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Sunday, January 13, 2019

Steve Barker's Charts 2018


Dub & Reggae Ten for 2018

Nat Birchall meets Al Breadwinner feat. Vin Gordon -Sounds Almighty (Tradition)
Dubkasm - Rastrumentals (Rastrumentals)
Ossia - Dub Hell/Devil’s Dance (Blackest Ever Black)
Alter Echo & E3 meet Ishan Sound & Rider Shafique - Ah mi guide (Scrub a Dub)
Strategy - Dub Mind Paradigm (Kaliphonic)
7FO - 竜のぬけがらRyu no Nukegara (EM Records)
Miss Red - K.O. (PRESSURE)
TNT Roots - Mighty in Battle/Tears of the Righteous (Bokeh Versions)
King Kong - Repatriation (Irie Ites Records)
SKRS - Paradise Magic Traxx (Ancient Monarchy)

Best New Music 2018

DJ Novo Major & DJ Nelson - Principe mix – On the Wire 1st September 2018
Space Afrika – Somewher Decent to Live - sferic
Jon Hassell – Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)
Clara! – Reggaetoneras 3 – Editions Gravats
Lonnie Holley – MITH - Jagjaguwar
Shackleton – Furnace of Guts – Woe to the Septic Heart
Sandro Perri – In Another Life - Constellation
Clan Caimán - Clan Caimán - Em Records
Gwennifer Raymond – You were never much of a dancer – Tompkins Square
Silvio Astier – Pampa EP – Boomarm Nation

Best Reissues 2018

Susumu Yokota – Acid Mt. Fuji - Midgar
Rimarimba – Light Metabolism Number Prague - Freedom to Spend
John Coltrane Quartet – Both Directions at One - Impulse
Joe McPhee – Nation Time – Corbett vs Dempsey
Steve Reich – Drumming – Superior Viaduct
Ursula K. le Guin & Todd Barton – Music and Poetry of the Kesh – Freedom to Spend
Ursula Bogner – Recordings 1969 – 1988 (2018 Remaster) – Faitiche
To Catch a Ghost: Field Recordings from Madagascar – Sublime Frequencies
G.I.Gurdjieff – Improvisations – Fantôme
Michele Mercure – Beside Herself – RVNG Intl./Freedom to Spend