samedi 3 Jan 2015, 0h02m

I've finally finished compiling my 2014 favorite music list. I've arranged it by approximate genre. Instead of a strict ranking, I'm doing a tiered ranking which are the approximate groupings I love about equally. This year I've been more excited and engulfed in music than in the past several years. It feels good to put some structure to what is literally the majority of my waking day.

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MODERN CLASSICAL/FILM SCORE/PIANO

1. Mica Levi (Micachu) - Under The Skin (Milan)
2. World's End Girlfriend - Girls/Boys Song EP (Virgin Babylon)
3. James Ginzburg & Yair Elizar Glotman - Nimbes EP (Subtext)
3. Sinoia Caves - Beyond The Black Rainbow (Jagjaguwar)
4. Koenraad Ecker - Ill Fares The Land (Digitalis)
4. Machinefabriek - Stillness Soundtracks (Glacial Movements)
4. Yair Elazar Glotman - Northern Gulfs (Glacial Movements)
5. Poppy Ackroyd - Feathers (Denovali)
5. Pjusk / Sleep Orchestra - Drowning In The Sky (Dronarivm)
5. Black Swan - Tone Poetry (Ethereal Symphony)
5. Yuki Murata - Gift (Ricco)
5. Hildur Gudnadottir - Samen (Touch)
5. Federico Albanese - The Houseboat and the Moon (Denovali)
6. A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Atomos (Erased Tapes)
6. Mondkopf - Hadès (In Paradisum)

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SOUNDSCAPE/DRONE/MINIMAL

1. Celer - Sky Limits (Two Acorns)
2. Ø - Konstellaatio (Sähkö)
2. Francis Harris - Minutes of Sleep (Scissor and Thread)
2. Subaeris - The City In Rain (Self)
3. Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Ballade For A Flower/Seed/Crow Moon (Trilogy) (Self)
3. Stephen Vitiello & Taylor Deupree - Captiva (12k)
3. Wil Bolton - Bokeh (Home Normal)
3. Sawako - nu.it (Baskaru)
4. Nobuto Suda - Terminus (Stereoscenic)
4. Saito Koji - Heavenly (Stereoscenic)
4. Hakobune - Seamless and Here (Self)
4. Micachu - Feeling Romantic Feeling Tropical Feeling Ill (DDS)
5. Christopher Willits - Opening (Ghostly)

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TECHNO/DUB/BASS

1. variant - dreaming thru vector (echospace )
2. Lucy - Churches Schools and Guns (Stroboscopic Artefacts)
2. Kangding Ray - Solens Arc (Raster Noton)
2. Vatican Shadow - Death Is Unity With God (Hospital Productions)
3. Kyoka - Is (Is Superpowered) (Raster Noton)
3. Future Sound of London - Environment Five (fsoldigital.com)
3. yagya - sleepygirls (Delsin)
3. Millie & Andrea - Drop The Vowel (Modern Love)
4. Container - Adhesive EP (Liberation Technologies)
4. Function and Vatican Shadow - Games Have Rules (Hospital Productions)
4. Killing Sound - Killing Sound EP (Blackest Ever Black)
4. Biosphere - Patashnik 2 (Biophon Records)
5. variant - aurora's dream (echospace )
5. Ninos Du Brasil - Novos Mistérios (Hospital Productions)
6. Deadbeat And Paul St. Hilaire - The Infinity Dub Sessions (BLKRTZ)
6. Captain Panic! & Systek - Monolith (Self)

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INDUSTRIAL/NOISE/AMBIENT

1. Black Rain - Dark Pool (Blackest Ever Black)
1. Eric Holm - Andøya (Subtext)
1. Ben Frost - A U R O R A (Bedroom Community)
1. Petrels - Mima (Denovali)
2. Vessel - Punish, Honey (Tri Angle)
2. Dalhous - Visibility is a Trap (Blackest Ever Black)
2. Dalhous - Will To Be Well (Blackest Ever Black)
2. Demdike Stare - Testpressing #005-#006 (Modern Love)
2. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Songs of Forgiveness/Songs of Remembrance (Baro/Psychic Troubles)
2. Matthew Collings - Silence Is A Rhythm Too (Denovali)
3. Lawrence English - Wilderness of Mirrors (Room40)
3. Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers (Modern Love)
4. KETEV - KETEV (Opal Tapes)
4. Croatian Amor - Genitalia Garden/The Wild Palms (Posh Isolation)
4. Lumisokea - Apophenia/Eavesdropping on pianists (Opal Tapes/Eat Concrete)
5. Moon Zero - Loss/Tombs (Denovali)
5. Erik Truffaz & Murcof - Being Human Being (Mundo)

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VAPORWAVE: AMBIENT/MALLSOFT/CYBERPUNK

1. DARKPYRAMID - A Heart Full of Love (Dream Catalogue)
2. t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 - 向かい合って (Self)
3. t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 - アマテラス (Self)
3. t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 and 猫 シ Corp. - テレパシーの (Dream Catalogue)
3. 猫 シ Corp. - Palm Mall (No Problema Tapes)
3. FATAL MEMORY ERROR - Cherished (Dream Catalogue)
3. 식료품groceries - 슈퍼마켓Yes! We're Open (Dream Catalogue)
4. ２ ８ １ ４ - ２ ８ １ ４ (Dream Catalogue)
4. 信仰 and 地球 - 新しいエデンジャングル (Dream Catalogue)
4. 断片化された友人 - Ｆｒａｇｍｅｎｔｅｄ Ｍｅｍｏｒｉｅｓ (Dream Catalogue)
5. Hong Kong Express - 2047 (Dream Catalogue)
5. cereaʟ - Super Famicon (Self)
5. Areas - Exhibition (Tokyo Exchange)
5. SIMPLE 事態 - Projection Centre (Self)

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VAPORWAVE: EXPERIMENTAL

1. death's dynamic shroud.wmv - VIRTUAL UTOPIA EXPERIENCE (Ailanthus Recordings)
2. Giant Claw - DARK WEB (Orange Milk Records)
3. Pyravid - Googleplex Bionetwork (Dreamcatalogue)
3. Future City Love Stories - 油尖旺 DISTRICT (Dream Catalogue)
4. Vision Girl - Film Noir (Tokyo Exchange)
4. EIGHTXNIGHTS - EIGHTXNIGHTS (Dream Catalogue)
5. Hantasi - neo n (Self)
5. IMMUNE// - Night Visions (Dream Catalogue)
5. EIGHTXNIGHTS - SHAANXI (Dream Catalogue)
5. वार्युद्भव - Lotus Flowers (Self)

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VAPORWAVE: TRADITIONAL/THE JAMS/TRAPWAVE

1. 猫 シ Corp. - Late Night Stereo (Extended Cassette) (plastic response records)
2. チェスマスター - 真の愛 (Dream Catalogue)
3. Infinity Frequencies - Computer Afterlife (Self)
3. Infinity Frequencies - Computer Decay (Self)
3. 死夢VANITY - f a n t a s y 真夜中のアパート (Dream Catalogue)
4. CYBEREALITYライフ - NEONITES (fortune 500)
4. Darksleep - 電効営み (Self)
4. ECO VIRTUAL - ATMOSPHERES 第3 (Self)
4. Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza - Watch Their Loneliness EP (Night Plaza)
5. 猫 シ Corp. - 太陽。慰安。楽園。(Self)
5. サイバー '98 - DIGITΛL FORΞST (Dream Catalogue)
5. サイバー '98 - Computer Dreams (Dream Catalogue)
5. Subaeris - Dreams Love Chaos City (Self)
5. ニューシティ - METROPOLISからオーディオ (Tokyo Exchange)
5. VHS Dreams - North Point Mall ノースポイントモール (Colosseum Records)
6. ULTRACOMPUTER - INFINITE 新しい生命システムの音 (Tokyo Exchange)
6. Kobayashi Yamato - 快い亡霊 OST (Self)

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MISC

1. FKA Twigs - LP1 (Young Turks)
2. きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ (Kyary Pamu Pamu) - ピカピカふぁんたじん (Pikapika Fantajin) (Warner Music Japan)
2. Yung Lean - Unknown Memory (Self)
2. AOA ( 에이오에이) - 단발머리 (Short Hair) EP (FNC Entertainment)
3. Ventla - A + B (Self)
4. 朝生愛 (Ai Aso) - Lone (Ideologic Organ)
4. ツジコノリコ (Tujiko Noriko) - My Ghost Comes Back (Editions Mego)
5. 2 Chainz - Freebase EP (T.R.U.)
5. Clap! Clap! - Tayi Bebba (Black Acre)

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TOPS (FROM #1s). This isn't a real top 11 because deeper picks in one group I might include before #1s in others (e.g. World's End Girlfriend, Giant Claw, telepath), but oh well:

1. FKA Twigs - LP1 (Young Turks)
2. Mica Levi (Micachu) - Under The Skin (Milan)
3. Black Rain - Dark Pool (Blackest Ever Black)
4. DARKPYRAMID - A Heart Full of Love (Dream Catalogue)
5. Petrels - Mima (Denovali)
6. Eric Holm - Andøya (Subtext)
7. death's dynamic shroud.wmv - VIRTUAL UTOPIA EXPERIENCE (Ailanthus Recordings)
8. 猫 シ Corp. - Late Night Stereo (Extended Cassette) (plastic response records)
9. Ben Frost - A U R O R A (Bedroom Community)
10. Celer - Sky Limits (Two Acorns)
11. variant - dreaming thru vector (echospace )