# music
## album rankings
* [autechre](music/autechre-albums-ranked.html)
* [biosphere](music/biosphere-albums-ranked.html)
* [bvdub](music/bvdub-albums-ranked.html)
* [koan](music/koan-albums-ranked.html)
* [vangelis](music/vangelis-albums-ranked.html)

## a note on formats
* [dsf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Stream_Digital#DSD_Stream_File) are files of the dsd format with has 64, 128, 512 or even more times the resolution of a standard audio cd
* [wav](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV) can have a higher fidelity than [flac](https://xiph.org/flac/) files because flac supports only integer sample formats and wav supports float sample formats and formats with higher bitrate (for example, the wav version of "猫 シ corp. - palm mall" had better quality than the flac version). perhaps attributable to decoding software and hardware, on my setup, wav playback sounds clearer than flac
* [sacd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD)s contain data in the dsd format but sacds can only be played on specific hardware devices. listening on other devices is made difficult because of copy protection

# personal song of the year
* 2025: [bvdub.the pride before the fall](https://bvdub.bandcamp.com/track/the-pride-before-the-fall)
* 2024: [eaten by dogs.rain wont come](https://blackhatrackets.bandcamp.com/track/rain-wont-come)
* 2023: [the stockholm cathedral choir.gud, nar du andas over var jord](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saNuUSOYvQA)
* 2022: [chicane.sailing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7fgMzj9rHM) (or [1000 more suns](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiNJFZ2AAE4))
* 2021: [earth house hold.acid lies, ageless loves](https://bvdub.bandcamp.com/track/acid-lies-ageless-loves)
* 2020: [plaid.2001.double figure.assault on precinct zero](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwSEKde__mA)
* 2019: [the flashbulb.piety of ashes.goodbye bastion](https://theflashbulb.bandcamp.com/track/goodbye-bastion)
* 2018: [the midnight.shadows](https://themidnight.bandcamp.com/track/shadows)
* 2017: [deaths dynamic shroud.amateur](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuqp8jeOXic)
* 2016: [khtp.candyland original mix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrBJFE77gEU)
* 2015: [susumu yokota.zero.fake funk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iswdkpuojgg)   -- *in memory*
* 2014: [panda bear.person pitch.bros](http://quietube7.com/v.php/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTnBc_-QCXk)
* 2013: [aus.recollected.motoro faam.a change of a cityscape](http://quietube7.com/v.php/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7FrsJ0TQd4)
* 2011: [akira rabelais.spellewauerynsherde.1483 caxton golden leg. 208 b-](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8He1xBsIIR4)
* 2005-2010: autechre.drane 2, orbital.shadows, susumu yokota.music from the lake surface
* 2005: [tortoise.it's all around you.unknown](http://quietube7.com/v.php/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHJbNnuKmRg)

# other
* [music that could have inspired compositions for the final fantasy series](music/final-fantasy.html)