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Resident Advisor Posts / 8521 RA Since / Aug 2001 | #0 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 10:09
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Posts / 137 RA Since / Aug 2007 | #1 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 11:28 I can't believe nobody mentioned the Osborne album...so good and one of the few house/techno albums that was more than a collection of 12inches.
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Posts / 81 RA Since / Jun 2008 Location / verona, Italy | #2 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 11:31 hearthrobb?
jay haze?
bruno pronsato my number one!
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New user Posts / 2 RA Since / Jun 2008 | #3 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 11:33 very cool #1
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New user Posts / 2 RA Since / Mar 2008 Location / London | #4 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 11:47 I really think Dinky's album should have at least made the top 20!
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Posts / 10 RA Since / Feb 2005 Location / Budapest | #5 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 11:50 i cant believe black dog's radio scarecrow and luomo's convival couldn't make the top20. i'm disappointed, yeah.
actually, all of your xy of 2008 is pure rubbish, focusing on trends that maybe cool right now but will be embarassing in the next year or 2010. i can't believe that after all of the years resident advisor has become a shitty-pretty all about fashy minimal/techno/dubstep site.
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| #6 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 11:53 My number one is Motorcitysoul - Technique
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Posts / 50 RA Since / Mar 2007 | #7 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 11:54 quote:
Posted by Flynn
i cant believe black dog's radio scarecrow and luomo's convival couldn't make the top20. i'm disappointed, yeah.
actually, all of your xy of 2008 is pure rubbish, focusing on trends that maybe cool right now but will be embarassing in the next year or 2010. i can't believe that after all of the years resident advisor has become a shitty-pretty all about fashy minimal/techno/dubstep site.
well, you just said it all 
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| #8 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 12:11 My Top 5:
1.Portishead - Third
2.M83 - Saturdays = Youth
3.Low Motion Disco - Keep It Slow
4.Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
5.Pluxus - Solid State
Honourable mention to TV on the Radio's 'Dear Science'!
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Posts / 19 RA Since / Nov 2007 | #9 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 12:17 I totally agree with Flynn... I don't understand, if you can report cool news about everything, that is exciting in electronic music, why are these year-end charts full of mediocre minimal & dubstep stuff. Where's Black Dog, Lulu Rouge, Cut Copy, The Bug etc.
For me, it's like you guys have heard only ca 50% of the albums and mixalbums that were really important in 2008...or your musical horizons are not wide enough...
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Posts / 583 RA Since / Jul 2007 | #10 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 12:32 An other brilliant album on Ostgut! After Dettman's compilation at number one i start to see a trend here...
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Basketball Guy Posts / 549 RA Since / May 2007 Location / London Next @ Hard Wax XX | #11 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 13:04 i go prosumer & murat tepeli, lee jones, shed, scuba, max tundra, bruno pronsato, hercules and love affair, loco dice, ricardo, mark-henning...
i don't really see how the list is 'full of mediocre minimal & dubstep'...it's far more varied than I was expecting it to be and there's a huge range of sounds on there!
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Posts / 105 RA Since / Oct 2006 Location / new york, ny | #12 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 13:16 (Edited: 17 Dec 08 23:55) no automne fold?
my top 10
01. Shed - Shedding the Past
02. Move D and Benjamin Brunn - Songs From the Beehive
03. Deadbeat - Roots and Wire
04. Kangding Ray - Automne Fold
05. The Mole - As High As The Sky
06. Bruno Pronsato - Why Can't We Be Like Us?
07. Ezekiel Honig - Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band
08. Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco
09. AGF - Words Are Missing
10. Loco Dice - 7 Dunham Place
EDIT: also surprised that anja's "beyond the valley" and ellen's "SOOL" have gotten no mention - two high quality albums in my opinion.
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Posts / 25 RA Since / Dec 2008 | #13 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 13:19 no mention of Paul Kalkbrenners Berlin Calling? =/
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Posts / 67 RA Since / Jul 2007 | #14 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 13:38 I've got 7 of the top 10 here and love the Shed lp so genrally agree but where is Recomposed - its an excellent album. Maybe not dancefloor focussed enough for RA?
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| #15 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 13:45 quote:
Posted by PatriceBaumel
I can't believe nobody mentioned the Osborne album...so good and one of the few house/techno albums that was more than a collection of 12inches.
At least three writers put it in their top five (published below the  top 20), and it made many more top 20 lists.
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| #16 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 13:48 quote:
Posted by Techyvic
I totally agree with Flynn... I don't understand, if you can report cool news about everything, that is exciting in electronic music, why are these year-end charts full of mediocre minimal & dubstep stuff. Where's Black Dog, Lulu Rouge, Cut Copy, The Bug etc.
For me, it's like you guys have heard only ca 50% of the albums and mixalbums that were really important in 2008...or your musical horizons are not wide enough...
All of these albums were voted for multiple times in individual writer's lists. They just didn't have quite the consensus power that our top 20 list did. As the intro states, we heard all of these albums...and more...250 albums were mentioned overall by our contributors!
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| #17 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 13:50 What about Gaiser-Blank Fade?
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Tripping the light fantastic. Posts / 1667 RA Since / Aug 2006 Location / london Next @ Field Day 2010 | #18 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 14:00 I'm very pleased to see Flying Lotus getting a good mention, quality album.
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Posts / 40 RA Since / Jan 2008 Location / Mancunia | #19 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 14:01 top five albums for me: -
1) Bon Iver-For Emma, Forever Ago
2) Hercules & Love Affair-Self Titled
3) Cut Copy-In Ghost Colours
4) Roland Appel-Talk to You're Angel
5) Fleet Foxes-Self Titled
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The Tracklisting Monster Posts / 1590 RA Since / Dec 2006 Location / Toronto / NYC | #20 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 14:03 1. Shed - Shedding The Past
2. Headhunter - Nomad
3. Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco
4. Sten - The Essence
5. Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs From The Beehive
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Posts / 19 RA Since / Nov 2007 | #21 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 14:12 (Edited: 17 Dec 08 14:21) This is my album chart actually
http://www.freee.hu/?p=djblogpost_item&id=147
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New user Posts / 1 RA Since / May 2005 Location / East Flanders | #22 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 15:08 My Fav's 2008
Autechre - Quaristice
Squarepusher - Just a Souvenir
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
B12 - Last Days of Silence
Fennesz - Black Sea
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Posts / 24 RA Since / May 2008 | #23 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 16:00 quote:
Posted by Rabbit-killer
What about Gaiser-Blank Fade?
im a big fan of gaiser, but even i found that album quite poor
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Posts / 83 RA Since / Oct 2006 Location / Mostar | #24 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 16:10 Well a pretty good list most of my favorites mentioned - loco dice, minilogue,bruno pronsato, shed, deadbeat. I miss two albums in the list - Butch's Papillon (in my opinion one of best three albums this year, I am considering only CD1 i.e. the new material) and SCSI-9 album. I saw someone mentioning Kalkbrenner's Berlin Calling - I love the album, and if it contained only new material It would deserve a top 5 mention on my list for sure. But most of the stuff on the album is previously released material on Bpitch so I would not categorize it as a new album 
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| #25 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 16:23
Number 1 Album of 2008?
BEAT PHARMACY - WIKKID TIMES
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| #26 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 16:32 quote:
Posted by madge
My number one is Motorcitysoul - Technique
My number 2 is Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs From The Beehive
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Basketball Guy Posts / 549 RA Since / May 2007 Location / London Next @ Hard Wax XX | #27 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 17:24 quote:
Posted by sabotage
Number 1 Album of 2008?
BEAT PHARMACY - WIKKID TIMES
i liked this too for the most part. i wouldn't mind a dub version of some of those tracks though...
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| #28 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 18:46 quote:
Posted by marconastik
hearthrobb?
jay haze?
bruno pronsato my number one!
yeah, i really thought bruno would, at the least, be in the top five..... if not No. 1...
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Posts / 11 RA Since / Jul 2007 | #29 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 19:20 I know everyone says "I can't believe no-one has mentioned _______", but, well, I genuinely can't believe no-one has mentioned Mike Shannon's Memory Tree: skitterish, detroitian lushness for the floor or the sit-around-and-play-cards-and-toke night in, and a million miles from the minimal yawnathons that get many folk's todgers tumescent. One of the best producers out there, no question. Other than that, out of the ones I've heard, would have to say: Theo Parrish, Sound SignaturesThe Mole As High As The SkyClaro Intelecto MetanarrativeMark Henning Jupiter JiveBy the way, does anyone know what's happened to Isolee. Where he go?
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Posts / 72 RA Since / May 2007 Location / Omaha | #30 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 19:30 (Edited: 18 Dec 08 00:05) quote:
Posted by PatriceBaumel
I can't believe nobody mentioned the Osborne album...so good and one of the few house/techno albums that was more than a collection of 12inches.
I was thinking the same thing. I have "16th Stage" stuck in my head as I type this. I'd be interested to see the top 50 or even 100. No recaps or write-ups necessary, just a list to see where everyone's favorites converge.
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Mu-SiCK.tumblr Posts / 373 RA Since / Oct 2005 Location / On A Deeper Side | #31 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 19:33 Another one very good not mentioned was "Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia - Pain Disappears".
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| #32 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 19:38 quote:
Posted by DJL
Another one very good not mentioned was "Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia - Pain Disappears".
Good spot!!
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| #33 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 21:08 I didn't realize I could really nominate Sound Signatures Vol. 1 as the vinyl album was released in 2008 so there was only a few extra tracks that were 'bonus' on the CD in 09. Otherwise that would have been probably my number 2 or 3. For all you haters saying your underground choices didn't make the list, volunteer to write some event / record reviews a bit for and maybe next year you can contribute to these lists as well
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Posts / 11 RA Since / Jul 2007 | #34 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 21:18 quote:
Posted by bigbernardo
For all you haters saying your underground choices didn't make the list...
Bit strong, no?
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| #35 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 21:22 quote:
Posted by flabdance
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Posted by bigbernardo
For all you haters saying your underground choices didn't make the list...
Bit strong, no?
Hahaha nah man, I'm using haters in a non-aggressive way I just like the expression. Anyways, how did anyone else not recognize the brilliance that was Clark's 'Turning Dragon'. I really thought that album would be the furious kick in the shins necessary to maybe jolt people out of this elevator music / "deep house" coma. Ah well.
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| #36 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 21:40 hard to complain about this, very unsurprising list. listing 20 albums i really liked in any genre this year is pushing it for me... let alone 20 good electronic ones.
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| #37 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 21:41 suppose i'd expect the 2xcd of sound sculptures volume one to get more votes. not my favourite theo at all, but prefer it to almost everything on this list.
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Posts / 135 RA Since / Jul 2007 | #38 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 22:49 My top 20 for 2008
1/Terre Thaemlitz (DJ Sprinkles)-Midtown 120 blues (will be released in Europe on the 29th of January but it's already out in Japan, therefor, this masterpiece deserves to be listed here.
2/Move D & Benjamin Brunn-Songs from the beehive
3/Kangding Ray-Autumn Fold
4/Lindstrom-where you go I go too
5/Osborne-Osborne
6/Petar Dundov-Escapements
7/Mike Shannon-Memory tree
8/Huge Hephner-Nymphomatriarch LP
9/Shed-shedding the past
10/Deadbeat-Roots and wire
11/The Mole-As high as the sky
12/Marcin Czubala-Chrinicles of never
13/Lee Jones-Electronic Franck
14/Dave Aju-Open wide
15/Kenny Larkin-keys, strings, tambourines
16/Los Angeles-Flying Lotus
17/Prosumer and Murat tepeli-serenity
18/Beat pharmacy-wikkid times
19/Hercules and love affair-hercules and love affair
20/Kelley Pollar-I need you to hold on while the sky is falling
My bigest disapointements this year.
B12's coming back with "The last days of silence".As an old fan I was so happy when this has been released.I found the album totally boring and uninteresting from A to Z.
Sten-The essence was also a huge deception.
For 2009 I would really want to see a new Isolée Album coming.It's been damned too long now.
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| #39 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 23:14 quote:
Posted by tibalSten-The essence was also a huge deception.
exactly. well called. as i said with dial and the top labels, for so long under-rated and now over-rated after a disappointing year by their (very high) standards.
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Posts / 11 RA Since / Jul 2007 | #40 / Wed, 17 Dec 08 23:22 tibal - shannon in top 10 and pining for isolee: i dig your style
big bernardo - fair do's with the non-aggressive use of "haters" (even though i don't think it's a cool word in any sense - a bit like "loser" - since it's symptomatic of the tendency for us narcissistic moderns to use overly emphatic words, as though every expression had to be an advertising slogan. be gentle!)
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