Mix Tape #22 (Best Albums of 2011)

A very HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all! • 5:4 is four years old today, & as in previous years, here's a new mix tape showcasing the music from my best albums of 2011 • One track from each of them—in total, 3½ hours of eclectica to start the new year in real sonic style • Do, please, support all the artists if you like what you hear (& you will!); links to buy their excellent music are included on the previous few days' posts •

Here's the full tracklisting (click the image for high-res artwork):

• Uh Huh Her - Wake To Sleep (from Nocturnes)
• This Will Destroy You - Black Dunes (from Tunnel Blanket)
• Philippe Petit - 03 nyctalopia (from Nyctalopia)
• Kate Havnevik - Mouth 2 Mouth (from You)
• Aleks Kolkowski & Ute Wassermann - nor'easter (from Squall Line)
• Kate Wax - Maze Rider (Live From The Cave) (from Dust Collision)
• Arlene Sierra - Surrounded Ground - III. Egress (from Arlene Sierra Vol. 1)
• John Cage - 109 [One⁸ and 108] [excerpt] (from 108/109/110)
• Autechre & The Hafler Trio - ha3oe [excerpt] (from ae3o3)
• David Lynch - Bass D Dark Stairway (from INLAND EMPIRE (Original Motion Picture Score))
• Patrick Wolf - House (from Lupercalia)
• Roly Porter - Al Dhanab (from Aftertime)
• Braids - Plath Heart (from Native Speaker)
• Deerhoof - Super Duper Rescue Heads! (from Deerhoof vs. Evil)
• Talvihorros - Beta (from Descent Into Delta)
• Christopher William Anderson - An End To Calm (from Moskenstraumen)
• Stephan Mathieu - A Static Place Ia [excerpt] (from A Static Place)
• Frank Zappa - Worms From Hell (from Feeding The Monkies At Ma Maison)
• Leyland Kirby - Eventually, it eats your lungs [excerpt] (from Intrigue & Stuff Volume 2)
• Celer - Part II [excerpt] (from Noctilucent Clouds)
• Merzbow - Kamadhenu (Part 1) [excerpt] (from Kamadhenu)
• Ulver - Providence (from Wars of the Roses)
• Chubby Wolf - Deeper and the Damage From (from Los que No Son Gentos)
• aTelecine - The Smuggler (Draft One) (from A Cassette Tape Culture Phase Two)
• Akita / Gustafsson / O'Rourke - Two Bird [excerpt] (from One Bird Two Bird)
• Tartar Lamb II - Polyimage of Known Exits: 3rd Movement [excerpt] (from Polyimage of Known Exits)
• Hecq - With Angels (from Avenger)
• Jenny Hval - Engines in the City (from Viscera)
• Björk - Hollow (from Biophilia)
• Ektoise - There and Here (from Kiyomizu)
• Svarte Greiner - Twin [excerpt] (from Twin)
• Access to Arasaka - Ixion (from Geosynchron)
• Grutronic And Evan Parker - Mesomerism In Rhythm [excerpt] (from Together In Zero Space)
• Xela - Charm [excerpt] (from Exorcism)
• Black Swan - White Mourning (from The Quiet Divide)
• Fovea Hex - Falling Things (Where Does A Girl Begin?) (from Here Is Where We Used To Sing)
• Indignant Senility - Side B [excerpt] (from Blemished Breasts)
• Monty Adkins - Memory Box (from Fragile.Flicker.Fragment)
• Three Trapped Tigers - Magne (from Route One Or Die)
• The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Function (from Anthropomorphic)

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