Forced Exposure Employee Top Ten Lists

Tops of 2008::

V/A – Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria (Soundway) CD
V/A – African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo 70s (Analog Africa) CD
FM3 – Buddha Machine 2.0 (FM3) Soundbox
Beach House – Devotion (Car Park) CD
Lazy Smoke – Corridor of Faces (Arf! Arf! Records) CD
Yoshi Wada – The Appointed Cloud (Em Records) CD
V/A – Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted: Baghdad, 1925-1929 (Honest Jon’s Records) CD
Alexander Tucker – Portal (ATP Recordings) CD
Fotheringay – 2 (Fledg’ling) CD
V/A – 1970’s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground (Sublime Frequencies) LP
Sacros – Sacros (Shadoks Music) CD
Fennesz – The Black Sea (Touch) LP
V/A – Art of Field Recording Volume II (Dust-to-Digital) 4CD Box
Xela – In Bocca Al Lupo (Type) CD
Bill Quick – Maravillosa Gente (Time-Lag Records) LP

Grouper – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill (Type)
Yoshi Wada – The Appointed Cloud (Em Records)
Deerhunter – Microcastle/Weird Era. Cont. (Kranky)
Gas – Nah Und Fern (Kompakt)
The Fun Years – Baby, It’s Cold Inside (Barge Recordings)
Graham Lambkin/Jason Lescalleet – The Breadwinner (Erstwhile)
VA: Living Is Hard: West African Music in Britain, 1927-1929 (Honest Jon’s)
Fennesz – Black Sea (Touch)
Koen Holtkamp – Field Rituals (Type)
Philip Jeck – Sand (Touch)
Emeralds – Solar Bridge (Hanson)
Oren Ambarchi/z'ev – Spirit Transform Me (Tzadik)
Rhys Chatham and his Guitar Trio All-Stars – Guitar Trio is My Life 3CD (TOE)
Ulaan Khol – I (Soft Abuse)
Yellow Swans - At All Ends (Weird Forest)
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou - Volume One -- The Vodoun Effect (Analog Africa)
Mountains – Mountains, Mountains, Mountains (Catsup Plate)
Loren Chasse & Michael Northam: The Otolith (Helen Scarsdale Agency)
Xela: In Bocca Al Lupo (Type)
Ocean: Pantheon of the Lesser (Important)
Brendan Murray – Commonwealth (23Five)

1. Marc Romby Elif (Jimpster Remix) Systematic
2. Sound Stream “Live” Goes On Systematic
3. Sacha Dive Deepest America (Moddymann Remixes) Ornaments
4.TRG Broken Heart (Martyn’s DCM Remix) Hessle Audio
5. VA Kung Fu Super Sounds De Wolf Music Library
6. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou Volume One – The Vodoun Effect Analog Africa
7. Richard “Popcorn” Wylie - Extrasensory Perception Dusty Groove
8.Beth Lesser - Dancehall: The Rise Of Jamaican Dancehall Culture, Book. Soul Jazz Records
9. Archie Bell and The Drells - Tighten Up DBK works
10. People who throw shoes at leaders who ruin the world. - That dude… you know who you are!

Some favorites from 2008…

Model 500 – Starlight Remixes [Echospace] CD/2x12”
VA – Basic Channel 2 [Basic Channel] CD
Andy Stott – Unknown Exception [Modern Love] CD
Studio 1 (Mike Ink/Wolfgang Voigt) – Studio 1 – Studio 1/Kompakt CD
Shackleton, Appleblim & Peverelist – Soundboy’s Grave Gets Desecrated By Vandals [Skull Disco] CD
Mikkel Metal – Peaks & Troughs [Echocord] CD
Headhunter – Nomad [Tempa] CD
Deadbeat – Roots & Wire [Wagon Repair] CD/2LP
Sons Of The Dragon – Sons of The Dragon [Sons Of The Dragon] 2x12”
B12 – Last Days Of Silence [B12]
B12 – B12 Records Archive Vol. 2 [B12] CD
Byetone – Death Of A Typographer [Raster-Noton] CD
Petar Dundov – Escapements [Music Man] CD/4LP
Shed – Shedding The Past [Ostgut Ton] CD/2LP
Claro Intelecto – Metanarrative [Modern Love] CD/2LP
2562 – Aerial [Tectonic] CD/2LP
Denis Karimani/Darko Esser – Absolutely No Regrets/Melted [Curle] 12”
VA – The End Of Living/The Start of Survival [Downwards] 2x12”
Heartthrob – Dear Painter, Paint Me [Minus] CD/2LP
Quantec – Unusual Signals [Echocord] CD
Itamar Sagi – Black Gold [Be As One] 12”
VA – You Are My Mate [Dial] 2x12”
Shawn Rudiman – Machine Soul Terminal [Finest Blend] 2x12”

And so many more!

No attitude, just gratitude

MALA – Miracles (Deep Medi) 12”
OMAR S – The Further You Look, The Less You Will See (FXHE) 12”
ANDY STOTT - Unknown Exception (Selected Tracks Vol.1) (Modern Love) CD
JC FREAKS – The Rock (1st Journey) 12”
CHARLIE FEATHERS – Rare & Unissued Recordings Vols 1 – 3 (Norton) LPs
ZANDER VT – Get Up (BPitch Control) 12”
V/A – Basic Channel 2 (Basic Channel) CD
V/A – Dr. Boogie Presents Rarities from the Bob Hite Vaults (Sub Rosa) LP
STL – Lost in Brown Eyes (Perlon) 12”
JUS WAN - Action Potential / Affletic (Apple Pips) 12"
COLD SUN – Dark Shadows (World in Sound) 2LP
AUGUSTUS PABLO – The Mystic World of Augustus Pablo (Shanachie) 4CD/DVD
V/A – Appleblim: Dubstep Allstars Vol. 06 (Tempa) CD
IANNIS XENAKIS – Electronic Works 2 (Mode) CD
REDSHAPE – Robot/Neon (Music Man) 12”
DEETRON – Fuse Presents Deetron Sampler 1 (Music Man) 12”
V/A – Marcel Dettmann – Berghain 02 (Ostgut Ton) CD
SHED – Shedding the Past (Ostgut Ton) 2LP
JONNY D – Orbitalife (Oslo) 12”
SONS OF THE DRAGON – S/T (SOTD) 2x12”
PEVERLIST - Clunk Click Every Trip / Gather (Punch Drunk) 12”
JIMMY RADWAY & THE FE ME TIME ALL STARS – Dub I (Pressure Sounds) CD
V/A – Linval Thompson & Friends: 12” Rulers (Greensleeves) CD
BARRINGTON LEVY & FRIENDS – Teach the Youth (17 North Parade) CD
JOHNNY OSBORNE – Truth & Rights (Heartbeat) CD
JOSEPHINE FOSTER – This Coming Gladness (Bo Weavil) LP
FAPARDOKLY – S/T (Guersson) LP
TRG – Broken Heart (Martyn’s DCM remix) (Hessle Audio) 12”
PORTABLE – The Emerald Life (Musik Krause) 12”
V/A – Fuse Presents Adam Beyer (Music Man) CD
SUN CITY GIRLS – You’re Never Alone With a Cigarette (Abduction) CD
IKONIKA – Please/Simalacrum (Hyperdub) 12”
MODEL 500 – Starlight (Echospace) CD
PACOU – The Detroit Remixes (Cache) 12”
V/A – Efdemin: Carry On Sampler Pt. 2 (Curle) 12”
HESS & FURSTENBERG – Campfire Dialogue (Echocord Colour) 12”
ANNE BRIGGS – S/T (4 Men with Beards) LP
V/A – You Are My Mate (Dial) 2x12”
NOTHING PEOPLE – Anonymous (S-S) LP
KRYSMOPOMPAS – Heute Schlafen – Morgan (S-S) 2LP
TOBIAS – I Can’t Fight the Feeling (Wagon Repair) 12”
JOAKIM SKOGSBERG – Joal Rota (Tiliqua) CD
OSANNA – Palepoli (Vinyl Magic) LP
SKREAM – Rinse: 02 (Rinse) CD
CUTTY RANKS – Limb by Limb (VP) 2CD
V/A – Kuniyuki: Remixed Vol. 1 (Mule Musiq) 12”
PAULINE OLIVEROS – Four Electronic Pieces 1959-1966 (Sub Rosa) CD
13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS – The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (Sundazed) LP
BETH LESSER – Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture (Soul Jazz) Book
SHACKLETON, APPLEBLIM & PEVERELIST - Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated By Vandals (Skull Disco) 2x12"

‘i don't feel like i need to preach to the world or nothing like that. i just feel like i share what i say, and if listeners get it, they get it. and i never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.’ –erykah badu

new releases:

erykah badu: new amerykah (universal)
dusk and blackdown: margins music (keysound recordings)
fennesz: black sea (touch)
trimski: soul food vol. 3 (trim)
hatcha and kromestar: brothers grim (eight:fx)
d1: vol 3 (tempa)
shed: shedding the past (ostgut ton)
the bug: london zoo (ninja tune)
diamanda galas: guilty guilty guilty (mute)
low motion disco: keep it slow (eskimo)
charlegmane palestine: from etudes to cataclysms (sub rosa)
black milk: tronic (fat beats)
leila: blood, looms and blooms (warp)
zomby: where were you in ’92 (werk)
toby tobias: space shuffle (rekids)
alva noto: unitxt (raster noton)
actress: hazyville (werk)
group inerane: guitars from agadez (sublime frequencies)
geeneus: volumes one (rinse)
philip jeck: sand (touch)
motorpsycho: little lucid moments (rune grammofon)

collections:

various artists: give me love: songs of the brokenhearted: Baghdad 1925-1929 (honest jon’s)
various artists: nigeria rock special (soundway)
various artists: victrola favorites (dust to digital)
various artists: an england story (soul jazz)
various artists: living is hard: west african music in Britain, 1927-1929 (honest jon’s)
various artists: don’t stop: recording tap (numero)
daniel baldelli and marco donji: cosmic disco?? cosmic rock!! (eskimo)
various artists: cosmic balearic beats (eskimo)
various artists: japanese traditional music: gagaku, Buddhist chant, kokusai bunka shinkokai 1941 (world arbiter)
various artists: african scream contest (analog africa)
various artists: shadow music of thailand (sublime frequencies)

reissues:

absolutely fabulous dvd set
soft cell: non stop erotic cabaret deluxe edition (some bizarre)
yoshi wada: off the wall (em)
allez allez: best of (eskimo)
gas: nah und fern (kompakt)
tsai, ming-liang: the wayward cloud (strand) dvd
derek jarman: glitterbox (zeitgeist) dvd
gary numan: replicas redux (beggars banquet)
yoshi wada: the appointed cloud (em)
yukio mishima: patriotism (criterion) dvd

tracks and oddities:

buddha machine, and the one made from a cake of pu’er tea
geeneus: yellowtail
joker: gully brook lane
benga and g squad: assumptions (benga remix)
cluekid: hovercraft
roska: feline
aeroplance: whispers feat. kathy diamond
loefah/bomb squad/dusk and blackdown @ dubwar

THAT came out THIS year too?!?
ning nong favorites released in 2008

Boredoms - 77 Boa Drum 2xCD+DVD+Book (Commmons)
Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill LP (Type)
12" labels: Apple Pips, Hemlock, Skull Disco, Echocord (Colour series), Hate, Tempa, Tube10
Sunset - Bright Blue Dream and The Glowing City CDs (Autobus)
Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Continued 2xCD (Kranky)
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop reissue CDs (The Grey Area of Mute)
Sun Ra - Horizon CD (Art Yard)
The New Blockaders/Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - The Monosyllabic Bicycles Tri-Coloured Quadruples LP+7" (Equation)
Jason Crumer - Ottoman Black CD (Hospital Productions)
Bee Mask - ...Or Eternity Too Long C40 (Chondritic Sound)
Nigeria Special series CDs (Soundway)
Portishead - Third LP Box (Island)
Yoshi Wada - The Appointed Cloud and Off The Wall CDs (EM/Omega Point)
In Camera - Open Air 2xCD (Robot)
Charlemagne Palestine - Voice Studies LP (Alga Marghen)
Andy Ortmann - Provocative Electronics LP (Pan)
Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet - Blaue Blooded Türen CD (Resipiscent)
J Spaceman And Matthew Shipp - SpaceShipp CD (Treader)
Sprigs Of Time, Living Is Hard and Give Me Love compilation 2XLPs (Honest Jon's)
Prurient - And Still, Wanting CD+5" (No Fun Productions) / The Black Post Society CD (Cold Spring)
Analog Africa No. 3: African Scream Contest CD (Analog Africa)
Raymond Dijkstra - Verzameld Werk 2005/2007 4xLP (Le Souffleur)
Jacob Kirkegaard - Labyrinthitis CD (Touch)
Idea Fire Company - The Island Of Taste LP (Swill Radio)
Ferial Confine - First, Second And Third Drop CD (Siren)
Endless Boogie - Focus Level 2xLP (No Quarter)
Sic Alps - U.S. EZ LP (Siltbreeze)
The New Monuments - Live 4xCDr (American Tapes)
Chris Watson - Cima Verde CD (Fondazione Edmund Mach)
Tunnel Canary - Jihad/Live At The ECCA 1980 (Winterkill) 2xLP (rundownsun)
SPK - Dokument III0 1979-1983 6XLP Box (Vinyl On Demand)
Neil Landstrumm - Lord For £39 CD (Planet µ)
Sutcliffe Jügend - The Fall Of Nature CD (Hospital Productions/Ground Fault)
Yellow Tears - The Pissmop LP (Hospital Productions)
Why? - Alopecia LP (Anticon)
Spine Scavenger - Shackles Of Man-Measured Time LP (Troniks)
Secret Abuse - Violent Narcissus LP (Not Not Fun)
William S. Burroughs - Real English Tea Made Here 3xCD (Audio Research Editions)
Emeralds - Solar Bridge CD (Hanson)
Stephan Mathieu - Radioland CD (Die Schachtel)
Handicapper Horns - Sax In The City=One one-sided LP (American Tapes)
Baudouin Oosterlynck - 1975-1978 4xLP Box (Metaphon)
Mission Of Burma - Vs. 2xLP+DVD reissue (Matador)
Pietro Grossi - Musicautomatica CD reissue (Die Schachtel)
Maurizio Bianchi - Mectpyo Box 10xCD (EEs'T)

live sets:

The Nevari Butchers at No Fun Fest, Knitting Factory NYC, May 16
Red Horse at The Mills Gallery, Boston, July 22
John Wiese at The Piano Factory, Boston, Sept 23
Boredoms at The Paradise, Boston, March 29

SOME THINGS I HEARD THIS YEAR

11 LONG PLAYING BEATS FOR SUB WOOFERS & HEADPHONES

DEADBEAT : Roots And Wire 2LP (Wagon Repair)
HEADHUNTER : Nomad CD (Tempa)
AKIKO KIYAMA : 7 Years CD (District of Corruption)
6BLOCC : LODUBS Present- Analog Clash 2CD (Lodubs)
MAREK BOIS : Boissche Untiefen 2CD (Rrygular)
APPLEBLIM : Dubstep Allstars Volume 06 CD (Tempa)
SHED : Shedding The Past CD (Ostgut Ton)
TRG : Missed Calls 2x12" (subway)
ROD MODELL : Incense & Blacklight CD (Plop)
ANDY STOTT : Unknown Exception CD (Modern Love)
SHACKLETON / APPLEBLIM & PEVERELIST : Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated by Vandals 2CD (Skull Disco)

11 REISSUED / UNEARTHED (some maybe better left buried)

JULY : s/t CD (Rev-Ola)
LUIE LUIE : Touchy CD (Companion)
LINDA PERHACS : Parallelograms CD (Sunbeam)
YOSHI WADA : The Appointed Cloud/Lament for the Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile CD's (EM)
SUPERSISTER : Present from Nancy/To the Highest Bidder CD's (Esoteric)
FRANK LOWE : Black Beings CD (ESP)
BOLDER DAMN : Mourning CD (Erebus)
CIRCLE X : Prehistory CD (Blue Chopsticks)
RODRIGUEZ Cold Fact CD (Light In The Attic)
ET CETERA : s/t CD (Long Hair)
SACROS : s/t CD (Shadoks)

11 ELECTRONIC PULSE-WIDTH MODULATIONS

BENGE : Twenty Systems CD (Expanding)
PAULINE OLIVEROS : Four Electronic Pieces 1959-1966 CD (Sub Rosa)
LEAGUE OF AUTOMATIC MUSIC COMPOSERS : 1978-1983 CD (New World)
WARNER JEPSON : Totentanz And Other Electonic Works 1958-1973 CD (Melon Expander)
BENARD PARMEGIANI : L'Oeuvre Musicale en 12 CD (INA GRM)
BASS COMMUNION : Molotov and Haze CD (Important)
RICHARD PINHAS / MERZBOW : Keio Line CD (Cuneiform)
IANNIS XENAKIS : Electronic Works II CD (mode)
ALVA NOTO : Unitxt CD (Raster-Noton)
RYOJI IKEDA : Test Pattern CD (Raster-Noton)
BRUCE HAACK : Haakula CD (Omni)

11 TRIPS BACK TO WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

ERSEN : s/t CD (Finder Keepers)
SIR VICTOR UWAIFO : Guitar Boy Superstar 1970-76 CD (Soundway)
GROUP INERANE : Guitars From Agadez CD (Sublime Frequencies)
ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO : Volume One- The Vodoun Effect CD (Analog Africa)
TERAKAFT : Akh Issudar CD (World Village)
AUGUSTUS PABLO : Mystic World of Augustus Pablo - The Rockers Story 4CD/DVD (Shanachie)
V/A : NIGERIA SPECIAL- Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues CD (Soundway)
V/A : JAPANESE TRADITIONAL MUSIC- Gagaku & Buddist Chant CD (World Arbiter)
V/A : GIVE ME LOVE- Songs of the Brokenhearted- Baghdad 1925-29 CD (Honest Jon's)
V/A : Nigeria 70 : Lagos Jump CD (Strut)
V/A : African Scream Contest : Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo 70's (Analog Africa)

2008 YEAR END LIST

“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

1) AARON DILLOWAY & C. SPENCER YEH: The Squid (Hanson) CD
2) AIDAN BAKER AND TIM HECKER: Fantasma Parastasie (Alien 8 Recordings) LP/CD
3) ANGEL: Kalmukia (Editions Mego) CD
4) APSE: Spirit (ATP Recordings) CD
5) BJ NILSEN & STILLUPPSTEYPA: Passing Out (Helen Scarsdale Agency) CD
6) BORKO: Celebrating Life (Morr Music) CD
7) COLDPLAY: Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (Capitol) CD
8) COLIN MELOY: Sings Live! (Kill Rock Stars/Jealous Butcher) CD/LP
9) DEERHUNTER: Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. (Kranky) LP/CD
10) ELUDER: The Most Beautiful Blue (Infraction) CD
11) EMILIANA TORRINI: Me and Armini (Rough Trade) CD
12) FENNESZ: Black Sea (Touch) LP/CD
13) FOTHERINGAY: 2 (Fledg’ling) CD
14) HJALTALIN: Sleepdrunk Seasons (Kimi) CD
15) J SPACEMAN & MATTHEW SHIPP: Spaceshipp (Treader) CD
16) JACASZEK: Treny (Miasmah) CD
17) JAMES: Hey-Ma (Mercury) CD
18) JASPER TX: Black Sleep (Miasmah) CD
19) JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON: Fordlândia (4AD) CD
20) KEVIN DRUMM: Imperial Distortion (Hospital Productions) 2CD
21) KOEN HOLTKAMP: Field Rituals (Type) CD/LP
22) LAURA VEIRS: Two Beers Veirs (Raven Marching Band) CD
23) LAWRENCE ENGLISH: Kiri No Oto (Touch) CD
24) MACHINEFABRIEK: Mort Aux Vaches (Staalplaat) CD
25) MILIEU: A Warm Wooden Hollow/Smokebuilder's Woodshop (Infraction) CD / 3”CD
26) NADJA/AIDAN BAKER/LEAH BUCKAREFF: Trinitarian (Important) LP
27) NINE INCH NAILS: Ghosts I-IV (nin.com/Null Corporation) Album Download/CD
28) Ø: Oleva (Sahko) LP/CD
29) ÓLAFUR ARNALDS: Eulogy for Evolution (Erased Tapes) CD/LP
30) OMIT: Interceptor (Helen Scarsdale Agency) 2CD
31) PETER BRODERICK: Float (Type) CD/LP
32) PETAR DUNDOV: Escapements (Music Man) 4x12”/CD
33) PHANTOM ORCHARD: Orra (Tzadik) CD
34) PHILIP GLASS: Music In Twelve Parts (Orange Mountain Music) 4CD
35) POCAHAUNTED: Chains (Teenage Teardrops) LP
36) ROD MODELL: Incense & Black Light (Plop) CD
37) RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS: Cardinology (Lost Highway) CD/LP
38) SIGUR RÓS: Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (XL/Krunk) CD
39) SIN FANG BOUS: Clangour (Morr Music) LP/CD
40) SOCCER COMMITTEE & MACHINEFABRIEK: Drawn (Digitalis) CD
41) SONS OF THE DRAGON: Sons Of The Dragon (Sons of the Dragon) 2x12"
42) SVARTE GREINER: Man Bird Dress (SMTG Limited) LP
43) THE CURE: 4:13 Dream (I AM) CD/2xLP
44) THEE SILVER MT. ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA & TRA-LA-LA BAND: 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons (Constellation) 2LP
45) THOM YORKE: The Eraser Remixed (WEA/XL Records) CD/3x12”
46) VA: A Cleansing Ascension (Elevator Bath) CD
47) VA: Spire Live - Fundamentalis (Autofact) 2LP
48) WILLITS + SAKAMOTO: Ocean Fire (12K) CD
49) XELA: In Bocca Al Lupo (Type) 2xLP/CD
50) YELLOW SWANS: Psychic Secession (Weird Forest) 2LP

+misc picks

51) BJÖRK: Wanderlust (One Little Indian) 2x12"/CD/3D-DVD Ltd Box Set
52) FM3: Buddha Machine II (FM3) Soundbox
53) JANDEK: Manhattan Tuesday (Corwood Industries) DVD
54) NURSE WITH WOUND: Images/Zero Mix (Beta-Lactam Ring Records) 220pg Book/CD
55) PAN SONIC: Kuvaputki (Cathode Ray Tube) (Blast First Petite) DVD

Top Reissues

1) 808 STATE: Quadrastate (Rephlex) CD/LP
2) BELLE AND SEBASTIAN: The BBC Sessions (Matador) CD
3) CHRIS CORSANO: The Young Cricketer (Family Vineyard) LP
4) DAVY GRAHAM: Folk, Blues & Beyond... (Stamford Audio) LP
5) DREDD FOOLE: Kissing The Contemporary Bliss (Family Vineyard) 2CD
6) GAS: Nah Und Fern (Kompakt) 4CD / 2x12"
7) IN CAMERA: Open Air (Robot) CD
8) JADE: Fly On Strangewings (Lightning Tree) CD
9) KAREN DALTON: In My Own Time (Light in the Attic) LP + 7"
10) METALLICA: Ride the Lightning (Elektra) 2x12”
11) MICHEL CHION: Requiem (Sub Rosa) LP
12) POLE: 1 2 3 (~Scape) 3CD
13) STEINSKI: What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective (Illegal Art) 2CD
14) THE SMITHS: The Sound of (Sire/Rhino) 2xCD
15) UNIVERS ZERO: Univers Zero (Cuneiform) CD
16) VA: African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro (Analog Africa) LP/CD
17) VA: Fight On, Your Time Ain't Long (Mississippi) LP
18) VA: Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days (Dust to Digital) 2CD/Book
19) XHOL: Motherfuckers GmbH & Co. Kg (Wah Wah Records) LP
20) YOSHI WADA: The Appointed Cloud (EM Records) CD

Special Mention

Náttúra Concert: Reykjavik, Iceland with Ólöf Arnalds, Ghostigital, Sigur Rós and Björk (National Geographic World Music) Webcast

Here in the Year: Top 25 New Releases 2008

Matt Kelley's Year End Top 30 List

Sunset - The Glowing City cd
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride cd
Lau Nau - Nukkuu cd/lp
Deerhunter Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. cd/lp
Boris - Smile cd/lp
Black Mountain - The Future cd/lp
Sunset - Bright Blue Dream cd
Portishead - Third cd
Ezekiel Honig - Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band cd
Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls cd/lp
Los Llamarada - Take The Sky lp
Kazuki Tomokawa - Blue Water Red Water cd
Infinite Body - A Series Of False Awakenings lp
Wavves - Wavves cd/lp
Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez cd
Melissa St. Pierre - Specimens cd
Wooden Shjips - Volume 1 cd
krank116 Valet Naked Acid cd/lp
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent cd
Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness cd/lp
Fennesz - Black Sea cd/lp
Endless Boogie - Focus Level cd/lp
Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel cd/lp
Boredoms - 77 Boa Drums cd/dvd
Down In June - Covers Death In June cd

Top 35 Reissues/Compilations

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou The Vodoun Effect cd/lp
Amanaz - Africa lp
The Peace - Black Power CD/LP
Cold Sun - Dark Shadows cd/lp
Chico Magnetic Band- Chico Magnetic Band lp
Yoshi Wada - The Appointed Cloud cd
Various Artists - Never Ever Land: 83 Texan Nuggets 1965-1970 3cd
Rayne - Rayne CD/LP
Q65 - Nothing But Trouble cd
Freedom's Children - Astra CD/LP 10
Chrissy Zebby Tembo - My Ancestors CD
Golden Dawn - Power Plant lp
Various Artists - Nigeria Disco Funk Special cd/lp
De Wolfe Music Library - Kung Fu Super Sounds cd
Various Artists - Sprigs of Time cd/lp
Various Artists - African Scream Contest cd/lp
Rodriguez - Cold Fact CD/LP
Ant Trip Ceremony - 24 Hours CD
We The People - Too Much Noise cd/lp
Various Artists - Cazumbi lp
Bachs - Out Of The Bachs lp
Severed Heads - Adenoids lp
Kristyl - Kristyl cd
Skream - Rinse Vol.2 cd
Bullwackies All Stars - Black World Dub CD/LP
Ersen - Ersen cd
Flipper - Sex Bomb Baby cd
Bill Fay - Bill Fay CD
Various Artists - The Young Disciples cd
Various Artists - Japanese Traditional Music cd
Jade Stone & Luv - Mosaics: Pieces of Stone CD/LP
Mij - Yodeling Astrologer CD
Various Artists - Obsession cd/lp
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Guitar Boy Superstar cd/2lp
Various Artists - Nigeria Rock Special cd/lp

Best of My 2007 Tops Lists

V/A - Broken Flag: A Retrospective 1982-1986 5LP box (Vinyl-On-Demand)
M.B. - Evidences Vol. 1: Final Industrial Music 1980 5LP box (Vinyl-On-Demand)
Stamp Release - LAC/Russia 12" (Stamp Release)
Lubos Fiser - OST: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders LP (Finders Keepers)
Silmaril - The Voyage of Icarus CD (Locust)
Philus - pH 12" (Sahko)
Lil' Wayne - The Drought 3 double-mixtape
V/A - Rub-A-Dub Soldiers CD (Makasound)
Basic Replay label - all releases
Question Mark - Be Nice To The People LP (Shadoks)
Revolutionaries - Drum Sound CD (Pressure Sounds)
LEGGO DUB @ The Middlesex Lounge, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays (RIP)

and just simply the best -

digital dancehall reggae 1985-1989

2007 Top 25

VA - Waking Up Scheherazade (Ali Baba and his 40... Records) LP
VA - Melodii Tuvi: Throat Songs and Folk Tunes from Tuva (Dust to Digital) CD
Preggy Peggy & The Lazy Babymakers - Get an Ace Case of the Measles (Being Weird Isn't Enough) CD
Ed Askew (Little Eyes) De Stijl CD
VA - Ethnic Minority Music of North Vietnam (Sublime Frequencies) CD
The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City (Thrill Jockey CD
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung (Harmonia Mundi) CD/SACD
David Watson - Throats (Ecstatic Peace) CD
Francois Dufrene - Oeuvre Desintegrale (Alga Marghen) 4LP
VA - Lipa Kodi Ya City Council (Mississippi Records) LP
Commissaris Hjuler en Mama Beer - Mensen Die "Kort Staan" Voor de Zelfdoding (Ultra Eczema) LP
Ferdinand Kriwet - Hortexte (Edition RZ) 3LP
Stephan Bodzin - Liebe Ist (Herzblut) CD
Lee Rockey - Lee Rockey Music (De Stijl) LP
Dennis Duck - Dennis Duck Goes Disco (Poobah) CD
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt) CD
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia (Kompakt) CD
Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss (Dial) CD
John Hodgman - "700 Hobo Names" from The Areas of My Expertise
The Absurder - Live on Ning Nong Radio, WZBC 2/27/07
VA - Obscure Tape Music of Japan (Omega Point) CD
People - Ceremony~Buddha Meet Rock (Teichiku) CD
Kemialliset Ystavat - Kemialliset Ystavat (Fonal) CD
Group Doueh - Guitar Music From The Western Sahara (Sublime Frequencies) LP
Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez (Sublime Frequencies) LP
Rubber O Cement - Osmolytes (Dolor Del Estamogo) CD
Omar Souleyman - Highway to Hassake: Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria (Sublime Frequencies) CD
VA - Latinamericarpet (Sublime Frequencies) CD
The Habibbiya - If Man But Knew (Sunbeam) CD

Films:

"Frank & Cindy" by JG Echternkamp
"Frownland" by Ronald Bronstein
"Troth" by Mike Pinto & Steve Pyne

Pull it down.

THE RATS: s/t (Mississippi) LP
NEIL YOUNG: Sugar Mountain Live at Canterbury House 1968 (Reprise) CD
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING: Primary Colours (Aarght!/Goner) LP
LUIE LUIE: Touchy (Companion) CD
WIPERS: Youth of America (Jackpot) LP
CHRISSY ZEBBY TEMBO & NGOZI FAMILY: My Ancestors (Chris Edition) LP
POOR SCHOOL: The Holy Master (Ecstatic Peace!) LP
BORIS: Smile (Southern Lord) CD
TEN EAST: The Robot's Guide to Freedom (Lexicon Devil) CD
SHIT & SHINE: Cherry (Riot Season) CD/DVD
SPOOKY DANCE BAND: Scary Reality/Nightmare Fantasy (Mississippi) 2LP
MOTORPSYCHO: Little Lucid Moments (Rune Grammofon) CD
GAS: Nah Und Fern (Kompakt) 4CD
ENDLESS BOOGIE: Focus Level (No Quarter) CD
BLACK TAJ: Beyonder (Amish Records) CD
SIC ALPS: A Long Way Around To A Shortcut (Animal Disguise) CD
BILLY BAO: Dialectics of Shit (Parts Unknown) LP
LA IRA DE DIOS: Cosmos, Kaos, Destruccion (World in Sound) CD
SUICIDE: Live 1977-1978 (BLAST FIRST PETITE) 6CD
NO AGE: Nouns (Sub Pop) CD
SHIZUKA: Live/Traditional Aesthetics (PSF) CD
THE FUN YEARS: Baby, It's Cold Inside (Barge) CD
SHIT AND SHINE: Küss mich, meine Liebe (LOAD) CD
THE HOWLING HEX: Earth Junk (Drag City) CD
DEERHOOF: Offend Maggie (Kill Rock Stars) CD
LOS LLAMARADA: The Exploding Now (SS) LP
HEAVY HANDS: Smoke Signals (Language of Stone) CD
J.T.IV: Cosmic Lightning (Drag City) LP
JAZZFINGER/CULVER & FORDELL RESEARCH UNIT: Killed In A Clear Sky/Octodog (Blackest Rainbow) LP
WICKED WITCH: Chaos: 1978-86 (EM) CD

Gas - Nah Und Fern 4CD (Kompakt)
Charlemagne Palestine - From Etudes To Cataclysms For The Doppio Borgato 2CD (Sub Rosa)
Portishead - Third 2LP (Mercury)
1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground LP (Sublime Frequencies)
The Goslings - Occasion CD (Not Not Fun)
Peter Rehberg - Works For GV 2004-2008 CD (Editions Mego)
Fennesz – Black Sea CD (Touch)
Religious Knives - Resin CD (No Fun)
Jacob Kirkegaard - Labyrinthitis CD (Touch)
FM3 - Buddha Machine II soundbox (FM3)
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing CD (ATP)
No-Neck Blues Band – Clomeim 2LP (Locust)
Deadbeat – Roots And Wire CD (Wagon Repair)
Hijokaidan - Polar Nights Live CD (Pica Disk)
Carlos Giffoni - Adult Life CD (No Fun)
Coil/New Blockaders/Vortex Campaign - The Melancholy Mad Tenant LP (Important)
African Scream Contest CD (Analog Africa)
Burning Star Core – Challenger CD (Hospital)
Flying Lotus – Los Angeles CD (Warp)
Angel – Hedonism CD (Editions Mego)
Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated By Vandals 2CD (Skull Disco)
Gilles Gobeil – Trois Songes DVD (Empreintes Digitales)
Philip Jeck – Live In Liverpool LP (Autofact)
Singer - Unhistories CD (Drag City)
George Coleman - Bongo Joe LP (Mississippi)

Top 25 for 2008 in no particular order...just 25 records I really liked this year.

SIC ALPS : US EZ 12"LP (Siltbreeze)
THE FUN YEARS : baby, it's cold inside CD (Barge Recordings)
JAMES JACKSON TOTH : Waiting in Vain 2xLP (Rykodisc)
FENNESZ : Black Sea LP (Touch)
EZEKIEL HONIG : Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band CD (Anticipate)
ECHO SPACE : Untitled 1 Sided 12" EP (Modern Love)
XELA : In Bocca Al Lupo 2xLP (Type Recordings)
EMERALDS : Solar Bridge CD (Hanson)
TIM HECKER/AIDEN BAKER CD - Fantasma Parastasie (Alien 8 Recordings)
TYVEK : Fire! 2x7" (What's Your Rupture?)
V/A : Joe Gibbs Reggae Anthology: Scorchers From The Mighty Two (Various Artists) 2xCD (VP)
SLOAN : Parallel Play CD (Yep Rock Records)
SKATERS : Physicalities LP (Eclipse Records)
PORTISHEAD : Third 2xLP (Island)
URSULA BOGNER : Recordings 1969-1988 LP (Faitiche)
GAS : Nah Und Fern CD Box (Kompakt)
TAMARYN : Return To The Surrender 7" (M'lady's Records)
V/A : The Mighty Striker Shoots at Hits CD (Moll-Selekta)
SINGER : at Glasslands Live (No Label)
WAVVES : Wavves LP (Woodsist)
LEE HAZLEWOOD : Strung Out on Something New: The Reprise Recordings 2xCD (Rhino Handmade)
KING KAHN AND THE SHRINES : The Supreme Genius Of CD (Vice)
SIC ALPS : United 7" (Important)
LA DUSSELDORF : La Dusseldorf LP Reissue (4 Men with Beards)
V/A : Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound Of The Underground Lagos Dancefloor 1974-79 CD (Soundway)

ERYKAH BADU - New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War) (Universal Motown) CD
GROUPER - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill (Type) LP
YOSHI WADA - Lament For The Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile (Em Records) CD
YOSHI WADA - The Appointed Cloud (Em Records) CD
YOSHI WADA - Off The Wall (Em Records) CD
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Nigeria Special Series (x3) (Soundway) CD
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE - From Etudes to Cataclysms (Sub Rosa) CD
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE - Sharing A Sonority (Alga Marghen) CD
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE - Vocal Studies (Alga Marghen) LP
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Japanese Traditional Music: Gagaku + Buddhist Chant (World Arbiter) CD
EZEKIEL HONIG - Surfaces Of A Broken Marching Band (Anticipate) CD
APPLEBLIM - Dubstep Allstars Vol. 06 (Tempa) CD
CARL STONE - Woo Lae Oak (Unseen Worlds) CD
ELODIE LAUTEN - The Death of Don Juan: An Opera In Two Acts (Unseen Worlds) CD
PORTISHEAD - Third (Island) LP
BRENDAN MURRAY - Commonwealth (23Five) CD
SUICIDE - Live 1977-1978 (Blast First Petite) 6CD
JACASZEK - Treny (Miasmah) CD
BODUF SONGS - How Shadows Chase the Balance (Kranky) CD
SECRET ABUSE - Violent Narcissus (Not Not Fun) LP
VARIOUS ARTISTS - African Scream Contest (Analog Africa) CD
VERSES: GZA feat. KA "Firehouse," The Roots feat P.O.R.N. "I Can't Help It > Singing Man" & NAS "Queens Get The Money"
LIVE: SUNN, RED HORSE, THE NEW MONUMENTS & TONY CONRAD (Film Electrocution/Harvard Film Archive)
DAVID BYRNE - Playing The Building (Creativetime) EXHIBIT
DAVID RATCLIFF - Defect's Mirror (Team Gallery) EXHIBIT
CATHERINE BREILLAT dir. - The Last Mistress (IFC First Take)
ALEKSANDR SOKUROV dir. - Aleksandra (The Cinema Guild)
GUS VAN SANT dir. - Milk (Focus Features)
PAUL SCHRADER dir. - Mishima (Criterion) 2DVD
YUKIO MISHIMA dir. - Patriotism (Criterion) DVD

John Barera's 2008 Year end Roundup : Tracks for the Club.

siriusmo - diskoding mini album 12" (boy noize records)
machines dont care - machines dont care
mr oizo - lambs anger (ed banger)
Zomby - Where were U in 92?
DJ Class - Roll It (Fully Fitted mix) (fully fitted)
The martin brothers - rocket surgery (dirtybird)
stimming - una pena (Diynamic)
Rodriguez Jr - Pina Colada (Voodeaxu mix)
kabale und liebe - mumbling yeah
Lauren Flax f. Sia, "You've Changed"
morgan gesit - detroit (carl craig remix)
ricardo villalobos & jaz haze -sunday prayer (lay back edit)
sasse - break up
Radioclit - Secousse (mental groove)
Osbourne - Wait a Minute (Ghostly)
Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk - love cant turn around - (lifelike 2008 remix)
dada life - The Great Fashion Swindle (Laidback Luke Mix)
runaway - brooklyn club jam (rekids / dfa)
Holger Zilske - The Bees
Puzique - Don't Go (boys noize)
Kraak & Smaak - Plastic People (Jalapeno Records) CD
foamo - rockerman (Lee Mortimer mix)
baltimoroder & die young - cat/back around (Dopamine)
duke dumont - feltham
Elitechnique - Munich Emotions (clone)

1) Autechre, Quaristice - Warp333
2) Nomo, Ghost Rock - URCD230
3) Drumming for Dagomba Chiefs - GH-DDC
4) The Alash Ensemble, Alash

1. VA “Musical Brotherhoods From The Trans-Saharan Highway” Sublime Frequencies, DVD
2. Deerhunter “ Microscastle/Weird Era Cont.” Kranky, CD
3. Group Doueh “Guitar Music from the Western Sahara” Sublime Frequencies, CD
4. Cai Guo-Qiang “I Want to Believe” exhibition, Guggenheim Museum 02/22-05/28/08
5. Dengue Fever + Pistolera, live, Museum of Fine Arts 7/9/08
6. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou “Volume 1 – The Voudoun Effect 1973-1975” Analog Africa, CD
7. Group Inerane “Guitars From Agadez” Sublime Frequencies, CD
8. FM3 “Buddha Machine II”
9. Spiritualized + The Dirtbombs, live, Roxy 7/30/08
10. Pittsburgh, PA
11. Carcass “Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious” Earache, CD/DVD
12. Sunn O))) “Domkirke” Southern Lord, 2XLP
13. Genghis Tron “Dead Mountain Mouth” Crucial Blast, CD
14. “Heavy Metal in Baghdad” Vice Films, DVD
15. J Spaceman & Matthew Ship “Spaceshipp” Treader, CD
16. VA "Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture" Soul Jazz Records CD
17. Yeti #5, Magazine
18. Beirut, Lebanon
19. Silent Land Time Machine "& Hope Still" Time-Lag Records, CD
20. Jay-Z & T.I. feat. Kanye West & Lil Wayne “Swagga Like Us” Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam/Grand Hustle/Atlantic, Single
21. Lotus Plaza “The Floodlight Collective” Kranky, CD
22. Trees “On the Shore” Sunbeam Records, 2XLP
23. Huntington Theatre Company, “Rock ‘n’ Roll” BU Theater 12/9/08
24. Sigur Ros “In a Frozen Sea: Year with Sigur Ros” Artist in Residence, 7XLP
25. The Brian Jonestown Massacre “My Bloody Underground” A Records, CD

Takayanagi Masayuki - Independence - Tread On Sure Ground - Tiliqua - cd
The Byard Lancaster Unit _ Live at Macalester College - Porter Records - cd
Baudouin Oosterlynck - 1975-1978 - Metaphon - 4lp box
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Guitar Boy Superstar 1970-76 - Soundway - lp
Andrew Chalk - Time of Hayfield - Faraway Press - cd
Graveyards - Graveyards - Qbico - lp
Eli Keszler - Livingston - Rare Youth - lp
Freedom's Children - Astra/Battle Hymn of the Broken Hearted Horde/Galactic Vibes - Shadoks Music - lpbox
Hisham Mayet - Musical Brotherhoods from the Trans-Saharan Highway Sublime Frequencies - dvd
M.B. - Symphony for a Genocide - Hospital Productions - cd
John Cale / Terry Riley - Church of Anthrax - Columbia - lp
Jandek - Glasow Sunday 2005 - Corwood Industries - cd
Ornette Coleman - Town Hall 1962 - ESPDisk - cd
Blues Control - Puff - Fusetron - cd
Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior - Tempa -cd/lp
Neutral Spirits - Neutral Spirits - Void Records - lp
Yoshi Wada - The Appointed Cloud - EM Records - cd
Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion - Hospital Productions - cd
New Age - All Around - Red Lounge - cd/lp
M.E.V. - Spacecraft/Unified Patchwork Theory - Alga Marghen - cd
Milford Graves - Percussion Ensemble - ESPDisk - cd
Sugar Minott - Dance Hall Showcase Vol. II - Wackie's - cd
Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill - Type - lp
Guru Guru - Hinten - Captain Trip - cd
Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern - Raster-Noton - cd
Cold Sun - Dark Shadows - World In Sound - cd/lp
Sun Ra - Horizons - Artyard - cd
M.E.V. - MEV 40 (1967-2007) - New World - 4cd
VA - Obsession - Bully Records - cd/lp
VA - Ethiopian Modern Instrumentals Hits - L'Arome Production - lp
VA - Nigeria Rock Special - Soundway - cd



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