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Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Chrissy Fahrenbruch Product photography

1 Max Graef – Lo Siento Mucho Pero No Hablo Tu Idioma (Tartelet) 2 V.A. – Switched-On Eugene (Numero Group) 3 Glenn Astro – C.I.W. EP (Tartelet) 4 Ratgrave (Max Graef & Julius Conrad) – Ratgrave (Apron) 5 Hiroshi Sato – Orient (Wewantsounds)

6 V.A. – DOYOURECORDS001 (Do You Recrds) 7 V.A. – TAX12001 (Tax Free) 8 GRRRR – TAX12002 (Tax Free) 9 Yuzi Koshiro & Motohiro Kawashima – Streets Of Rage 3 (Data Discs) 10 Delta Rain Dance – Trancemission/Transmission (Not On Label)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Christian Koester Product Presentation

1 Armand Hammer – Paraffin LP (Backwoodz Studioz) 2 Miles Davis & John Coltrane – The Final Tour: Copenhagen, March 24, 1960 (Columbia) 3 DJ Muggs & Roc Marciano – Kaos (Soul Assassins) 4 Hermit and the Recluse – Orpheus vs. The Sirens (Obol for Charon Records) 5 Crimeapple – Aguardiente (Daupe!)

6 Da Buze Bruvaz – Ni&$@Tivity (Grilchy Party) 7 Marq Spekt – At War With The Shadows (Grilchy Party) 8 Televangel – Anthropocene Blues (Fake Four Inc.) 9 Tragedy Khadafi & BP – Immortal Titans (Common Virtue) 10 Q-Unique – The Mechanik (Capitol Q Music)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Daria Nölker Graphic Design Department

1 Ivy Lab – Death Don't Always Taste Good LP (20/20 LDN) 2 $uicideboy$ – I Want To Die In New Orleans Red / Black Split Vinyl Edition (Caroline) 3 Noise. – Strains (Dezi-Belle) 4 Mall Grab – How The Dogs Chill Volume 1 (Looking For Trouble) 5 Freddie Gibbs – Freddie Pink Vinyl Edition (ESGN)

6 Hiob – Abgesänge (Mofo Airlines) 7 Eloquent – Samo Samo (Sichtexot) 8 Simo Cell – 5 Party Mix (Brothers From Different Mothers) 9 Alex Kassian – Hidden Tropics (Utopia) 10 Autumn Keys – Harvest (Radio Juicy / Urban Waves / HHV)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Dejvid Kavazovic Receiving Department

1 Skudge – Quasi / Parallel (Skudge) 2 Mike Dehnert – Brennweite EP (Fachwerk) 3 Mala – Changes (Distance Remix) / Miracles (Commodo Remix) (Deep Medi Musik) 4 Gnork – Magic Arp (Magicwire) 5 Skee Mask – Compro (Ilian Tape)

6 Stenny – Consumer's Tool (Ilian Tape) 7 Rival Consoles – Persona (Erased Tapes) 8 Andre Kronert – Trip Etched Vinyl Edition (Odd Even) 9 Cadans – Curved (Hardgroove) 10 Daniel Avery – Diminuendo Ep (Phantasy Sound)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Donald & Rave Music Purchase Department & Label

1 Action Bronson – Blue Chips 7000 (Atlantic) 2 The Bookworks Trio – The Bookworks Trio EP (Bookworks) 3 Charles Bals – Charles Bals presents Club Meduse (Spacetalk) 4 Da Bush Babees – Brooklyn Movements / Instrumental (HHV Boombap 45s) 5 Dreamcast – Outer Space (Future Times)

6 Ill Considered – Ill Considered 3 (Ill Considered) 7 J.Rocc – Funky President Edits Volume 6: Late Friday Night / Can I Walk? (Beat Junkie Sound) 8 Neneh Cherry – Broken Politics (Smalltown Supersound) 9 Philanthrope – Waking Dreams (Beat Jazz International / HHV) 10 Pusha T – Daytona (Def Jam)

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Staff Picks 2018 Elisabeth Pieplow Music Purchase

1 Visonia – Fake Wings (Waste Editions) 2 Marc Romboy – Moonface / Zukunft (Systematic) 3 R.A.N. – Seb-i Yelda (Karl) 4 The Body – I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer Black Vinyl Edition (Thrill Jockey) 5 Blackmoon1348 – With The Tibetan Monks Of The Tashi Lhunpo Monastery (Death & Leisure)

6 Hermann – Disart Brut: Mausoleum (Bleeding Heart Nihilist) 7 Unhuman & Surit – Impact Bashing (Black Sun) 8 Shamos – This Life (SZE) 9 Asquith – Never Alone (Asquith) 10 YYYY – Carry This Blood (Weekend Circuit)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Florian Aigner Editorial Staff

1 Cyrnai – To Subtle-drive (Dark Entries) 2 Suba – Wayang (Offen Music) 3 Deadline Paranoia – 2/3 (Ongehoord) 4 MB Jones – Rok Spy (Drama) 5 TNC6 – Sekundenschlaf (Blackest Ever Black)

6 Peter Graf York – 12" Sampler (Planet Rescue) 7 Pessimist – Sprtlzm / Scifi (Pessimist Productions) 8 Rembert De Smet & Ferre Baelen – Le Mysterieux EP (Musique Pour La Danse) 9 De Leon – De Leon (Mana) 10 Colman – Daedalus (Musique Plastique)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Hendrik Stein Music Purchase Department

1 Angophora – Scenes (Ken Oath) 2 Giuliano Sorgini – Africa Oscura (Four Flies) 3 Daniel Bacalov – 1984 5 il ladro di anime (Soave) 4 Eiger Drums Propaganda – Eiger Drums Propaganda (Macadam Mambo) 5 Die Wilde Jagd – Uhrwald Orange (Bureau B)

6 V.A. – Mogul 4 (Themes For Great Cities) 7 Job Sifre – Bestaan EP (Knekelhuis) 8 Aaron Broomfield – I'm Gonna Miss Ya (Athens Of The North) 9 Takashi Kokubo – A Dream Sails Out To Sea (Get At The Wave) (Lag Records) 10 Emilia – Emilia (Svart)

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Staff Picks 2018 Jon Fischer Used Vinyl

1 City Girls – Period (Quality Control Music) 2 Proc Fiskal – Insula (Hyperdub) 3 Lorn – Remnant (Wednesday Sound) 4 Key! & Kenny Beats – 777 (Hello!) 5 Alex Zhang Hungtai – Divine Weight (NON)

6 Oklou – The Rite Of May (Nuxxe) 7 Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of (Warp) 8 Mary Lattimore – Hundreds Of Days Black Vinyl Edition (Ghostly International) 9 Surly – Trip To Warsaw (Astigmatic) 10 Travis Scott – Astroworld (Epic)

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Staff Picks 2018 Kieron Customer Service

1 Paint – Paint (Mexican Summer) 2 Mansur Brown – Shiroi (Black Focus) 3 Oh Sees (Thee Oh Sees) – Smote Reverser Black Vinyl Edition (Castle Face) 4 Ty Segall & White Fence – Joy (Drag City) 5 Fountaines D.C. – Boys In The Better Land (Trigger Party Records)

6 Kikagaku Moyo – Masana Temples (Guruguru Brain) 7 Skinshape – Filoxiny (Lewis Recordings) 8 Part Time – Spell #6 (Tough Love) 9 V.A. – JD Twitch presents Kreaturen Der Nacht (Strut) 10 Boy Harsher – Lesser Man Extended Version (Nude Club)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Kristoffer Cornils Editorial staff

1 Mount Eerie – Now Only (P.W. Elverum & Sun) 2 Forests – Idol Collapse (Left Hand Path) 3 Jóhann Jóhannsson – Englabörn & Variations (Deutsche Grammophon) 4 V.A. – Kumo No Muko: A Journey Into 80's Japan's Ambient And Synth Pop Sound (HMV Record Shop / Jazzy Couscous) 5 R.A.N. – Seb-i Yelda (Karl)

6 Siavash Amini – Foras (Hallow Ground) 7 Julia Holter – Aviary Black Vinyl Edition (Domino) 8 Air Liquide – This Is A Mind Trip (Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound) 9 Sanaani, Laheji, Adeni & Samar – Music From Yemen Arabia (Recorded By Ragnar Johnson & Jessica Mayer) (Sub Rosa) 10 Umeko Ando – Ihunke (Pingipung)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Mad Lubi Receiving Department

1 David Axelrod – Song Of Innocence (Now-Again) 2 Il Guardiano Del Faro – Oasis (Time Capsule) 3 Gunther Beckers – Walkman (Music From Memory) 4 Haruomi Hosono – Omni Sight Seeing (Light In The Attic) 5 V.A. – Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights (Numero Group)

6 Carrie Cleveland – Looking Up: The Complete Works (Kalita) 7 Batteaux – Batteaux (Be With) 8 Abderrahman El Khamissi – OST Respectable Families (Radio Martiko) 9 Waak Waak Djungi – Waak Waak Ga Min Min (Efficient Space) 10 Les Esclaves – Popera Cosmic (Finders Keepers)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Mauro Denz Marketing Music

1 V.A. – Saigon Supersound Volume 2 (Saigon Supersound) 2 Orquestra St. Moritz & Erlon Chaves – Procura-se Uma Virgem (Mad About) 3 Hizuru – Hizuru (Musilogue) 4 Mo Kolours – Inner Symbols (Five Easy Pieces) 5 V.A. – Hong Kong Score (Wan Chai)

6 Banyen Rakkaen – Lam Phloen World-Class: The Essential Banyen Rakkaen (EM) 7 Moontribe – Moontribe (Fortuna) 8 Ichiro Fujiya & Takeshi Kurihara – Elephant And A Barbar HHV Exclusive Dark Blue Vinyl Edition (Musilogue) 9 Ryo Fukui – Scenery (We Release Jazz) 10 Dom Salvador e Abolicao – Som, Sangue e Raca (Mad About)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Meckie Online Marketing

1 Evidence of Dilated Peoples – Weather Or Not Blue Vinyl Edition (Rhymesayers) 2 Nas – Illmatic: Live From Kennedy Center (Mass Appeal) 3 The Prodigy – No Tourists Black Vinyl Edition (BMG) 4 Masta Ace & Marco Polo – A Breukelen Story HHV Exclusive Black Vinyl Edition (Fat Beats) 5 Lance Butters – Angst (Four Music)

6 Soulbrotha (B-Base & 12 Finger Dan) – Moment Der Wahrheit (HHV) 7 Curse – Die Farbe Von Wasser (Indie Neue Welt) 8 Carsten Erobique Meyer – OST Tatortreiniger Soundtracks Black Vinyl Edition (a sexy) 9 Rage Against The Machine – Live & Rare (Epic) 10 NOFX – The Greatest Songs Ever Written Green Vinyl Edition (Epitaph Europe)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Pascal Customer Service

1 Archetype – Abstract Analogy (Future Primitive) 2 Binaural – Mescla (Dream Ticket) 3 Sacred Grove – Untitled (City-2 St. Giga) 4 Analog Tara – Fundamentals EP (1432R) 5 Darren Nye – Excursions Into The Unknown EP (Polarity)

6 V.A. – Touched Electronix 001 Clear Blue Vinyl Edition (Touched Electronix) 7 Entity : London – Get Down (Lost.Act Edit) (Get Down) 8 Synapse – Knowing Something 3 (Knowing Something) 9 Crash ID – Sacrificio (Private Selection) 10 ANF – Visions (Naff)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Philipp Kunze Editorial Staff

1 Bebe Fang – Bebe Fang (Vrystaete) 2 Bobby Wright – Blood Of An American (Melodies International) 3 Frederic Rzewski – Coming Together / Attica / Les Moutons De Panurge (Black Sweat) 4 Emerson Kitamura – The Countryside Is Great EP (EM) 5 Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Beverly Glenn-Copeland (Super Sonic Jazz)

6 Nexda – Words & Numbers (Mannequin) 7 Kuniyuki Takahashi – Early Tape Works 1986-1993 Volume 1 (Music From Memory) 8 The Gondwana Orchestra – Colors EP Feat. Dwight Trible (Gondwana) 9 John Tchicai With Strings – John Tchicai With Strings (Treader) 10 Travis Scott – Astroworld (Epic)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Riet Meert Used Vinyl

1 Fever Ray – Plunge (Raidb) 2 Herzel – Forms EP (Uncanny Valley) 3 Daniela La Luz – Did You Ever Remixes (Housewax) 4 Bad Stream – Bad Stream Transparent Red Vinyl Edition (Antime) 5 Boy Harsher – Pain II (Nude Club)

6 Roméo Elvis X Le Motel ‎ – Morale 2 (Darin Music) 7 Schwesta Ewa – Aywa Red Vinyl Edition (Alles Oder Nix) 8 Peggy Gou – Once (Ninja Tune) 9 Cinthie – 803 Crystalgrooves 001 (803 Crystalgrooves) 10 Kamasi Washington – Heaven & Earth (Young Turks)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Sarah Schwemler Product photography

1 Tirzah – Devotion White Vinyl Edition (Domino) 2 Ewan Jansen – Embers Only : Swan Songs (Red Ember) 3 Lord Of The Isles – Irafas EP (Lone Romantic) 4 Lone – Ambivert Tools Volume 4 (R&S) 5 Skee Mask – Compro (Ilian Tape)

6 Your Planet Is Next – Laid Back EP (Studio Barnhus) 7 Leon Vynehall – Nothing Is Still (Ninja Tune) 8 Ross From Friends – Aphelion EP (Brainfeeder) 9 Calibre – 4am (31 Recordings) 10 Videopath – A Cure For Melancholy (Peach Discs)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Schelle Reseller

1 Manos – True Life (Morbid Generation Records) 2 The Body – I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer Black Vinyl Edition (Thrill Jockey) 3 Integrity / Krieg – Split (Relapse) 4 Lingua Ignota – All Bitches Die (Profound Lore) 5 Soap & Skin – From Gas To Solid / You Are My Friend (Play It Again Sam)

6 Hogg – Self-Extinguishing Emission EP (Scrapes) 7 Uniform & The Body – Mental Wounds Not Healing Colored Vinyl Edition (Sacred Bones) 8 Laibach – The Sound Of Music Gold Vinyl Edition (Mute) 9 Molly Nilsson – Twenty Twenty Colored Vinyl Edition (Night School) 10 Die Skeptiker – Kein Weg Zu Weit (Destiny)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Sebastian Hinz Editorial

1 Cremation Lily – In England Now, Underwater (Alter) 2 Nadine Byrne – Dreaming Remembering (Ideal) 3 Colman – Daedalus (Musique Plastique) 4 Janek Schaefer – What Light There Is Tells Us Nothing (Temporary Residence) 5 Jesse Sharps Quintet & P.A.P.A. – Sharps And Flats (Outernational Sounds)

6 Garland – Predules #1 (Lullabies For Insomniacs) 7 Lucrecia Dalt – Anticlines (Rvng Intl.) 8 Ingus Bauskenieks – Spoki (Stroom) 9 V.A. – Jura Soundsystem Presents Transmission One (Isle Of Jura) 10 Ramzi – Phobiza "Amor Fati" Volume 3 (Fati)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Sophia Neuhaus HHV Store

1 Skee Mask – Compro (Ilian Tape) 2 Djrum – Portrait With Firewood (R&S) 3 Rune Bagge – Pink Dreams (Northern Electronics) 4 The Empire Line – Rave (Northern Electronics) 5 Inland & Julian Charriere – An Invitation To Disappear (A-Ton)

6 Anthony Linell – A Sense Of Order (Northern Electronics) 7 Desroi – Dwell In Motion (Avian) 8 Barker – Debiasing EP (Ostgut Ton) 9 François X – Irregular Passion (Dement3d Records) 10 Antigone – Rising (Token)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Thorben Kaiser Music Purchase Dept.

1 Ichiro Fujiya & Takeshi Kurihara – Elephant And A Barbar (Musilogue) 2 Carsten Erobique Meyer – OST Tatortreiniger Soundtracks Black Vinyl Edition (a sexy) 3 Makaya McCraven – Universal Beings (International Anthem) 4 79.5 – Predicitions (Big Crown) 5 The Grouch – Crusader For Justice White Vinyl Edition (Legendary Music / HHV)

6 DoNormaal – Third Daughter Numbered Clear and Black Vinyl Edition (Crane City Music) 7 Polyester The Saint – Wazzup Feat. Jay Worthy / Modern Funk Dub Version (Cavi Sounds) 8 Botschaft – Sozialisiert In Der BRD (Kleine Untergrundschallplatten) 9 Britta – Best Of Britta (Staatsakt) 10 Last Jazz Club (Veks & Mike B) – Jazz Is (Chopped Herring)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Timm Customer Service

1 Boy Harsher – Lesser Man Extended Version (Nude Club) 2 V.A. – The Bedroom Tapes (Minimal Wave) 3 Death Grips – Year Of The Snitch Black Vinyl Edition (Harvest) 4 Wooden Shjips – V. Clear High Melt Red Vinyl Edition (Thrill Jockey) 5 Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo Black Vinyl Edition (Night Time Stories)

6 Oh Sees (Thee Oh Sees) – Smote Reverser Black Vinyl Edition (Castle Face) 7 V.A. – Typical Girls Volume 4 (Emotional Response) 8 Pisse – Hornhaut Ist Der Beste Handschuh (Phantom) 9 V.A. – Ende vom Lied: East German Underground Sound 1979 - 1990 (Play Loud!) 10 V.A. – JD Twitch presents Kreaturen Der Nacht (Strut)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Tobias Deutrich HHV Store

1 Harry Case – In A Mood (Cool Cult) 2 Tullio De Piscopo – Stop Bajon (Best Record Italy) 3 Julie McDermott – Don't Go (Gerd Janson Remix) 4 Pharoah Sanders – You've Got To Have Freedom / Got To Give It Up (Expansion) 5 Bo'vel – Check 4 U (Be With)

6 Ntombi Ndaba & Survival – Tomorrow (Afrosynth) 7 Koenig Saatgut – The Spirit EP (Lumberjacks In Hell) 8 Young Pulse – Paris Edits Volume 5 (G.A.M.M) 9 Pink Rhythm – Melodies Of Love (Be With) 10 Keysha / Fg's Romance – Stop It! / What Is Love Today (Stroom)

Staff Picks 2018

Staff Picks 2018 Valentina Hollbach HHV Store

1 Nu Guinea – Nuova Napoli (NG Records) 2 Bluestaeb – Everything Is Always A Process (Jakarta) 3 Mac Miller – Swimming (Warner) 4 Annanan – You Grey Vinyl Edition (Machine Jazz) 5 Gnork – Marble (Church)

6 L.B. Dub Corp – Side Effects (Mote Evolver) 7 Area – Remember Each Moment Of Freedom (Rough House Rosie) 8 Marquis Hawkes – The Marquis Of Hawkes (Houndstooth) 9 Objekt – Cocoon Crush (PAN) 10 V.A. – NooLtd2030 (Noorden)