Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve

B-Music - Cross Continental Record Raid Road Trip

The Flying Nun 25th Anniversary Box Set

Rubble 10 CD Box Set

CD86: 48 Tracks from the birth of Indie

Pop 6 - BUTTERTOOTH box set

tip: Disc Jockey’s don’t use Serato

Juno - soundtrack
Kimya loves you!

Philipp Weigl - Monsters

Radiohead - In Rainbows
Not just a great album, an important album!

Sweeny Todd - soundtrack (Tim Burton)
I own every Sweeny Todd recording.

Doctor Who series 3
The 10th doctor is the best since Tom Baker.

Torchwood, Season 1 DVD
Torchwood is an anagram for Doctor Who. Lots of yummy crossovers. Doctor Who for adults, not your usual family fare. Deals with issues of existentialism, sexuality and gender.

400: Season 3 DVD
Finally something to fill the X-Files hole.

Talib Kweli - Eardrum
Eardrum is a great album. This is an album you must have.

Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams
A lot of people don’t like this album, but you have to listen to it. RZA is ahead of his time.

Termanalogy - Hood Politics V
This dude can fl ow. Watch out for Termanalogy.

Bishop Lamont - Caltroit

Ray Ricky Rivera - Neighborhood Fame
This dude is serious.

Band of Horses - Cease to Begin

National - Boxer

Iron & Wine - Shepherd’s Dog

Black Book - Dir. Paul Verhoeven DVD

Wind That Shakes the Barley - Dir. Ken Loach DVD

Growing - Lateral

Amir El Saffar - Two Rivers

Sun Ra - Disco 3000

Fog - Ditherer

Melt - Banana - Bambi’s Dilemma

Talibam! - Ordination of the Globetrotting Conscripts

Roots of Chicha - Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru

There Will Be Blood - Soundtrack

Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath - Eclipse at Dawn

Clark - Body Riddle

Godfather Don - The Nineties Sessions

Bachata Roja - Acoustic Bachata from the Cabaret Era

The Work - Slow Crime, Live in Japan, Rubber Cage (Reissues)

Henry Kaiser / Charles K. Noyes / Sang -Won Park - Invite the Spirit of 1983

African Pearls 2: Guinée - Cultural Revolution

PJ Harvey - White Chalk
This album is pared back to piano and fragile vocals. I really like this direction. PJ always maintains strength in her uniqueness. Truly one-of-a-kind.

Julia Kent - Delay
I would play this on repeat. Julia creates a soundtrack using fi eld recordings from airports and treated cello. Very sophisticated.

Dawn + Dusk Entwined - Septentrion
Dark ambient project dedicated to the Nordic world. Martial beats and neoclassical beauty. Very strong album.

Carter Tutti - Feral Vapours of the Silver Ether
The title says it all. One of the very best electronic duos. The combination of the Chris Carters pulsating rhythms and Cosey Fanni Tutti’s seductive vocals tickle me pink.

Death in June - Brown Book 20th Anniversary Edition
This is an exquisite release housed in a hand - carved soapstone box. Half the fun was drooling over this with my fellow coworkers. So when your loneliness closes in, pour yourself a glass of German wine, and loose yourself in the majestic Brown Book!

Music:
The Joey Heatherton Album
Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats
The Carl Stalling Project - Music from Warner Bros. Cartoons 1936-1958

Movies:
Jorge Fons’ El Callejon De Los Milagros (Midaq Alley) based on the novel by Naguib Mahfouz
Rene Laloux’s Fantastic Planet
Dominique Deruddere’s Crazy Love based on the novel by Charles Bukowski

tip: Check out Groundwork’s new Vegan Menu made with lots of love by me… they now have 6 locations…

Bloodysnowman - Bloodybuddies
Bloodysnowman is bloody great. Shawn Porter (AKA Oakland’s Bloodysnowman) serves up brand new and remixed tracks on his latest “Bloodybuddies” on the Bay Area’s most exciting and consistently innovative & prolific label - Daly City Records. The label’s main man, David Wang (AKA Mochipet), as well as Xiu Xiu, Yoko Solo, and others are among the remixers on this collection of twisted electronic bliss.

Dopestyle - The Little Happy/Fools Pool
Another great release from the Bay Area label that can do no wrong, Daly City Reords. 30-track, 2 CD set from SF emcee Dopestyle with his equally gifted producer DJ 4AM (AKA Jason Chavez) whose adventurous soundscapes perfectly compliment Dopestyle’s unique, run-onerratic, stream-of-consciousness, delivery that lyrically ventures into new terrain.

Ill Insanity - Ground Xero
Rescuing turntablism from the clutches of its creative lull of the past few years ex X-ecutioners Rob Swift and Total Eclipse along with newcomer DJ Precision have formed the triple-threat skratch group Ill Insanity and delivered a truly great instrumental hip-hop album (with one emcee track) on Fat Beats. Roc Raida, Qbert, and Excess are among the guests.

Del the Funky Homosapien - 11th Hour
Hooked up with Def Jux for his latest solo outing, 11th Hour, founding member of the Hieroglyphics crew, and veteran Bay Area emcee with a rich & varied career displays the secret to his longevity as he serves up a very satisfying funk fueled hip-hop collection including such winning joints as “Workin It” and “Naked Fonk.”

YMD - Excuse Me; This Is the Yah Mos Def
Effortlessly channeling early Beastie Boys (circa when they fi rst found rap) is what the duo YMD do so well on their punk-energy, raw rap assault ‘This is the Yah Mos Def” (My Pal God) that you don’t even think of accusing them of being rip off artists. Instead you thank them for bringing back that classic Beasties sound that the originators themselves abandoned so long ago.