Best of 2016 from Undomondo
Hello All,
Late as always, here is the Undomondo best of 2016 list.
I've spent a lot of time to go back at length to what I've listened and hopefully you'll enjoy all you hear!
The list is broken down into 5 groups and there's also an overall top 10.
For easy access: check the Spotify playlists, Best of 2016 has around 100 best songs covering nearly all the albums below and more. The Albums list has most of the albums that are available on Spotify. If you click the individual links below, you'll be taken either to Spotify or Bandcamp. Hope you take the time and enjoy!
And without further ado:
Top 10 albums of 2016 for me were:
1. David Bowie - Blackstar
2. Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
3. Big Business - Command Your Weather
4. Solange - A Seat at the Table
5. The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time
6. Theo Croker - Escape Velocity
7. The Comet is Coming - Channel the Spirits
8. Anderson Paak. - Malibu
9. Virus - Memento Collider
10. Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
Top Indie/Rock/Post-Rock/Folk albums
David Bowie - Blackstar
Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
Klaus Johann Grobe - Spagat der Liebe
Fat White Family - Songs for Our Mothers
Savages - Adore Life
Causa Sui - Return to Sky
White Denim - Stiff
Yama Warashi - Moon Egg
Field Music - Commontime
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
His Name is Alive - Patterns of Light
75 Dollar Bill - WOOD/METAL/PLASTIC/PATTERN/RHYTHM/ROCK
Thee Oh Sees - A Weird Exits
Kadhja Bonet - The Visitor
Devendra Banhart - Ape in Pink Marble
Top Hip-Hop/Soul/Pop albums
Solange - A Seat at the Table
Anderson Paak. - Malibu
A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from here… Thank you…
Noname - Telefone
The Avalanches - Wildflower
Mndsgn - Body Wash
NxWorries - Yes Lawd!
De La Soul - and the Anonymous Nobody...
KING - We are KING
Skepta - Konnichiwa
Top Electronic/Experimental/Ambient albums
The Comet is Coming - Channel the Spirits
The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time
Chris Abrahams - Fluid to the Influence
Deux Filles - Space & Time
Asa-Chang & Junray - Mahou
Soccer96 - As Above So Below
Innercity Ensemble - III
Heliocentrics - From the Deep
Library Tapes - Europe, She Loves
Top BM/Exp Metal/Noise Rock albums
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Big Business - Command Your Weather
Virus - Memento Collider
Zeal & Ardor - Devil is Fine
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Forteresse - Thèmes Pour La Rébellion
Neurosis - Fires Within Fires
Imperial Triumphant - Inceste EP
Oathbreaker - Rheia
Top Jazz / World albums
Theo Croker - Escape Velocity
Compilation - Soul Sok Séga
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - We Be All Africans
Shabaka and The Ancestors - Wisdom of Elders
Charlie Haden and The Liberation Music Orchestra - Time/Life
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke
Oy - Space Diaspora
Tonbruket - Forevergreens
The Claudia Quintet - Super Petite
Ahmed Malek - Musique Originale de Films
GoGo Penguin - Man Made Object
Imarhan - Imarhan
Allen Toussiant - American Tunes
Khun Narin - II
I tried to keep the list around 50, so there were many amazing runners up. If you wanna dig further, scroll down for my list, and google them yourself, because this thing already took more time than I had!
Have a great year, and as always don't forget to check the Undomondo soundcloud or mixcloud for new mixes and the FB page for daily posts. See you soon, X!
ELECTRONIC/AMBIENT/EXP
Kemper Norton - Toll
Xiu Xiu - Plays the Music of Twin Peaks
Anohni - Hopelessness
Prince of Denmark - 8
Padang Food Tigers & Sigbjørn Apeland - Bumblin’ Creed
Wolf Müller & Cass. - The Sound of Glades
Les Halles - Transient
Pye Corner Audio - Stasis
Federico Durand - A Través Del Espejo
Silver Apples - Clinging to a Dream
Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy - Darraje
Belbury Poly - New Ways Out
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - In Summer
Veronique Vincent & Aksak Maboul - 16 Visions of Ex-Futur
Suuns - Hold / Still
Xylouris White - Black Peak
Tempelhof & Gigi Masin - Tsuki
Andrea Belfi - Cera Persa
Kassel Jaeger, Stephan Mathieu, Akira Rabelais - Zauberberg
JAZZ/WORLD
Alsarah & The Nubatones - Manara
Cyro Baptista - Bluefly
Jimi Tenor - Saxentric
Family Atlantica - Cosmic Unity
Hailu Mergia & Dahlak - Wede Harer Guzo
Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang - Atmospheres
Yussef Kamaal - Black Focus
Stephan Crump - Rhombal
Anthony Joseph - Caribbean Roots
METAL
Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika
Discharge - End of Days
Wode - Wode
Årabrot - The Gospel
Swans - The Glowing Man
Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis
Phazm - Scornful of Icons
INDIE/ROCK
TSU! - Dadebe
Luke Temple - A Hand through the Cellar Door
Grumbling Fur - Furfour
Glenn Jones - Fleeting
Ryley Walker - Golden Sings that have been sung
Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like a Levee
Dungen - Häxan
Masha Qrella - Keys
Holy Wave - Freaks of Nurture