Best of...

It's been a very fast year. Lots of good times and good music. I'd like to thank everyone for their continued support of the label and my various projects, including Ole Hermann Melby, Sam/Phage Tapes, Joe/Small Doses, Josh Lay, Dan Hall, Andy Grant, Chris/Cipher Productions, Rick/Infirmary, Mike Palace, Mike Peck and everyone else I might be forgetting. I'm looking forward to 2012 with all kinds of new projects in the works for the label: a Minotaur CD, a JPK boxset of field recordings, the Tape Fetish Zine, new works from Rodmaker and Hedorah as well as many other art related releases. Finally, in the time honored tradition of looking back at the year in sound, I have compiled my list of top listens. This list includes releases I purchased/traded for this year which is not exclusive to being produced in 2011.

ROCK/METAL/NON-NOISE

Locrian: The Clearing
Bjork: Biophilia
Barn Owl: Lost in the Glare
Puscifer: Conditions of My Parole
Radiohead: The King of Limbs
Wolves in the Throne Room: Celestial Lineage
HTRK: Work (Work, Work)
Blut Aus Nord: 777:.....
Moon: Caduceus Chalice 

NOISE/BLACK MURK/EXPERIMENTAL

Cultus Sabbati: Descent into the Maelstrom

Neige et Noirceur: Philosophie des Arts Occultes

Harrassor: Hater of Man

Allseits: Hel

Steve Roach: Quite Music Complete Collection

Kammerheit: The Starwheel

Grouper: Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

Visions: Summoning the Void

Jeph Jerman: For Henry F. Farny....

Northhaunt: Horizons

Subklinik: Musik for Decomposition

Sutcliffe Jugend: Archive 4

Yen Pox: Blood Music Re-issue

Thomas Koner: Nunatak/Teimo/Permafrost
SMM: Context
Swamp Horse
Glass Coffin
PHBTK 
WILT/GOOSE/MARAX...did you really miss this one???

...the return of MARAX

Cheers!

James