Cherrypicking

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

1. Allerseelen - Hallstatt
   
2. EarthMonkey - Be That Change
   
3. Gowns - Red State
   
4. Mouthus - Follow this House
   
5. Starving Weirdos - Shrine Of The Post-Hypnotic
   
6. The Skull Defekts - SKKULL
   
7. Akercocke - Antichrist
   
8. Blood of the black owl - s/t
   
9. Supersilent - 8
   
10. Deathspell Omega - FAS - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
    
11. Wolf Eyes - Black Wing Over The Sand
    
12. The Thing - Action Jazz
    
13. The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
    
14. Merzbow - Coma Berenices
    
15. Procer Veneficus - GhostVoices
    
16. Aluk Todolo - Descension
    
17. Type O Negative - Dead again
    
18. Turner Cody - Buds of May
    
19. Caïna - Mourner
    
20. Samamidon - All is Well
    
21. Efterklang - Parades
    
22. EKG & Giuseppe IeIasi - Group
    
23. múm - Go Go Smear Poison Ivy
    
24. Vulcanus 68 - s/t
    
25. Hans Appelqvist - Sifantin Och Mörkret
    
26. Signal - Robotron
    
27. v/a - John Barleycorn Reborn
    
28. Non Ethos - Sky Asfalt
    
29. Pope Joanna - Divinity Corrupter
    
30. Angels Of Light - We Are Him
    
31. Helios - Ayres
    
32. Pumice - Pebbles
    
33. Robert Vincs - Devic Kingdom
    
34. Rst - Axes
    
35. (r) - In Pink
    
36. Mansbestfriend - Poly.Sci.187
    
37. Yellow Swans - At all ends
    
38. Signal Quintet - Yamaguchi
    
39. Takeshi Nishimoto - Monologue
    
40. Mama Bär + Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck - Il Portale
    
41. v/a - Radio Rivendell Compilation
    
42. Whitehouse - Racket
    
43. Goon Moon - Lickers Last Leg
    
44. Zelienople - His/Hers
    
45. Sleep Research Facility - Deep Frieze
    
46. John Wiese - Soft Punk
    
47. Acid Mothers Temple - Crystal Rainbow Pyramid under the Stars
    
48. Lietterschpinch - I cum Blood in the think tank
    
49. Lichens - Omns
    
50. Tarab - Wind keeps even Dust Away
    
51. Fecalove - Erection
    
52. Nick Grey - Candlelight Eyes Ep
    
53. Elegi - Sistereis
    
54. Government Alpha - Venomous Cumulus Cloud
    
55. Porn Sword Tobacco - New Exclusive Olympic Heights
    
56. Smegma - 33 1/3
    
57. Cloaks - A Crystal Skull in Peru
    
58. Merzbow - Merzbear
    
59. Aural Holograms - Vol 1
    
60. KK Null - Fertile
    
61. Religious Knives - Remains
    
62. Parry/søegaard - Off the Map
    
63. Rameses III - Honey Rose Ep
    
64. Mike Tamburo - Dance Enis Dance
    
65. Gudrun Gut - I Put A record on
    
66. Tigertailz - Thrill Pistol
    
67. Wold - Screech Owl
    
68. Stars of The Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
    
69. Lasse Marhaug - The Great Silence
    
70. Christmas Decorations - Communal Rust
    
71. Reuber - Südpol
    
72. Fuckhead - Lebensfrische DVD
    
73. Ensepulchred - The Night Our Rituals Blackened The Stars
    
74. Death Unit - Infinite Death
    
75. Carlos Giffoni - Arrogrance
    
76. Maher Shalal Hash Baz - L'Autre Cap
    
77. Cloama & Blutleuchtel - From Wasteland Mausoleums
    
78. My Cat is An Alien - Leave me in a black no-thing
    
79. .6 Comm - Headless
    
80. Herr - Fire And Glass: A Norwood Tragedy
    
81. Rapoon - Time Frost
    
82. Demons - Evocation

Reissues

1. Lasse Marhaug - Tapes 1990-1999
   
2. Sturmpercht - Stürm Ins Leben Wild Hinein
   
3. Pauline Oliveros - Accordion & voice
   
4. Ju Suk Reet Meate - Solo 78/79
   
5. Sabbat - Dreamweaver
   
6. Nora Orlandi - Il dolce corpo di Deborah (The Sweet Body of Debora
   
7. Current 93 - The Inmost Light
   
8. Lisa Gerrard - The best of Lisa Gerrard
   
9. Napalm Death - Scum
   
10. Zweistein - Trip - Flip Out – Meditation

Movies

1. Mr. Brooks
   
2. Zodiac
   
3. Vacancy
   
4. This is England
   
5. The Darjeeling Limited
   
6. Halloween
   
7. Enchanted

Martijn Busink

Albums

1. Deathspell Omega - FAS - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
   
2. Eyvind Kang - Athlantis and The Yelm Sessions
   
3. John Zorn - Six Litanies For Heliogabalus
   
4. Peste Noire - FolkFuck Folie
   
5. Supersilent - 8
   
6. Igor Krutogolov - White
   
7. Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
   
8. Extince - Toch?
   
9. Cilvaringz - I
   
10. Pram - The Moving Frontier
    
11. Toshiji Mikawa - Gyo-Kai Elegy
    
12. Shining - V: Halmstad (Niklas Angående Niklas)
    
13. Nekropsi - Nekropsi
    
14. Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
    
15. Portal - Outre'
    
16. v/a - Thai Pop Spectacular (1960's-1980's)
    
17. Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
    
18. Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
    
19. Paysage D'Hiver - Einsamkeit
    
20. Dødheimsgard - Supervillain Outcast
    
21. Worship - Dooom
    
22. Omar Souleyman - Highway To Hassake (Music of Syria)
    
23. Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
    
24. Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez (Music Of Niger)
    
25. Sticks & Delic - Fakkelteit
    
26. v/a - Waking up Scheherazade (Arabian Garage Psych Nuggets from The 60's and Early 70's)
    
27. Wold - Screech Owl
    
28. Om - Pilgrimage
    
29. Buckethead - Pepper's Ghost and Decoding The Tomb Of Bansheebot
    
30. Robert Fripp - At The End Of Time: Churchscapes - Live In England & Estonia, 2006
    
31. Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia
    
32. Saralunden.Björkås.Mjös - Dubious
    
33. James Plotkin - Indirmek
    
34. v/a - The Roots Of Chicha, Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru
    
35. Susanna - Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos
    
36. Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams
    
37. Göksel - Ay'da Yürüdüm
    
38. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
    
39. Duvelduvel - Puur Kultuur
    
40. 10 - UFO
    
41. Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.
    
42. Camp Lo - Black Hollywood
    
43. Pau Torres - Hostile
    
44. Toni Iordache - Sounds From A Bygone Age Vol. 4
    
45. 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

1. The Films Of Alejandro Jodorowsky: Fando y Lis, El Topo & The Holy Mountain
   
2. Wim T. Schippers' Televisie Praktijken: De Fred Haché Show
   
3. Şebnem Ferah - 10 Mart 2007, İstanbul Konseri
   
4. Estradasphere - The Palace Of Mirrors
   
5. Every Mondo Macabro-released movie I've seen