The Found Tapes - Various Artists

THE FOUND TAPES. minimal wave from America 1981-1987. -------------------------------------

The Lost Tapes - Various Artists

european minimal wave 1981-1986 ----- BELGIUM!

Des Jeunes Gens Modernes - Various Artists

post Punk Cold Wave et culture novo en France 1978-1983

Oppenheimer Analysis - New Mexico

Originally released in 1982 during The height of the ColD WaR home-taping Boom. MINIMAL-WAVE.ORG

Voices In the Air - Voices In the Air

new romantic wave dance

League of Nations - Music For the New Depression

goth face

Iron Curtain - Desertion 1982-1988

goth balls

Moritz Von Ozwalt - Recomposed

.......Deutsche Grammophon,,,---NERDS

Daniel Balldeli - Cosmic Disco Rock

italo

Severed Heads - Adenoids

..1977-1985..

Spires of Time - Various Artists

78's from the EMI archive, 'Classic's.,.,.,.,

Metro Area - Various Artists

fabric live-Disco Face

Monochrome Set - Sessions & Singles

Blood Is Red - Various Artists

music from Dario Argento Films

IVG vol # 1 - Various Artists

futur anterieur france 1975 - 1985

Cold Cave

GothBalls

Loude - Vol. #1

loudefied

Los Iniciados - Untitled

synth pop minimal

The Clean - Compilation

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Stereo - Somewhere In the Night

minimal-wave.org

Ensemble Pittoresque - Art of Being

Storung - Europe Calls

new wave electro synth

Pavillon 7B - Dark Life

Sluik - Back To Burnsley

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Yussuf Jerusalem - A Heart Full of Sorrow

A Fuzzed-out, Psychedelic, Garage-y, Black Metal-lic, Poppy Bedroom Opus by some mysterious French dude. He's some sort of magical wizard of lo-fi darkness. Catchy tunes, melancholic melodies, eerie production - Absolutely one of the best things I heard in 2008.

Selfish Cunt - English Chamber Music

Political, Personal Art-Punk like you ain't heard in a long while! Dropping the Minimal Electro-Punk trappings of his first Selfish Cunt LP, Martin Tomlinson returns with a fantastic and ferocious full band. The revitalized SC bring with them a batch of incendiary anthems of protest, channeled suffering schrei, and impassioned celebration of "the life." Highly Recommended for fans of UK punk of the Huggy Bear ilk.

Cult of Youth - A Stick To Bind, A Seed To Grow

Dais Records is on a roll with just their third release! Cult of Youth has all the signifiers but none of the current staleness of the Neofolk genre! FRESH FRESH FRESH! Sean Ragon's vocals have an untrained almost Punkish quality that give Cult Of Youth a sense of urgency and passion lacking in many new Neofolk acts, and help make make this album an instant classic of the genre. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, especially to early Death in June and Strength Through Joy fans.

Happy-Go-Lucky

On Import DVD. Sally Hawkins was robbed of an Oscar nomination for her performance in this film. It's one of 2008's ten best performances in one of the year's ten best films. It is also one of Mike Leigh's finest moments. VERY funny and poignant!

Long Way Round (Collectors Edition Box Set)

Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman travel the world on motorcycles. Waaaaaaay better than it initially sounds. The first series made me want to pack my bags immediately. Totally addictive, high quality fun! This box set features the second series Long Way Down and Charley Boorman's solo venture series Race to Dakar. All series are quality! Something I learned watching Long Way Round: Ewan McGregor is totally the dude you want to find yourself stranded with in Middle-of-Fucking-Nowhere, Eastern Europe when the Mobster shows up with automatic weapons and a guitar!

Dead Luke - Running Scared

More tunes from my favorite bedroom troubadour in Madison, Wisconsin. Catchy, Lo-fi, ghostly goodness. This is the third 7" of dark yet poppy Bedroom New Wave from Dead Luke. Luke, unfortunately, has already announced the retirement of this particular moniker to focus his time on his other projects, Absinthe Minds and playing in/with Zola Jesus (another current favorite of mine). Fear not though, he'll have two LP's worth of material out in the next year on both Sacred Bones Records and Floridas Dying and various other cassette and 7" releases. Dead Luke is Dead! Long Live Dead Luke!

Wolves in the Throne Room - Malevolent Grain

I've been told Wolves in The Throne Room make Black Metal for people who don't like Black Metal, and I'm just fine with that. This band never fails to impress me and Malevolent Grain is no exception. Brutally beautiful.

The Joy Formidable - "Cradle" b/w "The Last Drop"

"Cradle" sounds like a lost classic from MTV's 120 Minutes circa the late '80s/early '90s. In the vein of Throwing Muses, Pixies, The Breeders or Belly. In other words, a heavy Kim Deal/Tanya Donelly vibe/influence here, with good lumps of The Charlottes and early-era The Primitives. Poppy, lush & lovely. Catchy as all get-out!

Julian Cope - Black Sheep

Psychedelic Folky Pop peppered with tough bits of Garage Punk gristle. Lyrical meditations on world affairs, anthems against Monotheism, and, as always, odes to the Earth. The best work Mr. Cope has done since 1993's CLASSIC Jehovahkill. Includes the instant sing-along "All The Blowing-Themselves-Up-Motherfuckers (Will Realize The Minute They Die That They Themselves Were Suckers)." CD available now with a LP version soon to be released! Yay!

Kiss Napoleon Goodbye

This long, long, long whispered about short film is finally on DVD. It is legendary for its (rumored real) sex scene between Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins. No one can explain to me why this film exists. Apparently it was commissioned by some Art Historian and was publicly shown only twice - once in The Netherlands and once in Berlin. The quality of the transfer on this DVD is not that great (really? no one had a better copy?), but then again the film seems to have been made with a home video camera. It's a half hour of barely audible dialogue, lovely shots of Lydia and Hank's mugs, Lydia in various states of undress, novelist/spoken word artist Don Bajema bashing out windows with a hammer, lots of Hank and Lydia licking each other's faces before bumping uglies explicitly, and weird non sequitur shots of (what I assume is) Napoleonic-era sex in a horse carriage. Total trainwreck. It's friggin' awesome. I loved every minute of it. Plus the DVD is stacked with bonus content better than the main feature - various Lydia Lunch concert footage, spoken word performances and an interview.

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Artists to be on the look out for: Blessure Grave on the forthcoming Blessure Grave / Cold Cave / Crocodiles three-way split 7" on Down In The Ground.

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The Rats - The Rats

Fred and Toody Cole's punk/new wave band. That's pretty much all you need to know. I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again, but Mississippi Records can do no wrong!

Matmos - Supreme Balloon

Modern synthesizer music that you can't really dance to. Refreshing!

The Dead C. - Secret Earth

Their best record since Harsh 70s Reality. Songs, but really f'd up, long songs. The real deal stoner rock.

Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me

Everything this man did was perfect...be it disco or folk or avant garde cello music. Buy it all!

Harry Pussy - You'll Never Play This Town Again

Greatest band of the 1990s, no question. This is the logical end of hardcore.

tip: Sleep. The band is great, but I'm talking about the physical act of sleeping.  Nothing beats it!

Britney Spears - Circus

Well people.... this MWL of 2008 is the year of the pop! This year I was moved by the pop and dance hits that smacked me upside my head!!! First Britney!!!! Thank God! Living in Hollywood you can see the damages done to the pop icon! She's back up and on her feet with the appropriately titled Circus! Definitely, it conveys all her struggles after the release of Blackout in 2007. The tracks featured on Circus are the best bootie shakin' jams she's released since Britney! It's a great pop record that has 3-4 really infectious tracks and a few that use creative lyrics to get the point across..."If You Seek Amy".... that was a little over my head! Listen to it - you'll get it! I loved it!

Sam Sparro - Sam Sparro

This aussie gent's self-titled debut that was released in May by Island in the UK made me realize that if Simply Red and Daft Punk had a baby Sam Sparro would be it! Sounds odd right?!...Wrong! It's a great mix of fun pop, indie rock, and electro!!! The single "Black & Gold" helped the artist get mainstream attention. It has a strong throwback '80s vibe that makes this employee jump for joy. This record makes you kick off yo' dancin' shoes and get buck wild!

House Bunny

If a recent DVD release belonged in a music genre the House Bunny starring Anna Faris would definitely belong in pop!!! The House Bunny is an extremely funny, light-hearted comedy that parodies a playboy bunny getting kicked out of the mansion and becoming a house mother for a SoCal sorority that needs as much help as they can get! Fellas and lovely ladies will be in stitches from Faris' delivery as a bunny!

Endless Boogie - Focus Level

Moving away from the pop genre... into the cosmos... I give you the group Endless Boogie! Their release on No Quarter records, Focus Level made me wanna lean back, pass a joint, and watch Freaks & Geeks in my parents' basement with the black light on! The album is 79 minutes of pure stoner jam rock, and with a lead singer named Top Dollar how can you not pick this up?!

Brightblack Morning Light - Motion To Rejoin

My final pick this year is another cosmos-inspired band: Brightblack Morning Light. The more I find out about this duo (they live in teepees in the summer), the more I love everything they do. Signed by Matador and unshaken by critics, this group decided to record Motion To Rejoin in the desert in New Mexico. The album was recorded with solar power and allowed eight different tracks that feel like one fluid relaxation session. If your life is overwhelmed by chaos and technology this album takes you down to a level of calming inner peace that is almost a surreal meditative state. I usually never listen to the freaky folk scene but honestly I love this album! It had me at Hello!

tip: p.s. Your mom called and said the new Animal Collective falls short! This is a group that doesn't need to sound poppy! Sorry!

Steve Bug - Bugnology 3

I have purchased half of the singles on this mix. I am confident that I could use them as an arsenal to defeat anyone who doesn't have what it takes to chill the fuck out.

ZZ Top - Live From Texas

ZZ Top is in my "top ten." This lil mama made me remember how much fun it is to sing "Tube Snake Boogie." Great day!

Stefan Goldmann - The Empty Foxhole

One of the best mix CDs I have heard in a moment. Stefan captures everything I love about how you can change your attitude with every euphoric synth stab/emotional vocal/huge pads!

Mr. Oizo - Lambs Anger

Quentin Dupieux, I bow to you and your glitched out 90's production skills. Don't hate on Ed Banger, this one's a smoker!

E-40 - Ball Street Journal

The beats & bass on this record will destroy any stock system. Do not attempt to play this on your crappy speakers. If you do, Earl Stevens will clown you.

Ame - Fabric 42

Home of the monster tracks. I played this mix in the store inauguration day 2009. House music for the nation!

Neil Young - Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968

He was 22 years old when this was recorded. Sugar Mountain! I will never pretend to be this cool.

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Antony & the Johnsons - The Crying Light

If you loved him before, you will not be disappointed by this album. And if you have never experienced the magic that is Antony & the Johnsons please go see him live!

Morrissey - Years of Refusal

I feel like Morrissey let me down for a couple of years. But he is quickly making up for it with these last couple albums. He seems to be just getting better with age. I think I like this album more than the last already.

Grace Jones - Hurricane

I have been obsessed with Grace Jones since I first saw her in Conan and View to a Kill. I am so happy she made this album for us. It is way better than you expect and as good as you would expect it to be.

Pelle Carlberg - The Lilac Time

Easily one of my favorite albums of last year. This guy from Sweden is also in the band Edson and completely underrated. For fans of Belle & Sebastian and Jens Lekman.

Empire of the Sun - Walking On a Dream

This could end up being my favorite Siegfried and Roy inspired album cover of the year. Great pop album from Australia. For fans of MGMT who need a new favorite band.

Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed

I love this record a whole lot more every time I listen to it. A more pop version of Cursive.

Fever Ray - Fever Ray

This is the new solo project from Karin of The Knife. But it could easily just be another Knife album as good as any of their others. Don't think she will get any new fans with this record but she will keep any fans that like the genius of The Knife.

Asobi Seksu - Hush

A nice little shoegaze twee type album from New York. A lighter, more fun version of My Bloody Valentine.

Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart

Yeah, I know... I put her in my last list, but she played two shows in LA after that and I didn't see you at either of them so here she is again. The songs are good but see her live.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Come on, hotshot filmmakers! You were totally showed up by a 73-year old man this year!

The Wrestler

This movie is like life: Happy and sad and depressing and funny and conflicted and unpredictable and filled with laughs and blood and tears and wrestling in barbed wire.

The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave

Another Scandinavian. They should be disqualified by now. I've just recently heard this guy, so I can't really vouch for the whole album until I listen to the entire thing through. But just listen to the song "The Gardener" and just try to not want to hear the whole album. You'll probably love it as much as I do.

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Glasvegas - Glasvegas

Combine the anthemic epics of Manic Street Preachers--sung in the thickest of Scottish accents--with a hearty helping of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, a touch of The Jesus and Mary Chain's shoegazer drone, and some '60s-girl group and doo-wop sounds for good measure, and you get the amazing self-titled debut album by Glasvegas. Despite the plethora of influences, this Glaswegian band sounds uniquely their own, a fresh burst of brutally honest lyrics and dynamic songcraft. From the devastating album opener "Flowers & Football Tops" (written about the murder of Scottish teenager Kriss Donald), Glasvegas work their magic into one of the most drop-dead heartbreaking moments ever recorded onto tape. Gently segueing into the catchy and kind-hearted single "Geraldine," the broken and guilt-ridden voice of "It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry," the stomping fightsong anthem "Go Square Go," the emotional '60s-girl group rocker "Daddy's Gone," and the infinitely-building walls of sound of somber closer "Ice Cream Van," each one of the album's ten tracks is a definite highlight. Glasvegas is one of the most promising new bands in rock music today, and Glasvegas gets my vote as my favorite album of the year.

Available as an import-only from the UK is a special edition 2CD set featuring the original 10-track Glasvegas album, plus a newly-recorded Christmas-themed mini-album, titled A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss). Recorded over ten days in a cathedral-turned-studio in Transylvania and two days in New York, A Snowflake Fell features the blistering tell-off "Fuck You, It's Over," the touching centerpiece "Cruel Moon," the wall of guitars, bells and strings in single "Please Come Back Home," and a haunting version of "Silent Night" (subtitled "Noapte De Vis") featuring the Concentus Choir of Brasov, Romania. While the songs are linked to that special time of the season, the mini-album stands proudly next to the band's full-length LP as prime Glasvegas, whether it's the dead of winter or the burning peak of summertime.

Mark Kozelek - The Finally LP

Mark Kozelek's The Finally LP is a collection of unreleased tracks and cover songs previously featured on various artist compilations, gathered into one concise, digestible package. Bookended by two original instrumental tracks, the remaining eight songs offer some insight into the influences of slowcore pioneer Kozelek, as well as evidence of how Koz can take any song and make it uniquely his own. From Will Oldham's "New Partner," to a country-rock version of "Lazy" by fellow slowcore comrades Low, and a[nother] version of AC/DC's "If You Want Blood," Kozelek's gently finger-picked guitar and sorrowful vocals aim straight for the jugular. The album's definite highlight and centerpiece is his cover of punk band Husker Du's seminal classic "Celebrated Summer," whose lyrics perfectly mirror Kozelek's own sentiments of lost youth and faded memories.

White Lies - To Lose My Life...

To Lose My Life... (a.k.a. To Lose My Life or Lose My Love) is the debut album from British post-punk band White Lies, a band from a long line of recent '80s-inspired dark-disco-revivalists. Lead singer Harry McVeigh is the pivotal focus, with his yelps like Brandon Flowers (The Killers) or David Byrne (Talking Heads), down to his somber and droney baritone à la Ian Curtis (Joy Division) or Ian McCulloch (Echo and the Bunnymen). Sure, the band warrants the numerous undeniable comparisons to the forefathers of gloom-and-doom post-punk, but White Lies have crafted a consistent and powerful set of songs that rival not only their peers (Editors, Interpol), but stands strong next to their influences (Depeche Mode, Morrissey, The Cure, the aforementioned Joy Division and Bunnymen). The band's strengths truly surge on the unrelenting lead single "To Lose My Life," the cold "Unfinished Business," the driving opener "Death," and the bleak-becomes-soaring "Nothing to Give." To Lose My Life... is a miserably dark but exceptionally good debut from a gifted new band, right down to the morbidly-obsessed lyrics and the eerily haunting album cover.

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