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We’ve always been late late in dealing with the passing year; but this time we’re way into the new one. God only knows what next year will bring but knowing that lots of readers are still hunting good albums from 2008 here’s one final post about 2008 with a cream of the crop selection and we go straight to 2009! Promise!

Enjoy fresh goodies like this : an Art Ensemble of Chicago Documentary, Arthur Doyle + Han Bennink improvising in San Antonio also 2 videos of Bennink drumming with strange objects and making noise, a superb Palais Schaumburg video from 1981, neue deutsche welle!

* Holy shit how did I miss this? 4 tracks from Jazzanova DJ Dixon’s Body Language Vol.4 on Get Physical. Pure quality deep/urban house music, including remixes from Henrik Schwarz, and tracks from Denmark’s Owusu & Hannibal, Mari Boine and a Herbert remix by Errorsmith.

Gnarrrrrls, these lads are surely doin the right thing.. Here are some amazing live performances on youtube. Lovely guys!
* Gnarls Barkley on MTV Movie Awards dressed as star wars peeps
* Gnarls Barkley on Top of the Pops dressed as sailors
* Gnarls Barkley Live on Conan O’Brien show dressed in bathwear

For the first time the songs are featured on a freeserver, called sendspace. I checked through many and settled on sendspace, they never delete the link as long as it gets downloads, they give you 1200mb, they have a nice upload progress bar and you don’t have to wait to download..