2012 - End of Year Chart

The year is drawing to a close, so here is a thing:

Best Music of 2012

(in no real order)

The Weeknd - Trilogy
How To Dress Well - Total Loss
Clams Casino - Instrumental Mixtape 2
Zammuto - Zammuto
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Xiu Xiu - Always
Traxman - Da Mind Of Traxman
Slime Code - Sculpture
Liars - WIXIW
Rusko - Songs
XXYYXX - Mystify
Vatican Shadow - Kneel Before Religious Icons
Demdike Stare - Elemental
LHF - Keepers of the Light
Nathan Fake - Steam Days
Metro Zu - MINK RUG
XXL - Düde
JJ DOOM - Keys to the Kuffs
Holy Other - Held
Gaslamp Killer - Breakthrough
Filastine - LOOT
Dudes - Dudes Finds The Higgs Boson
Fantastic Mr. Fox - San'en
Boys Noize - Out of the Black
The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald)
SKVLL•P∆R†¥ - Noctuary


My Most Listened to Track of 2012:

The Weeknd - Same Old Song


Best gig:

Chilly Gonzales with the BBC Symphony Orchestra @ The Barbican


That's it.  Join me in 2013 for more of the same

Previous charts:

2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003

CRITICAL BEST - WORK IN PROGRESS

As the collab I've been working on is pretty much finished (we're just finalising the artwork), I thought it was time to start making music as Critical Best again

Here's the first new CB material in nearly 2 years. Still very much a work in progress, though (and I've not even heard it through speakers yet!)...

http://soundcloud.com/criticalbest/primacy-work-in-progress 

SOON

http://www.last.fm/music/Burning+Prisma

Scottish Rap

An old college mate now runs a magazine / review site, which recently done a feature on Scottish Rap (where he mentioned my old documentary).  Check it out:

http://flickermagazine.co.uk/features/scottishrap.html

ME Versus PITBULL

While I was working on my (our) new stuff, I got a so much RnB stuck in my head, I had to do this:

And you can download it here, too:

http://soundcloud.com/nolikecrumbs/marco-van-bastard-pitbull-give

Enjoy

HAPPY LANDING

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