DESERT ISLAND 30

(Anual List Tradition)

TOP 30 ALBUMS:

(only 1 album per artist) 

1-Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (1976) 

2-Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970) 

3-Autechre - Tri-Repetae (1996) 

4-Pauline Oliveros - Deep Listening (1989) 

5-Tool - Lateralus (2001)

6-Laraajii - Ambient 3 - Day of Radiance (1980)

7-Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full (1987)

8-Talking Heads - Remain in Light (1980)

9-My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)

10-Radiohead - Kid A (2000)

11-John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)

12-Charles Mingus - The Black Saint & the Sinner Lady (1963) 

13-Sonic Youth  - Daydream Nation (1988)

14-Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Katchup (1996)  

15-Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2001)

16-Death Grips - The Money Store (2012)

17-Terry Riley - In C (1968)

18-György Ligeti - Aux Aeterna (1966)  

19-Battles - Mirrored (2007)

20-Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet (2002)

21-Kurt Rosenwinkel - The Next Step (2001)

22-Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (1991)

23-J Dilla - Donuts  (2006)

24-Can - Ege Bamyasi (1972)  

25-Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin On (1971)  

26-Luciano Berio - Sinfonia (1969)  

27-A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders (1993)

28-Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (1913)  

29-Madvillan - Madvillany (2002)  

30-Dave Holland Quintet - Extended Play (2003)  

HONRABLE MENTIONS: 
(in no particular order) 

Fugazi - Red Medicine (1995)

Sam Amidon - I See the Sign (2010)

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 (1937)

Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album (1997)  

John Luther Adams - The Light that Fills this World (2002)

Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life (1976)  

Oliver Messiaen  - Quartet for the End of Time (1941) 

Phillip Glass - Einstein on the Beach (1976)

Charles Ives - Symphony #4 (1927)  

The Beatles - Revolver (1966) 

Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody for The Victims of Hiroshima (1960) 

artists that were already included in the top 30...but these albums are also my jam: 

Autechre - LP 5 (1998)  

Steve Reich - Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint 

Miles Davis - Miles Smiles (1967)

TOP 15 FILMS: 

1-Mulholland Drive - David Lynch (2001) 

2-The Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky (1975) 

3-Twin Peaks Season 3 - David Lynch (2017) 

(if you count this as an 18 hour film) 

4-Synecdoche, New York - Charlie Kaufman (2008)

5-Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky (1979) 

6-Holy Motors - Leos Carax (2012)

7-Big Lebowski - The Cohen Brothers (1998)

8-8 1/2 Frederico Fellini (1963) 

9-Inland Empire - David Lynch (2006) 

10-Persona - Ingmar Bergman (1966)

11-The Color of Pomegranates - Sergei Parajanov - (1969)  

12-The Shining - Stanley Kubrick (1980) 

13-Cremaster 3 - Matthew Barney (2003) 

14-Being John Malkovich - Charlie Kaufman (1999) 

15-Russian Ark - Russkij Kovcheg (2002)

TOP 5 BOOKS: 

1-Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (1996) 

2-Ubik - Philip K Dick (1969) 

3-Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut (1969) 

4-White Noise - Don DeLillo (1985) 

5-Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami (2002)