Top ten end of the year list /////
Top Ten 2020 /////
Pa Salieu - Send Them to Coventry
No1. Album of the year for me and been on repeat since release. I feel like to some degree, Paâs ascent has been stifled a bit due to the pandemic and not having the club exposure that might have kept things moving up and up, but he is absolutely a star and 2021 onwards is his time.
Oneohtrix Point Never - Lost But Never Alone video
This video is perfect. Itâs a Venn diagram of some of my key interests.
Supreme x Nike Air Max Plus (green and orange)
Vile, obscene, slick, perfect colour palette on a classic trainer shape.
Crocs
My best purchase of 2020. I think we can all relate to wanting maximum comfort and simplicity day to day, especially this year. A friend put it well when he said âthereâs so much going on, on your body right nowâ. Itâs true, but they make me really happy.
Coloured emojis
Many many big moments of reckoning this year, but to zero in one one micro one âŠ. 2020 is the year where if you are still persisting on using coloured emojis that do not represent your actual skin colour weâre unlikely to remain friends, or even acquaintances. Iâve endured so many moments of this shitty little micro aggression in every setting you can imagine. My feeling is, if you canât get the basics of respectful communication right, weâre unlikely to be thinking along the same lines on the bigger picture. So I guess in this sense, repeatedly asserting my intolerance for this small, but indicative issue felt like repeated moments this year.
The Camberwell Arms
Pub in Camberwell, London: I really believe in trying to supporting local businesses as much as you can and Iâm also a big believer in treating yourself. CA has been my local and go to pub and restaurant since it opened in around 2013. It is defo on the fancier end of the Camberwell joints, but the lighting, food, drinks and service are so wonderfully welcoming and warming itâs just always going to be my no.1 choice of where I want to be, if I can be.
His Dark Materials
These books punctuate my early to mid teenage years in a way that not many other things did. Seeing the BBC adaptation bring them to life with such a prominently diverse cast felt so special. Amir Wilson, Aryion Bakare, Nina Sosyana⊠brilliant. I felt weirdly âseenâ in the books, and really related to the character of Will. I think part of me always tried to implant myself in them as a nigerian-irish kid in the noughties. It was very very cathartic watching this version. Oh - we cannot forget the Andrew Scott appearances. Damn. Hot Priest graced us again.
CYNAR
I love bitter things and bitter, herbal, citrussy liquors with exciting label design is my kryptonite. Iâm really into Amaroâs - the secrecy of the recipes, the narrative of each distinct class and each type has such unique and fascinating flavour profiles. Right now, Cynar is my fav, but possibly closely followed by Vecchio Del Capo. Iâve also been making batches of my own flavoured liquors which I think has been making my mates happy this xmas.
Biden / Harris win
Little to say here bar I donât usually cry but after everything that happened this year, seeing this win made me feel uncontrollably emotional. It felt like a moment of actual hope? As a keen follower of US politics, I felt like Iâd been on this journey towards hope for years and seeing the start of some sort of result being realised wasâŠmemorable.
Special shout out to: Prospect Park NYC, Bruce Nauman @ Tate Modern, Sian Rowe (she isnât a thing, sheâs a human being, and she is one of my favourite humans on this planet), Futureâs âMask Offâ, Merlin (the BBC tv Series), Candles - way too many candles to mention, SIMBAâs entire product range, overalls for ever.
top ten 2020. /////
Itâs mostly music not so many films, books or comics consumed this year
Regis - Tongue Box, Downwards
Mausim - âŠThe New Humanity, HP Cycle
OPAL X - My Future Is In Your Hands, Industrial Coast
Li Yilei - Unabled Form, LTR Record
Regis - Hidden In This Is The Light That You Miss, Downwards
Maria W Horn & Mats Erlandsson - FĂ€ltinspelningar FrĂ„n Terres De LâEbre, XKatedral
C.F. - William Softkey And The Purple Spider, Anthology Editions
POLE 1,2,3 Boxset, Mute Records
Grimescapes 12", Youth
Color Out Of Space, dir. Richard Stanley
The Leftovers
George Floyd
Andrew Wetherall
LESS IS MOOR by ZEBRA KATZ
BLM
KMRU ~ Peel
Ghosts - Season 2 BBC
Mr.Kitty - After Dark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waAlgFq9Xq8
Diego Armando Maradona - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmyssDtOiLM
ball control https://youtu.be/_dBz4dTZocg
clipping.
Barbara Windsor, Nobby Stiles, Chadwick Boseman, Jack Charlton, Dame Vera Lynn, Kobe Bryant and Gianna Bryant
calmed by nature youtube ambience scenes, and especially the recent holiday ones
weekends at the beach over the summer, even the bummery sunsets that were so beautiful because of the wildfires
driving 4200 miles in the car and seeing family and nature
splurging on fancy tomatoes, stone fruits, cheese, and herbs
twice weekly zoom workouts that made me really strong
new music. loved kelly lee owens new one, mary lattimore, bullion, kllo, and so many others
learning how to find and shuck an oyster at 8am on the washington coast and washing it down with champagne
playing a livestream with mary lattimore in an oregonian forest compete with a real green room, a real stage with monitors, a real taste of normalcy and familiarity.
seeing yellowstone for the first time and experiencing so many overwhelmingly beautiful nature scenes- gurgling springs, a rushing gigantic waterfall, and clean pine scented air
welcoming two friendsâ babies born in the pandemic, and trying to be there as much as possible under these very strange circumstances
10 End Of Year Best Of List /////
99 year old British WWII Captain Tom Mooreâs attempt to walk laps in his garden to fundraise money for the NHS before his 100th birthday captured the heart of supporters worldwide and gathered donations surpassing ÂŁ35 million. He has since been awarded a knighthood by the Queen for his efforts.
Barcelonaâs Gran Teatre del Liceuâs first post-lockdown concert was held not to people, but to a seated audience of nearly 3,000 plants. The conceptual performance by Spanish artist Eugenio Ampudia, livestreamed online in June, was a beautifully poignant reminder of our embattled relationship with nature. Watch till the end!
Australian agriculturalist Bruce French devoted five decades cataloguing over 30,000 edible plant species with entries from almost every country on Earth. His lifelong mission to educate and empower malnutritioned communities has so far reached four continents with additions to the database being added regularly. âIâm interested in hungry kids not dying before they get to school" he said.
A lovable Labrador which was rescued from heavy floods in southern Mexico has been adopted by the Navy. A video that surfaced on Twitter showing the dog clinging to its life before being pulled to safety was watched by millions of people across the globe. The Mexican Navy chose to adopt the pooch after no one came forward to claim him adding: âEven in the heavy clouds there are a few rays of light and hope shining throughâ.
Laungi Bhuiyan, 70, of Indian district Bihar, devoted twenty years of his life to painstakingly dig a canal using nothing more than simple tools and unwavering determination. Despite no governmental support and a disapproving wife, Bhuiyanâs inspiring act will mean a renewed lifeline for local farmers today and for generations to come.
The platypus, which has long bemused scientists for centuries, now boasts fluorescent fur that glows under UV light! As a venomous duck-billed egg- laying creature with webbed feet, it was always outside general mammalian convention and this discovery, led by American biologist Paula Anich, gives credence to the mysteries of our natural world.
A masked man donned a replica Batman suit to deliver hot food to the needy after record months of unemployment ravaged the the Chilean capital of Santiago. Operating anonymously out of the back of his car, the unknown hero spread compassion and goodwill to those who most needed it most, and has since gone viral.
The Great Barrier Reef, one of the worldâs natural wonders which has fought off ecological threats for decades, is finally showing signs of recovery in protected regions. The reef which is located off the coast of Northeastern Australia is home to millions of inhabitants and is the single largest living organism on Earth. Dr Mike Emslie at The Australian Institute of Marine Sciences reported on the findings as âencouragingâ.
A âSecret Santaâ figure brought an unexpected smile to hundreds of shoppers at Walmart, Tennessee, USA by paying off the storeâs $64,995 layaway debt, just in time for Christmas. The kind gesture took place at 6am in the morning with the accompanying message: âI love you, God bless you, and Merry Christmasâ.
Kaavan, known for years as the âWorldâs Loneliest Elephantâ made new friends this month after living alone for years in a run down zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan. Originally a gift from Sri Lanka, the 5-tonne elephant was transported in a specially built enclosure and travelled by air to his new home at a wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia where itâs hoped he will mate with the resident females.
hardcore and jungle in rotation 2020 /////
Top Obsolete Music Software I dove into during this pandemic /////
What better time to embrace yesterdayâs technology? A journey.
Pro Tracker
Ah, the place of origin for so many ruff jungle tunes and so many video game soundtracks. You can get an evolved and quicker tracker workflow working with Renoise, but why not dig into the fun and frustrations of yesteryearâs four-track technology? Have a hex calculator ready for those breakbeat cuts.
Thereâs still a very robust community around this one, and a great iPhone emulation/expansion in VividTracker.
Noatikl
Set aside some time for confusion, menu diving, and truly understanding all those little rules. Then just embrace the happy accents of flicking random things around. This has since been rolled into Intermorphicâs current algorithmic composition suite Wotja, but thereâs something lovely about these generative apps that seem to have come from a state of nature in which influence from traditional sequencers is virtually absent.
M
Speaking of generative, thereâs Cycling 74âs standalone beast. While you can certainly do most of what M does with Max (and frankly, itâs rather surprising that there isnât just a straight up M port for Max out there, unless Iâm just too lazy to find it), M is still a right bit of fun - and still available for demo and purchase.
The Darkware VSTs
Oh yeah, donât act like you forgot about these. Before the big kids at iZotope and NI et al took on glitch plugins, before the niche options from Glitchmachines and Inear Display and Twisted Tools, there were these gnarly beasts. Developed in SynthEdit and featuring only the finest of hentai GUIs. Make sure to have them showing for the nerds looking behind your back at circa 2005 basement shows trying to figure out what magic mojo makes those glitches.
NI Spektral Delay
There are certainly replacements out there - the Melda MSpectral Delay and the new Spectral Time in Live 11 come to mind - but didnât this one look pretty? Over the years and deprecations of NI plugins, this is the one I truly miss the most. Crunchy.
Novation V-Station
Weâve reached the point where first-generation virtual analog sounds are starting to get a vintage to 'em, and the Novation V-Station (still available but who knows when it was last updated) gives just that right sheen. Itâs not quite hollow but not quite warm, not quite digital and not quite real.
10 List /////
The terrarium that I made out of a large goldfish bowl (especially the mini benches and mini maranta plant that I found) .
The quiet and fresh air during lockdown in the city during April .
Watching Westerners queue for basic food after years of other ppl on the planet having to live like that .
Watching old ppl be the vips and get served first / respected more .
The toppling of the statue in Bristol ( horrified to have imagined generations of black ppl having to see that on their way to town / school/ whatever ) .
The Rashad Becker remaster of my album âlike weatherâ coming out on the modern love label out of nowhere .
The mayor of Pennsylvania telling trump to âput his big boy pants on and accept that he lostâ ⊠read of the year ⊠simple, funny AND factual .
Seeing ppl get into cooking, nature and actually spending time with the ppl in their lives .
The clapping for the NHS on Thursdays which was very moving but I wish it had manifested as more than just flattery and actual better pay and respect for them and the service sectors in our society .
The resignation of Dominic Cummings (and hopefully more of these nasty, Machiavellian psychopaths that our social model celebrates and breeds) .
2020 /////
Australian Beach Thirst Trap Pics w UNIIQU3 & Australian co.
Adria - Italo-Croat Parisian restaurant (last insane fine dining experience pre-pandemic)
Jacques Greene EU x UK Tour â last night of tour B2B at Radio Radio Amsterdam
Omar S - You Want / Spending time w Omar S in Detroit
Canada Emergency Recovery Benefit
Call of Duty Warzone
Jessy Lanza - All The Time album
Releasing long-edged EP Lickety Split two years after initial inception on 2 B Real.
Starting to play / loving Tennis
My 30th Birthday
Some of my favourite music of 2020 /////
Simulaciones
by Imaabs
Circuit City
by Moor Mother
The devil is a lie !
by CRYSTALLMESS
CONSCIENTEOFTHESOUL
by CÔvco
VerĂŁo Dark Hope
by V/A
Ase Manual - Black Liquid Electronics
by Ase Manual
Ochre Flood
by SHALT
Who Sent You?
by Irreversible Entanglements
Gen
by Bby Eco
Cocky
by Lotic
Guerrilla
by Nazar
Frozen
by Klein
Hard Matter / Warm Currents
by Shifted
The Faintest Hint
by Ai Aso
DIAL UP
by MOOR MOTHER & YATTA
Seguridad
by GAIKA
Hmm
by Loraine James
GLOW
by patten
The Sprawl OST
by Kuedo
CULT
by God Colony
untitled
by Various Artists
First Circle
by First Circle
Cicatriz
by Kamixlo
d87226ecae575c199309c09bb00631e1fb9519696a489e5d94b34af83a7c3bdc
by TCF
Passion
by Vessel
days collapse
by Judith Hamann
Imaginary Film Music (Volume Three)
by Richard Skelton
The Power Eâ.âP.
by DJ Duke
Waiting Timeâ/âWeightingâ/âWading Time: On Juneteenth, Watch Night, Freedomâs Eve, and Emancipation Day
by BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM
Simulacrum
by Aho Ssan
Hydrangea
by Holly Childs & Gediminas Ćœygus
Hibernation
by Know V.A.
GET FREE
by TYGAPAW
GUARDIAN
by LORN
LIVE AT EMPTY BOTTLE / CHICAGO
by fennesz
GIL - Storm Salon [YGK008]
by GIL
Bâ.âBâ.âHâ.âE.
by Hudson Mohawke
Modern Antics In a Deserted Place
by LA Timpa
The Beautiful Dreams #1
by André Lourenço
INT001
by NKISI
Radio Unnameable
by Yantan Ministry
Unfiltered
by Tyshawn Sorey
Live in the Park IX
by Philip Jeck
25082016235210179
by Mika Vainio
Radio Voorwaarts | Online Premiere
by Juha
nick jensen! on 555!
Tom knox video part for thrasher
a million times this! Tom and Jacob Harris are slowly re-wiring skateboarding for the better.
10 surreal AF celebrity photos /////
Meryl Streepâs Quarantini
Nic Cage wearing a fab jacket
A masked Ben Affleck smoking
Bong Joon Ho for Vanity Fair
Mads Mikkelsen pointing at a Christmas Tree
âItâs a look!â Dame Helen masked up
The Facebook overlord surfing with a load of sunscreen on his face
Nic again, this time channelling Willy Wonka with his son
A virtual table read of Fast Times at Ridgemont High featuring Jennifer Aniston, Dane Cook, Morgan Freeman, Jimmy Kimmel, Shia LaBeouf, John Legend, Ray Liotta, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts.
Adeleâs carnival âlookâ
