Mike
My top 15 of 2012
1 CATE LE BON - Cyrk
2 DIRTY PROJECTORS - Swing Lo Magellan
3 FRANK OCEAN - channel ORANGE
4 ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI - Mature Themes
5 VA - The Karindula Sessions
6 MERIDIAN BROTHERS - Desesperanza
7 THEE OH SEES - Putrifiers II
8 ERIC CHENAUX - Guitar & Voice
9 FIELD MUSIC - Plumb
10 OREN AMBARCHI - Audience Of One
11 JULIA HOLTER - Ekstasis
12 ELFIN SADDLE - Devastates
13 ALEX LUKASHEVSKY, FELICITY WILLIAMS, DANIELA GESUNDHEIT - Too Late Blues
14 EFTERKLANG - Piramida
15 BEAK> - >>
My top 10 reissues of 2012
1 VA - Qat, Qambus & Coffee: Raw 45s From Yemen
2 VA - WTNG 89.9FM: Solid Bronze
3 MAGGIE & TERRE ROCHE - Seductive Reasoning
4 VA - Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984
5 FRANCIS BEBEY - African Electronic Music 1975-1982
6 LAURIE SPIEGEL - The Expanding Universe
7 SUZANNE CIANI - Lixiviation
8 TIA BLAKE AND HER FOLK GROUP - Folksongs & Ballads
9 VA - Long Live Boogaloo
10 LEE HAZLEWOOD - A House Safe For Tigers (OST)
11 THE ASSOCIATION - The Complete Warner Bros. & Valiant Singles Collection
12 STEVE WINWOOD - Arc Of A Diver (Deluxe Edition)
13 DONNY HATHAWAY - Live + In Performance
14 WITCH - We Intend To Cause Havoc (boxset)
15 FRANK ZAPPA/THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION - Absolutely Free
My favourite artists are: Paul Simon? Jim O'Rourke? Terry Riley? I dunno.
My all-time favourite album is: FRANK ZAPPA - Burnt Weenie Sandwich (...most of the time. Elis & Tom, and Town and Country's IT ALL HAS TO DO WITH IT are heavy contenders)
The first album I ever bought was: PRINCE - Lovesexy
On Saturday nights I throw down to: XTC - White Music
On Sunday mornings I recover to: OREGON - Out Of The Woods
The show that made me fall in love with/believe all over again in music was: Town & Country, La Sala Rosa (Mtl.), 2003
My favourite album so far this year is: DIRTY PROJECTORS - Swing Lo Magellan, ELFIN SADDLE - Devestates, ERIC CHENAUX - Guitar & Voice, FIELD MUSIC - Plumb, VA - The Karindula Sessions, FRANK OCEAN - Channel Orange, CATE LE BON - Cyrk, OH SEES - Putrifiers II, VA - WTNG, VA - Personal Space
The best show I've seen so far this year is: I'm grumpy
The band that should come out of retirement is: Glissandro 70