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30. Voices from Deep Below – I Want to Stand Where the Sun Himself Shakes with Fear Voices From Deep Below are one of my top finds of 2016 and this year they delivered yet another epic shoegaze album. While they even sing “I´m hazy” in one of their songs, this album is more than just one of the best shoegaze offerings I heard in a long while. The compositions are long, hazy and reverb-soaked until the brim. But without becoming too dreamy or ethereal, Voices From Deep Below keep it on the hard-hitting side of the genre and offer up respite only to drown out the negativity and longing their songs carry. It feels good to experience this kind of aggression in such an outfit and a hunger to deliver something that feels instantly recognizable in a sea of carbon copies. If one track, check out opener “This Is The Way” to be instantly immersed and turn that shit up! <a href="http://voicesfromdeepbelow.bandcamp.com/album/i-want-to-stand-where-the-sun-himself-shakes-with-fe...

50. Lefse Records - Mitsuda Lefse Records - Mitsuda I just had to start this list with an oddball. Mitsuda is a compilation to honor video game music composer Yasunori Mitsuda, known for games like Chrono Trigger , Mario Party and many more. If you had a childhood consisting of hours spend on a Playstation, Gameboy or other device, your subconscious will contain some sounds Mitsuda made and moreover associate them with the good times and exciting stories you played - even if you didn´t listen to his work but work out of this era in some way or form. But this one is not just for the strange kid inside you going bonkers over some pixels clashing on screen; Mitsuda by Lefse unites many better or lesser known producers of recent electronic music. You can´t tag what genre they dwell in, be it "chill-wave" or "trap" or "EDM", it doesn´t matter because their mindset and the premise of this compilation itself never would have happened if tags were boundarie...