who set Asian Dub Foundation's fence (and arse hairs) on fire. Radio Datacha might be flying in something that sounds a bit like a sectioned helicopter and Spektre has gone planting banana skins around the cosmos....what are they on? Black Acid finds Amy Winehouse on the roadside and we have a live special from a band who's line-up changes completely from gig to gig, that band is God Has Tits
If you're still on the reduced Custie diet then congratulations, it's a filling diet....

Mark Whitby:
For the small price of spending three hours in Mark Whitby's company this February, you'll be able to hear an exclusive advance four-track preview of Welsh/Antipodean project Cwtch as well as tracks from new and forthcoming albums by Toykult, Filastine, Fol Chen and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. There's also a little something from the double EP by Beirut and (brace yourselves) a cassette-only release from the magnificent Twin Lion.
Sonic Youth join us to say a fond farewell to Ron Asheton, while Cosmo vs Flapsandwich say a less tearful TTFN to George W Bush. You'll find Fuck Buttons remixing Fever Ray, a Qemists remix and a good solid hard dose of electronic noise from the likes of Schaua, Androgyn Network and NONEWYORK. Plus a load of bands with "dogs" in their name, Well, two anyway.

Matt Jones:
The boy Jones is back with 2 hours of music to banish the misery of the worst month of the year. February is accepted by all known life forms as rubbish, but happily, the likes of Mrs Cakehead and Dilworth bring some strange sub tropical Lancashire warmth to those of you feeling the winter is a never ending lead weight dragging your soul further into a tarry mire of misery.
Strangeness and joy abounds still further as the gleeful mania of 3Sachetti competes with the schizoid delights of RomanianMyth for your attention and love. Elsewhere in the show, there is the little matter of hiphop, balkan brass, assorted forms of clicks and beats, a sprinkling of brand new dubstep and some lovely folk from Senegal. Oh, and another corking tune from the ever fantastic RevPorl. All in all, it's better than a kick in the face with a wet stick.

Pete Jackson:
February, like Atilla The Hun, is known for being short and cruel, so let's liven things up with an amazing session from the extraordinary Lord Numb, a whole bunch of new craziness from Bordeaux's second-greatest export Boxon Records, some noises made in the 1960s and 70s in Japan, Jamaica and Fort Lauderdale, Florida and some equally wonderous noises made more recently in Wales by Recordiau Safon Uchel and in Newton-Le-Willows by 13 Amp.
We'll also tip our hat to mark the passing of garage guitar god Ron Asheton with some classicStooges.

Rachael Neiman:
After missing our January show, "The Rachael Neiman Experience" returns for a jam-packed 2-hours in February with fabulous new art pop from Vanilla Ride, Shrag, Cats In Paris, And What Will Be Left Of Them, The Teenagers, Das Wanderlust, Monocle Rose and 2 Hot 2 Sweat, glorious indiepop from The San Marinos, The Give It Ups, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Procedure Club, foxes, Sparky's Magic Piano, Help Stamp Out Loneliness, Hari and Aino, The Lucksmiths and the latest single by Norwichcore heroes Bearsuit.
Elsewhere we have jaunty pop from The Momeraths, The Loves and Lucky Delucci, riot grrrl goodness from Fever fever and Stilletoes, melancholy pop from Tiger MCs and The Grizzly Owls and dramatic pop from Amanda Palmer. We also have two tracks from our featured compilation, A Place In Space, released on Invisible Girl Records from Elevation and Hektor.

Rocker:
A three-hour show with three fantastic featured LPs - by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Nightingales, and Emmy the Great. There's also new tracks from such acts as Clockwork Four; Phil Wilson; She Keeps Bees; Cats on Fire; Knight School; Mascot Fight; Lean Tales; The Mai 68s; and The Wednesday Club. There's a new single from Penetration, as well as a vintage Pauline Murray track, there's also a gloriously messed-up remix of a track from the current Grace Jones LP, as well as her gloriously messed-up 29-year-old cover of a post-punk classic.
There's dubstep from Wireman and Quarta 330, and electro / house from Dusty Kid; Milton Jackson and Sei A; and an amazing remix of Rennie Foster by Youngsters. There's also vintage soul from The Miracles.
This month's Peel's Big 45 is a blues classic from 1960, and my new "Educating Elizabeth" feature debuts with a Northern Soul standard from Herbert Hunter.
As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact, in fact it's a guest little known fact from The Nightingales: "If you keep on walking into a barbers, one day you're gonna get a haircut."

Simon Hickinbotham:
Whilst being mildly surprised at getting a show together for February, I'm nevertheless delighted to be presenting tracks by The Griefs, Two Minute Noodles, AK, Major Grave and Alien Hand.
We'll also be hearing more from those we've met before, including The Giant Leeches, Terry Edwards, Bill Nelson and Joy Division.
There's also a couple of half-cocked attempts at regular features - the long half of a "short song / long song" segment. The short song just wasn't short enough to meet the strict admission rules. I also attempt to play songs from two bands with very similar names - Mein and Maiun - but have trouble pronouncing both. Enjoy!

Yank Sizzler:
Behold the end of hibernation here on the Yank Sizzler Show following the fear of everything Santa. New recordings from The Homosexuals, Mammoth life, The Knux, Black Christmas, The Weakends, The Dutchess And The Duke & King Khan.
My disturbing love of Mississippi Records continues as I bring the old world immigrant song of the amazing LP "I Don't Feel At Home in This World Anymore". And of course we thrive on the collective gamut of blues, Swedish garage jazz, blistered fingers rock n roll, ska classics, English folk, highlife, soul, punk and indie gems with cuts by John Lee Hooker, The Thing, Abe Vigoda, Dark Meat, Free Kitten, Anne Briggs, Pissed Jeans, The Blues Busters, Rex Williams, Blood on the Wall, {{{Sunset}}}, Carla Thomas & many more.

También

• Temas sueltos (01)
• Temas sueltos (02)
• Temas sueltos (03)
• Temas sueltos (05)

12/10/09

• American Analog Set, Set Free, Born On The Cusp
• Bat for Lashes, Two Suns, Siren Song
• Ben Harper, Both Sides Of The Gun, Serve Your Soul
• Bill Callahan, Woke On A Whaleheart, Night
• Calexico, Garden Ruin: Smash, Deep Down, All Systems Red
• Chad VanGaalen, Soft Airplane, Bare Feet On Wet Griptape
• Dntel, Life Is Full of Possibilities, Umbrella
• Emiliana Torrini, Big Jumps

26/06/09

• Bigott, What A Lovely Day Today, hawaii esquimal
• Bonnie Prince Billy, Wilding In The West, Then The Letting Go
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Some Loud Thunder, Yankee Go Home
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: In This Home on Ice, Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood
• Death Cab for Cutie, Narrow Stairs, Bixby Canyon Bridge
• Los Campesinos!, Hold On Now, Youngster, You! Me! Dancing!
• Maxïmo Park, A Certain Trigger: Graffiti, Going Missing, Postcard of a Painting
• mclusky, mcluskyism, working from home
• My Diet Pill, First Album, Ego & I
• My Diet Pill, Second Album, Little scratches
• Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Ragged Glory, Over and Over
• Neutral Milk Hotel, Everything Is: Everything Is, Snow Song Part 1
• Neutral Milk Hotel, On Avery Island: Gardenhead - Leave Me Alone, Naomi
• Regina Spektor, 11:11, Pavlov's Daughter
• Regina Spektor, Soviet Kitch: Us, Your Honor
• My Morning Jacket, Elizabethtown, Where To Begin
• Rogue Wave, Descended Like Vultures, 10:1
• Sepultura, Chaos Ad: Kaiowas, Chaos BC
• Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, In Glorious Times, The Greenless Wreath
• Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Of Natural History: Cockroach, A Hymn to the Morning Star
• Taj Mahal, The Best Of, Ain't Gwine to Whistle Dixie
• The Beta Band, The Three E.P.'s: B + A, Dry The Rain
• The Brontës, Mary & Jim, Lovers Anyway
• The Divine Comedy, Absent Friends, Sticks and Stones
• The Dø, A Mouthful: On My Shoulders, The Bridge Is Broken
• The Gossip, Standing in the Way of Control, Standing in the Way of Control
• The La's, The La's: Timeless Melody, There She Goes
• The Magic Numbers, The Magic Numbers, Wheels On Fire
• The Natural History, Beat Beat Heartbeat, Do What You Should
• The New Pornographers, Twin Cinema: Broken Breads, The Bleeding Heart Show
• The Submarines, Declare A New State!, Peace and Hate
• The Sunshine Club, Home, The Lonesome Valley
• The Sunshine Club, Visit To A Small Planet: Campfire Girls, Steiner St.
• The War on Drugs, Wagonwheel Blues: There is No Urgency, A Needle In Your Eye #16
• Thurston Moore, Psychic Hearts: Psychic Hearts, Elegy For All The Dead Rock Stars
• Track a Tiger, We Moved Like Ghosts: Light, Summer's End
• Wipers, Youth Of America, When It's Over

07/01/09

• Grizzly Bear, Yellow House: Knife, Plans, On a Neck, On a Spit
• Headless Heroes, The Silence of Love: To You, Nobody's Baby Now
• Jens Lekman, Night Falls Over Kortedala, Your Arms Around Me
• Jens Lekman, When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog, Maple Leaves
• Keren Ann, Keren Ann, Liberty
• Kevin Johansen, Sur o No Sur, Candombito
• Mark Sultan, Sultanic Verses: Warpath, Unicorn Rainbow Odyssey

Another year... For me it was the year of ambient and modern classical sounds but also of good minimal music. As in 2007 it was very, very hard to choose and place all the albums of 2008. This year from 170 records I chose a hundred, so it was harder than a year ago when I placed albums in Top 50. So here we go:

100
SYCLOPS
I've Got My Eye On You
[DFA]
Leftfield, House, Future Jazz, Disco



099
THE MATTHEW HERBERT BIG BAND
There's Me And There's You
[Studio !K7 / Accidental]
Big Band, Jazz



098
MILOSH
III
[Studio !K7]
Leftfield, Downtempo



097
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS
Alpinisms
[Ghostly International]
Indie Rock, Shoegaze, Ethereal



096
HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR
Hercules And Love Affair
[DFA]
Disco, Leftfield, House



095
LADYTRON
Velocifero
[Nettwerk]
Synth-Pop



094
PIGEON FUNK
The Largest Bird In The History Of The Planet... Ever!
[Musique Risquée]
House, Deep House, Tech House



093
AKIKO KIYAMA
Seven Years
[District Of Corruption]
Minimal Techno



092
JAMIE LIDELL
Jim
[Warp Records]
Funk, Soul



091
POLDER
Poldermodel
[Intacto Records]
Minimal Techno



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090
ATLAS SOUND
Let The Blind Lead Those Who See But Cannot Feel
[Kranky / 4AD]
Indie Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Shoegaze, Experimental



089
KENNY LARKIN
Keys, Strings, Tambourines
[Planet E]
Techno, IDM



088
MURCOF
The Versailles Sessions
[Leaf]
Ambient, Modern Classical



087
LEE JONES
Electronic Frank
[Aus Music]
Tech House, Minimal House



086
POPNONAME
Surrounded By Weather
[Italic]
Tech House



085
SCSI-9
Easy As Down
[Kompakt]
Minimal, House, Techno



084
HIGH PLACES
03/07 - 09/07
[Thrill Jockey]
Experimental, Alternative Rock



083
THE BUG
Lonodn Zoo
[Ninja Tune]
Dubstep, Dancehall



082
NINE INCH NAILS
The Slip
[The Null Corporation]
Alternative Rock, Industrial, Ambient



081
FUNCKARMA
Vell Varganz
[n5MD]
IDM, Dubstep, Experimental



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080
ALVA NOTO
Unitxt
[Raster-Noton]
Glitch, Experimental



079
GLISSANDO
With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards The Burning Sea
[Gizeh Records]
Post Rock, Ambient



078
HELIOS
Caesura
[Type Records]
Post Rock, Modern Classical, Downtempo, Ambient



077
MOTIONFIELD
Optical Flow
[Somnia]
Ambient



076
HEADHUNTER
Nomad
[Tempa]
Dubstep, Techno



075
MATMOS
Supreme Balloon
[Matador]
Glitch, IDM, Experimental



074
DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
[Todomundo]
Alternative Rock



073
KETTEL
Myam James Part 1
[Sending Orbs]
IDM, Downtempo, Acid



072
ANDY STOTT
Unknown Exception (Selected Tracks Vol.1)
[Modern Love]
Dub Techno, House, Minimal, Electro, IDM, Dub



071
THE MOLE
As High As The Sky
[Wagon Repair]
Deep House, House



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070
PROSUMER & MURAT TEPELI
Serenity
[Ostgut Tonträger]
Deep House, Tech House, Acid House



069
I AM ROBOT AND PROUD
Uphill City
[Darla Records]
IDM, Experimental



068
TV ON THE RADIO
Dear Science
[4AD / Interscope Records]
Leftfield, Indie Rock



067
MINILOGUE
Animals
[Cocoon Recordings]
Minimal, Tech House, Ambient



066
BACHELORS OF SCIENCE
Science Fiction
[Horizons Music]
Drum'n'Bass



065
VENETIAN SNARES
Detrimentalist
[Planet Mu]
Breakcore, Jungle



064
LOS UPDATES
First If You Have Please
[Cadenza]
Minimal, Tech House



063
RUDI ARAPAHOE
Echoes From One To Another
[Symbolic Interaction]
Modern Classical, Ambient



062
BENGA
Diary Of An Afro Warrior
[Tempa]
Dubstep



061
LINELAND
Logos For Love
[Audio Dregs]
IDM, Downtempo, Experimental, Ambient



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060
DANIEL MAZE
Red After Image
[Serein]
Ambient, Abstract, Experimental



059
GROUPER
Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
[Type Records]
Folk Rock, Shoegaze, Drone, Ethereal, Ambient, Experimental



058
Ø
Oleva
[Sähkö Recordings]
Minimal, Experimental



057
2562
Aerial
[Tectonic]
Dubstep, Techno



056
GANG GANG DANCE
Saint Dymphna
[Warp Records]
Abstract, Psychedelic Rock, Tribal, Experimental



055
HATCHA VS KROMESTAR
Brothers Grim
[Aphex Recordings]
Dubstep



054
KLAUS SCHULZE & LISA GERRARD
Farscape
[Synthetic Symphony]
Ambient



053
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
Anywhere I Lay My Head
[ATCO Records]
Ethereal



052
AVROCAR
Against The Dying Of The Light
[Make Mine Music / Guidance Records]
Ambient, Leftfield



051
EZEKIEL HONIG
Surfaces Of A Broken Marching Band
[Anticipate Recordings]
Ambient, Abstract



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050
ODD NOSDAM
Pretty Swell Explode
[Anticon]
Leftfield, Ambient, Experimental



049
AUTECHRE
Quaristice
[Warp Records]
Glitch, IDM, Abstract, Experimental



048
AUTISTICI
Volume Objects
[12k]
Minimal, Ambient, Experimental



047
CHRIS WATSON
Cima Verde
[Fondazione Edmund Mach / LoL Productions]
Field Recordings



046
SIGUR RÓS
Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
[XL Recordings / EMI Recordings]
Post Rock, Alternative Rock, Neofolk



045
LINDSTRØM
Where You Go I Go Too
[Smalltown Supersound]
Disco, Deep House



044
FLYING LOTUS
Los Angeles
[Warp Records]
Instrumental Hip Hop, Leftfield, Experimental



043
KANGDING RAY
Automne Fold
[Raster-Noton]
Glitch, Minimal, Abstract



042
PETER BRODERICK
Home
[Type Records / Bella Union]



041
HEADLESS HEROES
The Silence Of Love
[Fargo Records]
Indie Rock, Psychedelic Rock



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040
LOCO DICE
7 Dunham Place
[Desolat]
Minimal House, Tech House



039
THE INVENTORS OF AIRCRAFT
Unknown Language
[Serein]
Ambient, Abstract



038
ROBIN SAVILLE
Peasgood Nonsuch
[Static Caravan]
IDM, Ambient



037
HECQ
Night Falls
[Hymen Records]
Modern Classical, Ambient



036
ANDERS ILAR
Sworn
[Level Records]
Minimal, IDM, Techno



035
TAKAHIRO KIDO
Fluersy Music
[PLOP]
Modern Classical, Ambient



034
PORTISHEAD
Third
[Universal Island Records]
Trip Hop, Downtempo, Experimental, Folk Rock



033
THE FUN YEARS
Baby, It's Cold Inside
[Barge Recordings]
Abstract, Ambient, Experimental



032
CLARK
Turning Dragon
[Warp Records]
IDM, Techno



031
STEN
The Essence
House, Minimal, Tech House
[Dial]



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030
MIKKEL METAL
Peaks And Troughs
[Echocord]
Dub, Dub Techno, Minimal



029
SHED
Shedding The Past
[Ostgut Tonträger]
Dub Techno, IDM, Techno



028
THE BLACK DOG
Radio Scarecrow
[Soma Quality Recordings]
Minimal Techno, IDM



027
HIGH PLACES
High Places
[Thrill Jockey]
Indie Rock, Experimental



026
LULU ROUGE
Bless You
[Music For Dreams / Voices Music & Entertainment (VME)]
Dub Techno, Dub, Ambient, Downtempo



025
NEAR THE PARENTHESIS
L'Eixample
[n5MD]
Ambient, IDM



024
MAX RICHTER
24 Postcards In Full Colour
[130701]
Modern Classical, Ambient



023
LIBRARY TAPES
A Summer Beneath The Trees
[Make Mine Music]
Modern Classical, Ambient



022
M83
Saturdays=Youth
[Virgin Music (France) / Mute Corporation]
Shoegaze, Downtempo, Ambient



021
KOEN HOLTKAMP
Field Rituals
[Type Records]
Field Recordings, Ambient, Expreimental



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020
MOVE D & BENJAMIN BRUNN
Songs From The Beehive
[Smallville Records]
Minimal Techno, Deep House, Ambient



019
WINDY & CARL
Songs For The Broken Hearted
[Kranky]
Drone, Post Rock, Ambient



018
GOLDMUND
The Malady Of Elegance
[Type Records]
Modern Classical



017
JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON
Fordlandia
[4AD]
Modern Classical, Ambient, Experimental



016
NEWWORLDAQUARIUM
The Dead Bears
[NWAQ]
Dub Techno, Deep House, Ambient



015
DEADBEAT
Roots & Wire
[Wagon Rapair]
Dub Techno, Reggae, Dub



014
JACASZEK
Treny
[Miasmah / Gusstaff]
Modern Classical



013
PHILIP JECK
Sand
[Touch]
Ambient, Experimental



012
PETAR DUNDOV
Escapements
[Music Man Records]
Techno, Minimal



011
MATTHEW ROBERT COOPER (ELUVIUM)
Miniatures
[Gaarden Records]
Modern Classical, Ambient



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010
THE SIGHT BELOW
Glider
[Ghostly International]
Ambient, Dub Techno, Minimal



009
BON IVER
For Emma, Forever Ago
[4AD / Jagjaguwar]
Folk Rock, World & Country



008
XELA
In Bocca Al Lupo
[Type Records]
Ambient, Experimental, Industrial, Noise



007
BRUNO PRONSATO
Why Can't We Be Like Us?
[Hello? Repeat]
Minimal House



006
AIDAN BAKER AND TIM HECKER
Fantasma Parastasie
[Alien8 Recordings]
Drone, Ambient, Noise, Experimental, Abstract



005
PAAVOHARJU
Laulu Laakson Kukista
[Fonal Records]
Neo Folk, Experimental, Leftfield



004
QUANTEC
Unusual Signals
[Echocord]
Dub Techno



003
RICARDO VILLALOBOS
Vasco
[Perlon]
Minimal Techno



002
LAWRENCE ENGLISH
Kiri No Oto
[Touch]
Drone, Ambient, Field Recordings





And the WINNER OF THE YEAR 2008 Is...


001
FENNESZ
Black Sea
[Touch]
Ambient, Drone, Experimental



Happy New Year and Lots Of Good Sound in 2009!

:-)

MARTIN

FenneszLawrence EnglishRicardo VillalobosQuantecPaavoharjuAidan Baker and Tim HeckerAidan BakerTim HeckerBruno PronsatoXelaBon IverThe Sight BelowMatthew Robert CooperEluviumPetar DundovPhilip JeckJacaszekDeadbeatNewworldaquariumJóhann JóhannssonGoldmundWindy & CarlMove D & Benjamin BrunnMove DBenjamin BrunnKoen HoltkampM83Library TapesMax RichterNear The ParenthesisLulu RougeHigh PlacesThe Black DogShedMikkel MetalStenClarkThe Fun YearsTakahiro KidoPortisheadAnders IlarHecqRobin SavilleThe Inventors of AircraftLoco DiceHeadless HeroesPeter BroderickKangding RayFlying LotusLindstrømSigur RósChris WatsonAutisticiAutechreOdd NosdamEzekiel HonigAvrocarScarlett JohanssonKlaus Schulze & Lisa GerrardKlaus SchulzeLisa GerrardHATCHA vs KROMESTARHatcha Vs. KromestarHatchaKromestarGang Gang Dance2562ØGrouperDaniel MazeLinelandBengaRudi ArapahoeLos UpdatesVenetian SnaresBachelors Of ScienceMinilogueTV on the RadioI Am Robot and ProudProsumer & Murat TepeliThe MoleAndy StottKettelDavid Byrne & Brian EnoDavid ByrneBrian EnoMatmosHeadhunterMotionfieldHeliosGlissandoAlva NotoFunckarmaNine Inch NailsThe BugSCSI-9PopnonameLee JonesMurcofKenny LarkinAtlas SoundPolderJamie Lidellakiko kiyamaPigeon FunkLadytronHercules and Love AffairSchool of Seven BellsMiloshThe Matthew Herbert Big Band

As always, December 31 is a good day to list my favorite records of the year. I think musically 2008 was a nice year. Maybe not spectacular, but I've added quite a few records to my collections.

Of course, I haven't heard everything that was released this year, but so far, these 10 are my favorite:

1. Asking for flowers - Kathleen Edwards
2. Me and Armini - Emiliana Torrini
3, Life death love and freedom - John Mellencamp
4. ’78 - China Forbes
5. 2 - Fotheringay
6. Live at Montreux - Tori Amos
7. We sing, we dance, we steal things - Jason Mraz
8. Two - kathryn williams & neil maccoll
9. A book like this - Angus & Julia Stone
10. Saturday nights & Sunday mornings - Counting Crows

Just outside the top 10 are Jude, Headless Heroes, Marah, John Mayer, Jakob Dylan, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Levellers and Shearwater.

For me, however, 2008 was not only a year of new music, but just as much a year of (re)discovering older music. Therefore, here's an alternative list with my '10 favorite records of 2008'...

Born to run - Bruce Springsteen
Asking for flowers - Kathleen Edwards
’78 - China Forbes
The weight is a gift - Nada Surf
Daybreaker - Beth Orton
Darkness on the edge of town - Bruce Springsteen
Life death love and freedom - John Mellencamp
Me and Armini - Emiliana Torrini
Tunnel of love - Bruce Springsteen
Subtitulo - Josh Rouse

Here's also a list with 10 songs that could form my personal soundtrack for 2008:

Thunder Road
Sure as Shit
Moon River
Here At The Right Time
Snowy
The Beauty of the Rain
I'll Be Your Mirror
Meeting Across the River
Inside of Love
Big Jumps

And, finally, here's a list with my favorite concerts of last year:

1. Bruce Springsteen – June 18, Amsterdam
2. Kathleen Edwards – June 20, Amsterdam
3. Emiliana Torrini – October 16, Utrecht
4. Jason Mraz – July 9, Amsterdam
5. Nada Surf – May 7, Utrecht
6. Josh Ritter – March 21, Utrecht
7. My Morning Jacket – July 9, Amsterdam
8. Emmylou Harris – September 26, Groningen
9. Holly Golightly – April 19, Utrecht
10. Alela Diane – April 12, Utrecht

Best wishes everyone for 2009!

i know lists are very personal and may change in a daily basis but i decided to create my list of - what i think - the greatest albums of the year... there's no rational order which means that the first album listed isn't necessarily the best album of the year...
here we go then...

- Klaus & Kinski - tu hoguera está ardiendo
(klaus & kinski is, probably, the best thing i discovered this year... the album is flawless)
- Moscow Olympics - cut the world
- Sad Day For Puppets - unknown colors
- The Monolators - don't dance
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - lp
- Moto Boy - moto boy
- Headless Heroes - the silence of love
- Hari and Aino - hari and aino
- The Honest Johns - songwriters of the north
- A Big Yes And A Small No - jesus, that looks terrible on you
- Carrie- 1981
- Celestial - crystal heights
- The Electric Pop Group - sunrise ep
- Entre Rios - entre rios
- Gentle Touch - in memory of savannah
- Ida Maria - fortress round my heart
- Joel Alme - a master of ceremonies
- Kite - kite ep
- Melpo Mene - bring the lions out
- Cof Cof - who said party?
- Mates of State - mates of state
- Northern Portrait - the fallen aristocracy ep
- Oppressed By The Line - soft focus
- Parker Lewis - parker lewis
- The School - let it slip ep
- Stars In Coma - you're still frozen in time
- This Is Ivy League - this is ivy league
- This Car Up - smile when you're alone
- Twig - life after ridge
- v.a. - rewind: the 80's cover project by buffetlibre.net
- Speedmarket Avenue - way better now
- The Sound of Arrows - danger!
- Almedal - från och med nu och 20 dagar framåt
- Days - downhill
- Russian Red - i love your glasses
- Slow Runner - mermaids

Festive Fifty voting is over - and the folks at Dandelion Radio are busy finding the tracks and compiling the show - to start playing as soon as we reach Christmas Day (midnight).
Meanwhile - here are the rest of the shows that are already scheduled, including a show from new boy, Matt Jones.

Andrew Morrison:
Andy's final show of 2008 celebrates both the old and the new. There's some classic selections from John Peel's past Festive Fifty polls, including The Boo Radleys, Laura Cantrell, Dave Clarke and Melys. Brand new music comes from Bloc Party, Samuraj Cities, The Race and Decoration (whose latest single is up for grabs in an exciting competition). You'll hear a track from Autons' new album that can be won in a second competition. Along with Teresa's Tasty Tips and Scott's Funky Five Minutes, you'll hear five alternative Christmas songs to get you in the mood for Dandelion Radio's Festive Fifty countdown show, broadcasting from Christmas Day until the end of January!

Jeff Grainger:
Jeff marks his last show of 2008 with a three hour spectacular of this years finest head-turners (well certainly the ones that have turned his head). Top of the shop is Superman Revenge Squad who also provides December's Album of the Month with his debut 'This is my own personal way of dealing with it all'. There's another chance to hear tracks by the likes of Miami Bum Machine ,Shookz & lady ann.
First time plays of Dognoize, Kobenhavn Store & Guile. These little beauties will be joined by old favourites; Calvin Party & Dalmation Rex and the Eigentones. Also the fabulous music website Earth Monkey Productions gets a nod and a wink with two excellent examples of its electroinca brilliance.
Just in case you thought that wasn't enough the show includes two blinding live sessions by Machine Boy & Galleon. The latter will be on the bill along with The Lovely Eggs at Oldham's Dandelion Radio Night 4 at The Castle on the 18th of December. Hope to see you there.
Have a good Christmas and all the best for the New Year.

Marcelle:
Süsswein’s premier musical education

In between travelling all over Europe to enjoy, educate and scare audiences with her wicked live sets, acclaimed Dutch deejay Marcelle has found the time to record another show for Dandelion in her cosy living room. With 7 weeks old pet hamster 'Süsswein' as her only live listener (this is not irrelevant information as Peel named his Dandelion label after his pet hamster of the same name) she recorded a three hour show which includes a glorious comeback for her favourite hiphop label Wordsound, a great mix cd from DJ/Rupture, another Ex-member collaboration and a new great duet by Robert Wyatt and a German chanteuse.
There is the usual new and brutal dubstep, the weird a cappella song and the superb religious chanting. As always in her radio shows Marcelle connects past and present: she reveals where that sample on the new Drumsound And Bassline Smith 12" comes from and plays the original 7" and she shows the brilliant musical past of the owner of the great German label Monika Enterprise.
Not to mention new records by Bearsuit, Kid 606, Death Sentence: PANDA!, Marc Houle and Food For Animals amongst others.
Totally Normal. For Marcelle it is. Comes with 61% vinyl guarantee.

Mark Cunliffe:
It's almost Christmas and I've been on Dandelion for exactly one year now. Like the sediment in a Wilko home brew kit, I think I've just about settled.
On this month's show I play the song that a world record holder danced to in their victory celebrations. There's Caspa wondering where his money's got to. Theivery Coorperation beat up a DAB tuner and King Clarentz drops another radio bomb. Shabba D puts in a pilot for Jackanory and Zound & Ku go jungle all over us. Dungen does a bit of a Jimi Hendrix impression, El Yabo serve us some Cuban Reggaeton and Taz Buckfaster could get life for the skank he's plotting.
Finally, this show's synopsis would be extremely remiss if it didn't shout from the rooftops that Babar Luck is back with the second half of his set from The Vic in Derby.
If this show was a Christmas decoration it would be a giant bauble ..... no tinsel allowed ....

Mark Whitby:
Malory trudged home quickly in the snow. He could already hear the faint chimes of Captain Beefheart shattering the silence and he knew that what was afoot. Another Mark Whitby Dandelion Radio December special.
There's be the Listen To Me, top ten, he thought, shielding himself against the blizzard with a withered hand, featuring Whitby's favourite ten bands who introduced themselves to him during the year. And there were bound to be generous helpings of new(ish) albums by the likes of Marnie Stern, Talkdemonic and Monareta as well as tasty festive slices courtesy of Gentleman Auction House, Lowell Fulson and - he gasped almost to think of it - Jethro Tull.
He cursed into the icy wind. Why the hell couldn't Whitby leave the brandy alone? Jethro Tull, for God's sake!
But then Malory remembered the spiciest piece of plum pudding in there. A veritable selection box of Filthy Little Angels records that Whitby had sent tumbling from Santa's sleigh after aiming a dead-eye shot with his crossbow at Rudolph's nether regions. He laughed to himself. Rachael Neimann's Christmas morning would be ruined, but Whitby was churning them out to the benefit of all of us. There'd be micropenis, he didn't doubt, and Hyperbubble and that new Fantaplastic EP...and, and, and...
In his hurry to sample the goodies on offer, Malory slipped on his arse and fell face-down into the muddy slush. He was drinking the overflowing mush from the drains and he didn't care.

Matt Jones:
New boy Matt Jones steps into the palatial sonic halls of Dandelion Radio for the first time. He brings with him the varied sounds of some of the best new and unsigned music. Join him for journey into the unknown and (legally!) fill up your mp3 player along the way.
He offers up circus freak genius from the incomparable Monkeygrinder, a taste of the gypsy tinged hiphop of Degiheugi and Ghostown and an intro to the breakcore wonder of Kid Hideous. Also on the menu is a tasty smattering of digital dub, sweet, deep and mellow IDM, punk, reggae and dubstep from the likes of Talco, Gente Strana Posse and Echo_TM.
You'd be actually proper daft in the head not to listen now you've read this page. You really, really would. Cos *you might just like it... *

Neil Jenkins:
In his December show, Neil attempts to keep it a Christmas song free zone but doesn't quite manage it.
He does, however, manage to feature the LPs 'Krulle Bol' by This Is The Kit and 'Age Of Solo' by Lettie, as well as the record label Holy Roar Records.
There's also room for a couple of messages to the world from departing US president George W. Bush.
Look out too for some rather stupendous whistling going on.
Despite the relative lack of Christmas songs, mince pies and port are still MANDATORY!

Pete Jackson:
December's show features an absolute feast of festive fun. There's a brand new session from Swedish psych-popsters The Greencoats and a full half-hour of psychedelic flavours from Wooden Shjips, Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve and The Jimi Hendrix Experience, among others.
Elsewhere, there's a festive karaoke special (!) and a cheery Christmas tale from William Burroughs and Kurt Cobain to warm your cockles. Ho ho ho!

Rachael Neiman:
In honour of our very favourite time of year, December's edition of 'The Rachael Neiman Experience' is a joyous festive extravaganza, you're all invited to the Cherryade Towers Christmas party, featuring 2 hours of new Christmas songs collected over the last year.
These include tracks featured on the latest edition of the Very Cherry Christmas compilation, including The Lovely Eggs, Little My, Hotpants Romance, Fever fever, The Very Most, The Gresham Flyers, Hearts!Attack, The Seven Inches, micropenis, The Fountain and many more.
Elsewhere we have more fresh Yuletide treats from the likes of The School, Asobi Seksu, Hyperbubble, The Priscillas, Lucky Soul, Wild Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire, Holly Golightly, Shrag and many more.
Join us at Cherryade Towers for an audio mince pie and mulled wine to get your Christmas off to a great start!

Rocker:
Another packed 3-hour show, this month's featured LP is the fantastic debut from New York's Crystal Stilts. There's also new tracks from Minisnap; The Lazy Darlings; The Manhattan Love Suicides; Horowitz; Grace Jones; Je suis Animal; hot silk pockets; The Bright Lights; Luckwell; We Are Burkina Faso; wonderswan; and Killing Fields Of Ontario.
There's Dubstep from Headhunter and Mike Epic, as well as electro from Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso remixed by popov, techno from Williams, and longterm hero of the show James Holden shows how its done in the latest Radiohead remixed competition.
We include several Canadian bands this month, and discover that in Toronto at least, there seems to be a disturbing trend for bands to cover classics from the Sarah Records stable. Meanwhile back in New York, Headless Heroes cover I Am Kloot.
This month's Peel's Big 45 is an uncharacteristically maudlin track from 1959, by an artist better known as a rock'n'roller.
As well as little known acts, here's this month's little known fact: The world's longest conveyor belt is the Fosbucraa conveyor belt, in the Sahara desert. It transports phosphate from the mines in Bu Craa to the coast near El-Aaiun, and is 100 kilometres long.

So the year is coming slowly to an end, and here's my list of my fav albums released in 2008:

Adele - Daydreamer
Anna Ternheim - Leaving On A Mayday
Berry - Mademoiselle
Bonnie Prince Billy - Lie Down In The Light
Cake Bake Betty - To The Dark Tower
Camille - Gospel With No Lord
Cat Power - Jukebox
City & Colour - Bring Me Your Love
Emiliana Torrini - Me And Armini
Emily Jane White - Dark Undercoat
Gemma Ray - The Leader
Ghost Bees - Tasseomancy
Headless Heroes - The Silence of Love
Hellsongs - Songs In the Key of 666
Ingrid Olava - Juliet's Wishes
Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things
Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
Loreena McKennitt- A Midwinter Night's Dream
Lucky Jim - True Noth
Malcom Middleton - Sleight of Heart
Micky Green - Oh!
Scott Matthew - Scott Matthew
Sophie Hunger - Monday's Ghost
Tori Amos - Live in Montreux 1991/1992
White Hinterland - Phylactery Factory
Woven Hand - Ten Stones

This List is actually longer than i thought! Quite alot good music in 2008.

What i'm hoping for in 2009 are new albums by: Tori Amos, Damien Rice, Regina Spektor, Feist, Alela Diane (her album will be released in Feb. yay!) and Joanna Newsom.