Musically 2017 was a year of incredible releases, with a surge in new musical directions, producer alias’s and ultimate creative freedom.
As we do every year we have compiled a list of top 5 albums from each of our stage hosts as well as a more in depth top 20 selection from ourselves. These are all displayed below in album artwork form but also compiled as Spotify playlists for those that want them digitally.
Please take some time to dig through these lists and thank you to everyone who has helped compile them.
Gottwood.
GOTTWOOD TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2017
King Krule - The OOZ
Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
Lord Echo - Harmonies
Tornado Wallace - Lonely Planet
Dark Sky - Othona
Kevin Morby - City Music
Baxter Drury - Prince Of Tears
Dauwd - Theory Of Colours
Timber Timbre - Sincerely, Future Pollution
Four Tet - New Energy
Aris Kindt - Swann And Odette
Ariwo - Ariwo
Gaussian Curve - The Distance
V/A - Jan Schulte Compiles Tropcial Drums of Deutschland
Mogwai - Every Country's Sun
Golden Teacher - No Luscious Life
Golden Retriever - Capablanca
Bjorn Torske & Prins Thomas - Square One
Marvin Pontiac - The Asylum Tapes
The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
BACK TO BASICS
Bonobo - Migration
Maya Jane Coles - Take Flight
Lusine - Sensorimotor
Fujiya & Miyagi - Different Blades From The Same Pair Of Scissors
Hello Skinny - Watermelon Sun
BROTHERHOOD SOUNDSYSTEM
Wu-Tang Clan - The Saga Continues
Calibre - The Deep
V/A - Pop Makossa: The Invasive Dance Beat Of Cameroon 1976 - 1984
Sudan Archives - Sudan Archives
MANIK MC - Midnight Express
BUTTERSIDE UP
Primary Perception - Evidence Of A Primary Perception
Call Super - Arpo
Claro Intelecto - Exhilarator
Dego & Kaidi - A So We Gwarn
Calibre - The Deep
FUTUREBOOGIE
Idles - Brutalism
Moonboots - First Landing
Octo Octa - Where Are We Going
Thundercat - Drunk
Playgroup - Previously Unreleased 1
HALF BAKED
Alex & Digby - For My Process
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
V/A - Superlongevity Six
Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
HYPERCOLOUR
DMX Krew - Strange Directions
Special Request - Belief System
Pessimist - Pessimist
Turinn - 18 1/2 Minute Gaps
The Cyclist - Sapa Inca Delirium
JIGSAW
Claro Intelecto - Exhilarator
Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet - Ladilikan
Unknown Me - Subtropics
Patrick Cowley - Afternooners
Talaboman - The Night Land
ONE RECORDS
Legowelt - Legendary Freaks In The Trash Of Time
DMX Krew - Strange Directions
Golden Teacher - No Luscious Life
CN - The Expedition Beyond
Bigenrix - The Compilation
PERCOLATE
Bicep - Bicep
Msafiri Zawose – Uhamiaji
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
Kendrick Lamar - Damn
Daphni - Joli Mai
RUF KUTZ
Garrett - Private Life
DJ Sports - Modern Species
Benedek - Bene’s World
Seekers International Meets MX7 - Inna Dancehall Showdown
DJ Lycox - Sonhos & Pesadelos
STUDIO 89
GAS - Narkopop
Idles - Brutalism
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
Arca - Arca
Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1
TIEF
Damiano Von Erckert - In Case You Don’t Know What To Play
V/A - Francis Inferno Orchestra pres Veranda Culture
Juju & Jordash - Sis-boom-bah!
Nabihah Iqbal - Weighing Of The Heart
John Gomez - Outro Tempo: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil 1978-1992
WIGFLEX
James Holden - The Animal Spirits
Smagghe & Cross - Ma
Errorsmith - Superlative Fatigue
Fever Ray - Plunge
Nathan Fake - Providence
STAMP THE WAX
Hanna - Bounce EP
Ill-Considered - Ill-Considered
Tornado Wallace - Lonely Planet
V/A - Jan Schulte Compiles Tropcial Drums of Deutschland
Raymond Castoldi - X-Ray Records 1992-1994
BANOFFEE PIES
Felicia Atkinson - Hand In Hand
Patrick Cowley - Afternooners
Captain Ganja And The Space Patrol - Tradition
Marenn Sukie - Malinal
Cedric Dekowski & Felix Reifenberg - L’Album
JAUNT
Calibre - The Deep
Various - La Torre Ibiza Volume Dos
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic
Acronym - Malm
John Beltran - Everything At Once