For one more year, I will be compiling my favourite albums and EPs released this year. Also added a new section on live shows I saw. Items are listed in rought descending order of enjoyment.
Here’s the 2022 list, Favourite music of 2023, Favourite music of 2024.
Wrote a bit on no-cosign, favourite ones were Historia y Legado de Soulseek and Las Herramientas Importan.
Live shows
- Thundercat @ PulseOfGaia Festival
- Extremely impressed by him live, one of the best shows I’ve seen in my life, he was shredding non stop and the energy was insane even thougt most people weren’t there for him.
- aya + MFO @ MIRA Festival
- aya had one of my favourite albums of the year and she delivered on the crazyness… MFO was doing laser visuals that were ok.
- Oscar Jerome @ Garufa
- Took a bunch of friends with me and they all liked it, jazz-funk goodness.
- Amnesia Scanner + Fraxiom @ MIRA Festival
- Hard sounds, great visuals, difficult to describe.
- JPEGMAFIA @ Sala Apolo
- Even thought he is my most listened to artist for the second year in a row, live was a bit underwhelming, still fun though.
- LechugaZafiro and Verracon @ MIRA Festival
- Surprising performance, I didn’t expect much but they delivered hectic set that did not bring the energy down at any point, with fun internet coded visuals.
- Slipknot @ Resurrection Fest
- I don’t usually listen to metal, but this band live is quite something.
- Oneohtrix Point Never + Freeka Tet @ MIRA Festival
- Played his new album live, honestly visuals the highlight of the show, Freeka Tet moved a character in a virtual world with textures and all kind of syncing.
- Blawan @ MIRA Festival
- Had seen him DJ before but this time the sound system was way better and the set was actually live.
- Floating Points + Hamill Industries @ MIRA Festival
- Los Thuthanaka @ MIRA Festival
- Gutalax @ Resurrection Fest
- This was something else… Grindcore from the Czech Republic.
- Gorillaz @ PulseOfGaia Festival
- Good set, but was kind of annoyed by the crowd.
- Ali Sethi + Nicolas Jaar @ MIRA Festival
- John Mouse @ MIRA Festival
- Flying Lotus @ MIRA Festival
- Holy shit this was bad, really dissapointed, visuals were cringe VJ Loops, music sounded bad, half of the set was shitty Ibiza house.
This is not an exhaustive list, just the ones that stood out the most to me.
Albums/EPs
- I Lay Down My Life For You (DIrector’s Cut) - JPEGMAFIA
- Last year he was at the top and he remains there…
- Dead Channel Sky - clipping.
- While not as focused on storytelling as other of their albums, still highly enjoyable
- ¡OK! - Khadija Al Hanafi
- I got really into footwork, and this was one of my best dicoveries.
- MELBOURNE’S DEAD - Normal Pleasure
- Refreshing take on club music.
- Clarity Of Cal - Vulfpeck
- Solidifiying their place as my favourite band of all time.
- hexed! - aya
- 40 - Jawnino
- Barb and Feather - Red Snapper
- SickElixir - Blawan
- The Velvet Underground - Worldpeace DMT & Rowan
- Inference Patters - GIDEO
- MYT - Mosef Yoofe Trio
- Live Laught Love - Earl Sweatshirt
- DISK UTILITY - G JONES + EPROM
- NT Soundsystem - Nubiyan
- CHROMA 010 - BICEP
- Pinball 2 - MIKE + Tony Seltzer
- Soul Kiss - Frost Children + HARU NEMURI
- CHOROPHOBIA - Weval
- Push - New York
- Lazarus (Soundtrack) - Kamasi Washington
- +34 - Vitala + Gior Di
- HONEYPAQQ Vol.1 - HiTech
- Basspunk 2 - BassVictim
- choke enought - Oklou
- aka - Tennyson
- Tribute - BAKEY
- antichamber - Puma Blue
- Stegosauro - Stegosauro
- They Left Me With A Gun - Paris Texas
- OXY2* - Pluko
- EVERYDAY - Takuya Kuroda
- 3RMX82 - MachineDrum
- Signed and Delivered - Big Zuu + Capo Lee
- Interzona - La Plata
- Stardust - Danny Brown
- Anthem - Alfa Mist + Richard Spaven
- All The Quiet (Part 1) - Joe Armor Jones
- All The Quiet (Part 2) - Joe Armor Jones
- IC-02 Bogotá - Unkown Mortal Orchestra
- Fuck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol but Ur Not!! <3 - Skrillex
- CEO MUZIK - Guxo
- POTLUCK - Bruiser Wolf
- star - 2hollis
- Revengeseekerz - Jane Remover
- i was put on this earth - DJ Python
- Tracks from the Vault - EPROM
- Solo Piano (Live In Tokio) - Kamaal Williams
- From What Was Will Grow A Flower - Luke Titus
- Friedrich - Stimming
- no mercy - username
- We Live In A Society - Flume + JPEGMAFIA
- amor de encava - weed420
- Designer - Wraith9
- Nation 2 - Nation
- 13 months of sunshine - Aminé
- WITH A VENGEANCE - Sherelle
- Showbiz - MIKE
- Psychological Musical Warfare - Varg2tm + Sj Smokey
- EUSEXUA - FKA Twigs
- GSC003 - Soul Mass Transit System
- Everything Is Under Control - Manga Saint Hilare
- Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacío - The Mars Volta
- Even In Arcadia - Sleep Token
- The Lower World - Shades
- Planet Mu 30 - Planet Mu
- Lost Cuts, Vol.3 (The Trinity) - KAVARI
- T2 - Palmistry
- Marca Passo - Azymuth
- GOLLIWOG - billy woods
- VIOLATOR - Denzel Himself
- Grzyby - Bloto
- The Hiram Clarke Hamster - Viper
- Boogie Bass Traxx EP - Big Dope P
- Let Go - Robert Glasper
- Before I was born - KayCyy
- Phantom Island - King Gizzard & The Lizzard Wizard
- Waterfall Horizon - 7038634357
- Why - DJ Paypal
- Blood, Sweat & Self - SICARIA
- Rebel - EsDeeKid
- EDDRBDNCRMXS - Teo Lucandamo
- Superwave EP - Low End Activist
- Almas Perdidas - THRE36OYZ
- Paint to Power - Maruja
- Papillon - The Lightbulb
- MALIK - Venna
- Club Orthodontics - Sam Binga
- sourcepond - sideproject
- IIcons - Two Shell
- Black British Music - Jim Legxacy
- Soft New Magic Dream - Black Moth Super Rainbow
- questions (volume one) - Mark Guiliana
- LIVE-ACTION - Nate Smith
- Balm - III Considered
- TURMERIC - The Twins
- Competition is for Losers - Rizzle Kicks
- HYPERYOUTH - Joey Valence and Brae
- Baby - Djion
- Goofs - Medasin
- God does like ugly - JID
- AIN’T NO DAMN WAY - KAYTRANADA
- KOREAM AMERICAN - kimj
- That wasn’t a dream - Pino Palladino + Blake Mills
- The Alps (2025 remaster) - Braiden
- DUMB - Emma Louse + Flume
- The Answer Breaks - Ramon Pang
- Distorsion Daddy Does Club Crimes - Zero Tep
- SISTER - Frost Children
- Amigood - Ivylab
- Ride into Sun - Brad Mehldau
- Skepta..Fred - Skepta + Fred Again
- Liquor Store Run - bastienGOAT
- Bronce Claw Iso - Iglooghost
- Human Error Club - Human Error Club
- LOVED - Parcels
- Turn It Up - Eliminate
- Diaspora Dance Music - Strandz
- Same Day Cleaning - Sammy Virji
- REAL JUNGLE 2 - Hopper1000
- berceuse - GAZZI
- Getting Killed - Geese
- cómo empezar algo que no tiene fin¿ - Eigen Risico
- cross-genre - lotura
- The Mocking Stars - LAUSSE THE CAT
- Tranquilizer - Oneohtrix Point Never
- I Created The Universe So That Life Could Create a Language So Complex, Just To Say How Much I Love You - Sega Bodega
- BLACK’!ANTIQUE; ONYX’! - Pink Siifu
If you got this far you can check out my music on Soundcloud (I got 10 bootleg albums released, I think that’s as far as I will go) and Youtube, though I have been quite inactive this year because work and life stuff.