every new year i tend to go through music from the previous year and compile a playlist or two. here's my 2018 selection. it probably tries to do too much or has too many kinds of music though i've tried to give it a flow. i found it pretty interesting how political it is this year – art alway has something to say and is like the nerve endings in feeling what's happening in the culture i guess. anyway see what you think…

2018 selection:

• Fingers of Thought – CV & JAB
• Forever Changeless – Nils Frahm
• This Is America – Childish Gambino
• Shot Gun Shack – Neneh Cherry
• If Only – Kojey Radical
• No White God – Oscar #Worldpeace
• Understand What Black Is – The Last Poets
• Blaxploitation – Noname
• Struggle Sounds – Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
• Abusey Junction – Kokoroko
• A Metallick Taste (feat. Jonah Levine Collective) – Daedelus
• Street Fighter Mas – Kamasi Washington
• Gabriel – Jono McCleery
• Allocate – Damien Jurado
• Now That I'm a River – Charles Watson
• The Soul Searchers – Paul Weller
• A Trick of the Light – Villagers
• Runnin’ (feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow) – Blood Orange
• Ottolenghi – Loyle Carner & Jordan Rakei
• Pass Me the Ashtray (feat. IAMDDB) – The Mouse Outfit
• Last Last Fall – Jonwayne Last Last Fall
• I'll Be on Your Mind – Skinny Pelembe
• Carry Me (feat. Obongjayar & Yazz Ahmed) – Everything Is Recorded
• Energy (feat. Nadeem Din-Gabisi) – Sampa the Great Energy (feat. Nadeem Din-Gabisi)
• Water – Kojey Radical, Mahalia & Swindle
• Somehow Somewhere Someway (feat. Umar Bin Hassan) – Ty
• Flyby Vfr – Skee Mask
• Con Moto – String Theory
• Bad Bad News – Leon Bridges
• Judge Not (Ray Mang Disco Mix) – Phenomenal Handclap Band
• Natural Sci-Fi – Steve Spacek
• Unmade – Thom Yorke
• Echo Dissolve – Jon Hopkins
• Life, Life (Andy Stott Remodel) – Ryuichi Sakamoto
• nyepi – Ólafur Arnalds

2018 horizontal:

and then i found going through that i had discovered a lot of instrumental music i loved so also have done a 2018 horizontal playlist. i have not particularly ordered this one so put it on random and see what happens. both run over a couple of hours or so. i am on apple music so you can find the lists there as i think i have made them public. if not i can send you a link if interested.

• Colorado – Aukai
• Fingers of Thought – CV & JAB
• Fundamental Values – Nils Frahm
• Some Limited and Waning Memory (feat. Echo Collective)- Christina Vantzou
• Forever Changeless – Nils Frahm
• Sunson – Nils Frahm
• Another Long Evening – Kronos Quartet & Laurie Anderson
• This Trip – Nightports & Matthew Bourne
• Virtues – Dedekind Cut
• Long May It Sustain – A Winged Victory For The Sullen
• Quebec (Climber)- Bing & Ruth Quebec (Climber)
• A Catalogue of Afternoons – Max Richter
• Circle – Goldmund
• Life, Life (Andy Stott Remodel) – Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Ringing – Nils Frahm
• Feel First Life – Jon Hopkins
• Recovery – Jon Hopkins
• Echo Dissolve – Jon Hopkins
• Dreaming – Jon Hassell
• Solan Goose – Erland Cooper
• saman – Ólafur Arnalds
• Whaup – Erland Cooper
• Circle (Reprise)Phil France
• Selva Oscura 1.1 – William Basinski & Lawrence English
• Below – Lapalux
• La Joya – Aukai
• Unblocked – Djrum
• nyepi – Ólafur Arnalds
• momentary – Ólafur Arnalds
• brot – Ólafur Arnalds
• In a Remote Place – Craig Armstrong