Monday Mixtape

best of 2013 - lodown edition

Here's a list of the Lodown staff's highest rated releases of 2013, spiced up with some mixes of personal favorites. We wish you lots of fun and a happy new year everyone. Yours truly, Lodown.

RENKO 'RNK' HEUER:

 

Top-10 Musical Mindblowers 2013

1: James Blake
2: Young Fathers
3: Mount Kimbie
4: Midlake
5: Inc. 
6: Jai Paul
7: Darkside
8: The Acid
9: Boardwalk
10: Mazzy Star

Top-10 Various Mindblowers (no particular order)

Eric Wareheim (music videos)
Oski (at Kater Holzig)
Gluck-Gluck-Ule (anytime)
R. Kelly vs. Jeremih (anytime)
Nalu Diner (jesus)
Inga Copeland (wtf)
Bronze (pop-up window clutter screens galore)
Surviving Deutsche Tonstraße (shit)
Taylor Mead (rip) 
Eric Raymond (dude)

 

SVEN 'FORTY' FORTMANN TOP 13:

 

10 ALBUMS I REALLY LIKED

01. DARKSIDE : psychic : Other People/Matador
02. BLUE HAWAII : untogether : Arbutus
03. LARRY GUS : years not living : DFA
04. DIRTY BEACHES : drifters/love is the devil : Zoo Music
05. DEERHUNTER : monomania : 4AD
06. NIGHT BEATS : sonic bloom : Reverberation Appreciation Society
07. FÖLLAKZOID : II : Sacred Bones
08. MARK KOZELEK & JIMMY LAVALLE : perils from the sea : Caldo Verde
09. TY SEGALL : sleeper : Drag City
10. RAFFERTIE : sleep of reason : Ninja Tune

10 SONGS I REALLY LIKED TO PLAY OUT

01. KONSTANTIN SIBOLD : madeleine
02. JAGWAR MA : come save me (Pachanga Boys Remix)
03. DANIEL STEFANIK : confidence (Adam Port Remix)
04. DJ YELLOW + FLOWERS AND SEA CREATURES : no one gets left behind (Tiago Fragateiro Remix)
05. MANO LE TOUGH : everything you’ve done before (Dixon Remix)
06. GLIMPSE : true south
07. RANACAT : in your face
08. HOWLING : shortline (Frank Wiedemann Remix)
09. TENNIS : monocraft (Pillow Talk Remix)
10. 6th BOROUGH PROJECT : f.e.e.l

 

CHRIS 'DARS' RAMBOW:

 

Stuff I liked in 2013 (no particular order)

SUTEKH HEXEN 'breed in me the darkness'
JESU 'everyday i get closer to the light from which i came'
RANGER 'steel dawn'
THE FIELD 'cubid's head'
LAKES 'blood on the grove'
PELICAN 'forever becoming'
DAVID BOWIE 'the next day'
OBLITERATION 'black death horizon'
OF THE WAND AND THE MOON 'shall love fall from view?'
RECONDITE 'hinterland'
VAR 'no one dances quite like my brothers'
CHELSEA WOLFE 'pain is beauty'
THE HAXAN CLOAK 'excavation'
MGLA ‎'presence / power and will'
DARKTHRONE 'the underground resistance'
SWANS 'not here/not now'
JEX THOTH 'blood moon rise'
BEASTMILK 'climax'

 

STEFAN 'SKISM' BATSCH:

 

13 albums that made this year memorable

01 Holden - The Inheritors (Border Community)
02 Cosmic Machine - A Voyage Across French Cosmic & Electronic Avantgarde (1970 - 1980) (Because)
03 John Talabot - DJ-Kicks (!K7)
04 Le Carousel - Le Carousel (Phil Kieran Recordings)
05 Darkside - Psychic (Other People)
06 Aera - Offseason Traveller (Aleph)
07 Lusine - The Waiting Room (Ghostly International)
08 Jon Hopkins - Immunity (Domino)
09 Eat Lights, Become Lights - Modular Living (The Great Pop Supplement)
10 Randweg - Equisetales (Funken)
11 Daniel Avery - Drone Logic (Phantasy Sound)
12 DJ Koze - Amygdala (Pampa)
13 Coma - In Technicolor (Kompakt)

13 pieces of music that definitely won't fade

01 Peter Gordon & Factory Floor - Beachcombing (Optimo Music)
02 Red Axes - Caminho De Dreyfus (Rebolledo Remix) (Correspondant)
03 James Holden - RA.367 Podcast
04 Rebolledo @ Panoramabar
05 Acid Washed - Heartbeat Maker (Record Makers)
06 Barnt - Stac (Cómeme)
07 Man Tear - Outside Amore (Dub) (DFA)
08 Drumcell - Disturbance (CLR)
09 The Asphodells - Skwatch (Black Merlin's Reel To Reel Remix) (Rotters Golf Club)
10 Jagwar Ma - Come Save Me (Pachanga Boys' Jagwar Pawar Verison) (Marathon Artists)
11 Bryan Ferry - Don't Stop The Dance (Eric "Dunks" Duncan Remix) (The Vinyl Factory)
12 Ricardo Tobar - Otte's Denial (Desire Records)
13 Coma - Cycle (Kompakt)