ARTICLE
2006 10 Favourite Labels

ALBUMS
aMute
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Asphalt Jungle
Joseph Auer
Avia Gardner
Tommi Bass
Caural
Cdatakill
Christ.
Conjoint
Contriva
Cursor Minor
DJ Soul Slinger
DJ Wally/DJ Willie Ross
DoF
Electric Penguins
Encre
Flashbulb
Fuckpony
Funckarma
Cedric Gervais
Eglantine Gouzy
Greater Than One
Greg Haines
François Houle
Housemeister
Jan Jelinek
Eleni Karaindrou
Kode9 + Spaceape
Takagi Masakatsu
Mini
Move D
The New Law
Nuuro
Qwel & Meaty Ogre
Rant
Max Richter
Janek Schaefer
Svarte Greiner
Thighpaulsandra
Unwed Sailor
Geoff White
Wilt
Yellow6
Jesse Zubot

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
4 Women No Cry Vol. 2
Analog for Architecture
Assemblage Sessions
Jimmy Van M
King Unique/Nubreed
Monza Club Ibiza
Pop Ambient 2007
Rub-N-Tug
Thankful
The Rorschach Suite

3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Baseheadz
Big Toe
Franco Cangelli
Richard Chartier
Deadbeat/Monolake
Depth Affect
Diebombshelters
DJ Koze
Eltron
Johan Fotmeijer
Hellothisisalex
Mitsuaki Komamura
Múm
Ozka
Seekers Who Are Lovers
Strategy
Tandem 5
Andi Teichmann
The Twilight Sad
Ray Valioso

Greater Than One: Kill the Pedagogue
Brainwashed

Kill the Pedagogue was originally released by Greater Than One (Michael Wells and the late Lee Newman, who died in 1995 from skin cancer) in 1985 on a chrome 40-minute cassette tape and included no track titles or identification of side A or B. It also, incidentally, appeared after, ahem, Lay Your Penis Down (also 1985) and before the group's first full-length record, 1987's All the Masters Licked Me. Kill the Pedagogue's opening piece is a ghastly bit of tribal business while the second sounds like the aural track to an terrifyingly harrowing snuff film. The longest piece is eleven minutes but it's actually more like a collection of brief vignettes of varying experimental character. In many ways, the release (its first appearance on CD) is reminiscent of Ike Yard's 1980-82 Collection which was also resurrected from near-oblivion, in that case by Acute Records. Both releases are raw and primal—not surprisingly, considering their emergence in the post-punk era—in their merging of guitars, drums, and primitive electronics. Like other releases in the Brainwashed Handmade series, the release is presented in a letterpress-printed sleeve and comes equipped with images, text, and bonus audio files (including the Lay Your Penis Down material).

December 2006