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WCBN Music Department

12.09.2013

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

12.02.2013

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