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XLVI
Chet Betz
:: Enjoy your year's last gasp to the sounds of: Gang Gang Dance, Noah23, Black Milk, Tape, the Marches, Yellow Swans, Grand Salvo...
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IV :: Columbus, OH
Chet Betz
:: A focus on the city’s hip-hop, a once burgeoning underground fountainhead for putting out excellent, slept-on Midwest shit.
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XXIV
Chet Betz
:: Featuring: Masta Killa, Subtle, Flying Lotus, Juggaknots, Blueprint, Velella Velella, OOIOO, Califone, Chad VanGaalen, Anchors for Architects...
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XII
Chet Betz
:: Featuring: Prefuse 73, Illogic, Velella Velella, AZ, Man Man, DJ Muggs vs. GZA, Cadence Weapon, Envelope, Josh Martinez, Animal, Fed Hill...
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IV :: Columbus, OH
Chet Betz
:: A focus on the city’s hip-hop, a once burgeoning underground fountainhead for putting out excellent, slept-on Midwest shit.
Podcast /
XXIV
Chet Betz
:: Featuring: Masta Killa, Subtle, Flying Lotus, Juggaknots, Blueprint, Velella Velella, OOIOO, Califone, Chad VanGaalen, Anchors for Architects...
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XII
Chet Betz
:: Featuring: Prefuse 73, Illogic, Velella Velella, AZ, Man Man, DJ Muggs vs. GZA, Cadence Weapon, Envelope, Josh Martinez, Animal, Fed Hill...
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The "Did That Album Come Out? Really?" Award
Chet Betz
:: 2009's easiest to ignore.
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The Ludacris Award for Best Rap Cameo
Chet Betz
:: Keep your love locked down.
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The Pineapple Express Award for Most Year-Defining Single that was Actually Released in 2007
Chet Betz
:: Runner-up: any 2007 song about Barack Obama
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Most Absurd Hip-Hop Album That's Not Tha Carter III Award
Chet Betz
:: Runners-up: Geometry Wars 2, Dedication 3
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The Award for Somehow Being Far Shittier than Common's Super-Shitty Finding Forever
Chet Betz
:: Runner-up: Koch Records
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The "Yes, I'm a Pop Album" Award for Most Frontloaded Record
Chet Betz
:: Runner-up: Not ... Sasha Fierce
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Guest Rapper of the Year
Chet Betz
:: Much like soul singers let their vocals explore their interpretation of a song's feeling, Andre uses his rapping to make his words glow.
Festival /
Pitchfork Music Festival 2007
Chet Betz & Clayton Purdom & Peter Hepburn
:: Chet on Slint, Clay on Clipse, and Peter on meat.
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The Miseducation of Thomas Crown
Chet Betz
:: Timbaland, you beautiful son of a bitch, keep on keepin' on.
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Kong, Fullerton, and the Pursuit of Beauty
Chet Betz
:: File this under “Chet Betz is too predictable.”
Article /
Chet Betz reviews A League of Their Own, The Bible, Tom Hanks, Spongebob Squarepants, the 3 of Clubs, a piece of wood, a lump of clay, and Amir Nezar
Chet Betz
:: Spongebob got gypped.
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The "Did That Album Come Out? Really?" Award
Chet Betz
:: 2009's easiest to ignore.
Awards /
The Ludacris Award for Best Rap Cameo
Chet Betz
:: Keep your love locked down.
Awards /
The Pineapple Express Award for Most Year-Defining Single that was Actually Released in 2007
Chet Betz
:: Runner-up: any 2007 song about Barack Obama
Awards /
Most Absurd Hip-Hop Album That's Not Tha Carter III Award
Chet Betz
:: Runners-up: Geometry Wars 2, Dedication 3
Awards /
The Award for Somehow Being Far Shittier than Common's Super-Shitty Finding Forever
Chet Betz
:: Runner-up: Koch Records
Awards /
The "Yes, I'm a Pop Album" Award for Most Frontloaded Record
Chet Betz
:: Runner-up: Not ... Sasha Fierce
Article /
Guest Rapper of the Year
Chet Betz
:: Much like soul singers let their vocals explore their interpretation of a song's feeling, Andre uses his rapping to make his words glow.
Festival /
Pitchfork Music Festival 2007
Chet Betz & Clayton Purdom & Peter Hepburn
:: Chet on Slint, Clay on Clipse, and Peter on meat.
Article /
The Miseducation of Thomas Crown
Chet Betz
:: Timbaland, you beautiful son of a bitch, keep on keepin' on.
Article /
Kong, Fullerton, and the Pursuit of Beauty
Chet Betz
:: File this under “Chet Betz is too predictable.”
Article /
Chet Betz reviews A League of Their Own, The Bible, Tom Hanks, Spongebob Squarepants, the 3 of Clubs, a piece of wood, a lump of clay, and Amir Nezar
Chet Betz
:: Spongebob got gypped.
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13 and God: 13 & God
(2005)
90 Day Men: Panda Park
(2004)
Ai Aso: Chamomile Pool
(2007)
Ai Aso/Wata: She's So Heavy
EP
(2007)
Anchors for Architects: Dirty Settlements
(NBH)
(2006)
Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics: Inspiration Information 3
(2009)
AZ: A.W.O.L.
(2005)
AZ: The Format
(2006)
Azeda Booth: In Flesh Tones
(2008)
Erykah Badu: New Amerykah, Part One: 4th World War
(2008)
Bald Eagle: Hot Shoulders
(2007)
Bark Psychosis: Codename: Dustsucker
(2004)
Battles: EP C / B EP
(2006)
Battles: Mirrored
(2007)
Victor Bermon: Arriving at Night
(NBH)
(2007)
Beyonce: B'day
(2006)
Beyonce: I Am...Sasha Fierce
(2008)
Black Fiction: Ghost Ride
(2006)
Black Milk: Popular Demand
(2007)
Black Milk: Tronic
(2008)
Black Mold: Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz
(2009)
Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
(2005)
Blueprint: Chamber Music
(2004)
Blueprint: 1988
(2005)
Boom Bip: Corymb
(2004)
Boom Bip: Blue Eyed in the Red Room
(2005)
Boris: Pink
(2005)
Boris: Smile
(2008)
Burial + Four Tet: Moth/Wolf Cub
Split 12"
(2009)
Califone: Heron King Blues
(2004)
Califone: Roots and Crowns
(2006)
Califone: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
(2009)
Cinemechanica: The Martial Arts
(2006)
CocoRosie: Le Maison de Mon Reve
(2004)
Count Bass D: Begborrowsteel
(2005)
Dälek: Gutter Tactics
(2009)
The Deadly Snakes: Porcella
(2005)
Death Cab for Cutie: Plans
(2005)
Destroyer: Streethawk: A Seduction
(OF)
(2001)
Destroyer: Destroyer's Rubies
(2006)
Chris Devoe: The Perception of Obstacles
(NBH)
(2008)
Kathy Diamond: Miss Diamond to You
(2007)
Diddy: Press Play
(2006)
Dirt Dress: Theme Songs
EP
(NBH)
(2008)
Dirt Dress: Perdido en la Suciedad
EP
(2009)
Dirt Dress: Perdido en la Suciedad, 2
EP
(2009)
DJ JS-1 and DUB-L/Tony Touch: Claimstake/Piecemaker 2
(2004)
DJ Rels: Theme for a Broken Soul
(2004)
DJ Signify: Sleep No More
(2004)
Dose One: Skeleton Repellent
(2007)
The-Dream: Love vs. Money
(2009)
Eluvium: Similes
(2010)
Elzhi: The Preface
(2008)
Emeralds: What Happened
(2009)
Enon: Grass Geysers...Carbon Clouds
(2007)
Feist: The Reminder
(2007)
Flying Lotus: Reset
EP
(2007)
Flying Lotus: 1983
(NBH)
(2006)
Fog: 10th Avenue Freakout
(2005)
Fog: Ditherer
(2007)
Foreign Exchange: Connected
(2004)
Foundry Field Recordings: Prompts/Miscues
(NBH)
(2006)
Foundry Field Recordings: Fallout Stations
(2007)
The Game: Doctor's Advocate
(2006)
Ghostface: The Pretty Toney Album
(2004)
Greenhouse: Electric Purgatory
EP
(2009)
Greenhouse Effect: Columbus or Bust
(2005)
Greenhouse Effect: Greenhouse Effect vs. Radiohead
EP
(2005)
Handsome Boy Modeling School: White People
(2004)
Anne Heaton: Blazing Red
(NBH)
(2009)
Hi-Red Center: Architectural Failures
(2006)
Hot Chip: Made in the Dark
(CP)
(2008)
Viviane Houle: Treize
(CP)
(2009)
Ill Poetic: The World is Ours
(2007)
Illogic: Celestial Clockwork
(2004)
Illogic and DJ Przm: Off the Clock
(2004)
Illogic: Write to Death 2: The Missing Pieces
(2005)
Illogic: Diabolical Fun
(2009)
Insight: Blast Radius
(2004)
Iran: Dissolver
(2009)
J Dilla: Donuts
(2006)
Jel: Soft Money
(2005)
Jermiside: Die Jerm Die
Mixtape
(2009)
Joe Beats: Diverse Recourse
(2007)
Jurassic 5: Feedback
(2006)
Kelis: Kelis Was Here
(2006)
Les Savy Fav: Inches
(2004)
Jamie Lidell: Multiply
(2005)
Low: The Great Destroyer
(2005)
Loretta Lynn: Van Lear Rose
(2004)
The Marches: 4 a.m. is the New Midnight
(NBH)
(2008)
Mash Out Posse: Mash Out Posse
(2004)
Masta Ace: Long Hot Summer
(2004)
Masta Killa: No Said Date
(2004)
Masta Killa: Made in Brooklyn
(2006)
Med: Push Comes to Shove
(2005)
Marissa Nadler: Songs III: Bird on the Water
(2007)
Marissa Nadler: Little Hells
(2009)
Nas: Hip Hop is Dead
(2006)
Nas: Untitled
(2008)
The New Year: The New Year
(2008)
Noah23: Rock Paper Scissors
(2008)
Noah23: Jupiter Sajitarius
(2004)
Odd Nosdam: Burner
(2005)
Oh No: The Disrupt
(2004)
One Be Lo: The Rebirth
(2007)
Organized Konfusion: Stress: The Extinction Agenda
(OF)
(1994)
Pantha du Prince: Behind the Stars
(2009)
Pantha du Prince: Black Noise
(2010)
Pedestrian: Volume One: unIndian Songs
(2005)
Pedro: You, Me & Everyone
(2007)
Pharoahe Monch: Desire
(2007)
Plantlife: The Return of Jack Splash
(2004)
The Ponys: Celebration Castle
(2005)
Prefuse 73: Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
(2009)
Prince Po: The Slickness
(2004)
Quasimoto: The Further Adventures of Lord Quas
(2005)
Radicalfashion: Odori
(2007)
Radiohead: In Rainbows
(CP)
(2007)
Rapider Than Horsepower: Stage Fright, Stage Fright/This Is My Big Night
(2003/2004)
The Red Giants: The Red Giants
(NBH)
(2006)
The Red Giants: Chain Reaction
EP
(2009)
Rich Boy: Rich Boy
(2007)
Rodan: Theophany: The Book of Elevations
(2004)
Rondo Brothers: No Time Left on Earth
(2004)
Roots Manuva: Awfully Deep
(2005)
Seam: The Problem With Me
(OF)
(1993)
Secret Machines: Now Here is Nowhere
(2004)
Shackleton: Three EPs
(2009)
Sin Ropas: Fire Prizes
(2005)
Single Frame: Body/End/Basement
(2005)
Sinkane: Color Voice
(2008)
Solange: Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams
(2008)
Sole: Live from Rome
(2005)
Soul Position: Things Go Better With RJ and Al
(2006)
Spoon: Transference
(2010)
The Stairs: On Sleep Lab
(NBH)
(2005)
Styrofoam: Nothing's Lost
(2004)
Subtle: A New White
(2004)
Sunset Rubdown: Shut Up I Am Dreaming
(2006)
Surfer Blood: Astro Coast
(2010)
Swan Lake: Beast Moans
(2006)
Swan Lake: Enemy Mine
(2009)
Television Personalities: And Don't the Kids Just Love It
(OF)
(1980)
Themselves: theFREEhoudini
Mixtape
(2009)
Theodore Unit: 718
(2004)
Timbaland: Shock Value
(2007)
Time Machine: Life Is Expensive
(2008)
Time Machine: Slow Your Roll
(NBH)
(2004)
Time Machine: TM Radio
(2005)
Velella Velella: The Bay of Biscay
(NBH)
(2005)
Viktor Vaughn: VV2: Venomous Villain
(2004)
Vivian Girls: Vivian Girls
(2008)
Kanye West: 808s and Heartbreak
(2008)
Kanye West: College Dropout
(2004)
Kanye West: Late Registration
(2005)
Kanye West: Graduation
(2007)
Wolves in the Throne Room: Two Hunters
(2007)
Woven Hand: Consider the Birds
(2004)
Wu-Tang Clan: 8 Diagrams
(2007)
Xiu Xiu: Fabulous Muscles
(2004)
Zero Star: Forever's Never Really That Long
(NBH)
(2006)
Co-authored:
Edan: Beauty and the Beat
(2005)
OutKast: Idlewild
(2006)
Pantha Du Prince: This Bliss
(2007)
Subtle: For Hero : For Fool
(2006)
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Burial + Four Tet :: Moth/Wolf Cub
Split 12"
(Text; 2009) / Rating: 85 / Combined Rating: 84Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics :: Inspiration Information 3
(Strut; 2009) / Rating: 84 / Combined Rating: 81Emeralds :: What Happened
(No Fun; 2009) / Rating: 83 / Combined Rating: 82Califone :: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
(Dead Oceans; 2009) / Rating: 82 / Combined Rating: 82Black Mold :: Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz
(Flemish Eye; 2009) / Rating: 82 / Combined Rating: 82Jermiside :: Die Jerm Die
Mixtape
(Self-released; 2009) / Rating: 80 / Combined Rating: N/ADirt Dress :: Perdido en la Suciedad
EP
(Papermade; 2009) / Rating: 80 / Combined Rating: 80Marissa Nadler :: Little Hells
(Kemado; 2009) / Rating: 79 / Combined Rating: 79Shackleton :: Three EPs
(Perlon; 2009) / Rating: 78 / Combined Rating: N/AThe Red Giants :: Chain Reaction
EP
(Rip Smash; 2009) / Rating: 76 / Combined Rating: N/AThemselves :: theFREEhoudini
Mixtape
(Anticon; 2009) / Rating: 74 / Combined Rating: 78Anne Heaton :: Blazing Red
(NBH)
(Q Division; 2009) / Rating: 73 / Combined Rating: 74Greenhouse :: Electric Purgatory
EP
(Weightless; 2009) / Rating: 70 / Combined Rating: N/ADirt Dress :: Perdido en la Suciedad, 2
EP
(Papermade; 2009) / Rating: 70 / Combined Rating: N/APrefuse 73 :: Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
(Warp; 2009) / Rating: 69 / Combined Rating: 70Swan Lake :: Enemy Mine
(Jagjaguwar; 2009) / Rating: 69 / Combined Rating: 71Illogic :: Diabolical Fun
(Weightless; 2009) / Rating: 67 / Combined Rating: N/AIran :: Dissolver
(Narnack Records; 2009) / Rating: 67 / Combined Rating: 68The-Dream :: Love vs. Money
(Radio Killa/Def Jam; 2009) / Rating: 65 / Combined Rating: N/ADälek :: Gutter Tactics
(Ipecac; 2009) / Rating: 60 / Combined Rating: 63
