Here it Is The end of the year and the day after winter solstice

What A good year for music. In fact I caught up with many releases I had let fall away through out the decade. A perfect example would be Of Montral " Hissing Fauna Are You The Destroyer?" Which proves Kevin Barnes is a genius. It's like taking early David Bowie, Ray Davies, Neu and Kraftwerk to the moon and back again. THe Liars " Drums Not Dead" a record of great ideas and great "songs". Like an updated and contemporary SY " Bad Moon Rising". Gets into your head and flows out into your backbone and the rest of your nervous system. Prince Far I " Chapter 3" re release of his early 80's lp of the same name. The Slits, David Toop and Adrian Sherwood are all in the mix. Like all good dub records this one turns the room upside down and everything else is weightless.

What didn't make this list would be Mt. Eerie " Wind Poem" too fresh in my collection to make an impact. What I did like about my initial listens were the drones and lullaby melodies and a tribute to " Twin Peaks" tv show. Parts sound like The DEAD C jamming with Sunn O)))). A very dark and beautiful record for sure.

The count down...

2009 Best

10. WOEBOT / Woebot ( self released).

09. DOOM / Born Like This

08. Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age

07. Antony and the Johnsons / Crying Light

06. 5 Years - Hyper Dub Compilation.

05 Warp 20 ( unheard)

04 Sight Below

03 Animal Collective / Merriweather Post Pavilion

02 Grizzly Bear / Veckatimest

01 Decemberists / Hazards Of Love

Reissues

01. The Beatles / Mono Box Set Remastered

02. Warp 20 ( chosen)

03. Every Mouth Must Be Fed

04. Abner Jay/ The Story Of Abner Jay

05. Tomorrow Come Someday OST

Singles and individual songs

Radiohead / These Are My Twisted Words

Thom Yorke/ Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses

Atlas Sound / Walkabout

Animal Collective/ " Brother Sport/ Bleed"

Burial and Four Tet " Wolf Cub/ Moth"

Woebot / Central One EP

Grizzly Bear / "Two Weeks"

More Hauntology. The Woebot EP's.

Between the years of 2003-2008 WOEBOT wrote about music on his very own WOEBOT blog. A wonderful well informed labor of love that  was sadly packed up with little fanfare and put to rest. Then a year later I find out Matt Ingram had resurfaced again on the internets with 2 EP's of his own music on stark hand printed sleeves. One called the Automat EP the other East Centeral One EP

WOEBOT recently described his  music making process on A Resonance FM radio show as just him alone in a dark room with a lamp, computer and  a MPC2500 Beat Production station ( popular with beat producing hip hop DJ's). Along with this he discussed his favorite components to drum and bass, dub step and jungle and other music he has absorbed in his life time .  Which translates into you have to come to your own conclusions about what his recordings are about. I was hooked and had to order the discs to find out more

I think you could figure out that the past holds some importance to his creativity  and so does memory and preservation. Another important thing to notice  about both EP's is how music is handed down, transcribed, how it's heard and to be listened to. 3 inch CDs as a format are not typical nor are they fashionable at all. They are not something you can casually throw on and forget about.

Which means WOEBOT wins and you get to contemplate what you are listening to or what ever ideas might be running through your head. 

Look  here.