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2007 YEAR END LISTS
"when I started to make music, I found it sad when people were too
stuck in a genre, where I think a human living in our time and age,
who wants to be truthful, can't possibly be just one style. I guess I
look at styles as more as an outfit that you put on, so you can, you
know, wear a bikini or a builder's overall and you're still the same
person. I guess in that sense, I'm quite an old-school romantic that
thinks the heart and emotion of the music is what matters and that is
what I listen out for, not the style. The characteristics and virtues
I most cherish are when a music-maker can express an all-round
character with integrity, a complete universe that thrives on its
own. When it elevates above all styles." -BJÖRK
Top Albums
- RYAN ADAMS: Easy Tiger (Lost Highway) CD
- ÓLÖF ARNALDS: Við og Við (12 Tónar) CD
- BJÖRK: Volta (One Little Indian) (LP/CD/DVD)
- JAMES BLACKSHAW: The Cloud of Unknowing (Tompkins Square) CD/LP
- GUI BORATTO: Chromophobia (Kompakt) CD
- KARL BOSMANN: Eskalation (Youdonthavetocallitmusic) LP
- BURIAL: Untrue (Hyperdub) CD/LP
- TIM CATLIN AND JON MUELLER: Plates and Wires (Crouton) CD + 10"x10"artwork
- VIC CHESTNUTT: North Star Deserter (Constellation) CD/2LP
- JONATHAN COLECLOUGH & ANDREW LILES: Torch Songs (Die Stadt) CD + 2xLP
- DEEPCHORD PRESENTS: ECHOSPACE: The Coldest Season (Modern Love) CD/3x12"
- ELEGI: Sistereis (Miasmah) CD
- THE FIELD: From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt) CD
- BEN FROST: Theory of Machines (Bedroom Community) CD
- HILDUR GUÐNADÓTTIR /BJ NILSEN/STILLUPPSTEYPA: Second Childhood (Quecksilber) CD
- GREG HAINES: Slumber Tides (Miasmah) CD
- JANDEK: Manhattan Tuesday (Corwood) 2CD
- JASPER TX: A Darkness (Lidar Productions) CD
- LOST IN HILDURNESS (aka Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir): Mount A (12 Tónar) CD (yeah it's 2006 but I finally got it!)
- MACHINEFABRIEK: Weleer (Lampse Audiovisual Recordings) 2CD
- PAUL METZGER: Deliverance (Locust) LP
- MONO: Gone: A Collection of EPs 2000-2007 (Temporary Residence Limited) CD/3LP
- THURSTON MOORE: Trees Outside The Academy (Ecstatic Peace) CD
- CHARLOTTE MOORMAN: Cello Anthology (Alga Marghen) 4CD/ Box and Book
- MY CAT IS AN ALIEN: Greetings From The Great Void (Eclipse) LP
- HARRIS NEWMAN: Decorated (Strange Attractors Audio House) LP
- BJ NILSEN: The Short Night (Touch) CD
- ADAM PACIONE: From Stills to Motion / A Still Life (Infraction) CD + bonus CDR
- PAN SONIC: Katodivaihe/Cathodephrase (Blast First Petite) CD
- ROBERT PLANT/ALISON KRAUSS: Raising Sand (Rounder) CD
- ELIANE RADIGUE: Jetsun Mila (Lovely Music) 2CD
- RADIOHEAD: In Rainbows (self released - radiohead.com) MP3/CD/Box Set
- JACK ROSE: Raag Manifestos (Eclipse) LP
- SEABEAR: The Ghost That Carried Us Away (Morr Music) CD
- MATT SHOEMAKER: Spots In The Sun (Helen Scarsdale Agency) CD
- SIGUR RÓS: Hvarf-Heim (XL) 2xCD
- VALGEIR SIGURÐSSON: Ekvílibríum (Bedroom Community) CD/LP
- ELLIOTT SMITH: New Moon (Kill Rock Stars) 2xCD
- STARS OF THE LID: And Their Refinement of the Decline (Kranky) 2CD
- SUNN O))): Oracle (Southern Lord) LP+CD
- SUPERSILENT: 8 (Rune Grammofon) CD
- SKÚLI SVERRISSON: Seria (12 Tónar) CD
- DAVID SYLVIAN: When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima (Samadhisound) Ltd. Ed. CD
- LAURA VEIRS: Saltbreakers (Nonesuch) CD
- WILCO: Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch) LP+CD
- XELA/GREG HAINES/DANNY SAUL: The 12th Chapel (Rite) LP
- ZAIMPH: La Nuit Electrique (Utech) CD
- VA: Art of Field Recording: Volume I : 50 Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum (Dust to Digital) 4xCD
- VA: On Isolation (Room 40) CD
- VA: Shut Up and Dance! Updated (Ostgut) CD
Top Reissues
- WILLIAM BASINSKI: Shortwavemusic (2062) CD
- SIR RICHARD BISHOP: Fingering the Devil (Latitudes/ Southern) LP
- BLOSSOM TOES: We Are Ever So Clean (Sunbeam) CD/LP
- C.O.B.: Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart (Sunbeam) CD/LP
- PHILIP COHRAN AND THE ARTISTIC HERITAGE ENSEMBLE: The Malcolm X Memorial (Katalyst Entertainment) CD / (Mississippi Records) LP
- VLADISLAV DELAY: Multila (Huume Recordings) CD
- DOG FACED HERMANS: Mental Blocks For All (Mississippi Records) LP
- GURU GURU: UFO (Wah Wah) LP
- TIM HECKER: Radio Amor (Alien8 Recordings) CD
- NOAH HOWARD: The Black Ark (Bo Weavil) CD/LP
- KLUSTER: Klopfzeichen / Zwei-Osterei (Captain Trip) CD's
- BERNARD PARMEGIANI: Chants Magnétiques (Fractal) CD
- PINK FLOYD: Piper At The Gates of Dawn (EMI) 3xCD
- TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS: Live Stockolm July, 1971 (Walhalla) 2xCD
- VARIOUS / LES DISQUE DU CREPUSCULE: From Brussels With Love (LTM) CD
Special Mention
- NIN: Year Zero (self produced w/42 Entertainment- iamtryingtobelieve.com)ARG
- MARIO PANCIERA: 45 Revolutions (1976/1979) (Hurdy Gurdy Books) Book
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