Bevis Frond – Typical Freakout 7” (Hypnotic Bridge)
Danielle Dax – Invictus Arduis 7” (Heaven’s Lathe)
The Doomed Bird of Providence – Ransoms for Cars 7” (10 to 1)
DWLVS – On a Clear Drop You Can See Forever 7” (Stoned to Death)
Andrew Liles / Lux Lyall & Andy Votel – Care In The Community / Six 7” (Golden Lion Sounds)
Nurse With Wound – Shipwreck n’ Roll 7” (ICR)
People Like Us – Free Sunshine 7” (Heaven’s Lathe)
Shanna Sordahl – So She Shone / So They Shone 7” (Full Spectrum)
Surplus 1980 with GW Sok – Kremlin Gremlin 7” (A Dull Fiddler) (Surplus Industries)
Andrew Weathers – Early Works 8” (Full Spectrum)
Nick Cave – Seven Psalms 10” (Cave Things)
2022
11 favourite cassettes (in alphabetical order)
Diane Barbé – A Conference of Critters (forms of minutiae)
Andrew Chalk – Dreams (Faraway Press)
David Colohan – Small Moves Ellie Small Moves / Night, North Paterson (Was Ist Das?)
Euphotic – Conjugate Regions (Ikuisuus)
Kemper Norton – Rife (Woodford Halse)
Lia Kohl – Too Small to be a Plain (Shinkoyo)
Daniel McLennan – Unfurling Redemption (Cruel Nature)
Marissa Nadler – The Wrath of the Clouds (Sacred Bones)
Manja Ristić – Him, Fast Sleeping, Soon He Found in Labyrinth of Many a Round, Self-Rolled (mappa)
Skyminds – Terra Preta (Not Not Fun)
To End It All – Live At Teatro De La Psychomachia / Strength Is Nothing (ft. Zvi) – A Partial Soundtrack For Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Stalker” (Scry Recordings)
25 favourite records (in alphabetical order)
Abronia – Map of Dawn (Cardinal Fuzz / Feeding Tube)
Marisa Anderson – Still, Here (Thrill Jockey)
Félicia Atkinson – Image Language (Shelter Press)
Jake Blount – The New Faith (Smithsonian Folkways)
Burd Ellen – A Tarot of the Green Wood (Mavis)
Matti Bye Ensemble – Häxan (Time Released Sound)
Charming Hostess – The Ginzburg Geography (Tzadik)
Common Eider King Eider – Yearn (Cyclic Law)
Jane Antiona Cornish – Sierra (Cantaloupe)
Current 93 – If a City is Set Upon a Hill (HomAleph)
Dreadnought – The Endless (Profound Lore)
Clara Engel – Their Invisible Hands (Elephant Shrew)
Laibach – Wir Sind Das Volk (Mute)
Adrian Lane – Missing The Crows (whitelabrecs)
Cheryl E. Leonard – Antarctica: Music from the Ice (Other Minds)
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch – Ravage (130701)
Mama’s Broke – Narrow Line (Free Dirt)
Jessica Moss – Galaxy Heart (Constellation)
Nina Nastasia – Riderless Horse (Temporary Residence)
Nurse With Wound – Nefarious vols. II – III (United Dairies)
Raum – Daughter (Yellow Electric)
Various – Women Take Back The Drone (UBUIBI)
Emily Wells – Regards to the End (Thesis + Instinct)
Emily Jane White – Alluvion (Talitres)
Kristeen Young – The Beauty Shop (S/R)
Megasoup’s Favorite Singles, EPs, and Mini-Albums (less than 30 minutes):
Chip Wickham – Astral Traveling (Gondwana)
Cousin – Hudson (Nummer)
Dania – Voz (Geographic North)
Esau – Other Places (Bandcamp self release)
Julian Zyklus – Waterpiano (Hush Hush)
Malibu – Palaces of Pity (UNO)
Matthew Halsall – The Temple Within + Changing Earth EPs (Gondwana)
N Chambers – Grid Flora (Bandcamp self release)
Pachyman – El Sonido Nuevo de (ATO)
Shabaka – Afrikan Culture (Impluse!)
Megasoup’s Favorite Reissues and Archival Releases from 2022:
Broadcast – Maida Vale Sessions (Warp)
Celestine Ukwu – No Condition Is Permanent (Mississippi)
Charles Stepney – Step on Step (International Anthem)
Faust – Punkt (Bureau B)
Los Golden Boys – Cumbia de Juventud (Mississippi)
Luis David Aguilar – Ayahuasca: Música para Cine de Luis David Aguilar: 1978-1983 (Buh)
Martin Franklin & Richard Clare – Invocation (Oryx_Records)
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – Strangers From The Universe (Bulbous Monocle)
V/A – The Afrosound Of Colombia Vol. 3 (Vampi Soul)
V/A – Eccentric Deep Soul (Numero Group)
V/A – Exploring Gong Culture In Southeast Asia: Massif And Archipelago (Sub Rosa)
V/A – Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry 1955-69 (Soundway)
V/A – Perú Selvático – Sonic Expedition Into The Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986 (Analog Africa)
V/A – Pierre Barouh and the Saravah Sound – Jazz, Samba and Other Hallucinatory Grooves 1965-1976 (WeWantSounds)
V/A – Saigon Supersound, Vol. 3 (Saigon Supersound)
V/A – Saturno 2000: La Rebajada De Los Sonideros 1962-1983 (Analog Africa)
V/A – Soul Jazz Records presents STUDIO ONE MUSIC LAB (Soul Jazz)
V/A – Unity Is Strength (Trojan)
V/A – Wamono Groove: Shakuhachi & Koto Jazz Funk ’76 (180g)
V/A – With Love: Vol. 1 (Mr. Bongo)
Megasoup’s Favorite Albums From 2022:
- Acid Twilight – Mustang Zodiac (Not Not Fun)
- Adrian Quesada – Boleros Psicodélicos (ATO)
- Afrorack – The Afrorack (Hakuna Kulala)
- Al Lover – Cosmic Joke (Fuzz Club)
- Alina Bzhezhinska – Reflections (BBE)
- Amanda Whiting – Lost in Abstraction (Jazzman)
- Arthur King – Changing Landscapes {Mina Las Pintadas} (AKP Recordings)
- Auntie Flo & Sarathy Korwar – Shruti Dance (ManMakeMusic)
- Barbie Bertisch – Prelude (Love Injection)
- Beau Sorenson – Indifference Will Devour You (Bandcamp self release)
- billy woods – Aethiopes (Backwoodz Studioz)
- Bitchin Bajas – Bajascillators (Drag City)
- Carmen Villain – Only Love From Now On (Smalltown Supersound)
- Chancha Vía Circuito – La Estrella (Wonderwheel)
- Channelers – Time, Space, and Thought (Inner Islands)
- Chip Wickham – Cloud 10 (Gondwana)
- Coral Club – Lost Cities (Moon Glyph)
- Daniel Villarreal – Panamá 77 (International Anthem)
- Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek – Dost 2 (Bongo Joe)
- Emeka Ogboh – 6°30′33.372″N 3°22′0.66″E (Danfotronics)
- Ensemble Nist-Nah – Elders (Black Truffle)
- Esmerine – Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More (Constellation)
- Fields Of Mist – Illuminated60 (Ilian Tape)
- Ghost Power – Ghost Power (Duophonic Super 45s)
- Gi Gi – Sunchoke + Lamella Pressed (Good Morning Tapes + INDEX:Records)
- Gianluca Petrella & Cosmic Renaissance – Universal Language (Schema)
- Golden Brown – Luminous (Inner Islands)
- Greg Foat – Psychosynthesis (Blue Crystal Records)
- Günter Schlienz – Ausflüge I (Cosima Pitz)
- Homeboy Sandman – Still Champion (Mello Music Group)
- Horace Andy – Midnight Rocker + Midnight Scorchers (On-U Sound)
- Hugjiltu 胡格吉乐图 – Cycle 循环 (Dustyballz)
- Immanuel Wilkins – The 7th Hand (Blue Note)
- Jasper Høiby – What It Means To Be Human (Edition)
- Joel Ross – The Parable of the Poet (Blue Note)
- Kanot – Textile Fantasies (Höga Nord Rekords)
- Kraus – Fire! Water! Air! Kraus! (Soft Abuse)
- Lara Somogyi – Exclamation (Mercury KX)
- Los Amparito – Recalentados (Bandcamp self release)
- Lucrecia Dalt – Ay! (RVNG Intl.)
- Makaya McCraven – In These Times (International Anthem)
- Mary Halvorson – Amaryllis (Nonesuch)
- Maya Youssef – Finding Home (self released)
- Mega Ran x Amerigo Gazaway – STRANGERS: Back To The Lab (Soul Mates)
- Melody’s Echo Chamber – Emotional Eternal (Domino)
- Misha Sultan – Roots (Hive Mind Records)
- Montparnasse Musique – Archeology (Real World)
- N Chambers – Mirage Colony (Soft Profile)
- Natalia Lafourcade – De Todas las Flores (Sony)
- Nok Cultural Ensemble – Njhyi (SA Recordings)
- Nomade Orquestra – Na Terra das Primaveras (Bandcamp self release)
- Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin – Ghosted (Drag City)
- Park Jiha – The Gleam (Tak:til / Glitterbeat)
- Perkutao – Mis Ancestros (Buh)
- Popp – Blizz (Squama)
- Purelink – Puredub (Lillerne Tape Club)
- Raveena – Asha’s Awakening (Warner)
- Rhabdomantic Orchestra – Almagre (Agogo)
- Rokia Kone & Jacknife Lee – BAMANAN (Real World)
- Rosa Beach Mason & Sean Conrad – Wake (Inner Islands)
- Sabla + Đ.K. – Totem Society (Worship)
- Salamanda – ashbalkum (Human Pitch)
- Sarathy Korwar – KALAK (Leaf)
- Sault – UNTITLED (God) + 11 (Forever Living Originals)
- Sessa – Estrela Acesa (Mexican Summer)
- Soda Lite – Aqua Solar Cura (Not Not Fun)
- The Soft Pink Truth – Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This? (Thrill Jockey)
- The Soundcarriers – Wilds (Phosphonic)
- SpaceMoth – No Past No Future (Wax Nine)
- The Spy from Cairo – Animamundi (Wonderwheel)
- The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – Step Down (Colemine)
- Tapani Rinne & Juha Mäki-Patola – Open (Hush Hush)
- Tim Bernardes – Mil Coisas Invisíveis (Psychic Hotline)
- TOROZEBU – TOROZEBU (Black Acre)
- Wau Wau Collectif – Mariage (Sahel Sounds)
- The Weather Station – How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars (Next Door)
- WEMA – WEMA (!K7)
- Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
- Winter – What Kind Of Blue Are You? (Bar/None)
- V/A – Adrian Sherwood Presents: Dub No Frontiers (Real World)
- V/A – ZZK Sound Vol. 4 (ZZK)