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Top Ten:
Starflyer 59: Everybody Makes Mistakes
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
American Analog Set: The Golden Band
Black Tambourines: Complete Recordings
Kid Silver: Dead City Sunbeams
Death In Vegas: The Contino Sessions
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
The Delgados: Peloton
Air: Premiere Symptoms
Snow Patrol: Songs for Polar Bears
Reissue:
Ecstasy of St Theresa: Susurrate
Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
Blind Mr. Jones: Stereo Musicale
alecdutcher@yahoo.com
Top Ten:
U.S. Maple: Talker
Beck: Midnite Vultures
Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Built to Spill: Keep it like a Secret
Smog: Knock Knock
Blur: 13
Sonic Youth: Goodbye 20th Century
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
Plaid: Rest Proof Clockwork
Pavement: Terror Twilight
Reissue:
Stereolab: Switched On, Vol. 1
Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
Polvo: Today's Active Lifestyles
anarchy@ix.netcom.com
Top Ten:
Melvins: The Maggot
Built to Spill: Keep It like a Secret
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
Built to Spill: Carry the Zero EP
Don Davis: Score to "The Matrix"
Melvins: The Bootlicker
The Rentals: Seven More Minutes
Chemical Brothers: Surrender
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Sonic Youth: Goodbye 20th Century
Reissue:
Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Live Band:
Bardo Pond
Old Record:
Soul Coughing: El Oso
antifret@hotmail.com
Top Ten:
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Labradford: E Luxo So
Autechre: EP7
Ozric Tentacles: Waterfall Cities
Dif Juz: Soundpool
XTC: Apple Venus Vol. 1
The Inner TV: Telemundomusik
l.a.g.: Ecstacy In Soviet Affairs
Reissue:
V/A: Harmony of the Spheres
Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
Insides: Euphoria
argalon@hotmail.com
Top Ten:
ol' dirty bastard: nigga please
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Smog: Knock Knock
Pavement: Terror Twilight
clinic: untitled comp on Domino
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Mogwai: Come On Die Young
Mos Def: Black on Both Sides
Beta Band: The Three EPs
bonnie prince billy: i see a darkness
Reissue:
Skip Spence: Oar
Live Band:
Neutral Milk Hotel
Old Record:
mary margaret o hara: miss america
Barrett_Jones@ao.uscourts.gov
Top Ten:
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Luna: The Days of Our Nights
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Chemical Brothers: Surrender
Blur: 13
Robin Hitchcock: Jewels for Sophia
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Reissue:
V/A: Soundtrack from "Rushmore"
Live Band:
Lilies
Old Record:
Electric Company: A Pert Cyclic Omen
benjovi@home.com
Top Ten:
Six Organs of Admittance: Dust and Chimes
Amps For Christ: Circuits
Music Tapes: First Imaginary Symphony For Nomad
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
No Neck Blues Band: Meets the Clear People with Mystery Gypped Live At Ken's Electric Lake
Idyll Swords: Idyll Swords
Stars of the Lid: Avec Laudenum
Badawi: The Heretic of Ether
Gas: Konigsforst
Jonathon Coleclough/Andrew Chalk: Sumac
Reissue:
Skip Spence: Oar
Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
The Black Vial: Frozen Morning
benmorgan@pobox.com
Top Ten:
Sad Rockets: Once Upon a Time Called now
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Papa M: Live From a Shark Cage
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Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
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benthos@juno.com
Top Ten:
Maryanne Amacher: Sound Characters
Mia Doi Todd: Come Out of Your Mine
Charlemagne Palestine: Schlingen-Blängen
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
Nobukazu Takemura: Scope
Fennesz: Plays
Rafael Toral: Aeriola Frequency
Idyll Swords: Idyll Swords
Morton Feldman: First Recordings: 1950's (Mode Records Feldman Series Vol. 2)
Gerry Hemingway: Chamber Works
Reissue:
Luc Ferrari: Interrupteur/Tautologos 3
Live Band:
Sonic Youth
Old Record:
Nuno Canavarro: Plux Quba
borb@earthlink.net
Top Ten:
Brother JT 3: Way To Go
Davis Redford Triad: Ewige Blumenkraft
Faust: Ravvivando
Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U. F. O.: Pataphysical Freak Out MU!!
Azalia Snail: Cooling System
Sandra Bell: City Of Sorrows
Ghost: Snuffbox Immanence
No Neck Blues Band: Birth Of Both Worlds
Atman: Tradition
Six Organs Of Admittance: Dust And Chimes
Reissue:
Maitreya Kali: Apache/Inca
Live Band:
Overhang Party
Old Record:
Les Rallizes Denudes/Taj Mahal Travellers: Oz Days Live 1973
brandonandre@hotmail.com
Top Ten:
Built To Spill: Keep It Like A Secret
The Roots: Things Fall Apart
Ghost: Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet
Bjorn Olsson: Instrumental Music...
Ghost: Snuffbox Immanence
V/A: Soundbombing II
Bevis Frond: Vavona Burr
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Major Stars: Space/Time
Gate: The Monolake
Reissue:
Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Lost Trident Sessions
Live Band:
Bevis Frond
Old Record:
Mos Def and Talib Kweli: are Black Star
brg30@yahoo.com
Top Ten:
Pole: CD2
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
Bruce Russell: Maximalist Mantra Music
Gate: The Lavender Head
Bevis Frond: Vavona Burr
Windy and Carl: A Dream of Blue
Major Stars: Space/Time
Ghost: Snuffbox Immanence
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase: Beatings With Gimpy Flighted Wings Entraped By Post-Fence ...
Reissue:
Angus MacLise: The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
Live Band:
Bevis Frond
Old Record:
C.O.B.: Spirit of Love
brianm@kuci.org
Top Ten:
Red Stars Theory: Life In A Bubble Can Be Beautiful
Mr. Bungle: California
Pinback: s/t
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Bugskull: Distracted Snowflake Volume 2
Tristeza: Spine and Sensory
Super Furry Animals: Guerrilla
El Stew: No Hesitation (or s/t)
Smog: Knock Knock
June of '44: Anahata
Reissue:
Unrest: Malcolm X Park
Live Band:
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Old Record:
Terminal Cheesecake: Angels In Pigtails
cabotd@southpeak.com
Top Ten:
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
Built To Spill: Keep It Like A Secret
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing In the Sky
Tim O'Brien: The Crossing
V/A: Return of the Grievous Angel:Tribute to Gram Parsons
Sam Prekop: s/t
Dave Douglas: Songs for Wandering Souls
Yume Bitsu: Giant Surface Music Falling to Earth Like Jewels from the Sky
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Reissue:
Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Lost Trident Sessions
Live Band:
Bardo Pond
Old Record:
The Sea and Cake: Nassau
cam@accessone.com
Top Ten:
To Rococo Rot: The Amateur View
mainliner: solid stick attack
High Rise: Durophet
Ganger: Canopy
Macha: See it Another Way
joel r. l. phelphs: blackbird
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
Maryanne Amacher: Sound Characters
oval: szenariodisk
stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Reissue:
V/A: Harmony of the Spheres
Live Band:
fushitsusha
Old Record:
Siloah: Siloah
Cebudo@aol.com
Top Ten:
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Low: Secret Name
American Analog Set: The Golden Band
The Folk Implosion: One Part Lullaby
Quasi: Field Studies
Beck: Midnite Vultures
Smog: Knock Knock
Super Furry Animals: Guerrilla
Reissue:
Os Mutantes: Everything Is Possible!
Live Band:
IQU
Old Record:
Unrest: Imperial f.f.r.r.
chm@infosprout.com
Top Ten:
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
The Necks: Aquatic
Tom Waits: Mule Variations
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Rafael Toral: Aeriola Frequency
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
V/A: Freedom is Wings: Remebering Tom Cora
Linton Kwesi Johnson: More Time
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Reissue:
Terry Riley: Reed Streams
Live Band:
Boredoms
Old Record:
Miles Davis: Black Beauty
chrislyncarter@hotmail.com
Top Ten:
Limpe Fuchs: Nur Mar Mus (Streamline)
Olivia Block: Pure Gaze (Sedimental)
Pauline Oliveros/Andrew Deutsch: Summer Bugs (Magic If)
Glen Spearman: Blues For Falasha (Tzadik)
Matt De Gennaro/Alastair Galbraith: Wire Music (Corpus Hermeticum)
Haunted House: Up In Flames (Erstwhile)
Omit: Interior Desolation (Corpus Hermeticum)
Philip Gayle: Solo Live '98 (Yabyum Productions)
The Shadow Ring: The Lighthouse
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
Reissue:
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Live Band:
Old Record:
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christopher.foster@ic.ac.uk
Top Ten:
Stars of the Lid: Avec Laudenum
campag velocet: bon chic bon genre
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Piano Magic: Trick of the Sea
company flow: little jonny ...
V/A: pi soundtrack
Mogwai: Come On Die Young
Squarepusher: Budakhan Mindphone
underworld: beaucoup fish
arab strap: mad for sadness
Reissue:
can: live
Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
:
christopher@dtgnet.com
Top Ten:
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
David Grubbs & Mats Gustafsson: Apertura
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Gunter Christmann & Mats Gustafsson: One to (two) ............
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Drawn Inward
Rafael Toral: Aeriola Frequency
Stars of the Lid: Avec Laudenum
Hrvatski: Oiseaux 96-98
Fennesz: +47'56'37" -16'51'08"
Sonic Youth: Goodbye 20th Century
Reissue:
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Grow Fins
Live Band:
DKV Trio (w/ Mats Gustafsson)
Old Record:
Bola Sete: Volume I (Oceans)
chuckp8@juno.com
Top Ten:
U.S. Maple: Talker
Mouse On Mars: Niun Niggung
Pinback: s/t
Test: Test (eremite CD)
William Parker/In Order To Survive: The Peach Orchard
Built To Spill: Keep It Like A Secret
Cafe Tacuba: Reves/Yosoy
Tom Waits: Mule Variations
No Neck Blues Band: Birth of Both Worlds
Last Of The Juanitas: Brangus
Reissue:
Skip Spence: Oar
Live Band:
No Neck Blues Band
Old Record:
Teenage Filmstars: Buy Our Record Support Our Sickness
CircussAct@aol.com
Top Ten:
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Mogwai: Come On Die Young
Low: Secret Name
Trans Am: Futureworld
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
beulah: when your heartstrings break
june of '44: in the fishtank
Elf Power: A Dream In Sound
The Apples in Stereo: Her Wallpaper Reverie
The Faint: Blank Wave Arcade
Reissue:
bright eyes: a collection of songs
Live Band:
Olivia Tremor Control
Old Record:
neutral milk hotel: aeroplane over the sea
claptrap@hotmail.com
Top Ten:
Bonnie Prince Billy: I See A Darkness
Smog: Knock Knock
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Wayne Hancock: Wild Free and Reckless
Stereo Total: My Melody
Hall of Fame: First came love then came tree
The Knobs: Guilt
Major Stars: Space/Time
The Shadow Ring: The Lighthouse
Reissue:
The Sonics: Here are the Sonics
Live Band:
Stereo Total
Old Record:
Love: Forever Changes
clay_malediction@hotmail.com
Top Ten:
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
The Black Heart Procession: 2
Mogwai: Come On Die Young
Fly Pan Am: s/t
Spectrum/Silver Apples: A Lake of Teardrops
Labradford: E Luxo So
Mogwai: EP + 2
Brian Jonestown Massacre: Bringing It All Back Home Again
Ganger: Hammock Style
Reissue:
Spacemen 3: Playing With Fire
Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
crankauto@earthlink.net
Top Ten:
Neil Hamburger: Left for Dead in Malaysia
A Handful of Dust: Jerusalem Street of Graves
Labradford: E Luxo So
The Residents: Wormwood
Alan Licht: Rabbi Sky
No Neck Blues Band: Birth of Both Worlds
Test: Test (Aum Fidelity)
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Gerard Malanga: Up from the Archives
Reissue:
The Dead C.: DR503C
Live Band:
The Residents
Old Record:
Velvet Underground: Live 1969
critual@aol.com
Top Ten:
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Low: Secret Name
Doldrums:
Macha: See it Another Way
Tom Waits: Mule Variations
Wheat: Hope and Adams
Quasi: Field Studies
Bevis Frond: Vavona Burr
Continental Drifters: Vermilion
Reissue:
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Grow Fins
Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
The Monks: Black Monk Time
cvidel@gis.net
Top Ten:
Cul de Sac: Crashes to Light, Minutes to the Fall
Primordial Undermind: Universe I've Got
Hash Jar Tempo: Under Glass
Test: Test (Ecstatic Peace CD)
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
Abunai!: Presents the Mystic River Sound
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
Spaceheads: Angel Station
Labradford: E Luxo So
Reissue:
V/A: Harmony of the Spheres
Live Band:
Test
Old Record:
Rafael Toral: Wave Field
dan@state51.co.uk
Top Ten:
Arto Lindsay: Prize
Childs View: Funfair
Fridge: Eph
Squarepusher: Music Is Rotted One Note
Marc Ribot: Yo! I Killed Your God
Paul Schütze: Third Site
Missy Misdemeanor Elliott: Da Real World
Mos Def: Black On Both Sides
Mice Parade: Ramda
Four Tet: Dialogue
Reissue:
Miles Davis: The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions
Live Band:
Arto Lindsay Band
Old Record:
Julian Pepo Mtoto Priester: Love Love
deodar@ihug.co.nz
Top Ten:
Low: Christmas
Hood: The Cycle of Days and Seasons
Piano Magic: Low Birth Weight
Labradford: E Luxo So
Pole: CD2
Monaural: Monitor Interference
Fennesz: +47'56'37" -16'51'08"
Jessica Bailiff: Hour of the Trace
Gas: Konigsforst
Fourtet/Rothko: Rivers become Oceans
Reissue:
Ecstasy of St Theresa: Susurrate
Live Band:
Swervedriver
Old Record:
Maurizio: M Compilation
dgunning@mediaone.net
Top Ten:
Stars of the Lid: Avec Laudenum
jgrzinich/mnortham: The Absurd Evidence
Jonathon Coleclough: Windlass
Birchville Cat Motel: Siberian Earth Curve
Parmentier: Luxsound
Yume Bitsu: Yume Bitsu
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
Aeolian String Ensemble: Lassithi/Elysium
Jonathon Coleclough/Andrew Chalk: Sumac
Francisco Lopez: Untitled 1993
Reissue:
Taj Mahal Travelers: August 1974
Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
Pelt: Techeod
dougo@ccs.neu.edu
Top Ten:
Sleep: Jerusalem
Trans Am: Futureworld
Melvins: The Maggot
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Nebula: Sun Creature EP
Idyll Swords: Idyll Swords
The Atomic Bitchwax: S/T
Abunai!: Presents the Mystic River Sound
Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile
The Apples In Stereo: Her Wallpaper Reverie
Reissue:
V/A: Harmony of the Spheres
Live Band:
Overhang Party
Old Record:
T.Rex: The Slider
drmz77@aol.com
Top Ten:
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
E.A.R.: Pestrepeller
Transient Waves: Sonic Narcotic
Steve Reich: Phase Patterns/Pendulum Music/Piano Phase/Four Organs
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
American Analog Set: The Golden Band
Mogwai: Come On Die Young
E.A.R.: Data Rape
Spectrum/Silver Apples: A Lake of Teardrops
Aki Tsuyko: Ongakushitsu
Reissue:
V/A: Harmony of the Spheres
Live Band:
Haddonfield Symphony Orchestra
Old Record:
Terry Riley: In C (CBS Version)
duane_healing@hp.com
Top Ten:
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
American Analog Set: The Golden Band
Ghost: Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet
Mogwai: Come On Die Young
Ghost: Snuffbox Immanence
Nebula/Lowrider: Double EP
The Apples in Stereo: Her Wallpaper Reverie
Rachel's: Selenography
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
Reissue:
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Grow Fins
Live Band:
Boredoms
Old Record:
Pretty Things: S.F. Sorrow
dwalmsley@mveshops.demon.co.uk
Top Ten:
Bonnie Prince Billy: I See A Darkness
Low: Secret Name
V/A: 200% Dynamite
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Crescent: Collected Songs
Mouse On Mars: Niun Niggung
Tank: 66 Degrees Northwards
Ghost: Snuffbox Immanence
Jim O'Rourke: Halfway to a Threeway
Windy and Carl: A Dream Of Blue
Reissue:
Fela Kuti: Entire Talkin' Loud Reissue Program
Live Band:
Bardo Pond
Old Record:
Keiji Haino: I Said, This Is The Son of Nihilism
dwatson@magma.ca
Top Ten:
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
Lullaby For The Working Class: Song
Emm Gryner: Science Fair
Boxhead Ensemble: Niagara Falls
The Caretaker: Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom
310: Prague Rock
Cinematic Orchestra: Motion
Tram: Heavy Black Frame
David Sylvian: Dead Bees On A Cake
Beth Orton: Central Reservation
Reissue:
The Necks: Aquatic
Live Band:
Gil Scott-Heron
Old Record:
Mimir: Mimir
eash@centipededesigns.com
Top Ten:
Jessamine: Don't Stay Too Long
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Old Record:
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ed@eclipse-records.com
Top Ten:
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
Tower Recordings: Furniture Music For Evening Shuttles
Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U. F. O.: Pataphysical Freak Out MU!!
Dworzec: Dworzec
Magic Carpathians Project: Ethnocore
Toho Sara: Mei Jou Tan Sho
Jandek: The Beginning
Kjetil D Brandsdal and Mickael Tremel: s/t
Six Organs of Admittance: Dust and Chimes
Charalambides: Internal/Eternal
Reissue:
Souled American: 4cd set (Fe/Flubber/Around The Horn/Sonny)
Live Band:
Acid Mothers Temple
Old Record:
un: untitled cassette
epepper@vt.edu
Top Ten:
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
The Make Up: Save Yourself
Tristeza: Spine and Sensory
Belle & Sebastian: This is Just a Modern Rock Song
XTC: Apple Venus Vol. 1
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Reissue:
Belle & Sebastian: Tigermilk
Live Band:
Olivia Tremor Control
Old Record:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: F#A#(infinity)
eso200@is5.nyu.edu
Top Ten:
pita: get out
such: the issue at hand
dj scud: gun court single series
gmueller_voicecrack_erikm: poire_z
polwechsel: 2
christoph de babalon: rise above this
Achim Wollscheid: Airs
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Reissue:
bill dixon: collection
Live Band:
Old Record:
ab-hinc: farkhulse fist
fail@kludge.psc.edu
Top Ten:
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
meisha: meisha returns meisha forever
U.S. Maple: talker
Alva: Slattery for Ungdom
Rafael Toral: Aeriola Frequency
Davis Redford Triad: Ewige Blumenkraft
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
mick turner: marlan rosa
The Green Pajamas: All Clues Lead To Meagan's Bed
Reissue:
Talk Talk: Laughing Stock
Live Band:
U.S. Maple
Old Record:
Mark Hollis: s/t
gareth_bowles@yahoo.com
Top Ten:
Mogwai: EP + 2
Death In Vegas: The Contino Sessions
The Church: A Box of Birds
Leftfield: Rhythm and Stealth
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
Underworld: Beaucoup Fish
Mogwai: Come On Die Young
Luna: The Days of Our Nights
Beta Band: The Three EPs
V/A: Warp 10+3 - Remixes
Reissue:
V/A: Harmony of the Spheres
Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
gwebb55@yahoo.com
Top Ten:
Tom Waits: Mule Variations
Charalambides: Houston
Charalambides: Internal/Eternal
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
Hash Jar tempo: Under Glass
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
Bob Pollard/Doug Gillard: Speak Kindly of Your Local Volunteer Fire Department
Labradford: E Luxo So
Abunai!: Presents the Mystic River Sound
rhBand: 6.20.98
Reissue:
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Grow Fins
Live Band:
Old Record:
The Dead C: Operation of the Sonne
hechter@ucla.edu
Top Ten:
Solar Flares: Psychedelic Tantrum
Joyzipper: S/T
Le Tigre: S/T
Radar Brothers: The Singing Hatchet
Scott 4: Works Project
Raydios: Original Demo Recordings
Subaqwa: S/T
Four Tet: Dialogue
Jumbo: C.B Mamas
Spearmint: A Week Away
Reissue:
Billy Nicholls: Snapshot
Live Band:
Old Record:
La Revolution Francaise: Ccool
i465@iquest.net
Top Ten:
Huon: hung up over night
Papa M: Live From a Shark Cage
Bardo Pond: Set and setting
My Morning Jacket: The Tennessee Fire
Comelade/Bastien/Berrocal/Liebezeit: Oblique Sessions vol 1
The Mountain Goats: Bitter Melon Farm
Refrigerator: Glitter jazz
Piano Magic: Mort aux Vaches
Sodastream: Practical footwear
Smog: Knock Knock
Reissue:
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Grow Fins
Live Band:
Cat Power
Old Record:
Boxhead Ensemble: The Last Place to go
jad218@is7.nyu.edu
Top Ten:
Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Hood: The Cycle of Days and Seasons
Low: Secret Name
Red House Painters: Retrospective
East River Pipe: The Gasoline Age
Mogwai: EP + 2
V/A: Shanti Project
Mogwai: Come On Die Young
Vermont: Living Together
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Reissue:
Belle & Sebastian: Tigermilk
Live Band:
Mogwai
Old Record:
Ativin: Summing the Approach
jamatu@main.edu.kauhajoki.fi
Top Ten:
Arab On Radar: Rough Day At The Orifice
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Guyana Punch Line: Maximum Smashism
We Ragazzi: Suicide Sound System
Spaceheads: Angel Station
Ghost: Snuffbox Immanence
Papa M: Live From A Shark Cage
Neurosis: Times Of Grace
Amps For Christ: Circuits
Velvolino: Tango
Reissue:
Os Mutantes: s/t
Live Band:
The Ex
Old Record:
Vagtazo Halottkemek: Reconquering Eden vol. 1
John.X.Pollard@jus.gov.on.ca
Top Ten:
Low: Secret Name
Arvo Part: Alina
The Deadly Snakes: Love Undone
Uri Caine/Gustav Mahler: I Went Out This Morning Over The Countryside
Joe Maneri: Tenderly
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Drawn Inward
Sonic Youth: Goodbye 20th Century
Phillip Wachsmann/Paul Lytton: Some Other Season
Peter Ruzicka/Arditti String Quartet: String Quartets
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
Reissue:
Brast Burn: Debon
Live Band:
Low
Old Record:
Os Mutantes: s/t
jondun@microsoft.com
Top Ten:
Sam Prekop: s/t
Aerial M: Post Global Music
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Fridge: Eph
Trans Am: Futureworld
Azusa Plane: Result dies with the worker
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
Plaid: rest proof clockwork
Plone: For Beginner Piano
Kristin Hersh: Sky Motel
Reissue:
Skip Spence: Oar
Live Band:
Bardo Pond
Old Record:
Tarwater: Silur
jptpaaso@mappi.helsinki.fi
Top Ten:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Mogwai: ep + 2
úzgin üver: 1999
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Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
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jschoen@rcl.lib.rochester.edu
Top Ten:
Pengo: Climbs the Holy mountain
Nod: Radio Giddy-Up
Army of Ghosts: The Horror
U.S. Maple: Talker
Six Organs of Admittance: Dust and Chimes
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
Test: Test/Live
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
Alan Licht: Rabbi Sky
No Neck Blues Band: Birth of Both Worlds
Reissue:
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Grow Fins
Live Band:
Borbetomagus
Old Record:
Rudolph Grey: Mask of Light
jtuma@mayerbrown.com
Top Ten:
Charalambides: Houston
Angels of Light: New Mother
Huun-Huur-Tu: Where Young Grass Grows
Azalia Snail: Soft Bloom
Sleep: Enfolded in Luxury
Stars of the Lid: Avec Laudenum
Hamza El Din: A Wish
Michael Schumacher: Fidicin Drones
Simon Wickham-Smith: Butterfly Dust
Hochenkeit: I Love You
Reissue:
Maeror Tri: Meditamentum II
Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
Thomas Koner: Teimo/Permafrost
jwm2b@mtsu.edu
Top Ten:
Jliat: cd-r (something about eternity)? with kitty kat cover
Music Tapes: First Imaginary Symphony for Nomad
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Pastels: Illuminati
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
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Reissue:
Nuno Canavarro: Plux Quba
Live Band:
Music Tapes
Old Record:
my bloody valentine: isn't anything
kevin@minds-eye.org
Top Ten:
Can: Live 1971-1977
Cul de Sac: Crashes to Light, Minutes to the Fall
Abunai!: Presents the Mystic River Sound
King Crimson: The ProjeKCts (box set)
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Old Record:
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Keytapes@aol.com
Top Ten:
Charalambides: Houston
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Piano Magic: Low Birth Weight
Scott Walker: Pola X sndtrck
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Bonnie Prince Billy: I See A Darkness
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
V/A: Reich Remixed
Greg Weeks: Fire in the Arms of the Sun
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Reissue:
John Fahey: Death Chants, Breakdowns,...
Live Band:
Olivia Tremor Control
Old Record:
Nico: The Marble Index
leapday@goes.com
Top Ten:
The Green Pajamas: All Clues Lead To Meagan's Bed
Cul de Sac: Crashes to Light, Minutes to the Fall
Bevis Frond: Vavona Burr
The Donnas: Get Skintight
Mogwai: Come On Die Young
Robin Guthrie: Drifting a.f.u.
Stars of the Lid: Avec Laudenum
Ghost: Snuffbox Immanence
Major Stars: Space/Time
Kevin Coyne: Sugar Candy Taxi
Reissue:
Ya Ho Wa 13: God and Hair
Live Band:
Bevis Frond
Old Record:
Saddar Bazzar: Path of the Rose
lhooq@slip.net
Top Ten:
Trans Am: Futureworld
bogdan raczynski: boku mo wakaran
mouse on mars: niun niggung
Jim O'Rourke: eureka
d'arcangelo: shipwreck
stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Fennesz: Plays
V/A: 8, 8.5, 9 / remixes cd
beck: midnite vultures
Pavement: Terror Twilight
Reissue:
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Safe As Milk
Live Band:
Boredoms
Old Record:
Pretty Things: S.F. Sorrow
lohammer@online.no
Top Ten:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
Flying Saucer Attack: Mirror
Death In Vegas: The Contino Sessions
V/A: Warp 10+3 - Remixes
Papa M: Live From A Shark Cage
Mogwai: Come On Die Young
Sonic Youth: Goodbye 20th Century
Aphex Twin: Windowlicker
Primal Scream: Swastika Eyes
Reissue:
Roy Montgomery: 324 E. 13th St. #7
Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
Wire: Chairs Missing
malkunofat@webtv.net
Top Ten:
Boredoms: Vision > Creation > Newsun
Spirit Caravan: Jug Fulla Sun
Alan Silva/William Parker: A Hero's Welcome
Immortal: At the Heart Of Winter
Bruce Russell: Maximalist Mantra Music
Melvins: The Maggot
Charlemagne Palestine: Schlingen-Blängen
Mika Vainio: Ydin
Coil: Musick To Play In The Dark
Sigh: Scenario IV:Dread Dreams
Reissue:
Angus MacLise: The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
Live Band:
Lee
Old Record:
The Obsessed: Lunar Womb
Mark.Winkelman@daff.irlgov.ie
Top Ten:
Smog: Knock Knock
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
Plone: For Beginner Piano
Mina: Kryptonite
Add N To (X): Avant Hard
Scott 4: Works Project
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Jimi Tenor: Organism
Radar Brothers: The Singing Hatchet
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Reissue:
Fela Kuti: Kela Box
Live Band:
Smog
Old Record:
Pan American: Pan American
mark_richardson@bigfoot.com
Top Ten:
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Maryanne Amacher: Sound Characters
Beta Band: The Three EPs
Mouse On Mars: Niun Niggung
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Peace Orchestra: Peace Orchestra
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Takako Minekawa: Fun9
Looper: Up A Tree
Reissue:
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Old Record:
Boredoms: Super Are
mason@charnel.com
Top Ten:
Ausgang: Electric Arc
Boredoms: Super æ
Rovo: Imago
Circle: Hissi
Spaceheads: Angel Station
Hash Jar Tempo: Under Glass
Steven R. Smith: From Ashes Come
Yeti: Demonstration
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Reissue:
Gila: Night Works
Live Band:
Gaji
Old Record:
Pretty Things: S.F. Sorrow
matsanna@mail.bip.net
Top Ten:
The Green Pajamas: All Clues Lead To Meagan's Bed
Hood: The Cycle of Days And Seasons
Dipsomaniacs: Braid of Knees
Ghost: Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet
Alphane Moon: The Echoing Grove
7% Solution: Gabriel’s Waltz
Pangolin: Beneath These Darkened Trees
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
My Morning Jacket: The Tennessee Fire
Ghost: Snuffbox Immanence
Reissue:
V/A: Harmony of the Spheres
Live Band:
Angels of Light
Old Record:
Charalambides: Market Square
mattmurph@mail.utexas.edu
Top Ten:
Cul de Sac: Crashes to Light, Minutes to the Fall
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Piano Magic: Low Birth Weight
My Morning Jacket: The Tennessee Fire
Yume Bitsu: Yume Bitsu
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Ghost: Snuffbox Immanence
Mos Def: Black On Both Sides
Sleater-Kinney: The Hot Rock
Built to Spill: Keep It Like a Secret
Reissue:
Skip Spence: Oar
Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
Os Mutantes: s/t
mattsilcock@hotmail.com
Top Ten:
Neil Campbell: These Premises Are No Longer Bugged (Giardia)
No Neck Blues Band: Meets the Clear People with Mystery Gypped Live At Ken's Electric Lake
Yermo: Yermo S/T (Last Visible Dog)
Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U. F. O.: Pataphysical Freak Out MU!!
Lugosi: Monarch CS (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
Sonic Youth: Goodbye 20th Century
V/A: EFCSSCDR (SunShip Records)
Cock ESP: We Mean It This Time (SunShip/Blackbean and Placenta)
V/A: Color in Absence Sound (Hell's Half Halo)
V/A: We Are Reasonable People (Warp Records sampler)
Reissue:
Angus MacLise: The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
Live Band:
Altered Statesmen (Dayton,OH); Pablo's Triangle (L
Old Record:
Love: Forever Changes
mcizon@800.com
Top Ten:
John Zorn: Taboo & Exile
Mendoza Line: I Like You When You're Not Around
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
Eric Dolphy: The Illinois Concert
Luna: The Days of Our Nights
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Tom Waits: Mule Variations
Caetano Veloso: Livro
John Zorn's Masada: Live in Jerusalem
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Reissue:
Os Mutantes: s/t
Live Band:
Minders
Old Record:
John Fahey: The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
michaeltamburo@hotmail.com
Top Ten:
meisha: meisha returns meisha forever
landing: centrifuge ep
music tapes: First Imaginary Symphony for Nomad
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Stars of the Lid: Avec Laudenum
Low: Secret Name
Alan Licht: Rabbi Sky
No Neck Blues Band: Birth of Both Worlds
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
Reissue:
Angus MacLise: The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
Live Band:
Meisha
Old Record:
meisha: self titled
miles_q_honeybum@hotmail.com
Top Ten:
V/A: Do You Know the Secret Trousers?
Flim Flam Man: Nic Fit
The Go: Whatcha Doin'
Goatsnake: Goatsnake I
Nebula: To the Center
The Hellacopters: Grande Rock
The Atomic Bitchwax: S/T
The Make Up: Save Yourself
The Pins: All The Night Sky
Howlin' Andy Hound: The Big Bad Sound of...
Reissue:
Deep Purple: Shades 1968-1998
Live Band:
Flim Flam Man
Old Record:
The Germs: (GI)
mkrefting@hotmail.com
Top Ten:
Lee Ranaldo: Dirty Windows
Tom Waits: Mule Variations
Thurston Moore/Evan Parker/Walter Prati: The Promise
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
Sonic Youth: Goodbye 20th Century
Davis Redford Triad: Ewige Blumenkraft
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Tarentel: From Bone to Satellite
Octant: Shock-No-Par
Jim O'Rourke: Halfway to a Threeway
Reissue:
Loren Mazzacane Connors: Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations Vol.
Live Band:
Sonic Youth
Old Record:
Nels Cline and Devin Sarno: Edible Flowers
Monsanto@aol.com
Top Ten:
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Spanish Dance Troupe
Death In Vegas: The Contino Sessions
Momus: Stars Forever
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Prince Paul: A Prince Among Thieves
The Auteurs: How I Learned To Love The Bootboys
Steve Earle: The Mountain
Salako: Musicality
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Reissue:
Pearls Before Swine: Constructive Melancholy
Live Band:
Plastic People of the Universe
Old Record:
Doctors Of Madness: Late Night Movies, All Night Brainstorms
moriarty@sprint.ca
Top Ten:
Jacobites: God Save Us Poor Sinners
Tricky Woo: Sometimes I Cry
Prolapse: Ghosts Of Dead Aeroplanes
Paul Westerberg: Suicaine Gratification
Angels Of Light: New Mother
Art Bergmann: Design Flaw
Swans: Various Failures
Bevis Frond: Vavona Burr
Sianspheric: Else
Amber Asylum: Songs Of Sex and Death
Reissue:
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Safe As Milk
Live Band:
Bad Seeds (Nick Cave)
Old Record:
Lisa Germano: Geek The Girl
mrichards23@yahoo.com
Top Ten:
Laddio Bolocko: In Real Time
Arto Lindsay: Prize
Fugazi: Instrument
Deer Park: Slow Race On Motorbike
Sigur Ros: (4-song EP)
Hrvatski: Oiseaux 96-98
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Supersilent: 4
Mice Parade: Ramda
World (of Dreams): Who Is Yahdoosh?
Reissue:
The Fall: Dragnet
Live Band:
Electrofetus
Old Record:
This Heat: Health & Efficiency+
newgrange@sfo.com
Top Ten:
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
The Serpents: You Have Just Been Poisoned by The Serpents
Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Abunai!: Presents the Mystic River Sound
Angels of Light: New Mother
Nurse with Wound: An Awkward Pause
Six Organs of Admittance: Dust and Chimes
In Gowan Ring: The Glinting Spade
Electroscope: Journey to the Center of Electroscope
Ulver: Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Reissue:
Richard Maxfield/Harold Budd: The Oak of the Golden Dreams
Live Band:
Bardo Pond
Old Record:
TAC: Apotropaismo
nick_balding@madasafish.com
Top Ten:
Afel Bocoum: Alkibar
Ghost: Snuffbox Immanence
Ali Farka Toure: Niafunke
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
Low: Secret Name
Autechre: EP7
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Ghost: Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet
Toumani Diabate: New Ancient Strings
Volcano The Bear: Yak Folks Y'are
Reissue:
Skip Spence: Oar
Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
Swell Maps: Jane From Occupied Europe
nigelt@uk.uu.net
Top Ten:
Pop-Off Tuesday: Pop-Off Tuesday
Bablicon: In a Different City
Pop-Off Tuesday: See My Ghost
Savoy Grand: The Moving Air
Volcano The Bear: Yak Folks Y'Are
Add N To (X): Avant Hard
Bablicon: Chunks of Syrup Amidst Plain Yoghurt
Sodastream: Practical Footwear
Le Bleu: Toujours La
Gulliver: Humalayo
Reissue:
Os Mutantes: s/t
Live Band:
Bablicon
Old Record:
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nirav@ink19.com
Top Ten:
Cul de Sac: Crashes to Light, Minutes to the Fall
HIM: Sworn Eyes
Ure Thrall and the Fruitless Hand: Forbidden Fruit
Joan of Arc: Live in Chicago 1999
Ground Zero: Last Concert
Ayers/Storey/Greif: Oedipus Brain Foil
Mercury Program: Mercury Program
Matmos: The West
Ritchie Hawtin: Decks, EFX & 909
David Toop: Hot Pants Ido
Reissue:
Maeror Tri: Meditamentum II
Live Band:
Other Dimensions in Music
Old Record:
AMM: Live in Allentown, USA
ogd@crankshaft.bitmechanic.com
Top Ten:
Abigor: Channeling The Quintessence Of Satan
Angels of Light: New Mother
Juno: This Is The Way It Goes And Goes And Goes
Piano Magic: Low Birth Weight
Built To Spill: Keep It Like A Secret
V/A: Prodigy Presents The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume 1
Half Film: The Road To The Crater
Solefald: Neonism
Stars of the Lid: Avec Laudenum
Lowercase: The Going Away Present
Reissue:
Swans: Various Failures
Live Band:
Angels of Light
Old Record:
Gehenna: Adimiron Black
OLDSCHREC@aol.com
Top Ten:
Brant Bjork: Jalamanta
Piano Bread: Piano Bread
Tom Waits: Mule Variations
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
In Zenith: Building A Better Future
Prince (the artist?): Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
David Boykin Outet: Evidence Of Life On Other Planets V.2
No Neck Blues Band: Meets the Clear People with Mystery Gypped Live At Ken's Electric Lake
Bonnie Prince Billy: I See A Darkness
Sonic Youth: Goodbye 20th Century
Reissue:
Joe Harriott: Abstract
Live Band:
Don Caballero
Old Record:
Ronnie Scott & his band: Live At Ronnie Scott's
paul.rank@sun.com
Top Ten:
Alva: Slattery for Ungdom
Piano Magic: Low Birth Weight
Papa M: Live from a Shark Cage
Milan Hlavsa: Madness/Stlenstri
Music Tapes: First Imaginary Symphony for Nomad
V/A: The 26'th Commandment - Thou Shalt Expand Thy Mind (Ptolemaic Terrascope 26)
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
V/A: Its The Big One (Ptolemaic Terrascope 27)
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Reissue:
Plastic People of the Universe: Globus International Re-issues
Live Band:
Plastic People of the Universe
Old Record:
V/A: Harmony of the Spheres
polyluna@yahoo.com
Top Ten:
pan sonic: a
silvania/prozack: radio
E.A.R.: Pestrepeller
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Old Record:
E.A.R.: data rape
prburke1@juno.com
Top Ten:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Charalambides: Houston
Labradford: E Luxo So
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
Windy and Carl: A Dream of Blue
Steve Reich: Phase Patterns/Pendulum Music/Piano Phase/Four Organs
Birchville Cat Motel: Siberian Earth Curve
Sunroof!: Delicate Autobahn Under Construction
rhBand: 6.20.98
Donald Miller Trio: Here Below
Reissue:
Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Live Band:
Rafael Toral
Old Record:
Kronos Quartet: Black Angels
psychlone.tsar@virgin.net
Top Ten:
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
State River Widening: State River Widening
Gusgus: This is Normal
To Rococo Rot: The Amateur View
Mogwai: Come On Die Young
Stars of the Lid: Avec Laudenum
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
Chemical Brothers: Surrender
Aluminum Group: Pedals
Reissue:
Cocteau Twins: BBC Sessions
Live Band:
Stereolab
Old Record:
Bark Psychosis: Hex
rbarlow@huntadkins.com
Top Ten:
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Smog: Knock Knock
Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa
V/A: Do You Know the Secret Trousers?
Blur: 13
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Spanish Dance Troupe
The Minders: Cul de Sacs and Dead Ends
David Sylvian: Dead Bees on a Cake
American Analog Set: The Golden Band
Reissue:
Davy Graham: Fire in the Soul
Live Band:
The Pretty Things
Old Record:
Robert Wyatt: Shleep
remora1@juno.com
Top Ten:
windsor for the derby: difference & repetition
Hefner: The Fidelity Wars
Angels of Light: New Mother
Low: Secret Name
Iggy Pop: Avenue A
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Live Band:
Angels of Light
Old Record:
hefner: breaking god's heart
rhare@empireone.net
Top Ten:
The Shadow Ring: The Lighthouse
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
John Clyde Evans: s\t
Donald Miller Trio: Here Below
Sonic Youth: Goodbye 20th Century
Fugazi: Soundtrack
No Neck Blues Band: Birth of Both Worlds
No Neck Blues Band: Meets the Clear People with Mystery Gypped Live At Ken's Electric Lake
Ghost: Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet
Atari Teenage Riot: 60 Second Wipeout
Reissue:
King Tubby: Dub Like Dirt
Live Band:
No Neck Blues Band
Old Record:
Mouse on Mars: Vulvaland
richast2@student2.lfc.edu
Top Ten:
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Bevis Frond: Vavona Burr
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Labradford: E Luxo So
Adrian Belew: Salad Days
Porcupine Tree: Stupid Dream
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
Dismemberment Plan: Emergency & I
Hash Jar Tempo: Under Glass
The Minders: Cul De Sacs and Dead Ends
Reissue:
Spacemen 3: Playing With Fire
Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
Stereolab: Peng!
rlim@escape.com
Top Ten:
Lithops: Blasmusik/Intendo
David Maranha: Piano Suspenso
Pure: The End of Vinyl
Seiji Nagai + [alpha]: Electronic Noise Improvisation 1999
Spring Heel Jack: Sound of Music
V/A: I'm So Bored with the USA
Bionaut: Friends
Atsushi Tominga: 056
Tarkatak: Skarva/Oroa
Sack + Blumm: s/t
Reissue:
Dragonfly (NL): Four Celestial Songs
Live Band:
Thomas Brinkmann
Old Record:
Les Rallizes Denudes: Live '77
rmedina@hypercon.com
Top Ten:
Built To Spill: Keep It Like a Secret
Charalambides: Internal/Eternal
Party Owls: Why Drag It Out
Philip Gayle: PNBNA
Linus Pauling Quartet/Kryptasthesie: Split 7"
Steve Lacy: Live at Unity Temple
AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark: Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe
V/A: Global Lo-Fi Underground
No Neck Blues Band: Birth of Both Worlds
Bevis Frond: Vavona Burr
Reissue:
Os Mutantes: Everything Is Possible!
Live Band:
Bevis Frond
Old Record:
Bill Hicks: Rant in E-Minor
salituro@rli-net.net
Top Ten:
Gas: Konigsforst
Wunder: Wunder
Maryanne Amacher: Sound Characters
Jonathon Coleclough: Cake
ORA: NEW MOVEMENTS IN 'G'
Ryoji Ikeda: MORT AUX VACHES
Organum: Birds' Wings were Glued to their Bodies and their Feet Froze to the Ground
The Necks: Aquatic
No Neck Blues Band: Meets the Clear People with Mystery Gypped Live At Ken's Electric Lake
Davis Redford Triad: Ewige Blumenkraft
Reissue:
Christoph Heemann & Andreas Martin: Lebenserinnerungen eines Lepidopterologen
Live Band:
Acid Mothers Temple
Old Record:
ZOVIET FRANCE: Charm Ceremony Chance Prophesy
sayas99@hotmail.com
Top Ten:
meisha: meisha returns meisha forever
landing: centrifuge ep
Stars of the Lid: Avec Laudenum
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Music Tapes: First imaginary symphony for nomad
No Neck Blues Band: Birth of Both Worlds
Alan Licht: Rabbi Sky
Low: Secret Name
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
Reissue:
Angus MacLise: The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
Live Band:
Meisha
Old Record:
meisha: self titled
sbrown@netexpress.net
Top Ten:
Ultrasound: Everything Picture
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
The Rentals: Return of the Rentals
Pet Shop Boys: Nightlife
Of Montreal: The Gay Parade
The Apples in Stereo: Her Wallpaper Reverie
Shack: HMS Fable
James: Millionaires
Beta Band: Beta Band
Blinker the Star: August Everywhere
Reissue:
Skip Spence: Oar
Live Band:
Beta Band
Old Record:
Ride: Nowhere
sbyrne@cdnow.com
Top Ten:
beulah: when your heartstrings break
Sam Prekop: s/t
Music Tapes: First Imaginary Symphony for Nomad
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Spanish Dance Troupe
kid silver: dead city sunbeams
Pavement: Terror Twilight
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
The Minders: Cul de Sacs and Dead Ends
Joan of Arc: Live in Chicago 1999
Reissue:
One Last Wish: 1986
Live Band:
Photon Band
Old Record:
magnetic fields: charm of the highway strip
scanner@cmu.edu
Top Ten:
Mos Def: Black on Both Sides
John Zorn: The String Quartets
Dillinger Escape Plan: Calculating Infinity
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
Pole: CD1
Technical Itch: Diagnostics
Andrea Parker: Kiss My Arp
Scanner: Lauwarm Instrumentals
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Tony Allen: Black Voices
Reissue:
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Live Band:
Boredoms
Old Record:
Hurl: Not a Memory
scotcamp@worldnet.att.net
Top Ten:
Abunai!: Presents the Mystic River Sound
Bevis Frond: Vavona Burr
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
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Reissue:
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Live Band:
Olivia Tremor Control
Old Record:
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seanp@icom.ca
Top Ten:
Sleep: Jerusalem
Low: Secret name
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
Yume Bitsu: Yume Bitsu
Bevis Frond: Vavona Burr
Labradford: E Luxo So
Jessica Bailiff: Hour of the Trace
7% Solution: Gabriel’s Waltz
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
ST37: I Love to Talk...
Reissue:
Skip Spence: Oar
Live Band:
Guided By Voices
Old Record:
Blue Cheer: Inside Outside
seven@st.rim.or.jp
Top Ten:
Mogwai: Come On Die Young
The Green Pajamas: All Clues Lead To Meagan's Bed
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Reissue:
Spacemen 3: playing with fire
Live Band:
Damon & Naomi
Old Record:
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severancejb@usfca.edu
Top Ten:
rocketship: garden of delights
suncoil sect: counterculture
hrvatski: Oiseaux 96-98
pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
The Fall: The Light User Syndrome
michael Schumacher: Fidicin Drones
labradford: e luxo so
fuxa: inflight studio
Fennesz: +47'56'37" -16'51'08"
V/A: modulations and transformations
Reissue:
joy division: preston 28 february 1980
Live Band:
mojave 3
Old Record:
pierre henry/michel colombier: messe pour le temps present
sh670096@oak.cats.ohiou.edu
Top Ten:
Trans Am: Futureworld
Boards of Canada: Music Has The Right To Children
American Analog Set: The Golden Band
Mogwai: EP + 2
Music Tapes: First Imaginary Symphony for Nomad
WE: The Square Root of Negative One
Westbam: We'll Never Stop Living This Way
V/A: Warp Records 10th Anniversary Remix Double Disc
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
Esoteric: Lost Files vol. 1
Reissue:
The Werps: Maine Drive
Live Band:
Mogwai
Old Record:
Common: Resurrection
sjohns32@d.umn.edu
Top Ten:
Hood: The Cycle of Days And Seasons
Bonnie Prince Billy: I See A Darkness
Famous Boyfriend: Making Love All Night Wrong
simon joyner: the lousy dance
American Analog Set: The Golden Band
Labradford: E Luxo So
Mogwai: Come On Die Young
arab strap: elephant shoe
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Old Record:
simon joyner: songs for the new year
squealermusic@yahoo.com
Top Ten:
Susie Ibarra and Assif Tsahar: Home Cookin'
Tied + Tickled Trio: Self Titled
DJ Disk: Ancient Termites
Pole: CD1
Pole: CD2
Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U. F. O.: Pataphysical Freak Out MU!!
Pachora: Unn
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
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Live Band:
Masada
Old Record:
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Top Ten:
Jandek: The Beginning
Jim O'Rourke: Halfway to a Threeway
Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark: Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe
Mats Gustafsson: The Education of Lars Jerry
Fred Anderson Quartet: Live at the Velvet Lounge
Peter Brotzmann: Live at the Empty Bottle
Fennesz: Plays
Pillow: Pillow
Reissue:
Jandek: Ready for the House
Live Band:
Wilhelm Bruck & Theodor Ross
Old Record:
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stovepipe81@hotmail.com
Top Ten:
Fennesz: +47'56'37" -16'51'08"
Angus Maclise: The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
Maryanne Amacher: Sound Characters
The Caretaker: Selected Memories From the Haunted Ballroom
Hrvatski: Oiseaux 96-98
V/A: Ethiopiques Vols.1-7
V/A: American Yodelling 1911-46
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
Asie Payton: Worried
Les Rallizes Denudes/Taj Mahal Travellers: Oz Days Live
Reissue:
Karuna Khyal: Alimonie 1985
Live Band:
Bablicon
Old Record:
Deep Freeze Mice: My Geraniums are Bulletproof
super45@usa.net
Top Ten:
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
The High Llamas: Snow bug
Papa M: Live From a Shark Cage
Brokeback: Field recordings from the Cook County Water Table
Smog: Knock Knock
Built to Spill: Keep it like a secret
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
Sam Prekop: s/t
Magnetic Fields: 69 love songs
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Reissue:
Burt Bacharach: Look of live
Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
Movietone: Movietone
suppoz@hotmail.com
Top Ten:
Shannon Wright: flightsafety
Pinback: s/t
Andrea Parker: Kiss My Arp
Yume Bitsu: Giant Surface Music Falling to Earth Like Jewels from the Sky
Pole: CD2
Jessica Bailiff: Hour of the Trace
The Dylan Group: More Adventures in Lying Down
Trans Am: Futureworld
Four Tet: Dialogue
Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
Reissue:
V/A: Harmony of the Spheres
Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
The Future Sound of London: Lifeforms
Unielesta@aol.com
Top Ten:
Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage
Super Furry Animals: Guerrilla
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Wilco: Summerteeth
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Spanish Dance Troupe
Blur: 13
Beta Band: Beta Band
Elf Power: A Dream In Sound
Macha: See It Another Way
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Reissue:
Spiritualized: Live at Royal Albert Hall
Live Band:
Olivia Tremor Control
Old Record:
Spiritualized: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
UsedRugs@webtv.net
Top Ten:
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
Donovan's Brain: Eclipse and Debris
The Green Pajamas: All Clues Lead To Meagan's Bed
Virgineers: s/t
Vortex Navigation Company: Things Make Patterns As They Fall
Abunai!: Presents the Mystic River Sound
Bevis Frond: Vavona Burr
Asteroid #4: Apple Street
The Apples In Stereo: Her Wallpaper Reverie
Alphane Moon: The Echoing Grove
Reissue:
V/A: Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vols. 1-6
Live Band:
Bardo Frond
Old Record:
Quad: s/t
vallor@home.com
Top Ten:
Ohm: Live At The Crown
Sophie Moleta: Trust
Small Blue Torch: Small Blue Torch
Rosy Parlane: 1-4
Parmentier: Luxsound
The Dead C.: DR503c
Gate: The Lavender Head
High Dependancy Unit: Higher ++
Dworzec: Dworzec
Lugosi: Monarch
Reissue:
Roy Montgomery: 324 E. 13th St. #7
Live Band:
Acid Mothers Temple
Old Record:
Alastair Galbraith: Seely Girn
VhfRecords@aol.com
Top Ten:
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
Supersilent: 4
Chomsky: A Few Possible Selections For The Soundtrack Of Your Life
Volcano The Bear: The Inhazer Decline
rhBand: 6.20.98
Amps For Christ: Circuits
Vibracathedral Orchestra: Lino Hi
Neil Campbell String Quartet: Live
Pavement: Terror Twilight
Autechre: EP7
Reissue:
Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 14
Live Band:
Chomsky
Old Record:
Buddhadev Das Gupta: Sarod
wjmeyer@interaccess.com
Top Ten:
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Drawn Inward
Kevin Drumm: Second
Mats Gustafsson & David Grubbs: Apertura
Charalambides: Houston
Peter Brotzmann / Die Like A Dog Quartet: Little Birds Have Fast Hearts Vol 2
Fred Anderson Quartet: Live At The Velvet Lounge
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
Holger Czukay: Good Morning Story
Michael Hurley: Weatherhole
Charlemagne Palestine: Schlingen-Blängen
Reissue:
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Grow Fins
Live Band:
Peter Brotzmann / Die Like A Dog Quartet
Old Record:
Phil Niblock: Music By Phill Niblock
xibalba@no-fi.com
Top Ten:
Tom Waits: Mule Variations
Joe Strummer: Rock Art And The X-Ray Style
The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Jason Bill & Jack Rose: Via St. Louis
E.A.R.: Pestrepeller
John Paul Jones: Zooma
The Church: A Box Of Birds
Bardo Pond: Set And Setting
Stan Ridgway: Anatomy
Southerning: One Piece In Four Parts
Reissue:
Spacemen 3: Playing With Fire
Live Band:
Bardo Pond
Old Record:
Black Sun Ensemble: Black Sun Ensemble
yocum@ods.co.jp
Top Ten:
Sunroof!: Delicate Autobahn Under Construction
Amephone: Retrospective
Anna Planeta: Anna Planeta
Solid Eye: Fruits of Automation
The Caretaker: Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom
T. Sugimoto, T. Akiyama & V.A.: Improvisation Meeting at Bar Aoyama
Michael Schumacher: Fidicin Drones
Alan Licht: Rabbi Sky
Richard Youngs: House Music
The Fall: The Marshall Suite
Reissue:
Shirley & Dolly Collins: Anthems in Eden
Live Band:
Marginal Consort
Old Record:
Dial: Infraction
yol@esophagus.com
Top Ten:
Nurse with Wound: An Awkward Pause
David Shea: An Eastern Western Collected Works
Jonathon Coleclough: Cake
Boredoms: Vision > Creation > Newsun
Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
Volcano The Bear: The Inhazer Decline
Tin Foil Star: Mort Aux Vaches
Soundtrack: Fight Club
Coil: Musick to Play in the Dark
ALP: At Home With Alp
Reissue:
Skip Spence: Oar
Live Band:
His Name Is Alive
Old Record:
FRIDGE: Sevens and Twelves
yuli0@po.eis.or.jp
Top Ten:
RST: Voltage/Garden
Rafael Toral: Lullabies
Maryanne Amacher: Sound Characters
Cash Guitar + the High Five: Payback
Felix Knoth: Die Pein Vom Haupt Entfernen
Lugosi: Yellow Five Aluminium Lake 'Mica'
V/A: bonus cd of Halana #4
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Reissue:
Peter Bellamy: Wake the Vaulted Echoes
Live Band:
Kousokuya + Masayoshi Urabe
Old Record:
Nic Jones: The Noah's Ark Trap
ziegelm@chemie.uni-hamburg.de
Top Ten:
The Lapse: The Betrayal
And you will know us by the Trail Of Dead: Madonna
Tied + Tickled Trio: EA1 EA2
Appliance: Manual
Bablicon: In a different city
Pop-Off Tuesday: Pop-Off Tuesday
Ghost: Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet
Songs:Ohia: Acess and Ace
Appendix Out: (?) their 2nd album on drag city
Immense: (?) their lp on FatCat
Reissue:
Pearls before Swine: Balaklava
Live Band:
Bablicon
Old Record:
My bloody Valentine: Isn't anything
zobie13@hotmail.com
Top Ten:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Fly Pan Am: s/t
couch: fantasy
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Live Band:
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Old Record:
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