wcbn fm chart december 9, 2013

Last chart of the year! Before I say anything else, I just want to wish a sincere, heartfelt farewell to the greatest radio program of all time, The Best Show On WFMU, which will be ending next week. Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster are heroes of mine, and two of the funniest people on the planet. I simply can't imagine the last decade of my life without this show. Thank you Tom, Jon, and everyone else who has contributed to the show. But mostly Tom Scharpling. Thank you.

OK, so here's some of my favorite albums of the year. Not complete, by any means, just stuff I listened to a lot. As you can probably tell, I love IDM every bit as much as I did in the '90s; Warp released 3 of my favorite albums of the year, µ-Ziq put out 3 excellent releases (especially XTEP) and I finally saw Squarepusher this year. Literally the only thing that could've made this year better for me would've been a new Aphex Twin record.

The Haxan Cloak: Excavation [Tri Angle] (Album of the year)

Troller: s/t [Holodeck]

Boards Of Canada: Tomorrow's Harvest [Warp]

Autechre: Exai [Warp]

Oneohtrix Point Never: R Plus Seven [Warp]

Disclosure: Settle [Cherrytree]

Special Request: Soul Music [Houndstooth]

White Poppy: Drifters Gold tape [Constellation Tatsu] + s/t LP [Not Not Fun]

DJ Rashad: Double Cup [Hyperdub]

Scissor Now!: Not Now, But Right Now! [Arbco]

PAS Musique: Abandoned Bird Egg [Alrealon Musique]

Unicorn Hard-On: Weird Universe [Spectrum Spools]

Justin Walter: Lullabies & Nightmares [Kranky]

The Field: Cupid's Head [Kompakt]

Jon Hopkins: Immunity [Domino]

Octo Octa: Between Two Selves [100% Silk]

Ensemble Economique: Fever Logic [Not Not Fun]

Piper Spray: Epigraph To The Bright Star Catalogue [Singapore Sling]

Sawi Lieu: Pasaraya [Constellation Tatsu]

Mountains: Centralia [Thrill Jockey]

Mind Over Mirrors: When The Rest Are Up At Four [Immune]

[PHYSICS]: Spectramorphic Iridescence [Digitalis]

Laserbeams Of Boredom: Mind Arrays [self-released tape]

Stave: Reform [Flingco Sound System]

Shells: In A Cloud [Life Like]

I'm going to stop here because there's so much other stuff I could list. Here is the final WCBN top 50 of 2013, talk to you in 2014! 

-paul

wcbn fm chart december 9, 2013 "ain't nobody got time for that"

1. Foetus "Soak" Ectopic Ents

2. Daedelus "Drown Out" Anticon 

3. Jim Guthrie "Sword & Sworcery LP: The Ballad of the Space Babies" self-released

4. The Gories "The Shaw Tapes: Live In Detroit 5/27/88" Third Man

5. Thee Oh Sees "Singles Collection Vol. 3" Castle Face

6. CFCF "Outside" Paper Bag

7. Juana Molina "Wed 21" Crammed Discs

8. Daniel Bortz "Patchwork Memories" Suol

9. Arcade Fire "Reflektor" Merge

10. Blood Orange "Cupid Deluxe" Domino

11. J.D. Wilkes and the Dirt Daubers "Wild Moon" Plowboy

12. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings "Stranger To My Happiness" Daptone

13. Danny Brown "Old" Fools Gold

14. Four Tet "Beautiful Rewind" Text

15. Ryan Hemsworth "Guilt Trips" Last Gang

16. Nils Frahm "Spaces" Erased Tapes

17. M.I.A. "Matangi" Interscope

18. Mutual Benefit "Love's Crushing Diamond" Other Music

19. Connan Mockasin "Caramel" Mexican Summer

20. Policy "Postscript" 100% Silk

21. The Devil Makes Three "I'm A Dreamer" New West

22. Los Campesinos! "No Blues" Wichita

23. v/a "Rockin' Legends Pay Tribute To Jack White" Cleopatra

24. Robert Glasper Experiment "Black Radio 2" Blue Note

25. Shy Girls "Timeshare" Hit City USA

26. Teaadora "Virgin Forever" Hot Releases

27. v/a "Luk Thung: Classic and Obscure 78s From the Thai Countryside" Dust-To-Digital

28. Huerco S "Colonial Patterns" Software

29. DJ Rashad "Double Cup" Hyperdub

30. Gesaffelstein "Aleph" Bromance

31. Deepchord "20 Electrostatic Soundfields" Soma

32. v/a "Metal Dance 2" Strut

33. Ezra Buchla "At the Door" Care Of Editions

34. Oneohtrix Point Never "R Plus Seven" Warp

35. Forest Swords "Engravings" Tri Angle

36. DARKSIDE "Psychic" Matador

37. New Weather "s/t" Butterscotch

38. Nobunny "Secret Songs: Reflections From the Ear Mirror" Goner

39. Melt-Banana "Fetch" A-Zap

40. Cave "Threace" Drag City

41. Marijuana Deathsquads "Oh My Sexy Lord" Totally Gross National Product

42. v/a "SMM: Opiate" Ghostly International

43. Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr "The Speed of Things" Warner Brothers

44. Claudettes "Internal Piano Plot… Hatched!" Yellow Dog

45. Boogarins "As Plantas Que Curam" Other Music

46. Crystal Antlers "Nothing Is Real" Innovative Leisure

47. Stillsuit "s/t" self-released

48. Magik Markers "Surrender to the Fantasy" Drag City

49. Cross Record "Be Good" Ba Da Bing

50. Group Rhoda "12th House" Not Not Fun

Adds:

Neil Young "Live at the Cellar Door" Warner Bros.

Robert Paterson "Winter Songs" American Modern Recordings

Orphanage "Anachronology 2011-213" self-released

Foom "Surface Noise And Imperfections" No Fidelity Audio

Scott Cazan "Swallow" Care Of Editions

wcbn fm chart december 2, 2013

one more week of charts for the year! i will hastily throw together an unnumbered best of 2013 list with next week's chart. in the meantime, this wednesday i'm (hopefully) going to that damn Animal Collective show that's already been rescheduled twice this year. jeez.

-paul

wcbn fm chart december 2, 2013 "SEGA MONOPOLY CHICKEN CACCIATORE"

1. v/a "Metal Dance 2" Strut

2. Four Tet "Beautiful Rewind" Text

3. Factory Floor "s/t" DFA

4. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings "Stranger To My Happiness" Daptone

5. CFCF "Outside" Paper Bag

6. Oneohtrix Point Never "R Plus Seven" Warp

7. Forest Swords "Engravings" Tri Angle

8. The Devil Makes Three "I'm A Dreamer" New West

9. The Gories "The Shaw Tapes: Live In Detroit 5/27/88" Third Man

10. KILN "meadow:watt" Ghostly International

11. DARKSIDE "Psychic" Matador

12. Bardo Pond "Peace On Venus" Fire

13. The Kickdrums "Thinking Out Loud" Hopeless

14. Cuscino "Eternality" Fashion Sells Musiq

15. New Weather "s/t" Butterscotch

16. Nobunny "Secret Songs: Reflections From the Ear Mirror" Goner

17. v/a "Luk Thung: Classic and Obscure 78s From the Thai Countryside" Dust-To-Digital

18. The Field "Cupid's Head" Kompakt

19. Gesaffelstein "Aleph" Bromance

20. Alluxe "Nomad" Electronic Creatives

21. Deepchord "20 Electrostatic Soundfields" Soma

22. Orchestra of Spheres "Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music" Fire

23. Daedelus "Drown Out" Anticon 

24. Blood Orange "Cupid Deluxe" Domino

25. Monkey Power Trio "Misreattached" Pocahontas Swamp Machine Recordings

26. Melt-Banana "Fetch" A-Zap

27. Russian Circles "Memorial" Sargent House

28. v/a "Smashed 40: Slummer Jams" Folktale

29. Laurel Halo "Chance Of Rain" Hyperdub

30. Cave "Threace" Drag City

31. Marijuana Deathsquads "Oh My Sexy Lord" Totally Gross National Product

32. v/a "SMM: Opiate" Ghostly International

33. Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr "The Speed of Things" Warner Brothers

34. Ryan Hemsworth "Guilt Trips" Last Gang

35. v/a "Red Hot + Fela" Knitting Factory

36. Claudettes "Internal Piano Plot… Hatched!" Yellow Dog

37. Boogarins "As Plantas Que Curam" Other Music

38. Shy Girls "Timeshare" Hit City USA

39. Daniel Bortz "Patchwork Memories" Suol

40. Throwing Muses "Purgatory/Paradise" Harper Collins/It Books

41. Crystal Antlers "Nothing Is Real" Innovative Leisure

42. Stillsuit "s/t" self-released

43. Magik Markers "Surrender to the Fantasy" Drag City

44. Cross Record "Be Good" Ba Da Bing

45. Fuzz "Live In San Francisco" Castle Face

46. Mutual Benefit "Love's Crushing Diamond" Other Music

47. Group Rhoda "12th House" Not Not Fun

48. DJ Rashad "Double Cup" Hyperdub

49. Jel "Late Pass" Anticon

50. Numbers Band "Jimmy Bell's Still In Town" Exit Stencil

Adds:

Thee Oh Sees "Singles Collection Vol. 3" Castle Face

Policy "Postscript" 100% Silk

Elvis Costello & The Roots "Wise Up: Thoughts – Remixes And Reworks" Blue Note

Ezra Buchla "At the Door" Care Of Editions

bEEdEEgEE "SUM/ONE" 4AD