TOPS 2015 / PLAYLISTS TIPPEX
It’s time to wave 2015 goodbye, but not before paying tribute to all the good things who helped us going through the bad ones with a traditional yearly top and a playlist cooked with love by the Tippex team. From the incredible discovery of a Young Marble Giant footage from 1980 to a bunch of brilliant new albums (Housewives, Pierre Bastien, The Chap), rediscoveries and reissues (As Mercenarias, Pip Proud, Bona Dish) books or unforgettable shows : let’s look back one last time over our shoulders to celebrate and share the things who moved us, excited us, surprised us and enlightened 2015.
MARIE TIPPEX
Hematic Sunsets “Tristesse aromatique” (Dekorder, 2009)
Low “Belarus” (Sub Pop, 2007)
Leon Michener “Angelus” / “Klavikon” (Nonclassical, 2015)
Disappears “Another Thought” / “Irreal” (Kranky, 2015)
Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa “Dimension Dive part 3: Deep Sea Dance” / “Savage imagination” (Thrill Jockey, 2014)
Mahogany “Supervitesse” (Track & Field, 2006)
El-G “Armelle” (Le Vilain Chien, 2007)
Family Fodder “Hippy Bus to Spain” / “Variety” (The state51 Conspiracy, 2013)
Gablé “Haunted” (Loaf, 2011)
Jean-François Magre “Toujours un coin qui ne se rappelle pas“ (micr0lab, 2012)
Bona Dish “It’s a normal day” / “Zaragoza Tapes: 1981-1982” (Captured Tracks, 2013)
The Chap “Social Bob” / “The show must go” (Lo recordings, 2015)
Ideal “Monotonie” (WEA, 1981)
Mercenárias “Polícia” (Baratos Afins, 1986)
Derrick May / Rhythim Is Rhythim “Strings of life” (Transmat, 1987)
Pierre Bastien ”Noon” / “Pop” (Rephlex, 2005) + “Blue As An Orange” (Morphine, 2015)
Xavier Boussiron “Des Demies Heures Longues Comme Des Westerns” / “Musique De La Carte Du Tendre” (Suave, 2000)
Sun Ra “That’s how I feel” (Philly Jazz Inc., 1978)
Rediscoveries
Brise-Glace “Restrained from do and will not (leave)” / “When in Vanitas” (Skin Graft, 1994)
Camberwell Now “Working nights” / “All’s Well” (Ink, 1986)
One compilation : Dronecast of Pierre Bastien (The Drone, 2015)
One groove : The Stepkids “Wanderers” (Stones Throw, 2014)
One seven inches : Material “Over and over” (Ze records, 1981)
Two aftershows : Young Marble Giants at MIMI, Marseille and Meltdown, London
One book : Annie Dillard “En vivant, en écrivant” / “The writing life” (10/18, 1996)
One dance (one piano) : Lino Friars with Sonora Matancera (extract on Latino Bar, 1977)
One country : Mysteriana
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WALTER TIPPEX
Top album : The Chap “The show must go” (Lo recordings, 2015)
Katamari Damacy / Pierre Gripari / Steve Warring / Erfolg / The Muppet show
PASCAL TIPPEX
As a Parisian (and this is probably the first time I call myself a Parisian although I have been living here for 30 years) I’m afraid the sad things outnumber the happy ones this year.
Here is what made my year though:
Albums:
Flavien Berger: “Léviathan”
Thurston Moore: “The Best Day”
Wand: “Golem”
Jonathan Fitoussi et Clemens Hourrière: “Five Steps”
Moxham & Halliday: “A know about Thing”
One song: Girl Band “Why they hide their bodies under my garage”
which reminds me of that old and amazing song by XTC “Complicated Game”
Video: Sequences
This incredible footage of an 1980 show of Young Marble Giants
Higlights: shooting a film with Jeff Mills in le Musée du Louvre on a closing day (oh the silence there…); the Barbican going crazy with Jeff’s symphonic version of “The Bells”; Young Marble Giants after-shows: a hotel room in Marseille with a couple of friends after Mimi festival and a month later on the Southbank Center rooftop featuring Brian Eno and Robert Wyatt; meeting Leee John from Imagination at Fête de la Musique!
ETIENNE TIPPEX
A couple of tracks and artists that I have been listening a lot this year:
all songs of “Cap Waller” by Bertrand Belin
“Halcyion Days” taken from Disappears great “Irreal” Record
Bonny – Prefab Sprout
Goodnight Vienna – LFO
Mit Dir – Robert Görl
Fenster – Samson’s Theme
Low – David Bowie
“this is Nots” by NOTS
“Emocean” by Fenster
A couple of thing I enjoyed to do: producing the last Album of band Fenster “Emocean”, being on tour with NOTS and Disappears in Europe, attending Monkey Week Festival and staying a couple of more days in Cadiz – Spain and winning in an official game against the worldchampion table foosball player 🙂
AMBRE TIPPEX
(Jon Rafman installation at the Zabludowicz Collection in London – set up for the short movie ‘Sticky Drama’)
2015 favorite albums :
Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden Of Delete
Thundercat – The Beyond/ Where The Giants Roam
Jenny Hval – Apocalypse, Girl
Housewives – Work
Les Harrys – GGOTS
Domenique Dumont – Comme ça
Vince Staples – Summertime ’06
Heather Leigh – I Abused Animal
Killer tracks to bitch dance to :
Rihanna – Bitch Better Have My Money
Batida – Bazuka (Quem me rusgou?)
Exhibitions :
Jon Rafman at MAC Montreal
Fantastique ! L’Estampe visionnaire de Goya à Redon
Concerts :
Carter Tutti Void @ Villette Sonique, Paris
Nisennenmondai, Tomaga, The Notwist, Flatbush Zombies x Underachievers, Faust, Charles Hayward, Mudhoney @ Le 106, Rouen
Pizza Noise Mafia @ Musiques Volantes, Rouen
Sleater Kinney @ La Cigale, Paris
Books :
Panos Karnezis – Little Infamies
Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller (ed. by Chloé Griffin)
Highlights of the year : celebrating the 14th anniversary of my sweet sixteen with the help of wonderful crazy people, welcoming a baby horse in the family, going back to Montreal and visit the awesome friends I’ve been missing so much there.
TOM TIPPEX
Records (in no particular order):
Giovanni Di Domenico & Jim O’ Rourke – Arco
Micachu & The Shapes – Good Sad Happy Bad
ZU & Eugene Robinson – The Left Hand Path
The Necks – Vertigo
Shit & Shine – Chakin’
Selvhenter – Motions Of Large Bodies
Housewives – Work
Palmbomen – II
Savant – Artificial Dance
Helm – Olympic Mess
Live Concerts:
Deerhoof @ The Dome, The Necks @ Cafe Oto (three nights in a row), Sculpture at Apiary, Bardo Pond / Jesus & Marychain @ Roundhouse, The Ex @ Olso, Roscoe Mitchell / John Edwards / Mark Sanders at Cafe Oto; Housewives at Shacklewell; Selda at Kilbi; Oblique Strategies at The Barbican.
Art: Marlene Dumas, Stedelijk Amsterdam; Anish Kapoor at Sainte Marie De La Tourette, Lyon.
Highlights: (almost) 50 shows with Tomaga playing with incredible bands like Wire, Disappears, Zu, Pierre Bastien, Nissenenmondai, Shit & Shine. School Of Hypnosis performances at Barbican and Cafe Oto; recording in residence in Tuscany; working with Blank Editions and Hands In The Dark; beginning of Negative Days Imprint.
AMANDE TIPPEX
Highlights : coordinating the first Cassette Store Day Germany and Kassettentag in Berlin with great tape labels, shows, and the help of amazing people, releasing new cassettes with Späti Palace, starting an almost-girl band called Tendre Biche and playing our first shows, making a giant pinata for Visions Festival (London, UK), helping Fenster make their movie Emocean and seeing the result (a cine-concert as a 7-piece band) at Berghain for Pop Kultur, starting a magazine / concert calendar with friends called The Chop, adopting a lady pony and eating pizza once a week.
Bands i’ve enjoyed listening to / shows i loved (in no particular order) : Klaus Johann Grobe, Viet Cong, Weyes Blood, Deerhoof, The Julie Ruins, Girl Band, Forever Pavot, Disappears, Aloa Input, The Notwist, Jerry Paper, Sierra Manhattan, Thee Ahs, the great local scene in Berlin (Fenster, Girlie, Molde, Dwarphs, Pigeon, DJ Dingo Susi, Yoga, Trucks, Mother of the Unicorn, Slow Steve, Helen Fry, Soft Grid, Easter …)
MARION TIPPEX
Ellsworth Kelly, Red White, Oil on canvas, 1962
4 shows :
Marie & les garçons @ La Maroquinerie, Paris
Disappears @ La Maroquinerie, Paris & BBmix Festival, Boulogne Billancourt
Son of Dave @ La Maroquinerie, Paris
Zombie Zombie @ Le Yoyo, Paris
4 albums :
Jacky Winter – The Nail – Very Rare Animals
The Dictaphone –Tp Hss – sdz records
Disappears – Irreal – Kranky
Sissi Sussuce – Bar des chômeurs – Unsigned
1 artist : Ellsworth Kelly (who said “I like silence”)
Highlights :
Playing with Thee Dead Clodettes at the BBmix festival with Moss Lime, Nots and Half Japanese
Having a trip at the Scilly Islands to picture an awesome daymark, in a place that looks like the real end of the world
CONSTANCE
A Book : L’art de la joie – Goliarda Sapienza (-New french translation- Le Tripodes, 2015)
A record : Gymnastics – Sneaks (Danger Records, 19/06/2015)
A reissue : Freuziel – Ti-Tho (Vinyl-on-demand, 2015)
A Podcast : Women In Electronic Music 1938-1982 (01/04/2010)
A show : Pill + Neonates + Wall + THe Hairs @ Alphaville, Brooklyn NYC (20/06/2015)
A Video : Discovering this video (probably resurfaced after those Pip Proud vinyl reissues on Superior Viaduc on 2014) – Pip Proud – De Da De Dum (Directed by Garry Shead’s, 1968)
Hightlights of the year : Meeting Mary Jane (contributor/creator of Making Waves Zine) in NYC. Spending the summer with a lot of friends, listening to “Uptown Top Ranking” (Althea & Donna) loud in the car in Noirmoutier. Watching the giant spontaneous musical chair game organize after the Sean Nicholas Savage show in La Base Division (Rennes, L’amour du lointain). The first public talk of Camille and I for Rosa Vertov at BBmix Festival. All those new tiny humans that my friends have made : Welcome Edgar, Lisa, Elena !
TEA FOR TIPPEX
Photo : Aleksandar Srnec, Multimedia Artist, Zagreb (1924-2010)
2015’Pleasures :feeling the love with James Holden playing Terry Riley at the Barbican, shaking mad with Shit & Shine at the Corsica Studios, moved by the glorious Asiq Nargile at Cafe Oto, wild hair at Disappears and Tomaga in Bad Bonn, brotherly love of Roy and The Devil’s Motorcycle ruled the Liverpool Psych fest and thrilled by Mat Pogo and Jealousy Party in Florence – surprise! Unforgettable DJ sets of Raime, Demdike Stare and Andy Votel***Chartbreakers: Shit & Shine album „Chakin“, Trevor Jackson „Presents Science Fiction Dancehall Classics“, Carter Tutti Void’s „(x)“, Tomaga’s „Familiar Obstacles“ and also Charles Cohen with „Brother I Prove You Wrong“, recommendable: Dim Grimm’s birth of „The Sky Opposite“ Rmix***Enlightened by Broadcast (thanks to the reissues of Warp) and emotionally supported by the forgotten H.P. Lovecraft records ***Sound art with legendary Christian Marclay at White Cube: press and live performances with The Mobile Vinyl Factory and also the remarkable graphics of Marco Papiro for Panda Bear. Thanks to Kutmahs beautiful „Tour Mix“, who accompanied me many hours in the tour van. Rest in peace Dieter Moebius, Hello Julie Tippex and thank you for welcoming me back home: Aleksandar Srnec and Zagreb***
