Noise-Admiration's Best of 2013

No hierarchies implied here, says Droopy , only pure admiration !
Only a list - in a random order, numbers are included only for the sake of legibility !
A big thanks to all my readers, listeners, members, contactors and visitors of my blog !
It is highly appreciated ! Dear artists - it was an exiting year with your soundworlds ...

(1) Favorite Artists 2013
1. Les Rallizes Dénudes
2. Kaoru Abe
3. Masayuki Takayanagi
4. Alan Bishop / The Invisible Hands
5. New Direction Unit
6. Vast Glory
7. Zbigniew Karkowski
8. The Julia Sound
9. Keiji Haino / Fushitsusha / Seijaku / Nazoranai
10. Makoto Kawabata's Mainliner
11. Suishou No Fune
12. Merzbow - Pandi - Gustafsson
13. Cannibal Movie
14. Francisco López
15. Clive Henry
16. Wicked King Wicker
17. Mamitori Ulithi empress yonaguni san
18. Gunslingers
19. The Dead C
20. Sir Richard Bishop
21. Welter in thy Blood
22. Angström
23. Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement
24. Demdike Stare
25. African Audio Documents.


(2) Favorite Releases 2013
1.Vast Glory ----- Non-Violence (Modern Arrangements, C92 Tape), Fluorescent Light (Total Black, Tape), Scorpio (La Cohu, Tape)
2.The Julia Sound ----- Bash Her Head / When You're Sad (A.R.Kane Cover)
3. Angström ----- Enfermement (HNW-Swap 2012/13)
4. Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement ----- various (Hospital Records)
5. Haino - Ambarchi - O'Rourke ----- Now, when it's still warm (Black Truffle)
6. Welter in thy blood ----- Todestrieb (Dusktone)

7. African Audio Documents ----- Effacer le tableau, Cellule Africaine, Loi Fondamental, Hermetica.

8. Makoto Kawabata's Mainliner ----- Revelation Space (Riot Season)
9. Suishou No Fune / Numinous Eye ----- Black Flowers of the Forest in the Cosmos (Essence Music)
10. Merzbow - Pandi - Gustafsson ----- Cuts (Rare Noise Recordings)
11. Zbigniew Karkowski / Xopher Davidson ----- Processor (subrosa)
14. Cannibal Movie ----- Mondo Music (Yerevan Tapes)
15. The Invisible Hands ----- s/t (Abduction Records)
16. Clive Henry ----- XVIII. Der siebente Kontinent (Altar of Waste)
17. Wicked King Wicker ----- Evolving (Cold Spring)
18. Sir Richard Bishop - W. David Oliphant ----- Beyond all Defects (Chöpda Media)
19. The Dead C ----- Armed Courage (Badabing Records)
20. Gunslingers ----- 'Massacre-Rock Deviant Inquisitors' (Riot Season, selftitled EP)
21. Bill Orcutt ----- A History of Every one (Editions Mego)
22. VagusNerve ----- Go Back to the Sirius (Utech)
23. Les Rallizes Denudés ----- Naked Diza Star (Bamboo)
24. Michael Pisaro ----- Closed Categories in a Cartesian World (Gravity Wave)

25. Fushitsusha ----- Mada Atatakaiuchino Konoimani Subetenonazowo Sosogikomou, Namaewo Tsukenaide Hoshii Namaewotsuketeshimauto Subetede Nakunatte Shimaukara  (Heartfast)

(3) Booklet of the year 2013

Vast Glory ----- Nonviolence (Modern Arrangements, C92 Tape)

(4) HNW-project of the year 2013
African Audio Documents

(5) Main Discoveries 2013
1. The Julia Sound
2. Suishou No Fune
3. Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement
4. Michael Pisaro
5. Carsten Nicolai / Alva Noto
6. Mamitori ulithi empress yonaguni san

7. Zbigniew Karkowski
8. Junzo Suzuki
9. African Audio Documents
10. Francisco López
11. Ryoji Ikeda
12. Kaoru Abe
13. Masayuki Takayanagi
14. New Direction Unit
15. Demdike Stare

(6) Life-Savers & other antidotes 2013
1. Martin Heidegger

2. Gilles Deleuze

3. Jacques Derrida

4. Walter Benjamin

5. Elliot R. Wolfson

6. Tom Cohen

7. Paul de Man

8. Jean-Luc Marion

9. James Joyce

10. Robert Walser

11. Morton Feldman
12. Friedrich Hölderlin
13. Les Rallizes Denudes