Best of 2011 [2011-12-21]2011 has been another great year for music & sound in all it’s many genres. Below you’ll find a list of releases that really meant something to our writers over the last 12 months. Roger Batty(site owner,editor, reviewer & article writer) 1:The Sandman Wears A Mask - Zel [Slow Death Records] 2:Vomir - Maisonbruitarchive (cdr boxset) [Victimology Records] 3:Lungwash - Wonded Oak(Infinity series Part 12) [Sweet Solitude] 4:Steve Roach - Quiet Music [Projekt] 5:Kenneth Kirschner - Twenty Ten [12K] 6:Various Artists - Oak Folk [Ahnstern] 7:Bahimiron - Rebel Hymns of Left Handed Terror [Moribund] 8:Boar - Family Meeting [Zvukovina] 9:Tromba - Torrential-(Infinity series part 3) [Sweet Solitude] 10:A View From Nihil - The Eternal Present (Infinity series Part 8) [Sweet Solitude] 11:Ghost - Untitled [Slow Death Records] 12:Å-Toute Une Histoire [Victimology Records] 13:The Rita - The Rack [Handmade Birds] 14:Merzbow - Kamadhenu [Hypnagogia] 15: Sleep Of Ages - Sword and Sandals [Bored Bear Recordings] 16:Gluttoness - Smothering Hopes & Crushing Dreams [Toxic Industries/Irritant Series] 17: Bördel Noïr - Elle est morte, elle est pourrie [Slow Death Records] 18:Moon - Caduceus Chalice [Moribund Records] 19:Concrete Threat - Young Blood [self release] 20:Love Katy - Rainbow Haired Starlet [Toxic Industries/Irritant Series] 21:Werewolf Jerusalem - Spiral (Dedicated To Chop Shop) [Bored Bear Recordings] 22:Crass - Penis Envy [Crass Records/ Southern Records] 23:The Fall - Ersatz GB [Cherry Red Records] 24:Dead Body Collection - I Slice Her Body, over and Over.... [Jersey Flesh] 25:Vomir - Attache À Ton Esprit Un Éternel Bourreau [Urashima] 26:Various Artists - This May be My Last Time Singing [Tompkins Square] 27:Jozef Van Wissem - The Joy That Never Ends [Important Records] 28:Gomeisa - Treatise [Phage Tapes] 29:Sleep - Untitled [Inactivist Recordings} 30:Bones - Untitled [Slow Death] Russell Cuzner (review & article writer) 1 Afro Noise I: Cut Hands (Very Friendly / Susan Lawly) 2 Unreleased?: FIRE! with Jim O'Rourke (Rune Grammofon) 3 HoneySuckle Æons: Current 93 (Coptic Cat) 4 Nicht: Peterlicker (Editions Mego) 5 Orgasm Mix: Nurse With Wound (no label) 6 Here Is Where We Used To Sing: Fovea Hex (Janet Records) 7 Dinoflaggelate Blooms: Manorexia (Ectopic Ents.) 8 Big Shadow Montana: BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa (Helen Scarsdale Agency) 9 En Form For Blå: Æthenor (VHF Records) 10 26000: Angel (Editions Mego) 11 Biutiful/Almost Biutiful Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Gustavo Santaolalla (Relativity Music Group) 12 In a Flash Everything Comes Together As One There Is No Need For A Subject: Keiji Haino / Jim O'Rourke / Oren Ambarchi (Black Truffle) 13 Orgonosis #4: irr. app. (ext.) (Errata In Excelsis) 14 Fortress Longing: The Internal Campaign For The Safe And Complete Return Of The Sleeping Egyptian To The Desert: Human Greed (Omnempathy / ICR) 15 A Tasty Swarm of Small Signals: James Webb / Lawrence English / Francisco López / Asmus Tietchens / Louis Dufort / Alan Courtis / Zbigniew Karkowski (Störung) 16 Black Sun: Kode9 & The Spaceape (Hyperdub) 17 3 Improvisations: Amal Gamal Ensemble (uZu Music) 18 Super Great Love: Evil Madness (Editions Mego) 19 Regifted Light: Baby Dee (Drag City) 20 Dortwytch: Alexander Tucker (Thrill Jockey) 21 Green and Grey: Julia Kent (Important Records) 22 The Haxan Cloak: The Haxan Cloak (Aurora Borealis) 23 Ravedeath, 1972: Tim Hecker (Kranky) 24 The Hands of the Dancer / The Temple of the Dreamer: Freida Abtan (Finite State) 25 The Satyr's Play / Cerberus: John Zorn (Tzadik) 26 Deadman: Shackleton (Honest Jon's Records) 27 Marking Time: Richard Skelton (Preservation) 28 Wonderland: Black Chow (Jahtari) 29 Seven Stars: Fennesz (Touch) 30 Cubist Reggae: Venetian Snares (Planet Mu)
Duncan Simpson(review & article writer) 1:Blood Orange – Coastal Grooves 2:Peaking Lights - 936 3:Roly Porter – Afterlife 4:Current 93 – Honeysuckle Aeons 5:Blue Daisy – The Sunday Gift 6:Clams Casino – Rainforest 7:Deaf Center – Owl Splinters 8:Ford and Lopatin – Channel Pressure 9:Grimes and D’Eon – Darkbloom 10:Holy Other – With U 11:Johann Johannsson – The Miners Hymn 12:Kaboom Karavan – Barra Barra 13:Leyland Kirby – Eagre to Tear Apart the Stars 14:Moon Wiring Club – Somewhere a Fox is Getting Married 15:Rene Hell – The Terminal Symphony 16:The Haxan Cloak – The Haxan Cloak 17:Water Borders – Harbored Mantras 18:Zomby – Dedication 19:Zola Jesus – Conatus 20:Chelsea Wolfe – Apocalypsis 21:Chrysta Bell – This Train 22:David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time 23:Explosions In the Sky – Take care take care Take care 24:Svarte Greiner and Le Corbeau –Split LP 25:Hype Williams – One Nations 26:Perc- Wicker and Steel 27:Julia Holter – Tragedy 28:Venetian Snares – Cubist Reggae 29:Sleep-Over – Forever 30:Burial – Street Halo
Josh Landry(review & article writer) 1. Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction 2. Panda Bear - Tomboy 3. Psykovsky - Na Ve Ka 4. Devin Townsend Project - Ghost 5. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax (Hypersleep Dialogues) 6. Ocelot - Style Is Not A Style 7. Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance 8. Protest the Hero - Scurrilous 9. Cynic - Carbon-Based Anatomy 10. The Thirteenth Assembly - Station Direct 11. Radiohead - The King of Limbs 12. Mastodon - The Hunter 13. Dark Buddha Rising - Abyssolute Transfinite 14. Blood Box - Funeral In An Empty Room 15. Leviathan - True Traitor, True Whore 16. Polyphonia - Beyond the Ocean of Time 17. Ott - Mir 18. Foxdye - Monsters of Meme 19. Venetian Snares - Cubist Reggae 20. Machine Drum - Room(s) 21. Various Artists (Real Vision Music) - Weird Worlds 22. Brutal Truth - End Time 23. Biosphere - N-Plants 24. Fennesz - Seven Stars 25. Biomass - Energy 26. Crank Sturgeon - Mashacoustic 27. A Guide for Reason - VII - VIII 28. Current 93 - Honeysuckle Aeons 29. Krisiun - The Great Execution 30. Steve Roach - Immersion Five: Circadian Rhythms Viktorya Kaufholz( review & article writer) 1:Aosoth- III 2:Blut Aus Nord-777 The Desanctification 3:Aun- Phantom Ghost 4:Uvesen- Self Titled 5:Locrian- The Clearing 6:Leszek Mozdzer- Komeda 7:Ascension-Consolamenteum 8:Cultus Sabbati- Descent Into The Maelstrom 9:Master Musicians of Bukkake- Totem Three 10:Envenomist- Bound Dominions 11: Indian- Guiltless 12: Forgotten Tomb-Under Saturn Retrograde 13: Current 93- Honeysuckle Aeons 14: Taake- Noregs Vaapen 15:Mitochondrion- Parasignosis 16: Plaga- Pozenracze Slonc 17:In Solitude-The World, The Flesh, The Devil 18: Mournful Congregation- The Book of Kings 19:Emme Ya- Atavistic Dreams and Phallic Totems 20:Kourosh Yaghaemi- Back from the Brink 21:Arms + Sleepers- The Organ Hearts 22:Midnight- Satanic Royalty 23:Sungrazer-Mirador 24:Kyle Bobby Dunn- Ways of Meaning 25: Mika Vainio- Life(It Eats You Up) 26:Joe Henry-Reverie 27:Orchid- Capricorn 28:Saturnalia Temple- Aion of Drakon 29:COH-IIRON 30:Hauschka- Salon des Amateurs Martin P(Review Writer) 1:Various - Brass Pins And Match Heads: International 78s compilation (Mississippi Records) 2:Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit (Nostalgia Blackrain) 3:Various - Fanafody: A Collection Of Recordings And Photography From Madagasikara, Volume II (Mississippi Records) 4:Fred McDowell - The Alan Lomax Recordings (Mississippi Records) 5:Deepkiss720/Dogeeseseegod - Mixdown Muscle Beach (Animal Image Search) 6:Chefkirk - Pure Natural Abstract Radiance (Twilight Luggage) 7:The 8th House - s/t (Spider Tapes) 8: Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest (Acony Records) 9:Low - C'mon (Sub Pop) 10:Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion (Slumberland Records/Fortuna Pop!) 11:Tyler the Creator - Goblin (XL Recordings) 12:I'm Being Good - Mountain Language (Gringo Records) 13:Richard Ramirez Subscription Series (Bored Bear) 14:Ghost - Wash My Soul (Okto Media) 15:The Sandman Wears A Mask - IV (Coffin Birth) 16:Orchestre Rail-Band De Bamako - Orchestre Rail-Band De Bamako (Mississippi Records) 17:Carrion Black Pit - Anatomy Studies (Sweet Solitude) 18:Various - To What Strange Place : The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929 (Tompkins Square) 19:Blood Stereo - The Trachelin Huntiegowk (Tadpole Records/Chocolate Monk) 20:Gluttoness - Crunch (self-released) 21:[Untitled] - II (Sweet Solitude) 22:Thee Cormans - Halloween Record W/Sound Effects (In The Red) 23:Death Grips - Ex-Military (Third Worlds) 24:Opika Pende: Africa At 78RPM (Dust To Digital) 25:Bordel Noir - Hors (AnarchoFreakProduction) 26:Vargwulf - Elite (Breaching Static) 27:A View From Nihil - Primordial Sea (Void Seance) 28:Vomir - Application À Aphistemi (Maisonbruit) 29:The Skull Defekts - Peer Amid (Thrill Jockey) 30:Louis and Bebe Barron - Forbidden Planet Soundtrack (Poppydisc/Rev-Ola) Nicola Vinciguerra(review writer) 1:Encephalophonic - Metal Obsession C62 (Steel Sadist Rebirth, U.S.A.) 2:Roro Perrot - Exécution Des Hautes Oeuvres CD (Premier Sang, France) 3:V.A. - White Eye Of Winter Watching (Hospital Productions, U.S.A.) 4:Vidine Ramybé/Vomir split tape (Terror, Lithuania) 5:Shift - Scorched Earth/Walk Alone 10" (Unsound Recordings, U.K.) 6:Alexander Rocciasana - Adolescenza/Campioni Del Mondo 7" (A.R. Software Labels Undergronund, Italy) 7:Japanese Torture Comedy Hour - The 24 Hour Japanese Torture Comedy Marathon mp3 (Grindcore Karaoke, U.S.A.) 8:Morte Incandescente - Relembrando Um Tumulo Esquecido (WTC Productions, Germany) 9:Pain Jerk & John Wiese - Vague Maze 7" (A Dear Girl Called Wendy, Italy) Various
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