Good stuff in 2018 #
Happy New Year. It’s 2019. Here’s a short retrospective on some of the things I enjoyed in 2018.
Music
I’ve listened to a lot of different stuff this year. Here are some of my favorites:
- V/A - Air Texture Vol. VI (Air Texture)
- Mariel Ito - 2000-2005 (R&S)
- John Grant - Love is magic (Bella Union)
- Aphex Twin - Collapse EP (Warp)
- DjRUM - Portrait with Firewood (R&S)
- Oneohtrix Point Never - The Station (Warp)
- V/A - Gradients Vol. 2 (Astrophonica)
- joeFarr - Dedication EP (ARTS)
- Vril - Anima Mundi (Delsin)
- CASISDEAD - Pat Earrings (XL Recordings)
- Ital Tek - Bodied (Planet Mu)
- Synkro, Arovane - Refractive (Index) (Apollo Records)
- Benjamin Damage - Malfunction (R&S)
- Ross from Friends - Family Portrait (Brainfeeder)
- Aleksi Perälä - Sunshine 1 (Clone)
- Skee Mask - Compro (Ilian Tape)
- Lone - Ambivert Tools, Vol. 4 (R&S)
Each release is in my Spotify playlist Top 17 releases 2018
Movies
- Isle of dogs
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Death of Stalin
- Mandy
Books
- Kazuo Ishiguro - Nocturnes
- Margaret Atwood - The handmaid’s tale
- Martin Kleppmann - Designing Data-Intensive Applications (my notes)
- Francesco Cesarini - Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP
- Stanisław Lem - The invincible
Gigs
- Aphex Twin at Funkhaus in Berlin
- Rival consoles at Prince Charles in Berlin
- Nils Frahm at Malmö Live konserthus in Malmö
- Sleaford mods at Columbiahalle in Berlin
- Fever Ray at Columbiahalle in Berlin
Exhibitions
- SKALAR live by Christopher Bauder and Kangding Ray at Kraftwerk in Berlin (my playlist of clips)
- Mechanical techno by Graham Dunning at Grimeton radio station in Grimeton
- Oscar Muñoz at Hasselblad center in Göteborg
- Communicating vessels at Bunkier in Krakow (my photos)
Skateboard films
- Polar: We blew it at some point
- Bronze56k: It’s time
- GX1000: Roll up
- Converse cons: Purple
- Quasi: Mother
Tv series
- Maniac
- Dilan & Moa
- Black Mirror s4
- The handmaid’s tale
- Stranger things s2
- Dark
Misc
- Cinque e cinque in Livorno (sandwich)
- Chili pepper plants 🌶
- Masthugget parking garage (skate spot)
- Negroni (cocktail)