| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Go-Betweens | Before Hollywood | Jetset |
| 2 | Matmos | Matmos Live with J Lesser | Vague Terrain |
| 3 | Various Artists | Dynamite with a Laserbeam | Three One G |
| 4 | Wire | Read and Burn | Pink Flag |
| 5 | Tim Hecker | My Love is Rotten to the Core | Subtractif |
| 6 | Various Artists | Traditional Music of Peru 6: Ayacucho | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 7 | Ex Models/Seconds | Split EP | My Pal God |
| 8 | Party of Helicopters | Space and How Sweet it Was | Troubleman |
| 9 | Rondellus | Sabbatum | Beg the Bug |
| 10 | Various Artists | The Beat Goes Off! | Tigerbeat6/WIRE |
| 11 | Planetarium Music | Traditional Psychedelic Electronic Music | Strange Attractors Audio House |
| 12 | Atom and His Package | Hamburgers EP | File 13 |
| 13 | Various Artists | Brain in the Wire | Brainwashed |
| 14 | Supersprite | Color Mixing | Audio Dregs |
| 15 | Young People | s/t | 5RC |
| 16 | Death By Chocolate | Zap the World | Jetset |
| 17 | Enon | High Society | Touch and Go |
| 18 | Pere Ubu | St Arkansas | Spin Art/Cooking Vinyl |
| 19 | Quix*o*tic | Mortal Mirror | Kill Rock Stars |
| 20 | Mum | Finally We Are No One | Fat Cat |
| 21 | Country Teasers | Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Nosebleed Empire | In the Red |
| 22 | Squab | What Happened Then | Self-Released |
| 23 | Electric Prunes | Live at Voxfest | Birdman |
| 24 | Circle | Raunio | Ektro |
| 25 | Major Stars | Distant Effects | Squealer |
| 26 | TTC | Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque | Big Dada |
| 27 | Deerhoof | Reveille | Kill Rock Stars/5RC |
| 28 | Tino Corp | Tino's Breaks 5: Dub | Tino Corp |
| 29 | Lucid Nation | Tacoma Ballet | Brain Floss |
| 30 | Various Artists | Men from O.R.G.A.N. | S.H.A.D.O. |
| 31 | Starvations | One Long Night | Kapow |
| 32 | Little Wings | Wonderue | K |
| 33 | Hawg Jaw | BeLIEve Nothing | Deep Six |
| 34 | Mochipet | s/t | Btrendy |
| 35 | Various Artists | California Ain't Fun No More | Just Add Water |