2019: sets of the year
Pretty great year, I’d say. Let’s get to it.
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Pretty sure this miiiight be from late 2018, but my time is my own, and this blast of contrast / pop / house / hip-hop is an utter delight.
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David Toop – Jean C. Roché Special
Birds, birds, birds, birds. Whales? Frogs? What a perfect thing.
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It’s probably an album, but, hey: chill, melancholic, existential post-ambient and breakbeat.
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Ben UFO – Rinse FM, September 9, 2019
I think that Ben UFO may know more about music goes together than any other human in on earth.
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Finally a live set from one of Vancity’s finest – I can hear Granville to Pender to way out East in here, I tell you what.
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Trevor Jackson – Island Records Extra Special
Any set that starts with a Wally Badarou deep cut is a friend of mine.
Honorable mentions to Moodymann Plays Motown, Mark Grusane on Beats In Space, Mr Mitch’s Techno Dancehall 2, Powder’s RA 700, and Milos Kaiser’s RA 690.