Tag Archives: Floating Points

Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2021

Posted on 22/12/2021 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Amidst the threat of yet another lockdown, cancelled Christmas parties, the prospect of me spending my first Christmas ever alone and potentially no football on Boxing Day (which is a defacto referendum on whether greed for the few is more … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged Aphex Twin, B12, Bandcamp, Berlin, Blade Runner, Bodytronixxx, Booka Shade, Boxing Day, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Can, Covid, DJ Sprinkles, Early Transmissions 1991-95, Easy To Build Hard To Destroy, Essential Listening, Floating Points, Gage, Gayest Tits & Greyest Shits: 1998-2017 12 Inches & One-Offs, Gnod, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, LFO, LGHTR KRU: Nite Mode Vol.1, Live In Stuttgart '75, London Symphony Orchestra, Merry Christmas, Michael Karoli, Midtown 120 Blues, MMM (Errorsmith & Fiedel), On The Edge, Pharaoh Sanders, Pink Floyd, Planet Love Vol. 1, Pool, Promises, Skee Mask, Soulseek, Spacemen 3, Spirtualised, Squarepusher, SS Hacienda, Steve Jobs is scum to us audiophiles, Stockhausen, Sun City Girls, Tago Mago, Tangerine Dream, Terre Thaemlitz, Tresor 30, Underground Resistance, Vaporwave, wearing a garish shell suit while on acid and ecstasy, Will Long | Leave a comment

Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2019

Posted on 23/12/2019 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Gotta be honest, I lacked motivation for writing this column. Normally it’s the piece I look forward to writing the most. Doing an annual music round-up is the only blogging tradition I’ve developed since I started five years ago. There … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 2020, Best Albums Of 2019, Bill Callahan, Crush, Essential Listening, Eton Alive, Fairport Convention, Fat White Family, FKA Twigs, Floating Points, Ghosteen, Imperial Flood, Loft conversion is finished!, Logos, Magdalene, Merry Christmas, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, NTS podcasts, Originals, Paranoid London, Peace out homies, PL, Prince, Richard Dawson, Serfs Up!, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, Sleaford Mods | Leave a comment

Essential Listening: The Best Songs Of 2015

Posted on 28/12/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Well pilgrims, we arrive at the best songs of 2015. Many of these choices come from the albums I selected on my best albums/EP’s/Mixes/Reissues of 2015 post last week. The reason for this? I know it sounds snobbish, but there’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged Alexandria, All Safe All Well, Alright, Antony Hegarty, Art Angels, Atom Dance, Bad, Bad Guynaecology, Bad Guys, Bem Inventory, Best Songs of 2015, Bjork, Black Zone Myth Chant, Blown, Blur, Calling Card, Calling Card / Mezzanine, Carina Sayles, Carmine, CC Not, Chorus, Crisis, Crotocosm, Culture Of Volume, D.K., Dark Energy, Dream A Garden, East India Youth, Eating Glue, Elaenia, Erotic Heat, Essential Listening, Even Temper, Fanatic, Fanatic 2, Fit Siegel, FKA Twigs, Flesh Without Blood, Floating Points, Galcher Lustwerk, Geo Fi, Gnod, Grimes, Holly Herndon, I Neva Seen, If God Is Not Here, In Quiet Streets, In Time, Infinity Machines, iTunes, Jam City, Jessy Lanza, Jlin, Kamasi Washington, Kendrick Lamar, Key Markets, Levon Vincent, Licence To Dream, Loca, Love On Delivery, M3LL155X, Mane Thecel Phares, Mercury In Retrograde, Mutado Pintado, My Terracotta Heart, Palmbomen, Palmbomen II, Paranoid London, Patricia, Platform, Projections, Prostitutes, Rainbow, Re Run Home, Romare, Shutdown, Silhouettes I II & III, Skepta, Sleaford Mods, Summertime 06, The Beginning, The Epic, The Galleria, The Magic Whip, To Pimp a Butterfly, Too many tags again, Turn Away, Vince Staples, Vtro V 2.0, Vulnicura, White Privileged Wank, Worriedaboutsatan | 1 Comment

Essential Listening: The Best Albums, EPs, Reissues and Mixes of 2015

Posted on 24/12/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

With each passing year the better music websites (and no, this doesn’t include the Kanye West fellating, hypster centric, Pitchfork) are publishing their end of year lists well before the year ends, in some cases right at the start of … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 31st March Mix for Rinse FM, 38 Metal Guitar, 54 Synth Brass, 65 Cathedral, A Love Supreme, A Tribe Called Quest, Alexandria, Ami Shavit, Another Side, Anthony Child, Aphex Twin, Art Angels, Bad, Bad Guynaecology, Bad Guys, Best of 2015, Bjork, Black Zone Myth Chant, Blur, Brand new, CC Not, Demdike Stare, Dream A Garden, Elaenia, Electronic Recordings From Maui Jungle Volume 1, EP, Fingers Inc., FKA Twigs, Floating Points, Galcher Lustwerk, Geo Fi, Gnod, Grimes, High Drama (Blowing Up The Workshop 41), Holly Herndon, I Was Crossing a Bridge – Music From Memory, In Alpha Mood, In Situ, Infinity Machines, Jam City, John Coltrane, Kamasi Washington, Key Markets, Laurel Halo, Leif, Lil-Ugly Mane, Lone & Ross From Friends, M Ashworth, M3LL155X, Mane Thecel Phares, Mixes, NTS Mix 5th November, Palmbomen, Palmbomen II, Paranoid London, People’s Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm, Peru Bravo: Funk, Platform, Reissue, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Secret Thirteen Mix 149, Shinchi Atobe, Ship-Scope, Shit And Shine, Sleaford Mods, Soul & Psych From Peru's Radical Decade, Sticky Fingers, Summertime 06, Taraxacum, Testpressing 007 (EP), The Epic, The Magic Whip, The Rolling Stones, Third Side of The Tape, Too many tags, user48736353001, Vince Staples, Vito Ricci, Vulnicura | 1 Comment

Essential Listening: The Basic Channel EPs

Posted on 23/02/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

So, I’ve been binging on Basic Channel stuff for the last month. And yeah, at some point, a renaissance of material this good is inevitable. So a better question is this – how did I get here? Well, the seed … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged Ambient, Augustus Pablo, Basic Channel, Demdike Stare, Dub, Essential Listening, Floating Points, House, James Murphy, Joe Gibbs, Johnny Clarke, LCD Soundsystem, Lee Scratch Perry, Luke Haines, Lyot rmx EP, Mark Ernestus, Maurizio, Moritz von Oswald, Octagon/Octaedre EP, Phylyps Trak EP, Phylyps Trak II EP, Q-Loop EP, Q1.1 EP, Quadrant EP, Radiance EP, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Round One to Round Five, Scott Walker, Techno | Leave a comment