Everybody does it, and so do I. Here are my two lists from the year that passed and I’m gonna do music and books. The songs that had high rotation on my playlist during 2011 and the most interesting books I’ve read.
The Songs of 2011 (in no particular order):
- A$AP Rocky – Wassup
- Om Unit vs. Kromestar – Solar cycle
- Lord Huron – She lit a fire
- The Prjcts – East side wasteland
- Bon Iver – Holocene
- Common – Celebrate
- Chris Watson – El divisadero (The signal man’s mix)
- Someone still loves you Boris Jeltsin – Yellow missing signs
- Nils Frahm – More
- The Seldon Plan – Fractionation
and my read Books of 2011 (not necessarily published during 2011):
- Brian Greene – The hidden reality
- Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway – Merchants of doubt
- Michelle Paver – Dark matters
- James Howard Kunstler – The long emergency
- Robert Neuwirth – Stealth of nations
- Chris Malloy & Yvon Chouinard – 180° South: Conquerors of the useless
- William Gibson – Spook country
- Alan Weisman – The world without us
- Jason Zinoman – Shock value
- Tim Butcher – Blood river
How are you gonna top that 2012?
here’s my top tunes of 2011. a year dominated by lukid, andy stott and om unit…
samoyed – maybe yes (lukid remix)
radiohead – codex (illum sphere remix)
bnjmn – one sea (lukid remix)
bnjmn – nightvision (andy stott remix)
om unit – the corridor
roll the dice – calling all workers
joshua idehen and LV – lean back
benjamin damage and doc daneeka – creeper
nicolas jaar – woah
ford and lapatin – joey rogers
xander harris – tanned skin dress
nostalgia 77 and josa peit – cherry
enemy earth – omiture
morgan zarate – sp
1000names – before sunrise
king midas sound – lost (nite jewel rework)
nils frahm – familiar
mayer hawthorne feat. snop dogg – can’t stop
ital tek – war of the ants (om unit remix)
chris watson – el divisadero (the telegraph)
drvg cvltvre – dakar
kuedo – flight path
deadbeat – first quarter
om unit vs kromestar – solar cycle
andy stott – dark details
bunker hill – blood on my arms
Nice one homie! I totally agree.