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Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Christian Koester Product Presentation

1 Juggaknots – Re:Release Blue Vinyl Edition (Matic / HHV) 2 Armand Hammer (Billy Woods & Elucid) – Rome (Backwoodz Studioz) 3 Roc Marciano – Rosebudd's Revenge (Fat Beats) 4 Milano Constantine (from D.I.T.C.) – The Way We Were Black Vinyl Edition (Slice Of Splice) 5 Mister Voodoo – The Extra Demos EP (Chopped Herring)

6 Alchemist – Rapper's Best Friend Volume 4 (ALC) 7 Apollo Brown & Planet Asia – Anchovies Colored Vinyl Edition (Mello Music Group) 8 K-Def – The Unpredictable Gemini Red Vinyl Edition (Redefinition) 9 Marq Spekt & Gary Wilson – Broken Mazes (Grilchy Party) 10 Damu The Fudgemunk – Vignettes White Vinyl Edition (Redefinition)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Daria Nölker Graphic Design Department

1 Stepart – Playground (Stand High) 2 Wandl – It's All Good Tho (Affine) 3 Toonorth – Rare Views (Radio Juicy / Urban Waves / HHV) 4 Joakuim – Des Fleurs LP (Sable Noir) 5 Bisk – Gutter City (Radio Juicy / Urban Waves / HHV)

6 Lord Folter – Rouge (Nyati / HHV) 7 Sampha – Process (XL Recordings) 8 FloFilz – Re:verse (Newtold) 9 Twit One – Hay Luv (Melting Pot Music) 10 Calibre & DRS – Sunrise (Signature)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Donald & Rave Music Purchase Department & Label

1 Bremer/McCoy – Ordet (Raske Plader) 2 Big L – Devil's Son EP (From The Vaults) (Legacy / Columbia) 3 Jitwam – ज़ितम सिहँ (selftitled) (Cosmic Compositions / HHV) 4 Ayelan – Southern California Style (Synthesis Century) 5 Lord Folter – Rouge HHV Bundle (Nyati / HHV)

6 Graeme Miller & Steve Hill – The Moomins (Finders Keepers) 7 Ol' Burger Beats – Mind Games (Mutual Intentions) 8 Brian Ellis – Mirror Mirror (Chit Chat) 9 Tha God Fahim – Tha Tragedy Of Shogunn (HHV) 10 Michel Sardaby – Gail (World Seven)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Florian Aigner Editorial staff

1 Richard Horowitz – Eros In Arabia (Freedom To Spend) 2 Celine Gillain – What Happens If I Open My Mouth? (Lexi Disques) 3 K. Leimer – Land Of Look Behind (Palace Of Lights) 4 Khidja – Microb Tolouse Low Trax Remixes (Malka Tuti) 5 Arturo Stalteri – …E Il Pavone Parlo Alla Luna (Soave)

6 Jan Van Den Broeke – 11000 Dreams (Stroom) 7 Raymonde – J'aime Bien Le Tonnerre (Zebres) 8 Cosey Fanni Tutti – Time To Tell (Deluxe Edition) (C.T.I.) 9 Crème De Hassan – Technique & Rite (Inversions) 10 Elektro-Dschungel – Kebab- Und Andere Träume (Edition Dschungel)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Hendrik Stein Music Purchase Department

1 Martin Kornberger & Volker Kuhn – Embrace (Orbeatize) 2 Gabor Szabo – Dreams Black Vinyl Edition (Skye) 3 Adolf Stern – More... I Like It (Best Record Italy) 4 Jorge Reyes / Antonio Zepeda – A La Izquierda Del Colibri (Emotional Rescue) 5 Bop & 291out – L'Alba Dei Vinti (Early Sounds)

6 OTTO – Full Auto 7 Merchant – Tumbledown (Ostra Discos) 8 Giraffi Dog – Giraffi Dog EP 2018 Repress Edition (Aiwo) 9 Recht Herzlich – Hab Mut Zu Deinen Lüsten (Private) 10 Jeremy Spellacy – Jeremy Spellacy presents Crown Ruler Sound (Spacetalk)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Jasper Fuhlrott Receiving Department

1 Liam Gallagher – As You Were White Vinyl Edition (Warner) 2 Queens Of The Stone Age – Villains Deluxe Edition (Matador) 3 Wanda – Niente (Vertigo) 4 V.A. – OST Singles 25th Anniversary Edition (Sony) 5 Incubus – 8 (Island)

6 Kasabian – For Crying Out Loud (Columbia) 7 Keane – Hopes And Fears (Island) 8 Foo Fighters – Concrete And Gold (RCA) 9 Weezer – Pacific Daydream Red With Black Splatter Vinyl Edition (Crush Music) 10 Jamiroquai – Automaton (Virgin)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Kons Customer Service

1 V.A. – OST Kids Black Vinyl Edition (MVD Audio) 2 Ras G – The Gospel Of The God Spell (Street Corner Music) 3 Roc Marciano – Rosebudd's Revenge (Fat Beats) 4 Raekwon – The Wild (H2O) 5 Quelle Chris – Being You Is Great, I Wish You Could Be You More Colored Vinyl Edition (Mello Music Group)

6 Nolan The Ninja – Yen Clear Vinyl Edition (Left Of Center) 7 Dillon & Diamond D – Black Tie Affair EP (Full Plate) 8 Jonwayne – Rap Album Two (Authors) 9 Brother Ali – All The Beauty In This Whole Life (Rhymesayers) 10 Westberlin Maskulin (Taktloss & Kool Savas) – Battlekings Yellow Vinyl Edition (Fick Die Biaaatch Rekordz / Essah / HHV)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Kristoffer Cornils Editorial staff

1 Midori Takada – Through The Looking Glass (WRWTFWW) 2 Abra – Rose (Ninja Tune) 3 Yasuaki Shimizu – Kakashi (Palto Flats) 4 Sirom – I Can Be A Clay Snapper (Tak:Til) 5 Burnt Friedman – Dead Saints Chronicles EP (Marionette)

6 Jlin – Black Origami (Planet Mu) 7 Claro Intelecto – Exhilarator (Delsin) 8 Shari Vari – Life Should Be A Holiday (It's) 9 Awa Poulo – Poulo Warali (Awesome Tapes From Africa) 10 V.A. – Lovin' Mighty Fire - Nippon Funk, Soul, Disco 1973-1983 Black Vinyl Edition (BGP)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Mad Lubi Shipping Department

1 Barney Wilen – Moshi (Souffle Continu) 2 Tropical Hifi – Oceania (Emotional Response) 3 Jan Schulte AKA Wolf Müller presents – Tropical Drums Of Deutschland (Music For Dreams) 4 Francisco – Sous Le Ciel Des Antilles (Les Mains Noires) 5 Andrew Wartts & The Gospel Story Tellers – There Is A God Somewhere (Superfly)

6 V.A. – Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes (Ostinato) 7 Vassilis Vassiliadis & Vangelis Perpiniadis – Tsiftetelli 1969 / Ego Den Emai San Tous Beatles (Radio Martiko) 8 Emma De Angelis – Emma De Angelis (Finders Keepers) 9 V.A. – Elsewhere MCMXIII (Ici) 10 Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane – The Elements (Milestone)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Marian Tone Stock-receipt

1 First Touch – Toe Jammin / Pleasure For Your Treasure (Star Creature) 2 Ströer Bros – Kunstdisco Seoul: Night Falls Feat. Howard Fine & Nadeen Holloway (Black Pearl) 3 Ivan "Mamao" Conti – Azul Max Graef, Contours & Glenn Astro Remixes (Far Out) 4 Funkadelic Vs. Moodymann / Funkadelic Vs. Kenny Dixon Jr. – Cosmic Slop / Let's Make It Last 5 Jeremy Spellacy – Jeremy Spellacy presents Crown Ruler Sound (Spacetalk)

6 Tito Wun (Twit One) – Tito’s Edits (AVA. RECORDS) 7 Yaron Gershovsky – Disco Baby (Melodies International) 8 Split Decision Band – Split Decision Band (Now-Again) 9 Alek Lee – Sfarot EP (Antinote) 10 Kiefer – Kickinit Alone (Leaving)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Mauro Denz Marketing

1 Chancha Via Circuito – Rio Arriba (ZZK) 2 Gabor Szabo – Dreams Black Vinyl Edition (Skye) 3 Funkadelic – Reworked By Detroiters (Westbound) 4 Candeias – Sambaiana (Notes On A Journey) 5 Onra – Chinoiseries Part 3 (All City Dublin)

6 Nicola Cruz – Cantos De Vision (Multi Culti) 7 Clap! Clap! – A Thousand Skies (Black Acre) 8 Tsuruda – Move (Division) 9 Harriet Brown – Contact (Innovative Leisure) 10 Sudan Archives – Sudan Archives EP (Stones Throw)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Meckie Online Meckieting

1 Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. HHV Exclusive Red Vinyl Edition (Interscope) 2 Run The Jewels (El-P + Killer Mike) – Run The Jewels 3 (Cooking Vinyl) 3 Wu-Tang Clan – The Saga Continues Orange Vinyl Edition (eOne) 4 Alicia Keys – Here (RCA) 5 Lakmann & Orange Field – Fear Of A Wack Planet (Eartouch)

6 Trettmann – #DIY (SoulForce / HHV) 7 Meckie (Berlinutz) – Einfach Feat. Pirate MC Green Vinyl Edition (Meckie) 8 Afrob – Beats, Rhymes & Mr. Scardanelli (One Shotta) 9 Tyler The Creator – Flower Boy (Columbia) 10 Westberlin Maskulin (Taktloss & Kool Savas) – Battlekings Yellow Vinyl Edition (Fick Die Biaaatch Rekordz / Essah / HHV)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Philipp Kunze Editorial staff

1 Marc Barreca – Music Works For The Industry (Freedom To Spend) 2 Japan Blues – Sells His Record Collection (Japan Blues) 3 Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane – The Elements (Milestone) 4 Heilige 3 Koenige – Heiraten Und Mehr EP (Mond Musik) 5 Barney Wilen – Moshi (Souffle Continu)

6 NSRD – The Workshop For The Restoration Of Unfelt Feelings (Stroom) 7 Poligam – Poligam LP (Wiener Brut) 8 Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. HHV Exclusive Red Vinyl Edition (Interscope) 9 Spiritual Jazz – Volume 7: Islam - Esoteric, Modal And Progressive Jazz Inspired By Islam 1957-1988 (Jazzman) 10 Pierre Bastien – Mecanoncentric Worlds Of Pierre Bastien (Discrepant)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Rebecca Buck Music Purchase

1 HNQO (Henrique Oliveira) – The Old Door (D.O.C.) 2 Monomen – Monomen 10 Years Anniversary (Oraculo) 3 S.M. Nurse – That's The Body (Domestica) 4 Niki Istrefi – Euromantic 001 (Euromantic) 5 Max Mode – Panorama (Renascence)

6 Hence Therefore – Bad Hope / Bad Despair (3BS) 7 L_Cio – Chico Buarque Construcao Revisited (D.O.C.) 8 Blufrank – I Am Fine (Anti Skate) 9 Headless Horseman – 47009 (47) 10 Morah – #006 (Vanila)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Riet Meert Used Vinyl

1 John Maus – Screen Memories Black Vinyl Edition (Domino Records) 2 B.E.F. – Mallumo (Parallel Berlin) 3 Daniela La Luz – Come Into My Land (Chiwax) 4 Intergalactic Lovers – Exhale (Unday) 5 Story – Objects (Koepel)

6 Helena Hauff – Have You Been There, Have You Seen It (Ninja Tune) 7 A Sagittariun – Pseudo Science (Idle Hands) 8 Aubrey – Clock Funk EP (Barba) 9 Amenra – Mass VI (Neurot) 10 Anthropous Anonymous – O Quase EP (Phonograph)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Roberto Customer Service

1 Childish Gambino – Awaken, My Love! Deluxe Edition (Glassnote) 2 Alfa Mist – Antiphon (Pink Bird Recordings) 3 BBNG (BadBadNotGood) – Lavender Nightfall Remix Feat. Kaytranada & Snoop Dogg (Innovative Leisure) 4 Thundercat – Drunk (Brainfeeder) 5 Elaquent – Worst Case Scenario (Urbnet)

6 Kankick – Beautiful: Opus Of Love Deeper Than Flesh Volume 1 & 2 (HHV) 7 Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. HHV Exclusive Red Vinyl Edition (Interscope) 8 Tyler The Creator – Flower Boy (Columbia) 9 Quickly Quickly – Quickly Quickly Vol.1 (669446 Records DK) 10 Eloquent – Schön Ist Anders (HHV)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Sandra Leidecker Used Vinyl

1 Les Yeux Orange – 1979 (Good Plus) 2 Fireplays – Allein / Hormone (Disco Segreta) 3 Zazou / Bikaye / CY1 – Noir Et Blanc (Remastered) (Crammed) 4 Ahmed Fakroun – Love Words / Soleil Soleil / Jama El F'Na / La - Ya - Hob (Lovr) 5 Gepy & Gepy – Body To Body (Best Record Italy)

6 Les Yeux Orange – Togosava (Good Plus) 7 Inigo Vontier – Aluxes Tolouse Low Trax Remix (Lumiere Noire) 8 Burnin Beat – It's Hot Feat. Olive Masinga (Afrosynth) 9 Software – Digital-Dance Blue Vinyl Edition (100% Electronica) 10 Guy Cuevas – Obsession (Trad Vibe)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Schelle Reseller

1 Romano – Copyshop (Vertigo) 2 Niki Istrefi – Euromantic 001 (Euromantic) 3 Laibach – Also Sprach Zarathustra (Mute) 4 Integrity – Howling, For The Nightmare Shall Consume (Relapse) 5 Reiko Ike – You, Baby (Bamboo)

6 Midori Takada – Through The Looking Glass (WRWTFWW) 7 Obituary – Obituary (Relapse) 8 Molly Nilsson – Imaginations Black Vinyl Edition (Dark Skies Association) 9 Nur Jaber – Weapons Of Mass Destruction EP (OSF) 10 Dillon – Kind Black Vinyl Edition (Pias)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Sebastian Hinz Editorial staff

1 Greg Fox – Gradual Progression (Rvng Intl.) 2 Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Keyboard Fantasies (Seance Centre) 3 Crème De Hassan – Technique & Rite (Inversions) 4 Joshua Abrams & The Natural Information Society – Simultonality (Tak:Til) 5 Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane – The Elements (Concord)

6 Ingleton Falls – Champagne In Mozambique (Isle Of Jura) 7 Awa Poulo – Poulo Warali (Awesome Tapes From Africa) 8 Mike Cooper – Raft (Room 40) 9 Shit & Shine – Hamburger (Gang Of Ducks) 10 K. Leimer – Land Of Look Behind (Palace Of Lights)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Timm Customer Service

1 Deux – Decadence (Minimal Wave) 2 Monopol – Weltweit (Medical) 3 Peppermint Lounge – Perfect High (Dark Entries) 4 Mr. Flagio – Take A Chance Black Vinyl Edition (Fonogrammi Particolari) 5 John Maus – Screen Memories Black Vinyl Edition (Domino Records)

6 Lil Ugly Mane – Three Sided Tape Volume 1 (Hundebiss) 7 Boy Harsher – Lesser Man (Extended Version) (Aufnahme+Wiedergabe) 8 Max Berlin – Elle Et Moi Black Vinyl Edition (Music Mania Reprise) 9 Charlie Smooth – Smooth Operators Volume 1 (Smooth Operators) 10 Marie Davidson – Adieux Au Dancefloor White Vinyl Edition (Cititrax)

Staff Picks 2017

Staff Picks 2017 Valentina Holbach Berlin Store

1 Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. HHV Exclusive Red Vinyl Edition (Interscope) 2 400PPM – Fit For Purpose (Avian) 3 nthng – Turn To Gaia (Delsin) 4 Peter Power – Gentle Drama EP (Polychrome Sounds) 5 V.A. – Fair EP (STRCTR)

6 DVS1 – Hush 20 (HUSH) 7 DJ Different – Manhattan Drive (Distant Hawaii) 8 Z.I.P.P.O – Circular Immersion EP (Involve) 9 Demuja – Mary Janes Theory (Muja) 10 Trettmann – #DIY (SoulForce / HHV)