DJ Favorites 2008
Jim Morgan, host of Colored Mind Drops (Friday Midnight-3am)
Colored Mind Drops: Favorites of 2008
Here’s the best stuff I picked up in 2008, including both new releases and reissues new to the show. I clustered a few related releases together as single items.
1. Boris, Smile (both the DIW Phalanx and Southern Lord versions, which are completely different)
2. Circle, Telescope (Sunhair)
3. Isengrind, TwinSisterMoon and Natural Snow Buildings, The Snowbringer Cult
(Students of Decay)
4. Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted, Baghdad 1925-1929 (Honest Jons/EMI)
5. Top Ranking Santo Gold: A Diplo Dub (Mad Decent)
6. 1970’s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground (Sublime Frequencies)
7. Skullflower, Taste the Blood of the Deceiver (Not Not Fun) and Circle of Serpents / Circulus
Vitiosus Deus / Valley of Scorpions (Turgid Animal)
8. Basic Channel 2 (Basic Channel/BMG)
9. Longmont Potion Castle, 6 (D.U.)
10. After Dark (I.D.I.B.)
11. Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock and Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria (Sound Way);
Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound of the Underground Lagos Dancefloor, 1974-1979
(Sound Way); Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds and Nigerian Blues, 1970-1976
(Sound Way)
12. Have a Nice Life, Deathconsciousness (Enemies List)
13. Wooden Shjips, “Loose Lips” / “Start to Dreaming” 7” (Sub Pop)
14. Om, Live in Jerusalem (Southern Lord)
15. Ersen, Ersen (Finders Keepers)
16. Mecki Mark Men, Mecki Mark Men (Universal)
17. Quarteto Em Cy, Aleluia 1964-66 (l/Cherry Red)
18. Hyphy Hitz (TVT)
19. Nahvalr, Nahvalr (Enemies List)
20. Alkerdeel, Luizig (At War With False Noise)
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Guilty Pleasure of the Year: Daft Punk, Alive 2007
Favorite Google Search: “rod blagojevich hair”
Favorite New Food Find: Kettle’s Death Valley Chipotle potato chips (“the ultimate pepper paradise”)
Things I look forward to in 2009: a few New England road trips this summer, Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, the inexorable march of time, coffee
