Jason Sigal Participates in 2010 List Making / Favorite Sounds of 2010

2010 was great! Maybe too great!! Here's a freeform series of lists of some of the music that grabbed me the most, including some Assorted Awards. Take a look and a listen...

 = hear more of the artist's music on the Free Music Archive
♫ = a streaming archive mostly from Talk's Cheap, my radio show here on WFMU

16 ALBUMS

	White Fence - S/T (Make a Mess LP / Woodsist CD) Tim Presley of Darker My Love, Strange Boys, and The Fall album Reformation Post TLC		Joshua Abrams - Natural Information (Eremite Records)  ♫ "Dolphin Cave Dazzling" 15-year Chicago bass vet of Town & Country & Bird Show Band (below) ...Jazz/composition
	Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa (Honest Jons) Video interview with revolutionizing producer Nozinja ♫ "Vana Vasesi" by Mancingelania		Palenque Palenque: Champeta Criolla & Afro Roots in Colombia 1975-1991 (V/A) [Soundway] Booklet describes Colombian Afrobeat, Highlight & Psychedelia... ♫ Wganda Kenya "Pim Pom"

	Black Bug - Black Bug - (FDH) ♫ "Mental Ray"		Unwanted Christmas Presents s/t LP (Electrocution) ♫ "Stone Age Love"
	The Moles - Untune the Sky 2xLP [Reissue] (Kill Shaman) ♫ "Breathe Me In" 1991 psych-pop masterpiece from AU, Richard Davies & friends		Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (4AD) ♫ "Beverly Kills"
	Chancha Vía Circuito -  Rio Arriba (ZZK) ♫ "Figura - Ze bula (Chancha Via Circuito remix)" Buenos Aires label known for digital cumbia dishes super analog-sounding 2nd LP from Pedro Canale		Angel Face - Wolf City Blues (Apache Film) ♫ "12 1/2"

Milk 'N' Cookies - Album + Live @ CBGBs 1975 CS (Burger Records) ♫ "Just a Kid" / "Ready Steady" / "Nots"

Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Rush to Relax (Goner) album's good, live show's BEST of 2010 ♫ "Tuning Out"

	Arrington de Dinoyso's Malaikat Dan Singa (K Records) "Mani Malaikat" live on Talk's Cheap, Northern-Spy Records exclusive lathe cut, Old Time Relijun & more @ FMA		Timmy's Organism - Rise of the Green Gorilla (Sacred Bones) "Silver Mountain" Human Eye live on Talk's Cheap this year
	Bird Show Band (Amish Records) Ben Vida with guests from Tortoise, Jim Baker's violent ARP 2600, & upright-bassist Josh Abrams (above) FMA feature		Sun Araw - On Patrol 2xLP (Not Not Fun) more Sun Araw
2 Top 7"s !!
	Vex Ruffin & The Lo-Fi Jerkheads - 4-track 7" EP (Black Gladiator) sample-based punk! Black Gladiator = Slovenly sublabel. Album coming from Stonesthrow...?!?   ♫ "Youth of the Beast" "It's Hard To Be A Motor"		Tonstartssbandht - "Midnight Cobras" 7" EP (Psychic Handshake) ♫ "Electric Dragon Sword" 7" Tonstartssbandht @ FMA also an Assorted Award winner (below)

22 more favorite mp3s from the Free Music Archive (click on "i" for lots more info & music!)	Live tracks from all 10 of the amazing artists who came by my radio show, Talk's Cheap (click on "i" for lots more info about the songs, artists, and more mp3s from each live session!)

20 more favorite full albums from the Free Music Archive

	Single Bullet Theory - SBT 1977-1980 (Artifacts/Yclept)		Cooper-Moore: A Retrospective 1990-2010
	Smersh Library Sampler 1983-1994		Ballpen - The Dreams Trilogy (La Bél Netlabel)
	Ion - Schutzhaft* (Local Records Romania)		Hiiragi Fukuda - My Turntable Is Slow (Sloow Tapes)
	Virginia Pipe - Bahnhof Zum Bahnhof (Kakutopia)		King Kong Ding Dong - Youth Culture Index (Dekorder)
	KenLo Craqnuques - Brun (Error-Broadcast)		Greatest It [V/A] (UpItUp/Ego Twister/ Peppermill/Proot/Cock Rock Disco/WM Recordings)
	Cyclic Bits: The Raymond Scott Variations (V/A) (Chinstrap Music)		Karen Cooper Complex - Shinjuko Birdwalk (Artifacts/Yclept)
	Club Foot Orchestra LP (Subterranean)		Intelligent Toys: We Make Music [V/A] (Sutemos)
	Los Amparito - Demo		My Teenage Stride: 5 New Songs
	Atlas Sound - Bedroom Databanks		Music For Your Plants - MFYP EP
	Various Artists - 2999 Project (Peppermill Records)		AMANDA - Power Child FMA Sampler

5 More Awesome Songs:
Big Troubles "Freudian Slips" (listen)
Mahjongg "Grooverider Free" (listen)
Malachai "Shitkicker" (listen)
The Whines “Vacation” (listen)
Lifeguards - "Naught Windsor" (listen)

ASSORTED AWARDS:

Guitar Player of the year: Mike Polizze, who over the course of a year released 3 awesome 12"s as Purling Hiss, and a 2xLP with Birds of Maya (Ready to Howl, Richie Records) (video of guitar shredding)

Most Engaging Audio Interview: Tonstartssbandht (Weird Canada) 

Best Free Album + EP + Long-Overdue Vinyl Album combo: Big Blood Dead Songs LP (Time Lag) & Dark Country Magic (dontrustheruin)

Best DJ Screw-influenced Industrial / Noise / Hip-Hop Album: Expressway Yo-Yo Dieting - Bubblethug (Weird Forest)

Best live rock show at a venue with Shop in the name: Eddy Current Suppression Ring @ Cake Shop

Best live improv at a venue with Shop in the name: Northampton Wools (Thurston Moore / Bill Nace / Chris Corsano) @ Rock Shop

Best Use of "Let The Bodies Hit The Floor" by Drowning Pool: Last Week's Best Show

Realest Band Names: Bill Cosby & the Pudding Pops, G.G. Allin’s Dick, Soloing Over Alanis Morissette, Janis Joplin Crap 'n Vomit, Vagina Sore Jr., Hoodie Allen, SiFunk & Garmunkle, John Cougar Concentrationcamp, Back to the Future the Ride, Blood Bath & Beyond (tie)

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/// More music I like can be found in Talk's Cheap radio shows, Grey Area podcasts, and all up-and-down my FMA profile.

/// Check the rest of the WFMU 2010 Lists here, and Free Music Archive lists here.

/// See you in 2011, can't fight the future!

Comments

[Doug S.]

Ooh baby, I love that Palenque comp. Great picks Jason!

[Jeoff]

Thank you for the introduction to Cooper-Moore. Remarkable, creative, indefatigable: heartening to know such people still endure.