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KSPC World Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Chico Mello and Silvia Ocougne  Violao de Dois  Oaksmus  2 Various Artists  Nigeria 70  Strut  3 Various Artists  Deeper Polka  Smithsonian Folkways  4 Various Artists  Africa Raps  Trikont  5 Opium Jukebox  Never Mind the Bhangra, Here Comes the Opium Jukebox  Underground, Inc  6 DJ Cheb I Sabbah  Krishna Lila  Six Degrees  7 TTC  Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque  Big Dada  8 George Abdo  Belly Dance!: The Best of George Abdo  Smithsonian Folkways  9 Zawose and Brook  Assembly  Real World  10 Zuco 103  Talesof High Fever  Six Degrees

KSPC Jazz Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Gold Sparkle Band  Fugues and Flowers  Squealer  2 Abstractions  Sonic Conspiracy  Edgetone  3 Mega-Mousse  Musical Monogram  TZME  4 Urs Leimgruber, Jaques Demierre, and Barre Phillips  Wing Vane  Victo  5 Chris Bowden  Slightly Askew  Ninja Tune  6 John Butcher and Dylan van der Schyff  Points, Snags and Windings  Meniscus  7 Muffins  Bandwidth  Cuneiform  8 Gorge Flynn  American Past  Southport  9 Paul Plimley/John Oswald, Marilyn Crispell, and Cecil Taylor  Complicite  Victo  10 Alice Coltrane  Transfiguration  Sepia Tone

KSPC Loud Rock Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Ex Models/Seconds  Split EP  My Pal God  2 Hot Snakes  Suicide Invoke  Swami  3 Oxes  Oxxxes  Monitor  4 Fat Day  IV  Dark Beloved Cloud  5 Iowaska  Vine of Souls  Alternative Tentacles  6 Fury  Resurrection  Jade Tree  7 Flying Luttenbachers  Infection and Decline  Troubleman  8 Bottles and Skulls  Amped the Fuck Up  Sickroom  9 Haemorrhage  Morgue Sweet Home  Morbid  10 Otophobia  s/t  Deep Six

KSPC Modern Composition Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Chico Mello and Silvia Ocougne  Violao de Dois  Oaksmus  2 Clarence Barlow  Until  Los Angeles River  3 Daniel Rothman  Yes, Philip, Robots Dream Electric Sheep  Los Angeles River  4 Bus Ratch vs. Computer Soup  s/t  PARA Disc  5 Toby Twining  Chrysalid Requiem  Cantaloupe  6 Dietrich Eichmann  Entre Deux Guerres  Oaksmus  7 Kronos Quartet  Nuevo  Nonesuch  8 Faure  Sonates Pour Violonet Piano  Harmonia Mundi  9 Vincient Gallo  Recordings of Music for Film  Warp  10 Bus Ratch  s/t  PARA Disc

KSPC Americana Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Young People  s/t  5RC  2 Albert King  Born Under A Bad Sign  Stax  3 Calvin Johnson  What Was Me  K  4 Charley Patton  Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues  Revenant  5 Otis Taylor  Respect the Dead  Northern Blues  6 Reigning Sound  Time Bomb High School  In the Red  7 Utah Philips  We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years  Rounder  8 Paul Curreri  From Long Gones to Hawkmoth  City Salvage  9 Timothy Prudhomme  With Hole Dug  Smells Like Records  10 Asie Payton  Just Do Me Right  Fat Possum

KSPC RPM Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Various Artists  The Beat Goes Off!  Tigerbeat6/WIRE  2 Matmos  Matmos Live With J Lesser  Vague Terrain  3 Blevin Blectum  Talon Slalom  Deluxe  4 Bus Ratch vs. Computer Soup  s/t  PARA Disc  5 Various Artists  Night Owls 01  Deluxe  6 Tino Corp  Tino's Breaks Vol. 1 & 2  Tino Corp  7 Vincient Gallo  Recordings of Music for Film  Warp  8 Curtain of Cards  Blank Exhibition  PARA Disc  9 Takagi Masakatsu  Opus Pia  Carpark  10 Various Artists  Misery Loves Company  Ersatz Audio

KSPC Hip-Hop Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Alias  The Other Side of the Looking Glass  Anticon  2 Deaf  To the General Public  Closed Caption  3 Various Artists  Africa Raps  Trikont  4 EL-P  Fantastic Damage  Def Jux  5 Scienz of Life  Project Overground  Sub Verse  6 TTC  Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque  Big Dada  7 Mr. Lif  Emergency Rations  Def Jux  8 Boom Box 2000  s/t  Orange Twin  9 Non Phixion  The Future is Now  Landspeed  10 Babu the Dilated Junkie  Duck Sason Vol. 1  Sequence