Best Of 2011

So I was sitting with my pal DJ Bonzai Tarzan the other night and while sipping a chilled glass of horchata de chufa we recalled our best memories and discoveries of the year 2011. The following list was compiled for Sensación Mágica, a Quito-based music magazine focusing on new sounds from all over the world. So here it comes - in no particular order... Thank you for your attention.

– Dj Bongo Man

2011

DJ BONZAI TARZAN
Zigurat building with Anne Mei Yi
Street music of Java (super record!)
SD Batish: Om Shanti Meditation Dilruba (super record!)
Life and Fate: Vassily Grossman
Whisperers: Orlando Figes

DJ BONGO MAN
Filetti di acciuga La Golosa, Taggia.
Djo Nolo & Dassy Vala-Be: Malrhyama (Espérance/Sonodisc, LP, 1989).
Valeurs Sûres de Bruxelles - live at Casa Latina, February 25, 2011.
Bea De Giacomo: Lezedunum (book/portfolio, Rawraw Edizioni/Associazione Storico-Culturale Lezedunum, 2011)

Moemlien: Spring 2010, Amsterdam (C30, Silver Ghosts, 2011).

Etivaz Alpine cheese.
Fourth World Magazine: The Spectacle of Light Abductions (Pacific City Sound Visions, LP, 2011).
Caleuche Video blog.
Henning Christiansen: Symphony Natura (Slowscan, LP, recorded 1985, released 2006).
Adam Hochschild: King Leopold's Ghost (book, 1998).

Nudism (exhibition), Grimmuseum, Berlin, September 2011.
Francesco Cavaliere DJ set, O'Tannenbaum, Berlin, September 2011.
Indias Indios video performance, Grimmuseum, Berlin, September 2011.
Everything by Massimiliano Bomba.
DJ Cool Brocoli feat. MC Orphan Fairytale and MC Dracula Lewis, Om is Om Bowling and Sound Festival, Brussels, October 26.
Tuffo nel Ceno di Valhalla, July 2011.