2009 Top Ten

Dieses Jahr haben wir erneut eine Auswahl an Kunden, Musikern, Weggefährten und Geschäftspartnern nach ihren persönlichen Tonträger Top Ten des Jahres 2009 gebeten.

For the second time we've asked friends, customers, musicians and partners to send us their personal 2009 top ten.

a-musik distribution top sales 2009

1. V.A. - Eastern Standard Time (Weltraum)
2. Henning Christiansen - Op.39 Fluxorum Organum (Eventuell)
3. Lehn / Schmickler - Navigation Im Hypertext (a-Musik)
4. Johanna Billing This Is How We Walk On The Moon (Apparent Extent)
5. Lehn / Schmickler - Kölner Kranz (a-Musik)
6. Paper Hats - Deseret Canyon (Apparent Extent)
7. Brillowska & Kubin - H.O.N.D. (a-Musik)
8. V.A. - Okkulte Stimmen - Mediale Musik. Recordings Of Unseen Intelligences 1905-2007 (supposé)
9. Notwist - Music For Sturm (Alien Transistor)
10. Francois De Roubaix - L'antarctique & Autres Seances Electroniques Rue De Courcelles (Wémè Records)
11. Byetone - Death Of A Typographer (Raster Noton)
12. Lawrence English - A Colour For Autumn (12k)
13. Terry Fox / John Cage - High Fidelity. Artists' Records In The Marzona Collection (Edition RZ)
14. Patric Catani / Chris Irmler / Jorinde Voigt - Lemniscate (LP) (sonig)
15. Giuseppe Ielasi - Aix (12k)

mondii (SPEKK)

::: favorite 7 albums + 1 music video from 2009 :::

1. "Gransofa + Nightingale" Fuqugi (PLOP)
2. "Ra Ra Speaks" Lucky Dragons (Moamoo)
3. "Toeachizown" Dam-Funk (Stones Throw)
4. "When Love" Gaby Hernandez (Armed Orphan)
5. "Seas Between" Corey Fuller (Dragon's Eye Recordings)
6. "Unbalance" 2562 (Tectonic)
7. "Japan Tour EP" Kyte (Rallye)

1. "Pico" Samurai Jazz (video clip by takcom) http://www.vimeo.com/6753639

DJ Elephant Power

Gremlinz / Terror Danjah (Planet Mu)
Born Like This/ Mf Doom (Lex Record)
1_4 Inc Solid State/ Joker (Kapsize)
Randy Barracuda (Flogsta Danshall)
Erola Alkan, Boys Noize/ Death Suite (Bzn Rec)
Trolley Snatcher/ Scattah (Dub Police Rec)
Jaybird/ Work Dat Box (Kraken)
Ramadanman/ Revenue (2nd Drop Music)
Steve Aoki/ Warp 1.9 (Dim Mak)
Quentin Hanon/ Demo 2009 (Unreleased)

Laurent Baudoux (Residence Baudoux)

1/ Baleine 3000: "Tour Manager E.P."
1/ Herrmutt Lobby + Non: "Hunter"
2/ James Pants: "All The Hits"
3/ Boredoms :"Super root 10"
4/ Francois de Roubaix: "L'antartique & autres seances électroniques rue de courcelles"
5/ Omar S - Fabric 45: "Detroit" (Fabric)
6/ Matias Aguayo: "Aye Aye Aye"
7/ Kode 9: "Black Sun"
8/ Efdemin Martyn: "Acid Bells"
9/ Cyprien: "Original Soundtrack"
10/ Altz: "Escape, The reconstruction Of Isophonic Boogie"

Fredrik Nedelmann (Stora)

Thunderheist - Thunderheist (Big Dada) (huch, 2008?)
Hunger - blau (hungermuzik)
Xberg Dhirty6 Cru - Die Reime Der Anderen (Sonig)
Kevin Blechdom - Gentlemania (sonig)
Perfect Vacuum - A Guide To The Music Of The 21st Century (Acidsoxx Musicks)
James Pants - All the Hits (Stones Throw)
Puyo Puyo - Disco (da! heard it records)
Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People, Lazers Do (Mad Decent)
Grasscut - High Down (Ninja Tune)
Basement Jaxx - Scars (XL Recordings)

Volker Zander (Apparent Extent)

2009 records:
Die Goldenen Zitronen "Die Enstehung der Nacht" (Buback)
Osorezan "Mimidokodesuka" (Drag City)
Caetano Veloso "Zii e Zie"
Dirty Projectors "Bitte Orca" (Domino)
Datashock and Shivers "Vol V" LP (Qbico)

2009 concerts (monthly order)
Karlheinz Stockhausen "Mixtur 2003" @ Musica Viva Festival, München
Audio Poverty @ Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Christian Jendreiko "Soft Skills" @ Nürnberger Kunstverein
Werni & Jendreiko @ kunstraum muenchen
Grace Jones @ Lowlands Festival
DJ Koze @ Lowlands Festival
La Monte Young @ Regenbogenstadl, Dream House Polling
Cornelius Cardew @ Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (incl. "The Great Learning", Ekkehard Ehlers, Horace und Walter Cardew "Ode Machines")
You Don't Love Me Yet @ Arnolfini, Bristol
Konzert zur Revolution @ Kammerspiele München
Die Goldenen Zitronen @ 59:1, München
Mary Halvorson Trio @ Stadtgarten, Köln

most favourite song: Nicky Hopkins "Waiting for the Band"

best clubs: Cafe OTO, London / FFUS, Stuttgart /Salon des Amateurs, Düsseldorf

Jo Zimmermann / Schlammpeitziger

1) Drrtyhaze - New York City Jacks (The Popular People's Front Dub) Ep
2) Bablas Disco Sensation - Old film hits with a new disco touch Lp
3) Rave Dogs - Why don't you dub (Rave Dogs edit) Ep
4) Soft Rocks - Leave your earth behind Ep
5) LCD Soundsystem Remixes - Prins Thomas Diskomiks Ep
6) Jackpot - Greased Lightning Ep
7) Moda - Retro/Grade Ep
8) Los Charly's Orchestra - Funkanova Ep
9) Roots Unit - Mabonda Ep
10) Frikstailers feat. Mc Maiquinho - To Com Sauade Ep
11) Timeblind - Backwardation Ep
12) Phokus, Mr Boogie, TKR - Big Up Ep

Michael Bollhöfer (Basspräsidium Records)

Cardopusher - Unity Means Power (Ad Noiseam)
Xberg Dhirty6 Cru - Die Reime Der Anderen (Sonig)
Buraka Som Sistema - Black Diamond (Fabric)
Shitmat - One Foot In The Rave (Planet Mu)
Istari Lasterfahrer - The System Works Because You Work (Sozialistischer Plattenbau)
Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People, Lazers Do (Mad Decent)
Mary Anne Hobbs - Wild Angels (Planet Mu)
Various Artists - Dub Echoes (Soul Jazz Records)
Curse Ov Dialect - Crisis Tales (Staubgold)
Various Artists - Forca Kuduro Ep (Flamin' Hotz)

Raphael Smarzoch

Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts [No Fun Productions]
AtomTM – Liedgut [Raster-Noton]
Xiphiidae - Equal Phesance [Housecraft Records]
Borah Bergman Trio - Luminescence [Tzadik]
Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy [Matador]
Ben Frost – By the Throat [Bedroom Communities]
Hecker – Acid in the Style of David Tudor [Editions Mego]
Warm Climate – Edible Homes [Stunned Records]
Phill Niblock – Touch Strings [Touch Records]
Yoga – Megafauna [Holy Mountain]
Im Jahrtal - Reprisen und Instrumentalstücke [Sloow Tapes]
Tu M' - Monochromes Vol.1 [Line]
Julian Lynch – Orange you Glad [Olde English Spelling Bee]
Omar-S – Just ask the Lonely (Reissue) [FXHE Records]

Obi Wan Bon Jovi / Micropupazzo

NEW:
Eleh - Homage to the Square Wave (Taiga)
Atom™ - Liedgut (Raster Noton)
Perfume - Budoukaaaaaaaaaan!!!!! (Tokuma)
Woolitchpangoon - せん (Okimi)
Maurizio Abate - Armonicum (Qbico)

OLD:
Claudio Rocchi - Suoni Di Frontiera (Die Schachtel)
Terry Fox - Labyrinth LP (Choose)
Eliane Radigue - Viceversa etc (Important)
Ø - Metri (Sähkö)
UBZUB - Alien Manna For Sleeping Monkeys (Electro Motive Records)

LIVE:
Oorutaichi, Group Doueh, J8Bit, ICP Orchestra, Maximillian I

Chandal

Beatbox Stylophone (Toy Drumm Machine, Dubreq)
Mopno - Dancehall (CD, Popbrebop)
Paper Hats - Deseret Canyon (LP, Apparent Extent)
Za - Macumba O Muerte (LP, Gandula)
Prince Rama Of Ayodhya - Architecture Of Utopia (CD, without label)
Solhorn - Himmelbjerg (LP, Solhorn/ Lille Kommune)
Gangpol Und Mit - Faits Divers (DVD, Pictoplasma)
Baleine 3000 - Tour Manager E.P. (12", sonig)
Uské Orchestra - Palpelpin (LP, sonig)
Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra - Take Off! (LP, Alien Transistor)

Petter Ottosson (Fang Bomb)

New or rediscovered 2009:

1. Kraftwerk - The Catalogue (Mute)
2. Chris & Cosey - Heartbeat (Rough Trade)
3. David Sylvian - Manafon (Samadhi Sound)
3. Atom™ Liedgut (Raster-Noton)
4. Current 93 - Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain (Coptic Cat)
5. DAF (live)
6. Russell Haswell - Wild Tracks (Editions Mego)
7. SND - Atavism (Raster-Noton)
8. Atom™ - Muster (Rather Interesting)
9. The Black Dog - We Are Sheffield EP (Soma)
10. Various Artists - Undergången - An Audio Companion To The End-Tymes (Fukk Tapes Lets Erase)

Tochnit Aleph

Patrick Kosk - Mondweiss CD (Edition RZ)
Consumer Electronics - Crowd Pleaser LP (Hand To Mouth)
Tomomi Adachi - Early Works & Live 1994-1996 CD (Edition Omega Point)
Raionbashi - In Teufel's Küche 10" (Absurd/Ignivomous)
Terry Fox - Labyrinth LP (Choose)
Hijokaidan - The Noise 30CD-Box (Alchemy)
Carlfriedrich Claus - Basale Sprechoperationsräume 2CD (Intermedium)
Josef Anton Riedl - Klangfiguren 2CD (Edition RZ)
Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock - Shaman-Rite / Anti-Concert Kyoto CD (Rumpsti Pumsti)
Henning Christiansen - Fluxorum Organum (Gelbe Musik/Eventuell)
Moniek Darge - Soundies CD (Kye)
Incapacitants - Box is Stupid 10CD-Box (Pica)
Luc Ferrari - L'Oeuve Electronique 10CD-Box (Ina GRM)

Felix Kubin

Top 10 Krankheiten 2009

1. Schweinegrippe
2. Schnupfen
3. Magengrippe
4. Schlafkrankheit
5. Allgemeine Verwirrung
6. Depression
7. ADHS
8. Hautrötungen
9. Alkhoholsucht
10. Schlechte Musik

Oliver Schulze (Herr Schulze)

Altes neu entdeckt:
1. John Fahey - REQUIA
2. Vaz - DEMONSTRATIONS IN MICRONESIA
3. Death - FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE
4. Dayglow Abortions - OUT OF THE WOMB
5. Electric Wizard - DOPETHRONE

Neues, neu entdeckt:
0. Rocko Schamoni - MEIN HASS
1. Shogun Kunitori - VINONA AMAKASIO
2. Pink Mountaintops - OUTSIDE LOVE
3. Xberg Dhirty6 Cru - DIE REIME DER ANDEREN
4. Antipop Consortium - FLUORESCENT BLACK

extra (weil eigentlich 2008) = Nomo - GHOST ROCK

Kai Winter

The Caretaker: Persistent repitition of phrases
King Midas Sound: Waiting for you
William Fowler Collins: Perdition Hill Radio
Maurizio Bianchi: Persecutionem
Blank Dogs: Under and Under
Kurt Vile: Childish Prodigy
Andrew Liles: Miscellany Deluxe
M Squared: Rare Recordings 1979 – 1983
Giancarlo... Toniutti: The early tapes Period
Oneohtrix Point Never: Rifts

Olaf Karnik

1. Broadcast & The Focus Group: Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (Warp)
2. King Midas Sound: Waiting For You (Hyperdub)
3. Edwards Williams: Life on Earth. Music From The 1979 BBC TV series (Trunk)
4. Various Artists: Dirty French Psychedelics (Born Bad)
5. The Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble: Drum Dance To The Motherland (Eremite)
6. Tortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
7. Various Artists: 5 Years of Hyperdub (Hyperdub)
8. Gary War: Horribles Parade (Sacred Bones)
9. Karl Blau: Zebra (K-Records)
10. Belbury Poly: From An Ancient Star (Ghost Box)

Frank Dommert (sonig/a-Musik)

New:
Shogun Kunitoki - Vinonaamakasio (Fonal)
Solhorn - Himmelbjerg (Solhorn)
Voks - Astar & Knyst (Dekorder)
Zomby - One Foot Ahead Of The Other EP (Ramp Recordings)
Soom-T - Dirty Money EP (Jahtari)

old:
Sun Ra - United World In Outer Space (Vinyl Lovers) + diverse other Sun Ra reissues on Norton, Doxy, Art Yard
Cha Cha Shaw - Kingdom Come (Kindred Spirits)
Francois De Roubaix - L'Antarctique (WeMe Records) / L'Homme Orchestra (Vadim Music LP)
The Esso Trinidad Steel Band - Van Dyke Parks Presents The Esso Trinidad Steel Band (Bananastan Records)
Henning Christiansen - Op. 39 Fluxorum Organum 2LP (Eventuell)

++ sonig stuff: Xberg Dhirty6 Cru - Die Reime Der Anderen / Kevin Blechdom - Gentlemania / Uske Orchestra - Palpelpin / The Allophons - Bow / Baleine 3000 - Tour Manager E.P.

++ Group Doueh, Oorutaichi live @ Stadtgarten, Köln

Wolfgang Brauneis (a-Musik/Eventuell)

Anderswo - 1991-1994 LP (tonschacht)
Andrew W.K. - 55 Cadillac LP (Ecstatic Peace)
Henning Christiansen - op.39 fluxorum organum 2LP (Eventuell)
Die Goldenen Zitronen - Die Entstehung der Nacht LP (Buback)
The Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble - Drum Dance to the Motherland LP (Em Records)
Bill Orcutt - A New Way to Pay Old Debts LP (Palilalia Records)
Propa Tingz feat. Dakini - Babylon's Scared 12" (Freakz of Nature)
Sonic Youth - The Eternal 2LP (Matador)
Xberg Dhirty6 Cru - Die Reime der Anderen CD (Sonig)
V.A. - Open Strings 4LP (Honest Jon's)

Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek)

1. Streifenjunko - No Longer burning (Sofa Music)
2. The Necks - Silverwater (Fish of Milk)
3. The Wooden Birds - Magnolia (Morr)
4. David Sylvian - Manafon (Samadhi Sound)
5. Nils Frahm - The Bells (Kning Disk)
6. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp)
7. Giuseppe Ielase - Aix (12K)
8. Danny Saul - Harsch, Final (White Box Recordings)
9. Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
10. Polwechsel & John Tilbury - Field (Hatology)