Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Revolver Staff Picks 2012.


PAUL ASHBY, Sales & Revolver Digital
Deepchord Presents Echospace – Silent World soundtrack 3xLP (Echospace)
Field Music – Plumb LP (Memphis Industries)
Nils Frahm – Wintermusik LP reissue (Erased Tapes)
Alexander Turnquist – Like Sunburned Snowflakes 12" (VHF)
Burnt Friedman – Zokuhen LP (Nonplace)
Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – Stare 10" (Erased Tapes)
Daniel Bjarnason and Ben Frost – Solaris soundtrack LP (Bedroom Community)
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works II 3xLP (1972)
Helios – Moiety DL (Unseen)
Jóhann Jóhannsson – Copenhagen Dreams soundtrack LP (NTOV)

ULI ELSER, Sales, Export Sales & Exclusive Label Relations
Cairo Gang – Corner Man LP (Empty Cellar)
Violens – True LP/CD (Slumberland)
Dark Dark Dark – Who Needs Who LP/CD (Supply & Demand)
La Sera – Sees the Light MC (Burger)
Evans The Death – s/t LP/CD (Slumberland)
Woollen Kits – Four Girls LP/CD (Trouble In Mind)
Phillip Glass  – Rework: Philip Glass Remixed 2xLP/2xCD (Kora)
Eraas – s/t LP/CD (Felte)
Liminanas – Crystal Anis LP/CD (HoZac)
Craft Spells – Gallery LP/CD (Captured Tracks)
***Fave Two Reissues:
The Sound – Jeopardy LP/CD (1972)
The Sound – From the Lions Mouth LP/CD (1972)

DAVID GULBIS, Sales & Midheaven Mail Order
Kraus – Supreme Commander LP (Moniker)
Cheater Slicks – Reality Is a Grape LP (Columbus Discount)
Pete Swanson – Pro Style LP (Type)
Moon Pool & Dead Band – Human Fly 12" (Not Not Fun)
Natural Snow Buildings – Night Coercion into the Company of Witches 4xLP (Ba Da Bing!)
Pumice – Puny LP/CD (Soft Abuse)
Pod Blotz – White...Black...Spectrum Infinity MC (Teen Action)
Stragety – Strategy LP (Peak Oil)
Blues Control – Valley Tangents LP/CD (Drag City)
LA Vampires with Maria Minerva – The Integration LP (Not Not Fun)

JASON HENDARDY, Receiving
Lee Hazlewood – The LHI Years 2xLP (Light in the Attic)
Terry Malts – Killing Time LP (Slumberland)
V/A – Time to Go LP (Flying Nun)
Broken Water – Tempest LP (Hardly Art)
Lives of Angels – Elevator to Eden LP (Dark Entries)
Grave Babies – Gothdammit LP (Hardly Art)
Trailer Trash Tracys – Ester LP (Domino)
Black Tambourine – OneTwoThreeFour 7" (Slumberland)
Hazel's Wart – Together We Didn't LP (Skrot Up)
Rites of Spring – Six Song Demo 10" (Dischord)

CHRISTOPHER HUBBARD, Layout & Stuff
Marcia Bassett + Samara Lubelski – Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon LP (Kye)
Maurizio Bianchi – Mental Machination Music CDR (Red Light Sound)
Chromatics – Kill for Love 2xLP (Italians Do It Better)
The Dead C – Harsh 70s Reality 2xLP reissue (Siltbreeze)
The Dicks – Kill from the Heart LP reissue (Alternative Tentacles)
Pin Group – Ambivalence LP+CD (Flying Nun)
Rites of Spring – Six Song Demo 10" (Dischord)
Robert Turman – Flux 2xLP (Spectrum Spools)
Veronica Falls – My Heart Beats 7" (Slumberland)
V/A – Buttons: From Champaign to Chicago 2xLP (Numero Group)

UTRILLO KUSHNER, Sales & Marketing
Swans – The Seer 3xLP (Young God)
Ital – Hive Mind CD/2x12" (Planet Mu)
Bill Fay – Life Is People LP/CD (Dead Oceans)
Spacin' – Deep Thuds LP (Ritchie)
C. Spencer Yeh – Transitions LP (Destijl)
Van Halen – A Different Kind of Truth 2xLP/CD (Interscope)
Epic Soundtracks – Wild Smile: An Anthology 2xCD (Troubadour)
Blues Control – Valley Tangents CD/LP (Drag City)
Lumerians – Transmissions from the Telos Vol. IV LP (Permanent)
Ufomammut –  ORO: Opus Primum CD / ORO: Opus Alter CD (Neurot)

BOB MCDONALD, Head Buyer
Chromatics – Kill for Love 2xLP (Italians Do It Better)
Diplo – Express Yourself 7" (540) & CD (Mad Decent)
El-P – Cancer for Cure 2xLP (Fat Possum)
Goat – World Music LP (Rocket)
Jessica Pratt – s/t LP (Birth)
Ty Segall – Slaughterhouse 2x10" (In The Red) / Twins LP (Drag City)
Spacin' – Deep Thuds LP (Ritchie)
Swans – The Seer 3xLP (Young God)
Toy Love – Live at the Gluepot 1980 2xLP (Goner)
Woods – Bend Beyond LP (Woodsist)

THEE MIKE DOYLE, Sales
***New
Spacin' – Deep Thuds LP (Richie)
Mad Scene – Blip LP (Siltbreeze)
Birds of Maya – Ready to Howl CD (Agitated)
Blank Realm – Go Easy LP (Siltbreeze)
White Fence – Family Perfume Vol. 1 & 2 CD/2xLP (Woodsist)
Field Music – Plumb CD/LP (Memphis Industries)
Melody's Echo Chamber – s/t LP (Fat Possum)
Woollen Kits – s/t LP (RIP Society) & Four Girls CD/LP (Trouble in Mind)
Ufomammut – ORO: Opus Alter CD (Neurot)
Liminanas – Crystal Anis LP/CD (HoZac)
Kraus – Supreme Commander LP (Moniker)
Cairo Gang – Corner Gang LP (Empty Cellar)
Phillip Glass  – Rework: Philip Glass Remixed 2xLP/2xCD (Kora)
Andy Human – Freeze LP (CWR)
Chromatics – Kill for Love CD/2xLP (Italians Do It Better)
Dylan Shearer – Porchpuddles LP (Empty Cellar)
***Old
The Sound – Jeopardy LP/CD (1972)
The Sound – From the Lions Mouth LP/CD (1972)
Pin Group – Ambivalence CD/LP reissue (Flying Nun)
V/A – Time to Go (Flying Nun)
V/A – Personal Space 2xLP (Numero Group)
The Men – Immaculada (Deranged)
Rockin' Horse – Yes It Is LP (Sing Sing)
Michael Chapman – Rainmaker reissue (Light in the Attic)
Axxess – Novels for the Moon LP (Medical)
Kim Jung Mi – Now LP reissue (Lion)
Bo Diddley – Black Gladiator CD reissue (Future Days)
Annette Peacock – I'm the One CD/LP (Future Days)
V/A – Buttons: From Champaign to Chicago CD/2xLP (Numero Group)
V/A – Buttons Starter Pack 2xLP (Numero Group)
The Clean – Oddities 2xLP reissue (540)
Ilaiyaraaja – Fire Star: Synth-Pop and Electro... CD/2xLP (Bombay Connection)
Esplendor Geometrico – 1980-1981 Prehistoric Sounds CD+3x7" (Geometrik)
Jeremy Thompson & Mary Blount – Wired Up! book (Wired Up Media)
Pumphouse Gang – s/t  LP (Sing Sing)
Circuit Rider – s/t LP (Numero Group)
Jean-Pierre Mirouze – Le Mariage Colectif OST LP (Born Bad)
David Markey & Jordon Schwartz – We Got Power book (Bazillion Points)
Mahmoud Ahmed – Accompanied by Ibex Band LP (Mississippi)
V/A – Hasabe LP (Mississippi)
V/A – Bollywood Steel Guitar 2xLP (Sublime Frequencies)
Scientist – Best Dub Album in the World LP & In the Kingdom of Dub LP (Important)
Shin Joong Hyun – s/t CD (Lion Productions)
Gurdjieff – Harmonium Improvisations LP (Mississippi)
Martin Lopz y Su Estrellas – Cocinando LP (Masstropicas)

KEN OLSON, Warehouse

Black Tambourine – OneTwoThreeFour 2x7" (Slumberland)
Tronics – Loved Backed by Force LP (What's Your Rupture?)
Swans – The Seer 3xLP (Young God)
Lee Hazlewood – The LHI Years 2xLP (Light in the Attic)
RL Crutchfield's Dark Day – Exterminating Angel LP reissue (Dark Entries)
Paul Nova – Trees Without Leaves 2xLP (Vinyl on Demand)
John Maus – A Collection of Rarities LP (Ribbon Music)
Violens – True LP (Slumberland)
Wild Nothing – Nocturne LP (Captured Tracks)
Rites Wild – Ways of Being LP (Not Not Fun)

JESSE STEINCHEN, Accounting
Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks LP/CD (Polyvinyl)
Cat Power – Sun LP/CD (Matador)
Chris Cohen – Overgrown Path LP/CD (Captured Tracks)
Mac DeMarco – 2 LP/CD (Captured Tracks)
Toy Love – Live at the Gluepot 1980 2xLP (Goner)
Field Music – Plumb LP/CD (Memphis Industries)
T.I.T.S. – The Girls LP (T.I.T.S.)
Vaz  – Chartreuse Bull LP (Sleeping Giant Glossolalia)
Violent Change – Self Titled Demo! MC (Frankenjew)
Verlaines – Untimely Meditations CD (Flying Nun)

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