De eindejaarslijstjes 2012 van de Gonzo (circus)-medewerkers

Een overzicht van de beste albums en meer van 2012 door onze medewerkers.

Mattias Baertsoen
medewerker
1 Andy Stott – Luxury Problems (Modern Love)
2 Vessel – Order Of Noise (Tri Angle)
3 TNGHT – TNGHT (Warp Records, 12″)
4 Actress – R.I.P. (Honest Jon’s)
5 Mala – Mala In Cuba (Brownswood)
6 Angel Haze – Reservation (Noizy Cricket!!, mixtape)
7 Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city (Top Dawg)
8 Festival: Nuits Sonores (Lyon, Frankrijk)
9 Concert: Friends (Botanique, Brussel, 15/05/2012)
10 Concert: How To Dress Well (ABClub, Brussel, 19/10/2012)

Seb Bassleer
medewerker
1 Amanar – Alghafiat (Mississippi Records/Sahel Sounds)
2 Bola – Volume 7 (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
3 Cannibales & Vahins – N.O.W.H.E.R.E (Tractor Notown)
4 Filastine – 00T (Post World Industries/Jarring Effects)
5 Frisk Frugt – Dansktoppen Mder Burkina Faso I Det Himmelbl Rum Hvor Solen Bor, Suite (Yoyooyoy/Lolita Industri)
6 Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang – En Yay Sah (Luaka Bop)
7 Las Malas Amistades – Maleza (Honest Jon’s)
8 Lucrecia Dalt – Commotus (Hem Berlin)
9 Maga Bo – Quilombo Do Futuro (Post World Industries)
10 Mutamassik – Rekkez (ini.itu)

Patrick Bruneel
medewerker
1 Electro Quarterstaff – Aykroyd (Willowtip)
2 Falling Man – Hordes Of The Battered (El Negocito)
3 Alkerdeel – Morinde (Consouling Sounds)
4 Embers – Lichtzwart (Hospitalfood)
5 Bob Mould – Silver Age (Merge)
6 Akron – Voyage Of Exploration (Vampisoul)
7 Indian Handcrafts – Civil Disobedience For Losers (Sargent House)
8 Pig Destroyer – Book Burner (Relapse)
9 Amenra – Mass V (Neurot)
10 Neurosis – Honor Found In Decay (Neurot)

Stijn Buyst
redacteur
1 Can – The Lost Tapes (Spoon)
2 Neneh Cherry & The Thing – The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound)
3 Dans Dans Dans Dans (eigen beheer)
4 Flying Horseman Twist (Unday)
5 Goat World Music (Rocket Recordings)
6 Mount Eerie Clear Moon (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
7 Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras Meet The Congos – Icon Give Thank / Icon Eye (Rvng Intl., cd+dvd)
8 Swans The Seer (Young God)
9 Innercity Terrestreality (Aguirre)
10 Concert: Gnod (Bar Bateau, Antwerpen, 12/09/2012)

Tjeerd van Erve
medewerker
1 Japandroids – Celebration Rock (Polyvinyl)
2 Festival: Incubate (Tilburg)
3 Codeine – When I See The Sun (Numero Group, box)
4 Festival: Roadburn (Tilburg)
5 Wires.Under.Tension – Replicant (Western Vinyl)
6 Swans – The Seer (Young God)
7 The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know (Fat Cat)
8 The XX – Coexist (Young Turks)
9 Raketkanon – RKTKN #1 (Zeal)
10 Boek: William Schaff – From Blacksheep Boys To Bill Collectors + Jason Molina – Autumn Bird Songs 10″ (Savannah/Graveface)

De Geluidsarchitect
redacteur
1 And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Lost Songs (Superball)
2 BRNS – Wounded (Louis)
3 Codasync – Pan Aroya (Grovgast)
4 Disappears – Pre Language (Kranky)
5 Flying Horseman – Twist (Unday)
6 Maserati – VII (Temporary Residence)
7 Raketkanon – RKTKN #1 (Zeal)
8 The Samuel Jackson Five – The Samuel Jackson Five (Denovali)
9 Swans – The Seer (Young God)
10 Torche – Harmonicraft (Volcom)

Ge Huismans
hoofdredacteur
1 Festival: Kontraste (Krems, 12-14/10/2012)
2 Various – Mind The Gap 94 t/m 99 (Gonzo (circus))
3 Film: Jonas Mekas box (Re:Voir/Agnes b/Potemkine)
4 Tentoonstelling: SF (Art, Science, Fiction) + Claude Aello et Les Designers + Space Oddity: design/fiction (Le Grand Hornu/Mac’s, Mons, 28/11/2012)
5 Boek: Hans Fallada, Kleiner Mann was nun (Berlin und Weimar: Aufbau Verlag, 1932/1970)
6 Tentoonstelling: Manifesta 9 (Waterschei, Genk, juli 2012)
7 Concert: Aidan Baker ((h)ear/KuS Heerlen, 18/02/2012)
8 Tentoonstelling: Expo’s en vaste collectie (Dortmunder U/Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, juni 2012)
9 Ander: Ultra avond (W139, Amsterdam, 01/03/2012)
10 Concert: Das Original Oberkreuzberger Nasenfltenorchester (Cafe Linus, Berlijn, 14/01/2012)

Leonor Jonker
medewerker
1 Concert: Minny Pops + Rats On Rafts + Womb (Gullivers, Manchester, 21/01/2012)
2 Boek: Erik Brus en Fred de Vries – Gehavende Stad (Amsterdam: Lebowski Publishers)
3 Tentoonstelling: Retrospektive Gerhard Richter: Panorama (Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlijn, 12/02/2012 13/05/2012)
4 Concert: Spizzenergi (Rebellion Festival, Blackpool, 04/08/2012)
5 Film: Holy Motors (Los Carax)
6 Polar Twins Wee Small Hours At Swansneck (Tonefloat)
7 Tentoonstelling: Someday All Adults Will Die: Punk Graphics 1971-1984 (Hayward Gallery, Londen, 14/09/2012 04/11/2012)
8 Concert: Wooden Constructions (Melkweg: Ultra2012-Einde, Amsterdam, 07/04/2012)
9 Tentoonstelling: Ren Danils – Een tentoonstelling is ook altijd deel van een groter geheel (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 12/05/2012 23/09/2012)
10 Hugh Cornwell – Totem & Taboo (Cadiz Music)

Tamara van der Laarse
fotograaf
1 Actress – R.I.P (Honest Jon’s)
2 Nathan Fake – Steam Days (Border Community)
3 Liars – WIXIW (Mute)
4 Shed – The Killer (50 Weapons)
5 The KVB – Always Then (Clan Destine)
6 Four Tet – Pink (Text)
7 The Soft Moon – Zeros (Captured Tracks)
8 Library Tapes – Sun Peeking Through (Auetic)
9 Various – Minimal Wave Tapes Volume 2 (Minimal Wave)
10 Innergaze – Mutual Dreaming (Cititrax)

Andy Leenen
medewerker
1 Concert: The Weeknd (Pitch Festival, Amsterdam, 06/07/2012)
2 Concert: Theo Parrish (Club Fuse, Brussel, 29/09/2012)
3 Film: Michael Haneke – Amour
4 Film: Mark Cousins – The Story Of Film: An Odyssey
5 Concert: Electric Wizard (Zomerparkfeest, Venlo, 03/07/2012)
6 Concert: Nosaj Thing (Pitch Festival, Amsterdam, 07/07/2012)
7 Johnny Dowd – No Regrets (Mother Jinx)
8 Alt-J – An Awesome Wave (Infectious)
9 Boek: Allen Ginsberg – Howl, Kaddisj en andere gedichten (Utrecht: Uitgeverij IJzer)
10 Clams Casino – Instrumental Mixtape 2 (download)

Michel Mees
fotograaf
1 Case Mayfield – The Many Colored Beast (Pias)
2 Matthijs Leeuwis – Het is al lang geleden (eigen beheer)
3 Stumbleine – Drifting Youth (eigen beheer)
4 Ryan Davis – Particle Of Bliss (Traum)
5 Sven Vth – The Sound Of The 13th Season (Cocoon)
6 Peter Van Hoesen – Perceiver (Time To Express)
7 TJ Kong & Modular K – Dream Cargoes (Pokerflat)
8 Burial – Street Halo / Kindred (Hyperdub)
9 Monolake – Ghost (Imbalance Computer)
10 Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury – Drokk: Music inspired by Mega-City One (Invada)

Robert Muis
medewerker
1 Oren Ambarchi – Audience Of One (Touch)
2 Pierre Bastien – Entomolgy (Worm)
3 Gareth Davis & Frances-Marie Uitti – Gramercy (Subterranean)
4 Dieb 13/Gustafsson/Siewert – (Fake) The Facts (Editions Mago)
5 Magda Mayas & Christine Abdelnour – Myriad (UNSounds)
6 Israel Martinez – Two Expressos In Separate Cups (AAGOO)
7 Andr Vida – Brud Volumes I-III (PAN)
8 Concert: Nate Wooley (ACU, Utrecht, 22/03/2012)
9 Concert: Colin Stetson (Ekko, Utrecht, 28/11/2012)
10 Concert: WU LYF (Melkweg, Amsterdam, 06/03/2012)

Tom Nys
medewerker
1 Actress – R.I.P (Honest Jon’s)
2 Falko Brocksieper – Shortcake Strategy (Treibstoff)
3 Deepchord – Sommer (Soma Quality Recordings)
4 Stefan Goldmann – 17:50 (Macro)
5 Lindstrm – Smalhans (Smalltown Supersound)
6 Monoloc – Drift (CLR)
7 Prins Thomas – Prins Thomas 2 (Full Pupp)
8 Raime – Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
9 Silent Servant – Negative Fascination (Hospital Productions)
10 Smallpeople – Salty Days (Smallville)

Mark Paauwe
medewerker
1 Voorstelling: Life And Times: Episodes 1-4 (Nature Theatre Of Oklahoma / Dir. Pavol Liska & Kelly Copper, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam, 22/09/2012)
2 Festival: Internationaal Filmfestival Rotterdam 2012 (Rotterdam)
3 Ander: TV de deur uit gedaan
4 Boek: Peter Martens, Few Loving Voices (Rotterdam: Post Editions)
5 Film: Histrias Que S Existem Quando Lembradas (Jlia Murat, Eye Film Instituut Nederland, 2011)
6 Tentoonstelling: Cor Kraat, Made In Rotterdam (LP2, Rotterdam, 18/11/2012)
7 Concert: The Pitch (Worm, Rotterdam, 10/10/2012)
8 Voorstelling: Ganesh Versus The Third Reich (Back To Back Theatre / Dir. Simon Laherty, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam, 27/09/2012
9 Various – Wandelweiser und so weiter (Another Timbre, box)
10 Kiki Gyan – 24 Hours In A Disco (Soundway)

Serge De Pauw
redacteur
1 Aroma Di Amore – Samizdat (Onderstroom)
2 Dead Can Dance Anastasis (PIAS)
3 Les Discrets – Ariettes Oublies… (Prophecy Productions)
4 Fields Of The Nephilim – Ceromonies (Sacred Symphony)
5 Gazelle Twin – The Entire City (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray)
6 Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat Weltuntergangsstimmung (Zeal)
7 Krakow – Krakow (F.K.K.-Music)
8 School Of Seven Bells Ghostory (Ghostly International)
9 The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know (Fat Cat)
10 Maarten Van Der Vleuten – Are You Worthy? (Tonefloat)

Maarten Schermer
redacteur
1 Raime – Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
2 X-TG – Desertshore / The Final Report (Industrial)
3 Ufomammut – Oro (Opus Alter) (Neurot)
4 Clock DVA – Horology (Vinyl-On-Demand, box)
5 Christian Cosmos – Enthronement By God As The First-Born Of The Dead (Hospital Productions)
6 Mohn – Mohn (Kompakt)
7 Mark Stewart – The Politics Of Envy (Future Noise)
8 Eraas Eraas (Felte)
9 Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (Constellation)
10 Dylan Ettinger – Lifetime Of Romance (Not Not Fun)

Katrien Schuermans
redacteur
1 Voorstelling: Apocalypso (Stef Lernous, KC Nona, Mechelen, 07/12/2012)
2 Concert: Shackleton (Rewire Festival, Den Haag, 02/11/2012)
3 Concert: Prince Rama (Le Guess Who, Utrecht, 01/12/2012)
4 Sendai – Geotope (Time To Express)
5 Silent Servant – Negative Fascination (Hospital Productions)
6 Label: Stroboscopic Artefacts
7 Label: Tri Angle Records
8 Old Apparatus – Derren (Sullen Tone, ep)
9 Liars – WIXIW (Mute)
10 Concert: Savages (Into The Great Wide Open, Vlieland, 08/09/2012)

Oscar Smit
medewerker
1 Wooden Constructions – People Now People (Subroutine)
2 Bertrand Burgalat – Toutes Directions (Tricatel)
3 B Movie Orchestra – The Ultimate In Thrilling…. (Suburban)
4 Hauschka – Salon Des Amateurs (Fat Cat)
5 Mouse On Mars- Parastrophics (Monkeytown)
6 Laetitia Sadier – Silencio (Drag City)
7 Lola Dutronic – Everyone’s A Star (CD)
8 Silmus – Ostara (Volkoren)
9 Dan Deacon – Wish Book Volume 1 (download)
10 Scott Walker – Bish Bosch (4AD)

Maarten Timmermans
medewerker
1 Flying Horseman Twist (Unday)
2 Goat – World Music (Rocket Recordings)
3 Concert: Ty Segall (Atelier 210, Brussel, 30/11/2012)
4 Om – Advaitic Songs (Drag City)
5 Concert: Chelsea Wolfe (Magasin 4, Brussel, 13/04/2012)
6 Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras Meet The Congos – Icon Give Thank / Icon Eye (Rvng Intl., cd+dvd)
7 Swans The Seer (Young God)
8 Eraas Eraas (Felte)
9 Neneh Cherry & The Thing The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound)
10 Disappears – Pre Language (Kranky)

Niels Tubbing
medewerker
1 Swans – The Seer (Young God)
2 Concert: Norma Jean + The Chariot (Trix Antwerpen, 25/02/2012)
3 Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (Constellation)
4 Tentoonstelling: Dreams Of Nature, Symbolisme van Van Gogh tot Kandinsky (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 24/02/2012 – 17/06/2012)
5 Boek: Eric R. Kandel – The Age Of Insight (Random House)
6 Deftones – Koi No Yokan (Reprise)
7 Voices From The Lake – Voices From The Lake (Prologue)
8 Film: Stephen Chbosky – The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
9 Milton Bradley – Reality Is Wrong (Prologue, ep)
10 Concert: Barn Owl (Roadburn Tilburg, 13/04/2012)

Martijn Venekatte
redacteur
1 Eraas – Eraas (Felte)
2 Film: Holy Motors – Los Carax (Cinart)
3 Mohn – Mohn (Kompakt)
4 Matt Elliott – The Broken Man (Ici D’Ailleurs)
5 Film: Kinatay – Brillante Mendoza (EYE)
6 Beak> – >> (Invada)
7 Voices From The Lake – Voices From The Lake (Prologue)
8 X-TG – Desertshore / The Final Report (Industrial)
9 Film: Confidence – Istvn Szab (Second Run)
10 Heathered Pearls – Loyal (Ghostly International)

Benjamin van Vliet
medewerker
1 Doseone – G Is For Deep (Anticon)
2 Paul Hoek – Beginner (eigen beheer)
3 Seamus Cater & Viljam Nybacka – The Anecdotes (eigen beheer)
4 Spilt Milk – Carnet de Voyage (Subbacultcha!)
5 Mirrorring – Foreign Body (Kranky)
6 WHY? – Mumps, etc. (Anticon)
7 John Frusciante – PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone (Record Collection)
8 Glen Hansard – Rhythm & Repose (Anti-)
9 SPINNST – Altered Breeding Ghost (eigen beheer)
10 Joachim Badenhorst – The Jungle He Told Me (Smeraldina-Rima)

Sophie Westhiner
medewerker
1 Micachu & The Shapes – Never (Rough Trade)
2 Burial – Kindred (Hyperdub)
3 Andy Stott – Luxury Problems (NEWS)
4 John Talabot – Fin (Permanent Vacation)
5 Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes (Warp)
6 DFRNT – Fading (Echo)
7 Alt-J – An Awesome Wave (Infectious)
8 Scott Walker – Bish Bosch (4AD)
9 Grimes – Visions (4AD)
10 Scuba – Personality (NEWS)

* de lijstjes zijn genummerd, maar staan niet noodzakelijk in volgorde van belangrijkheid.

 

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