Three years of music… No… I’m not about to try and summarize all of the amazing albums that have made it to my rotations list – that is nearly impossible. Instead, I want to point my time machine to this exact month of April, over a period of one, two, and then three years, to see what I have been enjoying back then. Thanks to my membership of last.fm, I was able to gather these statistics and tabulate the top played albums going back three years. Many of you already know that I don’t believe in ‘dating’ music – a great album is a great album, regardless of when it was released. So here’s a very short flashback to the music of my past, that will no doubt be played again today in my rotations…
(all entries are listed in alphabetical order by artist name)
Top 15 of April 2009: —————————————– Ametsub Bluetech Boxcutter Celer Dakota Suite H.U.V.A. Network Hammock Harmonic 313 Hecq Hildur Guðnadóttir Mono Porn Sword Tobacco Prefuse 73 Solar Fields Windy & Carl |
Top 15 of April 2008: —————————————– Clark DJ Kentaro DJ Shadow Emanuele Errante Gridlock Evol Intent Julien Neto Life Toward Twilight Morning Recordings Onra Skalpel The Field Wagon Christ Welder Wes Willenbring |
Top 15 of April 2007: —————————————– A Lily Bitcrush Dictaphone Hammock Jóhann Jóhannsson Library Tapes Loess Machinefabriek Marsen Jules Murcof Pole Tycho Ulrich Schnauss Xela Zbigniew Presiner |
This quick revisit maybe me already dust off Xela‘s For Frosty Mornings And Summer Nights, as well as three albums by Marsen Jules: Herbstlaub, Yara, and Lazy Sunday Funerals. I’ll be definitely queuing up some Pole, Dictaphone, Murcof, and Julien Neto soon enough! Here’s to more wonderful times, with good old friends!!!
[Original photography by Luis Argerich – Reflections at Navarro by lrargerich]