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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  Electric Psychedelic Sitar Head Swirlers Vol. 9  Purple Lantern  3 Lee Perry  The Compiler Vol. 1  Rectangle  4 Origami Arktika  Vardogr  Silber  5 George Abdo  Belly Dance!: The Best of George Abdo  Smithsonian Folkways  6 Opium Jukebox  Never Mind the Bhangra, Here Comes the Opium Jukebox  Underground, Inc  7 Various Artists  Africa Raps  Trikont  8 DJ Cheb I Sabbah  Krishna Lila  Six Degrees  9 Zawose and Brook  Assembly  Real World  10 Various Artists  Deer Polka  Smithsonian Folkways

KSPC Jazz Top 10

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

KSPC Loud Rock Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Ex Models/Seconds  Split EP  My Pal God  2 Various Artists  Dynamite With A Laserbeam  Three One G  3 Offbeats  Dumb Looks Still Free  Smog Veil  4 Oxes  Oxxxes  Monitor  5 Fat Day  IV  Dark Beloved Cloud  6 Ameoba (Raft Boy)  Bad Fuggum From the Mysterium  Smog Veil  7 Hot Snakes  Suicide Invoice  Swami  8 Flying Luttenbachers  Infection and Decline  Troubleman  9 Party of Helicopters  Space and How Sweet It Was  Troubleman  10 Himinbjorg  Haunted Shores  Red Stream

KSPC Modern Composition Top 10

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

KSPC Americana Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Reigning Sounds  Time Bomb High School  In the Red  2 Pere Ubu  St Arkansas  Spin Art/Cooking Vinyl  3 Calvin Johnson  What Was Me  K  4 Mississippi John Hurt  Avalon Blues 1928 Okeh Recordings  Columbia  5 Blind Willie Johnson  Dark Was the Night  Columbia  6 Pete Seeger  America's Favorite Ballads vol 1  Smithsonian Folkways  7 Albert King  Born Under A Bad Sign  Stax  8 Charley Patton   Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues  Revenant  9 Utah Philips  We Have Fe You All A Thousand Years  Rounder  10 Young People  s/t  5RC

KSPC RPM Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Blevin Blectum  Talon Slalom  Deluxe  2 Inkblot  Love Your Mother  Audio Dregs  3 Various Artists  The Beat Goes Off!  Tigerbeat6/Wire  4 Matmos  Live With J Lesser  Vague Terrain  5 Various Artists  Night Owls 01  Deluxe  6 Ursula 1000  Kinda Kinky  18th Street Lounge  7 Sutekh  Fell  Orthlorng Musork  8 Secret Frequency Crew  The Under Water Adventure Hop Secret Adventure  Counterflow  9 Curtain of Cards  Blank Exhibition  PARA Disc  10 Tino Corp  Tino's Breaks Vol 1&2  Tino Corp

KSPC Hip-Hop Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Alias  The Other Side of the Looking Glass  Anticon  2 Soul Junk  1957  Sounds Are Active  3 Various Artists  Africa Raps  Trikont  4 TTC  Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque  Big Dada  5 Boom Box 2000  s/t  Orange Twin  6 Deaf  To the General Public  Closed Caption  7 El-P  Fantastic Damage  Def Jux  8 Heiruspecs  Small Steps  Interlock  9 Scienz of Life  Project Overground  Sub Verse  10 Mr. Lif  Emergency Rations  Def Jux