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Opinions on a year past [2009-01-02]Another year passed (yes, it's really over so we're sure all releases of 2008 can be included) and we at musique[machine] happily list our favourites of 2008!Erwin Michelfelder
- Lawrence English - Kiri No Ot
- Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down in the Light
- Gavin Bryars /Philip Jeck /Alter Ego - The Sinking of the Titanic
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!!, Lazarus, Dig!!!
- Alan Courtis - Unstringed Guitar & Cymbals
- Expo '70 - Black Ohms
- Luca Formenti - Tacet
- Aidan Baker - Book of Nods
- Harvey Milk - Life … the Best Game in Town
- Letters Letters
- Lull & Beta Cloud - Circadian Rhythm Disturbance (3"CDR)
- MGR/Xela - Shipping Gold/Calling for Vanished Faces
- Isengrind/TwinSisterMoon/Natural Snow Buildings - The Snowbringer Cult
- ORCHESTRAMAXFIELDPARRISH - The Silent Breath of Emptiness
- Sic Alps - A long Way Around to a Shortcut
- Skullflower - Desire for a Holy War
- The Dead Science - Villainaire
- The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside
- Ulaan Khol - I
- Wooden Shjips - Vol. 1
- Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08
- Jay Reatard - Singles '06 - '07
- Fleet Foxes
- Cobra Verde - Haven't Slept All Year
- Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Continued
- Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel
- Crow Tongue - Ghost: Eye: Seeker
- Nadja - Desire in Uneasiness
- The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
- Portishead - Third
- Neil Young - Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968
- Valet - Naked Acid
- Christina Carter - Original Darkness
- Charalambides - Rose/Thorn
- Eat Skull - Sick to Death
- Naked on the Vague - Blood Pressure Sessions
Reissues
- Skullflower - IIIrd Gatekeeper
- Big Dipper - Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology
- Replacements - Let It Be
- Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash
- Flipper - Generic
- Flipper - Gone Fishin'
- Warren Zevon - s/t Collector's Edition
Roger Batty
- Riccardo Dillon Wanke - Caves
- Sand Snowman - The Twilight Game
- Justin Bennett - Wildlife
- Jasmina Maschina - The Demolition Series
- Pyha - The Haunted House
- Various Artists - Wilde Jaeger
- Sole and the Skyrider band - Self Titled
- Andrew Liles And Daniel Menche - The Progeny of Flies
- Shit & Shine - Küss Mich Meine Liebe
- Vetiver - Thing Of The Past
- Painting Petals On The Planet Ghost - Fallen Camellias
- Kevin Tomkins - Square Pegs for Round Holes
- Kylie Minoise - Fucking Loves You
- Death In June - The Rule Of Thirds
- Hoor-paar-Kraat & Fecalove - Dyonisus- Dyonisos
- Caïna - Temporary Antennae
- Nordvargr - Pyrrhula
- Un Festín Sagital - Epitafio a la Permanencia
- Mattias Petersson - Floodlight
- Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
- Thinguma*jigsaw - awakeinwhitechapel
- Lasse Marhaug & Anla Courtis - Jordslev Hojaldre
- Steve Howe - Motif Volume one
- Guapo - Elixirs
- Maja S.K. Ratkje - River Mouth Echoes
- Sissy Spacek - California Ax
- Tau Emerald - Travellers Two
- Septicflesh - Communion
- William Basinski + Richard Chartier - Untitled 1-3
- Demians - Building an empire
- Coffins - Buried Death
- Richard Pinhas + Merzbow - Keio Line
- Procer Veneficus - Saltwater & Glassmoon
- Hiroshi Hasegawa - Ascension no.999
- Striborg - Autumnal Melancholy
- Boduf songs - How Shadows Chase The Balance
- Down In June - Covers … Death In June
- Stefan Goldmann - The Trasitory State
- Oren Ambarchi & Z'ev - Spirit Transform Me
- Werkraum - Early Love Music
- The Hub - Boundary Layer
- Sharron Kraus - The Fox's Wedding
- Carl Michael Von Hausswolf - Perhaps I Arrive - Music For Atatürk Airport, Istanbul
- The Fighting Cocks - Music for lap dancers
- John Zorn - The Dreamers
- Huntsville - Eco,arches & Eras
- Whispers Of Wolves - Language of The Dards
- Coffins - Buried Death
- Kangding Ray - Automne Fold
- To blacken the pages - A Semblance of Something Appertaining to Destruction
Reissues
- Mort Garson & Jacques Wilson - The Wozard of Iz
- Derek Raymond, James Johnston & Terry Edwards - I Was Dora Suarez
- Contrastate - A Live Coal Under The Ashes
- Ennio Morricone - Teorema/La stagione dei sensi/Vergogna schifosi
- Christina Kubisch - Night Flights
Movies
- Cloverfield
- There will be Blood
- The Strangers
- The Changling
- Horton Hears a Who
- In Burges
- The Ruins
Nicholas Szczepanik
- Jason Crumer - Ottoman Black
- Scott Tuma - Not For Nobody
- Thoughts On Air - Deep Wood Society
- Celer - Discourses of the Withered
- Lau Nau - Nukkuu
- Brendan Murray - Commonwealth / Wonders Never Cease
- Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
- Women - Women
- Lorenzo Senni - Early Works
- Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
- Chessie - Manifest
Martijn Busink
- De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - De Machine
- Farmers Market - Surfin' USSR
- ﻳﺎﺭا - ﺇﻧﺖ ﻣﻨﹼﻲ
- John Zorn/Secret Chiefs 3 - Masada Book 2 - Book Of Angels, Volume 9: Xaphan
- Den Saakaldte - Øl, Mørke og Depresjon
- Eleanoora Rosenholm - Älä kysy kuolleilta, he sanoivat
- Virus - The Black Flux
- Trinacria - Travel Now Journey Infinitely
- Urfaust - Drei Rituale Jenseits des Kosmos
- Darkspace - Dark Space III
- Praxis - Profanation [Preparation for a Coming Darkness]
- The Advisory Circle - Other Channels
- Meshuggah - obZen
- Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
- Mats/Morgan Band - Heat Beats Live
- Paavoharju - Laulu laakson kukasta
- Portishead - Third
- Box - Studio 1
- John Zorn - The Crucible
- Richard Pinhas + Merzbow - Keio Line
- Nicholas Szczepanik - A Stillness Rarely Seen
- Auton - Any Where Out Of The World
- Cynic - Traced In Air
- Heltah Skeltah - D.I.R.T.
- Arkan - Hilal
10 excellent examples of old stuff that rocks:
- Michel Chion - Requiem
- Enore Zaffiri - Musica Per Un Anno
- Manouchehr - The Best Of…
- Ananda Shankar - Sā-Re-Gā Machān (+ India Remembers Elvis), 2001 and Missing You (+ A Musical Discovery of India)
- Funkadelic - Toys
- Mystifier - Baphometic Goat Worship
- Peste Noire - Mors Orbis Terrarum
- Various Artists - 1970’s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
- Various Artists - Rembetika 3: Vassilis Tsitsanis – 1936-1940, All the pre-war recordings of the most important figure in Greek Popular Music
- Ersen
5 excellent music dvd's
- The Pentagram - 1987
- Faxed Head - From Coalinga to Osaka: Live in Japan 1995
- Striborg - Journey Of A Misanthrope
- Van Oekel's Discohoek
- Morgan Ågren - Tourbook Live 1991-2007
5 excellent live shows
- Anekdoten Uden
- Secret Chiefs 3 Rotterdam
- Farmers Market Utrecht
- Cosa Brava Amsterdam
- Earth Eindhoven
N.S. Endebo
- Opeth - Watershed
- The Hub - Boundary Layer
- 1970’s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
- Portishead - Third
- John Zorn/Secret Chiefs 3 - Masada Book 2 - Book Of Angels, Volume 9: Xaphan
- Krisiun - Southern Storm
- Shadow Music of Thailand
- De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - De Machine
- Ed Motta - Chapter 9
- The Matthew Herbert Big Band - There's Me and There's You
- The Advisory Circle - Other Channels
- Paavoharju - Laulu laakson kukista
- Sir Victor Uwaifo - Guitar-Boy Superstar 1970-76
- Zombie Zombie - A Land for Renegades
- The Devil's Blood - Come, Reap
- Yoshie Fruchter - Pitom
- Bollywood Steel Guitar
- Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted (Baghdad 1925-1929)
- TV on the Radio - Dear Science
- John Zorn/Medeski, Martin & Wood - Masada Book 2 - Book Of Angels, Volume 11: Zaebos
- John Zorn - Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem
- John Zorn - The Crucible
- Virus - The Black Flux
- Eleanoora Rosenholm - Älä kysy kuolleilta, he sanoivat
- Bill Frisell - History, Mystery
- Nevermore - The Year of the Voyager
Disappointments
- Cynic - Traced in Air
- The Car Bomb split with Burnt by the Sun
- Judas Priest - Nostradamus (their weakest album to date!)
Best past releases only discovered this year
- Farid El Atrache - Rissala Men Emraa Majhoula
- Confusional Quartet - Confusional Quartet
- Ennio Morricone - Controfase
- Insiememusicadiversa
- Franco Evangelisti - Anthology
- Egberto Gismonti & Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra - Meeting Point
- Ejwuusl Wessahqqan
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