Council Meeting Memo #087 — Squatney District Council’s Top 10 for 2024
I so did post this up on X / Twitter back at the start of 2025 but then I quit the platform so its gotten lost. Reposting here for posterity. Am resuming writing short pointless reviews too, because I feel compelled to.
New Music
1. Loidis: One Day (Incensio)
2. Alva Noto: Xerrox Vol.5 (Noton)
3. Naemi: Dust Devil (3XL)
4. Ulla & Ultrafog: it means a lot (Motion Ward)
5. Tim Reaper & Kloke: In Full Effect (Hyperdub)
6. Catherine Christer Hennix: Further Selections From The Electric Harpsichord (Blank Forms Editions)
7. Carrier: Neither Curve Nor Edge / In Spectra (Carrier)
8. Melike Şahin: Akkor (Gulbaba)
9. Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media)
10. Fennesz: Mosaic (Touch)
Old Music
1. Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works 2 (Warp)
2. Future Sound Of London: ISDN (Virgin)
3. Various Artists: Virtual Dreams II — Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, Japan 1993–1999 (Music From Memory)
4. Various Artists: Lost Paradise — Blissed Out Breakbeat Hardcore 1991–94
5. Von Schommer: DC15 (DeepChord)
6. Sandwell District: Where Next? (The Point Of Departure Recording Company)
7. Dennis Bovell: Sufferer Sounds (Disciples)
8. Dettinger: Oasis / Intershop (Kompakt)
9. Keith Hudson: Playing It Cool & Playing It Right (Wackies)
10. Talking Heads: ’77 (Rhino)
Movies
1. Crossing (Akin)
2. Civil War (Garland)
3. The Wild Robot (Sanders)
4. Alien: Romulus (Alvarez)
5. Black Dog (Hu)
6. Dune Part Two (Villneuve)
7. Badland Hunters (Meyong-Haeng)
8. Seed of the Sacred Fig (Rasoulof)
9. Anora (Baker)
10. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham)
