en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal The Last.fm journal for AllRoadsLead. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2011/12/30/59m2u1_top_reords_of_2011%2C_according_to_me.. Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:59:10 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2011/12/30/59m2u1_top_reords_of_2011%2C_according_to_me.. O.K., so we again reach another new year. It's somewhat cliché to think that a particular year has been the 'best' for music, what with the many contributing factors that affect such dynamics, however, this one just past certainly contained some of the most amazing music I've ever had the opportunity to hear. It's a shame that I haven't had the time to properly sort this year's list outside of the top 20, or so, but here goes. As usual, each category is sorted only on the basis of an alphabetical order, however, as opposed to 100 records, there is a top 50, plus a top 10 tracks:

Top 20:

Autechre & The Hafler Trio - ah³eo & ha³oe (ae3o3)
Bee Mask - Canzoni dal Labratorio del Silenzio Cosmico/Elegi for Beach Friday
BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa - Big Shadow Montana
Black Swan - The Quiet Divide
Broken Harbour - Gramophone Transmissions
Bvdub - I Remember (translations of Morketid)
Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma
Dustin O'Halloran - Lumiere
Fovea Hex - Here Is Where We Used To Sing
Gazelle Twin - The Entire City
Hauschka - Salon des Amateurs
Jacaszek - Glimmer
Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
Kreng - Grimoire
Mamiffer - Mare Decendrii
Marsen Jules - Nostalgia
Ryan Teague - Causeway
Talvihorros - Descent Into Delta
The Haxan Cloak - The Haxan Cloak
Vampillia - Alchemic Heart


Top 30-50:

A Winged Victory for the Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen
Alexander Turnquist - Hallway of Mirrors
Bass Communion - Cenotaph
Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason - Solaris
Bengalfuel - Toth
Biosphere - N-Plants
Burial Hex - Angelic Gematria
Chelsea Wolfe - Apokalypsis
Chris Watson & Marcus Davidson - Cross-Pollination
Deaf Center - Owl Splinters
Fennesz - Seven Stars
Hauschka & Hildur Guðnadóttir - Pan Tone
Jasper TX - The Black Sun Transmissions
Juv - Juv
Logreybeam - Perhaps
Loops Haunt - Ark
Natural Snow Buildings - Waves Of The Random Sea
Philip Glass - The Concerto Project Vol. IV
Ratatosk - Archipelago Vol. 1
Richard A Ingram - Happy Hour
Steve Reich - Three Movements - The Desert Music
Sunn O))) meets Nurse With Wound - The Iron Soul Of Nothing
Swod - Drei
Tartar Lamb II - Polyimage Of Known Exits
The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1979
Tom Vourtsis - Mothhunting
Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen & Samuli Kosminen - Uniko
Vladislav Delay - Vantaa
Vladislav Delay Quartet - Vladislav Delay Quartet


Top 10 Tracks:

Broken Harbour - Maelstrom (The Descent)
Bvdub - This Place Has Only Known Sadness
Chris Watson - El Divisadero
Dustin O'Halloran - We Move Lightly
Gazelle Twin - I Am Shell I Am Bone
Kreng - Wrak
Ryan Teague -White Nights
Talvihorros - Delta
The Haxan Cloak - The Fall
Vampillia - Sea/Land]]> http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2011/02/03/474dp2_2011_favourites_so_far..updated_somewhat_regularly.. Thu, 3 Feb 2011 18:01:58 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2011/02/03/474dp2_2011_favourites_so_far..updated_somewhat_regularly.. So..A new year, with fresh meat..Here we go again!! Something a little different from my normal pre-best-of 'shortlist', is that I plan on implementing a star-based scoring system to aid with the final list-making process, as such, anything supplemented with stars will be recommended initially, using this basic ranking system..However, if you're anything like me, you'll listen to them all anyways..

@c - Homem Phantasma *****
:sinclair: - 0306 ***
36 - Cocoon/Saphron *****
40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room ***
417.3 - _(-_-)_ *****
82-75 - ëåñ â êîðàáëå *****
*AR - Wolf Notes ***
A Lily - Thunder Ate The Iron Tree *****
A Wake A Week - Through Line *****
Abraham - An Eye On The Universe *
Across Tundras - Sage ***
adamned.age - Fragile **
Aderlating - Spear of Gold and Seraphim Bone *****
Æthenor - En Form For Blå *****
Ahnst Anders - Home ***
Ainara Legardon - We Once Wished ****
Akh-naut - Reptilian Soul Conspiracy ***
Alexander Tucker - Dorwytch *****
Alexander Turnquist - Hallway of Mirrors *****
Álfheimr - What Allows Us To Endure *****
All Teeth - Young Love ***
Alright The Captain - SNIB ***
Altar of Plagues - Mammal ****
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Summvs *****
American Heritage - Sedentary *****
Amon Tobin - ISAM ****
Anthony Paul Kerby and Tomas Weiss - Distant Shadows ****
Antonymes - The Licence To Interpret Dreams ****
Arborea - Red Planet *****
Arctic Whisperings - Óvænt Lán ****
Arms And Sleepers - Nostalgia For The Absolute *****
Austra - Feel It Break ****
Austyn Sullivan - The Inner Demons Swell ***
Bad Mask - Strange Phrases **
Bad Sector - Chronoland ****
Bâton Rouge - Fragments D'eux Mêmes ***
Beau Navire - Life Moves **
Bee Mask - Canzoni Dal Laboratorio Del Silenzio Cosmico *****
Belong - Common Era ****
Biggi Hilmars - Cinematic Songs - ****
Biosphere - N-Plants *****
BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa - Big Shadow Montana *****
Black Swan - The Quiet Divide *****
Blake Carrington - Cathedral Scan *****
Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients ****
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Beileid *****
Boris - New Album ****
Boyce + Matmos + Willits - Subconscious Attraction Strategies ****
Braveyoung - We Are Lonely Animals **
Broadcast sea - Lost Generation ****
Burzum - Fallen ***
Calisota - EP *
Carbon Based Lifeforms - TwentyThree *****
Carousell - Black Swallow & Other Songs ****
Carrion Spring - A Short History Of Decay *****
Cello Fury - Cello Fury ****
Chris Rehm - Worries, etc ***
Cinder And Smoke - Nice Effort, Guys ****
Circle - Infektio *****
Cleared - Cleared *****
Codes in the Clouds - As The Spirit Wanes **
Contemporary Noise Sextet - Ghostwriter's Joke *****
Daniel Striped Tiger - No Difference ****
Dakota Suite - The Hearts of Empty *****
Dakota Suite & Emanuele Errante - The North Green Down *****
David Thomas Broughton - Outbreeding ****
Dead Flesh Fashion - Thorns ****
Dead To A Dying World - Dead To A Dying World *****
Deaf Center - Owl Splinters *****
Deafheaven - Roads To Judah *****
Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights *****
Desert of Hiatus - The Meaning ****
Dredg - Chuckles and Mr Squeezy ***
Dreissk - The Finding *****
Drone Wallah - Caput Mortuum *
Dustin O'Halloran - Lumiere *****
Early & Often - Present No Fiction, Fear No Tense ***
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1 *****
Eisley - The Valley **
ELODIE (Timo van Luijk & Andrew Chalk) - Echos Pastoraux *****
Emanuele Errante - Time Elapsing Handheld *****
Émilie Proulx - Montagnes russes, mini-tsunamis ****
Empusae & Shinkiro - Organic.Aural.Ornaments ***
En plein air - En Plein Air ****
Esmerine - La Lechuza *****
Evan Abeele - Lineage **
Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care ***
Fabio Orsi - Stand Up Before Me, Oh My Soul! **
Fen - Epoch *****
Field Rotation - Acoustic Tales *****
Fires Were Shot - Awakened by a Lonely Feud ***
Flying Hills - Brother ****
Forget The Times - Escape From The Planet Of Lammas *
Former Thieves - The Language That We Speak ****
Four Quartets - The Paragon of Animals ****
Fovea Hex - Here Is Where We Used to Sing *****
François-Emmanuel Fodéré - Cochin *****
Good Weather For An Airstrike - Jigsaws ***
Glasslung - Great White Walls *****
Grails - Deep Politics *****
Grandizer - Like a Fistful of Noise ***
graviton - Massless ****
Grayceon - All We Destroy *****
Grouper - A I A: Dream Loss *****
Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer *****
guy gelem - Tides ****
Haunted Ghost - Not Here to Scare You *****
Heinali - 67 Breaths ***
Herion - Out & About *****
Heretoir - Heretoir **
HOM - La Tomba de Fórgides **
Industries of the Blind - Chapter One: Had We Known Better ***
Iroha - Iroha ***
Ishq - Skyspaces ****
Jasper TX - The Black Sun Transmissions *****
Jenny Hval - Viscera ****
Jérôme Chassagnard - The Time From Underneath ***
Jessica Pavone - Army of Strangers *****
Jowls - Cunt Punch ***
Juanjo Palacios - Portuario *****
Julia Kent - Green and Gray ****
Julian Lynch - Terra *****
Juv - Juv *****
KABOOM KARAVAN - Barra Barra *****
Kashiwa Daisuke - 88 *****
Keith Kenniff - The Last Survivor ****
KEN mode - Venerable ****
Koen Holtkamp - Gravity Bees ****
Koloss - End of the Chayot *
Kontakte - We Move Through Negative Spaces *
Kovlo - Hey Mom, Where's Timbuctu? ***
Kreng - Grimoire *****
Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen & Samuli Kosminen - Uniko *****
Larsen - Cool Cruel Mouth *****
Larsen & Z'ev - In V.Tro *****
Lento - Icon *****
Light Bearer - Lapsus **
Live Footage - Willow Be *****
Liturgy - Aesthetica *****
Logreybeam - Perhaps *****
Lüger - Lüger *****
Lunar Miasma - Gone *****
Lüüp - Meadow Rituals *****
M. Ostermeier - The Rules of Another Small World ***
Mamiffer - Mare Decendrii *****
Maps And Diagrams - Get Lost ****
Marcus Fjellström - Library Music 1 *****
Marsen Jules - Nostalgia *****
Master Musicians of Bukkake - Totem Three *****
Matthew Cooper - Some Days Are Better Than Others ***
Micachu and the Shapes - Chopped & Screwed *****
MØN - Sikfor Harenstrüp In 326 Øllegårt ***
Montreal On Fire - Anima Mvndi ***
Moon - The Light ****
Motion Sickness of Time Travel - A Disembodied Voice In the Darkness ****
Muir - Lay Down In The Light **
My Fictions - Demo ****
Nadja & Galena - Konstruktion *****
Namatjira - Poetry of the Wretched ***
Natural Snow Buildings - Waves of the Random Sea *****
Nico Muhly - Seeing is Believing *****
Non Dolet - Inner *****
Pale Sketcher - Seventh Heaven ***
Panda Bear - Tomboy *****
Planks - Solicit To Fall ****
Pörinä - Ayskari ****
Prefuse 73 - The Only She Chapters ****
Psychomanteum - Oneironaut ****
Ra Cailum - Infinite Value ****
Ratatosk - Archipelago Vol. 1 *****
Revok - Grief Is My New Moniker ***
Richard A Ingram - Happy Hour *****
Saåad - Pink Sabbath E.P. *****
Saåad - Raincoats *****
Seasons (Pre-Din) - Lesser and Still *****
Seefeel - Seefeel ****
Shrinekeeper - H1N1 ***
Slave - Abyss ***
Sleeping Peonies - Ghosts, And Other Things ****
Sleepwalkers - Your Hell Looks Like Heaven To Me ***
Son Lux - We Are Rising ****
Stephan Mathieu - A Static Place ***
Steve Reich - Three Movements - The Desert Music *****
Stuart Sweeney - 16:9 ****
Subrosa - No Help For The Mighty One *****
Sun of Nothing - The Guilt of Feeling Alive **
Tape - Revelationes ****
Tartar Lamb - Polyimage Of Known Exits *****
Tephra - Tempel ****
The Ansion - A Third of Four Rooms ***
The Berg Sans Nipple - Build With Erosion ***
The Haxan Cloak - The Haxan Cloak *****
The Islands and the Sea are Dead - The Islands and the Sea Are Dead **
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Anthropomorphic ***
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - From The Stairwell ****
The Omega Core - Massive Black ****
The One AM Radio - Heaven Is Attached By A Slender Thread ****
The Phantom Carriage - New Thing *****
The Seven Mile Journey - Notes For The Synthesis *****
This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket *****
thisquietarmy - Vessels *****
Thursday - No Devolución ***
Tied & Tickled Trio And Billy Hart - La Place Demon ****
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 *****
Tom Vourtsis - Mothhunting *****
Trap Them - Darker Handcraft *****
True Widow - As High As The Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth *****
Tyler, the Creator - Goblin ****
Ulver - Wars of the Roses *****
Until Your Heart Stops - Errors ****
UUUUUU - The Astral Travels ****
VΛCVVM - Peaceful Atom *****
Vampillia - Alchemic Heart *****
Vampillia - Rule the World/Deathtiny Land *****
Vladislav Delay Quartet - Vladislav Delay Quartet ****
Windmills by the Ocean - II ****
Woodsman - Rare Forms ****
Wreck and Reference - Black Cassette *****
Wye Oak - Civilian *****
ZMG - The Sect ****
Zvoov - Everbrown **]]> http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2011/01/17/45vkxi_beardrock.co.uk%27s_top_10_records_of_2010 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:18:29 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2011/01/17/45vkxi_beardrock.co.uk%27s_top_10_records_of_2010 It's that time of the year again when we can finally see the back of the festive build up, 3 months preparation for a few crap jumpers, some socks and The Lynx shower gel collection. Yeah Humbug alright! Its also the time of year when everyone releases their own super Top Ten's of 2010. So, here is where you will find the list of best 10 albums listened to at some point in the year by the writers of Beard Rock:

1. Bonobo - Black Sands

2. Year of No Light - Ausserwalt

Review: http://beardrock.co.uk/reviews/year-no-light

3. Gallops - Gallops

Review: http://beardrock.co.uk/reviews/gallops

4. Tall Ships - There Is Nothing But Chemistry Here

Review: http://beardrock.co.uk/reviews/tall-ships

5. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Review: http://beardrock.co.uk/gigs/arcade-fire

6. Beach House - Teen Dream

7. The Phantom Band - The Wants

Review: http://beardrock.co.uk/reviews/phantom-band

8. Lanterns On The Lake - lungs quicken ep

9. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

10. Baths - Cerulean]]> http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2010/12/31/44r0v2_top_100_reords_of_2010%2C_according_to_me.. Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:18:35 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2010/12/31/44r0v2_top_100_reords_of_2010%2C_according_to_me.. So..Tis the eve of a new year already, time to present the list culminating from 12 months of aural stimulation..It's construction has been an arduous task yet again, what with this year being my least favourite for quite some time, and also due to the fact that I started compiling quite late in the day, so to speak..But, each of those is a different story than that to be told here, and so without further ado, the following list is divided into three segments, each being sorted on an alphabetical basis alone..The first echelon is composed of my personal favourites, the central list makes up the top 50, being followed by those 50 that will complete the 100..I hope you enjoy, and here's to a fortunate new year for all those that want it!!


A Forest of Stars - Opportunistic Thieves of Spring
Altess - L' homme de Février
Balmorhea - Constellations
Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI
Celeste - Morte(s) Nee(s)
Hidden Orchestra - Night Walks
Land of Talk - Cloak and Cipher
Les Fragments De La Nuit - Demain C'Etait Hier
Midlake - The Courage of Others
Nest - Retold
Ô Paon - Courses
On - Something That Has Form and Something That Does Not
Post Harbor - They can't hurt you if you don't believe in them
Richard A Ingram - Consolamentum
Rome - Nos Chants Perdus
Rose Kemp - Golden Shroud
Rosetta - A Determinism Of Morality
Timbre - Little Flowers
Year of No Light - Ausserwelt
Zoë Keating - Into The Trees

413 - Path to Hocma
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Bonobo - Black Sands
Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante
Dark Dark Dark - Wild Go
Diaphane - Samdhya
Entertainment For The Braindead - Trivialities
General Lee - Roads
Grails - Black Tar Prophecies Vol.4
Hauschka - Foreign Landscapes
Heinali & Matt Finney - Lemonade
Hildur Guðnadóttir - Mount A
I Pilot Dæmon - Come What May
iLiKETRAINS - He Who Saw The Deep
Janus - I Am Not
Lisa Gerrard & Marcello De Francisci - Departum
Loscil - Endless Falls
Marcus Fjellström - Schattenspieler
Mike Armine - Verse
My Education - Sunrise
Not To Reason Why - Would You Hug Fire
Picastro - Become Secret
Portraits of American Firing Squads - The Eternal Fear
Radare - Infinite Regress
Sophie Hutchings - Becalmed
Slow Six - Tomorrow Becomes You
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
The Monroe Transfer - Trials
Undermathic - 10:10PM
Wive - Pvll

Aesthesys - Lacus Hiemalis
Alcest - Écailles de Lune
Arroyo - Arroyo
Bardo Pond - s/t
Bass Communion - Reprocessed By 36
Bitcrush - Of Embers
Capitalism is just another dying breed - s/t
Carbonscape - Artistry of Exhaustion
Cecilia::Eyes - Here Dead We Lie
Daníel Bjarnason - Processions
Dryft - Ventricle
EF - Mourning Golden Morning
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
Envy - Recitation
Epigram - Reverie
Gnaw - This Face
Goldmund - Famous Places
Hadoken - Luminary
Heaven In Her Arms - Paraselene
Heirs - Fowl
Hellas Mounds - New Heaven/New Earth
Holy Fuck - Latin
Humanfly - Darker Later
Imbogodom - The Metallic Year
Island - s/t
Jarboe - Primal Baroque Experiment
Julia Kent - Last Day in July
Kasan - s/t
Kazan - Maslow 0
Kerretta - Vilayer
Khuda - Palingenesia
Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
Les Discrets- Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées
Max Richter - Infra
Meleeh - To Live And Die Alone
Piano Magic - Home Recordings
Portland Cello Project - Thousand Words
PVT - Church With No Magic, (artist formerly known as Pivot!!!)
Revere - Hey! Selim
Sarah Kirkland Snider - Penelope
Scorn - Refuse; Start Fires
Sed Non Satiata - Sed Non Satiata
Teeth Of The Sea - Your Mercury
The American Dollar - Atlas
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy - Every Man For Himself and God Against All
The Love And Terror Cult - We Are You On Fire
The Saddest Landscape - You Will Not Survive
Úrsula - Hasta Que La Soledad Nos Separe
Vestiges - The Descent of Man
Yellow6 - Close/r]]> http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2010/07/26/3stk9c_2010_favourites_so_far%2C_updated_somewhat_regularly.. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:52:09 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2010/07/26/3stk9c_2010_favourites_so_far%2C_updated_somewhat_regularly.. As per usual, albeit a little late this year, here lies a list of my favourite records so far this year in alphabetical order only, (new additions will obviously disrupt this!!)..You know the drill..

A Forest of Stars - Opportunistic Thieves of Spring
aAirial - Incoercible
Aesthesys - Lacus Hiemalis
Alcest - Écailles de Lune
Balmorhea - Constellations
Beyond The Dune Sea - s/t
Bitcrush - Of Embers
Bonobo - Black Sands
Capitalism is just another dying breed - s/t
Carontte - As Grey As They Said
Cecilia::Eyes - Here Dead We Lie
Celeste - Morte(s) Nee(s)
Daníel Bjarnason - Processions
Dark Sanctuary - Les Mémoires Blessées
EF - Mourning Golden Morning
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
Empires - Freshwater Reflection
Eraldo Bernocchi and Blackfilm - Along The Corridors
Euphoria - Fluidify
Grails - Black Tar Prophecies Vol.4
Hadoken - Luminary
Heinali & Matt Finney - Town Line
Hellas Mounds - New Heaven/New Earth
Hermelin - s/t
Holy Fuck - Latin
Island - s/t
Kasan - s/t
Kazan - Maslow 0
Kerretta - Vilayer
Khoma - A Final Storm
Knut - Wonder
Kollwitz - Like Iron I Rust
Les Discrets- Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées
Lis Er Stille - The Collibro
Loscil - Endless Falls
Max Richter - Infra
Meleeh - To Live And Die Alone
Merhan Karimi - s/t
Midlake - The Courage of Others
mudy on the sakuban - Pavilion
My Education - Sunrise
Not To Reason Why - Would You Hug Fire
Olan Mill - Pine
Ous Mal - Noujuva Halava
Peter Broderick - Three Film Scores Intake
Picastro - Become Secret
Post Harbor - They can't hurt you if you don't believe in them
Richard A Ingram - Consolamentum
Rome - Nos Chants Perdus
Rosetta - A Determinism Of Morality
Slow Six - Tomorrow Becomes You
té - ?????????????????????????????
The American Dollar - Atlas
The Ascent of Everest - From This Vantage
The Monroe Transfer - Trials
The Q4 - Sound Surroundings
These Monsters - Call Me Dragon
Toundra - Toundra (II)
Ufomammut - Eve
Year of No Light - Ausserwelt
Planning for Burial - Leaving
On - Something That Has Form and Something That Does Not
Zoë Keating - Into The Trees
(The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) - We, Burning Giraffes
Heaven In Her Arms - Paraselene
Heinali & Matt Finney - Lemonade
Nadja & Troum - Dominium Visurgis
Proem - Enough Conflict
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Beyond This Point Are Monsters - Family Tree
Deadhorse - We Can Create Our Own World
Frenzy - Nein Songs
Lisa Gerrard & Marcello De Francisci - Departum
PVT - Church With No Magic, (artist formerly known as Pivot!!!)
PQ - You’ll Never Find Us Here
Scorn - Refuse; Start Fires
Via Fondo - Via Fondo
Tinavie - Augenblick
The Saddest Landscape - Lift Your Burdens High, For This Is Where We Cross
Architect - Consume Adapt Create
Asche - The Easter Island Phenomenon
Brendan Perry - Ark
Eurasia. - Rʌ́st
L'oniraunote - Les chimères exquises
Lowness - Undertow
Namlook - Pearl II
Wim Mertens - Zee Versus Zed
Land of Talk - Cloak and Cipher
Apoptose - Bannwald
Arcn Templ - Emanations Of A New World
Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle
Grouper - Hold/Sick
Orphx - Orphx
Svarte Greiner - Penpals Forever (and Ever)
Sophie Hutchings - Becalmed
A Swarm of the Sun - Zenith
Arroyo - Arroyo
Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante
Diaphane - Samdhya
El Ten Eleven - It's Still Like A Secret
Entertainment For The Braindead - Trivialities
Envy - Recitation
Geneva - Sail on Suds
Goldmund - Famous Places
Hauschka - Foreign Landscapes
Constants - If Tomorrow The War
Interpol - Interpol
Lacrymosa - Selah
Mares Of Thrace - The Moulting
Our Broken Garden - Golden Sea
Peter Broderick - How They Are
Piano Magic - Home Recordings
Senking - Pong
The Big Sleep in Search of Hades - Ethos
Wive - Pvll
Dryft - Ventricle
Helios- Unleft
Jannick Schou - Night
Antony & The Johnsons - Swanlights
Aranis - Roqueforte
Access To Arasaka - Void();
Hildur Guðnadóttir - Mount A
I Pilot Dæmon - Come What May
Amon Tobin - Monthly Joints Series
Khuda - Palingenesia
Portland Cello Project - Thousand Words
Altess - L' homme de Février
Revere - Hey! Selim
Heirs - Fowl
Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
Hidden Orchestra - Night Walks
iLiKETRAINS - He Who Saw The Deep
Iszoloscope - Beyond Within
Gnaw- This Face
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Radare - Infinite Regress
Arktika - At Zero
As We Draw - Lines Breaking Circles
Aucan - DNA
Andrea Ferraris & Matteo Uggeri - Autumn Is Coming, We're All In Slow Motion
Low Sky - Led Zeppelin House Show EP
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy - Every Man For Himself and God Against All
The Love And Terror Cult - We Are You On Fire
Undermathic - 10:10PM
Del Rey - Immemorial
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
The Corin Tucker Band - 1,000 Years
Vestiges - The Descent of Man
Rose Kemp - Golden Shroud
Sed Non Satiata - Sed Non Satiata
413 - Path to Hocma
Julia Kent - Last Day in July
The Secret - Solve Et Coagula
Humanfly - Darker Later
General Lee - Roads
Les Fragments De La Nuit - Demain C'Etait Hier
Ô Paon - Courses
Sailors With Wax Wings - s/t
The Saddest Landscape - You Will Not Survive
Teeth Of The Sea - Your Mercury
Sarah Kirkland Snider - Penelope
Bardo Pond - s/t
Bass Communion - Reprocessed By 36
Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI
Carbonscape - Artistry of Exhaustion
Jarboe - Primal Baroque Experiment
Loscil - Untitled
One Starving Day - Atlas Coelestis
Yellow6 - Close/r
Úrsula - Hasta Que La Soledad Nos Separe
Mike Armine - Verse
Epigram - Reverie
Dark Dark Dark - Wild Go
Nest - Retold
Imbogodom - The Metallic Year
Kerouac- Cold and Distant, Not Loving
Marcus Fjellström - Schattenspieler
Janus - I Am Not
Timbre - Little Flowers
Portraits of American Firing Squads - The Eternal Fear]]> http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2009/12/31/3aqnje_top_records_of_2009.. Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:48:15 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2009/12/31/3aqnje_top_records_of_2009.. It's the turn of the year again, already, thus it's time to select, retain and discard..This year, I've not spent as much time on the latter and as a result, have wound up with a top 100, as opposed to last year's 50, however, it has once again been a hard process, with records in the lower echelons being as pleasing as some of those in the higher ranks..Well, here goes, as usual, the top group consists of personal favourites, the second completes the top 50, the following, third grouping consists of the second 50 thus completing the 100..Each grouping is in no particular order bar that of an alphabetical nature..Enjoy!!

amiina - Re Minore
Arroyo - Individuum & Massen
Bell Orchestre – As Seen Through Windows
Ben Frost - By The Throat
blueneck - The Fallen Host
Celeste - Misanthrope(s)
Dolcim - Guillotine Ride
Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
eaststrikewest - w o l v v e s
From Monument To Masses - On Little Known Frequencies
Health - Get Color
Irepress - Sol Eye Sea I
Junius - The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist
Korouva - Sleepwalker
Life's Decay - Dysrieuses
Lisa Gerrard - The Black Opal
Mono – Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Sunwrae - Autumn Never Fall
The Mercury Program - Chez Viking
Transitional - Stomach of the Sun


A Wake A Week - Little Black Cloud
Atrium Carceri - Phrenitis
Caspian - Tertia
Clint Mansell - Moon OST
Converge - Axe To Fall
Eleni Karaindrou - Dust of Time
Greymachine - Disconnected
Hauschka - Small Pieces
Heaven In Her Arms - Duplex-Coated Obstruction
Hildur Guðnadóttir - Without Sinking
Locomotora - Locomotora
Lords - Fuck All Y'all Motherfuckers
Loscil - Strathcona Variations
Microfilm - The Bay of Future Passed
Mirah - (a)spera
On - Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night
pg.lost - In Never Out
Phallus Dei - A Day In The Life Of Brian Wilson
Portland Cello Project - The Thao and Justin Power Sessions
Rachel Grimes - Book of Leaves
Raison d'Etre - The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice
Russian Circles - Geneva
sgt. - Capital of Gravity
Still Light - Lything
The Paper Chase - Some Day This Could Be All Yours Vol.1
Thomas Köner - La Barca
Throbbing Gristle - Third Mind Movements
Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start - Firewolf
Yuki Murata - Films
Zu - Carboniferous


3nd - World Tour
Access To Arasaka - Oppidan
andorra~atkins - Augenlied
Apse - Climb Up
Arms And Sleepers - Matador
Autumn Moonlight - The Sky Over Your Shoulders
Beirut – March of the Zapotec /RealPeople Holland
Desiderii Marginis - Years Lend a Golden Charm
Dominic - Nord
Elder - Reflect
Elfin Saddle - Ringing For The Begin Again
Emeralds - The Overlook
Emilie Simon - The Big Machine
French Teen Idol - El Siete Es La Luz
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Gathiens – Nesh
George Dorn Screams - O'Malley's Bar
Guns Of Brixton - Cap Adare
Hannu - Hintergarten
Heather Woods Broderick - From The Ground
Hecq - Steeltongued
HORSE The Band - Desperate Living
If These Trees Could Talk - Above the Earth, Below the Sky
Immanu El - Moen
Jana Winderen - The Noisiest Guys On The Planet
Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Last Days - The Safety of the North
L'Homme Puma - On Remplace Les Yeux Cassés
Lustmord - The Dark Places of the Earth
Max Richter - Henry May Long
MGR vs. SirDSS - Impromptu
Mountains Among Us - True North
Pelican - What We All Come To Need
Piano Magic - Ovations
Poison the Well - The Tropic Rot
Proem - Till There's No Breath
Rose Kemp - Unholy Majesty
Sarah winchester - The Northeast Kingdom
St. Vincent - Actor
Teeth Of The Sea – Orphaned By The Ocean
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
The Great Disappointment - S/T
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Here Be Dragons
The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Succubus
The Snapping Of Whips, The Whipping Of Flags - The Soviet Children's Choir Sings for the World
The Tiny - Gravity & Grace
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
We vs. Death - A Black House, A Coloured Home
Worriedaboutsatan - Arrivals]]> http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2009/02/26/2imyb5_2009%2C_favourites_so_far..updated_regularly.. Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:05:55 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2009/02/26/2imyb5_2009%2C_favourites_so_far..updated_regularly.. This year continues to pull out more and more aces..In no particular order:

Irepress - Sol Eye Sea I
From Monument To Masses - On Little Known Frequencies
The Enablers - Tundra
Bell Orchestre – As Seen Through Windows
KTU – Quiver
Thursday – Common Existence
Eluvium - Life Through Bombardment
mudy on the sakuban - Kidnie
Mono – Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Callisto - Providence
Beirut – March of the Zapotec /RealPeople Holland
Gathiens – Nesh
Marching Dynamics – The Workers Party Of Haiti
Teeth Of The Sea – Orphaned By The Ocean
Pilori - Until the Day Dawn
Reigns - The House On the Causeway
Screen Vinyl Image - Interceptors
Jah Wobble and the Chinese Dub Orchestra - Chinese Dub
Land Of Kush - Against the Day
Squares On Both Sides - Indication
Takeo Toyama - Etudes
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
Time Zones & Area Codes - Around the Ocean
Vanessa Van Basten - Psygnosis
A Wake A Week - Little Black Cloud
Fog in the Shell - Private South
The Antlers - Hospice
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Zu - Carboniferous
Jeniferever - Spring TIdes
Lustmord - The Dark Places of the Earth
Jacaszek - Pentral
If These Trees Could Talk - Above the Earth, Below the Sky
Various productions feat. Gerry Mitchell - The Invisible Lodger
Eleni Karaindrou - Dust of Time
Eleventh He Reaches London - Hollow Be My Name
George Dorn Screams - O'Malley's Bar
Shelter Red - Strike a Mortal Terror
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
Glen Johnson - Details Not Recorded
Hildur Guðnadóttir - Without Sinking
Torngat - Le Petite Nicole
Bronnt Industries Kapital - Hard For Justice
Celeste - Misanthrope(s)
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Long Distance Calling - Avoid the LIght
Tara Simmons - Spilt Milk
Sarah winchester - The Northeast Kingdom
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
The Gentleman Losers - Dustland
The Paper Chase - Some Day This Could Be All Yours Vol.1
Zola Jesus - New Amsterdam
Pontiak - Maker
St kilda - E.P.
Woodworkings - Untitled
Bark Cat Bark - Á Lífi
St. Vincent - Actor
Shogun Kunitoki - Vinonaamakasio
Last Days - The Safety of the North
Aidan Baker - A Picture of a Picture
Alamaailman Vasarat - Huuro Kolkko
William Basinski - 92982
We vs. Death - A Black House, A Coloured Home
Saxon Shore - It Doesn't Matter
Redjetson - Other Arms
Pentark - Ha Ha Ha!
Øresund Space Collective - Good Planets Are Hard To Find
Mt. - Teach Your Children How To Think, Not What To Think
Jon Hopkins - Insides
Poison the Well - The Tropic Rot
Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Vassilis Tsabropoulos - The Promise
Giant Squid - Icthyologist
Pawa Up First - The Outcome
Hypnic Jerk - Martorell
Park Avenue Music - By Hearts + Horses
Jasper TX - Singing Stones
Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
zxyzxy - Hansuru
Arktika - Heartwrencher
Christopher Tignor - Core Memory Unwound
Flunk - This Is What You Get
Elfin Saddle - Ringing For The Begin Again
Pandora's Black Book - Black Brothel
Peter Broderick - Songs For Falling From Trees
A Broken Consort - Box of Birch
DUEN - Inner States
The One Ensemble Orchestra - Other Thunders
Karjalan Sissit - Fucking Whore Society
Cities Last Broadcast - The Cancelled Earth
New Risen Throne - Crossing the Withered Regions
Penemue - The Observers
Aethere - In Coma
French Teen Idol - El Siete Es La Luz
Max Alper - Music For Fritz Lang's "M"
Heroin and Your Veins - Nausea
Matryoshka - Coctura
Proem - Till There's No Breath
Sophia - Sigillum Militum
Negru Voda - Våld De Luxe Promo Appetizer
Nils Frahm - The Bells
Screenatorium - Audimat
All India Radio - A Low High
Yppah - They Know What Ghost Know
Desiderii Marginis - Years Lend a Golden Charm
Drudkh - Microcosmos
Max Richter - Henry May Long
Phallus Dei - A Day In The Life Of Brian Wilson
Six Organs Of Admittance - Luminous Night
Luigi Rubino - A Theme For The Moon
Parabstruse - An Unconventional Future
The American Dollar - Ambient One
Caspian - Tertia
Pianos Become The Teeth - Old Pride
Trespassers William – The Natural Order of Things
A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Scythelence - Post-Romantic Syndrome
Clint Mansell - Moon OST
The Snapping Of Whips, The Whipping Of Flags - The Soviet Children's Choir Sings for the World
Giardini di Mirò - Il Fuoco
Gerda - III
Jóhann Jóhannsson - And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees
Murcof - La Sangre Illuminada
The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Succubus
Health - Get Color
Message To Bears - Departures
the Picturesque Episodes - Strange Lights and Ornaments
Worriedaboutsatan - Arrivals
The Eastern Wave - All Covet, All Lose
amiina - Re Minore
Emeralds - What Happened
Maserati - Passages
Throbbing Gristle - Third Mind Movements
Vision Éternel - An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes
Junius - The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist
The Black Heart Procession - Six
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Access To Arasaka - Oppidan
Greymachine - Disconnected
Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom
Russian Circles - Geneva
Thomas Köner - La Barca
Vindensång - Terminus: Rebirth In Eight Parts...
Rachel Grimes - Book of Leaves
A Storm of Light - Forgive Us Our Trespasses
HORSE The Band - Desperate Living
Air - Love 2
Pleq - The Metamorphosis
Aarktica - In Sea
Converge - Axe To Fall
Nanda Devi - Fifth Season
Daïtro - Y
Pelican - What We All Come To Need
Pansori - Demo 2009
Dolcim - Guillotine Ride
Drowning with Our Anchors - You Can Never Go Home Again
Land of Talk - Fun and Laughter
World's End Girlfriend - Air Doll OST
The Tiny - Gravity & Grace
Planning for Burial - Leaving
Hannu - Hintergarten
California Stories Uncovered - Confabulations
Struluckt - When The Night Falls - Tribute To Burzum
Detritus - Things Gone Wrong
Heather Woods Broderick - From The Ground
Nudge - As Good As Gone
somatic responses - Reformation
Hecq - Steeltongued
Loscil - Strathcona Variations
Mountains - Mountains, Mountains, Mountains
Piano Magic - Ovations
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Here Be Dragons
sgt. - Capital of Gravity
Elder - Reflect
Emilie Simon - The Big Machine
Arms And Sleepers - Matador
Institute of Joy - A Mountain of One
Arroyo - Individuum & Massen
Electric Assembly - White Splinter
Masske - Masske
3nd - World Tour
Mirah - (a)spera
aMute - Infernal Heights for a Drama
Empusae - Mortusae
Heinali - Film Music (El Mar)
pg.lost - In Never Out
Phantogram - Eyelid Movies
Rose Kemp - Unholy Majesty
Snowblood - Snowblood
To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie - Marlone
Benny Crespo's Gang - Benny Crespo's Gang
Kreidler - Mosaik 2014
Dominic - Nord
Lords - Fuck All Y'all Motherfuckers
blueneck - The Fallen Host
Hauschka - Small Pieces
Jana Winderen - The Noisiest Guys On The Planet
Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper
Murder by Death - Finch
Peter Wright - An Angel Fell Where The Kestrel Hover
Pyramids with Nadja - S/T
Korouva - Sleepwalker
Sumner McKane - Nanook
Ben Frost - By The Throat
eaststrikewest - w o l v v e s
The Great Disappointment - S/T
2econd Class Citizen - A World Without
Blockhead - The Music Scene
Dirac - Emphasis
Dante Augustus Scarlatti - Demises of the Dynamc Microphone
A Red Season Shade - Interiors
Fall Of Efafra - Inlé
The Bronzed Chorus - I'm The Spring
Autumn Moonlight - The Sky Over Your Shoulders
Guns Of Brixton - Cap Adare
Mountains Among Us - True North
MGR vs. SirDSS - Impromptu
Lisa Gerrard - The Black Opal
The Mercury Program - Chez Viking
Microfilm - The Bay of Future Passed
andorra~atkins - Augenlied
L'Homme Puma - On Remplace Les Yeux Cassés
Emmanu el - Moen
Life's Decay - Dysrieuses
Still Light - Lything
Heaven In Her Arms - Duplex-Coated Obstruction
Apse - Climb Up
Transitional - Stomach of the Sun
Yuki Murata - Films
Képzelt Város - Mit Nekem
Emeralds - The Overlook
English Heretic - Tales of The New Isis Lodge
Field Rotation - Licht Und Schatten
A Lot Like Birds - Plan B
Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start - Firewolf
Raison d'Etre - The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice
On - Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night
Atrium Carceri - Phrenitis
Locomotora - Locomotora
Portland Cello Project - The Thao and Justin Power Sessions
Sunwrae - Autumn Never Fall]]> http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2009/01/26/2fk9yn_gregor_samsa_%40_corporation.. Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:38:17 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2009/01/26/2fk9yn_gregor_samsa_%40_corporation.. Sun 25 Jan – Gregor Samsa

Nothing short of an epic performance..I implore you, go see these guys..Shame about it being in the small room, it seemed to dampen some of the massive range these guys have going on..]]> http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2008/12/30/2d545e_top_records_of_2008%2C_according_to_me.. Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:43:15 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2008/12/30/2d545e_top_records_of_2008%2C_according_to_me.. OK, another year, another chart..This year I've struggled, maybe I left it too late, maybe there's just been too much great music, regardless, I found a flat 50 to be too tough a challenge..As usual, there's no particular order, other than the top group being an alphabetical list, composed of my personal favourites and the other being solely alphabetical..Enjoy..


Ala Muerte - Santa Maria
Arcana - Raspail
Bersarin Quartett - Bersarin Quartett
Bohren und der Club of Gore - Dolores
Caina- Temporary Antennae
The Evpatoria Report - Maar
Grails - Take Refuge in Clean Living
Her Name is Calla - The Heritage
Immune- Not Until Morning
Jacaszek - Treny
Les Fragments De La Nuit - Musique du Crepuscule
Madame de Montespan - Epilogue d'un Desastre
Moon Prototype - Dusty Lane
Our Brother the Native - Make Amends For We Are Merely Vessels
Peter Broderick - Float
Pivot - Oh Soundtrack My Heart
The Seven Mile Journey - The Metamorphosis Project
Strangers Die Everyday - Aperture for Departure
Suffocate For Fuck Sake - Blazing Fires and Helicopters on the Frontpage..
Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start - Embers

Aesthesys - An Exceptionally Simple Theory
Ah Cama-Sotz - Declaration of Innocence
Anoice - Out of Season
Audrey - The Fierce and the Longing
Balmorhea - River Arms
Because of Ghosts - This Culture of Background Noise
Beware of Safety - Dogs
Beyond Sensory Experience - No Lights in Our Eyes
Blackfilm - Blackfilm
Bronnt Industries Kapital - Haxan
Consecration - Aux
Dahlia's Tear - Under Seven Skies
Dark Dark Dark - The Snow Magic
Daturah - Reverie
Defile Des Ames - Lust n'Stone
Do Make Say Think - The Whole Story of Glory
Echoes Therein Gale - Echoes of Darkness
Envy - Envy
Genghis Tron - Board Up the House
Glowworm - The Coachlight Woods
Goldmund - The Malady of Elegance
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Hauschka - Ferndorf
Johann Johannsson - Fordlandia
La Dispute - Something At the Bottom..
Laura - Yes, Maybe No
Lvmen - Heron
Matryoshka - Zatracenie
Max Richter - 24 Postcards in Full Colour
Medusa's Spell - Last X Hours
Nightpray - Five Hours Before and Some Time After
Portishead - Third
Russian Circles - Station
September Malevolance - After This Darkness, There's a Next
Shearwater - Rook
Stearica - Oltre
Subheim - Approach
Sylvain Chauveau - The Black Book of Capitalism
Tape - Luminarium
The Winchester Club - Brittania Triumphant


And some other, well worthy mentions:

Acetate Zero - Civilise the Satanists
aussitot mort - Montuenga
Caldera - Mist Through Your Consciousness
Dday One - Heavy Migration
General Lee - Hannibal ad Portas
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Helios - Caesura
Human Bell - Human Bell
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Mutations
Millimetrik - Northwest Passage's New Era
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
ondo - Mahavishnu
Oneida - Preteen Weaponry
Ott - Skylon
Nordvargr - Interstellar
Mono-Amine - Industrial Thought Patterns
Pyramids - Pyramids
Single State of Man - Single State of Man
Supercontinent - Vaalbara
Tearwave - Different Shade of Beauty
Trinacria - Travel Now Journey Infinitely]]> http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2008/07/02/21uwjv_ben_kidney_is_back%2C_albeit_only_for_one_last_show.. Wed, 2 Jul 2008 20:23:34 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/AllRoadsLead/journal/2008/07/02/21uwjv_ben_kidney_is_back%2C_albeit_only_for_one_last_show.. Bangarang

Start Time: Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 9:00pm
End Time: Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 3:00am
Location: The Sanctuary
City/Town: Burnley, United Kingdom

This month we have a real mix of styles for the Bang crew!

Insomniscene- Another Manchester based artist brings the noise.
Live 4/4 acid techno!http://www. myspace. com/insomniscene


Ben Kidney - Traditionally known for his diverse and calculated breakcore and speedcore sets, Ben will be applying his progressive style to a post rock, metal and sludge mix.

Links to his recorded mixes can be found here-
http://www. myspace. com/allroadsleadtothis


Bangarang Djs- Down tempo, Up tempo, Smashup!

Just Light Vjs- Visual madness
http://www. myspace. com/justlightdeejays

For anyone interested, my tracklist looks like this:

GY!BE - East Hastings
Grails - Belgian Wake-up Drill
Arca - Endormir les Hommes
Microfilm - Johnny & Barbara
Microfilm - Night of J & B
The Moscow Coup Attempt - The Failure of Shortwave Radio
Tides - In Their Arms
Isis - Relocation Swarm
Swarm Of The Lotus - Call to Abandon]]>