Best Music of 2009, Most Anticipated Music of 2010
// January 18th, 2010 // Comments Off // Bez kategorii, radiobalance.com
Hello there
Haven’t been here in ages, really sorry. This is partly because of the improvements we are getting ready for you. This means, to be more specific or less boring, live shows and a real studio which we can, let’s say officially, call ‘Radio Balance – Studio 1′. It’s not ready yet, but it will be, soon. And on the top of that – if everything goes fine (meaning if our potential sound engineer gets an extension visa for living in the UK) – we can even announce a ‘Radio Balance – Studio 2′. But I’d wait with that, we will see. For now I can definitely entertain you with some photos of the Studio 1 construction. It’s a tough job, you know, to fix it all together and work full time somewhere else at the same time. However, we believe, we can achieve something good by doing that so we know it’s worth it. And we will finish the construction soon, promise :).
(and upload some working pics of it too) :(
As for the music. It was a good year, last year. Amazing albums by Animal Collective, XX, Florence & the Machine, Phoenix, Japandroids, Friendly Fires, Speech Debelle, Mos Def, Major Lazer, The Field, Fuck Buttons, Moderat, Mumford & Sons, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Keith Jarrett, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Wooden Shjips, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Staff Benda Bilili, Bat For Lashes, Alice in Chains, Imogen Heap, Jack Pénate, The Invisible, Marissa Nadler, Mew, Soil & Pimp Sessions, Bill Callahan, Allen Toussaint, Them Croocked Vultures, Céu, Jimi Tenor and Tony Allen, Tinariwen, Quantic and His Combo Barbaro, Muse, Atlas Sound, Jonsi & Alex, Temper Trap and Wilco to name a few(!). It’s hard to choose the best one as well, never liked having to choose it. I can pick the best for the kinds, but not a total favourite amongst the lot. Based on that, we decided that we’ll be playing a few blocks of little genre-specified mixes from now on rather than one, whole mix of everything, details to follow soon. I hope you’ll enjoy the changes. At some stage the genre-specified playlists will be available to stream separably, regardless of the live broadcast. This is also one of the tasks for the new year – to make it possible for you peeps to create the radio the way you want it, as in the web page content ‘drag and drop’ way, well almost like that. You’ll be able to choose – thanks to a choice of podcasts – what you want to listen to. Hopefully – if it works.
The most important and most anticipated albums of 2010 will come from the talents and tastes of the following:
Radiohead (hopefully),
Elbow (same),
Red Hot Chilli Peppers (as above)
Massive Attack,
Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck – Charlotte Gainsbourg (Feat. Beck) – \"IRM\" (mp3),
Yeasayer – Yeasayer – \'Ambling\' (mp3)
Four Tet – Four Tet \'Love Cry\' (mp3)
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend – Myspace
Peter Gabriel,
Hot Chip,
Amy Winehouse (maybe),
The Avalanches,
The Magnetic Fields,
LCD Soundsystem,
Interpol,
Panda Bear,
Midlake,
The Strokes,
Cat Power,
Fleet Foxes,
Arcade Fire,
The Walkmen,
MGMT,
R.E.M.,
Sade,
The National,
Jonsi (of Sigur Rós),
Toro Y Moi,
Flying Lotus,
Lindstrom & Christabelle,
Joanna Newsom,
Goldfrapp,
Broken Bells,
Spoon,
Foals,
Klaxons,
Nedry – Nedry – Official website
Two Door Cinema Club,
Los Campesinos,
Delphic,
Eels,
Laura Veirs,
That’s just a rough selection, it doesn’t include any jazz or world music artists unfortunately. It will get topped up by me at a later date, when we know some more. As you can see so far, though – 2010 looks good for music too. By the new sound of a few from the list (Delphic, Vampire Weekend, Midlake) I can assure you it doesn’t set off to be worse than 2009. For now – I’m off to sleep, happy and full of hope. The new playlists are to follow soon. Hopefully.
Pawel
