Piccadilly Records End Of Year Review 2010 by Piccadilly Records

Piccadilly Records End Of Year Review 2010

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In the intro to last year’s booklet, I mentioned how excited we were about the launch of our new website, which was only a few days away; well, that didn’t quite go according to plan at the beginning, but with some tweaking and additions it’s been a huge success. I think you’ll agree that the Piccadilly Records website 2.1 is a big improvement on its predecessor. Moving on to the beginning of 2010, like the rest of the UK, we were snowed in, which was fun for a day, but reality bit when we all struggled to get to work and get new records. Local lads Delphic lifted the gloom by actually managing to make it through the frozen slush, and then playing possibly the loudest instore gig we’ve ever had. Unfortunately the yoga centre below us in the basement got their poses in a twist and made sure we could have no remotely loud gigs in the shop ever again. Step forward Richard Hawley and I Am Kloot, who both played quieter sets later in the year, and Mark Ronson and pals, who didn’t play any music at all, just signed things. All sets and signings were much appreciated by customers and staff alike. Despite flights being disrupted by that Pesky Icelandic Volcano, we just managed to get all those limited edition bits of vinyl delivered in time for Record Store Day — our Piccadilly Records highlight of the year. Thanks to everyone who queued up so patiently — hopefully you got that now-treasured 45 or album, rather than making a bundle on eBay — that’s NOT what Record Store Day is supposed to be about! Record Store Day 2011 is Saturday 16th April — maybe don’t start queuing yet, but definitely stick it in your diary. LCD Soundsystem also got caught up in volcano flight-altering problems, but three planes, a bus from Spain, the Eurostar and another tour bus later, they managed to make it into Piccadilly Records to buy disco 12”s. Phew, that’s what I call an expensive shopping trip...

Meanwhile in the mailorder department we waved goodbye to Rob who moved darn sarf to become a Cockney Red, and said hello to Sara, who has proved to be such a ray of sunshine that I’ve even caught David smiling. Just the once, mind. Sara has also upped the Piccadilly Records’ Women’s Institute stakes, knocking out cakes like there was no tomorrow, while Laura became the Piccadilly chutney queen and I built a jam mountain in my kitchen. Other Piccadilly people’s 2010 extracurricular activities included Evil K’neil Diablo DJing in a pineapple at Glastonbury (no, he hadn’t just sampled the local produce — we saw the photos), David having more tales of doomed DJing from Electric Elephant, Adam and Matt joining RufDug for some Wet Play (don’t ask...), Abigail helping to curate the Ian Curtis anniversary ‘Unknown Pleasures’ exhibition in Macclesfield, Darryl following FC United, Martin getting knocked off his bike and fracturing his shoulder, Pasta Paul moving on to a pesto-infused diet (possibly just to impress the people from Come Dine With Me, who filmed here a few months ago), and Andy becoming the newest form of green energy, generating power from Liverpool FC-related worry. Find out what else we’ve all been up to, and more importantly, what our favourite records were, later in this booklet. In the meantime, here’s hoping that 2010 won’t be remembered for England’s dismal World Cup showing, but as England’s triumph Down Under in the Ashes. Philippa

THE TOP 100 ALBUMS TOP 20

PICCADILLY RECORDS ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2010

Gil Scott-Heron: I’m New Here

When word of a new Gil Scott-Heron album began to filter through, I was filled with trepidation: How could this once brilliant singer-songwriter come up with anything to match the highs of his 1970s and 1980s work, especially as he’d spent the best part of two decades addicted to crack and in and out of jail? Thank god XL Recordings head Richard Russell didn’t share my fears, because “I’m New Here” has brought Gil back to life and sounding as vital as ever. Gone are the jazz-funk jams of the past, replaced by a sparse electro-acoustic sound that sits perfectly with Gil’s warm baritone. Laced with poignant interludes (I’d forgotten what a perceptive and witty raconteur Gil is), “I’m New Here” has a melancholic yet inspiring narrative, weaving its way through self-penned numbers and inspired cover versions (Smog, Robert Johnson, Brook Benton) that only the hard-hearted could not be moved by.

“I’ve never done 2010 before and I guess I won’t ever do it again. It’s been a wonderful year and the surprises were unexpected and that’s how every year should be — full of joy and exceeding your expectations” Gil Scott-Heron

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The National: High Violet

MELANCHOLIC YET UPLIFTING COLLECTION OF BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED MINI EPICS

The album opens with the slow drums and mournful vocals of “Terrible Love” but from the start there’s a simmering intensity that builds and eventually explodes into crashing cymbals, pummelling drums, distorted guitars and layered vocals: a dramatic entrance to The National’s fifth album. But it’s not all this heavy; as with their previous releases “High Violet” is an album of mood swings. Where “Terrible Love” was explosive, second track “Sorrow” is mournful and melodic. And while the album changes mood and tempo, at times warm and intimate at others dramatic, propelled by off-beat drum rhythms, there’s always a palpable intensity. I read recently that the band find it hard to finish songs, with one or other band member frequently rejecting material. Whether the atmosphere created here is the cause or result of this I don’t know, but either way it works perfectly. Despite Matt’s melancholy, there’s something really uplifting about this collection of beautifully crafted mini epics.

Caribou: Swim

SOUNDS AS GOOD ON THE COUCH AS IT DOES ON THE DANCEFLOOR

Well, where did that come from exactly? Lord knows what fans of previous Caribou albums must have made of “Swim” on its release. It sounds like Dan Snaith has read some battered, old copies of the NME circa Primal Scream discovering ecstasy and then rung Kieran Hebden up and suggested a night on the town, followed by a quick studio session while the sun comes up, to round the night off. Of course “Swim” isn’t just for the club, if it were, it wouldn’t be number three in our chart. Like its ally in arms, Four Tet’s “There Is Love In You”, it sounds as good on the couch as it does on the dancefloor. However, while “Swim” is the young Jedi Knight, using the force for the power of good, “There Is Love...” is Vader, the more sinister dark lord. Of all the albums in our top 20, no other has garnered such cross-shop admiration and that, I think, can only be a good thing.

THE TOP 100 ALBUMS TOP 20

Field Music: Field Music (Measure)

A COMPLEX, INTRICATELY CRAFTED DOUBLE ALBUM OF VIRTUOSO ART-POP

Clocking in at almost an hour and a quarter, “Field Music (Measure)” is the kind of complex, intricately crafted double album that can seem a daunting listen at first. Defiantly out of step with our current one-track-at-a-time, no-risk download culture, it seeks to remind us of what a long-player should be: a masterfully sequenced, thoughtfully packaged musical journey – a whole. Coming on like a nail biting three-way fencing contest between Andy Partridge, Tom Verlaine and Mark Hollis, “Field Music (Measure)” is an album of virtuoso art-pop. Its startling shifts in time signature and atmosphere could be jarring if attempted by a song-writing team with less melodic nous. But big tunes, enriched by those warm, closer-than-close sibling harmonies, are what the brothers Brewis are all about. Hugely ambitious, but always sure-footed and charged with emotion, “Field Music (Measure)” may well make the end of decade lists, never mind the 2010 roll call. Let it into your life.

The Phantom Band: The Wants

DRIVEN BY A PULSING RHYTHM, ANALOGUE SYNTHS ADD TO THEIR ALREADY COMPLEX SOUND

The mighty Phantom Band return with a superb follow up to their debut album, which was our Album of the Year in 2009. “The Wants” picks up where “Checkmate Savage” left off adding more and more layers to their already complex sound. It’s less motorik than their debut, even more folk-tinged you might say, but still with their distinctive pulsing rhythms at its heart. As ever, the bass and pummelling drums keep everything ticking, while guitars at times weave intricate patterns, at others drive jagged shards into the rhythm. There’s more analogue synth action and knob twiddling going on this time around too, giving “The Wants” an otherworldly feel and on each listen you’re plunged deeper into the (other) world of the Phantoms. Though it may have arrived a little too late to worm its way completely into the Piccadilly consciousness in time for our End Of Year Chart, it will in time; it’s already started…

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Broken Bells: Broken Bells

EFFORTLESSLY CATCHY POP — A DREAMY ELECTRO ORGANIC MIX

Beats-man Brian Burton (Dangermouse) links up with melody-man James Mercer (The Shins) and this is the result: a modern day Tears For Fears! Oi, come back! I’m talking about effortlessly catchy pop over a dreamy electro-organic mix, nicely topped off with a twist of West Coast soft-psych. The comparison is completed by Mercer’s thoughtful lyrics, which are clever, cryptic and slightly melancholic; they contrast wonderfully with the music, which is a breeze from start to finish. Less quirky, more classic than The Shins, this album’s high position in our chart is probably a reflection of its all round loveliness: I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like it. Detractors could say this LP represents the tamer side of both men’s previous work, but I prefer to see this as a streamlining of their individual talents and behind the wistful shimmer and drift there is a bold pop heart beating stronger than anything they’ve ever done before.

Four Tet: There Is Love In You

COMBINING INTRICATE TECHNO/ELECTRONICA PRODUCTION WITH EMOTIONAL UPLIFT

Rather than simply a set of songs, Kieran Hebden showcases new technology and instrumentation in a way that makes you feel like everything before it was simply inferior. Who needs guitars when you have 24-bit polyphonic texture generators? Why not make the vocal part synthesize with the keyboards and create a rhythmic pulse? Hebden is always one step ahead of the game. Four Tet’s soundscapes scream of future industry, glistening hi-technology, new ideas and optimism; offering reassurance in a world that could sometimes be feared or mistrusted with the rate of its technological advances. Here, the new is welcomed with a smile and hug, ‘it’s going to be fine...’ you can almost hear Hebden whisper in your ear through a barrage of digital frequencies. And I believe him. From slow ballads, future pop anthems to the more club-friendly, forward thinking dance music he is famed for, “There Is Love In You” sets out a whole new vision of making music which in time will be referenced as a classic.

Shit Robot: From The Cradle To The Rave

AT TIMES HYPNOTIC, AT OTHERS QUIRKY, ANOTHER DFA ALBUM THAT TRANSCENDS ITS BOUNDARIES

Having been a DJ on New York’s underground scene for 20 years, Shit Robot’s Irish emigre Marcus Lambkin has quietly been absorbing the noise of the City’s club culture past and present. He’s absorbed all that house, disco (gay or otherwise), boogie, electro and rave, assimilating it into the Shit Robot sound, and is now feeding it back to us as “From The Cradle To The Rave”, his debut long-player and the story of a life transformed by music. At times hypnotic, at others quirky (can you resist the ‘in a club style’ vocals on “I Found Love”?). With the help of quality song writing, a sprinkling of guest singers (Juan Maclean, Nancy Whang and Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor) plus James Murphy’s all-important co-production skills, this is yet another DFA album that transcends its boundaries, taking dancefloor music and making it something that works equally well at home.

THE TOP 100 ALBUMS TOP 20

LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening

KILLER POP HOOKS, BIG FAT ELECTRONIC NOISES AND PROPER SING-ALONG ANTHEMS

A natural extension to previous long player “Sound Of Silver”, this new set contains everything we love about LCD; shouty indie-disco, killer pop hooks, James Murphy’s witty musings, big fat electronic noises and proper sing-along anthems. “This Is Happening” is packed with influences and inspirations from the late 70s and early 80’s: Murphy’s subliminal magpie-like tendencies seep through as Berlin era Bowie and Iggy, Eno circa “Here Come The Warm Jets”, Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra electronics, disco and classic US new wave radio bands all get fed into the LCD song machine. But while other bands might turn out poor one-dimensional pastiches of the music they love, no matter who or what LCD Soundsystem reference, the resulting songs could be by no-one else but themselves. As everyone knows, all the best bands quit while they’re still ahead, and as an album that calls time on the LCD Soundsystem idea, “This Is Happening” bows out on a high.

Sun Araw: Off Duty

SOME MYSTERIOUS VOODOO IS AFOOT, EPIC PSYCHE-OUTS JAMS

Following “Heavy Deeds” was always going to be a difficult task for Sun Araw. However when “On Patrol” and this it’s companion piece “Off Duty” landed, and we heard the first few transmissions, it was clear some mysterious voodoo was afoot. “Off Duty” expands on Mr Stallone’s palette of sounds with two sides of epic psyche-outs jams. Flanging bongo patterns echo around the mix while overdriven organ and guitar chords pulsate and squeal. When Cameron opens his mouth, a plate-reverb heavy Southern drawl transcends the frequencies to our ear-lobes like a futuristic urban cowboy. Like “Heavy Deeds”, when Stallone does groove, he does so in such a cerebral and incessant manner that you can’t help to relate, and to wiggle. His sounds, no matter how alien; are still organic and lack any interference by our sub-standard digital interfaces. Listening to “Off Duty” confirms some of the theories touched on by Terrence McKenna, that perhaps there ARE aliens, and they have in fact been with us since the beginning of time, infiltrating our thoughts and controlling our music. Sun Araw is probably the most human amongst the Earth-dwellers.

Beach House: Teen Dream

HAUNTING, OPAQUE VOCALS FORM THE PERFECT FOIL FOR TRANSLUCENT MELODIES

It’s gratifying when a band makes music critics have to work hard. Any possibility of making lazy Mazzy Star / Galaxie 500 comparisons in relation to this Baltimore duo has been well and truly buried by this, their third album. The set features a newfound clarity purifying their sound like a mountain squall cutting valley haze. Victoria Legrand’s haunting, opaque vocals form the perfect foil for translucent melodies; crystalline guitar and keyboard tracery providing gentle momentum, spinning a glistening web around deep dream imagery love tales. “Zebra” rises, falls and ponders a wild heart on crashing waves, while “Lover Of Mine” is a lovingly wrought jewel, a quiet, impassioned reflection on the escape found in human intimacy. It’s with “10 Mile Stereo” however that the chemistry works to most sublime effect, Alex Scally’s guitar line casting like sunlight on the sea over Victoria’s wistful caress…Simple, eloquent and heartfelt, saying nothing more or less than needs to be said. That’s the beauty of Beach House music.

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Thee Oh Sees: Warm Slime Hailing from San Francisco’s Bay Area Thee Oh Sees originally started out as a solo project of underground legend John Dwyer (The Coachwhips, Hospitals, Pink And Brown), but has, in the last couple of years, grown into a full band whipping up a wonderful garage psyche storm that’s guaranteed to shake off the cobwebs and get the feet tapping. “Warm Slime”, the eleventh album of Thee Oh Sees many different guises, captures Dwyer and his cohorts at their best, his prolific song-writing talents honed here to perfection to create a tight collection of garage rock bombs. Kicking things off with the huge 14 minute title track that sways between catchy-as-hell garage punk, a psyche-rock jam and an almost kosmische mantra, it’s an epic five-songs-in-one affair. The six further tracks are amped-to-the-max 60s “Nuggets”-influenced classics — familiar yet fresh, these are the sort of tracks you can imagine The Fall covering in years to come. Surely praise can’t come much higher than that.

AMPED-TO-THE-MAX 60S “NUGGETS”-INFLUENCED CLASSICS — FAMILIAR YET FRESH

The Black Angels: Phosphene Dream At the forefront of the neo-psychedelic scene The Black Angels are a five-piece formed in 2004. They hail from the Austin, Texas, and (maybe not surprisingly) they’ve got the DNA of hometown 60’s psyche gods the 13th Floor Elevators running through their veins, they even acted as backing band for Roky Erickson on a US West Coast tour in 2008. It’s no surprise then to hear echoes of the Elevators on this their third album. Whereas their previous two releases, 2006’s “Passover” and 2008’s “Directions To See A Ghost”, saw The Black Angels operate under a darker and denser drone ‘n’ roll fog, “Phosphene Dream” sees them breaking out of that comfort zone with a cleaner 60’s influenced sound. The sultry, druggy, fuzzed-up swagger is thankfully still evident but it now reverberates around the songs thanks to improved production and better songwriting. It’s a confident and hypnotic new sound and a narcotic piece of medicine for the third eye.

A CONFIDENT AND HYPNOTIC SOUND, A NARCOTIC PIECE OF MEDICINE FOR THE THIRD EYE

Seahawks: Ocean Trippin’ The Seahawks burst out of nowhere this summer and immediately made huge waves here in Piccadilly with their nautically inspired blend of yacht-rock and Balearic bliss. Laid back and groovy, this is music to take you away from the miserable British weather and off into a world of sun-blushed euphoria and coastal paradise. Seahawks’ll rock your all night beach party or soundtrack your afternoon boating soiree, and have been described as ‘the Doobie Brothers playing live in a sunken Atlantis’. “Ocean Trippin’” collates the limited vinyl releases that came and went, causing much excitement in the shop and a great rush to snatch up the limited copies. Though sometimes touching on obscure cover versions, and sounding pleasantly familiar, the records put out by Seahawks rapidly presented a thorough, unique and complete sound which was totally 2010, fitting alongside fellow future chillers Ducktails and Emeralds whilst paying homage to soft rock like Fleetwood Mac and kraut pioneers such as Cluster.

NAUTICALLY INSPIRED BLEND OF YACHT-ROCK AND BALEARIC BLISS. LAID BACK AND GROOVY

THE TOP 100 ALBUMS TOP 20

The Hundred In The Hands: The Hundred In The Hands

WONDERFULLY UPLIFTING MUSIC. IT’S POP, IT’S DANCE, IT’S INDIE, IT’S A PICCADILLY FAVOURITE

Hailing from Brooklyn, The Hundred In The Hands’ Eleanore Everdell and Jason Friedman deliver their self-titled debut album. It’s an emotionally charged long player, calling on everything from the elegant French easy listening of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin to the 00s female pop of Au Revoir Simone, the late 70s electronics of Young Marble Giants and punk-funk dance songs from NYC’s post-punk underground, to the late 80s Balearic blossoming of Andy Weatherall productions (One Dove spring to mind). With such an expansive set of influences and styles present, “The Hundred In The Hands” could have been a fragmented mess, but the album manages to be both eclectic and unified via a great production bringing everything together. The set features track after track of wonderfully uplifting music, including out and out radio and dancefloor anthems like “Pigeons” and “Dressed In Dresden”. It’s pop, it’s dance, it’s indie, it’s a Piccadilly favourite.

Aloe Blacc: Good Things

ALOE NARRATES ABOUT HARD TIMES, ROMANCE, AND SOCIAL SITUATIONS WITH DEEP SOUL GROOVES

Good things here indeed as Aloe Blacc delivers a proper gem of an album in a year which the talented songwriter / vocalist has really made his presence felt. The album kicks off with his soul anthem “I Need A Dollar” (100,000 downloads and several thousand 12” sales later…) — a song that captures the recessionary mood perfectly, turning it into a massive party bomb (hey hey). Following this up-beat intro, “Good Things” settles into slower, deeper soul grooves with Aloe narrating about Credit Crunching hard times, romance, politics and social situations in his cushioned, wholesome manner. Whilst the album feels modern and original, it also really captures the spirit of old soul, subtly suggesting influences from times past throughout. “You Make Me Smile” resonates Sly Stone vibes while others hint of Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield. Top marks then for Mr Blacc and another real nugget on Stones Throw Records, who continue to pump out the hits.

Smoke Fairies: Through Low Light & Trees

A TIMELESS FOLK RECORD THAT IS BOTH EERILY ANCIENT AND THRILLINGLY MODERN

Recorded on the shores of a Cornish tidal creek, accessible only by boat, if ever an album evoked the place of its creation, The Smoke Fairies debut is it. Like the shimmer of a harvest moon on a still black river, it’s an album of reflection, brimful of what might have been and what yet might be; a timeless record that is both eerily ancient and thrillingly modern. The clue is in the name of course. The press release might say that Jessica and Katherine hail from Sussex but their otherworldly luminescence is more in keeping with the doomed heroine from the pages of a gothic novel than of something as prosaic as a ‘band’. Maybe they’re not of this Earth at all, but imagined, like spectres in the dawn mist. Smoke Fairies songs aren’t written, but spirited to us from a place beyond here and now, blessing us with their beauty before they melt away with the first rays of the rising sun.

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Toro Y Moi: Causers Of This The transition from one-man-in-his-bedroom musical instrumentalist to internationally renowned and critically acclaimed fully formed artist can be a long and arduous journey. I suspect this was the case for Toro Y Moi’s Chazwick Bundick whose debut album “Causers Of This” released in January of this year became an instant classic. From the blissful opener of “Blessa”, to the early 80s hip hop-tinged album closer “Causers Of This”. Along with the nine tracks in-between is the product of a man successfully squeezing all of his influences into each track and ultimately making a sound all of his own. A sound full of placid electronics hip hop beats placing the listener in an almost continuous wistful and hazy dream-like-state. But yet still manages to have a darker undertone throughout which is perfectly executed on “Low Shoulder”. With its catchy opening piano riff and punchy bass line the song develops into a full on club anthem. An album for the club, the bar or the beach.

A SOUND FULL OF PLACID ELECTRONICS HIP HOP FOR THE CLUB, THE BAR OR THE BEACH

Gonjasufi: A Sufi And A Killer Put this album into your iTunes library and the genre will read ‘unclassifiable’ — as succinct a definition as you could get! “A Sufi And A Killer” is a curious and compelling listen which takes you into the psyche of Californian rapper, DJ, singer, yoga teacher and all round cosmonaut Sumach Ecks. On first listen this album leaves you feeling somewhat bewildered but persist and its charm slowly reveals itself. From the lo-fi psychedelic rock of “Suzie Q” to the languid lounge lizard beats of “Made”, via the wonky disco squidge of “Candylane”, Echs and his crack-team of producers Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer and Mainframe, conjure up a wildly eclectic sonic landscape that also takes in elements of Middle Eastern music, avant-hip hop and smoky soul. All this is topped by Echs’ bizarre vocals and lyrics — a spooked, gruff croak of a voice, a deranged amalgamation of Leadbelly, Tricky, George Clinton, Tom Waits and Lee Perry. More than the sum of its parts, this is a truly unique album by a genuine maverick that never fails to leave a slightly intoxicated smile on yer chops.

AN ECLECTIC SONIC LANDSCAPE — MIDDLE EASTERN MUSIC, AVANT-HIP HOP AND SMOKY SOUL

Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part 2 While her contemporaries have either faded away into obscurity, or concentrated their energies on everything BUT the music, “Return Of The Ankh” finds Erykah Badu returning to her self obsessed, some might say narcissistic, best. In essence, “Return...” is a sister record to 2008’s “New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)” but they bear little, if any, resemblance to each other. While its predecessor was largely a political album that, in places, sounded digital and cold, “Return...” looks inward for its inspiration. It revisits the personal politics and warm, live instrumentation that typified her first three albums. A record that draws you in with a beckoning finger and a come hither smile, it’s more, “Let’s Get In On” than “What’s Goin’ On” but at the same time it’s nothing like either of them. That’s to be expected of course, nobody makes music like Erykah makes music. Her unique brand of loose-limbed, slack-ass funk still has no equal, a full 13 years since that first rimshot heralded her arrival.

HER UNIQUE BRAND OF LOOSE-LIMBED, SLACK-ASS FUNK STILL HAS NO EQUAL

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Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti: Before Today

WEST COAST FUNK, SYNTH-ROCK, MOTORIK PULSES AND GOLDEN HARMONIES

With roots going back as far as 1996, West Coast act Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti are as sublime as they are surreal, with a sound loaded with hazy nostalgia and a fiercely experimental pop palette. This was the sun-kissed hit of the summer with a bit of something for everyone — 70s soft rock, West Coast funk, synth-rock, motorik pulses and golden harmonies.

Dãm-Funk: Adolescent Funk

A SOUND INFLUENCED FROM THE GOLDEN ERA OF ELECTRO-FUNK

Dãm has been recording for himself for two decades. At the request of Peanut Butter Wolf, Dãm went through many of these recordings, all made on cassette, going back to his teenage years. The result is Dãm-Funk’s “Adolescent Funk”, a 14-track album recorded between 1988 and 1992, showcasing an emerging artist with a sound influenced from the golden era of electro-funk.

Darkstar: North

THE POST-DUBSTEP SOUND REACHES A NEW HIGH

From the intro track “In The Wings”, right through to the closing song, a lush new version of “Squeeze My Lime” now called “When It’s Gone”, the album blends their crunchy, citric synths, baroque strings, piano and tender guitar with vocal harmonies, gently laced with glitches and noise. Here, Darkstar have subtly found the beauty in distortion.

Onra: Long Distance

A WONKY-HOP / ELECTRO-FUNK ALBUM PAR EXCELLENCE

Onra pays a personal homage to the R&B, modern soul and boogie sounds of the early 80s. 21 tracks in all — a mix of instrumentals and vocals — this LP resists being pigeonholed, being neither straight-up beat-based hip hop nor needlessly wonky low-end fonk, but navigating a path between the two, bringing melodic electro-boogie into the picture along the way.

The Soft Pack: The Soft Pack

SHORT, SHARP, CATCHY-AS-HELL THREE MINUTE POP SONGS

Previously known as The Muslims, this is their ‘proper’ debut. Brimming with short, sharp, catchy-as-hell three minute pop songs, they cram ten tracks into little over 30 minutes. There’s a whole host of influences in here from 80s DC hardcore to punk to 60’s rock’n’roll to new wave, all melded together with real style and energy and plenty of pop nous.

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Frankie Rose And The Outs: Self-titled

LO-FI MEETS SPECTOR-ESQUE REVERB MEETS JAMC’S NOISE AESTHETICS

The debut album from ex-Vivian Girl, Crystal Stilt, and Dum Dum Girl, Ms Frankie Rose. Riding on the current wave of cute 60s bubblegum sounds a la Best Coast comes Frankie Rose’s new band. Lo-fi meets Spector-esque reverb meets JAMC’s noise aesthetics meets the Velvet Underground cool all wrapped up with a strong DIY ethic.

Tracey Thorn: Love And Its Opposite

BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED SONGS OF AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR-POP NATURE

Tracey has taken leave of the dancefloor, heading back to what she does best - beautifully crafted songs of an acoustic guitar-pop nature. And while the lyrical themes may be humdrum - surely this is what Thorn has always been about; not some great epic sweep on the meaning of life, but adding an insight into the minutiae of day to day life.

Best Coast: Crazy For You

SUN-KISSED SONGS OF LOVE AND LONGING

Best Coast are 23-year old songwriter Bethany Cosentino and musical partner Bobb Bruno. This is their debut album full of sun-kissed songs of love and longing. When Phil Spector and The Shangri La’s hear this album Best Coast’s lawyer can expect a phone call, until then, enjoy one of the best albums of the year. Awesome, as they say in that part of the world.

Arcade Fire: The Suburbs

POETIC AND EMOTIVE, IT OVERFLOWS WITH MELODY

A less euphoric, less quirky record, but I think that was definitely required. They still rock but there’s more control. As ever, this just overflows with melody, and song for song I’d say this is a much better album than “Neon Bible”. Poetic and emotive with a load of really smart post-punk/ alt rock influences, this is the new Arcade Fire and we love it!

Gayngs: Relayted

UNITES INDIE-KIDS AND BALEARIC-HEADS

When Ryan Olson decided to make a record with Solid Gold members Zack Coulter and Adam Hurlburt, it was clear to them what the result would be: a collection of drugged-up keyboards and slick bedroom production almost exclusively inspired by 10cc’s “I’m Not In Love”. To be fair, they weren’t entirely off. A deep and beautiful word-of-mouth smash that’s united indie-kids, balearic-heads and general lovers of all things groovesome and melodic.

THE TOP 100 ALBUMS 31–40

Washed Out: Life Of Leisure

BENT SYNTH-POP GEMS

This is the debut mini album from Ernest Greene aka Washed Out. Bent synth-pop gems that are equal parts psychedelia and anthemic club banger. You could call it Balearic, or bedroom synth-pop, shoegaze disco, cold wave or hazy dream-pop. Whatever: great songs always transcend genre boundaries, so listen up!

Ceremony: Rocket Fire

FUZZED UP MELODIC INDIE-NOISE STABS

Before A Place To Bury Strangers, there was Skywave, a three piece noise pop band from Fredericksburg, Virginia. When Ollie left to move to NYC, Paul and John remained and reorganized as Ceremony. Fuzzed up melodic indie-noise stabs, a glorious mix of Jesus And Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and APTBS.

The Radio Dept.: Clinging To A Scheme

THEY SIMPLY WRITE BRILLIANT POP SONGS

Four long years since their last album comes the eagerly anticipated third from the Swedish indie posters Radio Dept. “Clinging To A Scheme” combines the best components from their previous albums “Lesser Matters” and “Pet Grief” with soul guitars, P-funk, cut and paste beats and 70s futuristic orchestration. Breathtaking!

Magic Lantern: Platoon

HUGE PSYCHE MANTRAS WITH ITS OWN LOOSE JOINTED CALI-VIBE

We’re sad to hear that this will be the last LP from Cameron Stallone and his tribe of psyche maniacs. If it’s true then this is a great way for them to bow out — huge psyche mantras that orbit in the same trajectory as the likes of Loop, Spacemen 3, Hawkwind, Wooden Shjips, Can, Popul Vuh, Amon Duul II, but with its own loose jointed Cali-vibe.

Delphic: Acolyte

MASSIVE ELECTRO-INDIE ANTHEMS FOR DANCEFLOORS AND STADIUMS ALIKE

Delphic splice New Order’s patented Mancunian brand of indie-disco intellectualism with the unbound, arms aloft euphoria of Orbital or the Chemical Brothers. Muse gone minimal, or Kasabian on Kompakt, “Acolyte” is a debut album of ecstatic everyman anthems equally at home on a main stage or lost out in the middle of the floor.

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Laura Marling: I Speak Because I Can

RECALLS PRIME AMERICANA AND THE LAUREL CANYON SCENE

“I Speak Because I Can” sets quintessentially English lyrical themes and stories to a backdrop of music that recalls prime Americana and the Laurel Canyon scene. Backed by sublime performances by musicians including Mumford & Sons, the album represents a coming-of-age for Laura; her unique identity — thoroughly English, unapologetically female, and a fully-fledged musician — now freshly defined.

Endless Boogie: Full House Head

SPRAWLING AND EXPANSIVE LOOSENESS. LET’S RAWK!

New York’s Endless Boogie cut seven glorious tracks, tacked on a goddamn epic rehearsal jam and called it “Full House Head”. Once a hobby, now becoming the powerhouse they were meant to be, and led by Top Dollar, the egoless frontman and master of his instrument, this brings to mind “Exile On Main Street” with its sprawling and expansive looseness.

Karen Elson: The Ghost Who Walks

AWASH WITH SWEET COUNTRY TINGED MELODIES

Karen Elson’s transformation from fashion’s favourite redheaded ingénue to beguiling chanteuse has been something of a slow burn, and the wife of Jack White has surprised many here at Piccadilly. Her debut album richly evokes the lonesome feel of country, the tormented side of the blues and the haunted stories of traditional folk balladry across its 12 tracks.

The Alps: Le Voyage

MELLOW, LANGUID, AND BEAUTIFULLY SIMPLE MUSIC

With propulsive, break heavy rhythms sure to appeal to any diggers out there and a blissful, sunny outlook to wipe the frown from the faces of all you dour experimental types, “Le Voyage” is a crack of light in a dark room. A mysterious record, it is punctuated by the same energy that gave us space rock and psychedelia, and while the band are quick to demonstrate their wide-ranging musical knowledge, there is something incredibly unique about their sound.

Warpaint: The Fool

HYPNOTIC VOCALS AND DRIVING POST PUNK RHYTHMS

Los Angeles all-girl four-piece Warpaint release their debut album proper, “The Fool” on Rough Trade, following last year’s “Exquisite Corpse” mini-album. Warpaint weave intricate guitar lines, hypnotic vocals and driving post punk rhythms into gorgeous, sprawling songs that skirt the line between psychedelia and intimacy. Both live and on record, Warpaint sound like they’re channelling something truly otherworldly, mystical.

THE TOP 100 ALBUMS 41–50

Midlake: The Courage Of Others

DEEP AND LAYERED WITH DARK FOLKY INFLECTIONS

So what’s changed since “The Trials of Van Occupanther”, their second, hugely loved breakthrough album? Just as that record was in part inspired by the soft(er) rock of the early-to-mid 1970s, so Midlake’s new album also looks to a slightly earlier, and definitely British, trad-tainted folk sound. It may share the same gorgeously analogue-warm electro-acoustic template as “Van Occupanther” but it’s a slower, darker and more carved record, both eerier and dreamier.

Moon Duo: Escape

A PRIMORDIAL AND DISORIENTING PSYCHEDELIC SONIC STEW

San Francisco’s Moon Duo was formed in 2009 by Sanae Yamada and Ripley Johnson (Wooden Shjips). Inspired initially by the legendary John Coltrane and Rashied Ali, Moon Duo counts such variant groups as Silver Apples, Royal Trux, Moolah, Suicide, and Cluster as touchstones. Utilizing primarily guitar, keyboards, percussion, and vocals, the pair plays space against form to create a primordial and disorienting sonic stew.

Sleepy Sun: Fever

SLOW BURNING INDIE-PSYCHE GROOVERS

They came together — young and garage strutting in the coastal Northern California crucible of Santa Cruz, and there they birthed the Sleepy sound — dead blues shaken alive, razor sharp and ramblin’, soul sonic science and dead-on pop surgery. Wooden, earthy, stratospheric, and swinging California music of beautiful contrasts for conflicted times.

Ass: Salt Marsh

A TRULY BEAUTIFUL ALBUM, DARK AND INTRICATE

Unusually for an entirely wordless record, “Salt Marsh” appears to thematically link its seven songs, with musical motifs contributing to the overall mood and uniting the various strands Andreas Soderstrom (AKA Ass) introduces, not least the hushed, restrained squalls which bookend the album. It’s a truly beautiful album that recalls the darkness of Six Organs, and intricacies of John Fahey and Pentangle.

Steve Mason: Boys Outside

BEAUTY AND SIMPLICITY FROM THE EX-BETA BAND SINGER

Debut solo album from the ex-singer of The Beta Band — the album has a very fragile, stripped down and haunting sound and is being roundly praised for its beauty and simplicity drawing numerous comparisons to his early work with The Beta Band on the “3 EPs” album. The album was written entirely on acoustic guitar with many of the finished tracks stripped back to reveal his undoubted songwriting talent.

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The Greenhornes: ****

PURE, STRAIGHT UP NUGGETS INSPIRED ROCK AND ROLL

The Greenhornes are the trio of Craig Fox, Patrick Keeler and ‘Little’ Jack Lawrence. What to say about the sound - pure, straight up Nuggets inspired rock and roll. And by straight-up we mean sans revisionist new wave of snotty garage rock posturing. These guys have been weaned on a diet almost solely consisting of the finest R&B and rock innovators: The Kinks, The Who, The Zombies and The Easybeats are immediately recognizable in their sound.

The Jim Jones Revue: Burning Your House Down

AN INCENDIARY MIX OF THE CRAMPS AND THE BLUES EXPLOSION

Notorious for their maniacal high-energy shows, stomping rhythms and frantic fretwork, The Jim Jones Revue plan to take the planet by storm and leave a global trail of sweaty bodies and scorched earth in their wake. “Burning Your House Down” is an incendiary mix of the Cramps and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, high octane stuff to rip the speakers to shreds!!

Arp: The Soft Wave

TRULY BLISSFUL KRAUTROCK / BALEARIC GROOVES

“The Soft Wave” is expansive in scope, unfolding like a collection of short stories or filmic vignettes, each piece building upon the other. Whereas previous album “In Light” was made with only vintage analog synthesizers, “The Soft Wave” incorporates guitars, piano, flute, and Ebows to create a dense brocade of sound. Truly blissful krautrock/Balearic grooves that bring to mind the likes of Harmonia and Kraftwerk without actually copying them.

Tokimonsta: Midnight Menu

TAKES ‘WONKY-HOP’ TO A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL, ADDING SOUL, FUNK AND WARMTH

South Bay, Los Angeles resident Tokimonsta’s (Jennifer Lee) music is rooted in hip hop rhythms fused with classic soul, traditional percussion, avant-garde jazz, experimental electronica, psychedelic rock, and everything in between - so finding one-way to describe her style is a fool’s errand. Through the creation of beats, she is able to fuse vintage styles with progressive sounds into something compellingly unique.

Solar Bears: She Was Coloured In

ANALOGUE ELECTRONICS AND SHIMMERING NEON SYNTH-POP

Solar Bears’ music is the soundtrack to a good life. Their songwriting and production has a languid, pastoral grace that intertwines rock and electronics, twisting melodies through prog rock’s structures and sounds, occasionally making sharp turns into more tense post rock territory, sliding between longer tracks and short mood-setting miniatures. The album mixes analogue electronics with the quietly epic perspective and shimmering neon synths of late 70s, early 80s Kosmiche music and the synth-pop it informed.

THE TOP 100 ALBUMS 51–100 51. Sun Araw: On Patrol Deep, dubby, out of this world and almost dangerously psychedelic, this could well melt minds! It’s another essential release from Cameron Stallones’ Sun Araw.

52. Madlib: Medicine Show # 5 History Of The Loop Digga 1990–2000 Beats from the Madlib archive. This collection showcases the way that Madlib’s early hip hop demos were filtered out to his friends and associates.

53. Twin Sister: Vampires With Dreaming Kids / Color Your Life Their first two EPs collected together; the dreamy female vocals perfectly complement the subtle music structures that sound minimal without actually being minimal, kinda like a more upbeat XX.

54. New Young Pony Club: The Optimist Still groovy, still dead melodic, but now with a heavier, almost Gothic flavour. There’s more depth but no less fun. It’s the perfect blend.

55. Strong Arm Steady: In Search Of Stoney Jackson The Madlib / Strong Arm Steady collaboration album unfolds over 16 tracks and is a brisk, exciting hip hop record.

56. Fool’s Gold: Fool’s Gold Fool’s Gold is a Los Angeles collective that weaves together western pop aesthetics with African rhythms and melodies.

57. Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest

61. Voice Of The Seven Thunders: Voice Of The Seven Thunders A stunning album from Rick Tomlinson and his new rock band; scorched psyche, kosmische drones, nostalgic folky intricacies, and heavy doses of narcotic Eastern delight.

62. Holly Miranda: The Magician’s Private Library Lush, floaty, multi-layered dreampop, similar to Sol Seppy. Just like a mellower TVOTR but with a beautiful singer instead. It’s special.

63. Lone: Emerald Fantasy Tracks Neon-blushed rave music for house heads and urban kids. Ideal.

64. The Album Leaf: A Chorus Of Storytellers For the first time in five albums, The Album Leaf recorded as a whole band. And the results are warm and inventive, their best album yet.

65. !!! (Chk Chk Chk): Strange Weather, Isn’t It? !!! (Chk Chk Chk) have returned with a striking, personal but ultimately danceable collection of funk-punk-rock-pop-dance missives.

66. No Age: Everything In Between Combining all that’s good about No Age; incendiary guitar blasts, noodling experimental art-noise bits, and a melodic know how.

67. Unbunny: Moon Food

Another effortlessly brilliant album from Deerhunter, currently America’s greatest exponents of indie art-rock.

The effortless fragile beauty of the likes of Sparklehorse and Neil Young immediately spring to mind. Stunning and evocative melancholy.

58. Sleigh Bells: Treats

68. Carlton Melton: Pass It On

If you like the idea of Santogold and Ciara forming a band with your teenage neighbour who’s just bought his (or her) first electric guitar and turned the amp up to 11 then you’ll love Sleigh Bells.

Awesome psyche-rock, these guys should be as massive as the Wooden Shjips. Hopefully they will be after this release!

59. Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt II (The Purple Tape) Raekwon’s melodic flows, thought provoking visual content and street orientated delivery produces the dish that true hip hop heads have been salivating for for many years.

60. Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles (2nd Album) Eschewing the glitch, lo-fi 8-bit effects in favour of melodies and icy synths reminiscent of The Knife, this is an adventurous artistic and creative leap into the future, but still with an edge.

69. Agnes Obel: Philharmonics Beautiful and delicate piano led folk from this Danish starlet. The arrangements are kept simple and minimal allowing her amazing vox to take centre stage.

70. Swans: My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky An album that encompasses all that is the Swans; from the brutal pummelling of your rib cage to the gentle caressing of your senses, this is the Swans on majestic top form.

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71. The Soundcarriers: Celeste

82. Strange Boys: Be Brave

“Celeste” nods to a warm West Coast sound, under-pinned by a Kosmische/Can groove and topped off with a delicious female vox, bringing to mind the likes of Broadcast and Stereolab.

Boozy late-night blues swooning with a garagey rock feel and topped off with drop-dead cool vocals. Impressive stuff!

72. Kings Go Forth: The Outsiders Are Back

Shimmering in a warm psychedelic haze, the Hope Sandoval-esque vocals perfectly compliment the glow of the sunburnt guitars.

Lauded by soul music blogs KGF are one of the most thrillingly creative new bands to be heard, delivering it all with fierce urgency and undeniable emotional commitment.

84. Mount Kimbie: Crooks & Lovers

73. Pantha Du Prince: Black Noise

83. Tamaryn: The Waves

Awesome future beats selection from one of the most hotly-tipped producers of 2010.

85. Caitlin Rose: Own Side Now

Fuses house, techno, shoegazy electronica and psychedelic electro-acoustic soundscapes into music that is at once both beautiful and bewitching.

Evoking past heroes of the Laurel Canyon folk scene this Nashville born singer’s country tinged folk certainly hits the mark for us.

74. The Souljazz Orchestra: Rising Sun

86. Chilly Gonzales: Ivory Tower

They have moved forward the blueprint of Fela, Fania and the funk in entirely new ways, whilst keeping the vital analogue grit intact.

75. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse: Dark Night Of The Soul Every song’s a winner but the Gruff Rhys, James Mercer, Wayne Coyne and Julian Casablanca’s ones really stand out. Some strange magic’s at large!

76. LoneLady: Nerve Up A post-punk soundscape that perfectly depicts the environment in which it was born; scratchy guitars, a Joy Division-esque rhythm section and superb vocals topping it all off.

77. Surfer Blood: Astro Coast A sunny side up indie-pop classic from the sunshine state of Florida. A huge Pitchfork endorsed album.

78. Jane Weaver: The Fallen By Watch Bird A new conceptual pop project featuring seven chapters of cosmic aquatic folklore from Jane and her all-star cast of collaborators.

79. The Fall: Your Future Our Clutter

An ambitious, intelligent and, typically of Chilly, fun album. It’s catchy piano-driven pop with a 70s / 80s flavour.

87. Dungen: Skit I Allt Sweden’s Dungen return with a collection of gorgeous, dreamlike melodies, psychedelic stonkers and graceful, jazz-filled polyrhythms.

88. Baths: Cerulean A stunning debut — leftfield hip-hop beats combine with acoustic-fuelled electronic music that brings to mind Toro Y Moi and Flying Lotus.

89. Forest Swords: Dagger Paths Like a mix of Mogwai’s more luscious soundscapes, Burial’s sample strewn claustrophobia, with touches of Ennio Morricone’s legendary reverbed guitar soundtracks.

90. Black Mountain: Wilderness Heart Packed with succinct rock songs that pulse and pound with startling precision: it pummels you and you ask for more.

91. Broken Social Scene: Forgiveness Rock Record

Album number 28, and Mark E. Smith and the Fall are back at their very best. Think of “Hex Enduction Hour” mixed with “This Nation’s Saving Grace”, yep that good!!

Effortlessly brilliant album — it’s been five years since the last album but it’s well worth the wait. Euphoric indie-rock doesn’t get any better than this.

80. Matthew Dear: Black City

92. Edwyn Collins: Losing Sleep

“Black City” is Matthew Dear’s third album on Ghostly International, and it’s his darkest and most engrossing work to date.

81. Grinderman: Grinderman 2 Exploring more psychedelic territory than its predecessor, “Grinderman 2” is a looser and more experimental, hallucinatory and sonically sound album.

With a host of co-writers including Johnny Marr and Roddy Frame, the first album Edwyn’s recorded since his serious illness in 2005 is a deeply personal soulful pop gem.

THE TOP 100 ALBUMS 51–100 93. Salem: King Night

97. Aeroplane: We Can’t Fly

Ghost step? Witch house? Drag? The coming of the apocalypse? Gothic darkness reimagined as doom-laden electro-crunkin’ shoegazing.

An awesome concoction of Balearic, electro-disco, synth-heavy 80s pomp, and proper pop songs.

94. Allo Darlin’: Allo Darlin’

A masterclass in ambient and industrial music from a recognised figurehead of the genre, in collaboration with Leo Abrahams and Jon Hopkins.

Excellent breezy indie-pop that’ll be essential listening for fans of the likes of Camera Obscura, Wave Pictures, and Pains Of Being Pure At Heart.

95. The Books: The Way Out

98. Brian Eno: Small Craft On A Milk Sea

99. Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms What started as a outlet for ideas too offbeat to fit the Vega mould has since gone on to pioneer a genre with the likes of Washed Out and Toro Y Moi all turning people onto their blissed out electronic sounds of the summer.

96. Teebs: Ardour

100. Scuba: Triangulation

An LP full of infectious melodies, subtle hip-hop beats and a kaleidoscope of electronic sound. Music for the imagination.

If you love F, Martyn and 2562, then you need this album. Brilliant dubstep / techno fusions.

Continues the Books tradition of meticulous, existential songcraft, infusing the playfully surreal elements of previous albums with a humorous, childlike excitement. A wonderful sampledelic experience.

THE TOP 30 COMPILATIONS

PICCADILLY RECORDS COMPILATION OF THE YEAR 2010

Down To The Sea And Back In these computer-enhanced days anyone can build themselves an instantly ‘cool’ record collection via the click of a mouse, without even having to leave their homes. Record collecting wasn’t always like this. You had to put in the hours going through the racks in record stores, checking the ‘cheaps’ in second hand shops and being unable to walk past a charity shop without just having a quick peek in the cardboard box on the floor under the shelf of videos. Balearic Mike and Kelvin Andrews are two such record-buying enthusiasts who have built up vast and varied collections of music. Luckily for us they’re prepared to share their enthusiasm, selecting obscure favourites and secret weapons from their vinyl archives for this compilation. The set combines slinky disco, post-punk electronics, 70s pop, folkie meanderings, Balearic anthems, sing-along end-of-nighters and sleazy funk, and will have you checking the tracklisting to find out what the cuts are. And then re-checking to make sure it did say ‘The Osmonds’ and ‘The Sweet’... TRACKLISTING: 1. San Sebastian Strings: The Gypsy Camp / 2. Fern Kinney: Baby Let Me Kiss You / 3. Bilgeri: Video Life / 4. Nacht Und Nebel: Beats Of Love / 5. Phill & Friends Band: This Man / 6. Sweet: Funk It Up (David’s Song) (Special Disco Version) / 7. Bell X1: Flame (Chicken Lips Version) 8. Osmonds: I,I,I / 9. Al Usher: Lullaby For Robert / 10. The Hollies: Draggin’ My Heels (Special Disco Version) / 11. The Willow Band: Willowman / 12. Tritons: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

BALEARIC MIKE’S TOP 20 OF 2010 1. Steve Mason: Boys Outside LP 2. Begin: Velocity 3. Incarnations: Make You Mine 4. Beach House: Teen Dream LP 5. Holger Czukay: Persian Love 6. Charlotte Gainsbourg: IRM LP 7. Mark Cappani: I Believe In Miracles 8. Midlake: Roscoe (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re:animation) 9. Sam Sallon: You May Not Mean To Hurt Me (Leo Zero/Begin mixes) 10. Kurt Maloo/Sophie Zelmani: Afterglow/If I Could (Rune Lindbaek Mixes) 11. Mudd & Pollard: Vincent 12. Max Essa: Panorama Suite 13. IFEEL Studio 001: The Coptic Sun 14. Locussoulus: Little Boots 15. Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Soul Mekanik remix) 16. Massive Attack: Heligoland LP 17. Cantoma: Out Of Town LP 18. KM Editions: Feelings Of Ecstacy 19. Parlour No2: Sov Med Mig/Sark Powers 20. Four Hands: Hizou

THE TOP 30 COMPILATIONS 2. Deutsche Elektronische Musik Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1972-83 Beautifully packed as usual by Soul Jazz, “Deutsche Elektronische Musik” is an ultra handy round-up of one the most important music scenes ever. This compilation captures the Krautrock/Kosmische scene at its most potent timescale featuring the well known such as Faust, Harmonia, Can, Cluster, Tangerine Dream and Amon Duul II as well as more obscure gems from the likes Ibliss, Deuter, Kollectiv and Gila. It’s a “Now That’s What I Call Krautrock” for all the family!

3. Leo Zero — Super Edits Vol 1 This special limited edition double CD makes available for the first time some of Leo’s highly saught after under the counter re-edits and DJ-only mixes from recent years. Before now, these tracks have only been circulated to a select few top DJs: Greg Wilson, Disco Bloodbath, Ashley Beedle, Trevor Jackson, Groove Armada etc — now us non-celeb plebs can get our DJ mitts on them too! All have been exclusively re-mastered for this CD.

4. Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas Tropicalista Psychedelic Masterpieces 1967-1976 Subtitled “Tropicalista Psychedelic Masterpieces 1967-1976”, and collated by the same expert team of archivists behind the recently released “Psych-Funk 101”, “Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas” should serve as a master class for those entranced by the funky, heavy psychedelic wonders of the Tropicalia movement and all that it spawned.

5. F*>K Dance, Let’s Art Sounds From The New American Underground “F*>k Dance, Let’s Art” is a quiet attempt to capture a snapshot of a what’s turning out to be an exciting time for new music in the States; chillwave, witch house, ghost step, drag... call it what you want, it’s all here. A testament to some great music being made by American dreamers, schemers, indie refugees and bedroom avant gardists some playing with occulty imagery, others building sky kissing sonic escape routes.

6. The World Ends Afro Rock & Psychedelia In 1970s Nigeria The latest title from Soundway Records showcasing a wave of guitar-driven and psychedelic groups that sprung up in Nigeria during the early 1970s. Featuring 32 electrifying and funk laden grooves, this is the sound of a generation attempting to pick up the pieces after the devastation of the Nigerian civil war.

7. I Smell A Rat Long before Elvis rolled his pelvis, the Rolling Stones co-opted the Mississippi Blues and legions of white bands made their electrified guitars roar, black Blues, Gospel and Jazz artists had laid the cornerstone for the musical revolution, that would profoundly shatter the western world: Rock’n’Roll. Much less known than their white imitators, nonetheless they produced the grittier originals: As performers, who combined the archaic drive of the Blues with Country melodies and the feverish beat of black Gospel services, and pepped up African-sounding rhythms with electric amplification in order to please their audience and its steady hunger for new thrills and sound effects.

8. Todd Terje — Remaster Of The Universe Norwegian disco beard Todd Terje launches this epic collection of some of his best remixes and underground work to date. A quick scan down the list reveals that many have already been records of the week on our weekly Piccadilly Records email mailout, so this CD comes heartily recommended.

9. Jon Savage Presents Blackhole Californian Punk 1977-80 Compiled by respected author and journalist Jon Savage and featuring an essay by Jon, “Blackhole” covers a much neglected period in American music. Preceded by The Runaways & Iggy-gone-mad-in-LA and going on to lay the groundwork for the 80’s Hardcore scene, the LA punk scene was a fertile breeding ground for ideas, anti-establishment rants, sharp comments about the world, attempts at transcendence and plenty of savage wit.

10. Songs For Endless Cities Vol.1 — Brackles Songs For Endless Cities” is a new series that will be focusing on the new generation of DJs and producers who have a fresh and individual take on an ever evolving electronic scene.

11. In Search Of Hawkwind A tribute to the space rock/psychedelic overlords from today’s new psyche-rock heroes. Interestingly, the contributors (Moon Duo, Acid Mothers, Mudhoney amongst them) were originally asked simply to record a Hawkwind track of their choice, yet all nine selections are drawn from Hawkwind’s stunning first five releases — a classic era.

12. Strange Games & Funky Things 5 Compiled And Mixed By DJ Spinna And BBE Soundsystem Another beautifully pressed and packaged collection that will broaden the scope of your DJ set or sweeten your Saturday night in. Includes Ned Doheny’s peerless “Get It Up For Love”.

13. Shangaan Electro New Wave Dance Music From South Africa “Shangaan Electro” delivers a selection of the breakneck Shangaan dance output of the Nozinja studio in Soweto, recorded between 2006 and 2009. Shangaan music is fast - we’re talking 180bpm+ here — coming across like high life-meets-soca-meets-baile-funk-happy hardcore! When you hear those marimba beats, that live guitar and those toms, you know it’s Shangaan.

14. Good God! Born Again Funk “Born Again Funk” lends new ears to a joyful strain of American composers and performers unafraid of expressing their devotion with both inspiration and invention. They were faithful to a spirit, not to an ordained sound.

THE TOP 30 COMPILATIONS 15. Turkish Freakout During the late 60s and early 70s western rock, psych, funk and jazz influences began to be incorporated into traditional Turkish sounds. The marriage of these styles showcased on “Turkish Freakout!” is original, captivating and bound to freak you out, big time.

16. Walter Gibbons — Jungle Music Walter Gibbons remains one of the most important and unheralded DJ / remixers in New York dance music history, a pioneer of reel to reel edits and the art of the remix and a tangible link between early hip hop and disco through his quickfire turntable skills developed during the mid-70s.

17. Minimal Wave Tapes Volume 1 This is the first volume of a series of compilations bringing together undiscovered new wave music from Europe and North America recorded in the 1980s.

18. To Scratch Your Heart — Early Recordings From Istanbul Crosses and mixes the folk and classical heritage of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Gypsies, Muslims, Christians and Jews, urbanites and country people, and the demands of tradition and modernity, musical improvisation, composition and system.

19. Palenque Palenque! Champeta Criolla & Afro Roots In Colombia 1975–91 Reveals a unique and fascinating story of how Afro-Colombian music developed from the 1970s onwards and how the local sound-systems in Cartagena and Barranquilla played such an important role in shaping the sound of the Colombian champeta.

20. Italians Do It Better — Solid Gold Excerpts from the groundbreaking and highly influential Italians Do It Better 12”s spanning 2007-2010. Essential music for the warm summer nights / chilly autumn nights / bitter winter nights / fresh spring nights. And all the days as well!

21. Danny Krivit — Edits By Mr. K Vol. 2 Strut re-kindle their involvement with one New York’s most revered DJs and re-edit pioneers, Danny Krivit, with a fresh album of essential new, rare and classic re-works, past and present.

22. Backstreet Brit Funk Tells the story of the underground scene in the UK when punk and disco were giving way to a new blend of jazz, soul and funk, heavily influenced by the American big hitters of the day but re-worked by the UK pioneers for the British dancefloors.

23. Substance Mixed By Scuba From the laid back cool of Pangaea, through Surgeon’s barely-controlled aggression and Untold’s rave-u-like touches to Mala’s deep meditation, the mix is a true representation of what the SUB:STANCE parties are about.

24. Bob Blank The Blank Generation Blank Tapes NYC 1975 – 1985 The first ever album retrospective of one of New York’s most revered of all producers, Bob Blank, this album traces the history of his independent studio, Blank Tapes, one of the city’s most important creative dens during the vibrant arts scene of the mid-70s to mid-80s.

25. We Were So Turned On — A Tribute To David Bowie Fresh and seasoned artists paying homage to the man who invented the art of reinvention. Sees the likes of Warpaint, Vivian Girls, and A Place To Bury Strangers nestling alongside Duran Duran, Carla Bruni(!) and Mick Khan.

26. Far Out Spaced Oddyssey — Psychedelic Folk, Electronica, Jazz & Rock From The Out There Edges Of Brazil Far Out voyages through the Brazilian archives with this wild trip deep into mutated South American psychedelia, esoteric curios and trippy electronics.

27. We Are Only Riders: Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project A band project of a stellar cast of musicians to honour the late great frontman of The Gun Club – Jeffrey Lee Pierce.

28. Total 11 Kompakt’s flagship annual release arrives, featuring 95% exclusive new music from the likes of DJ Koze, Superpitcher, The Field, Wolfgang Voigt, Jorg Burger, Gui Boratto, Matias Aguayo and many more.

29. Secret Weapons “Secret Weapons” covers just about all the food groups, from downtempo funk, to uptempo house, stopping at all stations in between. Handle with care.

30. Keb Darge And Little Edith’s Legendary Rockin’ R&B Twenty feverishly spooky late-night jivers compiled by a selector you can always rely on.

THE TOP 10 RE-ISSUES

PICCADILLY RECORDS RE-ISSUE OF THE YEAR 2010

Wooden Shjips: Vol. 2 Strap in for travels beyond the galaxy, to tranced-out cosmic bliss! Sick Thirst presents “Vol. 2”, the second compilation of hard-to-find Wooden Shjips tracks. “Vol 2” digs deep to collect the band’s Sub Pop and Mexican Summer singles, two self-released European tour singles, and a track from Yeti magazine, for nearly 44 minutes of fuzzed-out psych jams. Not just for completists, “Vol 2” contains the essential live standards “Loose Lips”, “Death’s Not Your Friend (live)”, and “I Hear the Vibrations (the E-Z Version)”, plus savage covers of Neil Young’s “Vampire Blues” and Serge Gainsbourg’s “Contact”.

WOODEN SHJIPS’ FAVOURITES OF 2010 Purling Hiss: Hissteria Dadawah: Peace and Love Billy Green: Stone OST Charanjit Singh: 10 Ragas to a Disco Beat Gonjasufi: A Sufi and A Killer Sun Araw: On Patrol Parson Sound box set Cave: Pure Moods Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson: Daily Dance Bardo Pond: Bufo Alvarius Heads: Relaxin’ with Love Cry Want: Love Cry Want Les Rallizes Denudes: Heavier Than A Death In the Family Les Rallizes Denudes: Blind Baby Has Its Mother’s Eyes Neu!: Neu! ‘86 Neil Young: Le Noise Carlton Melton: Pass It On Magic Lantern: Platoon Bad Trips: Open Tweak Bird: Tweak Bird

Wooden Shjips is a trance-rock quartet from San Francisco, consisting of Omar Ahsanuddin (drums), Dusty Jermier (bass), Nash Whalen (organ), and Ripley Johnson (guitar and vocals). Their sound, as I’m sure you all know now, has hints of krautrock, the trance-inducing organ haze of Suicide, Velvets-style dance-drone, classic desert-fried garage psych and the mysterious, obscure Japanese lysergic-rock band Les Rallizes Denudes, all mixed into one explosive whole.

Crass: The Feeding Of The Five Thousand Remastered Edition First released in 1978, “The Feeding Of The Five Thousand” showed Crass as an anti-establishment and highly uncompromising act, and one that would influence countless other bands to follow. This is the first in a series of remastered versions on the bands own Classical Collection imprint of each of Crass’ now legendary albums, each one including bonus tracks and brand new artwork.

Galaxie 500: On Fire — Deluxe Edition One of three remastered deluxe reissues, “On Fire” is widely recognized as the canonic pinnacle of Galaxie 500’s career. The artwork conveys this, with a low-angle shot of the band, looking up towards an amber sky. This record marked the realization of their signature sound — warm, rich and dreamy slowcore with plaintive tenor vocals.

Jim Sullivan: UFO A long lost classic, Jim’s 1969 debut album was titled “U.F.O.”. The album was a fully realised album of scope and imagination, a folk-rock record with its head in the stratosphere. Sullivan’s voice is deep and expressive like Fred Neil with a weathered and worldly Americana sound like Joe South, pop songs that aren’t happy — but with filled with despair.

The Fall: T he Wonderful And Frightening World Of... The Fall — Omnibus Edition Released in 1984, this was the band’s eighth studio album and their first for Beggars Banquet. This release chronicles that year across 4 CD’s; from the full integration of Brix Smith into the group, the introduction of John Leckie as the recording producer, the BBC sessions, live shows, changes in the line-up and the rise of a wider appreciation for The Fall’s music.

THE TOP 10 RE-ISSUES

Dadawah: Peace And Love Dark, hypnotic, tripping nyabinghi from 1974. Led by Ras Michael over four extended excursions, the music is organic, sublime and expansive, grounation‐drums and bass heavy (with no rhythm guitar, rather Willie Lindo brilliantly improvising a kind of dazed blues).

Kenny Graham & His Satellites: Moondog & Suncat Suites This is a very rare 1957 album that features jazz interpretations of Moondog originals all performed by a great British jazz line up (including Stan Tracy), using exotic instruments and all engineered by a very young Joe Meek. This is the first time it has been issued since its release 53 years ago.

Charles Douglas: The Lives Of Charles Douglas Released briefly in the US at the end of the 1990’s and is possibly the last great New York rock record of the twentieth century, following a musical trail kick-started by the Velvet Underground and continued by the likes of Television, The Ramones, Galaxie 500, Luna and The Strokes. You probably haven’t heard it — or indeed of it, until now!

The Heads: Relaxing With... (Remastered) The debut album originally released in 1996. 10 tracks of guitar driven, amp destroying rock, with cues taken straight from the US underground, Stooges, MC5, Mudhoney, Pussy Galore, early Monster Magnet too but with a distinctly British stamp, some of the drone and fuzz from Loop / Spacemen 3, some of the attitude of the Fall, Pink Fairies and Walking Seeds and overlaid with the spaced rock of early Hawkwind.

TL Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir: Like A Ship...(Without A Sail) One time Chicago pastor and civic crusader TL Barrett’s long-forgotten gospel-soul LP. Long revered in the Windy City amongst the flock and fervent crate diggers, this end-to-end burner remains one of the holy grails of gospel soul.

THE TOP 10 BOX SETS

Orange Juice: Coals To Newcastle

A comprehensive seven-disc anthology of one of the finest groups of all time, Orange Juice. The release comprises of six audio compact discs and one DVD that contains the band’s complete discography and other studio recordings as well as a collection of their BBC sessions. The DVD contains the band’s two promotional clips for “Rip It Up” and “What Presence?!” (the latter directed by Derek Jarman), their four performances on The Old Grey Whistle Test and the rare posthumous concert video Dada With (The) Juice. In total, “Coals To Newcastle” contains 16 previously unreleased tracks with another 23 tracks previously unavailable digitally on earlier re-issues.

Neu!: Vinyl Box A complete retrospective of one of the most influential German bands of the seventies. In addition to the three original NEU! studio albums the package contains two additional vinyls, appearing for the first time officially. The album NEU! ‘86 contains never before released material, revised by Michael Rother as well as the most recent studio recordings of both musicians. “NEU! ‘72 non-public test” is a stunning and previously unheard live recording of the band in Dusseldorf. Also included is a thirty-six page book with text about the history and the workings of NEU!, illustrated with previously unpublished photographs by Anton Corbijn and Peter Lindbergh, , and a code to allow the buyer to download the digital version of all the albums. A free NEU! T-shirt (with your download code) and a stencil of the NEU! logo finish off this bumper release.

Various Artists: Matador At 21 — Limited Edition CD Box Set

This rather lovely linen-covered box contains 6 CDs, 36 custom poker chips in 3 values and an 85-page perfect bound book with history of the label, photos, ephemera, emails and more. There are 5 CDs of remastered songs from the label’s history and 1 CD of unreleased recordings from the 10th Anniversary shows in NYC, 1999, recorded to multi-track via the Rolling Stones Mobile Truck no less!

4. Syl Johnson: Complete Mythology — Vinyl Box Set 6. Various Artists: Congotronics — Vinyl Box Set 7. Oasis: Time Flies... 1994–2009

5. Midlake: The Courage Of Others — Super Deluxe Box Set

8. Fela Kuti: 6 Vinyl Set — Compiled By ?uestlove 9. Broken Bells: Broken Bells — Deluxe Music Box Edition 10. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse: Dark Night Of The Soul — Limited Edition Box Set

Laura April was a big month for me this year: Besides being my birthday month, it was also when I moved into my new house (with garden), worked through a chaotic and brilliant Record Store Day (our busiest day EVER in the shop!) and walked 26.2 miles around Manchester in the middle of the night, raising over £800 for Cancer Research in the process. I’d set myself a target of 8 hours to finish, and did it in 7hrs 58! I was made up, but God my feet hurt!! Note to self: Next time don’t walk a marathon through the night straight after Record Store Day — spend the day before in bed!!

I went to Primavera Sound in Barcelona in May, which was ace as usual, Thee Oh Sees being my surprise highlight of the festival. Since then, I’ve been busy DIYing, gardening and chutney making (well I had to find something to do with a mountain of courgettes, apples and tomatoes!), all of which has been soundtracked by some great 7”s from the likes of Young British Artists, Mazes, Spectrals, Crystal Stilts, Jeff The Brotherhood and Beach Fossils amongst others, along with the albums in my top 20, particularly the top 3 which have all been played to death!

STAFF CHARTS

1. THE NATIONAL: HIGH VIOLET 2. THE PHANTOM BAND: THE WANTS 3. GIL SCOTT-HERON: I’M NEW HERE 4. BROKEN BELLS: BROKEN BELLS 5. THEE OH SEES: WARM SLIME 6. FRANKIE ROSE & THE OUTS: FRANKIE ROSE & THE OUTS 7. ARCADE FIRE: THE SUBURBS 8. DANGER MOUSE & SPARKLEHORSE: DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL 9. STRANGE BOYS: BE BRAVE 10. CAITLIN ROSE: OWN SIDE NOW 11. THE GREENHORNES: **** 12. THE SOFT PACK: THE SOFT PACK 13. EDWYN COLLINS: LOSING SLEEP 14. THE JIM JONES REVUE: BURNING YOUR HOUSE DOWN 15. BEST COAST: CRAZY FOR YOU 16. ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN: HAWK 17. JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD: HEAVY DAYS 18. NO AGE: EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN 19. THE MORNING BENDERS: BIG ECHO 20. KAREN ELSON: THE GHOST WHO WALKS

Philippa

As I sat down to write this intro, I couldn’t actually think of a single thing I’d done all year, but slowly memories are trickling back: For the first six months of the year I became a Discogs addict, getting giddy with the ‘new order’ emails in my inbox, and spending my ‘winnings’ on all those disco originals I never knew I needed until they were an easy Paypal payment away... Then as the strawberry and currant season arrived on my allotment, I turned into the jam making queen of Piccadilly Records, spending hours in my kitchen surrounded by cold saucers, fruit and several kilos of sugar. I might be crap at growing root vegetables, but I can make a mean bramble jelly. When I wasn’t making jam or selling records (or burning jam while just adding a just few more records to my Discogs list), I found time to go and watch gigs by Gil Scott-Heron (I was glad to hear that I wasn’t the only one who cried), LCD Soundsystem and John Head, all of which were amazing. There were also some great records out this year — these are the ones I liked most.

1. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM: THIS IS HAPPENING 2. TRACEY THORN: LOVE AND ITS OPPOSITE 3. GIL SCOTT-HERON: I’M NEW HERE 4. E RYKAH BADU: NEW AMERYKAH PART 2: RETURN OF THE ANKH 5. LAURA MARLING: I SPEAK BECAUSE I CAN 6. CARIBOU: SWIM 7. SHIT ROBOT: FROM THE CRADLE TO THE RAVE 8. JANE WEAVER: THE FALLEN BY WATCH BIRD 9. MOUNT KIMBIE: CROOKS & LOVERS 10. SMOKE FAIRIES: THROUGH LOW LIGHT & TREES 11. FOUR TET: THERE IS LOVE IN YOU 12. THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS: THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS 13. NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB: THE OPTIMIST 14. AEROPLANE: WE CAN’T FLY 15. SCUBA: TRIANGULATION 16. LONELADY: NERVE UP 17. SOLAR BEARS: SHE WAS COLOURED IN 18. SALEM: KING NIGHT 19. TORO Y MOI: CAUSERS OF THIS 20. ONRA: LONG DISTANCE

Darryl Well where did that year go? It’s been another brilliant year for releases, keeping us all really busy in the shop yet again. And a special thanks must go to all our customers, instore and online, these are incredibly tough times for independent music retailers so here’s saluting you for supporting us and indeed other indie shops around the country. That support was most visible around the country on Record Store Day, a truly amazing day for all concerned, let’s hope the next one is just as good!

Topping my personal Top 20 this year was the third album by Texan garage-psyche rockers The Black Angels, a brilliant album that I seem to never tire of listening to. With so much good stuff being released it was hard trimming my chart down to just a 20, so without a filler in sight I can heartily recommend everything in here.

Outside of the shop I’m writing this intro just a few days after FC United defeated Rochdale AFC in the first round proper of the FA Cup, a truly momentous occasion for all of us there. No doubt we’ll have been knocked out in round two by the time you read this, but here’s hoping for another great day out whatever the score.

Matt 2010 saw Manchester jet back into party mode. What a lovely bunch of people, lots of new raves, gigs and soirees and plenty of inspiring music going on again. Special mention to Francis for putting on the most (that) Amazing of castle rave-ups, pure magic. And the Soup Kitchen for bringing together an underground hub of forward thinking future musica (Meandyou, Bohemian Grove, Faktion...etc).

Gig wise it’s nice to see the power squad of WhatGodForgot / Now Wave and Oh Productions reppin’ heavy psyche-fests including Sun Araw, Wooden Shjips and Gnod. Music wise things are getting very exciting, and I feel truly privileged and inspired sharing it with some of you (keep the tp’s coming please!). Big ups — Boggy (Begin), Neil Diablo (Evil K’Neil), Si (Ruf Dug / Ruf Kutz) and Ste Spandex plus Demdike Stare, Fascinating Rhythms, Fat City and Finders Keepers... too many to mention and apologizes if I haven’t. Halfway through 2010 Detroit Public Radio suspended regular broadcasting and I began focussing my attention on a new party, with a bunch of top heads called ‘Wet Play’. Two parties in things are simmering away nicely. A messy Christmas warehouse disco is planned in December with a treasure trove of delights. V. Exciting. Hail Manchester’s new breed!

STAFF CHARTS

1. THE BLACK ANGELS: PHOSPHENE DREAM 2. THE PHANTOM BAND: THE WANTS 3. ARP: THE SOFT WAVE 4. SUN ARAW: OFF DUTY 5. THE ALPS: LE VOYAGE 6. THEE OH SEES: WARM SLIME 7. CEREMONY: ROCKET FIRE 8. ARCADE FIRE: THE SUBURBS 9. NO AGE: EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN 10. GIL SCOTT-HERON: I’M NEW HERE 11. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM: THIS IS HAPPENING 12. VOICE OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS: VOICE OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS 13. THE GREENHORNES: **** 14. FIELD MUSIC: FIELD MUSIC (MEASURE) 15. BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE: FORGIVENESS ROCK RECORD 16. DEERHUNTER: HALCYON DIGEST 17. THE NATIONAL: HIGH VIOLET 18. BEACH HOUSE: TEEN DREAM 19. ALTAR EAGLE: MECHANICAL GARDENS 20. SMOKE FAIRIES: THROUGH LOW LIGHT & TREES

1. SUN ARAW: OFF DUTY 2. SUN ARAW: ON PATROL 3. LA VAMPIRES & ZOLA JESUS: LA VAMPIRES & ZOLA JESUS 4 RAEKWON: ONLY BUILT FOR CUBAN LINX PART II (THE PURPLE TAPE) 5. G NOD / WHITE HILLS: GNOD DROP OUT WITH WHITE HILLS 6. CARLTON MELTON: PASS IT ON 7. LONE: EMERALD FANTASY TRACKS 8. SEAHAWKS: OCEAN TRIPPIN’ 9. WOODEN SHJIPS: VOL. 2 10. TAMARYN: THE WAVES 11. MAGIC LANTERN: PLATOON 12. POCAHAUNTED: MAKE IT REAL 13. ENDLESS BOOGIE: FULL HOUSE HEAD 14. HIGH WOLF: ASCENSION 15. MOON DUO: ESCAPE 16. GIL-SCOTT HERON: I’M NEW HERE 17. FOREST SWORDS: DAGGER PATHS 18. ANDRES: PART II 19. ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER: RETURNAL 20. DJ NATE: DA TRAK GENIOUS

2 Life eh? There I was, looking forward to retirement, spending the rest of my Saturday nights falling asleep, watching Sunderland get beat on MOTD, when Evil Kneil Diablo rings up and all of a sudden, I’m trainee resident at EDSC, come new year they might even start paying me...

2010 has been a great year. Picking my top 20 was easy but I have to give honourable mentions to Tamaryn and Warpaint who would have made it in, had I heard their respective albums sooner. Gig wise, The XX were majestic, LCD and Gil Scott Heron great, Erykah Badu less so (never believe a London greenhorn [Rob] insisting there’s no need to get the last tube from Brixton when you live in Stoke Newington...three buses and two hours later) while Lowlife reinvigorated my faith in loud music in dark places.

The Mercury music prize provided the Piccadilly comedy highlight of the year. Paul spent the morning after raging, “there can’t be anyone in England who hasn’t heard The XX” as the album played on the shop stereo. Cue unsuspecting customer, “who’s this then?” he asks as everyone in the shop (except Paul, obviously) falls over laughing.

Martin

Some might argue it’s a little indulgent to include 3 albums from the same source among your end of year favourites and it’s certainly undeniable that there is a rich vein of Cameron Stallones running through my chart, with both Sun Araw LPs and Magic Lantern’s “Platoon” making it into the upper half. I would ordinarily be reluctant to lean so far in one particular direction, for the sake of balance, but it’s been impossible to avoid. There is something intoxicating about this music. It doesn’t make the usual appeal to the heart or frontal lobes, stimulating instead ancient, long neglected provinces of the brain like some half benign opiate. Or hallucinogenic. Or both. Not entirely fair at any rate. There are no anthems here, no single harmony to stick in the memory, more a hypnotic, ritual drift – consistently mesmerising but difficult to locate in space, and it’s for that reason alone that none of these LPs make my top spot. They just don’t tick those conventional boxes. The National, with the brooding magnificence of “High Violet“ do, however, hitting sometimes painful heights – as do Beach House with their singular brand of wistful simplicity. Love to everyone for 2011!

Dave

STAFF CHARTS

SMOKE FAIRIES: THROUGH LOW LIGHT & TREES KAREN ELSON: THE GHOST WHO WALKS TWIN SISTER: COLOR YOUR LIFE E RYKAH BADU: NEW AMERYKAH PART 2 — RETURN OF THE ANKH 5. CARIBOU: SWIM 6. THE NATIONAL: HIGH VIOLET 7. BEACH HOUSE: TEEN DREAM 8. BROKEN BELLS: BROKEN BELLS 9. BEST COAST: CRAZY FOR YOU 10. FOUR TET: THERE IS LOVE IN YOU 11. GIL SCOTT-HERON: I’M NEW HERE 12. TRACEY THORN: LOVE AND ITS OPPOSITE 13. LAURA MARLING: I SPEAK BECAUSE I CAN 14. NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB: THE OPTIMIST 15. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM: THIS IS HAPPENING 16. MIDLAKE: THE COURAGE OF OTHERS 17. WASHED OUT: LIFE OF LEISURE 18. LAKE HEARTBEAT: TRUST IN NUMBERS 19. ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI: BEFORE TODAY 20. JANELLE MONAE: THE ARCHANDROID

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1. THE NATIONAL: HIGH VIOLET 2. BEACH HOUSE: TEEN DREAM 3. SUN ARAW: OFF DUTY 4. CRYSTAL CASTLES: CRYSTAL CASTLES (2ND ALBUM) 5. THE ALBUM LEAF: A CHORUS OF STORYTELLERS 6. AGNES OBEL: PHILHARMONICS 7. PANTHA DU PRINCE: BLACK NOISE 8. MAX RICHTER: INFRA 9. SUN ARAW: ON PATROL 10. MAGIC LANTERN: PLATOON 11. BEAR IN HEAVEN: BEAST REST FORTH MOUTH 12. THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS: THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS 13. MOON DUO: ESCAPE 14. TEEBS: ARDOUR 15. THE SOFT PACK: THE SOFT PACK 16. CARIBOU: SWIM 17. SMOKE FAIRIES: THROUGH LOW LIGHT AND TREES 18. SOLAR BEARS: SHE WAS COLOURED IN 19. CLUBROOT: II MMX 20. NO AGE: EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN

Adam 2010 has been a year of loose parties and tight tucks amongst a upsurge of twitchings in the Manchester undergrowth. Another belting ‘That Amazing Thing’ camping trip, the body-gurnin’ chaos at ‘Wet Play’ and the constant Whalley Range after-raves the pick of events that together have been offering up enough boisterousness to cause everyone involved to have a good, long look at themselves.

Masses of shop antics going on as always. Matt’s Homer Simpson-esque, sausage-roll nuclear meltdown moment with the staffroom microwave caused a literal stink whilst Andy’s air bass solo’s have been getting even more funky. Must be all that tinkling at lunchtimes! A couple of characters to keep a peeper on in 2011. Shop bum-chum Ruf Dug’s promising us yet more heat in the form of RK#3 and beyond plus, there’s a new hero in town! — Evil K’Neil in his rhinestone-clad pearly white jumpsuit rocked onto the scene in October with the release of his debut slab and first outing on the controls at Wet Play’s Halloween freak-out.

Lastly, big shout to Manchester Villa F.C for their promotion to the Manchester Accountants League Premier division after an unbeaten season in 2009/2010. Football in its rawest form in the 108th tier of English football.

STAFF CHARTS

1. DAM-FUNK: ADOLESCENT FUNK 2. MADLIB: MEDICINE SHOW #5 HISTORY OF THE LOOP DIGGA 1990–2000 3. GIL SCOTT-HERON: I’M NEW HERE 4. STRONG ARM STEADY: IN SEARCH OF STONEY JACKSON 5. LONE: EMERALD FANTASY TRACKS 6. TONY COOK: BACK TO REALITY 7. ALOE BLACC: GOOD THINGS 8. THE LAST ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC SPACE JAZZ & PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE: MILES AWAY 9. MAXMILLION DUNBAR: COOL WATER 10. TOKIMONSTA: MIDNIGHT MENU 11. SUN ARAW: ON PATROL 12. ONRA: LONG DISTANCE 13. ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI: BEFORE TODAY 14. MADLIB: MEDICINE SHOW #9: HIGH FI SOUNDS FOR SMOKERS & DRINKERS 15. G NOD/WHITE HILLS: GNOD DROP OUT WITH WHITE HILLS II 16. TAME IMPALA: INNERSPEAKER 17. MAGIC LANTERN: PLATOON 18. THE ALPS: LE VOYAGE 19. BLONDES: TOUCHED 20. GOLD PANDA: LUCKY SHINER

Sara

Is it me or has this year gone really quickly? So much good music has passed my way since being here it’s hard to know where to begin, but Gonjasufi is my number 1 album by a long chalk. It’s a cracker and never fails to make me smile. That said, there have been untold other albums I’ve enjoyed so it was a hard task picking my top 20. I started 2010 jobless and a bit fed up and ended it working here with a big grin on my face. Another highlight was my first trip to Primavera, where I particularly enjoyed Thee Oh Sees — they make a great racket and the way frontman John Dwyer holds his guitar ridiculously high, George Formby style, amuses me no end. I became god mother to my best pal Louise’s little girl Orla this year so although fairly uneventful, the good bits of 2010 have been particularly pleasant so I’m happy.

I became slightly obsessed with baking this year and I’m looking forward to getting cracking on my festive recipes – I tend to get rather excitable as Christmas draws near. I’m sure David will tire of my exuberance in a very short time. So, 2010 is almost over and in record time too. I reckon next year is gonna be a good ‘un so come on 2011, show us what you are made of!

1. GONJASUFI: A SUFI AND A KILLER 2. THE BLACK ANGELS: PHOSPHENE DREAM 3. SHIT ROBOT: FROM THE CRADLE TO THE RAVE 4. THEE OH SEES: WARM SLIME 5. THE INFESTICONS: BEDFORD PARK 6. ENDLESS BOOGIE: FULL HOUSE HEAD 7. THE FALL: YOUR FUTURE OUR CLUTTER 8. GRINDERMAN: GRINDERMAN 2 9. THE PHANTOM BAND: THE WANTS 10. !!! (CHK CHK CHK): STRANGE WEATHER ISN’T IT 11. THE SOFT PACK: THE SOFT PACK 12. JIM JONES REVUE: BURNING YOUR HOUSE DOWN 13. ANIKA: ANIKA 14. SERPENTINA SATELITE: MECANICA CELESTE 15. FIELD MUSIC: FIELD MUSIC (MEASURE) 16. MOON DUO: ESCAPE 17. CARIBOU: SWIM 18. VOICE OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS: VOICE OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS 19. SALEM: KING NIGHT 20. THESE NEW PURITANS HIDDEN

Abigail If I’m really going to fall for an album, it has to woo me with sad melodies, a unique production aesthetic and a certain lyrical cut and thrust. But even more importantly, perhaps, there must be mystery. Some records have it, some don’t. Field Music’s “Field Music (Measure)” pushes all my buttons. I think I’ll be listening to it for years.

Another favourite this year was ESP Institute’s ‘Concentration Vol 1’. It’s a gorgeous collage of tweaked film scores, cinematic jazz and disco noir. Music for night people. I loved the recent BBE re-issue 7”of SSO Orchestra’s classic ‘Faded Lady’. The instrumental version on the B-side sounds like Becker and Fagan jamming with Love Unlimited Orchestra. I shit you not.

2010 also saw the discreet re-emergence of Manchester’s minimalist maestro J.S. Zeiter. He put out the fourth instalment in his acclaimed JS series, plus an ace twelve on Styrax Leaves. Great news for people like me who love astoundingly produced techno that ‘doesn’t really do much’. Finally I’d like to thank Pip, Boggy, Holly and Cheryl for all the over-the-counter banter, not to mention the Piccadilly Records A-Team for being the nicest people I’ve ever worked with.

Andy Thanks to all our regular shop customers; you know who you are! Music addicts, just like us, on the never-ending search. Life well spent! Record Store Day seemed to cater for the second tier of music casualties: everyone else reading this, probably! It was a wonderful day and a massive success. Makes you realise that this shop really is something to be treasured.

Happy Christmas everyone.

We’d be nowhere fast without good records though, and what a phenomenal year this was. My number one album is by a little known Scottish group who released stuff on the decidedly more famous Sarah Records, over twenty years ago. Early Primal Scream were their biggest influence, and gentle, mega-tuneful, jangle groove pop their sound. Like a melancholy, shambling Stone Roses, this band was adored by the few that cared about them. Slim sales, zero fame, day jobs, families: to return after so long, with their best album yet, is absolutely astounding. They have defied one of The Great Rules Of Pop, and I know it sounds crazy, but you can only conclude one thing: for The Orchids it can only be, it has to be, it MUST BE THE MUSIC!

STAFF CHARTS

1. FIELD MUSIC: FIELD MUSIC (MEASURE) 2. THE NATIONAL: HIGH VIOLET 3. ASS: SALT MARSH 4. THE SOUNDCARRIERS: CELESTE 5. FOOL’S GOLD: FOOL’S GOLD 6. BLONDES: TOUCHED 7. SHIT ROBOT: FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE 8. ARCADE FIRE: THE SUBURBS 9. THE SOULJAZZ ORCHESTRA: RISING SUN 10. KINGS GO FORTH: THE OUTSIDERS ARE BACK 11. FOUR TET: THERE IS LOVE IN YOU 12. CARIBOU: SWIM 13. CHERRY GHOST: BENEATH THIS BURNING SHORELINE 14. BEI BEI AND SHAWN LEE: INTO THE WIND 15. BEACH HOUSE: TEEN DREAM 16. BILL CALLAHAN: ROUGH TRAVEL FOR A RARE THING 17. THE BESNARD LAKES: THE BESNARD LAKES ARE THE ROARING NIGHT 18. MAVIS STAPLES: YOU ARE NOT ALONE 19. WASHED OUT: LIFE OF LEISURE 20. ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER: RETURNAL

1. THE ORCHIDS: THE LOST STAR 2. RADIO DEPT.: CLINGING TO A SCHEME 3. STEVE MASON: BOYS OUTSIDE 4. FIELD MUSIC: FIELD MUSIC (MEASURE) 5. BROKEN BELLS: BROKEN BELLS 6. HOLLY MIRANDA: THE MAGICIAN’S PRIVATE LIBRARY 7. ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI: BEFORE TODAY 8. THE NATIONAL: HIGH VIOLET 9. CARIBOU: SWIM 10. BEST COAST: CRAZY FOR YOU 11. BEACH HOUSE: TEEN DREAM 12. CEREMONY: ROCKET FIRE 13. THE PHANTOM BAND: THE WANTS 14. THE ALPS: LE VOYAGE 15. GAYNGS: RELAYTED 16. NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB: THE OPTIMIST 17. TAMARYN: THE WAVES 18. KAREN ELSON: THE GHOST WHO WALKS 19. TWIN SISTER: COLOR YOUR LIFE 20. WASHED OUT: LIFE OF LEISURE

Neil 2010 has been an ace year all round. My night El Diablo’s Social Club has seen one of its best years so far with some great little secret parties as well as our regular party at Manchester’s Deaf Institute. The guest highlights for me have been Eric Duncan & Steve Kotey.

The summer months were special too. I was honoured to play at Glastonbury, The Big Chill and The Garden Festival in Croatia for my second year. Our boat Party with Crazy P was once again one of the best gigs of my year. Here’s to seeing friends old and new again next year. This autumn saw the launch of our edits label To Rack & Ruin, which sold out really quickly. The next one is due early next year. I also got my first major remix under my belt with Badly Drawn Boy.

On the listening front there’s lots of great music running through my mind. At home I have been getting down to Sun Araw, Gayngs, Four Tet and Field Music. In the car I’ve been mostly nodding my head round Old Trafford to the Medicine show mixtapes from Madlib. The Onra LP and the awesome Tensnake compilation.

Paul An album missing, amongst others, from the list is Midlake – “The Courage of Others”. Whilst a great album it didn’t make the cut but I did make the short journey to Liverpool to watch them play in The Williamson Tunnels. A truly stunning gig and a perfect way to start the year.

Talking of gigs yet again my out-of-work time has mainly been spent at the Deaf Institute with its live line-up and club nights being the envy of most clubs in the country. Now Wave, Wot God Forgot and Hey! Manchester promoters continue to excel putting on some of the best shows in town. A special highlight being Gil Scot-Heron at the Opera House who somehow forgot to play a single song from his new album. If a trip to London wasn’t bad enough Erykah Badu managed to make it worse by being spectacularly awful at Brixton Academy. Electric Elephant in Croatia was even better than I remember the first year. Though I lost all my photos from my phone due to being drunk and near water. A rescheduled LCD Soundsystem gig at Tripod, Dublin was fantastic. Who knew a volcano in Iceland would affect my plans this year?!

STAFF CHARTS

1. CARIBOU: SWIM 2. ONRA: LONG DISTANCE 3. LCD SOUNDSYTEM: THIS IS HAPPENING 4. FOUR TET: THERE IS LOVE IN YOU 5. SUN ARAW: ON PATROL 6. GAYNGS: RELAYTED 7. ALOE BLACC: GOOD THINGS 8. MATTHEW DEAR: BLACK CITY 9. FIELD MUSIC: FIELD MUSIC (MEASURE) 10. BROKEN BELLS: BROKEN BELLS 11. GONJASUFI: A SUFI AND A KILLER 12. GIL SCOTT-HERON: I’M NEW HERE 13. THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS: THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS 14. !!! (CHK CHK CHK): STRANGE WEATHER ISN’T IT? 15. SHIT ROBOT: FROM THE CRADLE TO THE RAVE 16. WOLF + LAMB: LOVE SOMEONE 17. TORO Y MOI: CAUSERS OF THIS 18. MIDLAKE: THE COURAGE OF OTHERS 19. BEACH HOUSE: TEEN DREAM 20. BATHS: CERULEAN

1. FIELD MUSIC: FIELD MUSIC (MEASURE) 2. GIL SCOTT-HERON: I’M NEW HERE 3. ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI: BEFORE TODAY 4. SLEIGH BELLS: TREATS 5. TORO Y MOI: CAUSERS OF THIS 6. WASHED OUT: LIFE OF LEISURE 7. ALOE BLACC: GOOD THINGS 8. SHIT ROBOT: FROM THE CRADLE TO THE RAVE 9. BROKEN BELLS: BROKEN BELLS 10. CHILLY GONZALES: IVORY TOWER 11. FOUR TET: THERE IS LOVE IN YOU 12. CARIBOU: SWIM 13. THE NATIONAL: HIGH VIOLET 14. DELPHIC: ACOLYTE 15. NEON INDIAN: PSYCHIC CHASMS 16. THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS: THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS 17. GAYNGS: RELAYTED 18. KAREN ELSON: THE GHOST WHO WALKS 19. BEST COAST: CRAZY FOR YOU 20. ALEX BLEEKER AND THE FREAKS: ALEX BLEEKER AND THE FREAKS

James Holroyd 1. KYLIE AUDIST: IN A WEEK IN A DAY (TRU THOUGHTS12”) 2. TWIN SISTER: COLOR YOUR LIFE (INFINITE BEST LP) 3. INSTRA:MENTAL: END CREDITS (NONPLUS 10”) 4. ARIEL PINKS HAUNTED GRAFFITTI: BEFORE TODAY (4AD LP) 5. LAKE HEARTBEAT: TRUST IN NUMBERS (SERVICE LP) 6. EVIL K’NEIL: TO RACK AND RUIN 1 (12”) 7. STORM QUEEN: LOOK RIGHT THROUGH (ENVIRON 12”) 8. MASCARA: GOLDEN YEARS (HOMOPHONO 7”) 9. GEORGE SMALLWOOD: MR SUNSHINE (SMALLWOOD 7”) 10. MANUAL: DROWNED IN LIGHT (MAKE MINE MUSIC LP) 11. LUCA C AND BRIGANTE: TAKES YOU HIGHER VOL 1 12. TAMARYN: THE WAVES (MEXICAN SUMMER) 13. MAXESSA: PANARAMA SUITE (IIB12”) 14. AEROPLANE: WE CAN’T FLY (ESKIMO 12”) 15. SAM SALLON: YOU MAY NOT MEAN TO HURT ME (FASCINATING RHYTHMS 12’)

Jon Savage VARIOUS: TOTAL 11 KOMPAKT SAMPLER ANDREW THOMAS: BETWEEN BUILDINGS AND TREES LLOYD MILLER: A LIFETIME IN ORIENTAL JAZZ FOUR TET: THERE IS LOVE IN YOU CARIBOU: SWIM ENDLESS BOOGIE: FOCUS LEVEL ENDLESS BOOGIE: FULL HOUSE HEAD EDWARD LARRY GORDON: CELESTIAL VIBRATIONS DAVID STOUGHTON: TRANSFORMER PHAELEH: FALLEN LIGHT Y NIWL (N WALES SURF MUSIC: LITERALLY, ‘THE FOG’) VARIOUS: A POT OF FLOWERS 1966 SAN FRANCISCO MAINSTREAM SAMPLER MGMT: CONGRATULATIONS TAME: IMPALA PANDIT PRAN NATH: MIDNIGHT RAGA MALKAUNS EWAN PEARSON: WE ARE PROUD OF OUR CHOICES BGM BACKGROUND MUSIC (1980 JAPANESE MINIMAL SYNTH) TRAD GRAS OCH STENAR: LIVE 1972 (SWEDISH HIPPIE JAMS) WITCH (WE INTEND TO CAUSE HAVOC): LAZY BONES VARIOUS: DIRTY SPACE DISCO

Paul Murphy (Claremont 56) SMITH & MUDD: THE SURVEYOR FOUR HANDS: HIZOU MAXIMILLION DUNBAR: COOL WATER LP STUPID HUMAN: FAR OUT GYPSY JAMES CHANCE & THE CONTORTIONS: INCORRIGIBLE (LIV SPENCER AND DJ SPUN MIX) MUDD & POLLARD: VINCENT TIAGO: MOTORCYCLES JUNIP: FIELDS BEGIN: OPTICAL HOLIDAY BISON: WAY TO LA VARIOUS: ORIGINALS VOLUME 3 (SEAN P) FRESHRO!: PACIFIC STATE

Prins Thomas 10 ALBUMS 1. DUNGEN: SKIT I ALLT 2. ASS: SALT MARSH 3. PETER’S HOUSE MUSIC: JUMP 4. MANDRÉ: MANDRÉ 4 5. BJØRN TORSKE: KOKNING 6. PAT METHENY: ORCHESTRION 7. ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFITTI: BEFORE TODAY 8. DOUGLAS QUIN: FATHOM 9. ANDREW GRAHAM & SWARMING BRANCH: ANDREW GRAHAM’S GOOD WORD 10. MGMT: CONGRATULATIONS

GUEST DJ CHARTS Leo Zero 1. ONI AYHUN: OAR003-B 2. JOE WORRICKER: BOBBY BLUE (LISSVIK REMIX) 3. THE XX: NIGHT TIME (GREG WILSON REMIX) 4. COCKNBULLKID: HOLD ON TO YOUR MISERY (LISSVIK REMIX V1) 5. M ICHEL SARDOU: AFRIQUE ADIEU-MICKEY (RE-VIEW) 6. DARWIN DEEZ: CONSTELLATIONS 7. WOLFMOTHER: WHITE FEATHER (TIEDYE REMIX) 8. JJ: ARE YOU STILL IN VALLDA? (LEGOBEAT OCEANS REMIX) 9. DAZ I KUE: DNS_GOODBYE NEVER_INST (LIL’ BANGERS) 10. DACO: SOMETHING FOR YOU

11. SIA: YOU’VE CHANGED 12. LO-FI-FNK: MARCHIN’ IN 13. RALF GUM FEAT. KAFELE: COMPLICATED (RAW ARTISTIC SOUL DUB) 14. LAUREN: STUCK (SO SHIFTY REMIX) 15. THE ROLLING STONES: HEAVEN (SUNSHINE JONES RE-EDIT) 16. ARNAUD LE TEXIER: PERFUMES OF OUR DEAD TIMES (IT’S 2 PM AT PANORAMA DELETE’S REMIX) 17. EGYPTIAN HIP HOP: WILD HUMAN CHILD 18. ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI: ROUND AND ROUND 19. JAVELIN: SUSIE CUES 20. THE HOT RATS: LOVE IS THE DRUG

Neil Scott (Evil K’Neil / El Diablo’s Social Club) 1. TRY TO FIND ME: GET TO MY BABY (GOLF CHANNEL) 2. TENSNAKE: COMA CAT (PERMANENT VACATION) 3. RON’S EDITS: SERIOUS (W+L BLACK) 4. CLEO & PATRA: ON THE NILE EP (EDITAINMENT) 5. M IDNIGHT MAGIC: BEAM ME UP (PERMANENT VACATION) 6. EVIL K’NEIL: TO RACK & RUIN VOL 1 (TO RACK & RUIN) 7. ZEV: DON’T BREAK IT (WOLF + LAMB) 8. DR DUNKS: EVERYBODY GET NONE (KEEP IT CHEAP) 9. AEROPLANE: WE CAN’T FLY (WALL OF SOUND) 10. M ICHOACAN: IN THE DARK OF NIGHT (CLAP RULES REMIX) (DFA)

11. MARCUS MARR: WELL ALRIGHT (NEW FINGER) 12. BEGIN: OPTICAL HOLIDAY PART 1&2 (BEGIN) 13. BOTTIN: EAGLE / STORK (PERSEO) 14. FCL: VOCAL’S FOR EVERYONE EP (WE PLAY HOUSE) 15. BUBBLE CLUB: VIOLET MORNING MOON (DR DUNKS REMIX) (BUBBLE CLUB) 16. J USTIN VANDERVOLGEN: CLAPPING SONG (GOLF CHANNEL) 17. TORNEDO WALLACE: BE MY LADYBOY (SLEAZY BEATS RECORDINGS) 18. JOHNNY DYNELL: JAM HOT (TENSNAKE REMIX) (SMASH HIT MUSIC) 19. STORM QUEEN: LOOK RIGHT THROUGH (ENVIRON) 20. SAN SODA: VOOR DE SFEER (WE PLAY HOUSE)

Prins Thomas 10 SINGLES DOC SEVERINSEN: BE WITH YOU (DJ HARVEY EDIT) (PACIFIC BEACH RECORDING COMPANY) CARIBOU: SUN (DOMINO) JUSTIN VANDERVOLGEN: CLAPPING SONG/SHEEBOOYAH (GOLF CHANNEL) VARIOUS: ESP INSTITUTE CONCENTRATION VOL.1(ESP) SKATEBÅRD: WAY OUT/WHY NOT? (TOTALLY/SEX TAGS UFO) LONE: ANGEL BRAIN(MAGIC WIRE RECORDINGS)10” JICHAEL MACKSON: A SNAKE IN DA SYSTEM (ILIAN TAPE) GUNNAR WENDEL: 578 (FXHE) BUBBLE CLUB: VIOLET MORNING MOON (DR DUNKS REMIX) (BUBBLE CLUB) FLORIN BÜECHEL: STARGAZER (MATHEMATICS) Booklet design: www.markbrownstudio.co.uk