Top 10 Albums of 2016

I love it when at the end of the year people comment "Naah, it's been a weak year..." blah blah. Even with the loss it took off and landed with (Bowie, Prince, George Michael), 2016 has been good to me. Here is my list:

1. Frank Ocean . Endless . Def Jam Recordings

2. A Tribe Called Quest / We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service / Epic

3. Solange Knowles . A Seat At The Table . Saint Records/Columbia

4. Mykki Blanco . Mykki . Dogfood/!K7

5. LA-4A . Phonoautograph . Delft

6. Factory Floor . 25 25 . DFA

7. David Bowie . Blackstar . RCA/Columbia/Sony

8. Anohni . Hopelessness . Secretly Canadian

9. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto, Bryce Dessner . The Revenant . Milan Records

10. James Blake . The Colour In Anything . Polydor

DISKORDIA 021

Diskordia in the service of hardworking women again: I present to you a local artist, recently got my attention, but has obviously been working hard for some time now. She performs as Klara, wandering around clubs and studios, recently announced that she finalized her first studio, to completely dedicate to the musical endeavors she has started. Some of it is her own solo work, some of it is in a colab with another recent acquisition on the Macedonian electronic music scene - Defect 13. Klara can also be heard perform as a dj!

Tune in DISKORDIA to catch some early plays of the music, soon to be released. 

Klara can be found here: https://www.mixcloud.com/Klara_Melody/

Kanal 103 can be streamed here: http://radio.spodeli.org/kanal103/

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This week's Diskordia is to compensate for the technical difficulties from last week and spend quality 60mins with the ingenious diletante that is Gudrun Gut. From her formation years as an artist in the late 70s, she seems like an irresistable part of the art scenes she is working within. A motor to many successful and prominent art collectives, she has been creatively present in Einstürzende Neubauten, Malaria! and others. My favorite piece from her more recent history is her colab with AGF on the project Baustelle. 

Tonight we listen to some of her collaborative pieces with artist Myra Davies and some not incidentally selected Erase Errata tracks. 
DISKORDIA always in service of hardworking women
listen here live: http://radio.spodeli.org/kanal103/ (mondays 9-10pm)
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Fresh from last month - Mykki Blanco's newest album "MYKKI" in tonight's DIskordia. Fresh sounds from my generation's Yoko Ono, some heavy beats, some over-the-top lyrics and some cultural re-appropriations right there in this half an hour of an album. The Mykki Blanco persona is so sensitive, serious and most of all, free. Thats why we dip into some older tracks too, also featuring Princess Nokia whose "Young girls" is an irresistible part of most of my radio shows. 

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Diskordia in solidarity with polish women. Listen here::::::

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Flying Lotus has been present in my playlists for a while now, but I never picked up on any of the artists around him. Kamasi Washington is already very well recognized and has made it on air on my other radio shows, but mr Stephen Bruner is fresh new around here. Although active for 15 years now, with a wide variety of talents and collaboration, we sail into his works with his most recent release - The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam, released for Fly-Lo's Brainfeeder under his Thundercat alias. So obvious why they jam along with Flying Lotus, I enjoy this music a lot. 

Also listening to Warpaint today: the ultimate girl-on-the-edge-of-main-stream-and-avantgarde listen these days. They released their new Heads Up album this summer on Rough Trade and it's working for me on so many levels - with the sensibility Janet Jackson meets Cocteau Twins and much better rhythms than most of the their music before. So soft and with a dark twist, if I may. 

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We begin a series of mixes/mixtapes by guests I invite from time to time to Diskordia. 
They are all deeply moved by music and bear a very special understanding and appreciation for it, so having them present on my music stream is a true pleasure. 

A few words about the music today:
"So, here's the mix. I named it Cosmovisión. It starts and ends with a field recording of some shamanic ritual performed by Brazilian indians. In between, there's this new wave of Latin American producers. The vibe's more or less like a flying saucer ride along the banks of the Amazon river. I hope you enjoy it."

DISKORDIA MIX 001 per my request is by Rodrigo Miravalles or SUVO OKO, an initiative to promote Brazilian music and tell stories from Brasil, but not the usual stuff. Made in Skopje, Macedonia. You can listen to more stuff by Suvo oko here.