Headphone Commute’s Best of 2011 : Music For Crawling Through Abandoned Cities

Abandoned places and desolate spaces, covered with rain, snow and ash, wrapped in a blanket of white noise and pulsating bass, somewhat metallic, chilly and wet. These are the images for these sounds for these places of my mind. Something is trembling with the beat of my heart. Tick-tock. Time rewinds to the mid nineties, and I’m back in Berlin, and Moritz Von Oswald is cutting the wax with his Basic Channel imprint. Fast forward, and I’m immersed in the DeepChord sounds of Rod Modell and Mike Schommer. Flip to the present, and I am crawling among the empty streets of Detroit, which is slowly receding into the concrete cobwebs. These events may come and go, in an endless cycle of oceanic waves. But the music stays with us. Always.

NOTE: ALL ENTRIES ARE LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY ARTIST

bvdub Resistance Is Beautiful Darla		Deadbeat Drawn And Quartered BLKRTZ
DeepChord Hash-Bar Loops Soma Quality		Marow + – 0 (Plus Minus Null) Mille Plateaux / Force Inc.
Martin Schulte Treasure Lantern		Mokira Time Axis Manipulation Kontra-Musik
Moritz Von Oswald Trio Horizontal Structures Honest Jon’s		Overcast Sound Beneath The Grain Entropy
Resoe The Black Void Of Space… Echocord		Sven Schienhammer Altostratus Translucidus BineMusic

Make sure to return here tomorrow for yet another thematic list of favorite albums! See our selections in Headphone Commute’s Best of 2011.