End of year list - 2009

30 albums which made my year brighter & darker:


LEYLAND KIRBY - 'SADLY, THE FUTURE IS NO LONGER WHAT IT WAS' TRILOGY (History Always Favours the Winners)

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Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country (Kranky)
William Fowler Collins - Perdition Hill Radio (Type)
Black to Comm - Alphabet 1968 (Type)
Elm - Nemcatacoa (Digitalis)
Gnaw their tongues - All the dread magnificence of perversity (At war with false noise)
Expo 70 - White Ohms (Peasant Magik)
William Basinski - 92982 (2062)
Locrian - Drenched Lands (At war with false noise)
Cold Cave - Love comes close (Matador)
Svarte Greiner - Kappe (Miasmah)

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Ben Frost - By the throat (Bedroom Community)
Mika Vainio - Aíneen Musta Puhelin / Black telephone of matter (Touch)
Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions (Southern Lord)
Chord - Flora (Neurot)
Jason Crumer - Walk with me (Misanthrophic Agenda)
Current 93 - Aleph at hallucinatory mountain (Coptic Cat)
Isis - Wavering Radiant (Ipecac)
Animal Hospital - Memory (Barge)
Peter Wright - Snow Blind/ An angel fell where the kestrel hover (Install/Spekk)
Benjamin Finger - Woods of Broccoli (How is Annie)
Last days - The Safety of North (n5MD)
Saito Koji - Beautiful (Semlabel)
Æthenor - Faking Gold and Murder (VHF)
Zu - Carboniferous (Ipecac)
Dälek - Gutter Tactics (Ipecac)
Pyramids with Nadja (Hydra Head)
Wolves in the throne room - Black Cascade (Southern Lord)
Pan Sonic & Keiji Haino - Shall I download a black hole and offer it to you (Blast First Petite)
36 - Hypersona (3six Recordings)



Some favourite labels of the year: Phantom Channel, Type, Kranky, Hospital Productions, Neurot, Miasmah, Ipecac, At war with false noise, Monorail Trespassing, Digitalis

Klang vol. 138 [27.12.2009] : Darker years to come

1) Steve Gunn - Mustapha's Exit / Boerum Place (Three Lobed Recordings, 2009)
2) Evan Caminiti - Midnight's Road / Psychic Mud Shrine (Digitalis, 2009)
3) Sean McCann - Branch Chambers pt.1 / A wind in their way (Monorail Trespassing, 2009)
4) Locrian - Obsolete elegy in cast concrete / Drenched Lands (At war with false noise, 2009)
5) Wolves in the throne room - Wanderer above the sea of fog / Black Cascade (Southern Lord, 2009)
6) Jack Rose - Cross the north fork / The Black Dirt Sessions (Three Lobed Recordings, 2009)
7) Coil- Tainted Love / Scatology (Force and Form,1984)


Artwork: 1989 New years card from Coil

Klang vol. 137 [20.12.2009] : Doomed

1) Pyramids with Nadja - Sound of ice and grass / Pyramids with Nadja (Hydra Head, 2009)
2) Isis - False Light / Live 5: 07.23.06 (Hydra Head, 2009)
3) Locrian - Greyfield Shrines / Drenched Lands (At war with false noise, 2009)


Link for last week's show: http://rapidshare.com/files/320711554/Klang0612.mp3.html

Klang vol. 136 [13.12.2009] : Maze of Scars

1) Xasthur - Maze of Oppression / All Reflections Drained (Hydra Head, 2009)
2) Shrinebuilder - Pyramide of the moon / Shrinebuilder (Neurot, 2009)
3) Xela - I drowned her in a dreamless sleep / Tsuki no seika: Vol 1 (Root Strata, 2009)
4) Tephra - Through our veins / Tephra (Riptide, 2005)
5) Zelienople - Water Saw / Give it up (Type, 2009)
6) Zelienople - All i want is calm / Give it up (Type, 2009)
7) Ryuichi Sakamoto - Firewater / Out of noise (Rhythm Republic, 2009)
8) Xasthur - Achieve Emptiness Part II / All Reflections Drained (Hydra Head, 2009)


Background music: Grouper - Pale through / Tsuki no seika: Vol 1 (Root Strata, 2009)


Halls and walls of consequence deem endless,
where hope is the art of lying to yourself.

You're a lost fucking cause in a vicious circle of endless rape.

You've raped yourself in front of the mirrors I held before you
running from a future and leaving a maze of scars