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KSPC World Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Various Artists  Zen and the Art of Chilling Vol. 2  Mondo Melodia  2 Ustad Mohammad Omar  Virtuoso From Afghanistan  Smithsonian Folkways  3 Opium Jukebox  Never Mind the Bhangra, Here Comes the Opium Jukebox  Underground, Inc  4 Fania  Sopi  Tinder  5 Zuco 103  Tales of High Fever  Six Degrees  6 DJ Cheb I Sabbah  Krishna Lila  Six Degrees  7 Various Artists  Rough Guide to the Music of the Alps  Rough Guide Network  8 Various Artists  Rough Guide tothe Music of the Himalayas  Rough Guide Network  9 Zawose and Brook  Assembly  Real World  10 Barrio Chino  Mediterra Nostro  Candela

KSPC Jazz Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Urs Leimgruber, Jaques Demierre, and Barre Philips  Wing Vane  Victo  2 Soft Machine  Backwards  Cuneiform  3 Abstractions  Sonic Conspiracy  Edgetone  4 ClarinetTrio Two  Translucent Tones  Leo  5 Miyumi Project Big Band  Rooted: Origins of Now  Asian Improv  6 Gold Sparkle Band  Fugues and Flowers  Squealer  7 Chris Bowden  Slightly Askew  Ninja Tune  8 George Flynn  American Past  Southport  9 Alice Coltrane  Transfiguration  Sepia Tone  10 John Butcher and Dylan van der Schyff  Points, Snags and Windings  Meniscus

KSPC Loud Rock Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Ruins  1986-1992  Skin Graft  2 Pharoah Overlord  #1  Ektro  3 Iowaska  Vine of Souls  Alternative Tentacles  4 Skepticism  The Processof Fermakon  Red Stream  5 Offbeats  Dumb Looks Still Free  Smog Veil  6 Various Artists  Dynamite with a Laserbeam  Three One G  7 Crimson Sweet  So Electric 7"  self-released  8 Deerhoof  Reveille  Kill Rock Stars/5RC  9 Sadis Euphoria  Frigid Silence Spilling  Willowtip  10 Red Chord  Fused Together in Revolving Doors  Robotic Empire

KSPC Modern Composition Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Daniel Rothman  Yes, Philip, Robots Dream Electric Sheep  Los Angeles River  2 Chico Mello and Silvia Ocougne  Violao de Dois  Oaksmus  3 Toby Twining  Chrysalid Requiem  Cantaloupe  4 Faure  Sonates pour violonet piano  Harmonia Mundi  5 Clarence Barlow  Until  Los Angeles River  6 Kronos Quartet  Nuevo  Nonesuch  7 Dietrich Eichmann  Entre Deux Guerres  Oaksmus  8 Mahler  Symphony No. 10  Naxos  9 Holst  The Planets and Egdon Heath  Teldec  10 Bus Ratch vs. Computer Soup  s/t  PARA Disc

KSPC Americana Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Young People  s/t  5RC  2 Charley Patton  Screamin'and Hollerin' the Blues  Revenant  3 Utah Philips  We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years  Rounder  4 Timothy Prudhomme  With the Hole Dug  Smells Like Records  5 Reigning Sound  Time Bomb High School  In the Red  6 Harry Manx  Wise and Otherwise  Northern Blues  7 Paul Curreri  From Long Gones to Hawkmoth  City Salvage  8 Otis Taylor  Respect the Dead  Northern Blues  9 Joshua  Gold Cosmos  Feather One's Nest  10 Asie Payton  Just Do Me Right  Fat Possum

KSPC RPM Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Takagi Masakatsu  Opus Pia  Carpark  2 Bus Ratch vs Computer Soup  s/t  PARA Disc  3 Tino Corp  Tino's Breaks vol 1 & 2  Tino Corp  4 Curtain of Cards  Blank Exhibition  PARA Disc  5 Vincient Gallo  Recordings of Music for Film  Warp  6 Nautilis  Are You a Axolotl  Planet Mu  7 Sutekh  Fell  Orthlorng Musork  8 Bus Ratch  s/t  PARA Disc  9 Various Artists  Misery Loves Company  Ersatz Audio  10 Marumari  The Remixes  Carpark

KSPC Hip-Hop Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Alias  The Other Side of the Looking Glass  Anticon  2 Mr. Lif  Emergency Rations  Def Jux  3 Scienz of Life  Project Overground  Sub Verse  4 TTC  Ceci N'est Pas Une Disque  Big Dada  5 Boom Box 2000  s/t  Orange Twin  6 Non Phixion  The Future is Now  Landspeed  7 Babu the Dilated Junkie  Duck Season Vol 1  Sequence  8 EL-P  Fantastic Damage  Def Jux  9 Herbaliser  Something Wicked This Way Comes  Ninja Tune  10 Various Artists  Definitive Jux Presents 2  Def Jux