My hastily-assembled Year-End lists of 2013

Top Albums

1. Pharmakon - Abandon
2. Âmes Sanglantes / Alberich - s/t split
3. Run The Jewels - s/t
4. Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
5. Junip - s/t
6. Adult. - The Way Things Fall
7. Glenn Jones - My Garden State
8. Morphosis - Dismantle
9. Emptyset - Recur
10. Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety

Reissues or compilations of previous material (in no particular order)


Martin Rev - s/t
Arhtur Russell - Another Thought
Grouper - The Man Who Died In His Boat
John Carpenter - The Fog OST
Charles Cohen - The Middle Distance
Kat Epple & Bob Stohl - Sanctus Spiritus
Boards Of Canada - (Albums and EPs)
Laraaji - Celestial Music 1978-2011
Cicciolina Holocaust - Vaseline Race
Cybotron - Enter


Honorable Mention (most likely because I didn't spend enough time with them)

Bibio - Silver Wilkinson
DARKSIDE - Psychic
Lovesliescrushing - Ghost Colored Halo
Sightings - Terribly Well
Wolf Eyes - No Answer: Lower Floors
John Foxx & The Belbury Circle - Empty Avenues
Francisco Franco - s/t
Beyonce - s/t
The Stranger - Watching Dead Empires In Decay
Vaupateen - s/t
Clams Casino - Instrumental Mix-Tape Vol 3
Miles - Faint Hearted
Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio OST
Cut Copy - Free Your Mind
Slow Walkers - s/t
Burial - Rival Dealer
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual

7/1/12 (The Final Episode)

stereolab - les aimies des memes - the free design (single)
alan shearer - tom brousse - the marathon life
bauhaus - the three shadows, part i - the sky's gone out
the tropic of cancer - distorted horizon - the end of all things

the danse society - the night - heaven is waiting
nico + the faction - my heart is empty - camera obscura

talk talk - the party's over - the party's over
yukihiro takahashi - grand espoir - neuromantic
roberto cacciapaglia feat. ann steel - quite still - the ann steel album

chris & cosey - lament - songs of love & lust
pink and black - miss fortune - sometimes i feel...
absolute body control - automatic i - the lost tapes


broadcast - minim - haha sound
raime - if anywhere was here he would know where we are - if anywhere was here he would know where we are
mohn -  schwarzer schwan - s/t

arthur russell - place i know/kid like you - world of echo
burning star core - (track 2) - three sisters who share an eye
swans - the great annihilator - the great annihilator

x mal deutschland - eiland - tocsin
broken water - thread to connect - tempest
dead can dance - fortune - s/t

cocteau twins - blue bell knoll - blue bell knoll
nico - the end - the end...

6/24/12

beach house - irene - bloom
grass widow - goldilocks zone - internal logic
lower dens - candy - nootropics

roy budd - hallucinations - get carter ost
paul mccartney - secret friend - mccartney ii

sebastien tellier - sedulous - my god is blue
clams casino - leaf - instrumental mixtape ii
serge blenner - phrase vii - la vogue

klaus schulze - stardancer ii - body love vol. ii

tobias bernstrup - enemies of the earth - wierd compilation vol. ii: analogue electronic music 2008
alberich - field radar - nato-uniformen

sword heaven - driving through old town - gone
einsturzende neubauten - yu-gung (futter mein ego) - halber mensch


x mal - deutschland - derwisch - tocsin
antifamily - power gets less - s/t
vazz - endless road - whisper not
fingerprintz - wet job - the very dab


geoff barrow & ben salisbury - inhale - drokk: music inspired by mega city one
mohn - eberpatz 2020 - s/t

6/17/12

raime - retread - s/t
mohn - einrauschen - s/t
liars - wixiw - wixiw

lower dens - lamb - nootropics
experimental products - golden hours - the found tapes

paul mccartney - bogey wobble - mccartney ii
la bambola del dr. caligari - satan's pride - the wrong holiday
the danse society - the hurt - heaven is waiting
the comsat angels - ju ju money - fiction

broken water - seaside - seaside and sedmikrasky

the pipedream - deeper arcades - s/t
deadarkhead -june 28th - oceanside: 1991-1993
belong - come see - common era

tropic of cancer - the dull age - the end of all things
roll the dice - dark thirty - in dust

demdike stare - erosion of mediocrity - elemental part 3: rose
brian hodgson - homeric theme - the tomorrow people: original television music
geoff barrow and ben salisbury - justice one - drokk: music inspired by mega city one

the field - sweet slow baby - looping state of mind
zola jesus - in your nature (david lynch remix) - in your nature 7"

6/10/12

clams casino - unchain me - instrumental mixtape 2
boards of canada - basefree - twoism
holy other - know where - with u

lower dens - nova anthem - nootropics
ford & lopatin & tamaryn - flying dream - 'snakes' b/w 'flying dream'
matthew dear - her fantasy - beams

lindstrom & christabelle - let it happen - real life is no cool
liars -  no. 1 against the rush - wixiw
alan howarth & john carpenter - orientation - escape from new york ost

roll the dice - swing - s/t
serge blenner - phrase v - la vogue

edgar froese - snake bath - kamikaze 1989 ost
geoff barrow & ben salisbury - 301-305 - drokk: music inspired by mega city one
richard pinhas - the last kings of thule 1 - iceland
moevot - voultehtr voaguprueeb - abgzvoryathre 


yoga - fourth eye - megafauna
slant azymuth - black crolyn - s/t
ralph lundsten - prayer 1: hallowed be thy name - ourfather: paternoster


rene hell - maz delete - the hilton
harald grosskopf - b. aldrian - synthesist
jonas reinhardt - arise tempi - music for the tactile dome

alan shearer - white spain -  marathon life
michael garrison - dreams - in the regions of sunreturn
beach house - wishes - bloom

6/3/12

innergaze - in your gaze - mutual dreaming
edgar froese - videophonic - kamikaze 1999 ost
lower dens - lion in winter, pt. 1 - nootropics

joni mitchell - shadows and light - the hissing of summer lawns
depeche mode - halo - violator
d.a.f. - im dschungel der liebe - fur immer

new order - your silent face - power, corruption & lies
the 2 bears - church - be strong

daughn gibson - the day you were born - all hell
kurt vile - downbound train - so outta reach ep
deardarkhead - enough - oceanside: 1991-1993

modern english - dawn chorus - after the snow
and also the trees - there were no bounds - s/t
dead can dance - a passage in time - s/t

bauhaus - the three shadows, part ii - the sky's gone out
balam acab - fragile hope - wander/wonder
aphex twin - (track 5) - selected ambient works, vol. ii (disc 1)

roll the dice - axee - s/t
cluster - in ewigkeit - sowiesoso

d.a. - the eighth planet - odeon

5/20/12

mirroring - cliffs - foreign body
lower dens - propagation - nootropics

bauhaus - spirit - the sky's gone out
can - smoke (e.f.s. no. 59) - flowmotion
slava - file soft control

holy other - yr love - with u
balam acab - expect - wander/wonder
light asylum - heart of dust - s/t

shackleton - wish you better - the drawbar organ eps
roll the dice - into the ground - s/t

scorpion violente - uberschleiss - uberschleiss
alberich - napalm - nato-uniformen
chrisy & cosey - love cuts - songs of love and lust

vazz - endless road - whisper not
balaclavas - lored bored - second sight ep
daughn gibson - a young girl's world - all hell
beach house - troublemaker - bloom

kurt vile - laughing stock - so outta reach ep
michael rother - karussell - flammende herzen

drowning pool - the italian pop song - aphonia
jackson and his computer banda - radio caca - smash
lovelock - the fog - burning sound