Jack Mello's Highlights of 2007

In no order...

- Larry Heard/Fingers Inc. reissues ("Sun Can't Compare," "I'm Strong") [Wiki]

- Black Dice and related ("Load Blown," Eric Copeland "Hermaphrodite," Soft Circle "Full Bloom") [Black Dice Dot Net]

- Boredoms 77 Boadrum event [YouTube]

- A smokin' soulful house track by Dennis Ferrer called "Church Lady". [MySpace]

- Josef van Wissem - A Rose By Any Other Name (Bvhaast/Incunabulum) [Homepage]

- Terje Rypdal - s/t (ECM) [Wiki]

- Fucked Up - Year of the Pig 12" (What's Your Rupture?) [Wiki]

- The Good, The Bad, and the Queen - s/t (Parlophone/Virgin) [Homepage]

- Post-dubstep vibrations from Shackleton ("Next to Nothing," Skull Disco singles/2 CD comp.), Bass Clef, 2562, Burial.

- Italians Do It Better (Glass Candy "B/E/A/T/B/O/X," Chromatics "In Shining Violence"/"IV Night Drive," "After Dark" comp., singles by Professor Genius and Farah Holly) [MySpace]

- Cadenza Records (cool Swiss/Chilean label with next-level double-pack 12s" from Luciano, Petre Inspirescu, Argenis Brito, Digitaline, Villalobos; singles by Pikaya, Rhadoo, Andomat3000 & Jan) [Homepage]

- Dial Records (Hamburg label with deep/minimal electro-glide house albums from Pantha Du Prince and Efdemin and singles by Lawrence and Sten) [Homepage]

- Kompakt (techno stalwart label stretches out with electro-pop [Juergen Paape U Boy Schaefler Gesang "We Love" from "Total 8," Supermayer CD] and genre-defying [sort of] albums from The Field, Gui Boratto, Thomas Fehlmann) [Homepage]

- England (visiting friends in Brighton to the south and ruined abbeys/castles up north, Durham Cathedral, jellied eels at pie-and-mash shop in Hackney, driving on the wrong side of the road) [Wiki]

- Getting engaged! [Congrats, Jack!]