Liked: Arctic Wave Records, Ultimae Records, Mojuba, Soma Quality Recordings, Cadenza, Hospital Records, GU Music, Burial, Joris Voorn, Luke Vibert, Marc Marzenit, Long Range, Lawrence, The Timewriter, Paul Kalkbrenner, Bola, Ulrich Schnauss, Aril Brikha, Âme

Not so much: Border Community, Kompakt, Dopplereffekt, The Tuss, Amon Tobin, Apparat, Eelke Kleijn, Gui Boratto, SuperMayer, Pryda, 16 Bit Lolita's

Hated: Kompakt Extra, Get Physical Music, Voigt brothers (especially Wolfgang), Oliver Lieb, From Here We Go Sublime, Nikola Gala, John Dahlbäck and all the others who released tons of faceless and unnecessary tracks this year

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.

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* 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

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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

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

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.

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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.

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Originally posted by chinamon not true. i say "ugh" but i am a tranny.

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Originally posted by kotsy lol colour me retarded

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?

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