KOKOKO!: Liboso EP
- Kokoko! is, surprisingly, yet another welcomed example of what’s becoming a winning formula for performance and community street arts bursting out of neighbourhoods of Kinshasa. The five examples featured on this their debut EP Liboso meaning ‘forward, straight ahead’ is just a tantalising taste of an eventual full album to be released mid-2019.
Linda Dark - Alphabet Soup
Ordered from least to most favourite:
#10 BOYTOY: Night Leaf
#9 Slumlawwd: Manifestering Destiny
#8 Dark Fair: Off Into My Head
#7 Constant Mongrel: Living In Excellence
#6 Tape/Off: Broadcast Park
#5 The Gametes: The Astronomical Calamities Of Comet Jones
#4 Nice Biscuit: Digital Moutain
#3 Bodega: Endless Scroll
#2 Cold Meat: Pork Sword Fever
#1 Boat Show: Unbelievable
Liz Ansley - Music Coordinator / Right Here, Right Now
No specific order:
#10 SOPHIE: Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
#9 Snail Mail: Lush
#8 Kali Uchis: Isolation
#7 REBEL YELL: HIRED MUSCLE
#6 Noname: Room 25
#5 Tia Gostelow: Thick Skin
#4 Janelle Monae: Dirty Computer
#3 Death Club 7: FOREVERNEVERNEVER
#2 Moaning Lisa: Do You Know Enough?
#1 Clea: Vermillion
Jack McDonnell - Zedgeist
No specific order:
#10 Tape/Off: Broadcast Park
#9 Tropical Fuck Storm: A Laughing Death In Meatspace
#8 The Gametes: The Astronomical Calamities of Comet Jones
#7 Requin: The Noisy Miners Swoop Him
#6 Emily Wurramara: Milyakburra
#5 Shed: Terrestrial Stress
#4 West Thebarton: Different Beings Being Different
#3 DZ Deathrays: Bloody Lovely
#2 Slumlawwd: Manifesting Destiny
#1 KAIIT: Live From Her Room
Billie - OZONE
No specific order:
#10 Indigenoise: Old Ways New Age
#9 Ms. 45: Neuromancer
#8 Tia Gostelow: Thick Skin
#7 Je Bahl: Exotic Radio
#6 The Ancient Bloods: Golden Veins
#5 2 Inch Tape: Apollo
#4 Scizzorman: Schizophonic
#3 Jim Ottaway: Yesterday Passing
#2 Band of Dawn: The Spinning Jenny, Vol. II
#1
DJ Lame - Electric Crush
No specific order:
#10 ITAL TEK: Bodied
#9 OKZHARP & MANTHE RIBANE: Closer Apart
#8 YUNG LEAN: Poison Ivy
#7 SUICIDEYEAR: Colour The Weather
#6 LITTLE-SCALE: The Mountain Is Hollow
#5 CARL: Humanise
#4 EXPLOKO: Mostly They Come at Night
#3 STATIC STRUCTURES: Duck Step
#2 TIGERMOTH: Gung Fu
#1 WORLD PEACE SANTA: Live
Cam Pekin - Echo Boom
No specific order:
#9 Dangerpenny: Mind Garden
#8 Kobrakai: III
#7 Deluso: Floods
#6 ROO: Tales Of Rebellion
#5 Mayhem For Mary: Greatest Hits
#4 The Unknowns: Forever Slaving Always Craving
#3 Summer Blood: Summer Blood
#2 Press Club: Late Teens
#1 Electric Zebra: You're Sinking
Harry Rival Lee - A Decanter Of Banter
Ordered from least to most favourite:
#10 The Steele Syndicate: Sedona EP
#9 Donny Benet: The Don
#8 The Goon Sax: We're Not Talking
#7 Verge Collection: Flaneur
#6 Hockey Dad: Blend Inn
#5 Body Type: Body Type EP
#4 DMAs: For Now
#3 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: Hope Downs
#2 Flowertruck: Mostly Sunny
#1 Hatchie: Sugar & Spice EP
Dominique - Brizzzbane Batcave
No specific order:
#10 VOWWS: Under The World
#9 Molchat Doma: Etazhi
#8 Nine Inch Nails: Bad Witch
#7 Wax Chattles: Wax Chattles
#6 MASSES: MASSES
#5 SRSQ: Unreality
#4 Nylex: S/T
#3 Wives: Doomsday
#2 Miserable: Loverboy / Dog Days
#1 Bitumen: Discipline Reaction
Coby Healy - Velvet Squawkback
No specific order:
#10 Death Grips: Year of the Snitch
#9 Connan Mockasin: Jassbusters
#8 Pink Matter: Human Error
#7 Brian Eno: Music for Installations
#6 SOPHIE: OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES
#5 Noname: Room 25
#4 MGMT: Little Dark Age
#3 Kids See Ghosts: Kids See Ghosts
#2 Cool Sounds: Cactus Country
#1 Demon Days: Magic Eye EP