BEST OF 2011: Extended Plays

5. Phantogram
Nightlife (2011)
http://www.phantogram.net/

The follow-up to Phantogram’s beautiful trip-hop brew, Eyelid Movies, this EP shows the upstate New York duo sealing the deal. Here, Phantogram submerges its fluid beats and faintly pop undertones in the lush yet intimate vibe that’s colored all of its music.

01. 16 Years
02. Don't Move
03. Turning Into Stone
04. Make a Fist
05. Nightlife
06. A Dark Tunnel

 4. Toro Y Moi
Freaking Out (2011)
http://toroymoi.blogspot.com/

Freaking Out finds Columbia, South Carolina's Chaz Bundick reveling in twenty minutes of boogie, roping in the heavy sounds of groups like the Gap Band and Mtume. Follow-up to 2011's Underneath The Pine.

01. All Alone
02. Freaking Out
03. Sweet
04. Saturday Love
05. I Can Get Love

3. VHS Head
Midnight Section (2011)
http://soundcloud.com/vhs-head

Towering above the ghetto, stands one block, taller than the rest. Trapped on the top floor the only escape is down. Nocturnal eyes scan from the darkness, barricades blink like beacons of safety as night falls. Mayhem lurks in every corner, there is no escape. This is the Midnight Section.

01. Sundown
02. Jager
03. Decapitron
04. Nightmare Park
05. Death Dimension
06. Siege Express
07. Midnight Section

2. Jacob 2-2
Fantasiarexia EP (2011)
http://www.jacob2-2.com/

Jacob 2-2's latest release Fantasiarexia is equally influenced by the crystalline new-age tones of 80's film soundtracks as it is by bass-heavy funk and jazz fusion.

01. Fantasiarexia
02. Vidnight Flight
03. Palaces/Bump In
04. Hallucid
05. Monitor(ed)
06. Nanny Blaze
07. Earth In Reverse
08. The Dinosaurs of Cabazon (Starfawn Remix)

1. Starfawn
Starfawn EP (2011)
http://starfawn.com/

Starfawn is a collaboration between Producer Misha Mross and Vocalist Amber Schaefer that began in early 2011. The two met through mutual friends and connected over a shared love for synthesizers and electronic music.

01. Nothing Dead
02. Err
03. Dark Touch
04. Infinity Focus
05. Greenlight
06. 12,000 B.C.

HONORABLE MENTION:
Com Truise - Fairlight (2011): This year saw a few new releases from Seth Haley (aka Com Truise). For his first release on Ghostly International, Truise takes us on a journey with his own brand of "slow-motion funk".
http://www.comtruise.com/

Big Black Delta - BBDEP1 (2011): Big Black Delta is the new project from Mellowdrone front man Jonathan Bates. Under this new umbrella, Bates creates a new series of frequency modulations fit for an upcoming extraterrestrial invasion.
http://www.bigblackdelta.com

Sun Glitters - The Singles (2011): Sun Glitters sound is an ocean of lush melodies, pitch-shifted vocal samples, ghostly digi-diva choirs, warm bass melodies driven by alternately dense and relaxing beatwork combinations.
http://www.sunglitters.com/