Year End Top Ten: Music
2007 was an astounding year for dubstep and Indo-Arab impacted American hip-hop. Chicago’s long gone Los Crudos finally made it back into print, while baile thug funk and Tuareg guitar rock reminded worriers about the world music category that it’s not just about happy natives penning primitive campfire songs. Thumbs up to Pressure Sounds for putting out the best dub reissue of the year. As usual, Sublime Frequencies outdid everyone by coining the term ‘jihadi techno.’
In light of these observations, here’s what we played the most:
Burial, Untrue (Hyperdub)
The Revolutionaries, Drum Sound (Pressure Sounds)
Los Crudos, Discography (Lengua Armada)
Oh No, Dr No’s Oxperiment (Stones Throw)
Shackleton and Appleblim, Soundboy Punishments (Skull Disco)
Tinariwen, Aman Iman: Water is Life (World Village)
Madlib, Beat Konducta India (Stones Throw)
Omar Souleyman, Highway to Hassake (Sublime Frequencies)
Various Artists, Box of Dub Volume II (Soul Jazz)
V/A, Proibidao C.V: Forbidden Gang Funk From Rio de Janeiro (Sublime Frequencies)
One of the nice things about the 21st century is I can see a best-of list like this, and be listening to the music within minutes. And as it plays, I think of the mashdown. V.nice indeed.