The Wire - 2008 Rewind List

DominoDub

Top 50 - Records of thr Year!
01. The Bug - London Zoo [Ninja Tune]
02. Philip Jeck - Sand [Touch]
03. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace [no label]
04. John Butcher - Resonant Spaces [Confront]
05. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna [Social Registry]
06. The Advisory Circle - Other Channels [Ghost Box]
07. Evangelista - Hello, Voyager [Constellation]
08. William S. Burroughs - Real English Tea Made Here [Audio Research Editions]
09. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent [Sanctuary]
10. The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases [Install]
11. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion [Hospital Productions]
12. Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern [Raster-Noton]
13. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! [Mute]
14. Eric Chenaux - Sloppy Ground [Constellation]
15. Kasai Allstars - In the 7th Moon, the Chief Turned Into a Swimming Fish and Ate the Head of His Enemy By Magic [Crammed Discs]
16. Autechre - Quaristice [Warp]
17. Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music [Keysound]
18. Luomo - Convivial [Huume]
19. Bill Dixon - 17 Musicians In Search Of A Sound: Darfur [AUM Fidelity]
20. Stephan Mathieu - Radioland [Die Schachtel]
21. Lukas Ligeti - Afrikan Machinery [Tzadik]
22. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair [DFA]
23. Group Inerane - Guitar From Agadez (Music of Niger) [Sublime Frequencies]
24. Jandek - Glasgow Sunday 2005 [Corwood]
25. Robert Ashley - Concrete [Lovely Music]
26. Tricky - Knowle West Boy [Domino]
27. Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me [Audika]
28. Scorces - I Turn Into You [Not Not Fun]
29. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull [Southern Lord]
30. Terry Riley - The Last Camel In Paris [Elision Fields]
31. Malcom Goldstein - A Sounding of Sources [New World]
32. Christina Carter - Masque Femine [Many Breaths]
33. Stereo Image - s/t [Frog Man Jake]
34. Harvey Milk - Life... the Best Game In Town [Hydra Head]
35. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend [XL]
36. Emeralds - Solar Bridge [Hanson]
37. Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters 2 [Tzadik]
38. Portishead - Third [Universal]
39. Toumani Diabate - The Mande Variations [World Circuit]
40. Jakob Ullmann - Voice, Books and FIRE 3 [Editions RZ]
41. David Grubbs - An Optimist Notes the Dust [Drag City]
42. Vajra - Live [PSF]
43. Murcof - The Versailles Sessions [Leaf]
44. Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness [Bo' Weavil]
45. Peter Rehberg - Works for GV 2004-2008 [Editions Mego]
46. Alva Noto - Unitxt [Raster-Noton]
47. Mark Stewart - Edit [Crippled Dick Hot Wax]
48. Sic Alps - US EZ [Siltbreeze]
49. Ellen Fullman & Monique Buzzarté - Fluctuations [Deep Listening]
50. Sao Paulo Underground - The Principle Of Intrusive Relationships [esthetics]

Avant Rock
Aufgehoben - Khora [Holy Mountain]
Burning Star Core - Challenger [Plastic/Hospital]
Birchville Cat Motel - Four Freckle Constellations [Conspiracy]
Black Mountain - In the Future [Jagjaguwar]
The Dead C - Secret Earth [Ba Da Bing]
Eat Skull - Sick To Death [Siltbreeze]
Fabulous Diamonds - Fabulous Diamonds [Siltbreeze]
Growing - All The Way [Social Registry]
Hair Police - Certainty Of Swarms [No Fun Productions]
The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace [no label]
Hototogisu - Under the Rose [Blossoming Noise]
Religious Knives - Remains [No Fun Productions]
Scorces - I Turn Into You [Not Not Fun]
Alexander Tucker - Portal [ATP]
Valet - Naked Acid [Kranky]

Critical Beats
Louis Guillaume - Soulpoint [SD Records]
Joker & Rustie - Play Doe [Kapsize 12"]
King Midas Sound - Cool Out [Hyperdub 12"]
DJ Koze - I Want To Sleep [International Records Recordings 12"]
Martyn - Vancouver/Natural Selection [3024 12"]
Peverelist - Infinity Is Now/Junktion [Punch Drunk 12"]
Rustie - Zig Zag [Wireblock 12"]
Trim - Soulfood Vol. 3 [no label]
Scuba - Twitch (Jamie Vex'd Remix) [Hotflush 12"]
Shackleton - Death Is Not Final [Skull Disco 12"]
Shackleton - Soundboy's Suicide Note [Skull Disco 12"]
Skream - Skreamizm Vol. 4 [Tempa 2x12"]
Tobias - I Can't Fight The Feeling EP [Wagon Repair 12"]
Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco [Perlon 12"]
Ricardo Villalobos - Enfants [Si Es Drum 12"]

Electronica
Benge - Twenty Systems 1968-1988 [Expanding]
Blevin Blectum - Gular Flutter [Aagoo]
Bochum Welt - ROB [Rephlex]
Byetone - Death Of A Typographer [Raster-Noton]
Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto [Touch]
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles [Warp]
Koen Holtkamp - Field Rituals [Type]
Machinefabriek - Dauw [Dekorder]
Matmos - Supreme Balloon [Matador]
Move D - Drøne [Modern Love]
Theo Parrish - Sound Sculptures Vol. 1 [Sound Signature]
Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour [Fat Cat]
Schlammpeitziger - Schingstelle Für Rauschabzug [Sonig]
snd - 4, 5, 6 [snd]
Tape - Luminarium [Hapna]

Global
Les Amazones De Guinee - Wamato [Sterns]
Ammasu Akapoma Group - The Music Of Ammasu: Brong Ahasu, Ghana 1976 [Country & Eastern]
Balla Et Ses Balladins - The Syliphone Years [Sterns]
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay - Pujo [Felmay]
Zerfu Demissie - Akotet [Terp]
Frank Denyer - Music For Shakuhachi [Another Timbre]
Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez (Music of Niger) [Sublime Frequencies]
Kasai Allstars - In the 7th Moon... [Crammed]
Seant Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80 - Many Things [Tot Ou Tard]
Melingo - Maldito Tango [Naïve]
Rail Band - Mansa [Sterns]
Sam Shalabi - Eid [Alien8]
Amadou Sodia - Ca Va Se Savoir [Sterns]
Terakaft - AKh Issudar [IRL]
Umalali - The Garifuni Women's Project [Cumbancha]

Hiphop
Clipse presents Re-Up Gang - Clipse Presents Re-Up Gang [Koch]
Cool Kids - Winterfresh [no label]
Peedi Crakk - Welcome to Crakk's House [no label]
Giggs - Walk In Da Park [SN1]
Charles Hamilton - It's Charles Hamilton [no label]
Alicia Keys - Teenage Love Affair [J-Records]
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III [Cash Money/Universal]
Madlib - Madvillany 2 [Madlib]
MIA featuring Jay-Z
Boyz (Remix) [no label]
9th Wonder & Buckshot - The Formula [Duck Down]
Proton - Read & Purple Mixtape Volume 1 [no label]
Guilty Simpson - Ode to the Ghetto [Stones Throw]
TI featuring Kanye West, Jay-Z & Lil Wayne - Swagga Like Us [Grand Hustle]
Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing [no label]
Yo! Majesty - Futuristically Speaking...Never Be Afraid [Domino]

Jazz & Improv
Michael Adkins Quartet - Rotator [HatOLOGY]
Butcher/Muller/va der Schyff - Way Out Northwest [Drip Audio]
Charles/Grydeland/Wallumrød/Zach - Dans Les Arbres [ECM]
Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra - Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra [Thrill Jockey]
Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul Lytton - Phases Of The Night [Intakt]
Mary Halvorson Trio - Dragon's Head [Firehouse 12]
Mazen Kerbaj/Birgit Uhler/Sharif Sehnaoui - 3:1 [Creative Sources]
K-Space - Infinity [Ad Hoc]
Ingrid Laubrock - Sleepthief [Intakt]
Chris McGregor Septet - Up To Earch [Fledg'ling]
Mike Osbourne - Force Of Nature [Reel Recordings]
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune [AUM Fidelity]
Howard Riley - Three Is One [ASC]
Franz Paul Schubert & Gunter 'Baby' Sommer - Hic Sunt Leones [Jazz Haus]
Seymour Wright - Seymor Wright Of Derby [no label]

Modern Composition
Robert Ashley - Concrete [Lovely Music]
Carrier Band - Voice Coil [Deep Listening]
Gloria Coates - Symphony No 15 [Naxos]
Anthony Coleman - Lapidation [New World]
Frank Denyer - Silenced Voices [Mode]
James Dillon - The Soadie Waste [NMC]
Ron George - The Floating Bubble [Innova]
Malcolm Goldstein - A Sounding Of Sources [New World]
Mauricio Kagel - Acustica [Zig Zag Territories]
Annea Lockwood - A Sound Map Of The Danube [Lovely Music]
Olivier Messiaen - Organ Works [Delphian]
Eliane Radigue - Chry-Ptus [Schoolmap]
Eliane Radigue - Naldjorlak [Shiiin]
'Blue' Gene Tyranny - The Somewhere Songs/The Invention Of Memory [Mutable]
Jakob Ullmann - Voice, Books and FIRE 3 [Edition RZ]

Outer Limits
AFCGT - AFCGT [no label]
Astral Social Club - Model Town In A Field Of Mud [Textile]
John Baker - The John Baker Tapes Vols 1 & 2 [Trunk]
Excepter - Debt Dept [Paw Tracks]
Ron Geesin - Biting The Hand: BBC Radio Broadcasts 1969-1975 [Hux]
G*Park - Reuters [Tochnit Aleph]
Russell Haswell - Second Live Salvage [Editions Mego]
The Hub - Boundary Layer [Tzadik]
Kikuri - Pulverised Purple [Victo]
Jacob Kirkegaard - Labyrinthitis [Touch]
Richard Skelton - Marking Time [Preservation]
sh*t and Shine - Küss Mich, Meine Liebe [Load]
Howard Steltzer - Bond Inlets [Intransitive]
Volcano The Bear - Amidst The Noise and Twigs [Beta-Lactam Ring]
Zeitkratzer - Electronics [Zeitkratzer]

Dub Top 10
Jimmy Radway & The Fe Me Time Allstars - Dub I [Pressure Sounds]
Johnny Osbourne - Truth & Rights [Heartbeat/Studio One]
Augustus Pablo - The Mystic World Of Augustus Pablo: The Rockers Story [Shanachie]
Deadbeat - Roots & Wire [Wagon Repair]
Culture - Culture & The Deejays At Joe Gibbs 1977-79 [17 North Parade]
Gussie P - Roots & Dub Vol 1 [Sip A Cup]
Henry & Louis - Increments [2 Kings]
Pale Rider - Listen Keenly [Cassava Outernational]
Vibronics - UK Dub Story [Scoops]
The Might Diamonds - The Mighty Diamonds Inna De Yard [Inna De Yard]

Size Matters Top 10
Little Claw - Why Not [Physical Sewer 7"]
Screw - Bans Of The River [Shagrat 10"]
Billy Childish & The Musicians Of the British Empire Vs Halo Of Flies [Amphetamine Reptile 7"]
Elisa Ambrogio & Karl Bauer - Yankee Psychic Hygene [Spirit of Orr 7"]
Zaimph - Bird Of Prey [Arbor 7"]
United Light - Untitled [Alt Vinyl 8"]
Martin Creed - Ooh [Smart Guy/White Columns]
Lightning Strike Lightning - The Moon [L'Animaux Tryst 7"]
Zola Jesus - Poor Sons [Die Stasi 7"]
Anals - Commando Of Love [Sweet Rot 7"]

Compilations
African Scream Contests: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From 70s Benin & Togo [Analog Africa]
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music: Fith A-Chronology [Sub Rosa]
An England Story: The Culture Of The MC In The UK 1984-2008 [Soul Jazz]
Art Of Field Recording Vol 1 [Dust To Digital]
Bollywood Steel Guitar [Sublime Frequencies]
Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels [Numero Group]
Disco Italia: Essential Italo Disco Classics 1977-1985 [Strut]
Discovered: A Collection Of Daft Punk Samples [Rapster]
Dreams Come True: Classic First Wave Electro 1982-1987 [Domino]
Dubstep Allstars Vol 6: Mixed By Appleblim [Tempa]
Fabric 39: Robert Hood [Fabric]
Give Me Love: Songs Of The Brokenhearted Bahgdad 1925-1929 [Honest Jon's]
Last Kind Words 1926-1953 [Mississippi]
Life Is A Problem [Mississippi]
Living Is Hard: West African Music In Britain 1927-1929 [Honest Jon's]
Love, Peace & Poetry: Chilean Psychedelic Music [Normal]
Mary Anne Hobbs Presents Evangeline [Planet Mu]
Messthetics Greatest Hiss: Classics Of UK Cassette Culture DIY 1979-1982 [Hyped to Death]
Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump [Strut]
Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound Of the Underground Lagos Dancefloor 1974-1979 [Soundway]
Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria [Soundway]
Oh, Run Into Me, But Don't Hurt Me: Female Blues Singers Rarities 1923-1930 [Sub Rosa]
Rough Trade Shops: Counter Culture 07 [Counter Culture]
Shadow Music Of Thailand [Sublime Frequencies]
Sleeping Bag Records: Greatest 12" Mixes [Sleeping Bag/Acrobat]
Sprigs of Time: 78s From the EMI Archive [Honest Jon's]
Steppa's Delight [Soul Jazz]
The Very Best Of Hugh Tracey [SWP]
Victrola Favorites: Artifacts From Bygone Days [Dust To Digital]
Wierd Compilation Vol 2: Analogue Electronic Music 2008 [Wierd]

Reissues
23 Skidoo - Seven Songs [LTM]
808 State - Quadrastate [ZTT]
A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology [A Guy Called Gerald Music]
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 1985-1992 [R&S]
Arabian Prince - Innovative Life: The Anthology 1984-1989 [Stones Throw]
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Les Stances A Sophie [Soul Jazz]
Kevin Ayers - Songs For Insane Times: Anthology 1969-1980 [Island]
Basic Channel - BCD2 [Basic Channel]
Jorge Ben - Jorge Ben (1969) [Dusty Groove]
The Blue Notes - The Ogun Collection [Ogun]
Anthony Braxton - Complete Arista Recordings [Mosaic]
Anne Briggs - Anne Briggs [Water]
Burzum - Anthology [Candlelight]
Ornette Coleman - The Croydon Concert [Free Factory]
Shirly & Dolly Collins - The Harvest Years [EMI]
Kid Creole - Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1974-1983 [Strut]
Dredd Foole - Kissing the Contemporary Bliss [Family Vineyard]
Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting [DGM/Panegyric]
Gas - Nah Und Fern [Kompakt]
Harry Pussy - You'll Never Play This Town Again: Live Etc. 1997 [Load]
Thomas Leer - Contradictions [Cherry Red]
Liquid Liquid - Slip In And Out Of Phenomenon [Domino]
Loop - Heaven's End [Reactor]
Ewan MacColl/Charles Parker/Peggy Seeger - Radio Ballads [Topic]
Chris McGregor Group - Very Urgent [Fledg'ling]
Model 500 - Classics [R&S]
Grachan Moncur III - Evolution [Blue Note]
Conlon Nancarrow - Studies For Player Piano [Other Minds]
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou - The Voudon Effect: Funk & Sata From Benin's Obscure Labels 1973-1975 [Analog Africa]
Mike Osbourne Trio - The Willisau Concert [Ogun]
Evan Parker - Conic Sections [Psi]
Bernard Parmegiani - L'Oeuvre Musicale [INA]
Washington Phillips - What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? [Mississippi]
Pole - 1 2 3 [~scape]
Ragga Twins - Ragga Twins Step Out [Soul Jazz]
Skullflower - IIIrd Gatekeeper [Crucial Blast]
Steinski - What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective [Illegal Art]
Sun Ra - Some Blues But Not The Kind That's Blue [Atavistic]
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Guitar Boy Superstar 1970-1976 [Soundway]
Yoshi Wada - Off The Wall/Lament For The Rise And Fall Of the Elephantine Crocodile [EM/Omega Point]
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue [Columbia Legacy]
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom/Old Rottenhat/Schleep [Domino]

cornbb

Good stuff. Any chance of linkage to an original article? I was looking at the Pitchfork top 100 of the year earlier today but this list looks more interesting

DominoDub

Sorry can't give credit as it is wild on the web, someone must have copied it of the digital edition of the mag. The old charts can be found on the Wire's site

http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/charts/

or at http://www.rocklist.net/

bogmanfan

That Gang Gang Dance album is fantastic

Setun

I literally have got only 5 off that entire list, and all in the reissues section I think. :eek: Tis a dangerous time to have money with all these lists flying about.

Btw Les Stances a Sophie by the Art Ensemble of Chicago is fantastic for those who like their experimental music with a good dollop of funk on top.

cornbb

Here's the Pitchfork list, to whet your appetite a bit more

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/148001-the-50-best-albums-of-2008

John

I have 9 of the main Wire list. I usually have more but this year their tastes seem to have diverged from mine a bit. A few entries there that are good albums but certainly not best of the year (Nick Cave, Philip Jeck, Harvey Milk). Don't know what's up with them.

I've 4 from the Pitchfork list and find their list even more bizarre. Lots of crap/mediocre/good but not great albums in there. Of course, most of them are "cool" pitchfork choices because they're so hip and all.

And in related news, the brainwashed end of year poll is open for nominations

Executive Steve

i'm quite surprised at just how much of those i actually accumulated this year!

bit annoyed they put flying lotus in the "electronica" chart when it's hip hop to the core in my book - albeit quirky, wonky, textural and instrumental...

nice to see so much dubstep there, although there's some pretty odd choices - how "skreamizm" got on there and pangaea's "router" didn't is baffling...

John

I bought The Bug album there last week to see what the fuss was about. It's OK but certainly not album of the year.

Kold

Wait there's a Madvillainy 2? /googles It's just a remix album

cornbb

John wrote: »

I bought The Bug album there last week to see what the fuss was about. It's OK but certainly not album of the year.

Same here... maybe its because I'm not familiar with that sort of music but I failed to see what the big deal is.

Scubadevils

Nice top 20 from Resident Advisor...

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature-read.aspx?id=998

Fully agree with their number 1 & 2, amazing albums. Some other gems in there too from during the year, very impressed with the latest from Kenny Larkin. Amazed though that Radio Scarecrow from the Black Dog didn't get a mention, probably my number 1 for 2008...

http://www.discogs.com/release/1269144

buck65

I subscribed to the Wire today - anyone else a subsriber?
how would you rate the mag?

John

I renewed my subscription a couple of months ago. I really like it but some people find it a bit wordy. Still, they're on the ball when it comes to great music.

DominoDub

Thanks guys you have just reminded me that mine is up in Feb ,,,ok now the Sterling rate is good !

buck65

Really enjoying the cds with the mag. The NZ "Dirt under the fingernails" has some great stuff as has the recent CD Pierre Petit and friends.
Anyone else heard them?

John

I never really think to listen to the free CDs. I'll probably spin the one with the latest issue as there's a few artists listed that I dig.

DominoDub

buck65 wrote: »

Really enjoying the cds with the mag. The NZ "Dirt under the fingernails" has some great stuff as has the recent CD Pierre Petit and friends.
Anyone else heard them?

The CD's are great ear opener to new stuff ,,,love this months one need to check out that Bip_Hop label

ImustavKlimt

Never throw away the cds u might miss out something u completely love.that reminds me my subscript is up! By the way the walls have gone seriously gone south with their latest let down

Ghost Rider

The Walls? As in The Stunning?

ImustavKlimt wrote: »

Never throw away the cds u might miss out something u completely love.that reminds me my subscript is up! By the way the walls have gone seriously gone south with their latest let down

ImustavKlimt

Yup bang on target.Not impressed:eek: