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(2012 end-of-year lists) – SARY MOUSSA

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I asked some of my favorite musician and artist friends, from Beirut and beyond, to list their 10 favorite albums of 2012…
Alternately, they could also provide me with a list of the records they listened to the most in 2012, regardless of date of release.

Sary Moussa (musician, RadioKVM)

– Actress: R.I.P (Honest Jon’s)
– Loops Haunt: Zenith (Black Acre)
– Bandshell: Dust March (Hessle Audio)
– 2562: Air Jordan (When In Doubt)
– Monolake: Ghosts (Imbalance Computer Music)
– Andy Stott: Luxury Problems (Modern Love)
– Objekt: Cactus/Porcupine (Hessle Audio)
– Richard Devine: Risp (Detroit Underground)
– Dark Sky: Black Rainbows (Black Acre)
– Nathan Fake: Iceni Strings (Border Community)
– Airhead: Wait (R&S Records)
– Raime: Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
– Burial: Kindred (Hyperdub)

(2012 end-of-year lists) – FADI TABBAL

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I asked some of my favorite musician and artist friends, from Beirut and beyond, to list their 10 favorite albums of 2012…
Alternately, they could also provide me with a list of the records they listened to the most in 2012, regardless of date of release.

Fadi Tabbal (producer, sound engineer & musician, The Incompetents / Under The Carpet / Youmna Saba)
http://www.tuneforkstudios.com/

– Dr. John: Locked Down
– Grizzly Bear: Shields
– Julia Holter: Ekstasis
– Scott Walker: Bish Bosch
– Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
– Beach House: Bloom
– Spiritualized: Sweet Light Sweet Heart
– The XX: Coexist
– Tame Impala: Lonerism
– Swans: The Seer
– Godspeed You! Black Emperor: ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
– Eric Chenaux: Guitar & Voice

(2012 end-of-year lists) – SANDMOON

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I asked some of my favorite musician and artist friends, from Beirut and beyond, to list their 10 favorite albums of 2012…
Alternately, they could also provide me with a list of the records they listened to the most in 2012, regardless of date of release.

Sandra Arslanian (musician, Sandmoon)

1- Grizzly Bear: Shields
2- Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
3- Patrick Watson: Adventures In Your Own Backyard
4- Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas
5- Other Lives: Mind The Gap EP
6- Lou Doillon: Places
7- Cat Power: Sun
8- Sarah Blasko: I Awake
9- Regina Spektor: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
10- Evening Hymns: Spectral Dusk

(2012 end-of-year lists) – JAD MROUE

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I asked some of my favorite musician and artist friends, from Beirut and beyond, to list their 10 favorite albums of 2012…
Alternately, they could also provide me with a list of the records they listened to the most in 2012, regardless of date of release.

Jad Mroué (musician, Funny Death)

– Crystal Castles: (III)
– Tame Impala: Lonerism
– DIIV: Oshin
– Purity Ring: Shrines
– Grimes: Visions
– Beach House: Bloom
– Death Grips: The Money Store
– Lotus Plaza: Spooky Action At A Distance
– Passion Pit: Gossamer
– The XX: Coexist

Most listened to in 2012, regardless of date of release:

– Crystal Castles: Self-titled (2008)
– Crystal Castles: (II) (2010)
– The Chemical Brothers: Further (2010)
– Balam Acab: Wander/Wonder (2011)
– Tame Impala: Innerspeaker (2010)
– Selebrities: Delusions (2011)
– Housse De Racket: Alesia (2011)
– Dye: Taki 183 (2011)
– Passion Pit: Manners (2009)
– Toro Y Moi: Underneath The Pine (2011)

(2012 end-of-year lists) – SAM SHALABI

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I asked some of my favorite musician and artist friends, from Beirut and beyond, to list their 10 favorite albums of 2012…
Alternately, they could also provide me with a list of the records they listened to the most in 2012, regardless of date of release.

Sam Shalabi (musician, Shalabi Effect / Land Of Kush)
http://www.alien8recordings.com/artists/sam-shalabi

Not all from this year… and some just various stuff by those named:

– Beach House: Bloom
– Alexandre St-Onge: D’Ailleurs
– Eric Chenaux: Guitar & Voice
– Laurie Spiegel: The Expanding Universe
– Scott Walker: Bish Bosch
– The Grateful Dead: The Golden Road
– Various Artists: Pictures Of Sound, One Thousand Years Of Educed Audio (980-1980)
– Morton Feldman: Crippled Symmetry
– Lukas Ligeti: African Machinery
– Robert Ashley: Outside Of Time (it’s a book)
– Milton Nascimento: Milton 1970
– Rolling Stones: Some Girls
– Henry Cowell
– Luigi Nono
– Charlie Parker
– Bobbie Gentry
– Cairo (the city)

(2012 end-of-year lists) – RABIH BEAINI

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I asked some of my favorite musician and artist friends, from Beirut and beyond, to list their 10 favorite albums of 2012…
Alternately, they could also provide me with a list of the records they listened to the most in 2012, regardless of date of release.

Rabih Beaini (producer, DJ & musician, Morphosis)
https://soundcloud.com/rabih

1- Ben Vida: Esstends-Esstends-Esstends [PAN]
2- Koudede: Guitars From Agadez Vol.5 [Sublime Frequencies]
3- Madteo: Noi No [Sahko]
4- Dynamo Dreesen: Beats In The Mists Of Time [Acido]
5- Metasplice: Decant/Churn [Morphine promo]
6- Keith Fullerton Whitman: Generators [Editions Mego]
7- Funkineven: Night/Dusk [Wild Oats]
8- Bee Mask: When We Were Eating Unripe Pears [Spectrum Spools]
9- Sir Richard Bishop: Intermezzo [Ideologic Organ]
10- Theo Parrish: Any Other Styles [Sound Signature]

(2012 end-of-year lists) – STEPHANIE MERCHAK

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I asked some of my favorite musician and artist friends, from Beirut and beyond, to list their 10 favorite albums of 2012…
Alternately, they could also provide me with a list of the records they listened to the most in 2012, regardless of date of release.

Stephanie Merchak (musician)
https://soundcloud.com/stephanie-merchak

1- Dictaphone: Poems From A Rooftop (2012)
2- Amiina: Puzzle (2010)
3- 22-20s: Self-titled (2005)
4- She & Him: Volume Two (2010)
5- Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (1957)
6- Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht; Variations, Op.31 / Herbert Von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker (1975/1990)
7- Tomandandy: Resident Evil, Afterlife OST (2010)
8- Waldeck: Ballroom Stories (2007)
9- Danny Elfman: Alice In Wonderland OST (2010)
10- Trifonic: Ninth Wave (2012)

(2012 end-of-year lists) – RABIH SALLOUM

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I asked some of my favorite musician and artist friends, from Beirut and beyond, to list their 10 favorite albums of 2012…
Alternately, they could also provide me with a list of the records they listened to the most in 2012, regardless of date of release.

Rabih Salloum (musician, Slutterhouse)

1- Frank Ocean: Channel Orange
2- 50 Cent: 5 (Murders By Numbers)
3- Emeli Sande: Our Version Of Events
4- Lana Del Rey: Born To Die
5- A$AP Rocky: LongLiveA$AP
6- Pet Shop Boys: Elysium
7- Usher: Looking 4 Myself
8- The XX: Coexist
9- Ultravox: Brilliant
10- Slash: Apocalyptic Love

(2012 end-of-year lists) – SETH AYYAZ

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I asked some of my favorite musician and artist friends, from Beirut and beyond, to list their 10 favorite albums of 2012…
Alternately, they could also provide me with a list of the records they listened to the most in 2012, regardless of date of release.

Seth Ayyaz (musician)
http://www.sethayyaz.com/

On heavy rotation in the studio and in the home, in no particular order:

– Ti Frère: Homage à Ti Frère
– Marcus Schmickler: Palace Of Marvels (Queered Pitch)
– Ghédalia Tazartès: Repas Froid
– Florian Hecker & Reza Negarestani: Chimerization (شیمرسازی)
– MoHa!: One-Way Ticket To Candyland
– Bernard Parmegiani: La Création Du Monde
– Butthole Surfers: Locust Abortion Technician
– Chris Watson: Cima Verde
– Ishilan N-Tenere: Guitar Music From The Western Sahel
– Gregory Whitehead: The Pleasure Of Ruins And Other Castaways

(2012 end-of-year lists) – MIKE COOPER

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I asked some of my favorite musician and artist friends, from Beirut and beyond, to list their 10 favorite albums of 2012…
Alternately, they could also provide me with a list of the records they listened to the most in 2012, regardless of date of release.

Mike Cooper (musician)
http://www.cooparia.com/

– THE MAGIC I.D.: I’M SO AWAKE (STAUBGOLD VINYL ANALOG 4)

– EL INFIERNO MUSICAL [CHRISTOF KURZMANN, KEN VANDERMARK, EVA REITER, CLAYTON THOMAS & MARTIN BRANDLMAYR]: SELF-TITLED (MIKROTON CD 20)

– JOHN FAHEY: FARE FORWARD VOYAGERS (SHANACHIE CD)

– LUCA VENITUCI: INTERSTIZIO (BRIGADISCO VINYL BRG031)

– VAN DYKE PARKS: HOLD BACK TIME / AMAZING GRACE (SEVEN INCH VINYL SINGLE)

– VARIOUS ARTISTS: LISTEN WHITEY / THE SOUNDS OF BLACK POWER (LIGHT IN THE ATTIC RECORDS, LITA 081 CD)

– THE HENRYS: SO THIS IS TOMORROW (CD+DVD, HEN 2009)

– SUN RA: MAYAN TEMPLES (BLACK SAINT CD)

– VARIOUS ARTISTS: REMBETIKA 1850-1960 (26 CD BOXSET, MINOS-EMI)

– SCOTT WALKER: BISH BOSCH (4AD CD)