RCRC Top 40-some Albums of the Year + The Most Important Song of the Year

With the conclusion of this post, we will be officially saying goodbye to Roberto Clemente Rookie Card. I typically go on long-winded typing-fits trying to describe my thoughts but tonite, I think I'm going to keep it short and sweet. This website has been extremely important to me in my life, it has presented me with countless opportunities and friendships and means the world to me. However, as I've said before, once the 'real-world' hit, the time needed for this website to be what it should be just wasn't there anymore, I tried to revamp it a little bit, but life really was just too busy. This isn't the end though, it just is for this website. Our efforts will now be completely focused on our release-curating-imprint Ailanthus Recordings and my personal sound-exploration/psychonautics project NYKDLN. With this, our final post (aside from the occasional announcement we might use this page for) I tried to compile a Top Albums and Songs list of 2012, but found it extremely difficult considering what a tumultuous year this was musically, as well as socially and culturally. In 2012 we witnessed the final destruction of what we call music, appropriation became the norm and deliberate self-indulgence roamed free. We watched reliable characters remain silent while others changed everything we thought we knew, we watched artists coming from nowhere creating compelling and challenging pieces when at times we wonder if they even knew what they were doing. The idea of music being something more than what we were taught, finally came to the public mind this year. We all see it, everything has changed, this process began in 2008 and just broke the surface in 2012. This year was important. It's hard to see where we go from here but the possibilities are limitless. The world is changing, we are changing. That being said, it was far too difficult and almost pointless to place order to what we considered to be the most important albums of the year, so here's the RCRC Top 40-some Albums of the Year, in alphabetical order as well as a song that was released in January that we think lit the spark for the ever-so-important year of 2012.

Afrika Pseudobruitismus - Albedo (AMDISCS) 

BOY SNACKS - BOY SNACKS (Beer on the Rug)

Casino Gardens - Fantasies in Cools Palace (Lillerne Tapes)

chushi - delphi vision

Clear Winner - Fata Morgana (Sunup Recordings)

Curren$y - Verde Terrace (DJ Drama)

Diskette Romances - Diskette Romances (Sunup Recordings)

Dolphins Into The Future - Canto Arquipélago (Underwater Peoples)

Eternal Tapestry - Prometheus Rising (Bonus with 'A World Out of Time', Thrill Jockey)

Gucci Mane - Trap God (1017 Brick Squad)

Hleger - Nine WIld (Ailanthus Recordings)

✌ICUH8N✌ - #OCCUPY

Inner Tube - Inner Tube (Experimedia)

INTERNET CLUB - REDIFINING THE WORKPLACE

INTERNET CLUB - FINAL TEARS (Ailanthus Recordings)

James Ferraro - Sushi (Hippos In Tanks)

Ladatel - Recuerdo Futuro

Lasership Stereo - On Board (Sunup Recordings)

Lil B "The BasedGod" - Illusions of Grandeur 2

Lil Wayne - Dedication 4 (DJ Drama)

Local News - Channel 8

Lockbox - Archangel Heat

Lockbox - Passion Beam (Ailanthus Recordings)

$LUDGEHAMMER - .ZIP AND A DOUBLE CUP (Nightcore Records)

Luxury Elite - I & II (Ailanthus Recordings)

Malibu Locals Only - Matterhorn, Pt. 2 (Sunup Recordings)

Marcus Eads - Right Arm/Farm Out (Sunup Recordings)

MJ Linckoln - Matterhorn, Pt. 1 (Sunup Recordings)

Monster Ralley & RUMTUM - Coasting (Gold Robot Records)

NETNANNY 4.0 - the jargon file (Aural Sects)

NYKDLN - Post Radio (Sunup Recordings)

OJ Da Juiceman - The Lord Of The Rings (DJ Don Cannon)

Public Spreads The News - Onward Through the Fog (Sunup Recordings)

Public Spreads The News - treat your self (Ailanthus Recordings/Illuminated Paths)

RADICALEDWARD • BIG DOLLARS

SEGA32X - MLTDS3GACDONAMRBLETBL.3x3 (~UN1CORNDRONEZ~)

Sortahuman & Party Trash - Candy Painted

Sun Araw - The Inner Treaty (Drag City)

Teamm Jordann - Champion LP (Orange Milk Records)

White Rainbow - Humidifier Plaza

Wiz Khalifa - Taylor Allderdice (Taylor Gang and Rostrum Records)

회사AUTO - ™Ç

░▒▓新しいデラックスライフ▓▒░ - ▣世界から解放され▣

骨架的 - Liquid Fantasy

情報デスクVIRTUAL - 札幌コンテンポラリー (Beer On The Rug)

There's a look at our favorite albums of the year and without painstakingly picking through thousands of songs, probably hundreds that we absolutely love, we leave you with our choice for the #1 song of 2012. This song first hit the web almost a year ago now, and we knew from the very first cruise that this was the soundtrack for that it was something important. This song set the tone for 2012, and whether or not that several-minute silence is deliberate or not, we feel that that that silence was perhaps the most powerful piece of music this year. Okay okay I could type on and on about how important I feel this song is, but you decide for yourself. Here's ☢❤☠♡☠❤☢ #$LIMEWIRE LE SLAVE WORLD #ILLUMANITI GHE20G0TH1K MIX (UNDERGROUND RADIO)アウト× フジテレビ ☢❤☠♡☠❤☢ 

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE MEMORIES AND SUPPORT, WE LOVE YOU AND THANK YOU ONE THOUSAND TIMES, THIS IS THE END OF THE ROBERTO CLEMENTE ROOKIE CARD, BUT THE BEGINNING OF WHAT'S NEXT. WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME. THANK YOU WE LOVE YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER. SPEND TIME OUTSIDE.

ϟir­­+Pluϟ & PSTN - the TRUNK

ϟir­­+Pluϟ & PSTN - the TRUNK (Ailanthus Recordings, 2012)

Free download from Ailanthus Recordings





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ϟir­­+Pluϟ on Soundcloud

RCRC + Ailanthus Recordings + My Idea of Fun Present: 05/11/12 at VOMA

Friday, May 11th at VOMA               - Discotays (CD Release Show)
307 Chestnut Street                         - Dan K.
Johnstown, PA 15906
6:00 pm                                            - The One and Only Matt Miller
$5.00                                                - NYKDLN
BYOB for 21+ :)

I wanted to give you guys a heads up for this killer show that's happening this Friday, here in Johnstown, Pennsylvania at VOMA. Roberto Clemente Rookie Card, Ailanthus Recordings and My Idea of Fun are teaming up to bring you Protect the Wa-Tour aka "The Long Drive" Spring 2012. Which, aside from being an obvious reference toward the current Native American Fresh Water Rights issue, it is also the namesake of a tour from Discotays, Dan K. and Dancestry (who unfortunately had to drop off the tour in Indiana).





So anyway, we've got Discotays and Dan K. coming through, and on the Johnstown side of things we've got The One and Only Matt Miller whom we've focused a lot of attention on here at RCRC and then we've got my own personal psychonautic noise project NYKDLN (new full length Post Radio in the works) opening up the show.





The next cool thing about this show is that Discotays have been working on their new record Dried Meat Jewel, and it's going to be exclusively released live during the show from Ailanthus Recordings. There will be 15 limited edition, handmade CDR's of Dried Meat Jewel available at the show and the record will be released live online and worldwide, during their set (with time-sensitive artwork) available digitally for free. 

We couldn't be more excited to do something like this between friends from miles and miles away and would love to see collaborative efforts like this come together more in the future.

See you on Friday!!

One more little update for you guys, RCRC imprint Ailanthus Recordings will also be releasing two more great records in the coming days: a new one from one of our absolute favorite artists, Hleger, it's a full length entitled Musical Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind here's a great cut off of that:



and we'll also be releasing the new one from our friend/awesome dude ~ Ǥ õ § ƪ õ ŵ ~, it's called C☮☯L, you can listen to the whole thing on his Bandcamp, but here's a great look at what he did with his track from the Early 2012 Compilation:



oh yeah, see ya friday, again!

HIATUS IS DONE, NOW

Well, lets get back to work, yeah?

Here's a few important things I wanna show you first; the past few releases we've put out on our imprint Ailanthus Recordings. The first is our annual spring compilation!

Roberto Clemente Rookie Card, Early 2012 (Ailanthus Recordings, 2012) 

Download the 43-track compilation free from Ailanthus Recordings or grab your 2xCD-R, free with any AR purchase. 

This one's a no-brainer, 41 RCRC favorites make up this 43-track, 2+ hour vision quest. I'm hoping that what you get out of this is a solid representation of the landscape we've painted for you the past 2 years. I'd like to high five everyone who put their energy into this.

I hate posting the whole thing in one embed, but really how do you choose?

Afrika Pseudobruitismus - Waikiki Kosmos (Ailanthus Recordings, 2012)

Download free from Ailanthus Recordings, handmade limited edition CD-R forthcoming

Afrika Pseudobruitismus (aka Pseudobruitismus Africamus) is a newer addition to the loving RCRC family. After digging on his music harder than most, we were presented with this completely unheard of full-length, fresh and ready to accompany the most bending of private meditations.



^^Boys reference? I sure hope so. That's the opening track and below, I can't type highly enough of this TERRIFIC video for "Good Bivrations":

koldskål - helloooooooo (Ailanthus Recordings, 2012)

Download free from Ailanthus Recordings, handmade limited edition CD-R forthcoming

This is the newest one from transhuman psychonaut koldskål, so stoked to slap our glue on this one. Quite enjoyable for long post-urban grid cruises, but perhaps more appropriate on some smartphone headphones while silently perusing the information superhighway on a simultaneously running make-your-life-better app. Here's a taste:





and here's a look at the self-made video for "splitting the phantom":


splitting the phantom from Angus Davidson on Vimeo.


and finally, I want you guys to check out Living Room Visions, it's a bit of a collective that's growing out of the Ailanthus and Sunup Recordings universe, keep your eyes on these guys.