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Cherrypicking [2008-01-01]Musically 2007 has been an excellent year. I found it no problem to find many excellent albums, and as usual the worldwide 'back catalogue' has been keeping me busy and still full of surprises and many real gems which I'm technically not allowed to list here. I'm sure this goes for much appreciated contributors Erwin and Roger as well, given their lengthy list. Thank you and all the best for 2008, which also goes for the people reading our modest little webzine, made out of a mad love for music and not business, and therefore sometimes a bit slow. My apologies for that, but I guess that's the price to pay for no ads.Musically 2007 has been an excellent year. I found it no problem to find many excellent albums, and as usual the worldwide 'back catalogue' has been keeping me busy and still full of surprises and many real gems which I'm technically not allowed to list here. I'm sure this goes for much appreciated contributors Erwin and Roger as well, given their lengthy list. Thank you and all the best for 2008, which also goes for the people reading our modest little webzine, made out of a mad love for music and not business, and therefore sometimes a bit slow. My apologies for that, but I guess that's the price to pay for no ads.Erwin Michelfelder
Albums
- the Vulture Club - Live Young, Die Fast & Leave an Exquisite Corpse
- Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
- the Bummer Road - Deep Space Circuit (12 CDR Version)
- Charalambides - Strangle the Wretched Heavens
- Pissed Jeans - Hope For Men
- Opitope - Hau
- Beta Cloud - Nephology
- Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall
- Bill Callahan - Woke On A Whaleheart
- Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter
- Deerhunter - Cryptograms
- High Tension Wires - the Midnight Cashier
- X - Live in Los Angeles
- Radiohead - In Rainbows
- Cherry Blossoms - s/t LP
- Dry Heave - the Early Years
- Mekons - Natural
- Wooden Shjips - s/t
- Blues Control - s/t
- Angels of Light - We Are Him
- Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Reissues
- Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
- Joy Division - Closer
- Nurse With Wound - An Awkward Pause
- Nurse With Wound - Homotopy for Marie
- Valet - Blood is Clean
- the Pop Group - Y
- Saints - the Greatest Cowboy Movie Never Made
- D.O.A. - Bloodied But Unbowed
New Discoveries
- the Liquor Giants
- Harvey Milk
- Brother JT (Brother JT3, Vibrolux)
- the Utech label
- Double Leopards
- John Coltrane (Ascension era)
Movies
There's a bunch of films that I'd really like to see, but haven't gotten around to yet. Two of those are Cronenbergs' Eastern Promises and Ethan and Joel Coen's No Country for Old Men
Some funny ones that I have seen
- Knocked Up
- Superbad
- the Simpsons Movie
Best Book I've read this year
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Roger Batty
2007 has been a year full of astounding, great & consistent albums, so much so I’ve found it hellishlydifficult to narrow it down to the list bellow. Really there’s another 20 plus albums that could have mademy list - but you have to draw a line somewhere ;-).Albums
- Allerseelen - Hallstatt
- EarthMonkey - Be That Change
- Gowns - Red State
- Mouthus - Follow this House
- Starving Weirdos - Shrine Of The Post-Hypnotic
- The Skull Defekts - SKKULL
- Akercocke - Antichrist
- Blood of the black owl - s/t
- Supersilent - 8
- Deathspell Omega - FAS - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
- Wolf Eyes - Black Wing Over The Sand
- The Thing - Action Jazz
- The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
- Merzbow - Coma Berenices
- Procer Veneficus - GhostVoices
- Aluk Todolo - Descension
- Type O Negative - Dead again
- Turner Cody - Buds of May
- Caïna - Mourner
- Samamidon - All is Well
- Efterklang - Parades
- EKG & Giuseppe IeIasi - Group
- múm - Go Go Smear Poison Ivy
- Vulcanus 68 - s/t
- Hans Appelqvist - Sifantin Och Mörkret
- Signal - Robotron
- v/a - John Barleycorn Reborn
- Non Ethos - Sky Asfalt
- Pope Joanna - Divinity Corrupter
- Angels Of Light - We Are Him
- Helios - Ayres
- Pumice - Pebbles
- Robert Vincs - Devic Kingdom
- Rst - Axes
- (r) - In Pink
- Mansbestfriend - Poly.Sci.187
- Yellow Swans - At all ends
- Signal Quintet - Yamaguchi
- Takeshi Nishimoto - Monologue
- Mama Bär + Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck - Il Portale
- v/a - Radio Rivendell Compilation
- Whitehouse - Racket
- Goon Moon - Lickers Last Leg
- Zelienople - His/Hers
- Sleep Research Facility - Deep Frieze
- John Wiese - Soft Punk
- Acid Mothers Temple - Crystal Rainbow Pyramid under the Stars
- Lietterschpinch - I cum Blood in the think tank
- Lichens - Omns
- Tarab - Wind keeps even Dust Away
- Fecalove - Erection
- Nick Grey - Candlelight Eyes Ep
- Elegi - Sistereis
- Government Alpha - Venomous Cumulus Cloud
- Porn Sword Tobacco - New Exclusive Olympic Heights
- Smegma - 33 1/3
- Cloaks - A Crystal Skull in Peru
- Merzbow - Merzbear
- Aural Holograms - Vol 1
- KK Null - Fertile
- Religious Knives - Remains
- Parry/søegaard - Off the Map
- Rameses III - Honey Rose Ep
- Mike Tamburo - Dance Enis Dance
- Gudrun Gut - I Put A record on
- Tigertailz - Thrill Pistol
- Wold - Screech Owl
- Stars of The Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
- Lasse Marhaug - The Great Silence
- Christmas Decorations - Communal Rust
- Reuber - Südpol
- Fuckhead - Lebensfrische DVD
- Ensepulchred - The Night Our Rituals Blackened The Stars
- Death Unit - Infinite Death
- Carlos Giffoni - Arrogrance
- Maher Shalal Hash Baz - L'Autre Cap
- Cloama & Blutleuchtel - From Wasteland Mausoleums
- My Cat is An Alien - Leave me in a black no-thing
- .6 Comm - Headless
- Herr - Fire And Glass: A Norwood Tragedy
- Rapoon - Time Frost
- Demons - Evocation
Reissues
- Lasse Marhaug - Tapes 1990-1999
- Sturmpercht - Stürm Ins Leben Wild Hinein
- Pauline Oliveros - Accordion & voice
- Ju Suk Reet Meate - Solo 78/79
- Sabbat - Dreamweaver
- Nora Orlandi - Il dolce corpo di Deborah (The Sweet Body of Debora
- Current 93 - The Inmost Light
- Lisa Gerrard - The best of Lisa Gerrard
- Napalm Death - Scum
- Zweistein - Trip - Flip Out – Meditation
Movies
- Mr. Brooks
- Zodiac
- Vacancy
- This is England
- The Darjeeling Limited
- Halloween
- Enchanted
Martijn Busink
Albums
- Deathspell Omega - FAS - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
- Eyvind Kang - Athlantis and The Yelm Sessions
- John Zorn - Six Litanies For Heliogabalus
- Peste Noire - FolkFuck Folie
- Supersilent - 8
- Igor Krutogolov - White
- Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
- Extince - Toch?
- Cilvaringz - I
- Pram - The Moving Frontier
- Toshiji Mikawa - Gyo-Kai Elegy
- Shining - V: Halmstad (Niklas Angående Niklas)
- Nekropsi - Nekropsi
- Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
- Portal - Outre'
- v/a - Thai Pop Spectacular (1960's-1980's)
- Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
- Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
- Paysage D'Hiver - Einsamkeit
- Dødheimsgard - Supervillain Outcast
- Worship - Dooom
- Omar Souleyman - Highway To Hassake (Music of Syria)
- Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
- Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez (Music Of Niger)
- Sticks & Delic - Fakkelteit
- v/a - Waking up Scheherazade (Arabian Garage Psych Nuggets from The 60's and Early 70's)
- Wold - Screech Owl
- Om - Pilgrimage
- Buckethead - Pepper's Ghost and Decoding The Tomb Of Bansheebot
- Robert Fripp - At The End Of Time: Churchscapes - Live In England & Estonia, 2006
- Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia
- Saralunden.Björkås.Mjös - Dubious
- James Plotkin - Indirmek
- v/a - The Roots Of Chicha, Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru
- Susanna - Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos
- Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams
- Göksel - Ay'da Yürüdüm
- Symphony X - Paradise Lost
- Duvelduvel - Puur Kultuur
- 10 - UFO
- Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.
- Camp Lo - Black Hollywood
- Pau Torres - Hostile
- Toni Iordache - Sounds From A Bygone Age Vol. 4
- Trist - Hin~Fort
Too old to contend, but worth a mention
- Yara - Twassa Feyi
- Elissa - Bastanak
- Omid - Victory
- Current 93 - The Inmost Light and Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre
- Melechesh
- Gabi Luncă
Special category: the four Secret Chiefs 3 7" releases
- Ishraqiyun - Balance of the 19 b/w The Electromagnetic Azoth - UBIK
- The Electromagnetic Azoth - The Left Hand of Nothingness b/w UR - Personnae: Halloween
- UR - Circumambulation b/w Labyrinth of Light
- UR - Kultur Vultur b/w Drive
Concerts
- Eva Quartet, Utrecht (The Netherlands)
- Shining/Skitliv, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
- The Boredoms, Hasselt (Belgium)
- Susanna & The Magical Orchestra, Utrecht (The Netherlands)
- Ivo Papasov & Trakya, Utrecht (The Netherlands)
- Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck, Sudden Infant, Frieder Butzman, Antwerpen (Belgium)
Films
- The Films Of Alejandro Jodorowsky: Fando y Lis, El Topo & The Holy Mountain
- Wim T. Schippers' Televisie Praktijken: De Fred Haché Show
- Şebnem Ferah - 10 Mart 2007, İstanbul Konseri
- Estradasphere - The Palace Of Mirrors
- Every Mondo Macabro-released movie I've seen
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