Music: 1. Broadcast "Haha Sound" 2. Khanate "Things Viral" 3. Pram "Dark Island" 4. Enslaved "Below the Lights" 5. Kylie Minogue "Body Language" 6. Sunn O))) "white1" 7. Ulver "A Quick Fix of Melancholy" 8. Merzbow "Puroland" 9. Bohren und der Club of Gore "Black Earth" 10. Axis of Perdition "The Ichneumon Method" Movies: 1. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino) 2. Hulk (Ang Lee) 3. Gerry (Gus van Sant) 4. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes) 5. ken park (Larry Clark) 6. Good Bye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker) 7. The Ring (Gore Verbinski) 8. Respiro (Emanuele Crialese) 9. Ju-on (The Grudge) (Takashi Shimizu) 10. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki) DVD of the year (I have not seen the Brakhage Anthology yet...): "Mystics in Bali" by H. Tjut Djalil, on the impeccable Mondo Macabro label. Concerts: 1. The Musical Box Plays Genesis "Selling England by the Pound" @ Brussels 2. The Musical Box Plays Genesis "Foxtrot" @ Cologne 3. Reynols @ Worm, Rotterdam 4. Broadcast, somewhere in Rotterdam 5. Mastodon @ Effenaar, Eindhoven 6. Thrones/Sunn O)))/Isis @ Kontich, Belgium 7. John Zorn's Electric Masada @ Blue Note Festival, Ghent, Belgium 8. Prong @ Effenaar, Eindhoven 9. Melt-Banana @ Paradiso, Amsterdam 10. Naked City @ Theater Carre, Amsterdam In fact, I thought the Electric Masada show was WAY better than the Naked City gig. The NC gig was under-rehearsed to say the least. It was Mike Patton's finest hour, but I really couldn't get into Frisell's playing. I walked out of his gig at the Blue Note Festival in Ghent a couple of weeks later. The worst concert of the year, though, was Tomahawk @ Paradiso, Amsterdam. Never before have I seen Patton performing so badly. Frankco
here are my favorites that i bought in 2003 (they might've been released in 2002 or earlier) and favorite concerts: (sorry for incorrect english and incomplete listings - don't have the time to look it all up - hope this won't upset some people on this list :-)) - désormais (intr_version)- beautiful combination of laptop-electronics with guitardrones and other instruments - mitchell akyama (raster noton) - minimal electronics - high chill-out factor - biosphere: shenzou (touch records) again an minimal ambient classic from this dude - chris watson: weather report it's like national geographic on cd without the comments (come to think of it, somebody should put david attenborough on cd versus tremendous sound scapes) - raphe malik quartet: companions (eremite)- the first time i heard anything from this guy but it shure ain't the last. freejazz with balls. high spirits. - senking (on karaoke kalk) - supercool clicks&cuts-shit electronics. - spring heel jack: amassed (thirsty ear) - tribes of neurot: the 2-cd with drones from insect-sounds as source-material - Pelt: the 2cd on VHF-records best concerts: - Zu (brussels, opwijk, gent) - the best energetic adrenalin punk-freejazz (or freejazzpunk?) you can get - Louis Sclavis trio in Gent (Napoli's Waltz) - it was supposed to be a quartet but sclavis explained the trumpet player fell of the stage and broke two ribs:-) - The Ex (Dour-festival) - FM Einheit & Caspar Brotzmann (dour-festival)(doing an improv set with bricks, chains and distortion guitars in the afternoon on a rock-festival ... you have to have the guts do it!) - the Melvins (dour-festival) - Alec Empire (dour-festival) - very cool electronics, no 'atari teenage'-like stuff but very mature focussed beats and soundscapes - Peter Brötzmann trio (Antwerp, Hasselt) - incredible - fourtet (brussels) - it was sounded more like amon tobin than fourtet. pretty beat-oriented set, quite dark and powerfull - Merzbow (brussels): pure waves of noise with grumbling low basses underneath - very strong - very loud (free after-concert for two days ...) - jablkon (eeklo) - charming czech (avant?)folk - sunroof! (hasselt) - weird lofi-guitar wall-of-sound drones - radian (brussels) - drums-bas-electronics - 'difficult postrock' or whatever - frank london klezmer all stars (brussels) - tied+tickled trio (Brussels) - - tuxedomoon (brussels) - these guys are still magic ... nice combination of their best older stuff and new material. beautifull that's it. Tonight I'm going to an Unsane-concert (anu Unsane fans on this list). I thought this cool band (who made the best hardcore-noise-guitar music) was already a long time dead & burried but 2003 seemed to be the year of the rëunions Cheers, nice weekend, Sven ________________________________________________________________________ BT Yahoo! Broadband - Save £80 when you order online today. Hurry! Offer ends 21st December 2003. The way the internet was meant to be. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21064/*http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk
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