philip sherburne

Yes, it is that time. In the interest of actually getting this up online with a minimum of heartache/headache, and because I inhabit a non-Euclidean place where my Top 10 Albums of All Time contains about 200 releases, I didn't worry too much about keeping this spare. There may be more comments to follow, but for now, here it is. No particular order is implied, but it stands to reason that the stuff I thought of first (and thus placed uplist) I probably rate higher. Mostly. This isn't as empirical as SFJ's iTunes-abetted list, in part because so much of the below is on vinyl; but especially in terms of singles, what's listed here tends to be what I played out the most.

SINGLES und TRACKS
Ricardo Villalobos, “Easy Lee” (Playhouse)
Ricardo Villalobos, “Dexter” (Playhouse)
!!!, “Me and Guiliani Down by the School Yard” (Touch and Go)
Junior Boys, “Last Exit” and Fennesz remix (Kin)
Matthew Dear, “Dog Days (Pantytec remix)” (Spectral)
Sascha Funke, “Forms and Shapes” (Bpitch Control)
Luciano, “Amelie on Ice” (white)
Donae’o, “My Philosophy (Bounce)” (Social Circles)
K.I.M., “King Kong” EP (Tigersushi)
Mu, “Chair Girl”/”Let’s Get Sick” (Tigersushi)
Ada, “Arriba Amoeba” (Areal)
Sharkie Major, “Just a Game”
Dizzee Rascal, “Vexed”
Dizzee Rascal, “We Ain’t Havin’ It”
Marc Ushmi Meets Reverend Galloway, “What’s On My Plate? Die Solidaritate” (A-Musik)
Dimbiman, “V” (Perlon)
Radiohead vs SM, “Packt like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box) (Guilty)
Mambotur, “El Planta (Sieg Über Die Sonne remix)” (Multicolor)
Nôze, “C.” (Circus Company)
Isolee, “It’s About” (Freundinnen)
Bergheim 34, “Random Access Memory” (Playhouse)
Madd Anju, “Cellular Minutes” (Clappas rhythm)
Carl Craig, Talking Heads and Gino Soccio edits (Moxie)
Chateau Flight, “Cosmic Race” (Versatile)
Osborne, “Daylight (Isolee rmx)” (Spectral)
International Pony vs Losoul, “Track of the Night (Losoul Edit)” (Playhouse)
Oliver Hacke, Polar EP (Traum)
The Chemical Brothers, “The Golden Path (Ewan Pearson Extended Vocal)” (Astralwerks)

ALBUMS
Dizzee Rascal, Boy In Da Corner (XL)
Ricardo Villalobos, Alcachofa (Playhouse)
Matthew Dear, Leave Luck to Heaven (Spectral)
Apparat, Duplex (Shitkatapult)
Barbara Morgenstern, Nichts Muss (Monika)
Jan Jelinek avec the Exposures, Nouvelle Pauvreté (Scape)
The Postal Service, Give Up (Sub Pop)
Ellen Allien, Berlinette (Bpitch Control)
Juana Molina, Segundo (Domino)
The Bug, Pressure (Rephlex)
Wasteland, Amen Fire (Transparent)
MU, Afro Finger and Gel (Tigersushi)
Toadliquor, The Horator’s Lament (Southern Lord)
The Shins, Chutes too Narrow (Sub Pop)
Radiohead, Hail to the Thief (Capitol) (*so sue me, I like’em)
Cat Power, You Are Free (Matador) (*ditto)
Lawrence, The Absence of Blight (Dial)
Meteorites, Dub the Mighty Dragon (Rise Robots Rise)
Outkast, Speakerboxx/The Love Below (Arista)

COMPILATIONS and MIXES
Speicher (Kompakt)
Bis Neun (Areal)
How to Kill the DJ (Tigersushi)
Daniel Bell: The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back (Logistic)
Michael Mayer: Fabric13 (Fabric)
Superlongevity 3 (Perlon)

OLD STUFF I CANED THIS YEAR – NOT NECESSARILY REISSUES – AKA AREN’T I A TRENDY FUCK
Ryuichi Sakamoto, “Riot in Lagos,” B-2 Unit (Island, 1980)
Yellow Magic Orchestra, “Pure Jam,” Technodelic (CBS, 1981)
Raw Sex (N. Cherry, J. Blocker, G. Oban), “Give Sheep a Chance (Woolly Version)” (Mango, 1982)
Alexander Robotnick, “Problémes d’Amour” (Sire, 1984)
Thomas Dolby, “I Scare Myself,” The Flat Earth (EMI, 1984)
Echo and the Bunnymen, Crocodiles (1980), Heaven Up Here (1981), Porcupine (1983), Ocean Rain (1984), all remastered (WEA, 2003)
Arthur Russell, Another Thought (1994)
Arthur Russell, The World of Arthur Russell (Soul Jazz, 2003)
James White and the Blacks, “Contort Yourself” (Ze, 1979)

HIGHLY RATED RECORDS I NEVER HEARD, SO HOW THE FUCK SHOULD I KNOW IF THE HYPE IS JUSTIFIED, AKA, PUBLICISTS MAY EMAIL ME TO REQUEST MY MAILING ADDRESS, THOUGH IF I COULDN’T BE BOTHERED TO DOWNLOAD THESE CHART-TOPPERS AND CRITICAL FAVES, THERE’S NO GUARANTEE I’LL LISTEN TO THE ALUMINUM EITHER – AKA LOSING MY POPIST CRED
Justin Timberlake, Justified
The Darkness, Permission to Land
Junior Senior, D-D-Don’t Stop the Beat
The Wrens, The Meadowlands
Jay-Z, The Black Album
R. Kelly
Beyoncé
Kylie
etc.
etc.
etc… more than I’d care to think about, really

MY FAVORITE RECORD THIS YEAR WAS FROM 2000
Contriva, "Stuck (Superpitcher remix)" (Monika)