Favorite 30 (In no particular order):
Lust for youth - 'Perfect View' LP [Sacred Bones]
David Lynch - 'The Big Dream' LP + 7"/CD [Sacred Bones]
Vår - The 'World Fell' 7" [Big Love]
Puzzle - 'I'll Just Say This' LP [Big Love]
Dracula Lewis - 'Use Your Illusions' LP [Hundebiss]
Primitive Art - 'Problems' LP [Hundebiss]
Eyedress & Skint Eastwood - 'Hearing Colors' LP [Phantasma Disques]
Mind Slums - Calm Oceans' CDR [Phantasma a Disques]
Naadyn - 'Galaxy' LP [Phantasma Disques]
Inca Copeland - 'Don't Look Back, That's Not Where You're Going' 12" [World Music]
Omar-S - 'It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It' LP [Fxhe]
Dean Blunt - 'The Redeemer' LP [Hippos In Tanks]
Dirty Beaches - 'Drifters / Love Is The Devil' LP [Zoo Music]
Leisure Connection - 'Jungle Dancing / Wave Riding' 12" [No Label]
Jonas Frederiksen - 'Toekomstje' LP [No label]
Coyote Clean Up - '2 Hot 2 Wait' LP [100%Silk]
White Poppy - 'S.T.' LP [Not Not Fun]
Pure X - 'Crawling Up The Stairs' LP [Acephale]
Autre Ne Veut - 'Anxiety' LP [Mexican Summer]
Acteurs - 'S.T.' LP [Public Information]
Yves Son Ace - 'Dead Life' LP [Clan Destine]
Egyptian Sports Network - 'Interstitial Luxor' 12" [New Images]
Food Pyramid - 'Ecstasy & Refreshment' 12" [Holy Mountain]
Soft Riot - 'No Longer Stranger' LP [Volar Records]
Youth Code -'S.T.' LP [Dais]
Syclops - 'A Blink Of An Eye' LP [Running Back]
Torn Hawk - 'S.T.' 12" [L.I.E.S.]
Torn Hawk - 'We Burnt Time' 12" [Valcrond Video]
Luke Wyatt - 'Teen Hawk' LP [Emotional Response]
Rrose - 'Primary Evidenece' 12" (Reissue) [Eaux]
Best Remixes:
Donate Dozzy - 'Donate Dozzy Plays Bee Mask' [Spectrum Spools]
Ike Yard - 'Remixes EP2' [Desire]
Moon Duo - 'Circles Remixed' 12" [Sacred Bones]
Best Soundtrack:
V.A. - 'Diabolique' Soundtrack LP [Phantasma Disques]
Best Artwork:
Pharmakon - 'Abandon' LP [Sacred Bones]
Best Compilation:
V.A. - 'Dokument#1' LP [Posh Isolation]
My releases of 2013:
'Allegoria' LP/CD [Not Not Fun / Big Love]
In 2013 I could finally release my 1st full-album 'Allegoria'. Many many thanks to Not Not Fun, Big Love and everyone who support me & my music. I also did a tour in US/Canada/Mexico/China in autumn that was an amazing unforgettable experience.
2013 was the greatest year for me as a listener too. I've chosen 24 favorite discs in 2012 but 2013 I wanted to choose like 50, that means I could meet more music I like! Although I tried to be strict and chose 30 + 6 at last. Those 36 discs are all my special favorites! As you've seen the list, 2013 was an awesome year for many great experimental music that is not just 'weird' but more beautiful and impressive enough. I still love both pop and experimental, so it makes me very happy that recently I could kinda find some good combination of the coolest/deepest underground + good pop feel. I think Sacred Bones & Phantasma Disques did such a good job in 2013. Thanks to them.
Also now I'm very interested in music scenes in Copenhagen (like Vår, Lust For Youth, Puce Mary, etc… around Posh Isolation) and Philippines (like Eyedress, Skint Eastwood, CONCLΔVE, etc), especially Copenhagen as strength of the scene itself though I respect Filipino artists' attitude and activity as same Asians. That's still important thing to going out of your country (and maybe to be realized by US or some countries in Europe, because that's why I know them and why you know me now) but at the same that'd be really cool to have your own coolest scene in your city by yourselves.
i.g. the 'Dokument#1' by Posh Isolation told me such kind of things. I never want to pretend nor imitate something particular but still I think Tokyo should learn something from them? Anyways, I'll keep going this new year too. I'll just do what I can do and what I want to do with my full effort. I wanna see what I've never seen, and I wanna see who I haven't really seen yet. I hope I could stay with your warm support in this year too. Thanks! xo
i.g. the 'Dokument#1' by Posh Isolation told me such kind of things. I never want to pretend nor imitate something particular but still I think Tokyo should learn something from them? Anyways, I'll keep going this new year too. I'll just do what I can do and what I want to do with my full effort. I wanna see what I've never seen, and I wanna see who I haven't really seen yet. I hope I could stay with your warm support in this year too. Thanks! xo
Info for shows etc:
Sun 12th January: DJ Set for 'SODOM × FISH' @Trump Room Shibuya
Wed 15th January: Live performance for 'dublub.jp' @Space Orbit Sangendyaya
Saturday 8th February: SPECIAL Live performance for 'ONE' @Vacant Harajuku
Saturday 8th February: SPECIAL Live performance for 'ONE' @Vacant Harajuku
p.s. Also I can announce something about my first release in 2014 soon! Yay!
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2013年には、ようやく初めてのフルアルバム「アレゴリア」を発売することができました。発売元のNot Not FunとBig Love、そして支えてくれた皆様には本当に感謝しています。秋にはアメリカ、カナダ、メキシコ、中国を回るツアーにも行き、素晴らしい、忘れられない体験をしました。
聴き手としても2013年は素晴らしい年でした。2012年には絞って24枚選んだけれど、2013年は50枚くらい選びたいのがあって、それだけ好きな音楽にたくさん出会えたんだなと思いました！最終的には心を鬼にして30枚のお気に入り+その他ベスト6を選びました。その36枚はどれも特別なお気に入りです。リストを見てもらえばわかるように、2013年はたくさんのエクスペリメンタル・ミュージックにとって素晴らしい年だったと思います。「実験的な」と言っても、ただ「変な」だけじゃなくて充分に美しくて印象的なもの。私はやはりポップとエクスペリメンタルのどちらも大好きで、最近はもっとも深くてかっこいいアンダーグラウンドと良いポップセンスの融合みたいなものが少し見えてきてとても幸せです。Sacred BonesとPhantasma Disquesは2013年に本当にいい仕事をしたと思います。感謝。
あと今はコペンハーゲンのシーン（VårとかLust For YouthとかPuce Maryとか、Posh Isolationまわり）とフィリピンのシーン（Eyedressとか、 Skint Eastwoodとか、CONCLΔVEなど）にとても興味があります。シーンそのものの強さとしては特にコペンハーゲンだけど、フィリピンは同じアジアとして、彼らの行動力や姿勢を尊敬します。外（つまりアメリカやヨーロッパの主要国）に出て行くことや認められることはとても意味があるし（だからこそ日本にいる私たちが彼らのことを知れるのだし、彼らもまた私たちのことを知れるから）、私はこれからも挑戦し続けていくつもりだけれど、地元で自分たちのシーンをつくっていくってことがいかにかっこいいかということをPosh Isolationの「Dokument#1」なんかを見ていると強烈に感じます。どこかの真似をしたいとは思わないけど、東京も彼らから見習うものはあるんじゃないでしょうか。とにかく今年も自分にできることは何か考えて行動していこうと思います。やりたいことを全力でやります。また見たことのないものが見たい、まだちゃんと会ったことがない人に会いたいです。応援して下さい！
さっそく1月からいくつかライブも決まっています。
1/12 (日) DJ Set for 'SODOM × FISH' @渋谷Trump Room
1/15 (水): Live performance for 'dublub.jp' @三軒茶屋Space Orbit
1/15 (水): Live performance for 'dublub.jp' @三軒茶屋Space Orbit
2014年最初のリリースについてももうすぐ何か告知できると思います！楽しみにしててね！
Kinuko
