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Not all artists are strictly limited to trip-hop, some merge with other genres.

8MM - Songs to Love and Die By
12 Rounds - My Big Hero
21 Hertz - Ocean of Time
Abstract in the Sky - Midnight in Alaska
Aim - Cold Water Music
Airlock - Symptomatic
Alpha - Come From Heaven
Amstrong - Sprinkler
Anomie Belle - Sleeping Patterns
Antenne - #1
Antimatter - Saviour
Archive - Londinium
Arms and Sleepers - Matador
Attica Blues - Attica Blues
Audiac - Thank You for Not Discussing the Outside World
Babble- Ether
Baby Fox - A Normal Family
Baby Namboos - Ancoats 2 Zambia
Bassboosa - Bassboosa
Baxter - Baxter
Beauty's Confusion - Breathe In
Björk - Post
Blue Foundation - Blue Foundation
Blue Sky Black Death - Slow Burning Lights
Bonobo - Animal Magic
Bowery Electric - Beat
Bowery Electric - Lushlife
Bows - Blush
Breaks Co-op - The Sound Inside
Broadway Project - Compassion
Canidas - Golden
Caroline Henderson - Cinemataztic
…

1. Delphic - 701 plays
2. Marina & the Diamonds - 686 plays
3. Fenech-Soler - 685 plays
4. Florence + the Machine - 659 plays
5. !!! - 605 plays
6. The xx - 604 plays
7. Yeasayer - 603 plays
8. Miike Snow - 563 plays
9. Vampire Weekend - 556 plays
10. We Have Band - 518 plays
11. Two Door Cinema Club - 511 plays
12. Miami Horror - 504 plays
13. New Young Pony Club - 501 plays
14. Groove Armada - 489 plays
15. Local Natives - 463 plays
16. Monarchy - 461 plays
17. Jónsi - 445 plays
18. Arcade Fire - 442 plays
19. Scissor Sisters - 428 plays
20. Ellie Goulding - 422 plays
21. Fanfarlo - 419 plays
22. She & Him - 416 plays
23. The Smashing Pumpkins - 415 plays
24. Caro Emerald - 414 plays
25. The Drums - 410 plays
26. Ra Ra Riot - 409 plays
27. Depeche Mode - 406 plays
28. Charlotte Gainsbourg - 404 plays
29. The Album Leaf - 365 plays
29. I Blame Coco - 365 plays
31. Hockey - 358 plays
32. Maps - 355 plays
33. Kings of Convenience - 353 plays
…

Preferences :
# Bold & Underlined - my favourites of a high grade.
# Bold - "The Second Squad" (really like not all their tracks / or they (the bands) are not in my every-day/week/month playlist)
# Italic - something good & interesting (and hard to notice ;) )
# What's simple - that's unsorted (yet) / almost unknown (doesn't concern russian bands)

A
* A Perfect Circle
* Adam Freeland
* AFI
* Alessandro Safina
* Allele
* Amethystium
* Another Vertigo Rush
* Archive
* Atomic Fireballs
* a-ha
* A.R. Rahman
* Axwell

B
* Beats Antique
* blink-182
* Bloodhound Gang
* Blue Man Group
* Bonobo
* BT
* The Butterfly Effect

C
* Charlotte James
* Chase & Status
* Chimaira
* Cirrus
* CKY
* Cold
* Conjure One
* Cosmosis
* The Cinematic Orchestra
* The Cranberries
* The Crystal Method
* The Cure


D
* Dave Gahan
* Dave Navarro
* David Guetta
* Dead Letter Circus
* Deadsun
* Delerium
* Depeche Mode
* De/Vision
* Die Ärzte
* Dirty Vegas
…

Broken nose, broken heart
The healing process doesn't know where to start
Broken nose, broken heart
Until death do us apart

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Jay-Jay Johanson

Monthly Top Artists

Jan-2006
Antony and the Johnsons (21 plays)
Dec-2006
Jay-Jay Johanson (106 plays)
Jan-2007
Legião Urbana (14 plays)
Feb-2007
The Killers (11 plays)
Mar-2007
Placebo (42 plays)
Apr-2007
The Organ (112 plays)
May-2007
U2 (48 plays)
Jun-2007
David Bowie (79 plays)
Jul-2007
Interpol (175 plays)
Aug-2007
The Velvet Underground (62 plays)
Sep-2007
The Libertines (11 plays)
Oct-2007
The Smiths (16 plays)
Nov-2007
Oasis (24 plays)
Dec-2007
Metric (5 plays)
Jan-2008
Moby (96 plays)
Feb-2008
Fiona Apple (53 plays)
Mar-2008
Nara Leão (88 plays)
Apr-2008
Klaus Nomi (295 plays)
May-2008
Zeigeist (158 plays)
Jun-2008
Editors (146 plays)
Jul-2008
Editors (290 plays)
Aug-2008
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness (224 plays)
Sep-2008
Placebo (303 plays)
Oct-2008
David Bowie (30 plays)
Nov-2008
The Automatic (185 plays)
Dec-2008
Legião Urbana (165 plays)
Jan-2009
Oasis (4 plays)
Feb-2009
Kasabian (24 plays)
Mar-2009
Friendly Fires (131 plays)
…

В список, который я для себя обозначил как "Умирающий лебедь" TM вошли артисты, исполнительская манера которых обусловлена склонностью человека "безиррационально грустить о судьбах всего человечества" (около или наверное), и в подтверждение находить себе многомиллионную аудиторию.
Последние лет 10 в музыке это очень популярно. Сам ухтыхаю (хоть список и не полный).

1. Jay-Jay Johanson
2. Portishead & Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man
3. Thom Yorke & Radiohead
4. Sigur Rós & Jónsi

5. Muse (дебютный альбом как производная от Radiohead)
6. The Fray
7. The Script
8. Lhasa de Sela
9. Antony and the Johnsons

Опять у меня "лучше позже, чем никогда". :-) Вы, главное, не принимайте данный топ близко к сердцу и не реагируйте столь бурно, как в прошлые годы. :-) Список не претендует ни на какую объективность, это - просто перечень + мои мысли вслух. Постараюсь, чтобы мыслей этих было как можно меньше. :-)

Итак, сразу исполнители с минимальным количеством комментариев.

1. Aulis Vierhovssen (1.296) - потому что я обожаю его музыку. :-) К тому же, он записал в этом году много новых хороших композиций.
2. Bon Jovi (553) – потому что они - мои love forever. :-) И потому что я - вечно half way there. :-) Надеюсь в этом году всё-таки попасть на их концерт.
3. Ані Лорак (533) – потому что Солнце, а особенно А дальше, а дальше. :-) Отличный альбом, полный энергетических композиций с настолько "про_меня-шными" текстами, что они кажутся намеренной провокацией. :-)
4. Ірина Білик (435) – потому что она наконец-то (после многих лет ожидания!) выпустила достаточно хороший студийный альбом На бис. …

My music listening this year was highly influenced and not always positively by how easily music is available now on blogs and how much. I even did a one month downloading embargo but when it ended things went back to before. Other than that I found to my mild consternation that my musical tastes have become in synch with pitchfork.com. I guess I've become more indie in what I like and indie has become electronic. Finally the year for me was marked by the absence of any major new musical direction. My love affair with Sweden and synths continued.

Songs+ that I was obsessed with
Here I have songs where one song led me to other versions, covers, or relatives. This happened a number of times.

1. Love on a Real Train - Tangerine Dream
Williams, Terre's Neu Wuss Fusion aka Terre Thaemlitz) and an interesting history: Global Communication's Maiden Voyage (on 76:14 as 8:07 and 5:23) is obviously inspired and both are inspired by Section VI of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians. …