Best of 2016
January 5th, 2017
Film/TV
Ezra Edelman – O.J.: Made in America
Sion Sono – The Whispering Star
Phoebe Waller-Bridge – Fleabag
Rachel Lang – Baden Baden
Charlie Brooker – Black Mirror S.3
Andrea Arnold – American Honey
Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg – Weiner
Armando Iannucci. – Veep S.5
Maren Ade – Toni Erdmann
JAthina Rachel Tsangari – Chevalier
Chan-Wook Park – The Handmaiden
Olivier Assayas – Personal Shopper
Kleber Mendonça Filho – Aquarius
Donald Glover – Atlanta
Taika Waititi – Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Sam Esmail – Mr. Robot S.2
Arthur Cary – Louis Theroux: Savile
Pedro Aguilera – 3%
Susanne Bier – The Night Manager
Music
Still House Plants – Still House Plants
Anohni – Hopelessness
Carla Dal Forno – You Know What It’s
John Cunningham – Fell
RIP Leonard Cohen – You want it darker
Deux Filles – Space & Time
Calhau – ú
Anna Meredith – Varmints
RIP Παντελής Παντελίδης – Θυμάμαι
Bing Selfish & The Multiverts – In The Morning We Glow…
Pye Corner Audio – Stasis
Rihanna – Anti
St. Vincent – St. Vincent
RIP Prince Buster – Ska, 2tone, rocksteady legend
Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression
Glass Animals – Zaba
Books
Simon Reynolds – Shock & Awe
Kate Tempest – The Bricks That Built The Houses
Alan Glynn – Paradime
Alfred Bester – The Stars My Destination
Al. De Giulli, C. M. Naddeo: Ποιος είναι ο Α.Μ.;
Clarice Lispector – Der Große Augenblick
Tacitus – Germanicus
Hiroshi Yamamoto – The Stories of Ibis
Best of 2015
January 10th, 2016
Film/TV |
 Alex Garland – Ex Machina |
Lenny Abrahamson – Room
Sam Esmail – Mr. Robot
Damon Lindelof et al. – The Leftovers S.2
Steven Soderbergh – The Knick S.2
Miguel Gomes – As Mil E Uma Noites
Brigitte Sy – L’Astragale
Vince Gilligan et al. – Better Call Saul S.2
Ana Lily Amirpour – A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Jesse Armstrong et al. – Peep Show S.9
Ilana Glazer & Abbi Jacobson – Broad City
Fabrice Gobert et al. – Les Revenants S.2
Christian Petzold – Phoenix
Alex Ross Perry – Queen of Earth
Sarah-Violet Bliss & Charles Rogers – Fort Tilden
Carlo Bernard et al. – Narcos
Kornél Mundruczó – White God
George Miller – Mad Max Fury Road
João Salaviza – Montanha
Music
Filipe Felizardo – The Invading Past And Other
Aine O’Dwyer – Music For Church Cleaners Vol. 1 an 2
Colleen – Captain Of None
Jim O’Rourke – Simple Songs
Nadine Byrne – A Different Gesture
FKA twigs – M3LL155X
Brian Reitzell – Hannibal OTS
A$AP Rocky – At. Long. Last. A$AP
Jamie xx – In Colour
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
Kurt Vile – b’lieve I’m goin down…
Joanna Newsom – Divers
Books
Tatiana Salem Levy – Dois Rios
Adorno/Scholem – Briefwechsel
Filipe Homem Fonseca – Há Sempre Tempo Para Mais Nada
Victor Palla & Costa Martins – Lisboa, Cidade Triste E Alegre
Bing Selfish – A.N.D./O-R
Joan Didion – Play It As It Lays
Beate und Serge Klarsfeld – Erinnerungen
Marion Giebel – Das Orakel von Delphi
Daryl Gregory – Afterparty
Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism
Beatriz Preciado – Testo Junkie
our highlights 2014
January 3rd, 2015
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Pedro Costa – Cavalo Dinheiro |
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Spike Jonze – Her |
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Richard Ayoade – The Double |
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Nic Pizzolatto – True Detective |
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Steven Soderbergh – The Knick |
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Ayumi Sakamoto – Forma |
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Steve James – Live Itself |
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Hirobumi Watanabe – And The Mud Ship Sails Away |
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Jonathan Glazer – Under The Skin |
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Armando Ianucci – Veep Season 3 |
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Kieran Evans – Kelly & Victor |
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Homeland Season 4 |
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The Good Wife Season 6 |
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Allan Cubitt – The Fall Season 2 |
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Adam Bernstein – Fargo |
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Tom Shankland – The Missing |
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Peter Berg – The Leftovers |
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Keiji Haino – Experimental Mixture |
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Mica Levi – Under The Skin |
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OOIOO – Gamel |
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James Blake – Overgrown |
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Dirty Beaches – Stateless |
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Carla Bozulich – Boy |
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Veronique Vincent & Aksak Maboul – Ex Futur Album |
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Drew Mulholland – The Norwood Variations |
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Sei Miguel – Salvation Modes |
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Virginia Wing – Measures Of Joy |
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Jim O’ Rourke – Steamroom (Series) |
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live: Big Rain featuring Keiji Haino @ Gulbenkian |
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live: Excepter @ ZDB |
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live: Albert Marcoeur @ Méteo |
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live: Young Marble Giants @ Dancehouse Theatre |
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live: Teardo/Bargeld @ Palmengarten |
books |
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Michel Serres – Erfindet euch neu! |
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Marcel Proust – Auf der Suche Nach Der Verlorenen Zeit |
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Herberto Helder – Os Passos Em Volta und Photomaton & Vox |
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Viv Albertine – Clothes, Music, Boys |
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Stefan Zweig – Die Welt von Gestern. Erinnerungen eines Europäers |
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Bernhard Weber-Brosamer/Dieter M. Back – Die Philosophie der Leere |
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Alexander R. Galloway – The Interface Effect |
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Colson Whitehead – Zone One |
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Dave Eggers – The Circle |
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Molly Jane Quinn/Jenna Talbot – It’s lonely in the modern world |
our highlights 2013
December 31st, 2013
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toshiaki toyoda – i’m flash |
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shane carruth – upstream color |
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gakuryu ishii – isn’t anyone alive? |
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armando jannucci – veep |
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jane campion – top of the lake |
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ulrich seidl – paradies: hoffnung |
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allan cubitt – the fall |
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olivier assayas– après mai |
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noah baumbach – frances ha |
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kenji uchida – key of life |
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alfonso cuarón – gravity |
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harmony korine – spring breakers |
music |
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these new puritans – fields of reeds & @ mousonturm frankfurt |
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nancy elizabeth – dancing |
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saboten – floor (re-release) |
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richard dawson – the glass trunk |
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aine o’dwyer – anything bright or startling? |
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zoviet france und manorexia @ donaufestival krems |
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michael head & the red elastic band – artorius revisited ep & @ the kazimier |
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forest swords – engravings |
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william basinski – nocturnes |
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sachiko – loka in the black ship |
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joana sá – elogio da desordem |
books |
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barbara kirchner – die verbesserte frau |
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paul morley – the north |
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david sedaris – let’s explore diabetes with owls |
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gonçalo m. tavares – die versehrten |
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clarice lispector – der lüster |
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m.p. shiel – the house of sounds and others |
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joan didion – the white album |
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paul morley – earthbound |
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alexei sayle – stalin ate my homework |
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doitsu center – japanisch im sauseschritt |
our highlights of 2012
December 29th, 2012
music |
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project undark – radium girls 2011 |
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control unit – the fugitives |
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sachiko – golden hypnos |
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laurel halo – quarantine |
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laurie spigel – the expanding universe |
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carter tutti void – transverse |
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felix kubin – txrf |
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ruth mushy – far from paradise |
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pye corner audio – sleep games |
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richard skelton – verse of birds |
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flaming tunes – flaming tunes |
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neneh cherry – the cherry thing |
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pega monstro – pega monstro |
books |
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péter nádas – parallelgeschichten |
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raymond roussel – lokus solus |
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gonçalves m. tavares – aprender a rezar na era da tecnica |
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jean sprackland – strands |
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n. katherine hayles – how we think: digital media and contemporary technogenesis |
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francois laruelle, robin mackay – the concept of non-photography |
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david graeber – debt: the first 5,000 years |
film/tv |
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miguel gomes – tabu |
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michael r. roskam – rundskop |
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sean durkin – martha marcy may marlene |
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paul thomas anderson– the master |
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chantal akerman – la folie almayer |
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athina rachel tsangari – attenberg |
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bart layton – the imposter |
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ai weiwei – never sorry |
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søren sveistrup – forbrydelsen I-III |
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lena dunham – girls |
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louis c.k. – louie |
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lars lundström – äkta människor |