2006 customer charts

Al
1. Vodka Soap - Un Chand Pyramidelier
2. Whitehouse - Asceticists
3. Skullflower - Tribulation
4. Skaters - Raising Spheres of Crossing Angel Minds
5. Coil - Ape of Naples
6. Valerie Webb and Paul Labreque - Trees, Chants, and Hollers
7. Mouthus / Cousins of Reggae
8. Graveyards - End of A Graveyard
9. Religious Knives - RK3
10. Ceylon Mange - The Maiming

Peter Blamey
muura "scarlet urmine sandstone lady" cd-r, black petal
dj white pimpernell "lovedjwhitepimpernell" cd-r, black petal
(both of these are deeply fucked up shit from the blue mountains near sydney. you'd know it)

david tudor & gordon mumma "performed by gordon mumma & david tudor" cd, new world records (although the mumma stuff is lame)

Fabio Bonucci
Mike Cooper - tu fuego (qbico)...great free jazz...
Magik markers - for sada jane(textile)+feel the crayon(not not fun)
This heat - out of cold storage(rer) best record from end 70s 'till 2???
Liars - drum's not dead (mute)
Excepter - sunbomber(5rc)+alternation(fusetron)
Arthur doyle - patrioct act(qbico)
Volcano the bear - classic erasmus fusion (BLRR)
No neck blues band - everything
Wooden wand & the vanishing voice & the sky-high band & the omen bones band & why with all
these people don't we make a great party?...
MV+EE - mother of thousands (time-lag) + pic lp on (qbico)
Ornette Coleman - sound grammar (s.g.)
Plastic crimewave sound - no wonderland (eclipse)
Diskhaolics - live in japan vol. 1 (load)
Six orgasns of admittence - everything
Bobby Beausoleil - lucifer rising sessions (qbico)

always around my ears: joe henderson, brainiac, rip rig & panic, sunburned hand of the man, blonde redhead, sly & the family stone (the 70s), Vss, alice coltrane (R.I.P.), david axelrod, cecil taylor, king tubby, john coltrane and musicians records...

best labels: Qbico, Honest jon's, Load, In the red, Eclipse, Time-lag...

best word of 2006: EPHEMERA by VolTon (western civilization likes it so much...)


Neil Cheyney
2006 = a good year:
Meursault - "Nothing Changed This Week" and "By Lamplight" are my joint albums of the year, "Poor Blood" is also exceptional;
Birchville Cat Motel - "Our Love Will Destroy The World, "Curved Surface Destroyer", the 3 "Chaos Steel Skeletons" compilations, "Small Christian Victories";
Black Boned Angel - "Eternal Hunger" and "Bliss And Void Inseparable";
Mogwai - "Mr Beast" and "Zidane" - also an amazing show at the Royal Albert Hall;
Envy - "Insomniac Doze";
Mono - "You Are There" and the "Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain" collaboration with World's End Girlfriend;
Susan Matthews - "Bruiser", "Tiny Grief" and the one-off album she made for me;
Wolf Eyes - "Human Animal" (I'm way behind with these guys);
Slomo - "The Creep";
Jesu - "Silver", and Final - "3";
Melvins - "A Senile Animal";
Dream/Aktion Unit - "Blood Shadow Rampage", and Heather Leigh - "Pot Baby";
the entire Bower/Bassett axis of activity - Hototogisu (plus collaborators), Skullflower, Mirag, GHQ, Zaimph, Zaika, Spectre Zaimph, "Crippled Rosebud Binding";
The Skaters and Dreams, Purple Gongs, Pan als Allgott Saturnia, and Vodka Soap;
the Low Point label - Bologna Pony, Stuckometer, the Gareth Hardwick/Last Of The Real Hardmen split 8" single;
the Dead Sea Liner label - Textured Bird Transmission, Another Enough Chairs, Cel;
At War With False Noise - Tetsuo, Nackt Insecten - "Sick Animal Eyes", Not - "Music For Womb";
Alistair Crosbie and Lefthand Pressings - "Musicfordrowning", "Light", "White Closed Eyes" and "My Shadows Are At War";
the Curor label - Madame P, Venison Whirled, Raised By Wolves, Richard Kamerman, Deepkiss720;
Unlabel's series52 (a one-off limited edition album every week for the whole year) - Drumm Chimp, Calder, Koutaro Fukui, Eftus Spectun, Melt, Galena, Boc Scadet, Maps Of The Heart, Vinaya, Gareth Dickson, Dreams Of Tall Buildings;
the Oddsmaker label - Intestines, Larvae Temple, Horse Latitudes, Giant Ice Sculpture Melts;
Kovorox Sound - Werewolf Corps, Pesthole, Ocelocelot, the tremendous Vom single;
Mouthus - "For The Great Slave Lakes", "The Long Salt" and "Sister Vibration";
White Rock - "The Exploder";
Bardo Pond - "Ticket Crystals" (their best in years);
Hockyfrilla - "Cerebral Odyssey IV" and "Vulpes Vulpes";
Plump Whore - "Bitched", "Tight" and "Dogfish Pish" (the best free stuff I've blagged from MySpace to date!);
Sarah's Charity - "On The Edge Of Black Sinus Desert", "Silence Of Octopus" and "Atonic Feedback Consumerism";
Heavy Winged - "Echoes Of Silence";
Burnt Hills - "To Your Head";
Towering Breaker - "Those Who Do Not Believe..." and "Purges";
Seaworthy - "Serrata";
Family Battle Snake - "Family Battle Snake" and "Crawling Madness";
Totally Dad - "Dad's Fucked";
Sunn O))) & Boris - "Altar", and Stephen O'Malley's KTL collaboration with Peter Rehberg;
Sonic Youth - "Rather Ripped"
Lords - "This Ain't A Hate Thing, It's A Love Thing", and their split EP with Todd, Part Chimp and Hey Colossus;
the Hey Colossus/dot split LP;
the Part Chimp/Todd split 7";
Todd - "Comes To Your House", and Shit And Shine - "Jealous Of...";
Acid Mothers Temple - 4 CDs from this year, plus a whole lot of catching up with the back catalogue;
Noxagt lose the viola, but the replacement guitar is still effective;
Bossk - ".1";
The Angelic Process - "Coma Waering", "And Your Blood Is Full Of Honey" and "Sigh";
the Mentalist Association label - Tea And Toast Band, Les Enfants;
the Slightly Off Kilter label - Yeborobo's "I'm Magic, Gimme A Fiver" single, Paul Morgan & Adam Lygo's "Liquid Metal Flesh";
3" CDs from Another Enough Chairs - "I Like Caves And Bats" and "Sick Through Hills";
Aidan Baker - "Oneironmancer", "Dog Fox Gone To Ground" and "The Sea Swells A Bit...";
Mika Vainio - "Tullkinta";
The Fall reissues - "The Infotainment Scan", "Middle Class Revolt" and "Cerebral Caustic";
Tortoise - "A Lazarus Taxon" box set;
Colossloth - "Fly Silver Corpse! Fly!";
Aenimal - "9000000";
The Painful Leg Injuries - "Interpreting Codes Into Robust Details" 7 CD-R box set (bargain purchase of the year - $5 plus shipping from the USA!);
The Wire magazine;
Feral Debris fanzine and CD-R;
Rock-A-Rolla magazine;
Season 5 of "24";
Portsmouth FC surviving the drop.

Matthew Dunn
willie lane-recliner ragas (com)
brightblack morning light-s/t (matador)
labrecque/webb-trees, chants, and hollers vinyl (eclipse)
mv/ee bummer road-green blues/mother of thousands (ecstatic peace/time-lag)
all under heaven-sad wings of destiny (inyrdisk)
andy haas-humanitarian war (resonant)
feuermusik-goodbye lucille
erik chenaux-dull lights (constellation)
harris newman-dark was the night (kningdisk)
six organs of admittance-sun awakens (dragcity)

David Fern
biggest release for me this year was Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda DVD
followed in no particular order by this lot!!!
Ashtray Navigations Trunk o Tuned Skulls
Dirt Mummies and Bloody Amps
Keiji Haino Animanima
Ran Blake All That is Tied
Current 93 Black Ships Ate the Sky
Hototogisu Chimarendammerung
K Space Going Up
Timothy, Revelator Hoofbeat, Caw and Thunder
Solar Fire Trio
Kuupuu Yokhera
Birch Book Tangles of the Vine
Sharron Krauss etc Leaves From off the Tree

Grant
Keith Rowe/Toshimaru Nakamura - Between (Erstwhile)
The Rita - Thousands of Dead Gods (Pacrec)
Tetuzi Akiyama - Terrifying Street Trees (Esquilo)
Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood - Canisanubis (Mymwly)
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon (Kranky)
7 Year Rabbit Cycle - Ache Horns (Free Porcupine Society)
Black Leather Jesus/Incapacitants - A Purpose Not Necessary (Dada Drumming)
Boots / C.C. / Snake & Remus - Self-Titled 3xLP (HP Cycle)
Holy Shit - Stranded at Two Harbors (UUAR)
Spiderwebs - Away Away (Jyrk)
LSD March - Live (aRCHIVE)
Richard Chartier/Taylor Deupree - Specification.Fifteen (Line)
Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Osaka Bridge (Karaoke Kalk)
Ryoji Ikeda - Dataplex (Raster Noton)
Lionel Marchetti - Red Dust (Crouton)
MV/EE with the Bummer Road - Green Blues (Ecstatic Peace)
Paper Rad - Trash Talking DVD (Load)

Joris Heemskerk
1. Wolf Eyes - Human Animal
2. Magik Markers - A Panegyric to the Things I Do Not Understand
3. Pedestrian Deposit - Fatale
4. Vodka Soap - Un Chand Pyramidelier
5. Sachiko - You Never Atone for
6. Prurient - Pleasure Ground
7. Wolf Eyes - River Slaughter
8. 3i(s) - 3i(s)
9. Mouthus - The Long Salt
10. Magik Markers - For Sada Jane

Isaac Linder
In no particular order, the top-ten of this very minute,
which would no doubt change everytime I try:

1. Harrius- Enter the Cotton Ring (ehse records) I can't say enough... "Twelve Stars"
2. Raionbashi- Kollekte (Hanson 12")
3. Sudden Infant- Radiograsm (Blossoming Noise 1991 Rerelease)
4. Trockeneis- 5025 AD (ehse records)
5. Crown Now- R.I.P. Darby Crash (friendship bracelet cass)
6. Keiji Haino/Sitar Tah- Animamima (Important)
7. TLASILA- Horoscopo: Sanatorio de Moliere (Blossoming Noise)
8. I don't think that Sejayno album is out on Heresee yet,but the tour copies are floating around and I cannot sing its praises highly enough. Thirteen Stars.
9. Sandy Bull- Still Valentine’s Day 1969 (Water)
10. Flaherty/Corsano/Yeh- Snow Blind Avalanche (Imp Rec)
also, it's an internet release but i'd also cast a vote for: Joe Colley, Jessica Rylan and Kevin Drumm— “PURE” (excentrica)

Anything by Max Eisenberg, Lexie Mountain, Crank Sturgeon,
Blood Stereo (or Nyoukis solo) or Caleb Johnston (those
unmarked 10"'s came out this year, yeah?) is also probably
gold.

Evan Louison
halflings - "Halflings" CDR & "Cought It Up" tape -
Accretion Disc & Friendship Bracelet
zaimph - "Sexual Infinity" CD - Hospital Records
wildebeest - "all heavy, all mighty" CDR - no label
directing hand - "bells for augistin lesage" CD - Secret Eye
jandek - "glasgow sunday" DVD - Corwood Industries
wolf eyes - "human animal" LP- sub-pop
teeny bopper - "perverts" CDR - Accretion Disc
loren connors - "night through" - Family Vineyard
chris corsano - "blood pressure" & "the young cricketeer" CDRs - Hot Cars Warp
guadalupe - "teenagers" tape - no label

Allan McCallum
Best things released in 2006 that I can remember buying:
A Panegyric To The Things I Do Not Understand - Magik Markers
The Drift - Scott Walker
Rather Ripped - Sonic Youth
Derdang Derdang - Archie Bronson Outfit
Not Alone - Various

Reissues, etc:
A Lazarus Taxon - Tortoise
Sea Changes & Coelocanths - John Fahey

Best gig:
Nick Cave at Edinburgh Playhouse

The Embarrassing Truth (Tracks most played on iPod):
Love In a Trashcan The Raveonettes
After Eight NEU!
Fujiyama, Pt. 1 (Instrumental) Moondog
Winter Song Nico
Rise Up With Fists! Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins
Chelsea Girls Nico
Mind How You Go (excerpt) The Advisory Circle
E-Musik NEU!
Intro Sonic Youth
Nuclear Substation PIF The Advisory Circle

Samuel Melancon & Debacle Records
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon
Charalambides - A Vintage Burden
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice – Gypsy Freedom
Mouthus – The Great Slave Lakes
Mouthus – The Long Salt
Xiu Xiu – The Air Force
Physical Demon – 3”
Wolf Eyes – Human Animal
Axolotl – Telesma
Axolotl – Way Blank
Yellow Swans – Psychic Secession
Ghostface Killah – Fishscales
Comets on Fire – Avatar
Six Organs of Admittance – The Sun Awakens
OOIOO – Tiaga
Hototogisu – Prayer Rug Exorcism
Dialing In – Cows in Lye
Om – Conference of the Birds
Also: Cluster/ Harmonia reissues on Water, and Audika’s Arthur Russell reissues.

Stephen Morrison
Birchville Cat Motel...Our Love Will Destroy The World
(Pseudo Arcana)
Black Boned Angel...Bliss And Void Inseparable (20
Buck Spin)
Can...Koln 1972 (bootleg)
Andrew Chalk...East Of The Sun (Faraway Press)
Current 93...Black Ships Ate The Sky (Durtro/Jnana)
Einstuerzende Neubauten...Solo Bassfeder (Musterhaus)
Growing...Color Wheel (Megablade)
Robert Hampson & Steven Hess...untitled (Crouton)
irr.app.(ext.)...Perekluchenie (Beta Lactam)
Jazkamer...Metal Music Machine (Smalltown Supernoise)
Khlyst...Chaos Is My Name (Hydra Head)
Andrew Liles...The Dying Submariner (Beta Lactam)
KK Null/Chris Watson/Z'ev...Number One (Touch)
Organum...Sanctus (Robot)
Pelt...Skullfuck (VHF)
James Plotkin...Kurtlanmak/Damascus (Utech)
1/3 Octave Band...Navigation By Light (Celebrate Psi
Phenomenon)
Seaworthy...Serrata (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
Sonic Youth...Sonic Youth (Geffen)
SUNNO))) & Boris...Altar (Southern Lord)
This Heat...Out Of Cold Storage (This Is)
Scott Walker...The Drift (4AD)
Chris Watson & BJ Nilsen...Storm (Touch)
Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton...Black Vomit (Victo)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs...Show Your Bones (Fiction)

Nicholas Newport
MV/EE & The Bummer Road 'Mother Of Thousands' CD (Time-Lag) - proving you can never have too much of a good thing, these woodland freaks released about 89 other cdrs this year, but this was the one where it all crystalised for me. Having said that, 'Green Blues' was awesome too, and so was 'Rural Dimensions', and 'Suncatcher Mountain', and 'Cowboys Road', and don't even get me started on 'Deep Space Circuit'. Fuck it, they didn't put a foot wrong all year!

Red Kites 'Nawadaha' CDR (U Sound) - creepy sibling weirdness that almost out Jandeked Jandek. Speaking of which...

Jandek 'Newcastle Sunday' CD (Corwood) - Unbelievable year for Mr. Smith....i'm still expecting to wake up and find it was all a dream.

Christina Carter 'Lace Heart' CDR (Many Breaths)

Wolf Eyes 'Human Animal' CD (SubPop), 'River Slaughter' 2LP (Hospital) - they scare the shit out of me.

Comets On Fire 'Avatar' CD (SubPop) - I haven't bought 2 subpop records in the same year since, umm, the last Wolf Eyes and Comets albums. But before that, it was about 1994 or something.

Espers 'II' CD (Wichita)

Melvins 'A Senile Animal' CD (Ipecac)

Boris 'Pink' CD (Southern Lord) - Being the greatest band in the history of music, Melvins should have run away with best RAWK album, but Boris outdid themselves and everybody else when it came down to gnarly, riffmungous heavyosity. Dude.

Dream/Aktion Unit 'Blood Shadow Rampage' CD (Volcanic Tongue) - Don't wanna seem to be currying favour here, but this really was killer.

Valley Of Ashes 'Cavehill Hunters Attrition' 3LP (Blackvelvetfuckere/Consanguineous)

Paul LaBrecque/Valerie Webb 'Trees, Chants and Hollers' LP reissue (Eclipse) - just beautiful.

Sun City Girls 'Carnival Folklore Ressurection vol 14 - Static From The Outside Set' CD (Abduction)- The hits just keep on coming!

Magik Markers 'A Panegyric To The Things I Do Not Understand' CD (Gulcher) - My favourite of this years bumper crop. Also on heavy rotation: 'Feel The Crayon' LP, 'Don and Phil' CDR, 'Road Pussy' CDR, 'The Voldoror Dance' CD, 'For Sada Jane' LP.

Sunroof! 'Silver Bear Mist' 2CD (Vhf)

Dead C 'Perform Vain, Erudite, and Stupid' 2CD (Badabing)

Sachiko 'You Never Atone For...' CD (there - Musik Atlach)

Can't 'Can't' LP (Ultra Eczema) - An absolute killer, and record cover of the year!

Hototogisu 'Chimarendammerung' CD (De Stijl) - Whoosh!

Vampire Can't 'Key Cutter' CD (Load)

Boots/CC/Snake and Remus 3LP box (HP Cycle) - What the fuck? Answers on a postcard, please...

Fonotone Records 5CD box (Fonotone) - Think this came out in 06 and not 05. Made me smile more than anything else this year. The bottle opener was really useful, too.

Flashlights 'Eckords' CDR (Students Of Decay) - I listened to this whilst falling asleep one night and, at that point just before i went under, i was convinced i was snuglgled up in Liz Harris' voice instead of my duvet.

I hit the charity shop (or thrift store to our american friends) motherlode back in March - you couldn't make this up: Neu 'Neu' LP, Amon Duul 2 'Phallus Dei' LP, 5(!) 'Pebbles' LPs (including the 'Best Of Pebbles' with the Rudi Protrudi cover art and the snot green vinyl!), and Sun Ra 'My Brother The Wind' LP in one batch for £1.99 each! The Neu, Amon Duul 2 and Sun Ra were reissues, but what the fuck man! I almost fell over!

Lotsa great DVDs this year - 'We Jam Econo: The Minutemen Story', 'The Devil And Daniel Johnston', 'Fun from None: Live at the NoFunFest 04-05', 'Unknown Passage: The Dead Moon Story', 'Be Here To Love Me' and the Paper Rad DVD. My eyes!!

Arthur magazine continues to be essential reading - they managed to squeeze some great articles in amongst all the adds this year. Hope those C and D guys haven't gone for good. The Wire and Terrorizer are the only 2 things worth buying in newsagents these days (except rizlas and galaxy bars).

Kramers Ergot 6 (Buenaventura Press) is as good as everyone says it is and is definately comic of the year. 'Curses' (Drawn and Quarterly), the hardcover collection of Kevin Huizenga's Glenn Ganges comics is also completely indispensable.

David Nichols (Wounded Galazy Blog)
10. Harvey Milk : Special Wishes : Troubleman Unlimited
9. The Goslings : Grandeur of Hair : Archive
8. Chris Corsano : The Young Cricketer : Hot Cars Warp Records
7. Heather Leigh : Jailhouse Rock : Fag Tapes
6. Prurient : Pleasure Ground : Load
5. Fucked Up : Hidden World : Jade Tree
4. MV/EE & the Bummer Road : Mother of Thousands : Time Lag
Green Blues : Ecstatic Peace
3. Magik Markers : A Panegyric To The Things I Do Not Understand : Gulcher
2. Nmperign/Jason Lescalleet : Love Me Two Times : Intransitive
1. Warmer Milks : Radish On Light : Troubleman Unlimited

Pieter
Growing - Color Wheel (Troubleman Unlimited)
Sarah's Charity - On The Edge Of Black Sinus Desert (Heavy Blossom)
Avarus - II (HP Cycle Records)
Tomutonttu - Tomutonttu & Sekalaisia Vol. 1 (Huutomerkki)
Tomutonttu - Triplapuisto (Huutomerkki, Imvated)
Keiji Haino & Sitaar Tah! - Animamima (aRCHIVE, Important Records)
Vlubä - We Have The Universes (Cauliflower Dreams)
Ashtray Navigations - Exotic Toilet Tour (Memoirs Of An Aesthete)
Religious Knives - Bind Them / Electricity And Air (No Fun Productions)
Boris - The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 3 (Conspiracy Records)
Shora - Malval (Conspiracy Records)
Moolah - Woe Ye Demons Possessed
(Atman Music & Recordings)
Ashtray Navigations - Dirt Mummies And Bloody Amps (Freenoise)
Samara Lubelski Quartet - Untitled (Sloow Tapes)
Oren Ambarchi - Grapes From The Estate (Southern Lord)
Idea Fire Company - Vital Live In Europe (Swill Radio)
Slayer - Christ Illusion (American Recordings)

Jordan Redaelli
Blues Control - Riverboat Styx (Fuck It Tapes)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live At The Fillmore East 1970 (Reprise)
Lobby Loyde - Ball Power/Heavy Metal Kid/Obsecration/Live With Dubs Reissues (Aztec Music)
Tony Conrad - Joan Of Arc (Table Of The Elements)
Klaus Schulze - Cyborg Deluxe Reissue ( Revisited Recs)
EOH - Wormy (Diagnosis Don't Recordings)
Workbench - Hod1 (Heavy Tapes)
Brush?! - S/T (Shadoks)
Peter Wright - Pariahs Sing On (Last Visible Dog)
Starving Weirdos - Father Guru (Azul Discographia)
Blops - Box Set (Shadoks)
Marconi Notaro - No Sub Reino Dos Metazoarios (Time-Lag)
Pink Luminous Invocation - S/T (Foxglove)

Patrick Struik
sachiko - you never atone for...(there/cd)
my cat is an alien ( everything )2xlive hasselt
fursaxa - myriad of satyrids ( self released cdr )
ontayso - all 2006 releases + 24hrs project
fushitsusha - dvd + all psf releases
kazuki tomokawa - live at pauze + live 2005 at osaka banana hall (psf/cd)
kan mikami - live at pauze + 1972 kochi university live (psf/cd)
mv/ee - live at pauze + deep space circuit (child of microtones/time-lag 2xcdr)
christina carter - lace heart ( many breaths/cdr )
inca ore/skaters live at paul labrecque's house
zaimph - mirage of the other (gipshy sphinx/LP)
the julie mittens - 30.01.06 ( sloow tapes / cs )
wwvv - gipsy freedom ( 5rc / 2LP/cd )
sunroof!/skullflower/hototogisu - just everything...
ignatz - i will soothe my eye to feast it with a sight of beauty ( cpsi / cdr )
flaherty / corsano / yeh - live at scheldapen + slow blind avalance ( important / LP )
lambsread live at scheldapen + some cdrs
john coltrane ( nothing new in 2006 but often played one of his impulse releases )
silvester anfang / r.o.t. LP's on (k-raa-k)3 and all their live performances
best gig : hellvete live at frontline ghent