ILYAS AHMED
neil young 'live at massey hall 1971'
burning witch 'crippled lucifer'
arati ankalikar-tikekar 'vocal raga'
fursaxa 'maidenstone' 7"
om 'pilgrimage'
valet 'blood is clean'
witchcraft 'the alchemist'
matta llama lp
d. charles speer & the helix 7"
grouper 'cover the windows and the walls'
michael yonkers 'grimwood'
golden road 'ringside seat nosebleed tone'
all the inspired/inspiring live shows experienced this year: christina carter,
yellow swans,
scorces, fursaxa, joshua burkett, white rainbow, charlalambides, tara jane o'neil,
grouper, pocahaunted, mv/ee, ghosting, marc orleans, valet, samara lubelski,
xela...you all make it worth getting out of the house.
AARON ALDORISIO
magik markers - "boss" (nothing even came close...i feel like this album was made specifically for me)
karen dalton - "cotton eyed joe" (it rained actually rained in LA when i put this on)
pylon - "gyrate" (a reminder that the angular, kinda dancy punk thing was once done right...and by americans, too!)
group inerane - "guitars from agadez" (hey alan, how about some more sublime frequencies vinyl?)
todd haynes - "i'm not there" (the movie, not the soundtrack)
boredoms - "super roots 9" (finally, an appropriate use of a large choir)
redd kross - doing all of "born innocent" as the opening act for sy's "daydream nation" show at the greek (they still sound 14)
scott walker - "30 century man" dvd (even if the movie was shitty, which it's not, it would still be worth it for the moment where lulu is exposed to his new music)
maya miller - heavy static t-shirts (i have the one called "sex" and phil blankenship told me it was vile)
whitehouse - cruise on vinyl (forcing the truth never sounded better)
JAN ANDERZEN(KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT)
The Cherry Blossoms ? s/t LP
Robert Wyatt ? Comicopera LP
Fricara Pacchu ? Stories of the Old 7?+book
Lauhkeat Lampaat ? Taikaa takataskussa CD
Graham Lambkin ? Salmon Run CD
Eric Copeland ? Hermaphrodite LP
Islaja ? Ulual yyy LP
v/a ? Lipa Kodi Ya City Council LP
Rodger Stella ? Foucault Zombie LP
The Skaters ? Dispersed Royalty Ornaments LP
other highlights: Group Inerane LP, Pink Reason LP, the Skaters solo tapes, Pekko Käppi CD, Sapat LP, Ignatz II LP, Blues Control LPs, Smegma 33 1/3, Flower/Corsano Duo, Factums 7??
reissue favourites: Dennis Duck Goes Disco, Asmus Tietchens box, Wizards LP, Matin levy, Tim Buckley ?Starsailor?, Noah Howard ?The Black Ark?, Karen Dalton ?In My Own Time?, Kuupuu LP
CAREN BALL
wizards - j d emmanuel lp (north star
productions)easilty my favourite record of the year,
man its lonely!
solo - wolf eyes lp (troubleman)again this sounds
lonely and the tracks are simple, you dont need to
load it up to get it out
the cherry blossoms - the cherry blossoms lp
(apostasty etc..) - definite sing a long
arrow highway - freshro 12" (rong)fantastic hip hop
paced howl
sol 07 - wooden shjips 7" (sick thirst/holy mountain)
i love this! every time i play it i need to play it
louder and i think i know all the words
miss broadway - glass candy 12" (italians do it
better) its the strings
in the city/im on fire - chromatics 12" (italians do
it better) sad and lonely! hurrah!
jolene - peter visti 12" (mindless boogie)i know! a
disco edit of dolly parton! and it fucking works!
acid eater - christine 23 onna cd (midi creative) real
brain rotting stuff, i always wear make up when i
listen to this
evidences vol 1 - maurizio bianchi lp
(vinyl-on-demand)i admit i had not heard any of his
stuff and i was blown away by the range, inventiveness
and downright damnedness of it all
sex face - tickly feather 7" (CNP)cute cute cute
lemonsweet - bagarre 12" (VIP)oh the way she sings on
this! the best use of the word 'coquette' in a song
and when she sings " as im touring the clubs i got
the acid in me" you think maybe you should try some
hallucingens just one more time
on and on (fear keeps on) - decadance 12" (proto
records)could be my favourite record ever, its so
fucking beautiful! as I-F says 'you can cry all you
want but you'll never sound like this'
work on your car - rev buck naked 7" (paris)sorry its
just very funny "ooh but your kisses set my soul on
fire"
kemialliset ystavat lp (fonal)never really sure about
this but i keep playing it, fucking dense
blues control lp (woodist)its the track with the piano
balearic love - peter visti 12" (eskimo)throb throb
ooh ahh
walk in my sleep - brenda dean 7" (imperial)heard this
on one of bob dylans themed radio shows for radio 5
and stuck out like an ugly duckling
new york story - lee douglas 12" (rong)epic stuff,
best heard on the floor of horsemeatdisco
just one more night - yellow dog 7" (virgin)brilliant
fade out with him pleading "ill do all the dishes"
D. BAULER (Medroxy Progesterone Acetate)
01. Demons, "Life Destroyer" (AA Records) (best planetarium dissociate-synth)
02. Sachiko, "Kunado" (Utech) (best beautiful ghost music)
03. KTL, "II" (Thrill Jockey) (best kingdom of snowbound dread)
04. Kites, "Hallucination Guillotine/Final Worship" (Load) (best sticky circuits)
05. C.C.C.C., "Early Years" (No Fun) (best if you're gonna buy anything on this list buy this)
06. Burning Star Core, "Blood Lightning 2007" (No Fun) (best ritual abuse)
07. Rylander/Elggren, "Gottesdientst" (Ideal) (best lightless hypnosis)
08. Emeralds, "Allegory Of Allergies" (Gods Of Tundra) (best ohiokosmischemusik)
09. Om, "Pilgrimage" (Southern Lord) (best leave on repeat forever)
10. Pulse Emitter, "Progression To Desolation" (Black Horizons) (best alternate soundtrack to Cosmos: War Of The Planets)
11. PJ Harvey, "White Chalk" (Island) (best heaviness-in-quiet)
12. Fleshpress, "Pillars" (Rusty Crowbar) (best subterranean crematoria recordings)
13. Damion Romero, "Twins" (Tone Filth) (best black minimalism)
Reissues: Double Leopards "Halve Maen", Collected Sly And The Family Stone box, Skullflower "IIIrd Gatekeeper", JD Emmanuel "Wizards", Warmth "Leave Your Wet Brain In The Hot Sun", Aaron Dilloway "Beggar Master"
Bonus -- Best I Haven't Given Up Hope: Charlie Draheim, "Soft Autopsy"
KARL BAUER (AXOLOTL)
Weyes Bluhd - Strange Chalices of Seeing (Thacred
Pathage)
Group Inerane - Music from Niger, Guitars from Agadez
(Sublime Frequencies)
Pekos/Yoro Diallo (Yalla Yalla)
Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
Vodka Soap - some unmarked cassette Spencer gave me
that he then tried unsucessfully to take back so he
could give it to a girl
Substance/Vaniquer 12's (Scion)
Black Dice - Load Blown (Paw Tracks)
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Avey Tare and Kria Brekken - Pullhair Rubeye played
forwards (Paw Tracks)
Astral Social Club - Neon Pibrock (Important)
PLUS
Catherine Ribeiro downloads
Achim Reichel reissues
All the African music I got from Nelson Gomes
Lo-Fi FNK
FABIO BONUCCI
1 - Raccoo-oo-oon - mythos folkways vol III (woodsist)
2 - Vanishing Voice - stone tablet LP (important)
3 - Matta Llama - s/t (mad monk)
4 - GHQ - california night burning dreams (not not fun)
5 - Silver Daggers - new high & ord (load)
6 - Burning Star Core - blood lightning 2007 (no fun)+operator dead post abandoned (no quarter)
7 - Pissed Jeans - hope for men (sub pop)
8 - No Neck Blues Band - roodemas (s@one)
9 - Sunburned Hand Of The Man - double puberty+earth do eagles do(MH)
+blaze game(with Circle)(cospirancy)
10 - Talibam! - ordination of the globetrotting conscripts (azul
discografica)+LP (pendu sound recordings)
runners:
Loosers, Grinderman, Sun Supreme LP, Gowns, The Good, The Bad And The Queen, Owl
Xounds, Blues Control, Liars, Xbxrx, Religious Knives.
Massive listening from the past:
Flipper - sex bomb baby cd
Urge overkill - saturation
Butthole surfers
Chrome
Julius Hemphill
Dean Roberts
Sly & The Family Stone
Best labels:
Fuck it tapes, Not Not Fun, Mad Monk, Qbico, Holy Mountain, No Fun.
live this year: The Family with a bit of Sly Stone at Umbria Jazz, Liars at feedback
(foligno).
THOMAS BOVITH
Alessandro Stefana - Poste E Telegrafi (Important)
Axolotl - Memory Theatre (Important)
Basalt Fingers - s/t (Three Lobed)
Culver - Surgical Memory
GHQ - Pale Heat Of Summer (Heavy Blossom)
Glenn Jones - Against Which the Sea Continually Beats (Strange Attractors Audio House)
Heatsick - Muddy Paw (Trans-Dimensional Sushi)
Hototogisu - Spooked Summer (Heavy Blossom)
Left Sensory Bypass - Temporal Exclusion (Paradigms)
Loren Connors - As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002 (Family Vineyard)
Meg Baird - Dear Companion (Drag City)
MV & EE with the Golden Road - Gettin' Gone (Ecstatic Peace)
Richard Youngs - Autumn Response (Jagjaguwar)
Sarin Smoke - Smokescreen (Three Lobed)
Sean Smith - Hay que aprovechar el tiempo (Russett Records)
Zaïmph - La Nuit Electrique (Utech)
GIANCARLO BRACCHI
1. Group Doueh - Guitar Music From the Western Sahara (sublime frequencies)
2. Baby Grandmothers - self titled reissue (subliminal sounds)
3. Incapacitants / Pain Jerk - live at No Fun Fest 2007 (no fun productions)
4. Blues conrtrol - Puff (Woodsist)
5. Prurient & Kevin Drumm - All are Guests in the House of the Lord cs (hospital productions)
6. Emeralds - Allegory of Allergies 2xcs (gods of tundra)
7. Aaron Dilloway - Infinite Lucifer one sided lp (hanson records)
8. Mammal - Lonesome Drifter (animal disguise)
9. C.C.C.C. - Early Works (no fun productions)
10. Original Silence - The First Original Silence (smalltown superjazz)
BRUNO (RURALFAUNE)
1. Hala Strana "Heave the Gambrel roof" (Music Fellowship)
2. Claypipe/ Pekko Kappi / The Blithe Sons "The Amazed Map" (Music Fellowship)
3. Jettatore "Au fond du ciel" (Musiques Immédiates)
4. CJA "Impact Wound" (Tanz Procesz)
5. Mythical Beast / Pocahaunted "Split" (Notnotfun)
6. Pillars of Heaven "Silver Tusks Vol.1" (Peasant Magick)
7. Der TPK "Harmful emotions" (Siltbreeze)
8. Agathothodion "Traum von Gott" (E.E.E. Recordings)
9. Sturmpercht : Geister im Waldgeburg (Percht)
10. Sorc'henn "Sveyrtin Iars Grekbpearssen" (Keben)
Honorable mention : Agitated Radio Pilot "Luminous Blues" & Thinguma* Jig Saw
(Deserted Village), Pekko Kappi "Jos Ken Pahoin Uneksii" (Peippo), Fursaxa "Alone
in the Black Wood" (Eclipse), Korperschwache "Ritual of the Ouroboros" (Crucial
Bliss), Procer Veneficus "The Cold Gloaming" (Students of Decay), Aidan Baker
"Exoskeleton heart" (Crucial Bliss), Mrtyu "Ritual Terra Continui'" (Tipped Bowler)
NEIL CHEYNEY
Album of the year: Meursault – “Sleeping Debris”
Single of the year: Pocahaunted – “Emerald Snake On Ruby Velvet”
Band of the year: Pocahaunted – excellent singles, EPs and albums on all sorts of formats, the “Hunted Gathering” and “Mouth Of Prayer” collaborations with Robedoor, split releases with Mystical Beast and Christina Carter
Rarity of the year: G. Prokter – “Scotland Primitiv” – 4 tape set, edition of 8, Turgid Animal’s most eerie excursion
Title of the year: - Snotty Cock – “Ssshhh…We’re Trying To Sleepfuck (The Hits of Snotty Cock)”
Other good things (among others):
Alistair Crosbie – The Lonesome Age Of Mirrors series, “Forest Of Swollen Eyes” and “Music For Lighthouses” cassettes, the “Treenails” album with Andrew Paine;
Nadja – re-workings of “Touched” and “Corrasion”, new albums “Radiance Of Shadows”, “Thaumogenesis” and “Guilted By The Sun”, Aidan Baker’s immense solo catalogue;
Envy – “Abyssal”; The Angelic Process – “Weighing Souls With Sand”;
Susan Matthews – “Hope-Bound”, “The Silent Architect” and two great EPs;
Pan Sonic – “Katodivaihe”; Boredoms – “Super Roots 9”;
Birchville Cat Motel – “Astro Catastrophes”, “Birds Call Home Their Dead”, “Bird Sister Blasphemy”, “Seventh Ruined Hex”;
Stafraenn Hakon – “Gummi” and “Kobbi”; Aereogramme – “My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go”; Crippled Black Phoenix – “A Love Of Shared Disasters”;
The Low Point label – Apalusa, Gareth Hardwick, Last Of The Real Hardmen, Shoeb Ahmad;
Jesu – “Sun Down/Sun Rise”, “Pale Sketches”, “Lifeline”, “Conqueror”;
Quetzolcoatl – “Forever Bleeding Canyon Cloud”, “Living”, “”Up And Down Dream Valley Thruway”, “Vast Eternity Bridges”, “Sleeping Within The Sun”;
Adam Lygo/Invisible – “Comparative Darkness”, “”Hari Zigoku”, “New Surreal Machine”, “The Hostile Powers”, “After Dark”, “Invisible”, “Endless”;
Zaimph – “La Nuit Electrique”, “Emblem”; GHQ – “California Night Burning Dreams”, “Pale Heat Of Summer”, “Square Growth Sessions”, “Crystal Healing”, “Seven Sisters”;
Eye Shaking Kingdom – “With Metal And Swordlight”; White Against The Sky – “The Last Refuge of The Coward”; Opaque – “The Cult Of Survivors”;
Boris with Merzbow and Michio Kurihari; Stars Of The Lid – “…And Their Refinement Of The Decline”; Pram – “The Moving Frontier”; PJ Harvey – “White Chalk”; Bossk – “2”; Hey Colossus – “Project Death”; Radiohead - "In Rainbows";
Sunn O))) – “Oracle”; KTL – “KTL2”, “KTL3”, "Live At Krems"
Shellac – “Excellent Italian Greyhound”; Port-Royal – “Afraid to Dance”; Explosions In The Sky – “All Of A Sudden I Miss Eveyone”;
Taurpis Tula – “Endless Alphabets Of Light”, “Cadillac Sitting Like A Ton Of Lead”; Heather Leigh Murray – “Devil If You Can Hear Me”, “Jailhouse Rock”, “There’s A Brunette Up In Tulsa That Cries For Me”;
Messiah Complex – “Incomplete Trephination”, “Menisus”; Nackt Insecten – “Stairway To Levitation”, “Double Lunar Halo”
Atavist, Bloody Panda, Monarch, Aluk Todolo, Torche, four excellent albums from Acid Mothers Temple;
Bonecloud, Bear Bones Lay Low, Death Unit, Robedoor, RST, Slow Listener, Black Sparrow;
Wooden Shjips, Heavy Winged, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Trans Am, Battles, White/Lichens, Totally Dad;
Blank Realm, Peter Wright, Ghost Brames Of The Cerf, Bonecloud, Mouthus;
Anadalite, Riboflavin, Noma, Devoid of All Mercy, Winters In Osaka, Neon Tempal, Jazzfinger, Esiotrot, Clunes;
Dull Knife, E.E, Bearhead, Dreamer, Skin Graft, Fossils, Peonies, Bee Mask, Axolotl, Wand And Princess;
Sorc’henn, Behemothaur, Heads of Pagan, Shift, Mystified, Waverly Hills, Wolfskull;
Hototogisu, Family Battle Snake, Skullflower, Sunroof!, Sarah’s Charity;
Ben Nash, Lash & Nye, CooperJones, Sonaura, A Middle Sex;
Preggy Peggy & The Lazy Babymakers, Burnt Hills, Polly Shang Kuan Band, Women In Tragedy, Family Underground;
Mutant Ape and other George Proctor aliases, Karst, Snotnosed, Kylie Minoise, ThirdOrgan, Helm, Chefkirk, Metafecal Hatter, Awful Drivers, King Wheat.
ALEX COBB (TAIGA REMAINS)
andrew chalk: "time of hayfield" (faraway press)
jonathan coleclough and andrew liles: "torch songs" (die stadt)
grouper: "cover the windows and the walls" (root strata)
stars of the lid: "and their refinement of the decline" (kranky)
loren connors: "the hymn of the north star" (family vineyard)
yellow swans: "at all ends" (load)
isengrind: "golestan" (no label)
twinsistermoon: "levels and crossings" (no label)
cloaks: "crystal skull in peru" (atheists are gods)
marble sky: "the sad return" (callow god)
meg baird: "dear companion" (drag city)
graham halliwell and tomas korber: "the large glass" (cathnor)
jefre cantu-ledesma: "the garden of forking paths" (spekk)
rv paintings: "trinity rivers" (root strata)
robedoor/pocahaunted: "hunted gathering" (digitalis)
glory fckn sun: "vision scorched" (pseudoarcana)
damian romero: "twins" (tone filth)
DARRYL COOK
walter carson
kommissar hjuler en mama beer - mensen die "kort staan" voor de zelfdoding lp (ultra eczema)
ara - "toxic motions" cs (rampart)
christina kubisch - "night flights" cd (important)
orphan fairytale - one sided cs (beniffer editions)
heather leigh murray - "devil if you can hear me" lp (not not fun)
henning christiansen - "symphony natura" (slowscan)
tarp - "s/t" 7" (apostasy)
sun ra - "strange strings" cd (atavistic)
emeralds - "grass ceiling" cs (fag tapes)
son of earth - "pet" lp (apostasy)
noise nomads - "nose picker" lp (rrr)
treetops/cygnus - split cs (arbor)
bill nace/chris cooper - "i'm fucking in a sitting room" cs (night wounds)
wiese/yeh - "live in nottingham" lp (what the...?)
AL CRYTES
Top 10 (in no particular order):
Threshold Houseboys' Choir - Form Grows Rampant
Emeralds - Allegory of Allergies
Hair Police - Empty Quarter
Burning Star Core - Operator Dead...Post Abandoned
Whitehouse - Racket
Prurient - Adam Tied To Stone
Magik Markers - BOSS
Ash Pool - World Turns On Its Hinge
Sightings - Through The Panama
Consumer Electronics - Nobody's Ugly
Runners-Up:
Vibracathedral Orchestra - Wisdom Thunderbolt
Aluk Todolo - Descension
Throbbing Gristle - Part Two
Sunburned Hand of the Man - Fire Escape
Supersilent - 8
Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash
Mouthus - Saw A Halo
Blues Control - Puff
CHRIS DADGEjohn russell - analekta (emanem cd)
burning star core - blood lightning (no fun cd)
richard youngs & alex neilson - electric lotus (vhf lp)
the silt - cat's peak (fig 2 cd)
piscastro - whore luck (polyvinyl cd)
volcano the bear - amidst the noise and twigs (beta-lactam-ring records cd)
sandro perri - tiny mirrors (constellation cd)
people - misbegotten man (i and ear cd)
steve baczkowski/ravi padmanabha - aqua machine (qbico lp)
astral social club - mp3 collection (self released mp3 cd)
three reissues:
the slits - return of the giant slits
nurse with wound - homotopy to marie
fire engines - hungry beat
three shows:
peter evans solo in western canada and us (august)
tatsuya takatani/neil davidson/raymond macdonald in newcastle (june)
boredoms in calgary (june)
four comics:
paul hornschemeier - the three paradoxes
john procellino - king-cat classix
ivan brunetti - misery loves comedy
tim hensley and jonathan bennett in mome
AL DEERING
MV & EE - Gettin Gone
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Silvester Anfang - Kosmische Slachtafval
Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses
Matta Llama- S/T
Causa Sui - Free Ride
Nordvargr - In oceans abandoned by life I drown
Ai Aso - Chamomile Pool
Wooden Shjips - S/T
MV & EE - Nosebleed Tour Ringside seat
BART DE PAEPE(SLOOW TAPES)
mick stevens - lady sunrise
> new age - all around
> meic stevens - rain in the leaves
> meg baird - dear companion
> dolphins into the future
> ben nash - magnetophone 8
> peonies - the echo of trodden on twig
> mv & ee with the golden road - gettin' gone
> dreamers cloth - a bamboo dream
> visitations - s/t
REY DIEGO
Starving Weirdos
Robedoor
Silvester Anfang
Religious Knives
Cadaver In Drag
Panda Bear- Person Pitch
Shackleton and Appleblim (Skull Disco)- Soundboy Punishments
No Neck Blues Band - Angelo Mai/Roodemas
Haswell and Hecker - Blackest Ever Black
KTL - 2
Honorable Mentions: Mick Flower, Om, Yellow Swans, Sarin Smoke,
Burning Star Core, Eric Copeland, Sir Richard Bishop
Top Reissues 2007
vladislav delay - multila
nurse with wound - homotopy to marie
velvet underground & nico - unripened
sleep - holy mountain (on vinyl!)
jd emmanuel - wizards
ERIC (Scumbag Relations)
russian tsarlag
blues control - s/t
pulsating dolphins into the future eye of vision
sic alps -description of the harbor lp
manbeard
god willing - inner carpet lp
kites - drogue chute tape
benjamin franklin - takes time tape
lazy magnet - rare youth tape
halibet tin metal sewage band - fag tapes cdr
rehash...
Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah - Lake Shore Drive LP
Bruce Haack - Electric Lucifer LP
Yoko Ono - Its Alright (I See Rainbows) LP
JD Emmanuel - Wizards LP
DAVID FERN
live:
towering above all else this year
Michael Gira at Taylor Johns, Coventry
then
Om at Cooler, Bristol
Sonny Simmons/Tight Meat at Cube, Bristol
Nurse with Wound at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Ashtray Navigations at Cube
Paavorhaju at Venn Fest, Bristol
Recorded:
Noah Howard 'Black Ark'
Angels of Light 'We Are Him'
Hero Wouters 'Muzick vooe Leven en Dood'
Various 'John Barleycorn Reborn'
Klyd Watkins 'Oohlungwhodee oohnolay' MP3
In Gowan Ring 'Time is a Spiral'
Shane Speal 'Stealing the Fire'
Ashtray Navigations 'An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Metal'
Kousokuya 'Ray Night 2006 October 18'
PHIL FRENCH from Super Minerals / Magic Lantern
10. Plants - Double Infinity [Paradigms]
9. GHQ - Square Growth Sessions [Sloow Tapes]
8. Chris Corsano - Mick Flower Duo - The Radiant Mirror [Textile]
7. Zaimph - Emblem [W.M.O./r]
6. Starving Weirdos - Shrine of the Post-Hypnotic [Root Strata]
5. Rameses III - Honey Rose [Important]
4. Religious Knives - Remains [No Fun Productions]
3. Quetzolcoatl - Forever Bleeding Canyon Cloud [Foxglove]
2. Cloudland Canyon - Silver Tongued Sisyphus [Meudiademorte]
1. Michael Flower - Returning to Knowing Nothing [Qbico]
honorable mentions (watch out 2008!):
Sloow Tapes, Not Not Fun, Robedoor, Metal Rouge, Midnight Gardeners, Molten
Honey, Tim Hurley
PAUL GARCIA
1. kousokoya - 2006 10 october - raynight music
2. bear bones lay low - s/t - agnus dei records
3. bobo - ww - subjective sprit sounds
4. onna - barea
5. psalm alarm - blk paintings volume one - cut hands
6. extremis - s/t - pilates navigator
7. religious knives - remains - no fun productions
8. islaja - ulual yyy - fonal
9. christine senaoui - solo - olofbright
10. the terminals - last days of the sun - last visible dog
DEREK GODAT (Ultra Hard Gel)
Soundtrack 2007 –
Flying Canyon "Flying Canyon"
Giant Skyflower Band "Blood of the Sunworm"
Midlake "Trials of Vanoccupanther"
Castle Project "Diaries of a Broken Heart"
Marc Manning "Air In The Trees"
Claypipe "For the Creek Kaituna"
Bardo Pond "Ticket Crystals"
Sean Smith "Eternal"
Richard Youngs "Autumn Response"
Winter Flowers "Chiming Leaves of the Shimmering Forest"
Homayun Sakhi "Music of Central Asia vol 3"
Nikhil Banerjee "Rotterdam 1970"
Danzig "6:66 Satan's Child" / "7:77 I Luciferi"
Fikret Kizilok "Gun Ola Devran Done"
Mikami Kan "Hiraku Yume Nado Arujanashi"
CHRIS GODOT
Matthew Bower & Mattin - A New Form of Beauty 1975
Neokarma Jooklo Sextet - Live at Scalodieci
Consumer Electronics - Nobody's Ugly
Mouthus - Saw A Halo
The Bug - Skeng
Vodka Soap - Parallel Visitation...
Loren Connors - Hymn of the North Star
Richard Youngs & Alex Neilson - Electric Lotus / Lotus Edition
The New Blockaders - Das Zerstoren, Zum Gebaren
Sunroof! - Panzer Division Lou Reed
Daniel Menche - Bleeding Heavens
Kousokuya - Ray Night 2006 October 18 (was this a 2007 release?)
JOE GRASSBY
1. Vibracathedral Orchestra - Wisdom Thunderbolt
2. Voice of the Seven Woods - Voice of the Seven Woods
3. Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under The Stars
4. Future of the Left - Curses
5. Wolf Eyes - Dogs On Stage
6. Talibam! - Ordination of the Globetrotting Conscripts
7. Frank Black - Bluefinger
8. Burning Star Core - Blood Lightning 2007
9. Motor Ghost - Night Stations
10. Om - Pilgrimage
PASCAL HECTOR (Meudiademorte Records / Datashock)
Aether Myth'd "The Eight" Cdr Spirit Of Orr
Black To Comm "Wir können leider nicht etwas mehr zu tun..." 2Lp
Dekorder
Demons "Frozen Fog" Lp AA Records
Flower / Corsano Duo "The Radiant Mirror" Lp Textile
Hair Police "Blind Kingdom" Lp Ultra Eczema
Head of Wantastiquet "Mortagne" Cdr
Jandek "Manhattan Tuesday" 2xcd Corwood
Religious Knives "In Brooklyn After Dark" 12" Troubleman Unlimited
Sunburned Hand Of The Man "Fire Escape" Cd Smalltown Supersound
Time Life / Lil Dusty split Cs Vanishing Voice
Uton "Alitaju Ylimina" Lp Dekorder
Vodka Soap "Shadow Watcher Levitations/Infinite Way Class" Cs New Age
Cassettes
JORIS HEEMSKERK/CUT HANDS
Religious Knives: Remains [No Fun]
Emeralds: Allegory of Allergies [Gods of Tundra]
Miles Devens: Trans-Atlantic Woman [New Age]
Emaciator: Neglect [Monorail Trespassing]
Suishou No Fune: The Shining Star [Important]
Hair Police: The Empty Quarter [Harbinger]
Taliban: Gutted [Gods of Tundra]
Magik Markers: Boss [Ectstatic Peace]
Demons: Frozen Fog
Cadaver In Drag: Raw Child [Animal Disguise]
Six Organs Of Admittance: Shelter from the Ash [Drag City]
JOHN HUMBLET
EMERALDS "Allegory Of Allergies" cassette (Gods Of Tundra)
MILES DEVENS “Atlantic Woman” cassette (New Age Cassettes)
A BAD DIANA “The Lights Are On But No-One’s Home” CD (United Jnana)
MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS “Gitchii Manitu (12 Step Retrance Program For Troubled Dream…) cassette (Pacific City)
WOODEN SHJIPS “s/t” CD (Holy Mountain)
PACIFIC RAT TEMPLE BAND “Tan Kim ‘Boa Paradise’” cassette (New Age Tapes)
COMMISSARIS HJULER EN MAMA BEER “Mensen die ‘kort staan’ voor de zelfdoding” LP (Ultra Eczema)
LES RALLIZES DÉNUDÉS “Yodo-go-a-go-go (aka Flightless Bird Needs Water Wings) CD (10th Avenue Freeze Out)
GAVIN BRYARS/PHILIP JECK/ALTER EGO “The Sinking Of The Titanic” CD (Touch)
SUISHOU NO FUNE “I Throw A Stone Into The Endless Depths” cassette (Sloow Tapes)
*
RE-ISSUE TOP 10 of 2007 – in no particular order:
J. D. EMMANUEL “Wizards” LP (Dreamtime Taped Sounds)
ZWEISTEIN “Trip – Flip Out – Meditation” 3xCD (Captain Trip)
YOSHI WADA “Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile” CD (EM Records)
COSTIN MIEREANU “Luna Cinese” CD-r (Creel Pone)
VIKKI JACKMAN “Of Beauty Reminiscing” CD (Faraway Press)
CURRENT 93 “The Inmost Light” 3xCD (Durtro/Jnana)
NOAH HOWARD “The Black Ark” CD (Bo’ Weavil Recordings)
NUNO CANAVARRO “Plux Quba” CD (Moikai)
GRUPPO DI IMPROVVISAZIONE NUOVA CONSONANZA “Nuova Consonanza” CD (Bella Casa)
MAURIZIO BIANCHI “Symphony For A Genocide” CD (Hospital Productions)
*
TOP 10 ‘bought and enjoyed, but not released in 2007’ – in no particular order:
PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED “Metal Box” CD (Virgin)
GRAVEYARDS “Psalm Alarm” cassette (Meudiademorte)
JASON LESCALLEET “The Pilgrim” picture disc LP + CD (Glistening Examples)
VARIOUS ARTISTS “The Complete 10-Inch Series From Cold Blue” 3xCD (Cold Blue)
ROLAND P. YOUNG “Isophonic Boogie Woogie” CD (EM Records)
JACQUES BERROCAL “Flash” picture disc 10-inch (Alga Marghen)
ACHIM REICHEL & MACHINES “Echo/A. R. IV” 2xCD (New Amos Records)
ZOLTAN PONGRÁCZ & IVÁN PATACHICH “Hungarian Electroacoustic Music Works By...” CD (Hungaroton Classic)
PETER GRUDZIEN “The Unicorn” CD (Radioactive Records)
TOSHI ICHIYANAGI “Obscure Tape Music of Japan Vol. 5: Music For Tinguely” CD (Edition Omega Point)
….and of course the never ending – yes, this is wishful thinking! – Creel Pone output.
BILL KOULIGAS (FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE)
1) AARON DILLOWAY : 05/10/2007 - Rotterdam / Worm
2) ILIOS : 25/01/2007 - Athens / Small Music Theatre
3) BLOOD STEREO & SHARON GALL : 15/11/2007 - London / Old Blue Last
4) NORBERT MOSLANG (VOICE CRACK) : 30/10/2007 - London / Cochrane Theatre
5) LAMBORGHINI CRYSTAL, VODKA SOAP, CRYSTAL MAZE, IGNATZ : 28/08/2007 - Den Haag /
Helbaard (Pacific City Sound Visions Festival)
6) EVAN PARKER, PAUL HESSION, YELLOW SWANS, JOHN WIESE, C. SPENCER YEH,
METALUX, JOHN EDWARDS & CULVER : 05/05/2007 - London / ULU (FREE NOISE TOUR)
7) PRINCE : 17/08/2007 - London / O2 Arena
8) ALAN WILKINSON, JOHN EDWARDS, STEVE NOBLE TRIO : 05/06/2007 - London / The
Luminaire
9) THE HATERS : 22/09/2007 - Tilburg / ZXZW Fest
10) TRAD GRAS OCH STENAR : 25/09/2007- Den Haag / Helbaard
11) WHITEHOUSE : 19/07/2007 - London / Old Blue Last
12) CHRIS CORSANO & MICK FLOWER DUO : 15/02/2007 - London / Luminaire
13) CECIL TAYLOR TRIO WITH ANTHONY BRAXTON, ORNETTE COLEMAN GROUP : 08,09/07/2007 -
London / Royal Festival Hall
14) SKULLFLOWER, KEVIN DRUMM : 28/09/2007 - Copenhagen / Lygten Station
15) DAVE PHILLIPS : 14/10/2007 - Athens / Biennale Exhibition
16) MARK DURGAN (PUTREFIER) : 13/09/2007 - Sheffield / The Furniture Maker
17) THURSTON MOORE : 12/06/2007 - London / Scala
18) PULSE EMITTER : 06/10/2007 - Hasselt / Belgie
19) BILL NACE & CHRIS COOPER DUO (BUDDIES) : 01/03/2007 - London / Bardens Bodoir
20) MONOPOLKA : 28/01/2007 - Paris / Miroiterie
21) THE SONICS : 02,04/11/2007 - New York, Brooklyn / Warsaw
22) IN THE EYE OF VISION : 22/09/2007 - Tilburg / ZXZW Fest
23) BIRDS OF DELAY, TIGHT MEAT & SONNY SIMMONS : 23/11/2007- Glasgow / CCA
24) WEIRDING MODULE : 01/11/2007 - New York, Brooklyn / West Nile
25) RELIGIOUS KNIVES : 13/07/2007 - London / Red Rose
+ all the acts who played at Colour out of Space Festival
ADAM KRINEY (OWL XOUNDS)
ASTRA - demo CD-R (self-released)
ASSEMBLE HEAD IN SUNBURST SOUND - "Ekranoplan" (Tee Pee)
MAMMATUS "The Coast Explodes" (Holy Mountain)
EARTHLESS - "Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky" (Tee Pee)
COSMOTRON - live in Firenze, Italy
STONER KEBAB - "Imber Vvlgi" (Dufresne)
SUISHOU NO FUNE - "The Shining Star" (Important)
MONDO DRAG - live in Moline, Illinois
SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN - live at Diamond Days Festival, Brooklyn, NY
LA OTRACINA Italian Tour
MATT KREFTING
Graham Lambkin - Salmon Run
Idea Fire Company - Island of Taste
Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer
Asmus Tietchens - 4K7
v/a - Broken Flag Retrospective
Whitehouse - Racket
Scott Foust - Jungle Fever
Emeralds - Everything!
Sapat - Mortise and Tenon
MB - Evidences vol. 1 - Final Industrial Music
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
The Band - Music from Big Pink
The Band - The Band
The Band - Stage Fright
The Band - Cahoots
The Band - Rock of Ages
The Band - Northern Lights, Southern Cross
The Band - Islands
The Band - The Last Waltz
The Band - A Musical History
The Best of The Band
The New Blockaders - Live at the Anti-Fest
The Band - Moondog Matinee
BRRR - Urban Birds
GAVIN LAIRD
Angels of Light - We Are Him
The Fall - Reformation Post TLC
Ghost - In STormy Nights
Magik Markers - Boss
Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm
MV+EE - Gettin' Gone
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
RTX - Western Exterminator
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments
Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter from the Ash
Stars of the Lid - and Their Refinement of the Decline
WILLIAM LANE
Aswara s/t CD
Blues Control "Puff" LP
Cherry Blossoms s/t LP
Kemialliset Ystavat s/t (on Fonal)
Kuupuu "Yokehra" & "Unilintu" LP's
Graham Lambkin "Salmon Run" CD
Samara Lubelski "Parallel Suns"
Sapat "Mortise & Tenon" LP
Son of Earth "Pet" LP
Ed Yazijian "Six Ways to Avoid the Evil Eye" LP
Best Reissue -
The Contents Are "Through You" LP
MOSHE LEVY
Magik Markers – Boss
2. Battles – Mirrored
3. Original Silence – The First Original Silence
4. P. J. Harvey – White Chalk
5. Thurston Moore – Trees Outside The Academy
6. Six Organs Of Admittance – Shelter From The Ash
7. Cato Salsa Experience/The Thing/Joe Mcphee -2 Bands And A Legend
8. Brotzmann Peter /Nilssen-Love / Mats Gustafsson - The Fat Is Gone
9. Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet - Live In Lisbon
10. Deerhunter – Cryptograms
11. Faust & Nurse With Wound – Disconnected
12. Text Of Light –Un Pranzo Fabuloso
13. Om – Pilgrimage
14. Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Fire Escape
15. Dinosaur Jr – Beyond
16. Electrelane - No Shouts, No Call
17. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer
18. Shoup/Flaherty/ThuMoore/Corsano – The Roadhouse sessions
19. Shins - Wincing The Night Away
20. Burning Star Core- Blood Lightning
21. Vega Suzanne - Beauty & Crime
22. Borbetomagus And Hijokaidan - Both Noises End Burning
23. Wilco – Blue Sky Blue
24. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
ISSAC LINDER
"Low Frequency Observed at Maguchi Bay"- Toshiya Tsunoda
"ABJECTOR" [sic]- " " [sic] GOLDIE
"Interior Designs"- Jessica Rylan
"Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Musics"- Various Artists (compiled by Ian Nagoski)
"There Were One and It Was Two: Annotated Artifacts from the Doubles Museum"- Ric Royer and John Berndt
"Occupation 1980-1990"- John Berndt
"Untrue"- Burial
"Frozen Fog"- Demons
"Kenny G Meets John Zorn"- Kenneth Goldsmith and Jonathan Zorn
"Crown Now Ricochets in Crime Scene USA"- Crown Now
"Da Drought 3"- Lil' Wayne
& all the Lamborghini Crystal tapes
EVAN LOUISON
-teeny bopper "condom dump"
(jeremy asks me if i'd like to hear it &
then proceeds to fall asleep to his own record
while i listen)
-zachary paige large group ensemble
(performance in may marked by
the shattering of many crystal glasses)
-wildebeest "dead pets" / "standard oil usually"
(m winn disappears into the Georgia country and
later the Catskills and this shit is what he comes back with)
-pharoahe monch "desire"
(particularly the cover / posters all around nyc)
-joel thome & harry bertoia's sound sculptures
(brilliant soul)
-no age "wierdo rippers"
(for some reason, don't ask)
-neil young "live at massey hall 1971"
(I mean have you seen this?)
-"the music ensemble"
(early nyc free-moving supergroup w/daniel carter,
william parker, billy bang, etc. from early 70s,
completely absurd --- check mr. carter's liner notes
for any further explanation of just how sick)
-nick cave / warren ellis "score for the assassination of jesse james"
(and also when mr. cave shows up in the saloon at picture's end
playing the ballad of jesse james his own self)
-rodney dangerfield "rappin rodney"
& richard pryor live (both tapes we found)
-filming loren connors in his apt
-getting my head stretched by daniel carter all over ny
ALLAN MCCALLUM
Boss - Magik Markers
In Stormy Nights - Ghost
Reformation Post TLC - The Fall
The Nativity Scene - Various
Soundboy Punishments - Skull Disco
Brooklyn Wednesday - Jandek
Part 2/ The Endless Not - Throbbing Gristle
The Seance At Hobs Lane - Mount Vernon Arts Lab
Grinderman
With Metal And Swordlight - Eye Shaking Kingdom
You asked for a top 10, so apologies to Opaque, Alistair Crosbie and Kylie Minoise, who also made some of my favourite music of this year.
SCOTT MCKEATING
Russian Tsarcasm - My Life is as Natural as My Grip on the Machete
Taurpis Tula - Cadillac Sitting Like A Ton Of Lead
Burial Hex - s/t
Jandek - Glasgow Monday
Basalt Fingers - s/t
Richard Dawson - "Ornithology"
Jazzfinger - everysingledamnthingtheydid
Smegma - 33 1/3
Sunroof! - Panzer Division Lou Reed
Prurient - All are Guests in the House of the Lord
KEVIN MCKENNA
1. Neokarma Jooklo Trio - Solar Vision (Qbico)
2. Neokarma Jooklo Trio - Meditative (Qbico)
3. Jooklo Duo - Free Serpents (Qbico)
4. Tulasi - Maa Autaa (Sloow Tapes)
5. Group Inerane - Music of Niger: Guitars From Agadez (Sublime Frequencies)
6. Up-Tight - Early Years (Archive)
7. Les Rallizes Denudes - Yodo-Go-A-Go-Go/Flightless Bird Needs Water Wings (10th
Avenue Freeze Out)
8. Axolotl - Memory Theater (Important)
9. V/A - Melodi Tuvi: Throat Songs and Folk Tunes from Tuva (Dust to Digital)
10. Michael Flower - Return to Knowing Nothing (Qbico)
The list goes on....
11. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (Domino)
12. Amon Dude - Amon Dude (Ikuisuus CD-R)
13. Loren Connors - As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002 (Family Vineyard)
14. The Roots of Chica: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru (Barb�s)
15. Giorgio Pacorig & David Vanzan - Hallucinations (Troglosound)
16. Dredd Foole - Daze on the Mounts (Family Vineyard)
17. V/A - Radio Thailand: Transmissions from the Tropical Kingdom (Sublime Frequencies)
18. Paul Metzger - Deliverance (Locust)
19. Sightings - Through the Panama (Load)
20. Alejandra & Aeron - Billowy Mass (Kning Disk)
21. Wzt Hearts - Threads Rope Spell Making Your Bones (Carpark)
Other '07 Notables
1. Musical Brotherhoods of the Trans-Saharan Highway film (Sublime Frequencies)
2. In the Year of the Pig, August 24th, 2007 at the Nightlight, Chapel Hill, NC (w/
Felt Battery and Rahdunes)
3. Caetano Veloso at Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill, NC
4. Avant Marghen Volumes 1-3 Box Sets on Alga Marghen, super reissues of vocal
experiment rare editions from some of the pioneers in vocal sound composition
5. Powr Mastrs by C.F. (PictureBox, Inc.)
6. The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky set (Anchor Bay)
7. Dennis Tyfus artwork, graced the covers of some pretty excellent releases on the
Ultra Eczema label including Burning Star Core's Everyday World of Bodies LP,
Commissaris Hjuler en Mama Beer's Mensen Die "Kort Staan" Voor de Zelfdoding LP, and
X04's Lost Signals LP
RUSSELL MCKENZIE
ohh seven
1 - MV & EE with the Golden Road - Gettin' Gone
2 - Dredd Foole - Daze on the Mounts
3 - Charalambides - Likeness
4 - Mariee Sioux - Faces in the Rocks
5 - San Serac - Professional
6 - Children of the Stones - The Bright Day is Gone
7 - Damon & Naomi - Within These Walls
hey! in no particular order
Ed Yazijian - Six Ways To Avoid The Evil Eye
Loren Connors - Hymn Of The North Star
JOMF - Valley of Fire
Sunburned Hand of the Man - Fire Escape
Badgerlore - We Are All Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits
Axolotl - Memory Theatre
HLM - Devil If You Can Hear Me
Fovea Hex - Allure
Christina Carter / Pocahaunted - Split EP
Meg Baird - Dear Companion
Fern Knight - Music for Witches and Alchemists
Cocorosie - Adventures of Ghost Horse and Stillborn
Boom Bip - Sacchrilege
Jana Hunter - There Is No Home
exceptional gigs
White Magic - Mono - January
Damon & Naomi - Stereo Cafe - November
Espers - Tramway - April
Slint - ABC - August
most wanted - did these guys really not put anything new out this year or did i just miss it all?
White Magic (I worshipped Mira Billotte in Mono in January - best gig of the year - and I'm still waiting for "the new single")
Jack Rose (how many people are Jack Rose, and what on earth instruments do he/she/they play? note-to-self - buy more records / conduct more research back in the lab.)
JOSH MEIER
times new viking - present the paisley reich + my head/rip allegory 7"
sightings - through the panama
sonic youth - daydream nation (deluxxxe edition)
joanna newsom - ys street band
christina carter - electrice LP (reissue)
magik markers - boss
leslie keffer - feels like frenching
deerhoof - friend opportunity + matchbook 7"
animal collective - peacebone 10"
charalambides - our bed is green LP (reissue)
the new heather leigh LP will be on this list too, i just haven't heard it yet.
RICHARD MEYRICK
Waldteufel - Sanguis (Beta Lactum Ring)
Sleep Research Facility - Deep Frieze (Cold Spring)
Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters (Southern Lord)
Angels Of Light - We Are Him (Young God)
TenHornedBeast - The Sacred Truth (Cold Spring)
Eluvium - Copia (Temporary Residence)
Richard Youngs - Autumn Response (Jagjaguwar)
Various - John Barleycorn Reborn (Cold Spring)
Burial Chamber Trio - Burial Chamber Trio (Southern Lord)
Procer Veneficus - A Summerhaze Array For August Nights (God Is Myth)
SCARIOT MICHELE (Dokuro Records)
01 Birchville Cat Motel - Bird Sister Blasphemy
02 Pj Harvey - White chalck
03 Birchville Cat Motel - Birds call home their dead
04 Lcd soundsystem - Sound of silver
05 Burial - Untrue
06 Bobby Conn - king for a day
07 Yellow Swans - At all ends
08 Prurient & Kevin Drumm - All are guest in the house of lords
09 Burning Star Core - Blood lightning
10 Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions
11 Carlos Giffoni - Arrogance
12 Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
13 Slow Poison - Black blood enclosure
14 The Holy See - fucking physics
15 Hive Mind & The Hototogisu - bored fortress
MAYA MILLER (RELIGIOUS KNIVES)
Top of 2007 from the depths of magical Puerto Rico
Albums
1. Blank Dogs "Diana" ep: absolute best of the year, permanent brain
damage
2. Pink Reason "cleaning the mirror"
3. Martial Canterel "austerton"
4. discovering the Misfits
5. the Cure "Carnage Visors"
6. the work of Fleetwood Mac
7. Excepter "streams"
Experiences
Religious Knives summer tours—Europe ruled and tour with woods
was probably best tour ever...wasted pool parties
Dinner at Babbo and Eleven Madison Park
IAN MITCHELL
1. Demons - 'Invisible Darkness' CD-R
2. The New Blockaders - 'Das Zerstoren, Zum Gebaren'
3. Religious Knives - 'Remains'
4. Burning Star Core - 'Operator Dead... Post Abandoned'
5. MV & EE With The Golden Road - 'Gettin Gone'
6. Ashtray Navigations - 'Greatest Imaginary Band' CD-R
7. Magik Markers - 'Boss'
8. Sunroof! - 'Panzer Division Lou Reed'
9. Wooden Shjips - 'Wooden Shjips' (2 x CD version)
10. Chris Corsano – ‘Blood Pressure’
Hard to choose 10 from such a great year. Here's what nearly made it:
Andrew Chalk & Daisuke Suzuki – ‘The Days After’ (CD Reissue)
Axolotl – ‘Prophetic Ass’
Blood stereo – ‘enfold the hiss’
Burning star core – ‘blood lightning 2007’
Death unit – ‘infinite death’
Demons – ‘evocation’
Failing Lights / Spykes / Nate Young / Wolf Eyes – ‘Solo’
Flower / Corsano duo – ‘radiant mirror’
GHQ – ‘cosmology of eye’
Hair police – ‘the empty quarter’ (+ the ‘strict’ 7" is great)
Heather leigh – ‘there’s a brunette up in tulsa…’
Hototogisu – ‘sculptures built upon the graves’
Jackie-o motherfucker – ‘valley of fire’
John fahey – ‘days have gone by’ & ‘fare forward voyagers’ (reissues)
Magik markers – ‘road pussey redux’
Motor ghost – ‘night stations’
Mouthus – ‘saw a halo’
Mv & ee – ‘eye in the pines’
The golden road – ‘ringside seat / nosebleed tone’
Pissed jeans – ‘hope for men’
Richard youngs – ‘summer wanderer’ (vinyl reissue)
Sonny simmons – ‘the complete esp disk recordings’
Spectre folk – ‘requiem for ming aralia’
Taurpis tula – ‘endless alphabets of light’
Tight meat duo - 'vanishing fist'
Thurston Moore - 'Trees Outside The Academy'
Toshi ichiyanagi – ‘music for tinguely’ (CD reissue)
Vodka soap – ‘oceansion island’
Voice of the seven woods – ‘s/t’
Wolf eyes – ‘black wing over the sand’
Wolf eyes - ‘fried alive’
Wooden wand – ‘james and the quiet’
Wooden wand & the sky high band – ‘from the road volume 7: wasteland of the free’
Wooden wand & the vanishing voice – ‘phases in meticulous orbit’
HEATH MOERLAND
ALICIA KEYS "no one", "like you'll never see me again"
A THOUSAND COLORS BLAZE gods of tundra BOX SET
LIL' WAYNE "i feel like dying"
SOULJA BOY mix tape
DEMONS "infinity mirror" AA double lathe
DEMONS "frozen fog" AA LP
SLOW OWLS "owls breath" BREATHMINT 232 cassette
AARON DILLOWAY "infinite lucifer" LP
WIERD RECORDS "wierd comp." 3xLP/7"
CHARLIE DRAHEIM "wieghted ghost" cassette
NICK NEWPORT
Astral Blessing "St. Roche" CD-R (Feed & Seed records)
Lambsbread "Stereo Mars" LP (Ecstatic Peace!)
Mammatus "The Coast Explodes" CD (Holy Mountain)
Basalt Fingers s/t LP & CD-R (Three Lobed)
Dead C "Future Artists" CD (Ba-Da-Bing!)
Magik Markers "Boss" CD (Ecstatic Peace!)
Matt Valentine & Erika Elder "Mars Luna" CD-R (C.O.M)
Sachiko "Kunado" CD (Utech)
Wooden Wand & The Sky High Band "Wasteland Of The Free - From The Road Vol 7" CD-R
(Forgot label name, sorry)
Suishou No Fune "Writhing Underground Flowers" CD (Lotus Sound)
Top 10 Reissues/Compilations (In no particular Order)
J.D. Emmanuel "Wizards" LP (North Star)
Silmaril "Voyage Of Icarus" 2xLP (Locust)
People Take Warning 3xCD (Tompkins Square)
Noah Howard "Black Ark" CD (Bo'Weavil)
Bobb Trimble "Iron Curtain Innocence" CD (Secretly Canadian)
Bobb Trimble "Harvest Of Dreams" CD (Secretly Canadian)
Tea And Symphony: The English Baroque Sound 1967-1974 (Castle)
Harmonia "Live 1974" (Gronland)
Trees Community "The Christ Tree" CD (Hand/Eye)
Nico "The Frozen Borderline" 2xCD (Elektra)
Top 10 Other Things (In no particular order)
Arthur Magazine
Growing our own fruit and vegetables
"You're Gonna Miss Me - A Film About Roky Erikson" DVD
Jandek "Glasgow Monday" DVD
King Cat Classix H/C by John Porcellino (Drawn & Quarterly)
Japrocksampler by Julian Cope (Bloomsbury), although i do wish he could spell Keiji
Haino.
"The Fun Never Stops" by Drew Friedman (Fantagraphics)
Carl Sagans "Cosmos" on DVD (It came out a few years ago, but i only got it this year)
"Heavy Metal Parking Lot" 20th Anniversary DVD
"Bitch Killer" trailer on C4s "Man To Man With Dean Learner" - spot on pastiche of
early 70s British horror movies that actually out-Pete Walkers Pete Walker! Check it
out on YouTube!
NICOLASH (for Noise's sake records/pier)
1º Violence Jazz - Protection (Tiger Asylum CDR)
2º Hetero Skeleton - En la Sombra del Pajaro Velludo (Load CD)
3º Original Silence - The First Original Silence (Smalltown Superjazz CD)
4º Winiing - This Is An Add For Cigarettes (Ache Records cD)
5º Death Unit - Infinite Death (Important CD)
6º Wi77!N6 - Brotherhood of the Backwards Handshake (Evolving Ear CD)
7º Talibam! - Ordination of the Globetrotting Conscripts (Azul Discografica CD)
8º Abe Vigoda - Kids (OlFactory Records CD)
9º Raccoo-oo-oon - Behold Secreto Kingdom (Release The Bats CD)
10º Au/Stuckometer Split (Ozono Kids CDR)
11º El Guincho - Alegranza (Discoteca Oceano CD)
12º Moha! - Norwegianism (Rune Grammofon CD)
13º Heavy Winged - Blacc Lust (Three Lobed CD)
14º Os Loosers - Sidelights (Fuck It Tapes CS)
15º Times New Viking - Present The Paisley Reich (Siltbreeze CD)
DYLAN NYOUKIS
PENGO - Toad Stools Amongst The Tombstones
> SMEGMA - 33 1/3 cd
> KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT LP
> MATHS BALANCE VOLUMES - Circle Path cd-r
> CROM - Cocaine Wars 1974-1989 (white vinyl re-issue)
> LP
> DEMONS - Frozen Fog LP
> HENRI CHOPIN - La Plaine des Respirs
> LP
> PREGGY PEGGY & THE LAZY BABYMAKERS - Gang Rape Of A
> Slow Bus Rider cd-r
> POINTS OF FRICTION - Afterlife DNA Fingerpainting
> cd
> XO4 - Cataracts
> & FATTY JUBBO on WFMU, that loveable lard-ass
DAN PALMER
1. Lily Greenham - Lingual Music (Paradigm, 2xCD)
2. Little Claw - Spit & Squalor Swallow the Snow (Ecstatic Peace, LP)
3. Fossils/Hereharehere - split (Cloud Valley, cass)
4. Henri Chopin - La Plaine Des Respirs (Tochnit Aleph, LP)
5. Lexie Mountain Boys - Blood Shed in the Course of Things (Our Mouths, CDR)
6. Halibet Tin Metal Sewage Band - s/t (Fag Tapes, cass)
7. Nocturnal Emissions - Befehlnotstand (Klanggalerie, CD reissue)
8. Lexie Mountain Boys - mixtape (no label, cass)
9. Dial - 168K (Cede, CD)
10. Slow Listener - Those Who Pursue Mediocrity Are Never Disappointed (Together Tapes, cass)
PIETER
LP's
Ashtray Navigations - Throw Up In The Sky (Qbico)
Michael Flower - Returning To Knowing Nothing (Qbico)
500mg - Apocatastisis (Three Lobed)
J.D. Emmanuel - Wizards (Dreamtime Taped Sounds)
Mudboy - Hungry Ghosts! These Songs Are Doors (Not Not
Fun)
Boris With Michio Kurihara - Rainbow (Inoxia Records)
Silvester Anfang - Echte Vlaamse Geiten (Eclipse
Records)
Oren Ambarchi - Lost Like A Star (Bo'Weavil
Recordings)
Necrophagist - Onset Of Putrefaction [reissue]
(Relapse Records)
Blues Addicts - S/T [reissue] (Shadoks)
CD's
The Skull Defekts - Skkull (Release The Bats Records)
Ashtray Navigations - Caeduceus & Black Sal (Memoirs
Of An Aesthete)
Robedoor - Ritual Heirs (Not Not Fun Records)
Tapes from New Age Tapes/Pacific City Studios
MARC PILLEY (ATTIC TAPES)
NO 1 AIRWAY [LIVE AT LACE] WHEN I GOT THIS FROM YOU GUYS IN JANUARY I HAD JUST STARTED A VERY PLEASENT LITTLE TOUR AROUND SCOTLANDS ISLES WITH A BUNCH OF FOLKYS I TOOK THIS DISC WITH ME AND PLAYED IT EVERY WAKING MINUTE ON ONE NIGHT I SNEEKED IT INTO THE HOUSE PA AND AFTER ABOUT 10 SECONDS THE BARMAN YELLED FUUUK THOUGHT ANOTHER PLANE WAS COMMIN DOWN!!!
CANT REALLY EXPLAIN WHAT THIS CD DOES FOR AND TO ME HISTORICALL.
NO 2 MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI NEW DIRECTION [COMPLETE LA GRIMA]
HOLY SHIT! WORDS ARE POINTLESS!
NO 3 LEE ROCKEY [LEE ROCKEY MUSIC]
TOTALLY COOL VINYL
NO 4 SOUTH SATURN DELTA [EXPERIENCE THE CONCRETENESS]
LIKE THE MAN SAYS TOTALLY MASSIVE!!!
NO 5 EVERYTHING THAT CAME OOT ON PSF!!
NO 6 THE NEW BLOCKADERS [DAS ZERSTOREN ZUM GEBAREN]
AAAH THIS IS HOW ITS DONE! PROPER NO MESSIN ABOUT! EACH SOUND LOVED AND CHOSEN FOR EACH MOMENT! THESE GUYS RULE
NO 7 SICK LLAMA [OLD POSSESSION]
ABSOLUTE KING OF CASSETTES! THIS ONE IS JUST AMAZIN!
NO 8 TIGHT MEAT DUO [VANISHING FIST]
PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHO PLAYIN OVER WHATS PLAYIN ABSOLUTE DUSTY ATTIC RACKET!
YOU GOTTA LOVE THIS DRUMMER!!!
NO 9 WHITEHOUSE [RACKET]
GOTTA HAVE EVERYTHING THEYVE DONE!
NO 10 BORBETOMAGUS [LIVE IN ALLENTOWN]
THE KINGS!!!
JACK ROSE
NEW RECORDS
1. d charles speer-after hours
2. ignatz-II
3. cherry blossoms-s/t
4. zaimph-mirage of the other
5. silvester angfang-satanische vrede
6. religous knives-remains
7. ex-cocaine-esta guerra
8. paul metzger-deliverance
9. glenn jones-against which the sea continually beats
10. ian nagoski-kerflooey
11. pink reason-cleaning the mirror
OLD RECORDS AND CAR FAVES
1. chrome-half machine lip moves
2. chrome-alien soundtracks
3. chrome-red exposure
4. link wray-s/t
5. mordicai jones-s/t
6. iggy pop-the idiot
7. neu!-75'
8. harmonia-musik von
9. john martyn-inside out
10. faces-ooh la la
ANGELA SAWYER
Various ~ Latinamericarpet: Exploring the Vinyl Warp of Latin American Psychedelia Vol. 1 ~ Sublime Frequencies
cd 2007/196x
Completely heady & frothy mix of Ventures ripoffs, mexican hat dances played on wurlitzers, children's instructional records, multiple attempts at
chipmunk voices, fake steel drums, yoga meditation, ladies' mountain music from Peru, skits of doors being broken down, Chilean accordion, and that's
just the short list. There are a shitload of Americulture ripoffs here, ranging from early 60s teen pop to Russian classical composers. There are so many in
fact that if you can name more of the quotes on this record than I can, I'll pony up & mail you a dollar. Mixed in are some pan-S. Amer folk numbers,
some more 'authentic' than others. But it's hardly an issue, especially with major freakos like 'La Gringa Inga' (a precursor to Xuxa perhaps?) popping
in every few minutes to tell you what your foot is called in Ingles. Psych fans should note that there's not really a ton of fuzz here, but any surf/Link Wray fan would say that this is Attention Defecit Syndrome Psychedelia all the way.
Telegraph Avenue ~ Telegraph Avenue ~ Get Back/Munster/Repsychled
lp/cd 2007/1971
Oooooh! I'd heard this one was good, but I didn't believe the hype until I put it on. Lickably luscious stained-glass harmony with those groovy Wings/Zombies-inspired vocals that make everybody such fans of Laghonia, We All Together, & so on. Plenty of bossa bopping underneath to keep things moving, & fuzz only puts the icing on the cake. Another Peruvian psych slam dunk.
Hair Police/Redrot ~ Hair Police/Redrot ~ Aryan Asshole
cd 2007/2006
I'm totally psyched that this cassette got reished on cd, because it's a bomb. Live on Halloween, Hair Police & solo Mich. dude Ryan Opperman whump away like some sort of backasswards zombie reggae band. The recording (done by Nate Young & Heath Moerland) is completely fucked up- sounds like they put the whole thing through an echoplex- & it adds yet another layer to the nasty echoey romping onstage. There's also plenty of beer-fueled yowling & gabbering from those standing too close to the tape recorder. Free electronics, sax, drums, feedback vox, and you can easily hear how much fun everybody is having.
Various ~ Songs the Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us ~ Lightning Tree
cd 2006/1921-39
Maybe you like the Bonzos. And if you do I'd bet five nippers you're over fifty, contribute to an IRA, and think Zappa is 'really way out'. Coolio, but for lots o' the rest of us, the Bonzo Dog Band ain't half as interesting as the wobbly old ballroom & vaudevillian numbers they ripped off. Hear the natty novelty sounds of P.G. Wodehouse and the Jazz Age as they appear on crackly old 78s. Fans of everybody from Rudy Vallee to Cab Calloway will simply pop their wainscoats. And just so we're not knockin' the Bonzos too badly, do note that they hand picked every track here. Nifty sheet music photos included too.
Various ~ Voodoo Party ~ University of Vice
lp 2007/195x
Totally wonderful ooga booga & jungle primitivo from the late 50s. Loads of bongos, unearthly echo, and vocalists who cry wild and stick bones through
their noses. As usual from U. of Vice, there's tracks from around the world. Great vocal & instrumental impressions of animals & zombies. Also one of the
only versions of the calypso/voodoo standard 'Rookoombay' where you can understand most of the lyrics.
Vom Grill ~ Biflinstrum ~ Audiobot
cdr 2007
Brilliantly sloppy synth farts & sine tone blurping by my personal spiritual paragon & ultimate eurodude, Dennis Tyfus. Recorded drunk (one can only
assume) at the Hardline Elephant house. Amazing synth horror show of blood farts, cream cheese burps, and zappy bee stings. Moog, Roland drum machine, & Korg.
Unknown ~ Thai Orchestra lp ~ Mississippi
2007/2000/197x
Mysterious recording of an uncredited large ensemble blasting through countryside molam at breakneck speed. It had also been issued once before as the
'Siamese Temple Ball' cd. Percussion, xylophone, Thai electric guitar, & lots of hooting from the crowd too. Even better the second time around, I think.
Graham Lambkin ~ Salmon Run ~ Kye
cd 2007
Jesus wept. Not only does Lambkin put out very few releases, they'll lay you out like a JuJitsu fighter when they do come around. This one's got the Shad
man playing around with somber and resplendent string quartet & classical vocals records, and mixing them in to the dry & hinky cassette stomp that
you're familiar with from those awesome Ring albums. Just as creepy, dark, and cloying as you could want, but gentle too- because we're all lonleyhearts sometimes. Lambkin also says that he ended up with this after starting out to make a concept record about...I wouldn't kid ya... bigfoot.
Luiz Eca Y La Familia Sagrada ~ La Nueva Onda Del Brasil ~ Vampisoul
lp 2007/1978/1970
Absolutely fantasmic bossa hippie explosion. A waterfall of Sergio Mendez/Hellers vocals, big honkin' mariachi brass, tightly driven bossa acoustic guitars, and funkadelic murk. It's all mixed together & squirts in your face just like a grapefruit. Recorded in Mexico in '70 but went unreleased until '78, when it probably sounded like a drugged-up airline commercial more than anything else. They were the house band for a hotel chain, and the record was issued as a souvenir for the hotel gift shop.
Various AM-500 Box set American Tapes
1 one-sided 7", 19 cdrs, 1 dvdr 2007/2005-07
Man alive, whatta mountain. Over a year in the making & released exactly a year ago to celebrate the opening of '07 and the 500th release on his label, John Olson from Wolf Eyes topped his already prolific proclivities with this whopper of a box set. Edition of 100, and each one came with individual collage art in the inimitable Amtapes style (jumbled up angles, b&w xerox faces with eyes white-outed out, illegible handwriting, etc). I did, I *think*, actually
listen to the entirety of this set over the course of the year. Have to admit though, the disc I kept going back to, and the one that made me cough up the
considerable dough, was the 'comedy' cdr. It was described by Ol' Coorz himself thusly: "Goofin CD/ Corsano, Wolves, Tyfuss, Keenan, Graveboyz, all dumb banter like "Steak and Shake Missing Children Hoarder/Cook".....drunk post gig situations ramblings/ totally retarded".
SFW (thickly painted walls) also member of the when mcgruff was king
1. pj harvey- white chalk
2. magik markers- boss
3. McDeaf, McDeath, McDead- studio
4. ian wadley- ?
5. thurston moore- trees outside the academy
6. elbis rever- jacek
7. M.I.A.- kala
8. deerhood- friend opportunity
9. soko-?
10. marnie stern- in advance of a broken arm
CHRIS SMALL
Loren Connors - The Hymn Of The North Star lp (Family Vineyard)
The New Bloackaders - Das Zerstoren, Zum Gebaren cd (Blossoming Noise)
Hisato Higuchi - Butterfly Horse Street cd (Family Vineyard)
Starving Weidos - Shrine Of The Post-Hypnotic cd (Root Strata)
Mouthus - Saw a Halo cd (Load)
Skaters - Dispersed Royalty Ornaments lp (Wabana)
Emeralds - Ledges cdr (Gneiss Things)
Consumer Electronics - Nobody's Ugly lp (No Fun)
Commissaris Hjuler En Mama Beer - Mensen Die ‘Kort Staan’ Voor De Zelfdoding lp (Ultra Eczema)
Graveyards - Enlightening Minds, Enriching Souls, Extending Hands cdr (American Tapes)
stamatoula spyridonos(wand.andprincess)
the new blockaders-das zerstoren,zum gebaren
the dead c-future artists
graveyards-enlightening minds,enriching souls,extending hands
burning star core-blood lightning 2007
demons-evocations
richard youngs and andrew paine-collodion positives:volume 2
family battlesnake-persisting finger void
tight meat duo-vanishing fist
bee mas-dark address
grkzgl/wapstan-garzistan vol.2
CAROL STEPHENS/Warmer Milks
in no order:
Ara- Toxic Motions
Daniel Higgs live
Gown- Sacred Mountains (was that 2007?)
Kraken Fury- Burn In Earth
Wretched Worst live
Jason Schuler demos for new Cadaver in Drag record
Blues Control- live, puff and s/t, everything!
Lisbon
moving out to the country
becoming sceneless
getting pregnant
Mammal- Lonesome Drifter
Ruff Sqwad- Guns N Roses BOOMBOOMBOOM!
I honestly listened to tons of older shit and "popular" music.
reading shit loads of books
hiking
sewing
DIET COKE
STEVEN
Giuseppe Ielasi 'August' (12k)
Religious Knives 'Remains' (No Fun)
Axolotl 'Memory Theatre' (Important)
Lichens 'Omns' (Kranky)
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset 'The Bairns' (Rabble Rouser / EMI)
Plains 'Underground' (Claudia)
Zaimph 'Le Nuit Electronique' (Utech)
Om 'Pilgrimage' (Southern Lord)
Tim Hecker 'Norberg' (Room40)
Mouthus 'Saw A Halo' (Load)
CHAD STOCKDALE (WEIRD FOREST RECORDS)
Inca Ore/Grouper - Split Tape (self-released)
Marble Sky - The Sad Return (Callow God)
Prurient & Kevin Drumm - All Are Guests In The House Of The Lord (Hospital)
Yellow Swans - At All Ends (Load & Weird Forest)
Impregnable - Pink Thorn (Ekhein)
Chin Chin - S/T (Dialect Recordings)
Sightings - Through The Panama (Load Records & Ecstatic Peace!)
Radiohead - In Rainbows (Self Released)
Cadaver In Drag - Raw Child (Animal In Disguise)
Wooden Wand Hassara - Backyard Hassara I-III (Three Lobed)
Heavy Winged - Feel Inside (Archive)
Descension Yellow Swans (Acuarela)
Mick Flower & Chris Corsano - The Radiant Mirror (Textile) & The Undisputed Dimension (NO-FI)
Emeralds - Allegory Of Allergies (Gods of Tundra)
Sword Heaven - Entrance (Load Records)
Kemialliset Ystavat - S/T (Fonal)
Maurizio Bianchi - Das Platinzeitalter (Incunabulum)
Suishou No Fune - I Throw A Stone Into The Endless Depths (Sloow Tapes)
Lambsbread - Stereo Mars (Ecstatic Peace!)
GHQ - everything!..the Three Lobed lp, the Sloow Tape, the Not Not Fun
Emeralds/Sam Goldberg - Tour 2007 tape (Self Released)
Air Conditioning - The Ocean (Callow God) & Dead Rails (Load Records)
Blues Control - s/t (Holy Mountain) & Their split 7" with Heavy Winged (Not Not Fun)
Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds (Locust Music)
X.O.4 - Cataracts (Ecstatic Peace!)
Dead C - Future Artists (Ba Da Bing!)
Jandek - Manhattan Tuesday (Corwood Industries)
Liars - S/T (Mute)
American Band - American Band's First Album (Blossoming Noise)
Hatred - S/T (Ultra Eczema)
Demons - Frozen Fog (AA Records)
Monopoly Child Tapes (Pacific City)
White Rainbow - Prism Of The Eternal Now (Kranky & Marriage)
Sam Goldberg - Halcyon (Wagon)
Hatred/Demons - split tape (AA Records)
Pulse Emitter - Meditative Music (Self Released)
Broom Dusters - Sound From The Bottom of the Tokyo Underground (Siwa)
Wolf Eyes/Spykes/Nate Young/Failing Lights 2lp (Troubleman)
Wolf Eyes - Claustrophobic (Gods of Tundra)
Reissues:
Ray Russell - Secret Asylum (Reel Recordings)
Michael James - Runaway World (World In Sound)
Masayuki Takayangi reissues especially La Grima (Doubt Music)
Heavy Winged - Blacc Lust (Three lobed)
Favorite Find of the Year:
San Lucas Band - Music of Guatemala LP (ABC/Command)
PATRICK STRUIK
Jazzzz
* tight meat duo – vanishing fist (bo’weavil/cd)
* jooklo duo – free serpents (qbico/LP)
* neokarma jooklo trio – meditative (qbico/one-sided LP)
* neokarma jooklo octet featuring makoto kawabata – infinity (qbico/2xLP)
* neokarma jooklo sextet – live at scalodieci (troglosound/cdr)
* neokarma jooklo trio – solar vision (qbico/LP)
* wally shoup/chris corsano/paul flaherty – blank check (tyyfus/LP) + wally shoup/chris corsano/paul flaherty – bounced check (records/LP)
* ravi padmanabha & lathan hardy – long island city session (troglosound/cdr)
* black motor - s/t (qbico/LP)
* john coltrane – the impulse! albums:volume 1 (impulse!/5cd box)
Vocals and mantras
* richard youngs – summer wanderer (gipsy sphinx/LP)
* mv & ee - eye in the pines (child of microtones/cdr)
* maurizio abate – mystic strings (troglosound/cdr)
* sabu orimo – solo shakuhachi 1, 2 & 3 (3 selfreleased tapes)
* grouper – cover the windows and the walls (root strata/LP)
* the skaters – dispersed royalty ornaments (wabana/LP)
* arecaceae – observatory cg II & III (coconut of teotihuacan) (new age cassettes/cdr)
* monopoly child star searchers - gitchii manitu (12 step retrance program for troubled dream warriors) (pacific city/cs)
* andrew chalk – goldfall (faraway press/cd)
* hototogisu – robed in verdigris (nashazphone/LP)
Live
* the julie mittens at the noodzaak gent 15.06.2007
* tight meat duo live at bunker brussel 22.06.2007
* josephine foster vooruit gent 11.04.2007 (+ live at cambridge cdr self released)
PETER FRANCIS TAYLOR
1.Stars of the Lid - And their refinement of the decline (Kranky)
2.Growing - Vision Swim (troublemanunlimited)
3.Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips (holy mountain)
4.Alasehir - The philosophy of living fire (slitbreeze)
5.Alistair Crosbie - the lonesome age of mirrors volume 1 (LHP-08)
6.Axolotl - Prophetic Ass (choc.158)
7.A Broken Consort - Box of Birch (sustain release)
8.Burning Star Core - Blood Lightning 2007 (No Fun)
9.Geoff Mullen - Armory Radio (Barge Recordings)
10.Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments (Drag City)
JOSEPH THAM
- Various - Broken Flag: A Retrospective 1982-1985
- Consumer Electronics - Nobody's Ugly
- Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Deluxe Edition
- C.C.C.C. - Early Works
- HArmonia - Live 1974
- Noah Howard - The Black Ark
- Whitehouse - Racket
- Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips
- Lasse Marhaug - Tapes 1990-1999
- Sunroof! - Lou Reed Panzer Division
JAMES JACKSON TOTH (WOODEN WAND)
Blues Control – Puff (Fuck It Tapes)
White Heaven – Out (reissue) (PSF)
Neil Young - Chrome Dreams 2
Angels of Light – We Are Him (Young God)
George Brigman – Rags in Skull (Bona Fide)
Pure – Fetor (reissue) (Freak Animal)
Kamijo – Marha (reissue) (Shadoks)
Witchcraft – The Alchemist (Rise Above)
Shooter Jennings – The Wolf
Tyvek – Summer Burns 2x7” (What’s Your Rupture?)
DENNIS TYFUS/ULTRA ECZEMA
sort of in random order:
1. PAX TITANIA (all cdr's and the great tape on HANSON!!)
2. francois dufrêne; oeuvre désintégrale lp box (alga marghen)
3. HENRI CHOPIN; 1 theatre sonore du monde lp (tochnit aleph)
4. waking up scheherazade comp lp (ali baba and his 40... records)
5. J.D EMMANUEL wizards lp (dreamtime taped sounds records)
6. KRAUS (everything i heard by this great new zealanderrrr)
7. BUDDIES tape (open mouth tapes)
8. AMERICAN TAPES 500 BOXSET!!!!
9. SNARES sabbath dubs (10", can't read the label name, the letters are too small)
10. ivor the engine; original television music by the vernon elliott ensemble (trunk)
ERIC WEDDLE (FAMILY VINEYARD)
1. Willie Colon - La Gran Fuga CD (Fania)
2. Los Llamarada - The Exploding Now LP (S-S)
3. Lee Rockey - Lee Rockey Music LP (De Stijl)
4. The Cherry Blossoms - The Cherry Blossoms LP (Black Velvet
Fuckere/Apostasy/etc.)
5. Kark - The Hermit LP (HP Cycle)
6. Kim Doo Soo - Ten Days Butterfly CD (PSF)
7. X.O.4. - Cataracts LP (Ecstatic Peace)
8. David Tudor - Music for Piano 1955-1967 2CD (Edition RZ)
9. Old Time Relijun - Catharsis in Crisis LP (K Records)
10. Bobb Trimble - Iron Curtain Innocence / Harvest of Dreams CDs
(Secretly Canadian)
MIKE WEIS (Zelienople / Good Stuff House)
(no order)
Religious Knives - Remains
Supersilent - 8
Valet - Blood Is Clean
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Starving Weirdos - Shrine of the Post Hypnotic
Jon Mueller - Metals
Loren Connors - Hymn of the North Star
Grouper - Cover the Windows and the Walls
Dead C - Future Artists
Reissue of the Year:
Sun Ra - Strange Strings
Top Show:
The Thing (Mats Gustafsson, Paul Nilsson-Love, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten
w/ Ken Vandermark) at The Hideout, Chicago.
LUKE YOUNGER (BIRDS OF DELAY)
Pissed Jeans - Hope for Men (Sub Pop)
Burning Star Core - Blood Lightning 2007 (No Fun)
Ash Pool - Black Bondage in the North/World Turns On Its Hinge (Paragon)
Whitehouse - Racket (Susan Lawly)
Culver - The Black Telephone Wire (At War With False Noise)
Warning - Watching From A Distance (Miskatonic Foundation)
KTL - 2 (Editions Mego)
Consumer Electronics - Nobody's Ugly
Emeralds - Forest Fires (Hanson)
Commissaris Hjuler en Mama Beer - Mensen die "Kort Staan" vor de Zelfdoding (Ultra Eczema)
Sightings - Through the Panama (Load)
Prurient - Adam Tied to Stone (Blossoming Noise)
Black Dice - Load Blown (Paw Tracks)
Insect Warfare - World Extermination (625)
Hair Police - The Empty Quarter (Harbinger Sound)
Other things which left me feeling elated in 2007:
No Fun Fest (Keiji Haino, Merzbow, Incapacitants, Pain Jerk in particular), Rush live at Wembley Arena, Athens, Brutal Knights and the Shitty Limits live in London, "Cruise" by Whitehouse on 180g double vinyl, Sightings live, The Fall live in Norfolk, Klaxons "Golden Skans" single, Portugal, Bill Nace live, Emeralds and Tusco Terror tapes/CDR's, early nineties Lollapalooza style van mixtapes/ipod playlists, Bloodyminded live, Junko/Mattin live, The Abjector, Hellbaard, Skullflower live, Cleckhuddersfax, Colour Out of Space, Consumer Electronics live, the state of Ohio, the town of Lexington, Canadian Pizza in Berlin, Makers Mark, Knob Creek, Jim Beam, Matching Head cassettes, Birds of Prey.