the lists, in no particular order:
Rob Theakston
Writer, DJ, producer, Detroit MI
top ten singles
Kelly Polar Quartet - Rhythm Touch (Environ)
Matt Dear - Dog Days (Spectral)
Knowles, Beyonce - Crazy in Love (Major Label)
Postal Service - Such Great Heights (Sub Pop)
Luomo - What Good (Force Tracks)
Death Cab for Cutie - Death of an Interior Decorator (Barsuk)
TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun (Touch and Go)
Darkness - Friday Night (Major Label)
Saturday Looks Good to Me - Ultimate Stars (Polyvinyl)
Osborn - Daylight (Spectral)
top ten comps, reissues, mixes, etc.
Soundmurderer - Wired for Sound
Lost in Translation - Lost in Translation
Davis, Miles - Complete Jack Johnson Sessions
As One - So Far (So Good)
Gaye, Marvin - What's Going On (Bonus Tracks)
Bell, Dan - Blip, Blurp, Bleep: The Music of Dan Bell
Pop Ambient 2004 - Pop Ambient 2004
DFA Records Presents: Compilation 1 - DFA Records Presents: Compilation 1
Rough Trade Shops: Post-Punk 01 - Rough Trade Shops: Post-Punk 01
EADGBE - EADGBE
top ten artist albums
Saturday Looks Good to Me - All Your Summer Songs
Dear, Matthew - Leave Luck to Heaven
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Luomo - Present Lover
Darkness [2] - Permission to Land
Tamion Twelve Inch - All Black Eyes Closed to the Excess of Disaster
ADULT. - Anxiety Always
Cat Power - You Are Free
Eluvium - Lambent Material
TV on the Radio - Young Liars
top movies
Lost in Translation
A Mighty Wind
Finding Nemo
Kill Bill Vol. 1
City of God
Old School
Budda Ho Tep
Winged Migration
28 Days Later
biggest surprise
TV on the Radio - Young Liars EP
biggest letdowns
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Mary Tyler Moore Season 2 DVD delayed
No new president
biggest shock
Elliot Smith R.I.P.
best blog (non Burnlab)
Zulkey.com
Best Label (tie)
Tigerbeat
Spectral
best slang word
Eans
best live DJ set
Metro Area / Common Factor tag set - Chicago, 7/03
best book
Broken Wrist Project Vol. II
most underrated album (tie)
Eluvium - Lambient Materials
Growing - Sky's Run Into the Sea
ugliest packaging
Talking Heads Box Set
Jared Louche
Musician, writer, teacher, "CHEMLAB conceptualist", London UK
best albums
Killing Joke - The Death and Resurrection Show.
Absolutely devastating, finally. Now all they have to do is stop looking SO LAME on stage and they'll destroy.
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
Super sexy robot music, so much better than their wannabe-Bond themes that was their first album.
Pour on the motor oil and re-thread your engine grooves.
White Stripes - Elephant
Sorry, the hype is true. Yes, the YeahsX 3 and Jetscreamer and The Kills and all the other bands who've swallowed Blondie and
Richard Hell's night juices are a blast, but JackandJill go ALL the way up that hill and back again. Now I'm just waiting for the BRMC/Stripes tour...
and the Faint/Von Bondies/Chemlab tour and live album! That Von Bondies album's amazing too. The Faint as well.
Aphrodite - See Through It (single)
I know it's last year, shut up! I'm still playing it. Have you HEARD it yet? Tech-Rock-Dance track with the attitude of X-Ray Spex.
A.R.E. Weapons - A.R.E. Weapons
Great noisy, attitude-drenched updating of the first Suicide record, with a touch of the Rock and smear of the Cars.
Keep melting into my disc tray I play it so much.
best film
Baise Moi
was shocking to some and a louche relief to me. Oh, you don't know about revenge-sex? Suck it and see.
best show
Shockheaded Peter
(so, I never go out, shoot me) with the Tiger Lilies and NOT David Thomas. This retelling of the classic and profoundly disturbed collection
of cautionary children's fables was one of the best stage shows I've ever seen. The costumes were amazingly dense and the use of space
was fluidly hectic and kept the audience laughing and shrieking all at once. Dark and gruesome and the Tiger Lilies are in a multi-instrumental
(emphasison "mental") class all alone.
best museum exhibit
Body Worlds
was fantastic (as was the live autopsy/embalming/plasticising event that coupled) and any exhibit that inspires someone to come in with a
hammer and attack one of the sculptures because he felt that it would offend his children (then don't bring them, you idiot!) is a success in my book.
best interior
One of the best interiors I've seen in ages (besides our living room which has been described as "Victorian bordello", and the downstairs of the
Lit Lounge on 2nd Avenue, NYC) is the interior of the English Department building at the Graz University in Graz, Austria. An amazing building built
in the mid '60's, it has absolutely no right angles anywhere. The stairs have embedded lighting that illuminates off a timer and certain areas of the
building have electric eyes that trigger different tones as you walk by.
best new technology
The hi-fi system for listening to my long playing albums.
I find the diamond tip strangely attractive.
best new building
Taipei 101
is the tallest skyscraper in the world right now, having blown out the Petronas Towers in August and the Sears Tower in October, though won't be
finished until next year. It's one of the strangest looking buildings, much in the style of the fantastic Petronas Towers though single towered and
off-center, looking like an extended, fluted dragon neck.
best live performances
80's Matchbox B-Line Disaster every single time they play.
Pitchshifter at Brixton Academy trashing Iggy.
The unpredictable, ripping chaos that is Queen Adreena.
Bryan Black (Haloblack/h3llb3nt) has done a handful of gigs with his new band X-Lover and they're super tough minimal electronoise.
Cornelius also laid down a mind-bogglingly cool multi-media show, all of their visuals triggered by the music. Dense and immensely powerful.
best new products
The soft-jac port behind my ear and the titanium-toothed dog jaws that I've had surgically implanted in my face. I wanted to really leave the race
behind and tattoos, though pretty, didn't separate me sufficiently.
best trends
I can't comprehend trends because I live in a tight box and my optic-feed can't provide comprehensive input so my distillation is skewed.
best websites
www.rapturechrist.com because it's really important to understand who the enemy are and how they think.
www.skyscraperpage.com, simply self-explanatory.
www.rotten.com, yes, I'm that predictable.
There are so many stars....
best new restaurants/bars
So busy that I hardly ever go out and when I do it's Otafuku in Camden which rivals the best sushi I've ever had in NYC (Esashi on Avenue A
is a hard act to top) or Paris. It's old and carries itself with a certain grace.
fave book
Running With Scissors - Augusten Borroughs
This is the most bizarre and wrenchingly comic picture of childhood I've read in many years. This autobiography from the author of "Sellavision"
tells how he was abandoned at age 8 by his mother to live with her shrink in one of the most psychotic and surreal dumps of a house I've ever
read about. Ahh, memories...
Joshua Glazer
Music journalist, Los Angeles CA
best albums
Ellen Allien - Berlinette (BPitchcontrol)
This combination of abstract glitch, dancefloor crunch and stellar songwriting renewed my faith.
Possibly the only album I ever bought on vinyl specifically so I could play it for others.
Califone - Quicksand/Cradlesnakes (Thrill Jockey)
Perhaps the only good thing I got from my time in Pilsen. Acid-fried alt-country with guitars as played through broken casio keyboards.
DJ Hell - NY Muscle (Gigolo)
Just for not sucking as bad as it really could have sucked. Jak the tab! Jak the tab!
Electric Six - Fire (XL)
Six guys from Berkley High School made the rockinest dancefloor record this year, and then of course blew it by quitting the band.
Guitar - Sunkissed (Morr Music)
Some unknown producer (allegedly a German trance dude) made the album My Bloody Valentine should have made after Loveless.
You'll swear it's done with samples, but who cares.
Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (Mute)
Not officially out until Feb, but this is some Joy Division type dark and paranoid. Williamsburg beware, the partying catches up.
Porno for Pyros - Porno for Pyros (Warner)
Yeah- its 10 years old. So? The official soundtrack to my new LA life.
Other obvious ones that I'm certain my fellow conspirators will cover:
Matt Dear - Leave Luck to Heaven
Plastikman- Closer
Luomo- The Present Lover
best songs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Why doesn't the whole album sound that way? Chrissie Hynde meets the thickest guitar ever recorded.
Ricardo Villalobos - Easy Lee
The narrow and taunt stream of minimal stretched wide and expansive.
Big Boi - Ghettomusick
Let Andre have the MTV. Big Boi is gonna be banking in the booty for years to come.
Coldplay - Moses
It's hip to diss 'em, but this song should have been on 120 Minutes back when Dave Kendall was the man.
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
This year? Fuck it any year.
Kevin Shields - City Girl
Return of the master. Now turn up the distortion about 600%
best films
Lost In Translation
An easy one, but isn't it nice to all agree sometimes. It made me want to have a plutonic affair. . . with Bill Murray.
Kill Bill
Not buying it. . . Not buying it. . . Anime Sequence. . . Buying It!
Freddy vs. Jason
Absolutely everything you could want from a movie with this name. The high art of b-movies (as opposed to b-movies as high art)
Angels in America
HBO ownz!!!! All 6 hours!!!
best museum exhibits
Whole friggen year and all I saw was the Chicago Aquarium. Lame.
best gallery exhibits
crap - not one?
best interiors exterior
Driving cross country, you remember that nature is the worlds best designer.
best new technologies
Ford Focus PZEV
[Almost] no emissions? Wish I waited a year to buy a car. Stop the SUV insanity for fucks sake.
iPod version 2
Minorly better than v.1, except I finally own one, which makes it a lot better.
best new buildings
Compuware Building
Anything for Detroit. And it has a Borders.
best live performances
Liars - Magic Stick (Detroit)
Everyone went to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but we know who rocked like men.
Kompakt (Michael Mayer & Reinhart Voigt) - Time Square (Detroit)
Girlie screams of ecstasy escaping my body.
Traxx - Cannon Ball Run 2 (Detroit)
The first train of the morning is an annual tradition I savor more than my own birthday.
Stewart Walker - Empty Bottle (Chicago)
Techno prowess trumps indie snootiness every time.
Califone - Old Town School of Folk Music (Chicago)
So many instruments, so many sounds, in acoustic perfection
best new products
<insert self-rightous consumerist tirade here>
best trends
shorter albums
No doubt a side effect of 80's retro, but still necessary.
Hating Bush
Not new, but more concrete. Keep it building until November.
best fashion collections
Fashion - heh, yeah. My unemployed ass really had time for fashion this year. Look for a newly employed and well-styled Josh in '04.
best websites
Burnlab.net (have you heard of it?)
Allmusic.com - still the greatest resource ever.
Dongresin.katgyrl.com - more cynical than you.
best new restaurants/bars
heh - again implying time and money.
5 Things I learned this crazy year. . .
1. It never hurts to ask for your dream. You might get lucky.
2. This country is beautiful and I haven't seen shit. Must stop urban travel, start nature expeditions.
3. Screw musical movements, worry about musical moments.
4. My capacity for doing nothing equals my capacity for doing everything if left unchecked.
5. Ain't No Party Like A Detroit Party!!!!
Chris Daniels
Automotive designer, producer, international playboy, Barcelona Spain
best world music album
Carlinhos Brown - Carlito Marron
best indie album
Broadcast - Haha Sound / Ms John Soda - no p or d
best electronica album
Audio Bullys - Ego War
best hip hop album
Outkast - Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
best soul/r&b album
Cherrywine - Bright Black
best gulity pleasure album
Sean Paul - Dutty Rock
best guilty pleasure single
Benny Benassi - Satisfaction
best nonfiction (from 2002 actually)
John Gray - Straw Dogs
excellent commentary on how mankind continues to believe itself more than just another animal,
and how the author find this position ridiculous and a waste of time...excellent concise points/wrtiting.
Sam Valenti IV
Record mogul, Ann Arbor MI
best albums
Matthew Dear - Leave Luck To Heaven (Spectral)
Twine - Twine (Ghostly)
V/A - Idol Tryouts (Ghostly)
(see the Media Of Desire on the updated Ghostly.com for my other faves)
best songs
Dexter - Villalobos
Hey Ya! - Outkast
Like a Pimp - David Banner feat. Lil' Flip
Inside the Box - Kill Memory Crash
Magic Stick - Lil' Kim feat. 50 Cent
best film
Open Range
best new technology
More Wireless action at coffee shops
best new buildings
Prada Building, Tokyo - Herzog & de Meuron
best live performance
Twine - Kitty Cat Club/Minneapolis, Novevember
best new product
Altoid Strips
best trend
Being polite
best fashion trend
My friends wearing vintage clothes and looking better than people spending 10x as much.
best website
Burnlab.net
best new restaurant
Quizno's
best parties
Hawtin and Magda at Beds - Miami, March
Kompakt at Times Square - Detroit, October (or was it September?)
All the good Untitled's I missed (Ms. Untitled, 1 year bday, Stewart Walker, etc.)
2004 In / Out Predictions
In / Out
Spectral / Ghostly
87-93 revival / 77-83 revival
Untitled / Paradise Garage
Jonnie O / Michael Alig
Asics / Nike
Adidas / Adidas
Mike Doyle / All other designers
Band names that start with "A" / Band names that start with "The"
2004 Casting* for Ghostly the Movie™ (pre-production 2007)
A story about the label, Untitled, Detroit/NYC, as told through the eyes and writing of Robert Gorrell,
who will be played by Robert Downey Jr. (for which he will win an oscar).
note: Casting not based on looks
Sam Valenti IV - Liam Neeson
Matthew Dear - Benicio Del Toro
Tadd Mullinix - Jean Réno (from the Professional)
Mike Doyle - The Encylcopedia Brittannica Kid
Shannon Doyle - Nicole Kidman (in her 10th part with an American accent)
Ryan Elliot - Matthew McConaughey and Eryn - girl who played Polyanna
Jonnie O - Nick Cave or Rob Lowe (shaved head)
Delia Godoy - (a briliant return by Winona Ryder! Career Rejuvination!)
Rob Theakston - Jack Black or Bernie Mac
Jimmy Edgar - Jared Leto (avec Lip ring)
City People Matt and Shawn - The Olsen Twins (note - some plot devices deviate from reality)
Todd Osborn - Charles Grodin
My Girlfriend - Whatever starlet is sleeping with me when shooting begins.
Midwest Product - Newly designed Muppets
Kaity (The Cowgirl) - Molly Ringwald (a holograph of her in 84 -spliced from her famed John Hughes roles)
Regina - Lucy Liu (Oh my God! She Shaved her head for the role!)
Will Calcutt - Val Kilmer (wearing glasses, though Will doesn't wear any)
Dykehouse - Comedian Rich Hedberg
Jason Huvaere - Tommy Lee Jones
Lynnel - Someone Polynesian
Chuck Flask - Ali G
Kill Memory Crash - Alex (Jane's Brother from MTV's Daria) and Adam (The guy who played Ian Curtis in 24 hour party people)
Josh Glazer - Russell Crowe
Brian and Nix - Phil Oakey and Parker Posey
Carissa - Nicky Hiton
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick - 50 Cent
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (flashbacks to set up cabaret license stuff) - Martin Sheen
Aaron Warshaw - Ian Brown of the Stone Roses
Nima - Ralph Macchio
Latif - A Bollywood star (Hollywood debut)
Scott Sterling - Lawrence Fishburne (in a trucker hat)
Jay Dee - Jay Dee
Terry Dwyer - a Male Model (a smart one)
Mike Servito as played by Brandon Lee (Wearing Crow Make-up)
Allen Goodman - Ice Cube
Karl Zeiss - Keanu Reeves
President George Bush - Billy Bob Thornton
Odell Nails - Eddie Murphy
Derek Plaslaiko - Ashton Kutcher (with Chin implant)
Molly Ozias - Cameron Diaz (who develops an on-screen affair with Kutcher and leave's Justin Timberlake in real life)
Jakub Alexander (Ghostly employee and Untitled doorman) - Clay Aiken
And Tim Price as played by Alan Cumming
With guest appearances by:
Richie Hawtin - Sven Vath
Clark Warner - Noah Wylie
Liz Copeland - Catherine Zeta Jones
Magda - some hot new young actress from Poland
Kevin McHugh - Kevin Bacon
Plexus - Mike Doyle
And The Captain, as played by The Captain
This will be the most expensive movie ever made, without any special effects or stunts.
Soundtrack available on Ghostly/EMI records.
Michael Doyle
Designer, instigator, Brooklyn NY / Detroit MI
20 favorite tracks of 2003
01. ADULT. - Glue Your Eyelids Together (Ersatz Audio)
02. T. Raumschmiere - The Game Is Not Over (NovaMute)
03. Charles Manier - At The Bottle (Ghostly International)
04. LFO - Freak (Warp)
05. Ellen Allien - Trash Scapes (BPitch Control)
06. Laibach - Tanz Mit Laibach (Mute)
07. Motor - Din 9 (NovaMute)
08. The Fitness - Phone Sex (n/a)
09. Ellen Allien - Open (BPitch Control)
10. ADULT. - Turn Your Back (Ersatz Audio)
11. Outputmessage - Bernad's Song (Ghostly International)
12. Kill Memory Crash - Inside The Box (Ghostly International)
13. Matthew Dear - It's Over Now (Spectral)
14. Plastikman - Mind In Rewind (Minus)
15. Tiga - Burning Down (Turbo)
16. Memory Systems - Solaris (Form - unreleased)
17. Kiln - Ero (Ghostly International)
18. The Creatures - Around the World (Instinct)
19. Motor - Sak (NovaMute)
20. Selfish Cunt - Brittan Is Shit (n/a)
* edit: almost forgot, Postal Service - Nothing Better (Sub Pop), squeeze in at about 3-1/2
sophomores rule
Ellen Allien - Berlinette (BPitch Control)
Matthew Dear - Leave Luck to Heaven (Spectral)
ADULT. - Anxiety Always (Ersatz Audio)
I started to write comments for each of the above LPs, but they were all pretty much the same words. Each selection here
is a second full length album (more or less), and each shows a definitive maturity and much earned confidence, while
maintaining a wide eyed optimism. Each of these releases are a distinctive pain in the ass for record store clerks tasked
with squeezing them into a predefined musical genre. Berlinette gracefully ponders electro, techno, IDM and pop - often at the
same time. Leave Luck to Heaven fuses electrofunk and microhouse at subatomic levels and has sideswiped often impassive
minimal techno with a dose irreverence and fun. Anxiety Always dug into ADULT.'s post-punk/industrial roots and delivered a
dark, gritty album of art school angst, paranoia and dry humor, further defining the truly unique aesthetic of the Ersatz label.
Note the references to Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, ("nah, nah, nah!") and the self-deprecating We Know How to Have Fun.
It's no coincidence the year's three most influential LPs came from creative hotbeds Berlin and Detroit. They could never have
been made in a more culturally hospitable or trend-focused environment.
sleeper of the year
The Creatures - Hai! (Instinct)
After a couple of hit and miss efforts recently, Siouxie and Budgie released their most cohesive work since The Banshees'
Peep Show. Hai!'s sound is defined by Budgie's distinctive percussion coupled with that of Japanese taiko drummer
Leonard Eto. Ms. Sioux's vocals plays against the rhythms more like an instrument than a voice, at once hypnotic and arresting.
Really a must have. Drummers will be left either inspired or suicidal.
favorite album this year that was actually released in 2002 (tie)
Death in Vegas - Scorpio Rising (ConcereteHARD)
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (Matador)
I know consistency is not their thing, but DiV would have taken this if it weren't for a couple of really bad rock'n'roll tracks breaking up
the otherwise strange and beautiful collection of songs on Scorpio Rising. Skip tracks 5 and 8, and you have a stunning piece of work.
Turn on the Bright Lights did not leave the player for weeks at a time. It's like comfort food for the ears - I can enjoy this album in any
mood or situation, much like The Cure or Bauhaus. Derivative, yes, but soooo good.
most unnoticed comeback of the year
Front 242 - Pulse (Metropolis)
Yes, the godfathers of all things EBM released a new LP this year, and its quite good. Rather than trying to recreate the past
or falling prey to the awful trance-induced state of contemporary electronic body music (go to City Club to hear what I mean),
Front 242 surprised everyone with a very experimental 74 minute continuous mix. There are some rather dull and dubby sections,
and some parts that distinctly build on their work in the early 90s, but its the staticy, squelchy, analog sounds and rhythm
heavy tracks that I find most interesting. By no means their greatest work to date, but certainly worth a listen with headphones.
most anticipated collaboration
Fixmer/McCarthy
Terence Fixmer has been carrying the torch for pure, aggressive EBM for years, often sounding a lot like Nitzer Ebb. It's appropriate
then that he should team up with NE vocalist Douglas McCarthy and unleash some of the fiercest dance music we've heard since 1993.
most unexpected collaboration
Otto Von Schirach joining Skinny Puppy
It actually makes sense, but who woulda thunk Miami's most twisted noisemaker would join forces with the Canadian fathers of evil electronica?
best trend in dance music
songs!
I love the abstractness of techno, but if there's one great thing that came out of Electroclash is it reminded everyone how much fun it is to dance
to music with a beginning, middle and end, that you can sing along with and pantomime the words to. (Bizarre Love Triangle, anyone?)
best use of the internet by a band
Neubaten.org
Einstürzende Neubaten cut record labels out of the loop by creating an album funded wholly through supporter subscriptions in 2003.
Supporters could watch live recording sessions, download exclusive clips and discuss a range of topics with the band-members through
the site and received an exclusive CD LP at the end of the project, all for a measly thirty bucks.
best trend in music distribution
direct online purchasing
iTunes revolutionized the way people bought music this year. Independent labels, such as Warp, are beginning to offer their catalogs
for sale in the same manner. No more frustrating trips to the record store, and no more shipping charges. Viva digital.
best live show
ADULT. / Electronicat / Tamion 12 Inch - Knitting Factory, NYC, 12/03
best party
Magda / Plexus / Troy Pierce - 59 Canal, NYC, New Years Eve
best tag team DJ set
Derek Plaslaiko / Matthew Dear / Tadd Mullinix / Mike Servito - Untitled Anniversary Party, The Shelter, Detroit, 12/03
best semi-regular club night
Motherfucker, NYC
best monthly club night
Micromini, NYC (R.I.P.)
best weekly club night
Untitled, Detroit
best new dance (tie)
The Ping Pong Dance
The Drunken Robot
biggest blow to the music scene in New York
Berlin
The departure of Richie Hawtin, Magda, Dinky, Troy Pierce and Kevin McHugh practically gutted NYC's techno community.
Luckily we still have the fine folks at Record Camp, Red Antenna, Tronic Treatment, Satamile and Penetrate to keep the faith.
best online radio program
Daniel Miller Happy Hour
This is my number one source for new music. I wait for it every month like watching water boil.
best web sites
Computerlove.net
ProteinOS.com
biggest time sucker
Friendster.com
I've finally weaned myself down to maintaining no more than three profiles and checking it twice a week.
Complain all you like about slow servers, Friendster was probably the biggest thing to happen this year, period. Not the conquests
of Iraq and California, earthquakes, forest fires, smite of all sorts... Everyone who knows what I'm talking about has made new
connections and is closer to people they already know because of it. Some have found true love. Most have whittled away hundreds
of precious hours and reduced the GDP significantly.
biggest waste of energy
Hating on hipsters and metrosexuals.
I don't care for these words, but I know I (and most of our readers and contributors) fall into these definitions whether they like it or not.
When did it become so abhorrent to care about aesthetics? Why do the haters care so much? Go ahead: watch Sex in the City, wear
overpriced designer knock-offs of vintage clothes two years too late and secretly listen to Keokiclash in a desperate attempt to 'catch up.'
Hey, better yet: just freaking be yourself and don't worry about what's trendy. Who knows, you might be the next big thing. :P
most missed in 2003
We lost so many individuals who shaped our culture this year. Here are but a few of the true greats:
Johnny Cash, 1932 - 2003
George Plimpton, 1927 - 2003
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1927-2003
best museum exhibit
Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller+Scofidio, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio create work which defies preconceptions and politics of what is art and what is architecture.
They create installations, spaces, objects and buildings that cross media, technology, craft, psychology, metaphor and paranoia; putting
modern culture on the shrink's couch and turning the notes into works that are at once beautiful and a big middle finger to establishment
on both sides of the line. This mid-career retrospective collects some of their most significant works in an exhibition which is in itself
a stunning and thoughtful installation. We need to purge the formalists from our midsts and replace them with thinkers like Diller and Scofidio.
best trend in architecture
function over style
Perhaps a backlash to the Bilbao syndrome, the most refreshing design this year was the Dia Beacon. The readaption of this 1929
300,000 sq. ft. printing factory is about pure space, light, and most importantly, the art within its walls. The most important aspect of
exhibit design is facilitating a connection between the visitor and the content. Cheers to OpenOffice Architecture and artsit Robert Irwin.
best trend in design process
return to drawing and blending media
The novelty of computer generated models has finally worn off, and the craft of hand drawing and physical sketch models are once again
being appreciated as a valuable part of the design process and for their ability to capture the feel of an idea impossible to do with keystrokes.
The most captivating presentation drawings are coming from firms who can combine the advantages computers bring to the field with the
expressive qualities of hand sketching. The best examples come from Diller+Scofidio, TWBTA and LTL.
most anticipated television of 2004
George W. Bush's eminent tribunal and sentencing at the Hague.
Karl Zeiss
Producer, DJ, designer, undisclosed location
12" (no particular order)
The Juan MacLean - Give Me Every Little Thing (DFA)
Mu - Chair Girl (Tigersushi)
Punk Disco Beat vol. 1
Mikkel Metal - Nepal (Kompakt)
Quarks - I Walk (Kompakt)
Morane - The Trick (Perlon)
Westbam Feat. Nena - Oldschool, Baby (Piano Mix) (Fabric)
Thomas Brinkmann - Tina/Argo (Max Ernst)
Señor Coconut - Smooth Operator (New State Recordings)
Candy Chang - Typography (Red Antenna)
Perspects - The Third and Final Report (Interdimensional Transmissions)
Freiland - Grün remixe (Auftrieb)
LP (no particular order)
Signaldrift - Compass (Wobblyhead)
TV on the Radio - Young Liars (Touch & Go)
Matthew Dear - Leave Luck to Heaven (Ghostly)
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Crematorium (Gold Standard Labs)
Bergheim 34 It's Not For You, As It Is For Us (Klang Elektronik)
Villalobos - Alcachofa (Playhouse)
Total 5 (Kompakt)
Adam Johnson - Chigliak (Merck)
Jan Jelinek - La Nouvelle Pauvreté (~scape)
Ellen Allien - Berlinette (Bpitch Control)
Dave Pinter
Designer, DJ, Brooklyn NY
Top Five trends to leave in '03
1. Reality Shows
As we've all experienced lately real life is a constant struggle with no commercial breaks in sight.
Can I please see some imagination on TV again in '04?
2. Hip Hop
It was wrecked years ago and now it's just tired. Thank you MTV.
3. Star-chitects
Really now....the last time you actually drew a line was probably with a ruling pen. Maybe the general public doesn't know you
have a staff of hundreds actually doing all the work. In '04 lets loose the cool glasses and put on some honesty.
4. Genre-centric club nights
Is it really that interesting to hear ten hours of the same music played by different dj's? Some surprises please?
5. Travel Hassles
Yellow alert, TSA luggage searches, multiple ID checks....We're able to look for microbes on Mars but somehow we can't
come up with a simple dignified screening system at the airport. I'd like to be treated like a passenger again in '04.
Allen Goodman
Student, producer, boy-genius, Detroit, MI
Selected Recordings of 2003
Luomo - The Present Lover
Tim Hecker - Presents Radio Amor
Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth
Mu - Afro Finger & Gel
Broadcast - Haha Sound
LFO - Freak
DJ Koze - The Gekloeppel Continues
LFO - Sheath
Mikkel Metal - Testan/Hemper
Manitoba - Up in Flames
Soundmurderer - Wired for Sound
Jay-Z The Black Album
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone
Magnet Rising Sun
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
V/A Schaffelfieber 2
Ellen Allien - Berlinette
Non-Prophets - Hope
Noto Endless Loops III
Andrew Thomas Fearsome Jewl
The Books - The Lemon of Pink
Villalobos Alcachofa
James Cotton Buck!
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
DM + Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Four Tet Rounds
Komet - Gold
V/A Total 5
Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
V/A - Superlongevity 3
Deerhoof - Apple O'
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn
V/A Pop Ambient 2004
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Xiu Xiu - A Promise
Matthew Dear - Leave Luck to Heaven
Cat Power - You Are Free
Supersilent 6
SCSI-9 All She Wants Is
Junior Senior - D-D-Don't Stop the Beat
Matthew Dear Dog Days
Soft Pink Truth - Do You Party?
Joachim Spieth Ich
L'usine - Push EP
The Angels of Light - Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home
The Microphones - Mount Eerie (Drums Only 10")
Twine Twine
Lynnel Herrera
Industrial designer, NYC scene barometer, Brooklyn NY
best albums
MATTHEW DEAR - Leave Luck to Heaven
INTERPOL - Turn on the Bright Lights
RICARDO VILLALOBOS - Alcachofa
MICHAEL MAYER - Fabric 13
T. RAUMSCHMIERE - Radio Blackout
OUTKAST - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
best mixes
KARL ZEISS - Compound Therapy
AARON HEDGES Hostile Takeover
best books
MATERIAL WORLD by De Design Polite
ALFREDO HÄBERLI: SKETCHING MY OWN LANDSCAPE
best new brilliant company
Activaire
best gallery exhibits
james turrell @ pace wildenstein
matthew barney@the guggenheim
richard serra@ cheim reed
yes yes y'all@ deitch, brooklyn
ryan mcguinness@deitch, grand street nyc
MOMA 7x7 Berlin
best museum / gallery visits
WHITE CUBE/WHITE CUBE 2, London
TATE MODERN, London
ARS ELECTRONICA MUSEUM, Linz, Austria
best interiors
SOCIALSCENE brussels
ICEHOTEL stockholm
HIHOTEL niece
VOYAGE london
LYDMAR stockholm
APOC tokyo (Tokujin Yoshioka rules!)
biggest musical loss
Elliott Smith
best new building
SELFRIDGES (Manchester) by Future Systems
best new products
anything from Helmut Lang
the mini-pod
best trend
affordable technology
best fashion collections
YOUMUSTcreate spring/summer 03
HELMUTlang spring/summer03
JILsander spring/summer03
COSTUMEnational fall/winter 03/04
INSTANT fall/winter03/04
worst fashion collection
Roca-Wear
best new restaurants / bars
AREAbar hongkong
NASA copenhagen
best websites
Burnlab.net
Deathclock.com
biggest time sucker
Friendster
in / out
A.D.D. / selective listening
scratching that itch / delayed gratification
ambivalence / making passes at friends
all-season leather gloves* / rubber bracelets
clumsy / clever
Chad Clark
Architect, Los Angeles CA
best albums
[V.A.] - New Deutsch (Gigolo)
The Robert Longo-esque cover beckons us. I'm hesitating to say how great this compilation is without knowing how many
of the good tracks made it onto the vinyl version, but goddamn these DJs made my day. A full 24-tracks of vintage,
good-luck-finding-this-stuff-elsewhere, Krautpunk (t.m.), also known as "New German Wave." This stuff has the advantage
of being made after the initial surge of punk. Made in the late-'70s through the '80s, the tracks have the angst of punk injected
through raw, cold synth production. Totally ignored by the mainstream, the stuff had the time and space to mature into a varied genre.
Tracks range from the ironic bleep-synth variety to full on synthpunk as well as variations in between. Grauzone, Der Plan, No More,
DAF, and Pyrolator are the familiar names on this compilation, there are about 20 more.
(Culled from the Other Music weekly newsletter)
BROADCAST - Haha Sound (Warp)
For me Broadcast exemplifies what it means to be a part of a 'band' -- that idea of a group of people existing as a unit taking such
great care together in the crafting of an album, the outcome of which is a beautifully collaborative vision. It is clear, the time they took
so detailed, the organization of sounds so meticulously composed, and yet the sentiment conveyed is so delicate, an almost melt-away
one like a dreamy sigh. The songs are intimate and fragile but posses such strength as an album. After hearing "Pendulum" I was
expecting more of a dark and sharp, free-noise experience; and there are dark bits -- percussive and shattering moments of
electronic noise -- but the record as a whole is a careful gathering of psychedelia and electronic-pop. The mechanical lullaby "Color Me In"
explores concepts of creating identity through another's perception. ("If you cannot choose/which color to use/it's never too late/ to color me in.")
"Ominous Cloud" -- a shimmering, buzzing, light filled paean to escaping reality and finding inner serenity -- recalls a distant time with its
use of male chorus backing vocals. Some tracks are literal toy boxes of samples and found sounds and tell of misfit clock boxes and bells.
The instrumental tracks, bubbling and joyful, are full of childlike wonderment, complete with both awe and tantrum. Broadcast appears to take
it all in, past present and future, and turn it into something both timeless and right on time. This record is contemplative and romantic.
Sugary and sad (oh my heart, waits in winter, now). I have listened to "Haha Sound" every day at least one time, usually more and I do not know
how else to express how wonderful it is. Surely my favorite of this year. ("Haha Sound" is also available in a limited edition hardcover booklet with
enhanced art by the band's friend Julian.)
(Culled from the Other Music weekly newsletter)
Peaches - Fatherfucker (Kitty-Yo)
Sounding simultaneously like a Penthouse Forum and Grandmaster Flash, Peaches (Merrill Nisker) burst into transcontinental favor with her
very particular perhaps peculiar brand of cock-sure rapping and groovebox beats. Indeed, Canadian temptress may have come from an
underground womb of acoustic folk (Mermaid Café), avant-jazz (Fancypants Hoodlum), and deconstructed noise swarms (the Shit), but it
wasn't until her new guise in the 00s that her fearless, apolitical gender-play truly caught attention. European trawls unearthed new admirers,
and collaborations with the equally lewd Chilly Gonzales certainly fueled the fire for her first solo effort. By the time she signed onto Berlin's
Kitty-Yo label and unleashed "The Teaches of Peaches", her niche had already been carved out.
Ellen Allien - Berlinette (BPitch Control)
The development of Ellen Allien has been largely defined by one circumstance: the engagement with "music of the future," i.e. techno and
the historical after effects of the year 1989. At that time this native Berliner witnessed a geographical change in Germany, as well as the
specific expansion of Berlin; but most of all she experienced unforeseeable events. A complete shift of the cultural city has left significant
traces in Ellen Allien's life and music while creating a new musical subculture.
Ellen Allien literally began subversively inBerlin's club scene, and since 1991, she has worked as a radio host, producer, event manager and,
label founder/manager to actively define and redefine the structures ofBerlin's musical subculture.
After working intensively for years, 1999 was the year Ellen Allien gave birth to her own network: BPitchControl. The channel is open.
BPitch Control serves as a platform where she and other artists attempt to capture current musical tendencies. With the 2001 release of
her debut album "Stadtkind" as a dedication toBerlin, Ellen Allien not only stirred attention towards her own musical talents, but also brought
attention to the structure of her label in the context of electronic music inGermanyandBerlin. Coming off of the major success of "Stadtkind",
she structured her label to create a cosmos inBerlinwhere as many people as possible can collaborate. With this she helps define the city itself.
With the onset of numerous BPitch Control label parties, she recreates within the collective. In 2001 she initiated the series titled "Boogy Bytes"
that takes place in alternatingBerlinlocations. It especially was conceived to give space to her musical impressions. Here she gathers listening
and dancing under the blanket of a collective experiment; in effect, the space of the new music ofBerlin. Let's all move toBerlin..
Adult. - Anxiety Always (Ersatz Audio)
Johnny Cash - Unearthed (Lost Highway)
Ladytron - Softcore Jukebox (Emperior Norton)
[V.A.] Movern Callar Sndtrk (Warp)
Minny Pops (re-issue) "Sparks in a Dark Room"
Glass Candy & The Shattered Theatre - Love, Love, Love (Troubleman Unlimited)
Chicks on Speed - 99 Cents (EFA)
Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes for Cash (Warp)
Roscoe Holcomb - An Untamed Sense of Control (Smithsonian Folkways)
Bob Dylan stated, "Roscoe Holcomb has a certain untamed sense of control, which makes him one of the best." Holcomb's white-knuckle
performances reflect a time before radio told musicians how to play, and these recordings make other music seem watered-down in comparison.
His high, tense voice inspired the term "high lonesome sound." Self-accompanied on banjo, fiddle, guitar, or harmonica, these songs express
the hard life he lived and the tradition in which he was raised in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky.
[V.A.] - Novamute Compilation (Novamute)
[V.A.] - Nag Nag Nag (React)
best single
The Electric Six - Danger High Voltage! (Xl)
best new music label
Ai Records
best upcoming release
Einstürzende Neubauten
will release a new album, Perpetuum Mobile, in February 2004. A limited edition including 5.1 DVD mixes will also be available.
Mute Article
Blixa Bargeld.com
Ellen Allien - Remix Collection (BPitch Control)
best album newly discovered
Cecil Leuter - Pop Electronique
best stage set design
Rockwell Group - Hairspray the musical
David Rockwell made Broadway history as the first architect to be nominated for a Tony Award, for the 1960s inspired sets for the musical Hairspray.
Morphosis - Silent Collisions, La Biennale di Venezia /Dance Music Theatre at the Venice Biennale 2003
(inspired by Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities)
best interiors
Marc Newson - Lever House Restaurant, 390 Park Ave. (Midtown East/Murray Hill) at 53rd Street
Meyer en Van Schooten - Shoebaloo store, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Also see the ING Group Headquarters.
Aysmptote - Carlos Miele Store, NYC
PhillipeStarck - TASCHEN BookstoreLos Angeles,354 N. Beverly Drive,Beverly Hills,CA90212
John Galliano's Paris Boutique
Ron Monsborough & Associates - Village Twin Cinema Complex, Brisbane
LOT/EK Boon store, Seoul
best architecture
Herzog & de Meuron - Prada Tokyo
Prada's involvement with the renowned architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron has certainly not been a classic client-architect relationship,
rather it has gone beyond the traditional boundaries of architecture and fashion. The studio is famous for its research into the fusion of t
raditional and experimental elements while using standard materials and shapes to give them new life.
Future Systems - Selfridges Department Store, Birmingham, England
Herzog & de Meuron - Laban Center, London
Vito Acconci - Café/ Amphitheatre, Mur River Graz, Austria
Thomas Heatherwick - Sitooterie, West Hordon, Essex
This astonishing structure is called a 'Sitooterie', Sitooterie being a Scottish word for something you 'sit oot' in, or so designer Thomas
Heatherwick claims. And dubious tag or no, it is a remarkable piece of garden furniture. Like much of 33-year-old Heatherwick's work -
a Buddhist temple in Japan, a blue civic square in Newcastle and much of the public art in Milton Keynes the Sitooterie defies easy
categorization. It's clearly, though a marvel of design, architecture, structural engineering and fiber optics. The 'Sitooterie' is essentially
a 2.4 cubic meter aluminum cube, with 4000 precisely angled holes, each of which holds a hollow aluminum tube capped with an orange
Perspex dome. Switch on the lights and you have a sparkling space age pincushion. And this most indiscreet of bucolic hidey-holes has a
suitably eccentric home, at Barnards farm in Essex. The farm's 17-hectare garden, acquired by Bernard and Sylvia Holmes in 1991, has a
range of peculiar attractions with bog gardens, kinetic sculptures, mazes, a copse shaped into the euro symbol and an air strip to welcome '
aviators and their flying machines'. The 'Sitooterie' fits right in.
Peter Cook & Colin Fournier - Kunsthaus Graz,Graz
Located on the banks of theMur, between the red brick roofs of neighboring historic buildings, the new architectural symbol is locally referred
to as the "friendly alien". The interplay between the new biomorphic structure on the bank of theMurand the old Clock Tower on the Schlossberg
will become the trademark of a city which strives to achieve a productive dialogue between tradition and the avant-garde. With respect both to
urban planning and to its purpose, the Kunsthaus functions as a bridgehead at a point where the past and the future meet.
Malo - Sunset Blvd in Silverlake
An early Morphosis restaurant hideously converted to a cheesy gay bar is now restored and renovated. Emily Jagoda Designs, Los Angeles
BengtSjostrom - Starlight Theatre,RockValleyCollege, Rockford Illinois
best architectural competition winner
Coop Himmelb(l)au - Akron Art Museum
Coop Himmelbau has won its first competition for a public museum in the United States. The Austrian architectural practice founded by
Wolf D. Prix and Helmut Swiczly was selected over the other two finalists, Dutch group UN Studio and Snøhetta of Norway. The new museum
with its dynamic, lightweight design will be built adjacent to a building in Italian Renaissance style, built in 1899 as a post office, and will triple
the space available for exhibiting the works in the museum's collection.
Hariri/Pontarini - Bahi'a Temple, Chile
The Universal House of Justice has appointed Siamak Hariri of Toronto, Canada, as architect of the Baha'i Temple (also known as a House
of Worship) to be built near Santiago in Chile.
best prototype architecture
Peter Testa - Carbon Fiber Tower
Testa's carbon tower is the product of ongoing research in computer-aided engineering and material science; as a result, its design seems
to change on a weekly basis. But the basic form is not especially complex. Imagine, first of all, a cylindrical building 40 stories high.
Then picture that cylinder strung together by 40 carbon-fiber strands, about 1 inch wide and nearly 650 feet long, that are arrayed in a
helicoidal, or crosshatch, pattern. Filling in the structure between floors is an advanced glass substitute (Testa's current favorite is called ETFE,
a kind of transparent foil). A pair of ramps on the exterior of the building offers circulation and further stabilizes the structure.
worst new building that everyone is gossiping about
The Perry Street Apts, by Richard Meier
best gallery exhibitions / installations
Richard Serra, Michael Craig-Martin, Jenny Saville - Gagosian NYC
WimWenders - James Cohan Gallery, NYC
Ralph Meatyard - NYC/LA (Paul Kopeikin Gallery)
Ryan McGuinness - Deitch Projects, NYC
The Haunted Dollhouse - Copro Nason Gallery,Culver City
Designing the Highline - Exhibition design by LOT/EK, Architecture by Gary Handel and Paula Scher installed at Grand Central Terminal, NYC
LebbeusWoods - The Fall
The installation designed for the main exhibition space of Jean Nouvel's lucid building for the Foundation Cartier is entitledThe Fall.
Its ambition is to expose the fall as a micro-universe that crystallizes the dimensions of a precise, if abbreviated, moment. In the space
measuring roughly 53 feet by 66 feet by 25 feet high, enclosed on three sides by floor to ceiling glass, a particular construction has been
made, a physical and at the same time hypothetical manifestation of the fall. Part of the Exhibition Unknown Quantity, conceived by
Paul Virilio at the Foundation Cartier Pour L'art Contemporain,Paris
On the Farm: Live Stock Footage by Livestock - The Center for Land Use Interpretation,Culver City.
In this exhibit, farm animals show us their point of view through wireless video cameras installed temporarily on their head and necks by
virtuoso animal and plant videographer Sam Easterson. Easterson's technology enables a cow, a pig, a goat, a chicken, a sheep, and a
horse to guide us around their world; what they look at, what catches their attention, how they move through space, and how they relate to
one another, on the farm.
best museum exhibitions
UCLA Hammer Museum - Christian Marclay
Guggenheim NYC NYC - The Cremaster Cycle, Mathew Barney
Matthew Barney's epic Cremaster cycle (19942002) is a self-enclosed aesthetic system consisting of five feature-length films that explore
processes of creation. The cycle unfolds not just cinematically, but also through the photographs, drawings, sculptures, and installations the
artist produces in conjunction with each episode. Its conceptual departure point is the male cremaster muscle, which controls testicular
contractions in response to external stimuli. The project is rife with anatomical allusions to the position of the reproductive organs during the
embryonic process of sexual differentiation: Cremaster 1 represents the most "ascended" or undifferentiated state, Cremaster 5 the most
"descended" or differentiated. The cycle repeatedly returns to those moments during early sexual development in which the outcome of the
process is still unknown-in Barney's metaphoric universe, these moments represent a condition of pure potentiality. As the cycle evolved over
eight years, Barney looked beyond biology as a way to explore the creation of form, employing narrative models from other realms, such as
biography, mythology, and geology. (Nancy Spector)
The Getty Los Angeles - The Passions, Bill Viola
The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC - Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller+Scofidio
Among the most provocative architects practicing today, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio have created an astonishing range of buildings,
site-specific artworks, video works, and performance pieces. Registered both as architects and designers, the husband/wife team crosses media
boundaries to explore how technology informs and affects our lives. The Whitney retrospective focuses on new work as well as a sampling of their
output from the past 20 years; investigating the issues that pervade the work of Diller + Scofidio: display, tourism, surveillance, ritual, and control.
best cinema
"Triplets of Belleville" - Directed by Sylvain Chomet
"A Mighty Wind" - Directed by Christopher Guest
"Northfork" - Directed by Michael Polish
"Better Luck Tomorrow" - Directed by Justin Lin
"Cremaster 3" - Directed by Mathew Barney
"Spectres of the Spectrum" - Directed by Craig Baldwin
"28 Days Later" - Directed by Danny Boyle
"Dirty Pretty Things" - Directed by Stephen Frears
"Party Monster" - Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato directors
"Big Fish" - Directed by Tim Burton
best DVD release
Director's Series - The Works of Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, and Michel Gondry, Warner Brothers/Elektra/Atlantic
best events / performances
ResFest - NYC/LA
Tease-O-Rama - Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles
Apocalipstic - Lenora Claire's new club at The California of Abnormal Arts
Day of the Dead Festival - HollywoodForeverCemetery, Los Angeles
Theremin Night - Bigfoot Lodge, Los Feliz
The Cramps - Henry Fonda Theatre
Lux Interior's wine guzzling nude performance will be permanently inscribed on my retinas for years to come.
best play
"Frankenstein in Love", Clive Barker, directed by Russell Blackwood, Los Angeles 2003
best fashion / collections
Alexander McQueen, Spring 2004
Comme des Garcons collaboration with Peggy Moffit re-release of select Rudi Gernreich designs
Oswald Boateng was made head of menswear designs at Givenchy
Galliano for Dior, Fall 03
worst trends
Legwarmers, armwarmers, trucker caps, H2 by Hummer
best books
Room 606: The SAS House and the Work of Arne Jacobsen (Phaidon)
Merzto Émigré and Beyound: Avant Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century (Phaidon)
OK, pretty much any Phaidon book
Liz Copeland
DJ, journalist, Detroit MI
ALBUMS 2003 (alpha)
Adult.: Anxiety Always (Ersatz Audio)
Natacha Atlas: Something Dangerous (Mantra)
Broker/Dealer: Initial Public Offering (Asphodel)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Nocturama (Mute/Anti)
Common: Electric Circus (MCA)
Chick Corea: Rendezvous in New York (Stretch)
Robin Guthrie: Imperial (Bella Union)
Ahmad Jamal: In Search of Momentum (Dreyfus)
Mojave 3: Spoon & Rafter (4AD)
Juana Molina: Segundo (Domino)
Plastikman: Closer (Mute)
Radiohead: Hail to the Thief (Capitol)
James Blood Ulmer: No Escape from the Blues: The Electric Lady Sessions (Hyena)
Villalobos: Alcachofa (Playhouse)
Various Artists: Idol Tryouts Vol. 1 (Ghostly International)
EXPERIMENTAL/CHALLENGING LISTENING 2003 (alpha)
Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Meeting (Pi)
HIM: Many in High Places Are Not Well (Bubble Core)
Rachel's: Systems/Layers (Quarterstick)
the | space | between : the | space | between with Joëlle Léandre (482 Music)
David Sylvian: Blemish (Samadhi Sound)
RESURFACED/FROM THE ARCHIVES 2003 (alpha)
Aphex Twin: 26 Mixes for Cash (Warp)
Dorothy Ashby: In a Minor Groove (Prestige) [1958 original issue/2003 reissue]
As One: So Far (So Good) (Ubiquity)
Asha Bhosle: The Rough Guide to Bollywood Legends (World Music Network)
David Bowie: Aladdin Sane (30th Anniversary 2-CD Edition) (EMI)
Johnny Cash: Cash Unearthed (American) [5cd box]
Led Zeppelin: How the West Was Won (Atlantic)
Lizzy Mercier-Decloux: Press Color and Mambo Nassau (Ze) [1979 & 1981/2003 Expanded Editions]
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (Plain) [2003 gatefold vinyl reissue]
Ken Nordine: Wink (Asphdel) [released in 1967 as Twink]
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues (Sony) [the cd series]
Shirley Scott: Queen of the Organ: The Shirley Scott Memorial Album (Prestige)
Nina Simone: Four Women: The Nina Simone Philips Recordings (Verve) [4 cd box]
Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime (Rhino) [3cd/1dvd box]
The Temptations: Psychedelic Soul (Motown)
Caetano Veloso: The Best of Caetano Veloso (Nonesuch)
Mal Waldron: Soul Eyes: The Mal Waldron Memorial Album (Prestige)
Various Artists: New York Noise (Soul Jazz)
MIX 2003 (alpha):
DFA: Dance to the Underground (IPC Media) [Muzik magazine promo]
Swayzak: Fabric 11 (Fabric)
SIGNIFICANT 2003 (chronological)
Thomas Fehlmann (Detroit Art Space, 26apr03)
Adult. (Magic Stick, 17may03)
Senor Coconut and His Orchestra with the final Kraftwerk-only set (Metropolis, Mutek, 31may03)
Matthew Herbert Big Band with guest vocalists Dani Siciliano, Arto Lindsay and Jamie Lidell (L'Auditori, Sónar, 12jun03)
Villalobos: Alcachofa (Playhouse) [haunting 2003]
Iggy & The Stooges and Sonic Youth (DTE Energy Music Theatre, 25aug03)
Johnny Cash RIP (26feb32 - 12sep03)
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues, the television and the cd series (sep03)
Paxahau 5 Year Anniversary with Reinhard Voigt, Michael Meyer & Deadbeat (Times Square, 27sep03)
"MC5: A True Testimonial" documentary (Detroit Film Theatre, 31oct03)
[Note: Liz's honorable mentions are on the CHARTS page of www.audiointerference.com.]
more to come...
