2017 Year In Review
For the uninitiated, the lists curated below heavily favor ambient, psychedelic, experimental, tripped, selections.
2017 Night Visitor Blog Mixes:
1. DJ Screendoor - Raw Tape [Techno] (September)
2. DJ Screendoor - Health Goth Workout Comedown Mix [Abstract/Dark] (May)
3. DJ Screendoor - Club Ritual Live on Radio.Computer Mix [House/Techno] (March)
4. DJ Screendoor - The Doldrums Mix [Techno] (September)
5. Night Visitor - November Muse 2017 [Darkwave / Gothic Techno] (November)
2017 Favorite Labels:
1. Livity Sound
2. Acting Press
3. Light Sounds Dark
4. WRWTFWW (We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want)
5. Sued
6. Houndstooth
7. DDS
8. Berceuse Heroique
9. Dark Entries
10. UIQ
2017 Favorite Artists:
1. Jon Hassell
2. Second Woman
3. Ploy
4. Brainwaltzera
5. Black Merlin
2017 Favorite LP Reissues:
1. Jon Hassell - Dream Theory In Malaya (Fourth World Volume Two) (Tak:til)
2. Cosey Fanni Tutti - Time To Tell (Conspiracy International)
3. DIN A Testbild - Programm 4 / Programm 3 (Mannequin)
4. Midori Takada - Though the Looking Glass (WRWTFWW / Palto Flats)
5. Yasuaki Shimizu - Music For Commercials (Crammed Discs)
6. Thomas Brinkmann - Retrospektiv (Third Ear) ...audio pt.2
7. Jan Jelinek - Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records (Faitiche)
8. Kenji Kawai — Ghost In The Shell (Original Soundtrack) (We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want)
9. Nirvana - Live: The Pat O'Brien Pavilion Del Mar 1991 (Interference)
10. Lab Rat XL - Mice or Cyborg (Clone)
2017 Favorite Single Re-issues:
1. Photek - T'Raenon (Applied Rhythmic Technology)
2. Skanna - Nightstalker EP / Find Me (Skanna)
3. Celestial Choir - Stand On The Word (Larry)
4. Greyhouse - New Beats The House (Dark Entries)
5. Kalk - Äkäsha (Running Back)
6. Metamatics - EP 01 (Neo Ouija)
7. Mike Ink, DJ Guy, Terrestre - Recast (Future Primitive)
8. DJ Bone - Riding The Thin Line (Another Day)
9. Swayzak - Lost Tapes EP 3/3 (240 Volts)
10. Cube 40 - You Make Me Function (Was/Is)
11. Keith Tucker – Detroit Saved My Soul (Mint Condition)
12. Playground Productionz - Orgy (Dance Mania)
2017 Favorite Compilations:
1. The Acceptable Presence Pt. 1 / Pt. 2 (Light Sounds Dark)
2. Miracle Steps (Music From The Fourth World 1983 – 2017) (Optimo Music)
3. Mono No Aware (PAN)
4. Outro Tempo: Electronic and Contemporary Music from Brazil, 1978-1982 (Music From Memory)
5. Superlongevity 6 LP (Perlon)
6. Trax Test (Excerpts From The Modular Network 1981-1987) (Ecstatic)
7. DJ Stingray - Kern Volume 4 (Tresor)
8. Lsd020 (Light Sounds Dark)
9. Jan Schulte - Tropical Drums of Deutschland (Music For Dreams)
10. Cybe - Tropisch Verlangen (Stroom)
2017 Favorite Commercial DJ Mix:
1. Roman Flugel - fabric 95 (Fabric)
2. DVS1 - fabric 96 (Fabric)
3. Call Super - fabric 92 (Fabric)
4. Midland - fabricLive 94 (Fabric)
5. Special Request - fabriclive 91 (Fabric)
6. Steffi - fabric 94 (Fabric)
2017 Favorite Albums: [Click for YouTube Playlist]
1. Second Woman - S/W (Spectrum Spools)
2. Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic (Hospital Productions)
3. Shinichi Atobe - From The Heart, It's A Start, A Work Of Art (DDS)
4. JASSS - Weightless (iDEAL Recordings)
5. Call Super - Arpo (Houndstooth)
6. RAMZI - Pèze-Piton (12th Isle)
7. M.E.S.H. - Hesaitix (PAN)
8. Porter Ricks - Anguilla Electrica (Tresor)
9. DJ Python - Dulce Compañia (Incienso)
10. GAS - Narkopop (Kompakt)
11. SW. - Untitled (Sued Records / R&S)
12. Equiknoxx - Colón Man (DDS)
13. Black Zone Myth Chant - Feng Shen (Editions Gravats)
14. Turinn - 18 ½ Half Minute Gaps (Modern Love)
15. Actress - AZD (Ninja Tune)
16. Akira Rabelais - Spellewauerynsherde (Boomkat Editions)
17. Brainwaltzera - Poly-Ana (Film)
18. Jay Glass Dubs - Dubs (Ecstatic)
19. Tom Hang - To Be Held In A Non Position (Tidy Bedroom)
20. Zomby - Mercury's Rainbow (Modern Love)
21. Special Request - Belief System (Houndstooth)
22. Msafiri Zawose - Uhamiaji (Soundway)
23. The Chi Factory* - The Kallikatsou Recordings (Astral Industries) ...audio pt2
24. Arthur Boto Conley's Music Workshop - (Sounds) Transferred From Various Outdated Media To A Maximum Of Physical Space (On A Flat Polyvinyl Chloride Disc) (Travel By Goods)
25. Ricardo Villalobos - Empirical House (a:rpia:r)
26. Basic Rhythm - The Basics (Type)
27. Mica Levi - Delete Beach (DDS)
28. Khotin - New Tab Side A | Side B (Pacific Rhythm)
29. Lee Gamble - Mnestic Pressure (Hyperdub)
30. Errorsmith - Superlative Fatigue (PAN)
31. Joshua Sabin - Terminus Drift (Subtext)
32. Kailin - Fracture (Mistry)
33. Obsequies - Organn (Knives)
34. Verge - Emblematic Ruin (Avian)
35. JK Flesh - Suicide Estate (Hospital Productions)
36. Ziúr - U Feel Anything? (Planet Mu Records Ltd.)
37. v1984 - Pansori (Knives)
38. The Bug vs Earth - Concrete Desert (Ninja Tune)
39. Ninos Du Brasil - Vida Eterna (La Tempesta International / Hospital Productions)
40. John T. Gast - Inna Babalon (Haunter Records / 5 Gate Temple)
41. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens (Smalltown Supersound)
42. Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata (Leisure System)
43. Burnt Friedman & Mohammad Reza Mortazavi - Yek (Nonplace)
44. Ariel Pink - Dedicated to Bobby Jameson (Mexican Summer)
45. Kassem Mosse - Chilazon Gaiden (Ominira)
46. DMX Krew - Strange Directions (Hypercolour)
47. Phantom Ship - Coastal (Limited Artifacts)
48. Kettenkarussell - Insecurity Guard (Giegling)
49. Aris Kindt - Swann and Odette (Kingdoms)
50. Dean Blunt - Stone Island (World Music)
51. Bill Converse - The Shape Of Things To Come (Dark Entries)
52. Best Available Technology - Exposure Therapy (Styles Upon Styles)
53. Emra Grid - Shay's Vacation House (Opal Tapes)
54. Moritz Von Oswald & Ordo Sakhna - Self-Titled (Honest Jon's Records)
55. The Chi Factory - Red Lantern at the Kallikatsou (Astral Industries)
56. Porn Sword Tobacco - 2017 (ACIDO)
57. Petre Inspirescu - Vintul Prin Salcii (Mule Musiq)
58. Floating Points - Reflections: Mojave Desert (Pluto)
59. Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft - Passive Aggressive (Melody As Truth)
60. Desolate - Lunar Glyphs (Fauxpas Musik)
2017 Favorite Singles and EPs: [Click for YouTube Playlist]
1. Aphex Twin - 3 Gerald Remix / 24 TSIM 2 (Technical Equipment Supply)
2. Radio Slave - Another Club (Rekids)
3. Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts (Boomkat Editions)
4. Lanark Artefax - Touch Absence (Whities)
5. Equiknoxx & Mark Ernestus - Mark Ernestus Remixes (DDS)
6. A Sagittariun - Vanishing Point (Hypercolour)
7. Orbe - Uniformity (Hivern Disc)
8. Skee Mask - 2012 / ISS002 (Ilian Skee Series)
9. Pye Corner Audio, Faten Kanaan - The Darkest Wave (Polytechnic Youth)
10. Micachu - Peace & Riding Through Drinking Harpo Dine (Oliver Coates and Eliza McCarthy Reworks) (Foom)
11. Ion Ludwig - For Real We Are Not For You EP (Toi.Toi.Musik)
12. Inner - Danceamine EP (Partisan)
13. Walrus - Basic Moves 01 (Basic Moves)
14. Spencer & Saginaw – Real Talk (Portage Garage Sounds)
15. Gunnar Haslam - Scale No Flam (The Bunker New York)
16. Broken Beat Highlights - Future Dub
Ploy - Unruly (Hemlock Recordings)
Ploy - Intrigued By The Drum (Timedance)
Minor Science - Volumes (Whities)
Batu - Marius (Hessle Audio)
Beatrice Dillon And Call Super - Inkjet / Fluo (Hessle Audio)
17. Livity Sound Essentials
Forest Drive West - Static / Escape (Livity Sound Recordings)
Kowton - Pea Soup / Iodine (Livity Sound)
Hodge - No Single Thing (Livity Sound Recordings)
I-iii - Dolce (Livity Sound Recordings)
Simo Cell - Pour Le Club! (Livity Sound Recordings)
Forest Drive West - Jinx / Scanners (Livity Sound Recordings)
18. Sued / SW. / SVN Essentials
DRESVN / SW. - Acido 25 (Acido)
SVN - Mechine EP (Sued)
SW. - SUED 016 (Sued)
SW. / SVN - Sued 18 (Sued)
19. Special Request - Stairfoot Lane Bunker (Houndstooth)
20. Black Merlin - Phase One (Pinkman Broken Dreams)
21. PLO Man - Powerline (Acting Press)
22. Superpitcher - The Golden Ravedays 1 (Hippie Dance)
23. Sprawl - Time Tunnel (Art-Aud)
24. Matt Karmil - Can't Find It (The House Sound) (Smalltown Supersound)
25. Farbror Resande Mac – Self-Titled (Horisontal Mambo)
26. Nina Kraviz - Pochuvstvui (трип)
27. Tryphème - Online Dating (Central Processing Unit)
28. Blawan - Nutrition (Ternesc)
29. J-zbel / U-202 / Low Jack - Rends L'argent (Brothers From Different Mothers / L.I.E.S)
30. DJ Normal 4 & Bufiman - The 5 Elements EP Pt. 1 (Aiwo rec.)
31. Overmono - Arla II / Arla III (XL Recordings)
32. Grey People - VV 021 (Valcrond Video)
33. Unknown Archetype - Tripp EP (R&S)
34. Dark Beats
Black Merlin - Proto World - EP (Berceuse Heroique)
Nadia Struiwigh - Lenticular (Central Processing Unit)
Helena Hauff - Have You Been There, Have You Seen It (Ninja Tune)
Kiss The Floor / Karl And The Kurbcrawlers - This Desire / Same Day (Death & Leisure)
Fallbeil / Ekman - Terminal Operations 003 (Terminal Operations)
Decius - Masculine Encounter (Decius Trax)
Steve Summers - Artificial Light (Clear)
Powell - New Beta Vol 1 (Diagonal)
35. Downtempo Cuts
Brainwaltzera - Outdives EP (Analogical Force)
Accelera - Surplus (Acting Press)
Money Morning - Corporate Karma (Acting Press)
Jules Venturini - Whities 014 (Whities Records)
Mana - Creature EP (Hyperdub)
BUSZ™ – Tipico Latino (Album Sampler) (Beef Records)
36. Downtempo Cuts (Cont.)
Burnt Friedman - Isomorphic EP (Bright Sounds)
Monic - Deep Summer (Burial remix) (Osiris Music)
AAAA - Jazz D (Omnidisc)
Andre Bratten - Valve (Smalltown Supersound)
Goldie - Inner City Life 2017 / Burial Remix (Metalheadz)
Searaime - Casual Frequencies (Smoky Window)
Kurt Baggaley – Remembering Infinity EP (Something Happening, Somewhere)
Belbury Poly / Moon Wiring Club - The Music Room (Ghost Box)
37. Broken Beat Highlights - Lo Fi
Hymns - Waves Of Nothing (Salt Mines)
TML - No Memory (Hotflush)
OR:LA - Farewell 24 (Hotflush)
Nasty King Kurl - SETR 005 (Serious Trouble)
Via Maris - Credentials / Glimpse (Mechanical Reproductions)
Dona vs DJ Plant Texture - The Bongoman Archive (Ilian Tape)
Laksa - Camo (Ilian Tape)
38. Broken Beat Highlights - Grime / Dub Influences
Pinch & Mumdance - Control / Strobe Light (Tectonic)
Deapmash - Halcyon EP (Leisure System)
Ossia - Tumult (Berceuse Heroique)
Beneath - Seeus (Hotline Recordings)
39. Broken Beat Highlights - Grime / Dub Influences (Cont.)
The Bug - Bad / Get Out The Way (Ninja Tune)
General Ludd - White Ghost (Fragrant Harbour)
Pinch - Brain Scan (Aquatic Lab)
Pinch - Water Bomb (Cold)
Pastiche - RUFFHOUSE001 (Ruffhouse)
40. Rave Memories
Clark - Honey Badger / Pig (Warp Records)
Akkord - RCVR / XMTR (Houndstooth)
Burial - Pre Dawn / Indoors (Nonplus Records)
41. Elektro
Various – Dolly Deluxe 1 / Dolly Deluxe 2 / Dolly Deluxe 3 / Dolly Deluxe 4
DJ Overdose - Feeding The Fad (Unknown To The Unknown)
Dave Clarke Feat. Mark Lanegan – Charcoal Eyes (Glass Tears) (Skint)
Anthony Rother – Omnitronic (OMNIDISC)
buttechno - 1984 (RASSVET records)
Kris Wadsworth - BREED 03 (Breed)
42. Acid / House Bangers
Marcos Cabral - Pest Control EP (Mule Musiq)
Ultimate Crew - Ultimate Crew EP (Acoustic Division)
Fiedel - S-Drive (Ostgut Ton)
Lory D - Strange Days Vol.5 (Numbers)
Emmanuel Top - Clair Obscur / Sombre (FoKalm)
VA - EP Ouza1307 (Outerzona13)
Xxxy - On The Run (Ten Thousand Yen)
43. Techno Bass
Objekt - Objekt #4 (Objekt)
Joy Orbison - Off Season / Fuerza (Hinge Finger)
Denis Sulta - Nein Fortiate EP (Sulta Selects)
Bass Clef - Interform / Untunnel (Magic + Dreams / The Trilogy Tapes)
Joy Orbison - Toss Portal EP (Toss Portal)
44. Techno Heat
Regis - The Master Side (Blackest Ever Black)
Andre Kronert - TOTM 02 (Tales Of The Machines)
Oscar Mulero - Contents "Pattern Series 4 Remixes" Part. II (Warm Up Recordings)
Floorplan- Let The Church (M Plant)
Xhin - SHIFTLTD001 (Midnight Shift)
Prequel Tapes - SHIFTLTD003 (Midnight Shift)
45. Techno Heat (Cont.)
DVS1 - Hush 20 / Mistress 20 (Hush / Mistress)
V/A - Klockworks 20.1 (Klockworks)
WK7 - Rhythm 1 (Power House)
Terrence Fixmer - Force (Ostgut-Ton)
Ryan James Ford – Alist Flirc (Marcel Dettmann Records)
Christopher Joseph – Space Crime Pt.1 (Flexxseal)
46. Tripped Techno
DJ Qu - No Poetry (Strength Music Recordings)
Yotam Avni - Tehillim (Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Aleksi Perälä – LF RMX 004 (LF RMX)
Van Abbe / Pantone 32 – No Comment 9001 (No Comment)
Luke Hess & Sascha Dive – Polyphonic Minds (minimood)
Kepler Sound District - KS 002 (Kepler Sound)
DJ Spider & Franklin De Costa – F Planet (Berceuse Heroique)
AWB - Kinetic Lullaby EP (Taapion)
Bjarki - This 5321 (трип)
47. Deep Vibes
Simic - COROT-7b (Acid Camp Records)
Savile - Compersion (2MR)
Prins Thomas – Edmond (Full Pupp)
Mattes Schwarz – I Don't Know (Magazine)
Iron Curtis - Maple (Office Recordings)
Einka / Terrence Dixon - Void (Goldmin)
Life of Marvin - Vol 1 (Life Of Marvin)
48. House Selections
DJ Deep - For The Love Of Kaoz EP (Kaoz Theory)
Pangaea - Two Mixes (Hadal)
Persian - Wasted Away (Mysticisms)
Todd Osborn - Elastic 68 (Argot)
Earthboogie - Mr Mystery (Leng)
Keita Sano - Not Too Late EP (What Ever Not)
GHETTOHOUSEDRUMMACHINE - Steel City Dance Discs Volume 4 (Steel City Dance Discs)
Books - High Praise Edits Volume 1 (XVI records)
Witness01 – Can I Get A Witness..? (Not on Label)
44. Melodic Minimal and Techno
Kiani & His Legion presents Far Out Radio Systems – Dream The Dreams Of Dreamers (Curle)
Dorisburg & Efraim Kent - Tecken (Tikita)
Various – Somewhere III - Vinylsampler B (Something Happening, Somewhere)
Shan - Rituals EP (Edhid)
Boot & Tax - Spazio EP (Endless Flight)
Spacetravel - Axiom EP (Cabaret)
Spacetravel - Consciousness (Traveling Without Moving)
Radio Slave - Overdue EP (Rekids)
43. Romanian Style Minimal Deep Grooves
Voyant Inc, Tofu Productions – Lost In Time / The Warmth (Aspect Music)
Beaver Sheppard - Tornado Brain (Sei Es Drum)
Novio Dub Tribe - Akiba EP (Irenic)
Mo Reece / Flight Mode- C Mo Futur / Ancient Light (World Unknown)
Omar - Give Me No Dame EP (Cabaret Recordings)
VA / Alexkid / Kebab (Hangover Music Label)
Steve O'Sullivan and Ricardo Villalobos - Sullric (Mosaic)
Richard Wolfsdorf – Mdrnty 002 (Mdrnty)
John Dimas - Telexistence (Metereze)
Adrian Niculae - Consensual EP (Motif)
39. Left of Center Cuts
Tolga Top - Strait 44 (Understate:ment)
Don't DJ - Hyperspace Is The Place / Hyperspace Is No Place (EM Records)
Torn Hawk - Men With No Memory (No 'Label')
Terrence Dixon - Like A Thief In The Night (Tresor Records)
Jamal Moss - Ginger Snaps Pt 1 (Not on Label)
Zuli - Numbers (UIQ)
2017 Disposable Commodities Releases:
Bloempot - (For the Deaf) (DISPCO-013)
Asher Gray - XLT (DISPCO-007)
Ongoing pressing delays and bankrupt distribution company dealt a few set backs to the DIS.CO operation. Renewed effort in 2018 with new distribution and revised vision!
2017 - Discogs Finders / Keepers:
[Heavy Rotation Jams found during late nite discogs wormholes]
Cheap Knob Gags - #2 (Cheap Knob Gags)
Christian Linder - Circular Motion (Phono Elements)
Tan-Ru - Changeling (Trelik)
Purveyors Of Fine Funk - Heights Trax Vol. 1 (Peacefrog Records)
Jack Master - Basement Trax Vol.I (Jack)
Discogs Part Two:
Tornado Wallace - Falling Sun (Second Circle)
Resilent - 1.1 / 1.2 / 2 (Chain Reaction)
Studio Pressure - Form + Function Singles (Photek)
Surgeon - Force + Form (Tresor)
Jonny L - Sawtooth (XL Recordings)
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