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favourites of 2003

- from kin associates

Jeremy Greenspan


Fave Tracks of the year:


- 1. Kode 9 - Subcontinent

- 2. The Sea and the Cake - Four Corners

- 3. Koushik - One in a Day

- 4. Wayne Wonder - No Letting Go

- 5. El-B - Amazon

- 6. Manitoba - Jacknuggeted

- 7. Thomas Fehlmann - Gratis (shit was that this year?)

- 8. Dizzee Rascal-I Luv U

- 9. Space Cowboy - Just put your hand in mine

- 10. Lacquer - Behind / The Dears - Same Old Plot


Best Track of Last Year heard this year

- Metro Area - Miura



Fave Musicians (re)discovered this year (by me)


- 1. Talk Talk

- 2. Front 242

- 3. O.M.D

- 4. Prefab Sprout

- 5. Jamie Principle

- 6. Atmosfear

- 7. Throbbing Gristle

- 8. Eduard Artemyev

- 9. Conrad Schnitzler

- 10. Hall & Oates

Best Reissues:

- Liasons Dangeures

- Simply Saucer

- OMD


Best Film:

- Bus 174

Best Story:

- Nick Kilroy kills a duck with his bare hands


matt didemus -



things I liked in 2003 :

- liasions dangereuses

- junior boys - birthday ep (biased decision but oh well)

- the sea and cake - four corners (never really gave these guys a chance before... )

- fenn o berg - we will difuse you

- dizzee rascal

- bill murray in lost in translation

- huren and gary's collection of vhs tapes of music videos ( ala voltaire, omd interviews, siouxsie)


things i really hate in 2003:

- sam roberts - everything/jet: are you gonna be my whatever (this fits in perfectly with the aussie/canuck mirroring phenomenon ...that jeremy and i enjoy so much)

- IDM: the name, the abbreviation, the genre, the equations, the promo photos, the hoplessness

- gratefulness in music criticism

- christina aguilera: why is it that these people always have to talk about themselves as evolving as a person and as an artist

- the ubiquity of the neptunes...

- ramones t-shirts


johnny dark


- SLEEP - Dopesmoker

- 50 Cent - In Da Club

- Sean Paul - Get Busy

- Enslaved - The Dead Stare

- Lil' Kim - The Jump Off (feat. Mr Cheeks)

- Outkast - Way You Move, The

- Jay-Z - La-La-La

- The Bug - Fuck Y-Self

- YOB - Catharsis

- Freeway - All My Life (feat. Nate Dogg)


nick

there's already a few charts on-line - boomkat and warp, so here's a list of other tracks that've had too much play on the stereo, and very few of them are from 2003

- Junior Boys - everything

- Fennesz - Live in Japan

- Charles B - Lack of Love

- Georges Delerue - Camille

- Ken Laszlo - Hey Hey Guy

- Hymie's Basement - 21st Century Pop Song

- Vicious Pink - C-C-Can't You See

- Kylie - Love at First Sight

- Eminem - One Shot

- The Fall - I am Curious Oranj

- Machine - There but for the Grace of God

- Matthew Dear - Dog Days

- Tobias Thomas and Superpitcher - Live @ Kamera

- Rob Hubbard - Monty on the Run (high scores table)

- Gigi D'Agnostino - I'll Fly With You

- DM + Jemini - The Only One

- Justin Timberlake - Rock Ya Body

- Harco Pront - Silly Girl

- Kanye West - Thru the Wire

- Butthole Surfers - Johnny Smoke

- Freeway - What We Do

- Wedding Present - Box Elder

- My Mine - Hypnotic Tango

- Hell Interface - Midas Touch


best films:

- irreversible

- touching the void

- city of god

- finding nemo

- kill bill part 1

- etre et avoir

- the secretary

- in this world

- far from heaven

dee


- Peel Session Twitch Mix

- Richard X v Kelis - Finest Dreams

- OutKast - Hey Ya

- Juan MacLean - Give Me Every Little Thing

- Olivier Gondry Lacquer Behind Video

- Strafe - Set it Off

- LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations

- Sugimoto @ Serpentine (art)

- Beyonce - Crazy in Love

- Touching the Void (film)

- Junior Boys - Under the Sun

tom brown



pros :

- Bonnie Prince Billy - Master and Everyone

- Broadcast - HaHa Sound

- Outkast - Speakerboxx / The Love Below

- Jay-Z - The Black Album

- Director's Series DVDs: Jones / Gondry / Cunningham

- xmas presents


cons :

- getting too drunk, seems like a good idea at the time.

- broken mobile phones

- policemen getting younger

- Richard X not getting on the cover of NME

- scary neighbours

jk



- 1 OutKast - Hey Ya

- 2 Zoot Woman - Zoot Woman

- 3 Kayne West - I'm Good mix tape

- 4 Kano - Vice Versa

- 5 DM and Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life

- 6 Elephant Man - Fuck U Sign

- 7 The Postal Service - Give Up

- 8 Letroset - new plastic ep

- 9 The Bug - Killer

- 10 Data 80 - Data 80 LP

- 11 Jay-Z - The Black Album

- 12 Ruff Squad - Pied Piper

- 13 Diana Ross - Diana (with Chic mixes)

- 14 Audio Bullys - Ego War

- 15 Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner (init..)

- 16 Mense Reents - Aus Freien Stuecken

- 17 Bitmap - Alpha Beta Gamma

- 18 Arcola - ARC000

- 19 Lost in Translation OST

- 20 Wayne Wonder - No letting go

- and the Junior Boys

James



- ABBA - The Day Before You Came

- Aster Aweke - Tchewata

- Belleville Rendez-Vous O.S.T.

- Capleton - Who Dem Ah Work With

- Carl Craig & Pepe Bradock - Angola (Craig's Mix)

- Chicago - If You Leave Me Now

- Chingy - Right Thurr

- Clinic - Walking With Thee

- Connie Case - Get Down

- Donna Regina - Jungle

- Dwayne Sodahberk - Devoiced (edit)

- Ellen Allien - Wish

- Ennio Morricone - a fistfull of dollars - for a few dollars more - the good, the bad and the ugly

- Goldfrapp - Strict Machine

- Har Mar Superstar - Power Lunch

- Henri Mancini - A Summer Place

- Jackson - Utopia

- Japanese Telecom - Japanese Animation

- Jay-Z - the Black Album - December 4th, Dirt Off Your Shoulder, Encore, My First Song, Justify My Thug

- Juan MacLean - Give Me Every Little Thing

- Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus

- Junior Boys - Last Exit

- Kayne West - Get By (Remix, ft: Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes)

- Khia - When I Meet My King

- Linda Lamb - Hot Room

- Luke Vibert - Freak Time Baby

- MC T-Rock - Freeze La Rock

- Meteorites - Mechanic

- Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang

- Ricardo Villalobos - Easy Lee

- Richard Thompson - Gethsemane

- Royal City - Bad Luck

- Static - Ghost Boy

- Sylvie Marks & Hal 9000 - Baby I'm Electric

- Terry Hall & Mushtaq - Grow

- 2-Raumwohnung - Ich Weiss Warum (T.raumshmiere remix)

- The Postal Service - Such Great Heights

more to follow