Best of 2011

December 31st, 2011

Music

  James Blackshaw & Nancy Elizabeth
live im Teatro Maria Matos, Lisboa
Carlos Paredes – Guitarra Portuguesa & Movimento Perpétuo
Ein wahrer Meister seines Fachs erfährt postum die ihm gebührende internationale Anerkennung durch die Drag City – Wiederveröffentlichungen seiner Frühwerke
Dirty Beaches – Badlands
Lynch, Elvis, Alan Vega, Mishima vereinen sich zur One-Man (Stricher) -Band
Anika
Teutonische Sixties-Ikone wird vom On U-Sound System begleitet? Alles nur Posing beim Saint Ghetto Festival in Bern
  Charalambides – Exile
Frostige und dronige Mondanbetung
Still Corners – Creatures Of An Hour
Geisterhafte Hommage vom Duo Greg Hughes und Tessa Murray? Trish Keenan: R.I.P.
  Eleanor Friedberger – Last Summer
So hätten die Siebziger, mit etwas Glück, auch klingen können
  Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu
Der Grantlmeister und die Kirmes-Metaller: Metal Machine Music from hell
  The Wild Swans – The Coldest Winter For A Hundred Years
Doch noch die Liverpool-Platte…
Ela Orleans – Neo PI-R (Cassette)
Wire
Felix Kubin
Dome – 1-4
Disco Inferno – The 5 EPs
(Retro-) Futurismus beim Klangbad-Fesival und essentielle Wiederveröffentlichungen essentieller Musik auf Mego und Rocket Girl

Books

Jon Ronson – The Psychopath Test
Dulce Maria Cardoso – O Retorno
Helen Walsh – Go To Sleep
Louise Welsh – Naming The Bones

Highlights of 2010

December 27th, 2010

Mikrowellen is celebrating its second year in the interweb! We use this occasion to present our Highlights of 2010, in no particular order, cutting across all media and events.

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music

  • JG Thirlwell: Manorexia – The Mesopelagic Waters
  • Richard Skelton: Landings
  • Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma
  • These New Puritans: Hidden
  • Phew: 5 Finger Discount
  • Sei Miguel: Esfíngico
  • Lula Pena: Troubadour
  • Ela Orleans: Lost
  • Konrad Becker: Grand Piano Classics
  • Sachiko: Kunado
  • The Magic Theatre: London Town
  • Dolly Mixture: Everything and More (Re-Issue)
  • Zeitkratzer: James Tenney
  • Zeitkratzer – John Cage
  • Marc Almond: Varieté
  • The Drums: The Drums
  • Broadcast & The Focus Group: Ghost Box Study Series
  • Reines d’Angleterre: Les Comores
  • The Minimal Wave Tapes: Volume One

film/tv

  • Shutter Island, Martin Scorcese
  • A Serious Man, Ethan & Joel Coen
  • Catfish, Joost/Schuleman
  • Lourdes, Jessica Hausner
  • Four Lions, Christopher Morris
  • Metropolis Reconstructed, Fritz Lang
  • Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera
  • Mad Men, Series 4, Matthew Weiner
  • Rubicon, Series 1, Jason Horwitch
  • True Blood, Series 4, Alan Ball
  • Louie, Series 1, Louis CK

books

  • Rivka Galchen: Atmosphärische Störungen
  • João Tordo: O Bom Inverno
  • Nick Dyer-Witheford & Greig de Peuter: Games of Empire
  • Benjamin Moser: Why This World, A Biography of Clarice Lispector
  • Hannah Arendt & Gershom Sholem: Der Briefwechsel
  • Valter Hugo Mãe: A Máquina de Fazer Espanhóis

concerts

  • Maja Ratke @ Méteo, Mulhouse
  • Wolf Eyes @ Kilbi, Bad Bonn
  • Michael Rother @ Kilbi, Bad Bonn
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg @ Cirque Royal, Bruxelles

misc.

  • Wikileaks
  • Google’s Nexus One with Android
  • Apple’s Macbook Air

disappointments

  • Craig Venter, Entrepreneur with a God-complex
  • Ray Kurzweil, ‘Transhumanist’
  • Lost, Series 6 (last Series), Abrams/Lieber/Lindelof
  • Jaron Lanier: You are not a Gdget
  • iPad, Apple’s Tablet-PC
  • Diaspora, self-designated Facebook alternative
  • Swineflu

R.I.P.

  • Dennis Hopper, Actor and Icon
  • Malcom McLaren, Artist
  • Captain Beefheart, Musician and Painter
  • Martin Büsser, Writer, Ed. Testcard, Ventil Verlag
  • Christoph Schlingensief, Theatre-Maker
  • Claude Chabrol, Filmmaker
  • Alex Chilton, Musician
  • Ari Up, Original Punk, Singer of The Slits
  • Prince Chunk, fat cat
  • Henryk Mikolaj Górecki, Composer
  • Sigmar Polke, Painter
  • Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson, Founding Member of Throbbing Gristle

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mikrowellen smash-hits 2009

December 30th, 2009

Nachdem wir mit Anfragen nach einer Bestenliste überhäuft wurden, hier also die medialen Highlights des Jahres in zufälliger Reihenfolge:

  • Bloody Claws @ Noumatrouff
  • Brigitte Fontaine: Prohibition
  • Curb your Enthusiasm, Series 7
  • As três vidas (João Tordo)
  • Let the Right One in (Tomas Alfredson)
  • Jamie T: Kings and Queens
  • The Velvet Underground: A New York Art (Johan Kugelberg)
  • Mad Men, Series 2
  • Broadcast and the Focus Group: investigate Witchcults of the Radio Age
  • Louise hires a Contract Killer (Gustave de Kervern, Benoît Delépine)
  • Telepathe: Dancemother
  • Liverpool Eric’s (Jaki Florek & Paul Whelan)
  • XX: XX
  • Commonwealth (Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri)
  • Fiery Furnaces @ Bad Bonn
  • Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
  • Logik der Sorge 1.1 & 1.2 (Bernard Stiegler)
  • Everton FC @ Goodison Park
  • Mordant Music: Symptoms
  • Life Inc. (Douglas Rushkoff)
  • Gossip: Music for Men
  • The Maybes? @ The Masque
  • In Defense of lost Causes (Slavoj Žižek)
  • 30 Rock, Series 4
  • Phill Niblock: Touch Strings
  • A Broken Consort: Box of Birch (Vinyl Version)
  • The Hunter (Julia Leigh)
  • Shack @ The Academy
  • The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)

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