Happy New Year 313! In no particular order, here are some of my favourite singles and albums of 2002...
Singles: joakim - cotton gun (versatile) jazzanova - that night (jcr) ur - transitions (underground resistance) theo parrish - solitary flight (sound signature) the other people place - sunday night live at the laptop cafe (clone) aardvarck - cult copy (rush hour) pub - derail/film (ampoule) paradox - paragon of virtue (archive) brandy - the ritual [chateau flight remix] (yellow) seiji - loose lips/3dom (bitasweet) anthony shakir - what, me worry? (seventh city) double helix - funxtiles (rush hour) total science - just kisses (skindeep) john tejada & titonton duvante - coax (sonar kollektiv) atjazz - witchbender (mantis) justus kohnke - 2 after 909 (kompakt) no milk - colors (rhapsody) strand - message iii (delsin) 4hero hold it down [bugz in the attic mix] (talkin loud) visioneers - 55 dollars (omniverse) cousin cockroach - this ain't tom & jerry (bitasweet) rednose distrikt - all releases (hum hum) metro area - miura (environ) john tejada - timebomb vip (7th city) terry brookes - breaking cycles (deepart) private lightning six - look straight [john tejada mix] (pomelo) domu - save it (2000 black) future beat alliance - broken promise (project) Albums: as one - 21st century soul (ubiquity) boards of canada - geogaddi (warp) recloose - cardiology (planet e) jello - voile (peacefrog) dabrye - instrmntl (eastern developments) russ gabriel - into the unknown (out of the loop) brooks - you, me & us (mantis) phil ranelin - the remixes (hefty) jazzanova - in between (jcr) chateau flight - remixent (versatile) Shouts to the usual gang of friends making and releasing beautiful techno - Delsin, Rush Hour, Digital Soul, Iridite, Downlow, Keynote, Fabrice Lig, Titonton, Arne Weinberg, the Moderator; plus a special mention for one of the year's most prolific and consistently high-quality producers, John Tejada. Some general highlights: - Submerge getting back into serious action - Theo Parrish for coming with the soulful deepness again and again - Metro Area getting the wide-scale attention they deserve - Emoticon keeping up the release pressure - The absolutely rocking Spatial parties in Glasgow And finally, I'll remember this year for the passing of James Stinson, who left behind a wonderful body of work and made an undeniably significant mark on the history of techno music... Cheers, Tom
