| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Quails, The | Atmosphere | Inconvenient |
| 2 | Mochipet | Randambient Works 2002 | Btrendy |
| 3 | Sole | Salt On Everything 12" | Anticon |
| 4 | Happy Supply | Crucial Cuts | Dutch Courage/Gifted |
| 5 | Merzbow | Merzbeat | Important |
| 6 | Jenny Toomey | Tempting - Jenny Toomey sings the songs of Franklin Bruno | Misra |
| 7 | Raymond Scott | Kodachrome | Basta |
| 8 | Outrageous Cherry | Out There In The Dark | Del-Fi |
| 9 | LCD Sound System | Losing My Edge b/w Beat Connection | DFA |
| 10 | Instruments, The | Billions of Phonographs | Orange Twin |
| 11 | Service Anxiety | The Persistent Inversion of Solution By Protective Powers 7" | Dead CEO |
| 12 | Heros Severum | Wonderful Educated Bear | Two Sheds |
| 13 | Various Artists | Peanut Butter Wolf's Jukebox 45's | Stones Throw |
| 14 | Signer | Low Light Dreams | Carpark |
| 15 | Justin Shay | She Said It Looks Like Spring | We're Twins |
| 16 | Matching Mole | March | Cuneiform |
| 17 | Tania Via | Dream of... | Chocolate Industries |
| 18 | One AM Radio, The | The Hum of Electric Air | Translucence |
| 19 | Half Handed Cloud | We Haven't Just Been Told, We Have Been Loved | Sounds Familyre |
| 20 | Picastro | Red Your Blues | Pehr |
| 21 | Dear Nora | Dreaming Out Loud EP | Magic Marker |
| 22 | Queen of Japan | Head Rush | Echokammer |
| 23 | American Analog Set | Updates | Tigerstyle |
| 24 | Tunnel of Love | Rock 'N Roll'N Bitches | Mister |
| 25 | Various Artists | Urban Renewal Program | Chocolate Industries |
| 26 | Royal Trux | Hand of Glory | Drag City |
| 27 | Mercury Program, The | A Data Learn The Language | Tigerstyle |
| 28 | Vile | Depopulate | Unique Leader |
| 29 | Captain Beefheart | Magnetic Hands-Live In The UK '72-'80 | Viper |
| 30 | Aroah | No Podemos Ser Amigos | Acuarela |
| 31 | Tristeza | Tristeza | Gravity |
| 32 | COCO | The COCO Sound | K |
| 33 | Nati Cano's Mariachi Los Camperos | Viva El Mariachi! | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 34 | Arnold Dreyblatt | The Adding Machine | Cantaloupe |
| 35 | Arthur Lee | Live At The Academy, Liverpool May 1992 | Viper |