Domingo 9 Jan 2011, 14h:16

PopMatters Picks: The Best Electronic Albums of 2009
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Read the Bastard!
Last year’s year-end retrospectives saw much proclamation of the death of minimalism, and while it has quieted down a bit (pun intended), with the exception of a few notables releases on Echospace, Modern Love, and the like, not much has come along to take its place (least of all some kind of maximalism). Deep house (Moodymann, Black Jazz Consortium) continued to get deep, electro had a few surprise knockouts (Harmonic 313, Linkwood, DJ Hell), several noteworthy supergroups synergized their talents (Moritz von Oswald Trio, Lindstrom and Prins Thomas, Moderat), and big ballers pumped out adequate though hardly compulsory releases (Basement Jaxx, Röyksopp, Simian Mobile Disco). On the fringes, hauntology seemed to split its time between Broadcast-related projects (Broadcast and the Focus Group, Roj, Seeland), Raster-Noton (SND, Alva Noto) and Miasmah (Kreng, Elegi) upped their games, and there was a wealth of intriguing entries into the arcane (Tim Hecker, Vladislav Delay, Somfay, Syntheme) and otherwise unclassifiable (Spoonbill, Matias Aguayo’s latest).

10. Brock Van Wey- White Clouds Drift On and On
9. 2562 Unbalance
8. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
7. Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away
6. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
5. Dan Deacon- Bromst
4. Harmonic 313 - When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
3. SND - Atavism
2. Jon Hopkins - Insides
1. Falty DL - Love is a Liability