Thanks. Need to check out the Private Joy release. Loved the Ruf Dug collab!
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Loads of stuff on these lists i need to check. A few picks
Comp - Someone Like Me (Efficient Space)
LP - Nala Sinephro - Endlessness
12 - Kennedy - Other Phases of Sleep
Film - Poor Things
TV - Ripley
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The Rest Is History is brilliant, the recent 5 parter on the turmoil that was 1968 in the USA (RFK, LBJ,MLK, Richard Nixon, George Wallace, the Black Panthers, Yippies and many more)was a wonderful listen. Wish my old history teachers were as good as Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland.
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Not bought any new music this year, but seen a lot of movies and read a lot of books.
Top 3 films in no order (felt like a really strong 2024 in the cinema).
Zone Of Interest
All Of Us Strangers
Past Lives
Top 3 Books I’ve Read
Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone story
Remain In Love by Chris Frantz
Hope And Glory, Rugby League in Thatcher’s Britain
Trying to come up with a top 5 charity shop, second hand record shop, list.
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Great list, but I reckon you need a new one for films, as Past Lives was 2023
Just realised got three months free with new Mac, there’s my Christmas cooking playlist sorted, gracias!
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Dominic Sandbrook makes me laugh every time he’s reading one of the ads on the Rest History podcast. To me, it sounds like he’s thinking “I can’t believe I have to read this shit”
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I saw it on New Year’s Day 2024, so makes my list (point taken though).
I’ll swap it for Soundtrack To A Coup D’Tat in that case.
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Didnt think I was into History ( deffo wasnt at school) but just completed an 8 partner on Custers Last Stand - It is do good
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i’m terrible at end-of-year lists, they always feel like homework and i was a terrible student. i think i live my life in snapshots, and am pretty terrible at turning them into digests.
but i greatly appreciate this thread, and i will pore through it and probably spend hundreds of dollars to get all this great stuff that passed me by.
a few highlights:
cowboy sadness “selected jambient works” LP
gaussian curve “winter sun/fever dream” 12"
greg foat “live at can rudalya, ibiza” LP
fabiana palladino “fabianoa palladino” LP
world standard “country gazette” LP reissue
lars bartkuhn “nomad” LP
a song for you “home” LP
hame “almost home” LP
mudd “in the garden of mindfulness” LP
steve cobby “fuck no” LP
total blue “total blue” LP
greg foat “the glass frog” LP
mark barrott “everything changes, nothing ends” LP
V/A “sitting in trees” compilation
chuck johnson “sun glories” LP
T3AL “bluish green” EP
puli “swirling” LP
four tet “three +” LP
and that’s just off the top of my head. there’s been so many good records to find and buy and there’s been so many more fun things to discover that absolutely didn’t come out in 2024.
all the other stuff, i don’t know - i don’t think i watched a single “new” movie this year, television sucked and all i did was watch basketball, cooking shows, or auto auctions. walked the dog a lot. continued to hold down a job. had a couple of magical moments that were extremely pacific NW, but you don’t want to hear about those.
tonight, we’ll eat christmas tamales and watch “it’s a wonderful life” (my wife swears she’s never seen it - she’ll appreciate that’s it’s hella anti-capitalist) and feel like a nice lil’ family and feel grateful we’re not out in the cold and rain, and that we have time, space and money to enjoy some quiet moments.
it’s the most time of the year. i love it, but it should come like the olympics (every four years).
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The Titanic Rest Is History was good too, may have audibly groaned when I saw that was the subject matter thinking how much more can be said. But fascinating and put into the context of the times too.
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Nothing particularly deep or experimental that floated my boat this year. Maybe it’s the post-pandemic effect, maybe I’m getting old or maybe I got too distracted with breakbeat stuff. Anyway - 3 lists….
TP-style stuff…
(most of these have Bandcamp links - just not working for me today - will try again later)
Coral D - Phase Plane
Fields of Mist - Sunrise
Leisure Dub - Body Talk
Leo James - Better Days
Pugilist - Premonitions
SOFTgrid - Asset
WU-KI - Exotic Particles
Private Joy - DD Mirage and Rhythm Section releases
D’Monk - U Just Don’t Know What U Do 2 Me
Delores Galore - What’s It Bout To Be
Psychic Mirrors - French Dip
DJ Nature - Until - Smoke & Mirrors
Crowdpleasers, covers, guilty pleasures and earworms….
Tommy Richman - Million Dollar Baby
Crossroads - You’re My Occupation (Jankel cover) - [Be Yourself]
Nick Bike - 808 Doves (Prince cover) - [KNB]
Balearische Grammophon 3 (Barry remix) - [HAND]
Black Market Dub - Maneater (H+O cover)
Coco Bryce/Amy Dabbs - Still You See - [Dabbs]
Siffleur - Paper Stuff (MIA/Jean Knight mash-up)
Temu - Love Dancing (heavily swung Loose Joints cover) - [Tugboat]
Ambient first few, then breaks (beware BPMs in excess of 130!)
Panthera Krause - Aside The Aeons / Unsoundness Of Time - [Kann]
Reeko - Urmah 6 - [Samurai]
Skee Mask - Hedwig Transformation Group - [Ilian Tape]
Rezo Glonti - Reflections I & II
Gellegos - Furious Glory - [Rhythm Section]
Usurp - There Is Someone Else - [HEADSET]
Creep Woland - All Dogs Go To Heaven - [HEADSET]
Etch - Clockwork Romance - [Ilian Tape]
Kloke - Waveform 10 - [Waveforms]
Senses - String Theory - [Curvature]
Soul Intent - Dying Star - [Exkursions]
Suburban Architecture - Believer/Drifter Remixes
Tommy The Cat - Full Moon Vibes - [Cat In The Bag]
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Hi all, long time lurker, first time poster, here are mine:
Albums
Napa Sinephro - Endlessness (Warp)
Jeff Parker ETA ITV - The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem)
Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee (Self Released)
Chanel Beads - Your Day Will Come (Jagjaguwar)
Svaneborg Kardyb - Superkilen (Gondwana)
Klangkollektor - Dub Tapes Volume 1 (Before I Die)
Fracture - SLOW860 (Astrophonica)
Nuno Beats - Sai do Coração (Principe)
V/A - Tri ángulos De Luz Y Espacios De Sombra (Smiling C)
V/A - Someone Like Me (Efficient Space)
Tracks
Fontaines D.C - Favourite (XL Recordings)
Mica Levi - Slob Air (Hyperdub)
Vegyn - A Dream Goes On Forever (feat. John Glacier) (PLZ Make It Ruins)
Mudd - Eighty Three Remixes (Conrad Idjut Boys) (Claremont 56)
Kwengface x Joy Orbison x Overmono – Freedom 2 (Not On Label)
Jeff Mills - Methane Bubbles (Axis)
Shabaka - I’ll Do Whatever You Want ft. Floating Points, Laraaji
ddwy - Pendorlan / Theme of the PCCP (Public Possession)
Laraaji & Kronos Quartet - Daddy’s Gonna Tell You No Lie (Red Hot Org)
Quiet Village - Reunion
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Welcome aboard 
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Just checked out both of these, v nice!!
Klangkollektor - Dub Tapes Volume 1 (Before I Die)
Fracture - SLOW860 (Astrophonica)
Really enjoying this album by RIP Swirl which I found via a ddwy pick in the TP website review of the year.
Has some a.s.o. trip hop vibes but a fuller indie sound overall.
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Exactly the same, in complete ignorance of this until the TP end of year recommendation, now hooked as well
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And yet the entire album is 26 minutes long - 11 tracks FFS.
I just don’t get it.
Yeah I was listening in the car today and I was back to track 1 so quickly I thought it had skipped. It’s basically an ep and some sketches. Sounds great to me though.