2007 playlists wrapped up
Dale Lloyd from and/OAR records wrote to me this week, asking again for a best-of list for 2007. Long lists of records tend to be long and boring (and mine is very, very long!), satisfaction only for the completists looking to tick off the little boxes. In 2007 I found that my unique, real-life experiences were far more interesting than disposable plastic discs or bits passed down a wire. To me at least.
Personal Best 2007
1) Kevin Drumm: live @ Maria, Berlin
2) Birchville Cat Motel, Antoine Chessex, Jazkammer & Burial Chamber Trio: live @ Club Transmediale, Berlin
3) Das Kleine Field Recordings Festival: multiple editions, multiple locations, Berlin
4) Finally seeing the documentary on Swiss “actionist” Roman Signer (“Signers Koffer-Unterwegs mit Roman Signer“)
5) Vowing to get rid of the laptop in my live sets this past year (almost there!)
6) Opening for KTL in Paris, and Paris in general which wasn’t nearly as snobby as I was led to believe…
7) Pickled Feet DIY electronics workshops, Berlin
8) Self-made analog synth modules, hell yeah!
9) The Buchla synthesizer at EMS, Stockholm
10) “Art & Music with the Overhead Projector“ festival/workshop, Cologne
11) Daniel Higgs: live @ Maria, Berlin
12) Keiji Haino murdering PanSonic: live @ Volksbuhne, Berlin
13) Stephan Mathieu‘s collection of 78 rpm records
14) Abominations: tour through the Northern Darkness of Sweden and home again to Berlin
And now the records, in no particular order save alphabetical. Long time friends here will see that it is a summary of my “Now Playing” reports of the last 12 months. Release dates remain unimportant to me, only that I (re)experienced these little packets of sound sometime during 2007, and they left an impression on me.
Now Playing 2007
1349 – Hellfire (Candlelight)
A.M. – Orla (Ikuisuus)
Alhaji K Frimpong – Kyenkyen Bi Adi Mawu (cassette rip via Awesome Tapes from Africa)
Antoine Chessex – Silences (Tanzprocess CDR)
Assück – Anticapital/Blindspot (Sound Pollution)
Birchville Cat Motel – Birds Call Home Their Dead (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
Birchville Cat Motel – Seventh Ruined Hex (Important Records)
Birchville Cat Motel with Anla Courtis – Three Sparkling Echos (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
BJNilsen – The Short Night (Touch)
BJNilsen & Stilluppsteypa – Drykkjuvísur Ohljódanna (Helen Scarsdale Agency)
BJNilsen, Stiluppsteypa & Hildur Gudnadottir – Second Childhood (Quecksilber)
Black Flag – Who’s Got the 10 1/2? (SST)
Bolz’n – Spalt>Funktion 12″ (React with Protest)
Burial Chamber Trio – Burial Chamber Trio (Southern Lord)
Burning Star Core – Blood Lightning (No Fun Productions)
Burning Star Core – Operator Dead… Post Abandoned (No Quarter)
Circle – Katapult (No Quarter)
Circle – Tyrant (Latitudes)
Coffins – The Other Side of Blasphemy (20 Buck Spin)
Corrupted – Vasana 7″ (HG Fact Japan)
Courtis – Los Alamos (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
Crossed Out – 1990-1994 (Slap a Ham)
Daniel Higgs – Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot (Thrilljockey)
Daniel Menche – Beast Resonator (Roggbif)
Daniel Menche – Bleeding Heavens (Blossoming Noise)
Daniel Menche – Furnace Fucker (cassette via Daniel Menche blog)
Deathspell Omega – Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum (Ajna Offensive)
Dropdead – Discography 1991-1993 (Selfless)
Earth – Hibernaculum (Southern Lord)
Elaine Radigue – Jetsun Mila (Lovely Music)
Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today (Candlelight Records)
G.I. Gurdjieff – Harmonic Development – the complete harmonium recordings (Basta Music)
Glory Fckn Sun – Vision Scorched (PseudoArcana)
Grails – Burning Off the Impurities(Temporary Residence)
Greg Malcolm & Tetuzi Akiyama – Six Strings (Brombron)
Grey Daturas & Yellow Swans – Copper/Silver (Olde English Spelling Bee)
Hawkwind – Space Ritual (Caroline)
Jazkamer – Balls the Size of Texas Liver the Size of Brazil (Purplesoil)
Jesu– Conqueror (Hydrahead)
jgrzinich – rudiment of two (Editions Sonore)
Joe Colley, Jessica Rylan and Kevin Drumm – Pure (Musica Excentrica)
John Fahey – Sea Changes and Coelacanths-A Young Person’s Guide to John Fahey (Table of Elements)
Keiji Hanio & KK Null – Mamono (Blossoming Noise)
Lasse Marhaug – Pandemonium (Touch Radio)
Logical Nonsense – Soul Pollution (Alternative Tentacles)
Man is the Bastard – D.I.Y.C.D. (Slap a Ham)
Man is the Bastard – Sum of the Men (Vermiform)
Marcelo Aguirre – Repugnant Beast Recalcitrate (Desetxea)
Mark Wastell – Vibra 1, Vibra 2 (w.m.o/r/Longbox)
Minsk – The Ritual Fires of Abandonment (Relapse)
Misfits – Misfits/Collection I (Caroline Records)
Mrtyu! – Blood Tantra – Rituels de song du culte de Tantra (20 Buck Spin)
Neurosis – Given to the Rising (Neurot)
Om – Pilgrimage (Southern Lord)
Oren Ambarchi – In the Pendulum’s Embrace (Touch)
Orthodox – Gran Poder (Alone)
Osso Exotico & Verres Enharmoniques – Folk Cycles (Phonomena Audio Arts)
Pharaoh Overlord – Live in Suomi Finland (Vivo)
The Goslings & Yellow Swans – Bored Fortress 7″ (Not Not Fun)
Thee, Stranded Horse – Churning Strides (Blank Tapes)
Thilges – La Double Absence (Staubgold)
Ulver – Shadows of the Sun (Jester)
Unwound – discography (various labels)
Venetian Snares – Black Sabbath Dubs (Kriss Records)
Weakling – Dead as Dreams (tUMULt)
White/Lichens – White/Lichens (Holy Mountain)
White/Light – White/Light (Rebis Records)
Wolves in the Throne Room – A Diadem of 12 Stars (Vendlus)
Wolves in the Throne Room – Demo 1, Demo 2
Wolves in the Throne Room – Two Hunters (Southern Lord)
Yoro Diallo – Dit Tiekro Bani Vol 1 (cassette rip via Awesome Tapes from Africa)