Same procedure as every year: Each one of us named their five favorite albums of the past year plus their favorite Session in 2012. Our personal best of includes anything from house to hardcore, pop to indie, rap to folk and also looks back at a year of filming the most amazing musicians. Here we go:
Mia (Design)
1. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosuars-Trouble
2. Grizzly Bear-Shields
3. Die Antwoord-Ten$ion
4. French Films-Imaginary Future
5. Blood Red Shoes-In Time to Voices
Session: Ewert and The Two Dragons
Sören (Videography)
1. Kraftklub – “Mit K”
2. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – “Trouble”
3. Me and My Drummer – “The Hawk, The Beak, The Prey”
4. The Mars Volta – “Noctourniquet”
5. Santiano – “Bis ans Ende der Welt”
Session: Me And My Drummer
Lea (Text & Booking)
1. Grimes – Visions (4AD)
2. Poliça – Give You The Ghost (Memphis Industries)
3. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city (Aftermath Entertainment)
4. John Talabot – ƒIN (Permanent Vacation)
5. Friends – Manifest! (Lucky Number)
Session: Ewert and The Two Dragons
Sophie (Photography)
1. Beach House – Bloom
2. Efterklang – piramida
3. Kat Frankie – please don’t give me what i want
4. Kid Kopphausen – I
5. The magnetic North – Orkney
Session: Me And My Drummer
Max (Videography)
1. Christian Löffler – “A Forest”
2. Max Herre – “Hallo Welt!”
3. Marsimoto – “Grüner Samt”
4. Mumford & Sons – “Babel
5. Of Monsters and Men – “My Head Is An Animal”
Session: Ewert and The Two Dragons
Christoph (Socialmedia & Labels)
1. Captain Planet – Treibeis
2. Birds in Row – You, Me & The Violence
3. Devil Sold his Soul – Empire of the Light
4. Apologies, I Have None – LONDON
5. Caspian – Waking Season
Session: Ewert and The Two Dragons
Alex (Audioengineering)
1. Efterklang – Piramida
2. I Am Oak – Nowhere or Tammensaari
3. Me And My Drummer – The Hawk, The Beak, The Prey
4. Fenster – Bones
5. DIIV – Oshin
Session: Me And My Drummer
Gunnar (Production)
1. Alt-J – An Awesome Wave
2. Me & My Drummer – The Hawk, The Beak, The Prey
3. Oberhofer – Time Capsules II
4. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
5. Manual Kant – Applaus
Session: Ewert and The Two Dragons