Dusted's top 10 of first half 10'
 

Pretty good list to be honest. Close to what mine would be.

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/912

ofyc is a good latter period fall album. but there is noway in hell its even close to the top 10 for 2010. fuck i would be dissapointed if i looked hard enough and afterwards even had it in the top 100.

i do like the opn album but i don't think i'd have it in my top 10. sightings are good but haven't heard the one mentioned.

Will have to get that Omar Khorshid album. While I like a few of those groups, most of the albums I've heard on that list don't strike me as being particularly memorable. Must be a weak-ish year for music in their offices.

The Feeing of Love is great.

Nice to see Lorn on this, this record is amazing...

my top 10:

1. autechre - move of ten
2. daniel higgs - say god
3. ariel pink - before today
4. master musicians of bukkae - totem two
5. ceepax acid crew - united acid emirates
6. univers zero - clivages
7. sigh - scenes from hell
8. oren amrbarchi/jim o'rourke/keiji haino - tima formosa
9. shugo tokumaru - port entropy
10. a forest of stars - opportunistic thiesves of spring
runner-up: jack rose - luck in the valley

I haven't listened to too much NEW music this year so far, but there ya go.

Can't pick only 10, so if I had to pick 20 it'd be (in alphabetical order):

1000Names - Illuminated Man
Actress - Splazsh
Autechre - Oversteps
Babe Rainbow - Shaved
Ceephax Acid Crew - United Acid Emirates
Efdemin - Chicago
Excepter - Presidence
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
High Tone - Out Back
Ikonika - Contact. Love. Want. Have
iTAL tEK - Midnight Colour
Konono N°1 - Assume Crash Position
Lorn - Nothing Else
Mesak - School Of Mesak
Oneohtrix Point Never - The Returnal
Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
Scuba - Triangulation
Walls - Walls
Yellow Swans - Going Places

I'm listening to Ikonika - Contact. Love. Want. Have now thanks to you and it's seriously the shit.

to add some guitars try:
total abuse - mutt
naked on the vague - heaps of nothing
xasthur - portal of sorrow
nails - unsilent death

and some of the best drone:
infinite body - carve out the face of god
machinefabriek - daas
robe - forsaken

i havent listened to enough new albums this year yet. still looking very much forward to broken deer.

Haha robe. That album is coming out on NOISE NOT MUSIC label I believe. We're adding a track to it.

Definitely. I was really looking forward to it because of Sahara Michael and she did not disappoint. It's awesome. I read an interesting interview of her somewhere where she talked about how all those 8bit/16bit sounds were basically inside anybody that's born after 1980 and so there's a nostalgy to it or something (can't remember exactly), etc, and I feel like it's actually how I react to those sounds - to a certain extent.

brilliant

i d/led that 5gb robe torrent, it took a longass time with 1/0 seeders. then got stuck at 97.5% and i finally realised it was broken and there is a fixed one im now at 87% on.

i think maybe i will try to get in everybodys top 10 this year by releasing a concept prog noise album called "WELCOME TO MODERNITY, 1 MILLION DEAD AFGHANS!" which is about a failed 00's indie rockstar who dies due to crack addiction, and goes to hell, where satan promises to undo his death and make him rich and famous and have his album go to no.1 if he successfully takes on the job of explaining to the over a million dead Afghan civlians about modernity, the western way of life, and what their deaths accomplished.

Ariel Pink is my absoute number one.

I was surprised by how much I like Pantha du Prince.

Everyone should get Heartland by Owen Pallett, it's great !

Putting Ikonika in my top 10 now actually. HOLY FUCK.

Yeah, it's # 1. Thanks fox.

Pffft everyone knows the best release this year is the UUUUUU/Robe. split.