Volcanic Tongue
Richard Youngs – Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits (Sonic Oyster)
Bill Orcutt – A New Way To Pay Old Debts (Palilalia)
Cold Cave – Love Comes Close (Heartworm Press)
Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides – Memoirs Of A Secret Metal Cave (Bug Incision)
Oneohtrix Point Never – Rifts (No Fun)
Billy Bao – May 08 (Parts Unknown)
Yasushi Ozawa – Some Fragments Of Bass Performance (Disk Dig)
Jandek – Portland Thursday (Corwood)
Masayuki Takayanagi – Archive 1 (Jinya Disc)
James Ferraro – all CDRs in the Summer Headrush Series
Bill Dixon/Aaron Siegel/Ben Hall – Weight/Counterweight (Brokenresearch)
The Mantles – s/t (Siltbreeze)
Andrew Chalk – The Cable House (Faraway Press)
Julian Lynch – Orange You Glad (Olde English Spelling Bee)
Ducktails – Landscapes (Olde English Spelling Bee)
Ilyas Ahmed
collie ryan 'the rainbow records'
pocahaunted 'passage'
tim buckley 'live at the folklore center nyc: march 6th 1967'
nnck 'at 6am we become the police'
bert jansch 'la turnaround'
zola jesus 'the spoils'
valet 'false face society'
bunkur 'II-nullify'
tara jane o'neil 'a ways away'
'string of pearls: international 78s' compilation
'the velvet underground : new york art' book
hope sandoval & the warm inventions 'through the devil softly'
charlemagne palestine 'voice studies'
Will Bankhead
Charles Albright - I'm On Drugs 7" (Sac Records)
Dog Lady - various tapes
V/A - Radio Scenic Glow Vol.1 (Upstairs CD-R)
Plastobeton - EP (SDZ)
Evenings - Growing Isolation LP (Fedora Corpse)
Twig Harper - Music for Higher Dimensional Consciousness CD-R (Heresee)
The Love Is So Fast - s/t LP (Siltbreeze)
V/A - Coming In From The Cold riddim (John John)
Hobo Sonn - Three Meeow CD-R (Poot)
Kodama - Turning Leaf Migrations LP (Olde English Spelling Bee)
ALL the Olde English Spelling Bee releases!!!!
Bone Awl - Night's Middle 7" (Klaxon / NWN)
Group Bombino - Guitars From Agadez LP (Sublime Frequencies)
Nightmares - Cass
Any Ultra Eczema LP
Aaron Dilloway - Chain Balled / Face Mask 7"s (Turgid Animal)
Skin Graft 7" and tapes
All the Dylan Nyoukis / Blood Stereo LPs!!
Darkstar - Aidy's Girl Is A Computer 12" (Hyperdub)
Dead Machines - Plays Invasion Of The Body Snatchers LP (Arbor)
Any / all Hanson Tapes
Group Doueh - Treeg Salaam LP (Sublime Frequencies)
Omar Souleyman - Dabke 2020: Folk And Pop Sounds Of Syria CD (Sublime
Frequencies)
Gary War - ALL
Kurt Vile - a lot
Boron & The Grebes - You're A Horrible Person 7" (NRMGT)
Krysmopompas - Heute Schlafen - Morgan Aufwachen 2LP (S.S. Records)
RTFO Bandwagon - Dums Will Survive LP (Dullknife)
Columbus Discount Records Singles Club Year One
All those High Spirits CD-Rs!!
Any Raglani tapes
Fragments - Orts Of Glass (Tusco/Embassy)
All the Oneohtrix Point Never LPs / CD-R / tape / splits / DVD-R
Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts LP (Palilalia)
All the Omar-S / FXHE 12"s
Any Oubliette
Secret Abuse - The Immeasurable Gift LP (Arbor
Jurgen Baur
- "Sign of the three eyed men" - 13th Floor Elevators
- "Monoliths and Dimensions" - Sunn O)))
- "Landscapes" - Ducktails
- "The Lucifer Rising Suite: Original Soundtrack And Sessions Anthology" - BEAUSOLEIL, BOBBY
- "MOON PHANTOMS" - Moon Phantoms
- "A new way to play old debts" - Bill Orcutt
- "Always wrong" - Wolf Eyes
- "What happened" AND "Emeralds" - Emeralds
- "Archive 1" - Masayuki Takayanagi
and my personal album of the year 2009 :
- "Beyond the valley of ultrahits" - Richard Youngs
Thomas Bovith
Aran Ruth - Silver Wings (The Beehive Recording Company)
Axolotl - Of Bonds In General (Loci)
Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts (Palilalia)
Chris Corsano - Another Dull Dawn (Ultra Eczema)
Christina Carter - Seals (Many Breaths)
Glenn Jones - Barbecue Bob In Fishtown (Strange Attractors Audio House)
Grateful Dead Listening Guide (http://deadlistening.blogspot.com/)
Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker (Woodsist)
Kurt Vile - God Is Saying This To You (Mexican Summer)
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy (Matador)
Richard Youngs - Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits (Sonic Oyster Records)
Willie Lane - Known Quantity (Cord-Art)
Zaïmph - Serpent's Bite (Heavy Blossom)
Christina Carter (Charalambides. Scorces)
Nine artists/writers/actors/films/works that
inspired, provoked, or otherwise helped me to get through 2009.
1) Fernanda Maria - Valeu A Pena Viver
2) Elliot Gould/Robert Altman- The Long Goodbye, California Split
3) Gary Cooper/Julie London – Man Of The West
4) Viktor Brauner – Self-Portrait With A Plucked Eye
5) Ross MacDonald – The Blue Hammer
6) Richard Gere – Days Of Heaven, Looking For Mr. Goodbar
7) Keith Carradine/Louis Malle – Pretty Baby
8) Marcello Mastroianni – 8 1/2
9) Randolph Scott /Sam Peckinpah – Ride The High Country
Neil Cheyney
Vom - "Primitive Arts"
Meursault - "Caol"
Part Chimp - "Thriller"
Alistair Crosbie - "Learning to Draw"
Atomized - "Hits of the 80s"
Horse Gives Birth To Fly - "Untitled"
Noma - "RFin5P"
Mono - "Hymn to the Immortal Wind"
Thomas Koner - "La Barca"
Richard Youngs - "Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits"
Cindytalk - "The Crackle of My Soul"
Crippled Black Phoenix - "The Resurrectionists"/"Night Raider"
Best Coast - "Where the Boys Are"
Best Coast - "Make You Mine"
Do Make Say Think - "Other Truths"
Polvo - "In Prism"
Alistair Crosbie - "Threescore and Ten Years"
Alistair Crosbie - "The Last Days of Summer"
Our Love Will Destroy The World - "Stillborn Plague Angels"
Our Love Will Destroy The World - "Polished Glass Autobahn"
Nackt Insecten - "Quantum Odyssey"
Basillica - "The Correct Ritual"
Noma - "Lenticular Thoughts"
Gruel - "Gruel"
Fuck Buttons - "Tarot Sport"
Lightning Bolt - "Earthly Delights"
These Feathers Have Plumes - "Of Endings and Beginnings"
Pocahaunted - "Passage"
Explorers - "Bermuda Telepaths"
Dolphins Into The Future - "...On Seafaring Isolation"
other good things from:
Black Boned Angel; Space Weather; Gnaw; Bong/Master Slave; Locrian; Sunn O))); Kwannon; The Pistil Cosmos/Archers By The Sea; Zaika; Wereju (solo and with Nils Helstrom); Ekca Liena; White Heterosexuals; Invisible/Adam Lygo (solo and with Euphonious Murmur Blend); The Spirit Dies; Topaz Rags; Robedoor; Andrew Paine (solo and with Richard Youngs); Gnaw Their Tongues; Bloody Panda; Dream Safari; GHQ; Alec Cheer (solo and with Alistair Crosbie); Crow Feathers; Bones Of Seabirds; Dead Black Arms; Souls On Board; Todd; Gareth Hardwick; Philip Jeck; Jesu/Greymachine; Nadja/Aidan Baker; Curl; Sonic Youth; Khanate; Depeche Mode; Zaimph; Robin Guthrie; Faust; Boredoms; Susan Matthews (solo, with Alistair Crosbie, and with Rainier Lericolais); GBG Rovente..
Chris (Godot Productions)
Rusted Shut - Dead
Drunkdriver & Mattin - List Of Profound Insecurities
Teitanblood - Seven Chalices
Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts + High Waisted 7"
Loren Connors - The Curse Of Midnight Mary
Richard Skelton - Marking Time
Skullflower - Malediction
Andrew Chalk - The Cable House
Melvins - Pick Your Battles
Edan - Echo Party
Cecil Barfield - South Georgia Blues
Joseph Spence - Good Morning Mr Walker
The Fresh And Onlys - Grey Eyed Girls
Some superb gigs as well, with Grouper, Woods, Throbbing Gristle and Moon Unit being the ones that spring instantly to mind.
Spencer Clark
Charles Berlitz Top Ten Beach Shack Soundtracks intermixed with heavy hoarders
1.Spring Break
2.Dc Cab
3.Ice Cube
4.Jocks
5.Ice Cube's Kids
6.Storm Riders
7.Oprah(hoarding emotions)
8.Assault of the Killer Bimbos
9.Wildcats
10.Nostradamus(hoarding the future)
Stu Crutchfield
Top Vinyl Aktion of 2009
1. Bill Orcutt - A New Way to Pay Old Debts
2. Dixon/Seigel/Hall - Weight/Counterweight
3. Sabu Toyozumi & Mototeru Takagi - If Ocean Is Broken
4. Chris Corsano - Another Dull Dawn
5. Charlie Nothing - The Psychadelic Saxaphone of Charlie Nothing
6. Up-Tight - The Beginning of The End
7. Abner Jay - The True Story of Abner Jay
8. Axemen - Big Cheap Motel
9. Fraction - Moon Blood
10. Kan Mikami - Nishioginotsuki
RIP Jack Rose & Steve Richmond
Nika Roza Danilova (Zola Jesus)
Coum Transmissions -- The Sound of Porridge Bubbling -- Dais
Le Syndicat -- Timespace Losses -- Monochrome Vision
Macronympha -- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- Trash Ritual
Pundartugg -- Various Artists -- Styggelse
Factums -- Flowers -- Sacred Bones
Sewer Goddess -- Self-Titled -- Baseborn
Fever Ray -- Self-Titled -- Rabid Records
Mauthausen Orchestra -- They Never Learn -- Trash Ritual
Bloodyminded -- Phases : Three -- Rococo
Grey Wolves -- Judgement -- Hospital Productions
Naked on the Vague -- Chitty Chat 7" -- Sacred Bones
Pieter De Block
Infinity Window Artificial Midnight (Arbor)
Emeralds ST (Wagon/Gneiss Things)
Orphan Fairytale - Ladybird Labyrinth (Ultra Eczema)
The Shadow Ring - Life Review (1993-2003)(Kye)
Group Bombino - Guitars From Agadez Vol. 2 (Sublime Frequencies)
Group Doueh - Treeg Salaam (Sublime Frequencies)
Various - Pre Pol Pot Pop From Kampuchea Vol 1 (Why So Serious)
Steve Hauschildt - Critique Of The Beautiful (Gneiss Things)
Explorers - Bermuda Telepaths (Not Not Fun Records)
Abner Jay - The Story Of Abner Jay (Mississipi Records)
Conrad Schnitzler - Silver (Qbico)
Blues Control - Local Flavor (Siltbreeze)
Ian Middleton - Aural Spaces (Swill Radio)
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures (RCA)
Jakob Boysen
Brightblack Morning Light - Motion To Rejoin
The Hunches - Exit Dreams
The Black Keys - 200 Million Thousand
Beausoleil - Alligator Purse
Alasdair Roberts – Spoils
Sir Richard Bishop - The Freak Of Araby
Condofucks – Fuckbook
Flipper – Love
Meat Puppets - Sewn Together
Tinariwen - Imidiwan: Companions
Black Dice – Repo
Shackleton - Three EP's
Wolf Eyes - Always Wrong
The Damned - So, Who's Paranoid
The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away
Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks - Tangled Tales
Bob Dylan - Christmas At Heart
The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
Mission Of Burma - The Sound The Speed The Light
John Fail
1. 'Imperial' by William T. Vollmann
It feels a bit weird listing this as #1 since I haven't finished it yet, but it's going to take me some time to get through all 1200 pages of this, and already I'm so blown away by it that I'm sure it deserves its place. Vollmann somehow manages to keep topping himself, propelling his own craft forward and redefining the act of 'writing' as we know it (while advancing scholarship in some weird way, too). This is the real literary event of the year, and it was somewhat under the radar because a) the book cost $55, b) it was nonfiction, c) it came out the same week as Pynchon's new (fun, but somewhat throwaway) novel, and d) all the Bolaño hype this year.
2. T.A.S.K. 'Relaxing Time is Over'
I have no idea why I love this record but it clicked with me; it's an aesthetic that's completely alien to my usual interests but there was something brilliant and compelling about it anyway.
3. 'In The Loop' and the new season of 'The Thick of It' (Armando Iannucci)
'The Thick of It' perfectly captures the zeitgeist of my years living in the UK in addition to being hilarious. 'In the Loop' melds comedy with tragedy and somehow captures the zeitgeist of the miserable decade we (Americans too!) just endured. There's no point in being absurd with your fiction when reality is already absurd; instead, they choose wit and precision -- it's masterful.
4. Justin Liebermann & C. Spencer Yeh 'Object Lessons' (Dronedisco)
I'm long on-record as a Spencer Yeh fan but this album came out of left field, even for an artist who continually surprises me. It's a beautiful object as well; art that is total in its vision.
5. Dead @ 24 'Blast off, Motherfucker!' (Ride the Snake)
When I first started going to indie/noise/experimental/whatever shows as a high school senior, I saw Dead @ 24 many many times. I was too young and afraid to know what to make of them then; they were always the opening band that I never quite understood. They broke up when I was 18 and I spent the last decade thinking, retroactively, how brilliant and inspiring they were. Maybe it's they who made me 'weird'. That their recordings have been made available on vinyl is a real achievement, a labour of love for the label and the few fans who are still resonating in their wake.
6. MoKS AVAMAA 2009 Art Symposium (Mooste, Estonia)
I don't know if it's okay to list an event, but the week I spent in rural Estonia helped me to re-open lethargic eyes and think about ways to live everyday life in a creative context. John Grznich's MUTOPIA workshop was the ultimate example of the journey transcending the destination; it led me through ideas about action, space and place while also experimenting with text, sound and video. I'll be there next year for sure.
7. Hollis Frampton 'On the Camera and Consecutive Matters: the Writing of Hollis Frampton'
I'm pretty excited that Hollis Frampton's classic book 'Circles of Confusion' is now available again, and expanded to include additional material. It's been over ten years since I saw my first Frampton film ('Less') and I'm still trying to properly comprehend his work. These writings take his brilliant, analytical approach to images and structure and put them in a format that's easy to engage with. I can page through this at any point and pull out a few ideas to inspire me, even if I'm working on a non-visual sound piece (or just making dinner).
8. Shadow Ring 'Life Review' (Kye)
The Shadow Ring were the "last" band that changed my life, some years ago now; since then I'm either jaded or just nothing has compared but their impact on me was momentous. This pleasantly-packaged 2xCD pulls together a lot of sources together into something digestible.
9. Dan Graham 'Rock/Music Writings'
I was shocked by how much I enjoyed this as I was skeptical of Graham's ideas about rock music. I loved his early, more disjointed pieces about the Kinks and whatnot; it balances well with the later writings on new wave and the sexual exploitation of Bow Wow Wow. Being an 'artist' and not just a 'writer' gives him some leeway that he exploits with glee.
10. Robert Bolaño '2666'
I hate including something that's going to be on every other "top 10 books of 2009" list, but, fuck, '2666' really is worth every bit of the hype. And moreso. The 3-volume paperback is a wonderful way to read this because it isolates the long, occasionally excruciating fourth section into its own book; it's a horrifying yet spellbinding trip through a very very dark place that deserves its own endpapers. And overall, the novel manages to hit on the 'big' themes of all great novels of the 20th century but somehow bucks the trends of the same time.
Shaun Falconer (Meursault)
Andrew Chalk - 'The Cable House' LP
Richard Youngs - 'Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits' CDr
Consumer Electronics - 'Crowd Pleaser' LP
Itaru Oki - 'Phantom Note' CD
Eddie Marcon - 'Wata No Kemuri No Syotaijo' CD
James Ferraro - 'Heaven's Gate' CDr
Beyonce - 'Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)' single
Bill Orcutt - 'A New Way To Pay Old Debts' LP
Tori Kudo - 'He Would Come Home Through The Window, Job In Hand' CD
Bevan/Corsano/Lash - 'Monster Club' CD
Oneohtrix Point Never - 'Rifts' 2CD
Incapacitants - 'Tight' LP
78 Grave And The Rocket 88s - 'I Love The Life At The Door' CDr
Best Coast - 'Where The Boys Are' cassette
Christina Carter - 'Seals' CDr
Sunn O))) - 'Monoliths and Dimensions' CD
David S. Ware Quartet - lIve in Vilnius' 2LP
Red Horse - s/t LP
Lady Gaga - 'Bad Romance' single
Sabu Toyozumi + Mototeru Takagi - 'If Ocean Is Broken' LP
Major obsession of the year:
R.D. Laing - 'Life Before Death' LP
Personal highlights:
the arrival of Kyle;
'Katalin Varga', 'Antichrist', 'Still Walking';
Curb Your Enthusiasm + Seinfeld's mirror-within-a-mirror storyline;
cross-processing and my man on the inside at the photo lab;
Figgy Smalls for all the wrong and the right reasons;
Leakey's in Inverness;
cassette;
Inshriach;
unashamedly embracing Twitter;
'sexy box' duties;
our annual fortnight at La Fosse Septique;
Gorecki's 3rd Symphony;
Scrabble in the sunshine (or anywhere);
the continuation of GameCentral;
'Rydeen' by Yellow Magic Orchestra;
daily dose of cheesecake and double espresso at Tapa - 'the usual';
putting an end to 10 years of crappy amps by going the way of Vox;
Staedtler triplus fineliners (olive green);
having a symapthetic landlady;
routine;
Richard Youngs @ Mono;
reading Montaigne, Solzhentisyn, Laing's 'Sonnets', Gide, Goethe, Kobo Abe, Houellebecq;
falling for the hype of 'Paranormal Activity';
people taking heed of suggested listening;
the generosity of friends who *really* know you.
Goodbye to Jezebel and Teletext.
for Noise's sake some of 2009 best records (in no particular order)
Bill Orcutt "A New way to pay old debts" (LP, Palilalia Records)
Fossils "Flashbacks" (CS, Middle James Co)
Cruudeuces "Winds of Ill Omen" (CS, FOMJ)
Billy Bao "May 08" (LP, Parts Unknown)
Hair Police "Our Lunar Burrow" (CS, Gods of Tundra)
snma "Glow Bleg Maze" (3"CDR, Kimberly Dawn Recordings)
Shearing Pinx "Weaponry" (LP, Divorce)
Drunkdriver/Mattin "List of profound insecurities" (12", Badmaster)
Wretched Worst "Inside an animal" (CS, Gods of Tundra)
Al Qaeda "We gotta get out of this place" (CS, Obeast Tapes)
Atomizador "Jarabe" (CDR, Fuck the bastards)
Body Morph "Negative face" (CS, Arbor)
C. Spencer Yeh & Wasteland Jazz Unit "Live at Art Damage" (CDR, Rub-Don't-Blot)
Chris Corsano "Another Dull Dawn" (LP, Ultra Eczema)
David Payne "Drugs" (CDR, Middle James Co)
Cotton Museum "Pus Pustules" (LP, Tasty Soil)
Expensive Shit "Powwow whith Chopper" (CS, Not Not Fun)
Factums "Flowers" (LP, Sacred Bones)
Terminal Curl "Go Banish!" (CDR, Beartown Records)
Unbecoming "Cooked on twizzlers" (CDR, Palmetto)
Tusco Terror "Scummer" (LP, Tusco/Embassy)
Thurston Moore/Kylie Minoise/Tusco Terror/Weather Split (CDR, Insult Recordings)
Black Sue (3"CDR, Beartown Records)
Paul Garcia
ai aso - aida - psf
the renderers - monsters and miasmas - last visible dog
kuupuu - lumen tahden - timelag
hildur gudnadottir - without sinking - touch
reiko kudo / tori kudo - from now on - psf
maxine funke - lace - next bestway
chris riggs - achievement is its own reward - broken research
occult activity on campus - first blood vol.1 - mad monk annex
sabu orimo - masumi - self-released
james ferraro - iasia - self release
black joker - watch out - self release
of dogstarman: fumio/ikuro - pataphysique
graham lambkin - softly softly copy copy - kye
takahiro kawaguchi - n - hibari
bill callahan - sometimes i wish we were an eagle - drag city
reissues
the shadow ring - life review - kye
john pilcher / martin mckelvey - bun dance - dungeon taris
kim doo soo - riverman
onna - holy mountain
elodie lauten - the death of don juan
Anthony Guerra
Best of 2009
It's a reissue and i'd heard it before, but still.. Michael Hurley "Armchair Boogie" LP was easily my favourite and most played record this year..
Also, I very much liked:
- Bill Orcutt "A New Way to Pay Old Debts" LP
- Loren Connors "The Curse of Midnight Mary" LP
- Sabu Orimo "Wind Songs" LP (just snuck in on the second last day of the year...)
- Abner Jay "True Story of Abner Jay" LP
- Stasis Duo "3" cdr
- DJ White Pimpernell cassette on BreakdancetheDawn
- the releases on Kye (Graham Lambkin CD, Moniek Darge CD & The Shadow Ring 2CD compilation)
- selected tracks from the Mortika compilation on Mississippi Records
- Kurt Vile "Constant Hitmaker" LP, side 1
- Woods "Songs of Shame" LP and "Sunlit" 7"
- Omega Point's Obscure Tape Music of Japan series
- Real Estate's "Fake Blues" 7" side A
Live:
- Marginal Consort was the best
- the stoopid shameless 50/60s revivalism of the Stompin Riffs Raffs was great the first time
- Adam Sussmann solo twice
- Alfredo Costa Monteiro & Tim Olive duo
- Lau Nau
Pascal Hector (Meudiademorte Records / Datashock / Elfenbeinturm)
Black to Comm - Alphabet 1968 LP (Type)
Black Joker - Watch Out ! Cs/Lp (Pacific City / Old English Spelling..)
Desire II LP (Italians Do It Better)
Ducktails - S/T LP (NNF)
Gatekeeper - Optimus Maximus 12" (Fright Records)
Group Bombino - Guitars from Agadez, Vol. 2 Lp (Sublime Frequencies)
High Wolf - Animal Totem Cs (NNF)
No Neck Blues Band - At 6 A.M. We Become the Police Lp (Locust)
Oneohtrix Point Never - Zones Without People Lp (Arbor)
Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts 2xCD (No Fun Productions)
Phantom Horse - Rehearsal
Shakira- She Wolf Mcd (Smi Epc / Sony Music)
Stellar Om Source - The Trilogy - Ocean Woman / Alliance / Crusader
Sunburned Hand of the Man - A Grand Tour Of Tunesia LP
Wolf Eyes- Always Wrong Lp (Hospital Productions)
Andy Jackson
1. 13th Floor Elevators Box Set
2. P.A.R.A. - Pentacles Of Life and Silky Sky (Pentacles Of Life especially made me feel elsewhere)
3. MV & EE - Barn Nova and also Hick Smoke (wish there were more COM releases Hick Smoke is just great home made songs to right out there jams)
4. Black Flowers - I Grew From A Stone To A Statue (love it and preferred it to the Trembling Bells album)
5. Sun Araw - Heavy Deeds (Disappearing into the fog of night jams, alright!)
6. Twinsistermoon - The Hollow Mountain
7. Vodka Soap - Interpretation 'The Initiation'
8. Christine Carter - Seals (Really personal feeling, time stands still, a great Tip Of The Tongue)
9. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace (last year's lp, this year's cd, more please)
10. Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides - Live In Salford (perhaps not their best release this year but the only one I've got and yes, it works for me)
11. The Renderers - Monsters And Miasmas
12. Jack Rose - Kensington Blues (last year, this year, next year, every year, it has got me. Nice one Jack)
Singing Knives Records Jon's nepotistic/solipsistic end of year chart :-
Mama Baer – The Island (shmf-200/Male bonding #2)
Chora – Slates (Sergeant Massacre)
Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides – Blew In The Face (Chironex)
Pandit Pran Nath - Earth Groove: The Voice of Cosmic India (Change)
Harappian Night Recordings - Non Euclidean Elucidation of Shamanic Ecstasies (Ikuisuus)
Bill Orcutt – A New Way To Pay Old Debts (Palilalia)
Infinite Light - Hagiography / Bhadrapad Poornima (Lotus Birth)
Dylan Nyoukis – Inside Wino Lodge (No Fun)
Ross Parfitt – Swell To Great (Lotus Birth)
Helhesten – A Day-Moth Cling (Chironex)
Richard Rees Jones
1. Jandek, B72, Vienna
2. Ken Vandermark/Paal Nilssen-Love, Blue Tomato, Vienna
3. Ättestupa, Rhiz, Vienna
4. Spiritualized, Krems, Austria
5. Sonore/The Thing, Blue Tomato, Vienna
6. Sunn O))), Arena, Vienna
7. Mats Gustafsson/Barry Guy/Raymond Strid, Blue Tomato, Vienna
8. Naked Lunch/Universalove, Gartenbaukino, Vienna
9. Peter Brötzmann/Toshinori Kondo/Massimo Pupillo/Paal Nilssen-Love, Fluc, Vienna
10. Bruce Springsteen, Happel Stadium, Vienna
1. Peter Hammill – Thin Air
2. Naked Lunch – Universalove
3. The Thing – Bag It
4. Fire – You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago
5. Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love – Chicago Volume/Milwaukee Volume
6. Full Blast – Black Hole
7. Steven Wilson – Insurgentes
8. Æthenor – Faking Gold and Murder
9. Christina Carter – Seals
10. Alela Diane – To Be Still
Gavin Laird
It's the Haino one with the metronomic drummer from early in the year.
Jamie Lickford
clubroot - clubroot
dirty projectors - bitte orca
emuul - The Ghostwood Estates
Alter Eagle - Judo Songs
Peter Broderick - Ten Duets
Cam Deas - My Guitar Is Alive and It's Singing
Gorman - Alum Creek
Pajo - Scream with me
Ashtray Navigations - Exploding Blue Floor Martin Denny
sleepy sun - embrace
sufjan stevens - the bqe
le mepris - doomglue
loess - burrows
blakroc - blakroc
Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never)
DO YOU REMEMBER?
screwed up sunday nights on houston's the box KBXX 97.9
james ferraro - citrac
gary war - horribles parade
leyland kirby - sadly the future is no longer what it was
bonezone / terribles split 7"
raekwon - only built 4 cuban linx… pt. II
enema syringe - mitt livs novell
richard youngs - like a neuron
prehistoric blackout - stone reaper cs
mark mcguire - vdsq solo acoustic
mist - s/t
clipse - till the casket drops
xeno and oaklander @ nff Brooklyn
cs yeh, wolf eyes & nyoukis sets @ nff sweden
florian hecker - acid in the style of david tudor
inglourious basterds movie
moon movie
ducktails / julian lynch - split 7"
caboladies - crowded out memory
hair police - certainty of swarms reish
orphan fairytale - ladybird labyrinth
gatekeeper - optimus maximus 12"
wicked witch "chaos: 1976-86" comp
Dewey Mahood (Plankton Wat, Eternal Tapestry)
Sagas - Root Structures & Private Dementias
Starving Weirdos - Today Is The Clearest Stream
Brother Raven - A Sound Like Waiting Winter Winds Is Here
Purple Rhinestone Eagle - A Morum Tali
White Rainbow - New Clouds
Sun Araw/Predator Vision Split LP
Hammer Of Hathor - Tooth Eeth Or Teeth Ooth
Dreamcolour - Spiritual Celebration
Cloaks Live UHU tape
Clara Rockmore Theremin LP (reissue)
Pocahaunted live at L'Keg Gallery, LA, CA
Dragging An Ox Through Water live at The Artistery, Portland, OR
Mayyors live at ORMF, Davis, CA
Barn Owl live at The Hemlock, SF, CA
Martin (fuckin' amateurs!)
top 3
hapsburg braganza 'hatchling' cd
the black mallets '30 can headcase' cdr
john palms quartet 'eyes for spying etc'cdr
played once
bong 'bethmoora' 2cdr
bong 'gilamesh lives' cdr
bong 'novum castellum' 3cd
putrifier/romance 'live interlacing' lp
waz hoola 'multiply infinity by reality' cd
the black breadknife 'pub noise live' cdr
lobster priest 'red lobster for tommy' 2cdr
posset 'mump grumpy' cd
chris pause richardson 'tricks, flicks etc.' tape
fuckin' fifty? compilation 6cdr
cheryl cole 'fight for this love' (live tv version)
Ben Mason
Drunk Elk - A Rainy Day Is The Soundtrack To Somebody Else's Nightmare
Group Doueh - Treeg Salaam
James Ferraro – Discovery
Blues Control - Local Flavor
The Deadnotes - Orange Trumpet
Richard Youngs - Like A Neuron
Richard Youngs - Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits
The Twerps 7" + 8 track CD
The Clean - Mister Pop
Native Cats - Always On
P.A.R.A. - Dune Riders
Moon Duo - Killing Time EP
Richard Meyrick
1. Richard Skelton - Landings (Sustain-Release)
2. Richard Youngs - Under Stellar Stream (Jagjaguwar)
3. Celer - Capri (Humming Conch)
4. Silvester Anfang II - Silvester Anfang II (Aurora Borealis)
5. Eliane Radigue - Triptych (Important)
6. Clouwbeck - Wolfrahm (Shining Day)
7. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)
8. Leyland Kirby - Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was (History Always Favours The Winners)
9. Chora - From The Shape And Contents Of A Sheeps Stomach (Chocolate Monk)
10. Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul (Hydra Head)
11. Richard Youngs - Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits (Sonic Oyster)
12. William Basinski - 92982 (2062)
Older stuff I discovered this year that I can't stop playing:
The Hunter Gracchus - Sacred Object Of The Yiye People (Chironex)
Topaz Rags - California Ash (Not Not Fun)
Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides - Bataille De Battle (Singing Knives)
A couple of reissues / comps worth a mention:
Loop - A Gilded Eternity (Reactor)
Various - Grind Madness At the BBC (Earache)
RIP:
Dani Baquet-Long
Jack Rose
Maryanne Amacher
Ian Mitchell
Bill Orcutt – a new to pay old debts (Palilalia)
Onna – s/t (Holy Mountain)
Cold Cave – cremations (Hospital Productions)
love comes close (Heartworm Press)
Richard Youngs – beyond the valley of superhits (Sonic Oyster)
Stellar Om Source – rise in planes (Black Dirt)
Consumer Electronics – crowd pleaser (Hand To Mouth)
Oneohtrix Point Never – rifts (No Fun Productions)
MV & EE – drone trailer (Dicristina Stair Builders)
hick smoke (CoM)
barn nova (Ecstatic Peace)
Various – radio scenic glow vol. 1 (Upstairs)
Acoustic Family Creeps – live in the woods (No Label)
Woods – songs of shame (Woodsist)
Six Organs of Admittance – RTZ (Drag City)
Various – the continuing saga of the visiting kitten (Sonic Dust)
Gary War – horribles parade (Sacred Bones)
galactic citizens (Captured Tracks)
Wand – born bad (Mad Monk)
hard knox (Ecstatic Peace)
Jandek – hasselt saturday / london tuesday / not hunting for meaning /
skirting the edge / what was out there disappeared / Portland Thursday (Corwood Industries)
Julian Lynch – orange you glad (Olde English Spelling Bee)
Overhang Party – s/t (Mutant Music)
Fraction – moon blood (LP reissue) (Phoenix Records)
Christina Carter – seals (Many Breaths)
Emeralds – what happened (No Fun Productions)
s/t LP (Wagon/Gneiss Things)
Mark McGuire – a pocket full of rain (Pizza Night)
Vibracathedral Orchestra – the momentary aviary (Manhand)
Wolf Eyes – always wrong (Hospital Productions)
Explorers – bermuda telepaths (Not Not Fun)
James Ferraro – various CD-Rs (Summer Headrush)
Vodka Soap – interpretation “the initiation” (Pacific City)
Chris Corsano – another dull dawn (Ultra Eczema)
Fergus & Geronimo – harder than it’s ever been 7” (Woodsist)
blind muslim girl 7” (Tic Tac Totally)
Pens – hey friend! what you doing (De Stijl)
East Skull – wild and inside (Siltbreeze)
Gas – compact gas 7” (Siltbreeze)
Airway – (live at lace) (LP reissue) (Harbinger Sound)
Red Horse – s/t (Rel Records)
The Super Vacations – s/t (Shdwply Records)
Magik Markers – shame mask (Arbitrary Signs)
Victims Comp – s/t (Fag Tapes)
Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides – anus carved into wood (Chocolate Monk)
Hair Police – our lunar guardian (Gods Of Tundra)
Aaron Dilloway – door with no handle (Chocolate Monk)
Woman’s Skin - …is seen through… (American Tapes)
Niko-Matti (Kiila)
black dice - repo
blood stereo - your snakelike king
fricara pacchu - lucy 7"
kodama - turning leaf migrations
bill orcutt - a new way to pay old debts
orphan fairytale - ladybird labyrinth
peaking lights - imaginary falcons
alasdair roberts - spoils
tsembla - tuplafiesta 7"
comps
la bamba (ultra eczema)
string of pearls (mississippi)
Gregory McGreevy
Bill Dixon, Aaron Segal, Ben Hall - Weight/Counterweight (Brokenresearch)
Fire! - You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago (Rune Grammofon)
Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides - Blew In The Face (Chinorex)
Flower-Corsano Duo - The Chocolate Cities (Self-Released)
Steve Noble, John Edwards, Alan Wilkinson - Live At Cafe Oto (?)
Peaking Lights - Imaginary Falcons (Night People)
Emeralds - The Overlook (Tour Cassette)
Sean McCann & Greg Manata - Fair Beginnings (Anathema Sound)
Lithium Dreams - Omega Prism (Monorail Trespassing)
Twinsistermoon - The Hollow Mountain (?)
Kevin McKenna
Gneissest Things of 09
"Listen to the space in the room. If you can't do something more
beautiful than that, shut the f--k up." – Bill Dixon
1. Emeralds - S/T (Gneiss Things)
2. Bill Dixon/Aaron Siegal/Ben Hall - Weight/Counterweight (Brokenresearch)
3. Neokarma Jooklo Trio - Peaceful Messages (Qbico)
4. Outer Space - Gemini Half (Wagon)
5. Greg Kelley/Alexander Neilson - Passport to Satori (Golden Lab)
6. Red Horse - S/T (rel)
7. Masayuki Takayanagi - Archive 1 (Jinya)
8. J.D. Emmanuel - Solid Dawn (Kvist)
9. ATOM™ - Liedgut (Raster-Noton)
10. Julian Lynch - Orange You Glad (Olde English Spelling Bee)
11. Riceå±Corpse - Mrs. Rice (Dual Plover)
12. Alan Licht - YMCA (Family Vineyard)
13. Oneohtrix Point Never - Betrayed in the Octagon (No Fun)
14. Stellar Om Source - Crusader/Alliance/Ocean Woman Trilogy (self-released)
15. Leo Coomans - Basement Recordings 1978-1982 (Ultra Eczema)
16. Bill Orcutt - A New Way to Pay Old Debts (Palilalia)
17. Black to Comm - Alphabet 1968 (Type)
18. Claudio Rocchi - Suoni di Frontiera (Die Schachtel)
19. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - Fazo IV La Kvatlito de Speguloj (Rainbow Body)
20. Robert Beatty - Solos (What the...?)
21. Oren Ambarchi - Intermission 2000-2008 (Touch)
22. Incapacitants - Lon Guy (Harbinger)
23. Peter Kowald - Bass Solo (Qbico)
24. Various Artists - La Bamba (Ultra Eczema)
25. Various Artists - rrr1000 Lock Groove (rrr)
26. Willie Lane - Known Quantity (Cord Art)
27. Ata Ebtekar & The Iranian Orchestra for New Music - Performing
Works of Alireza Mashayekhi 'Ornamental' (Isounderscore)
28. Kawabata Makoto - Rainbow Of Love (Blackest Rainbow)
29. Mika Vainio - Black Telephone of Matter (Touch)
30. Imaginary Softwoods - S/T (Digitalis Vinyl)
Honorable mentions/reissues:
• Harappian Night Recordings - The Glorious Gongs Of Hainuwele
• Accident Du Travail - S/T
• Various Artists - Institute of Sonology 1959-1969
• Charlie Nothing - The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing
• Mauricio Bianchi - Armageddon
• Matrix Metals - Flamingo Breeze
• Mark Lord - Blair House Nosebleed
• Mark McGuire - Tidings II
• Eliane Radigue - Triptych
• Blood Stereo - Your Snakelike King
• Hallicrafters, Inc. - 10 poke 54272+int(rnd(1)*25),int(rnd(1)*256) goto 10
• Idea Fire Company - Beauty School
• C. Spencer Yeh - Solo Voice & Electronics: Memories Of Murder/Always
Been A Storm
• Chris Corsano - Another Dull Dawn
• Flower – Corsano Duo - Chocolate Cities
• Radio People - S/T
• Willie Lane - Sleepy Hands b/w Arrested for Decay
• Bill Dixon - Tapestries for Small Orchestra
• Kito Mizukumi Rouber - Otonaki Touge De Hagureta Kmr
• Tatsuhisa Yamamoto & Muneomi Senju - A Thousand Mountains (Acoustic
& Synthesized Drums and Percussions)
Nicholas Newport
Records Of The Year (In no particular order)
Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts LP
Ducktails - Landscapes LP
Rusted Shut - Dead LP
Magik Markers - Balf Quarry LP (extra points for the Dave Berg reference)
Billy Bao - May 08 LP
Nothing People - Late Night LP
The Oh Sees - Help LP
Emeralds - s/t LP
Little Claw - Human Taste LP
MV & EE - Road Trips 12xCassette Box Set (A thing of beauty!)
MV & EE - Barn Nova CD
Jandek - Portland Thursday 2xCD
Jandek - London Tuesday CD (mainly because the cover photo was taken about 5 minutes from where i live!)
Richard Youngs - Beneath The Valley Of The Ultrahits CD-R
Richard Youngs - Under Stellar Stream CD
Flower/Corsano Duo - The Four Points CD
Flower/Corsano Duo - Chocolate Cities CD-R
Ilyas Ahmed - Goner CD
Grouper - Cover The Window And The Walls CD
Shrinebuilder - s/t CD
A Good Year For Reissues...
Arthur Doyle - Alabama Feeling LP (Pretty much reissue of the decade!)
Royal Trux - s/t 1st LP
Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives DLP
Joshua Burkett - Owleavesrustling LP
Onna - s/t CD
Guru Guru - UFO CD
Emtidi - Saat CD
Sleep - Holy Mountain CD
Kaplan Brothers - Nightbird CD
Kristyl - s/t CD
Sergius Golowin - Lord Krishna Von Goloka CD
Jacks - Vacant World CD
Stuff That Didn't Come Out This Year, But I'm Finally Catching Up
Drunkdriver - Born Pregnant LP
Blacktop - I've Got A Baaad Feeling About This LP
Cheater Slicks - Skidmarks LP
V3 - Photograph Burns CD
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - Bait And Switch CD
Nightbringer - Death And The Black Work CD
Drudkh - Estrangement CD
Watain - Cassius Luciferi CD
Kousokuya - 1st CD
Brother JT & Vibrolux - Music For The Other Head CD
Charity Shop Finds
Grateful Dead - Aoxomoxoa LP
Stryper - To Hell With The Devil LP
Rush - 2112 LP
The Chills - Brave Words LP
Cheap Trick - s/t LP
Cheap Trick - Dream Police LP
Utopia - Oops! Wrong Planet LP
Hatfield And The North - s/t CD
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink CD
Discovery of the year, though, was undoubtedly an immaculate copy of David Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Name" LP for £4.99 in Oxfam!
Other Good Stuff
The Book Of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
King-Cat Comics and Stories #70 by John Porcellino
Map Of My Heart by John Porcellino (words cannot describe the beauty contained within!)
Tales Designed To Thrizzle Volume 1 by Michael Kupperman
George Sprott HC by Seth
Grunge HC by Michael Levine with Thurston Moore
The Wire magazine
Terrorizer Magazine
New issue of Galactic Zoo Dossier
The continuing reissue program of Richard Stark's novels
My friend Chris downloading the movies "Deadly Prey", "Strike Commando", and "Strike Commando 2" for me as a Christmas present!
Growing and eating yellow carrots (before the carrot fly got to them)
We lost way too many good people this year...
Rest in peace Ron Ashton, Lux Interior, Donald E Westlake, Jack Rose, Dan O'Bannon, Patrick Swayze, Sky Saxon, Dickie Peterson, Seven Martin, Rashied Ali
MARTIN NILSSON (OH NO, MORE TAPES!)
seedless vampire's last wish list in no particular order:
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mirrors are black - värnhems juveler // kosmisk väg
james ferraro - jarvid 9: gecko & edward flex: do you believe in hawaii? // new age tapes
monopoly child and black joker - nightlife on horseback + vodka soap - interpretation: the initiation // pacific city
any and everything by time deleters
emeralds - s/t on wagon/gneiss things
taxxi - still in love/tuesday knight - out of control/whitney houston - i wanna dance with somebody
lieven martens ocean of sound radio show
skeppet side on split tape with viking jews // kosmisk väg
hair police at no fun fest sweden > first weirdo price = trevor/king kong kraze 09
dylan nyoukis live no fun fest sweden, with hard bread & gravel, also dead machines, wolf eyes, emeralds, c spencer yeh, sewer election, oneohtrix point never and especially steven warwicks dj set!!!
dilloway in copenhagen
ferraro/clark/dolphins/p.a.r.a./why so serious? nite in malmö
Bart De Paepe (Sloow Tapes)
aswara - s/t (azriel)
willie lane - known quantity (cord-art)
von bingen - s/t (amen absen)
daevid allen - gong dreaming 2 book
original icp lp i got for free from a guy at work
watching eurocult sleaze with acid child
sloowjob fest
Up -Tight - The Beginning Of The End (8MM)
Orfanado - Sete (Troglosound)
Sun City Girls - Fruit Of The Womb/Polite Deception (Eclipse)
Pes
HEAVY WINGED. Spreading Center
SPECTRE FOLK. Smokin' The alien
UP-TIGHT. The Beginning Of The End
MAGIK MARKERS. Balf Quarry
JAMES FERRARO. Ed.Flex Present : Do You Believe In Hawai?
HIGH WOLF. Animal Totem
ANDREW COLTRANE Vs FOSSILS. Untitled [fag tapes]
OCCULT ACTIVITY ON CAMPUS. First Blood. vol I & II.
NOVELLER. Red Rainbows
EL-G & DUNCAN. Untitled [rural faune]
Wayne Poole
edmond de deyster: selectie 02
Toshiji Mikawa @ the grosvenor
The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing
Orphan Fairytale - Ladybird Labyrinth
Oneohtrix Point Never - Zones Without People + memory vague DVD
James ferraro + spencer clark - uk tour + everything else.... specifically the jarvid series(james ferraro) and the initiation(vodka soap)
Omar souleyman and group doueh live
Andrew chalk – the cable house
Dilloway @ ICA
Ducktails - landscapes
Skullflower @ st giles in the fields
Claudio Two – hot lead
Emeralds/pain jerk/birds of delay@scheldhapen
Ultra eczema night @ OTO
Sperm – shh!
Skaters(solo)/mick flower/PARA/Dolphins into the future/the hunter gracchus/jazzfinger@OTO
N.E.W + voltigeurs@state 51
NO FUN FEST NYC
Bill orcutt – a new way to pay old debts
Richard youngs – under stellar stream
The super vacations – S/T
sachiko's 'unya'
and dolphins into the future 'on sea faring isolation'
Taylor Richardson (IW/PB/HT)
2009 Highlights: Orphan Fairytale LP. Bill Orcutt LP, La Bamba Comp on Ultra Eczema (send me one already Dennis, had to megaupload that mug),Dog Dick Honky Dog Pound Tape, Gary War Horribles Parade LP, Mark Tucker reissues, Graham Lambkin Softly Softly cd, Brian Faucette's "Hip Hop" subscription series from Two Bridges, "Dark Tommy" collab with Mark McGuire at West Nile and the two of us Jammin hard to "Oliver Bean" 10 bowls in the mix while we were driving back to Brooklyn from Bard College in record time, Masqves set at West Nile, Human Teenager recording sessions with Phil Gone , Working on the Next IW LP, Bootleg Synth Night Tape and the actual show that produced it, Jamming Dan's Akai AX-60 hard in isolation mode, John and Sam turning me on to Vatos, Mexico 2000 on Broadway. The Deli Across from Market Hotel with Bootleg Camel Lights, Lars Von Trier's Antichrist,Corey Arcangel / Dara Birnbaum Discussion piece in the March 2009 issue of Artforum also the article on the advent of the music video. Blood Stereo on Ubu!!!, Mike Kelly's Show at The Sculpture Center, Jaques Vidal's solo show at Marc Jancou Contemporary, Olaf Breuning at Metro Pictures NYC. A dark year overall... Personally, I'm glad it's over!!!!!!!!
Most played records/tapes/cd's of 2009:
1. Michael Angelo LP
2. Martin Newell- Songs for a Fallow Land
3. Mu - Mu
4. Dark Day-Window
5. Eddie Callahan- False Ego
6. Electric Light Orchestra-Time
7. Mark Tucker- In the Sack
8. Daniel Baldelli- Afro-Cosmic Tape
9. Chrome- Alien Soundtracks
10. Martin Rev -s/t
11. Love is Love comp on Mississippi Records
12. Arthur Brown-Requiem
13. Cleaners From Venus-Midnight Cleaners
14. Kevin Ayers- Bananamour
15. Mick Softley- Any Mother Doesn't Grumble
16. Chris & Cosey- Heartbeat
17. Airway- Live at Lace
Marc Richter (Dekorder / Black To Comm):
Mika Vainio "Black Telephone Of Matter" CD
Richard Youngs "Under Stellar Stream" LP
Carl Calm "Dayglo Port" CD-R
King Kong Ding Dong "Youth Culture Index" CD-R
Kluster "1969-1972" 6-LP
Klimek "Movies Is Magic" CD
Vindicatrix "Die Alten Bösen Lieder" CD-R + 12"
Mordant Music "SyMptoMs" CD
Current 93 "Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain" LP
ES "Kesämaan Lapset" LP
Dan Deacon "Bromst" LP
Christian Naujoks "s/t" LP
Raymond Dijkstra "L'Opus L'H" LP
Vindicatrix "Die Alten Bösen Lieder" CD-R + 12"
Mordant Music "SyMptoMs" CD
Alog/Astral Social Club 12"
Caboladies "Atomic Weekender" LP
Sunn o))) "Monoliths & Dimensions" LP
Animal Collective "Merryweather Post Salon" 2LP
OOIOO "Armonico Hewa" LP
Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age LP
Roj "The Transactional Dharma of Roj" CD
Hecker "Acid In The Style Of David Tudor" CD
Nuno Robles
- Bill Orcutt "A New Way To Pay Old Debts"
- Loren Connors "The Night of the Crescent Moon"
- Current 93 "Aleph at the Hallucinatory Moon"
- Dinousaur JR "Farm"
- Tembling Bells "Carbeth"
- Alasdair Roberts "Spoils"
- Skygreen Leopards "Gorgeous Johnny"
- Sam Baker "Cotton"
- Daniel Johnston "Is and Always Was"
- Bill Callahan "Sometimes I Wish we Were an Eagle"
Jack Rollo
albums:
1-julian lynch "orange you glad"
2-real estate "real estate"
3-peaking lights "imaginary falcons"
4-nothing people "late night"
5-dum dum girls- CDR
6-beets "Spit On The Face of People Who Don't Want to be Cool"
7-ducktails "landscapes"
8-sore eros "second chants"
9-little claw "human taste"
10-blues control "local flavour"
singles:
1-best coast "make you alive"
2-ariel pink "can't hear my eyes"
3-crystal stilts "love is a wave"
4-sonny and the sunsets "strange love"
5-brilliant colors makes a mess 7
6-grass widow captured tracks 12
7-sea lions- "lets groove"
8-woods captured tracks 7
9-pheramoans-"revamper"
10-beyond the implode "this atmosphere"
Matthew Shaw (apollolaan recordings)
Richard Youngs – Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits, cdr, Sonic Oyster Records
Andrew Paine - After Wednesday, cdr, Dust, Unsettled
Xenis Emputae Travelling Band - The Pyrognomic Glass, lp, Memoirs Of An
Aesthete
cheer – Festive, cdr, Self Released
Black Sheep - Kiss My Sweet Apocalypse, lp, Invada
Skullflower - Malediction, cd, Second Layer Records
ILK – Canticle, cdr, Sonic Oyster Records
MV/EE With The Golden Road – Barn Nova, cd, Ecstatic Peace
Twinsistermoon - The Hollow Mountain, cd, Blackest Rainbow
Leyland Kirby - sadly, the future is no longer what it was, 3xcd, History
Always Favours The Winners
Robert Sanders
open strings: early virtuoso recordings from the middle east (honest jons)
peter wright: snow blind (install)
bassholes: and without a name ( columbus discount)
cheater slicks: bats in the dead trees (lost treasures of the underworld)
shit & shine: 229-2299 girls against shit (riot season)
billy bao: may 08 (parts unknown)
wolf eyes: always wrong (hospital productions)
liquorball with steve mackay: evolutionary squalor (rocketship)
sunn o))): monoliths & dimensions (southern lord)
wand: born bad (piaptk)
stray ghost: an avalanche of swollen tongues (dead pilot)
mayyors: dead
rusted shut: dead (load)
dan melchior und das menace: obscured by fuzz (topplers)
sex worker: the labor of love (not not fun)
daniel higgs: hymnprovisations (ideal)
mouthus / cousins of reggae split (olde english spelling bee)
bleeding heart narrative: tongue tangled hair (tartaruga)
Scumbag Relations
Lord Diplock's Soaking Cavern Blistex In Chin Waddle Cocktail Ingredients: A Look Into the Behind of the Year 2009
Bottom Of The Barrel and Tony's Laundry Flavoured Pushkin Bakes
Sea Slick Granny plays Concubinage Conquerors "Vessel Pouch Napkin" triple lp and holographic dentures
We Can Smell You "Two Fifty A Pop Grey b/w Sweatshirt Powder Chip" microwave dinner and cdr
Various Folk Music From the Third Reich "Sublimely Hypnagogic Pop Marauders Vol.3"
117 Minutes of Screeners On Horseback Boxset Plus Sticker vhvd
The Flip Flops Became Shoes and He Ralphed Through His Beard "Religous Rape Requirement" lp
Ralphing Beards Tape Plus "Cardboard Combover" cdr
Longest Synth Patch "Three Hands Are Better Than Yours" b/w "Dry Humor Control"
Arrested At Food Stamp Line "Severed Dreads" 2inch vinyl flax seed spray edition
Circumcision Spaghettios cd and limited edition blog link
Two Blogs At A Time "Are We There Yet?" compact vinyl disc
Pooch Patrol "McDonalds" triple tape
Downloadable Life Coupon With Every Purchase "Make Mine A Double" picture disc
Your Life Is A Mirage "Suck It Up and Sell Your Soul" dinette set
Malcontent of Defaced Jesus Wig "Pair O Dimes in the Piss Pore Drive-Thru" decorative throw
Mutated Costner World "Now I Hang Eleven" cigar box
Purely Proud Americans "Playing Parcheesi With Nigger Skulls" patriotic flask
Rollee Bag Bitches with Prada Peacoat Propers "No Mind To Lose" air freshner
Pilgrim H-3 Clergy Robe With Qwick Ship "Cock in The Tithing Basket" 2xlp
Unleavened Community Bread Paratroopers "Steal Toe Enlightenment" tape
Limited Aliens R Us "Surfing In The Forgotten Money Pit" rollee bag
James Jackson Toth / Wooden Wand
Best of 2009
Girls – Album
William Fowler Collins - Perdition Hill Radio
Hush Arbors - Yankee Reality
Cass McCombs – Catacombs
Salem – all
Neokarma Jooklo Trio - Time's Vibes
Wolves in The Throne Room - Black Cascade
Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom
Loren Connors - The Curse of Midnight Mary
Simon Joyner - Out In The Snow
Buddy and Julie Miller - Written In Chalk
Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts
The Howling Hex - Rogue Moon
John Twells (Type Recordings)
1. The-Dream - Love vs. Money (Def Jam)
2. Yellow Tears - Don't Cry (Hospital Productions)
3. Drake - So Far Gone (mixtape version) (Young Money)
4. Scott Tuma & Mike Weis - Taradiddle (Digitalis)
5. DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues (Mule Musiq)
6. Emeralds - The Overlook (Wagon)
7. Demdike Stare - Symbiosis (Modern Love)
8. Oneohtrix Point Never - Zones Without People (Arbor)
9. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II (EMI)
10. Cold Cave - Love Comes Close (Matador)
11. Thomas Koner - La Barca (Fario)
12. Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon (Good Music)
13. DJ Yo Yo Dieting - Blest Witches Flexing (Permanent Marks)
14. Kluster - 6LP set (Qbico)
15. Broadcast & The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio
Age (Warp)
16. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon (Hospital Productions)
17. Desire - II (Italians Do It Better)
18. Gregg Kowalsky - Tape Chants (Kranky)
19. Eleh/Nana April June - Split (Touch)
20. Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts (Palilalia)
21. Roj - The Transactional Dharma of Roj (Ghost Box)
22. Hematic Sunsets - Aroma Club Paradox (Dekorder)
23. Hecker - Acid in the Style of David Tudor (eMego)
24. Khate - Pareidolia (SMTG)
25. Mika Vainio - Black Telephone Of Matter (Touch)
Dennis Tyfus (Ultra Eczema)
1) astral social club: plug music ramoon lp (dancing wayang)
2) RRR 1000 lock grooves, 20 artists-50 grooves each lp (RRR)
3) dj ordeal lp (self released i guess, no title or info)
4) jacques beloeil: recette maison, bidules 1-9 lp (entracte)
5) john wiese: zombie lp (presto)
6) Stefanie Ressin/ asmus tietchens: 3 Wishes 7" (meeuw)
7) various self published floris vanhoof releases
8) tropisch excuus comp cdr + zine (joke leonare)
9) dracula lewis: death comes ripping 7" (a dear girl called wendy)
10) dylan nyoukis: inside wino lodge lp (no fun)
ERIC WEDDLE (Family Vineyard)
A tough-ass year to make time to enjoy and acquire music as it was to
sell it... or so it felt. But powered on by these below and dozens
others creating and releasing. Looking forward to a mighty 2010 for
all...
1. Christina Carter - Many Breaths CDR subscription series.....
2. Bill Orcutt - A New Way to Pay Old Debts LP (Palilalia)
3. Joe McPhee - Angels, Devils & Haints CD (CjR)
4. VA - Induced Musical Spasticity: Butte County Free Music Society
25th Anniv. 4LP/etc. Box (BUFMS)
5. TV Ghost - Cold Fish LP (In The Red)
6. VA - String of Pearls LP (Canary/Mississippi)
7. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm 2LP (Jagjaguwar)
8. Kan Mikami - Nishiogi No Tsuki LP (Siwa)
9. Tara Jane O'Neil - A Ways Away LP (K)
10. Cro Magnon/Circuit des Yeux/Bird - cassette (Goaty Tapes)
Jeroen Willie
Records (some are from 2008, but discovered in 2009):
Jaques Beloeil - Bidules 1-9 12" (Entr'acte, 2009)
Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters 2 (Making Sonic Spaces) CD (Tzadik, 2008)
Hermann Nitsch - Die Geburt des Dionysos Christos LP-Box (VOD, 2008)
Red Favorite - Red Favorite LP (Streamline, 2008)
Andrew Chalk and Daisuke Suzuki - The Shadows Go Their Own Way CD (Siren Records, 2009)
Andrew Chalk and Daisuke Suzuki - In Faxfleet Clouds Uplifted Autumn Gave Passage to Kind Nature 12" (Faraway Press, 2009)
Various - Raks Raks Raks. 17 Golden Garage Psych Nuggets from the Iranian 60s Scène LP (Raks Discos, 2009)
Asmus Tietchens - Flächen mit Figuren CD (NVO, 2009)
Charlemagne Palestine and Christoph Heemann - Saiten in Flammen LP (Streamline, 2009)
Michael Vogel - Une Petite Musique de Nuit LP (Planam, 2009)
Frederik Croene and Timo Van Luijk - Voile au Vent LP (La Scie Dorée, 2009)
Robert Haigh - Notes and Crossings CD (Siren Records, 2009)
James Ferraro - Heaven's Gate CD-R (New Age Tapes, 2009)
Abner Jay - True Story of Abner Jay LP (Mississippi Records, 2009)
Eliane Radigue - Triptych CD (Important Records, 2009)
Attila Faravelli - Underneath the Surface CD (Die Schachtel, Zeit Series, 2009)
Reissues:
Joshua Burkett - Owl's Leaves Rustling LP (Spirit Of Orr, 1995/2009)
Harley Gaber - The Winds Rise in the North 2CD (Edition RZ, 1973/2008)
Robert Hood - Minimal Nation LP-set (MPlant, 2009)
The B12 Records Archive Series CD (B12 Records, 2008-2009)
Bobby Beausoleil - The Lucifer Rising Suite (Original Soundtrack and Sessions Anthology) LP-box (The Ajna Offensive, 2009)
Ofege - Try and Love LP (Academy LPs, 1973/2009)
Michael Snow - 2 Radio Solos CD (Blackwood Gallery, 1980/2009)
Harry Partch - Delusion Of The Fury, A Ritual Of Dream And Delusion LP (Columbia, 1971/2009)
Emeralds - Allegory of Allergies LP-set (Weird Forest Records, 2007/2009)
Concerts:
Orphan Fairytale (Anthony Living Room Concert, Ghent. 19.09.2009)
Mieke Lambrigts (Artist in residence. QO2, Brussels. 208.03.2009)
Timo van Luijk & Frederik Croene & Onde & Andrew Chalk (Augustijnenproject, Ghent. c. 21.07.2009)
Eliane Radigue - Naldjorlak I-II-III (STUK, Leuven. 20.10.2009)
Kallabris + Jaques Beloeil (Organized by Odradek & Entr'acte. Witte Zaal, Ghent. 05.12.2009)
Salmigondis (Organized by Metaphon. Magasin 4, Brussels. 14.12.2009)
Marteau Rouge + Evan Parker (Organized by Metaphon. Magasin 4, Brussels. 14.12.2009)
Movies:
Sharon Lockhart - Lunch Break (2008)
Michael Haneke - Das Weisse Band (2009)
Sharon Lockhart - Exit (2008)
Books:
Most funny thing I've ever read:
Sam De Groot / Paul Haworth - Letter to Robin Kinross (Amsterdam: True True True, 2009)