a-musik: 2012-12

at the end of 2012 we have once again asked friends and colleagues of ours for their top ten releases of the past year.

Till Kniola (Auf Abwegen):

Pauline Oliveros - Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 12xCD
Box (Important)
Fushitsusha - live@stadtgarten, koeln (Konzert)
Jo Thomas - Nature Of Habit CD (Entr'acte)
Colin Potter - Ancient History CD Box (UMP)
Cat Power - Sun 2xlp (Matador)
Asmus Tietchens/Rolf Zander - Tarpenbek CD-Box (aufabwegen)
Don Preston - Filters, Oscillators & Envelopes 1967-82 LP (Sub Rosa)
Robert Hampson - live@zkm, karlsruhe (Konzert)
Thomas Köner - Novaya Zemlya CD (Touch)
Stephen Cornford - Binatone Galaxy CD (senufo editions)

Ed Benndorf (Dense Promotion):

LP
Anna Clyne - Blue Moth, Tzadik
Hecker - Chimerization, Editions Mego
Kane Ikin - Sublunar, 12k
Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien, ReGRM
Merzbow - Lowest Music & Arts, Vinyl on Demand
Nicolas Bernier - Travaux Mécaniques, Empreintes Digitales
P16.D4 - Passagen, Monotype
The Slaves - Ocean on Ocean, Helen Scarsdale
Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman, Planet Mu
ZZ Top - La Futura, American

Track
Anne-James Chaton & Andy Moor - Inbound/Outbound Metro, Unsounds
Anthea Caddy & Thembi Soddell - Dissembling, Room40
Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - 9, Hyperdub
Dinosaur Jr. - Don't Pretend You didn't Know , PIAS
Egyptology - Orbis Part 3: Terraforming, Clapping Music
Kangding Ray - North, Raster-Noton
Kevin Drumm - Relief: Untitled 1, Editions Mego
Morgan Zarate - Broken Heart Collector, Hyperdub
Woodpecker Wooliams - Sparrow, Robot Elephant
Young Smoke - Space Zone, Planet Mu

Sun OK papi K.O. (Ordi_Beurk):

1-Palet Chalet LP, Pneu
2-Ruff Sqwad - White Label Classics (2012)
3-DJ Stingray "F.T.N.W.O.", WeMe313.9
4-Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland "Black Is Beautiful", Hyperdub
5-L.E.G "6.3.7", Angstrom
6-Ssaliva "Sync Thrills", Vlek
7-Dump "NYC Tonight" Shintaro Sakamoto version, Presspop
8-Secret Circuit "Tropical Psychedelics" Emotional Response
9-Young Marco "Video days" + "Monono" ESP institutes
10-Crue-l Grand Orchestra vs. Seahawks "Bon Voyage Trip" Crue-l

Olaf Karnik (Universität Paderborn):

Top 10 2012: Neuerscheinungen

Noch nie so viele Neuerscheinungen nach einigen Wochen wieder verkauft wie dieses Jahr... Hier 10 Platten, die aus unterschiedlichsten Gründen blieben:

Laurel Halo: Quarantine (Hyperdub)
Der irritierende Ruf des Neuen im Dschungel des Dagewesenen.

Lana Del Reye: Born To Die (Polydor)
Wie man die 60er in den 80ern aus den Nullern kennt und ihnen heute nachlebt.

Scott Walker: Bish Bosch (4 AD)
Führe den Mut an, Gecko der Zumuttung!

Bob Dylan: Tempest (Columbia)
In fine form.

Belbury Poly: The Belbury Tales (Ghost Box)
Nicht mehr soo hip, dafür umso poppiger.

Shackleton: The Drawbar Organ Pts. 1, 2, 3 (Woe To The Septic Heart!)
Der Irrsinn geht weiter und weiter und weiter....

John Foxx & The Maths: The Shape Of Things (Metamatic)
In fine form.

Moon Wiring Club: Today Bread, Tomorrow Secrets (Gecophonic)
Die Vinyl-Version verzichtet auf Beats zugunsten von geisternden Echos.

Raime: Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
Wahrscheinlich gut...

Greg Foat Group: Girl And Robot With Flowers (Jazzman)
Cinematischer 70er Jazz, wie es ihn so nicht gegeben hat.

Top 10 2012: Re-Issues

Egisto Macchi: Il Futuribile (The Roundtable)
Egisto Macchi: Voix (The Roundtable)
Zwei sensationelle Library-Platten der 70er aus Italien, deren Zukunftspotential sich erst jetzt entfaltet: deep, abstrakt, auskomponiert.

Gareth Williams & Mary Currie: Flaming Tunes (Blackest Ever Black)
Flaming tunes, indeed: damals nur als Cassette, heute ein König.

Can: The Lost Tapes (Mute/Spoon)
Etwas weniger wäre mehr gewesen, dennoch: unschlagbare Momente!

Laurie Spiegel: The Expanding Universe (Unseen Worlds)
Synth!, go home. Es kann nicht schaden, wenn man komponieren kann.

Lee Hazlewood: The LHI Years. Singles, Nudes & Backsides (Light In The Attic)
Cheesy und deep, bitter und süß, toll und daneben.

Dariush Dolat-Shahi: Electronic Music, Tar and Sehtar (Dead-Cert)
Elektronische Musik wie man sie tatsächlich noch nicht gehört hat.

Andrzej Korzynski: Possession O.S.T. (Finders Keepers)
Tolle Ausgrabung – und besser als der ewig überschätzte John Carpenter.

Scientist: Introducing Scientist – The Best Dub Album In The World (Important)
Na ja, nicht ganz, aber schon sehr gut...

V. A. : Electric Eden. Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music (Universal)
Die Musik zu Rob Youngs Buch über Brit Folk und stellvertretend für alle Various Artists Compilations.

get happy!? editorial staff (get happy!?):

01. NENEH CHERRY & THE THING - The Cherry Thing
02. SIMON JOYNER – Ghosts
03. KENDRICK LAMAR - Good Kid, M.A.A.d City
04. ANGEL OLSEN - Half Way Home
05. BLACK MOTOR – Jumehniemi
06. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Centipede Hz
07. SCOTT WALKER - Bish Bosch
08. STEPHANIE HLADOWSKI & C. JOYNES – The Wild Wild Berry…
09. BETH ORTON - Sugaring Season
10. BOB DYLAN – Tempest

Jonas Engelmann (Ventil Verlag/testcard):

Selvhenter: Frk. B. Fricka (Eget Vaerelse)
Swans: The Seer (Young God)
Jandek: Maze of the Phantom (Corwood Industries)
U.S. Girls: Gem (Fat Cat)
Kruzenshtern & Parohod: Hidden Album (Auris Media)
THEESatisfacion: Awe Natura (Sub Pop)
EA80: Definitiv Nein! (Slowboy)
Les Trucs: The Musical (Knertz/Zeitstrafe)
Phoebe Kreutz: The Age of Reasonableness (Eigenlabel)
Alte Zachen: Total Gimel (Lado ABC)

Raphael Smarzoch (WDR):

Arca – Stretch 2 [UNO NYC]
Holly Herndon – Movement [RVNG Intl.]
Jeremih – Late Nights with Jeremih [mixtape]
Holy Other – Held [Tri Angle]
E+ETM – Promise and Nativity Mixtapes [mixtape]
Dubbel Dutch – Slow Club Mix [mixtape]
Jam City – Classical Curves [Night Slugs]
Carly Rae Jepsen – Kiss [Interscope]
Le1f – Dark York [mixtape]
ISSUE – Sippin on that Viper Tea (CEX Remix) [http://youtu.be/v_uWgJu5LlY]
Chief Keef – Back from the Dead [mixtape]
Mykki Blanco – Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Princess [mixtape]
Triad God – NXB [Hippos in Tanks]
Fatima Al Qadiri – Desert Strike EP [Fade to Mind]
RiFF RaFF – Hologram Panda [mixtape]
Kitty Pryde – Okay Cupid [http://youtu.be/3SDYus7iKC8]
Grimes – Visions [4AD]
Eli Keszler – Catchin Net [PAN]

Thorsten Lütz (Karaoke Kalk):

01. Mash - Style Is The Answer (Glasgow Underground)
01. Le Rok - Lover & Friend (Kalk Pets)
01. Zoovox - Summer Madness
01. J Velez - MMT Tapes 4
01. Mark E - Oranges (Spectral Sound)
01. Frack - Börft EP
01. Andrew Ashong - Flowers (Sound Signature)
01. Tolouse Low Trax - Jeidem Fall (Karaoke Kalk)
01. Will Samson - Balance (Karaoke Kalk)
01. Clark - Iradelphic (Warp)

Hans-Jürgen Hafner (Kunstverein Düsseldorf):

Vinyl

- Romare – Meditations on Afrocentrism (Black Acre)
- Gerry Read – 90’s Prostitution Racket (White Label)
- Marcellis – Workshop 16 (Workshop)
- Burial – The Kindred E. P. (Hyperdub)
- Gerry Read – Yeh Come Dance (Delsin)
- Tim Toh – He’s A Dancer (Philpot)
- Container – selfitled (Spectrum Spools)
- James Mason – I Want Your Love (Rush Hour)
- James Blake – Love What Happened Here (R & S)
- Max D – Orgies of the Hemp Eaters (Future Times)

Papier

- Moritz Wullen e. a. (Hg.): Von mehr als einer Welt. Die Künste der Aufklärung
- Manfred Hermes: Deutschland hysterisieren. Fassbinder, Alexanderplatz
- Ed Sanders: Fug You. An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side
- Giorgio Agamben: Der Mensch ohne Inhalt
- Benjamin Noys: The Persistence of the Negative. A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory
- Michael Krebber/Sebastian Höckelmann: Jack Smith Antonius Höckelmann
- Jörg Trempler: Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Baumeister Preußens
- Christian Marazzi: Sozialismus des Kapitals
- Branden W. Joseph: The Roh and the Cooked. Tony Conrad and Beverly Grant in Europe.
- Thierry de Duve: Sewn in the Sweatshop of Marx. Beuys, Wahol, Klein, Duchamp

Ereignis

- Von mehr als einer Welt. Die Künste der Aufklärung, Ausstellung (Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, Berlin)
- Henry Flynt: Activities 1959-, Ausstellung (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf)
- Yvonne Rainer: Spiraling Down & Assisted Living: Good Sports 2, Choreographie (Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf)
- Kim Ki-Duk: Pieta (Südkorea, 2012)
- Monika Baer: Return of the Rear, Ausstellung (Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin)
- Claudia Kugler: 2012 und Höchste Auflösung, Ausstellungen (Max Mayer, Düsseldorf, und Galerie Sima, Nürnberg)
- Josephine Pryde: Miss Austen Enjoys Photography. und Miss Austen Still Enjoys Photography., Ausstellungen (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf und Kunsthalle Bern)
- Henry Flynt/Cathrine Christer Hennix: The General Situation, öffentliches Gespräch (Museum Ludwig, Köln)
- Happenings: New York, 1958-1963, Ausstellung (Pace Gallery, New York)
- Leos Carax: Holy Motors (Frankreich, 2012)

Holger Adam (Phantom Limbo/testcard):

1.    Pelt – Effigy (MIE, 2LP)
2.    Swans – The Seer (Young God, 3LP)
3.    Brothers Unconnected – Unrock The House (Unrock, 2LP)
4.    Mirroring – Foreign Body (Kranky, LP)
5.    Gunn-Truscinski Duo – Ocean Parkway (Three Lobed, LP)
6.    Aine O'Dwyer - Music For Church Cleaners (Fort Evil Fruit, Tape)
7.    Annelise Monseré – Nest (Morc, 10“)
8.    Aaron Dilloway/Jason Lescalleet – Grapes & Snakes (PAN, LP)
9.    Chrome Cranks – Ain’t No Lies In Blood (Bang, LP)
10.    Black To Comm – Earth (De Stijl, LP)

Dominic Cramp (Gigante Sound):

Quit Your Unnatural Ways - Ava Mendoza with Nick Tamburro
Organ Monk: Uwo in the Black - Greg Lewis
Channel Orange - Frank Ocean
Pleated Shorts - Blanketship
Trust A Robot - Exray's
V/A - Kutmah presents Wordwide Family Vol.2
Comenzará de Nuevo - Como Asesinar a Felipes
Elemental - Demdike Stare
The Ship - Andrea Serrapiglio
The Seer - Swans

Jared Blum (Gigante Sound):

S/T- Lord Tang
City of Quartz--House of Hayduk
Breakup Songs -Deerhoof
Expanded Universe Reissue- Laurie Spiegel
Instrumental Tourist-Tim Hecker & Daneil Lopatin
Pro Habitat- Hnnu-
The Shaker Precedes The Pig-Thomas Carnacki
情報デスクVIRTUAL 札幌コンテンポラリ
Discipline -40th Anniversary Edition -King Crimson
V/A- Fire Star: Synth-Pop & Electro-Funk From Tamil Films 1985 to 1989

Tommy McCutchon (Unseen Worlds):

Top reissues

Don Cherry, Organic Music Society (Caprice)
Thomas Köner, Biokinetics (Type)
Mad Music Inc., Mad Music (Yoga/Drag City)
Pauline Oliveros, Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (Important)
Maggi Payne, Ahh-Ahh - Music For Ed Tannenbaum's Technological Feets, 1984-1987 (Root Strata)
Jean Piche, Heliograms (Digitalis)
Claudio Rocchi, Mirage (Psych-Out)
Jim O’Rourke, Old News 7-8 (Old News)
SEMA, Time Will Say Nothing (Vinyl On Demand)
Pete Shelley, Sky Yen (Drag City, very late 2011)
David Rosenboom, Roundup Two / In the Beginning (Art Into Life / New World)

Top new

Mac DeMarco, 2 (Captured Tracks)
Fenn O'Berg, In Hell (Editions Mego)
Grimes, Visions (4AD)
If, Bwana / Trio Scordatura, E (and Sometimes Why) (Pogus)
In Camera, Frampton Comes Alive (La Scie Dorée)
Jessica Pratt, s/t (Birth)
Ty Segal / White Fence, Hair (Drag City)
Nicholas Szczepanik, We Make Life Sad (WéMè Records)
V/A, Cold Blue Two (Cold Blue)
Nate Wooley, The Almond (Pogus, late 2011)

Michael Bollhöfer (a-musik/Basspräsidium):

1. Mülheim Asozial – 51063 Asozial 7" (Beats aussem Büdchen)
2. Autistikits – Things Spinx K7 (101.io)
2. Death Grips – The Money Store LP (Epic)
2. Doris Norton – Raptus LP (Black Widow)
2. Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation LP (Finders Keepers)
2. Zomby – Where were you in '92 LP (Cargo)
2. Laurel Halo – Antenna K7 (NNA Tapes)
2. Can – The Lost Tapes 5LP (Spoon)
2. The Eccentronic Research – 1612 Underture LP (Bird Records)
2. Nelson Gastaldi – Symphony No.3 Siddhartha Gautamo o el Podere de la nada LP (Roaratorio)

Joachim Nordwall (The Skull Defekts/Ideal Recordings):

1. AARON DILLOWAY "MODERN JESTER" (HANSON RECORDS) 2XLP
2. ANDY STOTT "LUXURY PROBLEMS" (MODERN LOVE) 2XLP
3. SEWER ELECTION "DEN BLEGE GRÅ TONE" (SECOND SLEEP) LP
4. DEMDIKE STARE "ELEMENTAL" (MODERN LOVE) 2XCD
5. ELIANE RADIGUE "FEEDBACK WORKS 1969-1970" (ALGA MARGHEN) 2XLP
6. HENRIK RYLANDER "THE HORROR" (HÄSTEN & KORSET) CASSETTE
7. RUSSELL HASWELL "FACTUAL" (EDITIONS MEGO) LP
8. LAURIE SPIEGEL "THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE" (UNSEEN WORLDS) CD
9. PAULINE OLIVEROS "REVERBERATIONS: TAPE AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC 1960-1970" (IMPORTANT) 12XCD
10. MORTON FELDMAN "CRIPPLED SYMETRY" (FROZEN REEDS) CD

Richard Chartier (Line):

Alex Under - La Máquina de Bolas
Carter Tutti Void - Transverse
Emptyset - Medium
Felix Kubin - Txrf
Frank Bretscheider - Kippschwingungen
No UFO's - MPC Tracks Vol I
Saschienne - Unknown
Sendai - Geotope
Tod Dockstader - Electronic, Vol 1
Trust - Trst

Pinkcourtesyphone (Pinkcourtesyphone):

1991 - 1991
Daphne Oram, Andrea Parker & Daz Quayle - Private Dreams and Public Nightmares
Demdike Stare - Elemental
Pjusk - Tele
Pye Corner Audio - Sleep Games
Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994-1996
SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL - The Call from Below
Suum Cuique - Ascetic Ideals
Symmetry - Themes for an Imaginary Film
X-TG - Desertshore / The Final Report

Hanna Bächer (Borderclash):

Holly Herndon - Movement (track: Breath)
Fatima Al Qadiri - Desert Strike EP (track: Desert Strike)
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems (track: Numb)
Holy Other - Held (track: Inpouring)
Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994-1996 (track: Rufige)
Jeri-Jeri - Xale (any track actually)
Evian Chirst - Kings And Them (track: MYD)
James Ferraro - Sushi (track: Condom)
TNGHT - Tnght EP (track: Bugg'n)
Raime - Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (track: Your Cast Will Tire)

Bartolomé Sanson (Shelter Press):

1. Gabriel Saloman “Adhere” (Miasmah)
2. Grouper ”Sleep (Fragment)” (Fillip)
3. Marielle V Jakobsons “Glass Canyon” (Student of Decay)
4. Helm “Impossible Symmetry” (Pan)
5. Pete Swanson “Pro Style” (Type)
6. Eleh / Duane Pitre “Empty Summer Endless / Feel Free Installation” (Important)
7. Jon Porras ”Black Mesa” (Thrill Jockey)
8. Floris Vanhoof “Cycles of Confusion” (Kraak)
9. Ben Vida “Esstends-Esstends-Esstends” (Pan)
10. Mirrors Are Black / Altar Of Flies “Split” (Tamed)

Wolfgang Brauneis (a-musik):

new releases 2012:

7175Judenbruch, Sarabande der Lust K7 (New Amerika)
Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland, Black is Beautiful LP (Hyperdub)
Demdike Stare, Elemental 2CD (Modern Love)
Eccentronic Research Council, 1612 Underture LP (Bird Records)
Nelson Gastaldi, Symphony No.3: Siddharta Gautama O El Poder de la Nada LP (Roaratorio)
Laurel Halo, Quarantine LP (Hyperdub)
Mike Kelley, Kandor 10 / Extracurricular Activity Projective… CD (Compound Annex)
Lucidet, The Benadryl Album K7 (ALARM)
Mohn, s/t 2LP (Kompakt)
White Hills, Frying on this Rock LP (Thrill Jockey)

archive releases 2012:

Can, The Lost Tapes 3CD (Mute)
Jean Dubuffet, Experiences Musicales de Jean Dubuffet (II) 2CD (Rumpsti Pumsti)
G.I. Gurdjeff, Harmonium Improvisations LP (Mississippi Records)
Egisto Macchi, Voix LP (Omni Recordings Company)
Don Preston, Filters, Oscillators & Envelopes 1967-82 LP (Sub Rosa)
Pyrolator, Inland LP (Bureau B)
Brenda Ray, D'Ya Hear Me LP (EM Records)
Akos Rozmann, 12 Stationer VI 2LP (Ideologic Organ)
Jim Shaw, Solo Works (1975-1979) 8CD (Compound Annex)
V.A., Personal Space-Electronic Soul 2LP (Numero Group)