Dan

secret manager

My top 15 of 2012

1 FRANK OCEAN - channel ORANGE
2 HOSPITALITY - S/T
3 CHROMATICS - Kill For Love
4 WILD NOTHING - Nocturne
5 CATE LE BON - Cyrk
6 LIGHTSHIPS - Electric Cables
7 TAKEN BY TREES - Other Worlds
8 DIIV - Oshin
9 HOW TO DRESS WELL - Total Loss
10 JULIA HOLTER - Ekstasis
11 TENNISCOATS - Papa's Ear
12 HEAVENLY BEAT - Talent
13 SYMMETRY - Themes For An Imaginary Film
14 MIGUEL - Kaleidoscope Dream
15 FIELD MUSIC - Plumb

My top 15 reissues of 2012

1 GEORGE JACKSON - Let The Best Man Win: The Fame Recordings, Vol. 2
2 MY BLOODY VALENTINE - EPs 1988-1991/Isn't Anything/Loveless
3 BENNY SPELLMAN - Fortune Teller: A Singles Collection 1960-1967
4 EVERY MOTHER'S SON - Come On Down: The Complete MGM Recordings
5 TIM MAIA - Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul Of Tim Maia
6 VA - Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984
7 VA - Street Corner Symphonies: The Complete Story Of Doo-Wop, Vols. 1-10
8 VA - Listen To The Music: Caltone's Jamaican 45's 1966-69
9 WENDY RENE - After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volt Singles + Rarities 1964-1965
10 THE CRITTERS - Younger Girl: The Complete Kapp And Musicor Recordings
11 VA - WTNG 89.9FM: Solid Bronze
12 VA - It's Zimmermann's World…We Just Live In It
13 TIA BLAKE AND HER FOLK GROUP - Folksongs & Ballads
14 DONNY HATHAWAY - Live + In Performance
15 VA - Studio One Sound

My favourite artists are: The Kinks, Townes Van Zandt, Sir Douglas Quintet, The Techniques, The Impressions, Joe Tex

My all-time favourite album is: THE KINKS - Are The Village Green Preservation Society

The first album I ever bought was: LL COOL J - Radio (cassette)

On Saturday nights, I throw down to: anything by THE FACES

On Sunday mornings, I recover to: BILL WITHERS - Live at Carnegie Hall

The show that made me fall in love with/believe all over again in music was: Legends of Ska weekend at the Palais Royale

My favourite album this year was: Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

Honourable mentions from 2012: Tame Impala - Lonerism, Steamboat - Rules, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes, Holy Other - Held, Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D City, Action Bronson - Blue Chips, Cats On Fire - All Blackshirts To Me, Beach House - Bloom, Oddisee - People Hear What They See, Six Organs Of Admittance - Ascents, Admiral Sir Cloudssley Shovell - Don't Hear It....Fear It!, Cleaners From Venus - Volume 1, Twin Shadow - Confess, Lee "Scratch" Perry - Sound Doctor, Here We Go Magic - A Different Ship, Brewer & Shipley - Down In L.A, The Caretaker - (Patience) After Sebald, Kaleidoscope - Further Reflections: Complete Recordings 1967-1969, Dan Penn - The Fame Recordings, White Fence & Ty Segall - Hair, Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes, The Smiths - Complete, Carole King - The Legendary Demos, Lee Hazelwood - LHI Years, Dr. John - Locked Down, Bo Diddley - The Black Gladiator, Swans - The Seer, VA - Nobody Wins: Stax Southern Soul, Va - Holy Spirit: Gospel, Soul & Spiritual Funk, Tenniscoats - All Aboard, Chris Cohen - Overgrown Path, Keith Hudon - Rasta Communication (Deluxe, Mac Demarco - Rock & Roll Nightclub, Daniel Rossen - Silent Hour/Golden Mile, Doug Paisley - Golden Embers

The band that should come out of retirement is: The Hot Boyz