Wed 8 Feb – Tim Hecker was great. Played all the major hits including Chimera and The Piano Drop and a third one i cant remember the title of. Good venue for it. No light show, only a few candles that i heard was extinguished (due to bass organs?).

The side-show-DJ could have played less techno, but i appreciated a Basic Channel track and a Chris Watson track, so thats fine.

Just stumbleduppon the new album Inside the Ships by Tarwater in a real record shop, and i actually bought it. No preview on illegal mp3 before buying. Long time since i did that, and wasnt disappointed. They still sound as they should - not much have changed since Animals Suns & Atoms . Clearly a good thing.

I recently read a review of the new Jamie Lidell album - Compas in the wire. The review promised more of what i previously had loved about his work, and missed since Muddlin Gear (2000 on Warp) and his Super_Collider work. Namely the rough improvised electronic soul mayhem he also pulled off live at the time, like at Sonar by day (~2004).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBhcaDqaS9E
A little bit more Daddy's car, please!

I was disappointed when i heard Compass, even though i had lowered my expectations after seeing endless viral videos, of hasty recording sessions with lyric workshops featuring very professional musicians…

Fri 7 Nov – Wundergrund

Great event. Shows started on time - an underrated quality of today i think. Minimal, but good and fairly priced bar. Again i suspect this, and the booking of these particular acts, was achieved thanks to the involvement of Jakob Weigand Goetz - manager of the Kontur label, and whom has organized countless well structured and generously funded events.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/da/thumb/2/29/Radiohuset_indgang.jpg/250px-Radiohuset_indgang.jpg
Excellent venue obviously - it was in a studio in the old Radio Corporation building of Copenhagen, with wooden/marble walls. This place should be used for things like this more often!

Nice performance by Marc…

Printer pops up on yet another year end list - this time from Philip Sherburne. Addmittedly, they are a bit down the list under the point "A few great cuts…", but still, we are happy with that.

Blonde Redhead, 23 (4AD)
Caribou, Andorra (Merge)
Pluramon, The Monstrous Surplus (Karaoke Kalk)
Printer, I Can Take More (Statler & Waldorf)
Robosonic, Sturm Und Drang (Undercoverart)

Check the full list here.