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The twitterverse is getting crowded, here are some of our latest finds: @Western Vinyl label home to Balmorhea, Composer @Rhys Chatham, @Sawako, @Hypnotic Brass Band, @Pauline Oliveros

The idea of progress has been slowly dying. No one wants to live in the future. No finds the Future attractive any longer. The only thing left to believe in is collapse. That’s not boring! The end of civilization would be terribly exciting, and unlike any future we could imagine, probably more likely. We all are collapsitarians these days.

Black Medicine Music from Stag Hare, rapidfire freejazz from Chicago’s DKV Trio (Hamid Drake, Kent Kessler , Ken Vandermark), Murky urban ghetto tales from Ciccone Youth aka Sonic Youth, a free piano composition from Muhal Richard Abrams that converges to infinity and finally an elegiac by Andrew Liles.

We’ve always been late late in dealing with the passing year; but this time we’re way into the new one. God only knows what next year will bring but knowing that lots of readers are still hunting good albums from 2008 here’s one final post about 2008 with a cream of the crop selection and we go straight to 2009! Promise!

Some free mp3s I stumbled upon while surfing today:
* Todd Sickafoose – Future Flora – West Coast
* Todd Sickafoose – Bye Bye Bees
* Talugung – Canal Side
* Rabbit Girls – Across the Sky

Numbered #53, last week’s show begins with a theme of soundscapes, dubstep and noise, while the second part is more jazzed-up, soulful and dubby.

2002’s Black Earth is Bohren & Der Club of Gore’s 4th and arguably their best album. Glacially slow funeral jazz with an attention to ambience more than the playing (doesn’t mean that the playing is bad of course).

Rune Grammofon is a one man army by Rune Kristofferson who has been influential in giving us a whole new breed of music by supporting ambient acts like Biosphere & Alog, electonic & jazz experimentalists Nils Oekland, Phonophani, Shining, Jazzkammer and recently Svalastog & Huntsville and In the Country.