best 20 albums of 2011

Alexander Turnquist / Hallway Of Mirrors (VHF)
Andrew Chalk / Violin By Night (Faraway Press)
*AR / Wolf Notes (Type)
Atheus / Compile (Silent Season)
Bee Mask / Elegy For Beach Friday (Spectrum Spools)
Collections Of Colonies Of Bees / Giving (Hometapes)
The Echelon Effect / Mosaic (Oxide Tones)
Farewell Poetry / Hoping For The Invisible To Ignite (Gizeh)
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma / Shining Skull Breath (Students Of Decay)
Mark McGuire / Get Lost (Editions Mego)
Oneohtrix Point Never / Replica (Software)
Pete Swanson / Man With Potential (Type)
The Psychic Paramount / II (No Quarter)
Richard Knox & Frederic D. Oberland / The Rustle of the Stars (Gizeh)
Robert Haigh / Strange And Secret Things (Siren)
Ryan Teague / Causeway (Sonic Pieces)
*Shels / Plains Of The Purple Buffalo (Shelsmusic)
Thee Oh Sees / Carrion Crawler/The Dream (In The Red Recordings)
Thurston Moore / Solo Acoustic Volume Five: 12 String Meditations For Jack Rose (Vin Du Select Qualitite)
A Winged Victory For The Sullen / A Winged Victory For The Sullen (Erased Tapes)

posted : Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

set list

NEWSWAVE NIGHT 2011/12/11 @渋谷bar SHIFTY

Oscillate Wildly / The Smiths
Faron Young (Truckin’ Mix) / Prefab Sprout
Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)(Version) / Scritti Politti
Club Country (12” Remix) / The Associates
Invisible / Alison Moyet
Taxi / Deaf School
Driving In My Car (7” Single) / Madness
New Moon On Monday / Duran Duran
All Tomorrows Parties (12” Single Version) / Japan

Space Christmas / Shonen Knife
I Am The Fly / Wire
Kalte Sterne  / Einstürzende Neubauten
Blast Off / The Birthday Party
Chant (BBC Session) / Public Image Limited
(Here Comes The) Rain / The Cult
This Wheel’s On Fire / Siouxsie & The Banshees

posted : Monday, December 12th, 2011

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set list

NEWSWAVE Night 2011/6/19 @新宿Be-Wave

U2 / Bad (Live)
Big Country / In A Big Country
The Wedding Present / Kennedy
The Primitives / Crash
The Housemartins / Happy Hour
Bronski Beat / Smalltown Boy
Arcadia / Goodbye Is Forever (Single Remix)
Yazoo / Nobody’s Diary
Depeche Mode / Everything Counts
Ultravox / Quiet Men (Full Version)

Killing Joke / Unspeakable
Dead Kennedys / Holiday In Cambodia
1000 Homo DJs / Supernaut
The Cult / She Sells Sanctuary (Edit?)
Virgin Prunes / The Faculties Of A Broken Heart
Sex Gang Children / Into The Abyss
Siouxsie & The Banshees / Halloween
The Cure / A Night Like This

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best 20 albums of 2010

Air Waves / Dungeon Dots (Underwater Peoples)
Bardo Pond / s/t (Fire)
Beach House / Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
Bvdub / The Art Of Dying Alone (Glacial Movements)
Emeralds / Does It Look Like I’m Here? (Editions Mego)
John Roberts / Glass Eights (Dial)
Julian Lynch / Mare (Olde English Spelling Bee)
Mark McGuire / Tidings / Amethyst Waves (Weird Forest)
Marsfield / Three Sunsets Over Marsfield (Faraway Press)
Oneohtrix Point Never / Returnal (Editions Mego)
Pete Swanson / Feelings In America (Root Strata)
Richard Skelton / Landings (Type)
Robert Haigh / Anonymous Lights (Siren)
Salem / King Night (IAmSound)
Swans / My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky (Young God)
Tamas Wells / Thirty People Away (Lirico)
The Third Eye Foundation / The Dark (Ici D’ailleurs)
When The Clouds / The Longed-For Season (Drifting Falling)
Woods / At Echo Lake (Woodsist)
Yellow Swans / Going Places (Type)

posted : Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

best disc of the decade: 2000-2009

Godspeed You Black Emperor! / Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Constellation)
Andrew Chalk / Shadows From The Album Skies (Faraway Press)
Coil / The Ape of Naples (Threshold House)

Boards Of Canada / In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country (Warp)
By The End Of Tonight / Fireworks On Ice (Temporary Residence)
Detwiije / Six Is Better Than Eight (Self Released)
Emeralds / Emeralds (Wagon)
Fridge / Happiness (Domino)
James Blackshaw / O True Believers (Important Records)
Laeto / Make Us Mild (Guided Missile)
Nadja / Thaumogenesis (aRCHIVE)
Shellac / 1000 Hurts (Touch And Go)
Ulrich Schnauss / Far Away Trains Passing By (City Centre Offices)

posted : Friday, November 26th, 2010