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it was grrrrreat! you guys have listed tons of good shit, there are too many 'favorite' songs for me this year but I should list off some albums at least

Best CDs

House - Satoshi Tomiie Masters Series Part 9, Luke Fair Balance 11, Nick Warren GU 30

Techno - Ellen Allien Fabric 34, Guy Gerber - Late Bloomers, Digweed - Transitions 2 & 3

Trance - John 00 Fleming Unfold (best trance cd i've heard in a long time)

I heard the amazing music from Thom Yorke - The Eraser and Apparat - Walls this year. My favorite producers have been Jim Rivers, Shlomi Aber, Guy Gerber, Jimpster, 16BL and Prydz. James Holden threw down an amazing 3 hour set somewhere, forget the name but I listen to it all the time.

I know I'm late to the party but also this year thanks to Little Miss Sunshine I've discovered Sufjan Stevens, dear lord that guy is amazing.

Probably a lot more I'm forgetting but these were some highlights.

Lowlights: that the way things are going, in a year or two, tech house, my favorite style to DJ will probably be played out and hated.

Elements of Life, ASOT 07

farty bassline songs with no soul being hugely popular

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Originally posted by AustralianGQ 2007 was a really good year for trance, alot of good stuff came out, this coming from a loyal trance listener, unlike most house bandwaggoners but we wont go into that.

Dude I love trance but c'mon it basically sucked this year. Am I a bandwagoner? perhaps but no way can I stick to spinning trance when there is soooo much better shit out there.

* Finally got to see the Basic Channel-guys. Caught em in their Rhythm & Sound guise alongside Tikiman, which definitely stood out from pretty much everything else I've heard this year.

* Got to experience dubstep at its most energetic and vibrant by attending DMZ's 2nd birthday.

* Lost ANOTHER chance to see Underworld. This is the third time now. I'm starting to wonder if I will ever catch them at this rate.

* Growing distaste for scenes in general. Fanboyism, rat race for tunes just to have the newest shit, DJs underestimating their audience to stay in line with the expectations from the "scene", you name it.

* Bought more leftfield/experimental releases and less dancefloor music.

* Increasingly displeased with techno and its nose dive into pointless minimalism for the sake of minimalism and noisy gimmicks. Ironically, now that it has slowed down to around 130 BPM and can be mixed with house tunes, it seems to be more popular than ever.

* Made mixes to "prove a point", such as making trance mixes without 2 minute breakdowns and supersaws at every angle and an actual electro mix now that "electro" is getting thrown around so much.

10 releases I liked that came out this year:

Flying Lotus - Reset
Cylob - Bounds Green
VA - Soundboy Punishments
Peter Broderick - Retreat / Release
The Caretaker - Deleted Scenes / Forgotten Dreams
Distance - My Demons
Fanu - Daylightless
Tetsu Inoue - Inland
Moving Ninja - Formations
Substanz T - Beyond E

it's been a weird year. The good has been exceptionally good and the bad has been really bad.

Pretty much branched into 4 ways

trance/progressive
rock
drum&bass
classics

trance wise, have really enjoyed the use by some artists of acid lines, they're totally missed from tracks now. Years highlights include albums from gaudium, vibasphere, solar fields, the vibasphere remixed cd and as always some quality compilations in progtrance/proghouse/trance from the usual labels. More well known label wise, props for a fairly good year to j00f, subtraxx & propulsion.

rock. serj tankian, foo fighters, the pigeon detectives, the hoosiers, air traffic etc. Also saw serj & the foos live. seriously amazing. dave grohl is the master of crowd interaction. I can't explain how good it was because it won't show you the real truth.

d&b
hospital records: nuff said. nu:tone, matrix & futurebound, high contrast. easy to listen to, full of rhythmn, bass and without mcs

classics

need no introduction. dawnseekers, art of trance, oliver lieb, etc etc


and Sand Leaper's points need reading over & over. He played a wicked set 2/3 weeks ago of trance

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Originally posted by jupiterone Clovis/Bas are always fantastic, though Clovis should record more concept sets in 08

I've been exploring the worlds of post-rock, ambient-post-rock, shoegaze and electronica/IDM even more. There were some superb/amazing/sublime/exquisite(lol) post-rock albums coming out in 2007. This is a great time for music people. Its like the 70s all-over again (the prog-rock era and stuff)! Some HUGE post-rock/ambient/neo-shoegaze/IDM albums in no particular order:

Hammock- "Raising Your Voice...Trying To Stop an Echo",

Explosions in the Sky- "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone",

Port-Royal- "Afraid To Dance",

Caspian- "The Four Trees",

God is an Astronaut- "Far From Refugee",

Lights Out Asia- "Tanks and Recognizers",

This Will Destroy You- "This Will Destroy You" (well this is oficially for 2008, but tunes on myspace are like heaven on earth...lol)

Tunturia- "Maps",

Olafur Arnalds- "Eulogy For Evolution"

M83- "Digital Shades vol. 1"

Eluvium- "Copia"

Grails- "Burning Off Impurities"

Yndi Halda- "Enjoy Eternal Bliss"

Apparat- "Walls"

The Twilight Sad- "Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters"

and probably others that i can't remember...


and Yeah, ulrich schnauss' new album wasn't good at all...
On the EDM side of things, in 2007 there were some fantastic techno albums which were: (in order of preference)


1) The Field- "From Here We Go Sublime"

2) Guy Gerber- "Late Bloomers"

3) Aril Brikha- "Ex-Machina"

4) Guy Buratto- "Chromophobia"

5) Joris Voorn- "From A Deep Place"

6) Slam- "Human Response"

7) Donnacha Costello- "Colorseries"

8) Thomas Fehlmann- "Honigpumpe"

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Originally posted by jupiterone Jeremy Rogers tracks are fuckin' blasting all the time. Don't think I hear one bad tune from Jer this year.

+1
This dude pretty much got me into more techy and edgier prog and a nice dude to boot.

Basically this year, I've gotten more into prog house and a bit of tech house, exploring various aspects. This went well with my DJing creed of not being limited by genre, so I opened up my mind more, and appreciated various aspects of prog, esp. uplifting, trancey prog house.

Was disappointed by trance in general, but better than last year IMO. Stephen J Kroos, Thomas Bronzwaer and Stoneface & Terminal IMO had a decent year. Though it seems that more synthy, euphoric, anthem type of trance is making a bit of comeback, so we'll see what 2008 brings.

Generally loved:
Desyn Masiello
Markus Schulz
Luke Fair
Fine Taste
John Digweed
The Timewriter
16bit Lolitas
Eric Prydz

Best show of the year was Daft Punk

Also props to some TA DJs: bas & clovis for mindfucking sets, ANF for fucked up techno (and I hate the bleepy shit), nefardec for grooviness, any DJ that made a deep house set, lucid and her sets that somehow makes her distinctive than other DJs on that forum and Mr Rogers for techier and edgier prog.

This year I've been more and more critical on what I consider good music. I'm listening to various form of electronic music since 1990 and I have less and less patience toward music that I think does not have some depth and some lasting power. As I don't spin in public I have no obligation to get trendy stuff the crowd expect. I also like things that push thing forward but not at all cost to the detriment of the music.
Hopefully, after lots and lots of digging, I still found good music but I should say that the amount of useless music going nowhere is very high (hello mnml).

I understand most of what's released is just destined to last 3 month on the dancefloor and then forgotten and that it might work well in this context, but it's not what I am looking for.

This is definitely the year of the revival of dub techno but while there where a few good releases this got boring quick as it stuck a bit too much to the formula...

After all those year my passion to listening to new stuff is intact and I'm very happy when I find something great.

Here's my favorite list of release this year in no particular order, from techno to house to (real) electtro, mostly detroit influenced:

Albums

- Arne Weinberg - Path of the gods (AW Recordings)
- Quince - En.vi.sion (Delsin)
- James Pennington Presents Dark Energy - Collided Energy (UWe)
- The Black Dog - Book Of Dogma (Soma)
- DJ Jus-Ed - Unity Kolabo (Underground Quality)
- Eddie Fowlkes - Welcome to My World (Submerge)
- Neil Landstrumm - Restaurant Of Assassins (Planet Mu)
- Mark Williams - You can't hide what you truly feels (Subject Detroit)


Singles

- Alex W AKA Protector Hood - Metropolis EP (32 Hard)
- Andy Vaz - Humanization (Yore)
- Destamok Phelps - Headthirds (Simphonic Silence Inside)
- E.R.P - Vox Automation (Frustrated Funk)
- Grandcru - Friday Night, Standard Night EP (Eevonext)
- John Daly - Freak Out Or Get Out EP (Wave Music)
- Matt Chester - Desert Shift (Eleventh Hour)
- Pendle Coven - Habitual Stress EP (Modern Love)
- Silicon - Sonic Rescue (Frustrated Funk)
- Trolley Route vs. Arcanoid - Zero / Detroit City (Minuendo)
- Gareth Duprey - The Tempest (Wildub)
- Arne Weinberg - Parabolum (AW Recordings)
- Nick Chacona - Eagle City (Internasjonal)
- Simon Flower - The Whisper Had It (Poker Flat)
- Various - My Music Is My Space (Statik 23)
- DJ Gourachandra - Show U the way EP (Itiswhatitis)

Overhyped album of the year

- Burial - Untrue (no competition in this category)

deadmau5, producer of the year!

Samim - Heater = TRACK OF THE YEAR!!!!

And I think the best Dj of the year award goes to (HANDS DOWN) Jelo.

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Originally posted by PETRAN This Will Destroy You- "This Will Destroy You" (well this is oficially for 2008, but tunes on myspace are like heaven on earth...lol)

Fucking A...thanks for that find. "Burial On The Presidio Banks" is killer. What's their best tracks/album?

Is there other bands you or anyone else can recommend with similar style?

Got further away from trance. Only rememberable tune is Shaun Dark - Albino. Been listening to more Proghouse and minimal/techno, but mostly non-edm (Discovered 16 Horsepwer )

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Originally posted by Clovis You still here? Talking about bandwaggoners? As if most of us spend countless hours searching for tracks and records we like, paying money to see DJs we enjoy, putting time and effort into mixes full of "house" music, just to join the bandwaggon, JUST so we can come on little old tranceaddict and have different music taste than Australian GQ, so that we can all tell him his taste sucks. Yes. Thats exactly why I love house (and all those other genres you might not be familiar with). Do fuck off already. Really. We're all tired of it. Or at LEAST, at the very least, stop making completely asinine statements such as these. It really boggles my mind that after you've been shown that no one likes you here, you'll keep digging, and keep picking at the scab with stupid posts like this... And yes, we will get into that, because you just opened up the can of worms yourself...

i agree with the guy below you, settle down. i threw out a pretty open ended statement, i never specifically said who i was referring too. so why are u freaking out?

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Originally posted by Clovis Nope, sorry, I'm bored at work and I'm tired of putting up with this guy's retarded posts every single god damn day.

then if u are tired of it, dont comment at all. what? cant find a bettr way to make use of ur time at work then to whine and complain?

why dont u actually DO WORK, or is that too much for u.

Mine was good, towards the end of the year I finally broke my habit of just listening to the same old GU and Bedrock CDs and got into some electro, tech and minimal. Still feel out of my depth with the amount of music but I suppose I always will.

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Originally posted by AustralianGQ i threw out a pretty open ended statement, i never specifically said who i was referring too.

Exactly, this way you could just round us all up into one bunch in a single quick sweep.

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then if u are tired of it, dont comment at all. what? cant find a bettr way to make use of ur time at work then to whine and complain? why dont u actually DO WORK, or is that too much for u.

Because I will take every opportunity you present me with that allows me to expose you as a complete and utter knob. Also, I don't have a clue how old you are, but pretty much everyone on TA posts from work, rarely does anyone work a job which has 0 downtime, and finally, thats a stupid argument anyway, but something typical of you, since that was the LEAST important issue my post raised.

As further notice, anytime you make a dumbass remark like that in the future, expect me to be right there to chew you up and spit you back out in similar fashion, it's far too easy, and far too much fun to pass up... Either that, or start acting with respect, though I doubt you could inject any back into your reputation on here, since it has pretty much gone to shit...

I might edit this to make sure it is the caliber of other posts in this thread later, but for now let me explain it very simply.

I dove in.

Before this year I was just an internet nerd. I was a bedroom DJ listening to nothing but livesets. But with a move to Atlanta, getting somehow stuck with the best promoters (and friends) I'll ever find, and actually getting out and doing what I had come to love, this year has indefinitely sealed itself as the best year of my life. I've done so much in so little time, that I can't fully post it all here. Thank you to everyone, and you know who you are.

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Originally posted by iammesol I might edit this to make sure it is the caliber of other posts in this thread later, but for now let me explain it very simply. I dove in. Before this year I was just an internet nerd. I was a bedroom DJ listening to nothing but livesets. But with a move to Atlanta, getting somehow stuck with the best promoters (and friends) I'll ever find, and actually getting out and doing what I had come to love, this year has indefinitely sealed itself as the best year of my life. I've done so much in so little time, that I can't fully post it all here. Thank you to everyone, and you know who you are.

awwwww, what a sweet post.

p.s. you're still an internet nerd

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Originally posted by l�cid awwwww, what a sweet post.

Hey, who said you had anything to do with it?

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Originally posted by l�cid p.s. you're still an internet nerd

Well... i mean...



yeah.

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Originally posted by iammesol Hey, who said you had anything to do with it?

hey man, i know i'm a nobody. i was saying "sweet post"... in general.

*runs away and cries*

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Originally posted by l�cid *runs away and cries*

mind the velcro on the walls and the obscene amount of balled up tube socks I've readied.

tube socks are a major turn-on.

This has definitely been the year for The Timewriter and Plastic City Records. Their 'Soulstickers' album was absolutely fantastic. There has been a whole heap of great compilations from Plastic City this year. In fact, The Timewriter was what got me into Deep House
Another artist worth mentioing is Hiroshi Watanabe.

Other compilations/albums worth mentioning are:

Trafik - Club Trafikana
Sultan - Yoshitoshi Montreal
Nick Warren - GU 30
Luke Fair - Balance 011

Other than that prog house still remains to be pretty non existent. Still alot of electro house shit being played by Dj's however not neally as much as back in 2006, thank fuck.

As for trance - it is continuing its downward spiral into a cheesy mould of utter shit.

Armin, Ferry, Tiesto and all those idiots continue to produce boring, uninspiring and predicitable tunes with little or no thought put into their work whatsoever.
Also, most tunes seem to have taken on the tech sounding bassline trend which sounds absolutely awefull. The biggest offenders of this category is probably Nic Chargall and Richard Durand. I hate Durand so much that he is an abomination. I can't beleive they call this shit trance.

This year I wasonly interested in sets done by will Holland, John Askew and Matt Hardwick. They are just about the only Dj's that still spin listenable uplifting and melodic trance.
Production wise I think Airwave has done some good work with his latest Lolo album 'One plus One Equal Three' as well as Miika Kuisma's 'Sententia although a bit tomm any chill out tracks for my liking but overall not a bad artist album.

Disappointing year for me, I can't exactly put my finger on why... maybe the weak showing of my 2 core genres, trance and prog... even though I can say I have diversified a bit in the type of EDM I listen to, mostly out of necessitation.

-Everything is blending into one another... minimal/house/electro/prog/tech house all using the same sounds and lacking the "depth"/atmosphere that prog used to have. No genre is safe from those farty analog basslines, not even Trance!
-Tempos slowed down all across the board, 128bpm seems the average now.
-I just couldn't get into Sasha's sets at all (with the exception of his "Thank You" mix from a show in Romania), which is a shame since I've always considered him one of my all-time favorites.
-Diggers, after the too-quirky Transitions 2, put forth a great Transitions 3 and I'm loving what he's doing with the radio show.
-Tiesto had a pretty good year, though I didn't care much for some of his poppier tracks.
-Not too much grabbed me this year on the trance side of things, Lemon and Einar K - Autumn Radicals, Delerium - Angelicus, Breakfast - The Horizon, but too much generic vocal songs. Was listening to a lot of trance from prior years.
-Not much in the way of progressive came out this year, for a period of time I found myself going back and listening to nothing but mix albums and sets from 2003-2004 when melodic prog/breaks was the order of the day.
-Too much in the way of overhyped, boring minimal. Ribcage being the quintessential example.
-Good year for deep house and melodic techno - Joris Voorn, Timewriter, Dennis DeSantis, Ame, Funk D'Void/Francois Dubois. Will probably end up being the next "big" thing that the bandwagon jumpers migrate onto as the minimal ship starts to sink.
-Listened to quite a bit of electro and poppy/commercial house this summer, I haven't really been into this sound since 2000 or so.
-Started warming up to Dubstep and Grime, Burial being the obvious highlight. The atmosphere and complexity of progressive, with the syncopation and vocal cut-up style of 2-step is a match made in heaven for me.
-"Bassline House"... 10 year old Speed Garage coming back in a new guise. If this means a 2-step revival is in order, I'm all for it!
-Towards the end of the year, the melody in prog seems to be coming back... people are starting to get fed up with the minimal sound.
-Eelke Kleijn and 16-Bit Lolitas did big things this year for me, and I can't get enough of the Pryda sound.

For some reason, I think 2008 is gonna be a good year, with melody being more important, tempos diversifying, and hopefully some dormant genres (banging techno, 2-step, melodic prog) will be revived.

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Originally posted by Stanza As for trance - it is continuing its downward spiral into a cheesy mould of utter shit. Armin, Ferry, Tiesto and all those idiots continue to produce boring, uninspiring and predicitable tunes with little or no thought put into their work whatsoever. Also, most tunes seem to have taken on the tech sounding bassline trend which sounds absolutely awefull. The biggest offenders of this category is probably Nic Chargall and Richard Durand. I hate Durand so much that he is an abomination. I can't beleive they call this shit trance. This year I wasonly interested in sets done by will Holland, John Askew and Matt Hardwick. They are just about the only Dj's that still spin listenable uplifting and melodic trance. Production wise I think Airwave has done some good work with his latest Lolo album 'One plus One Equal Three' as well as Miika Kuisma's 'Sententia although a bit tomm any chill out tracks for my liking but overall not a bad artist album.

I'd expand on a few other DJ's in that category (uplifting/melodic part) but generally speaking you hit the nail on the head.

2007 was a rebirth for me in terms of EDM. This year I started off with seeing Paul Van Dyk in central park over the summer... amazing show. Met some great people. I think 2008 has some great times in store for it.

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