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KSPC World Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Baka Beyond  East to West  Narada World  2 Anouar Brahem Trio  Astrakan Cafe  ECM  3 Various Artists  Stomp, Puse: An Odyssey  Six Degrees  4 Ancient Future  Planet Passion  Ancient Future  5 Various Artists  Rough Guide to Bollywood  World Music Network  6 Tama  Escape  Real World  7 Greg Jackson/Sonikinesis  Yogamusic  Self-Produced  8 Chico Mello & Silva Ocougne  Violan De Dois  Oaksmus  9 Simon Shaheen & Quantara  Blue Flame  Ark 21  10 Various Artists  Buena Vista: Next Generation  Pimienta

KSPC Jazz Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Jacky Terrasson  Smile  Blue Note  2 Fred Hersch Trio  Live At The Village Vanguard  Palmetto  3 Rob Mazurek  Silver Spines  Delmark  4 Bill Charlap  Stardust  Blue Note  5 Tyme Quartet  Concepts in Tyme  Jojatyojo  6 Assif Tsahar  Ayn Le-Any  Hopscotch  7 Arthur Blythe  Focus  Savant  8 Keith Jarrett  Always Let Me Go  ECM  9 Reuben Wilson  Organ Blues  Jazzeteria  10 William Parker Quartet  Raining on the Moon  Thirsty Ear

KSPC Modern Composition Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Luciano Berio, Kim Kashkashian  Voci  ECM New Series  2 Tristan Keuris  String Quartets, Clar. Qt.  Emergo Classics  3 Gyorgy Ligeti  The Ligeti Project (2vv.)  Teldec  4 Meredith Monk  Books of Days  ECM New Series  5 Various Artists  Music from SEAMUS Vol. 1  SEAMUS  6 Joanna MacGregor  Neural Circuits  Sound Circus  7 Pierre Boulez  Pli Selon Pli  Deutsche Grammophon 20-21  8 Iannis Xenakis  Orchestral Works and Chamber Music  Col Legno Collage  9 Schneider, Schulman  Just West Coast  Bridge Records  10 Peter Serkin  The Ocean That Has No East and No West  Koch, Int.

KSPC RPM Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Mr. Scruff  Trouser Jazz  Ninja Tune  2 Susumu Yokota  The Boy and Tree  Leaf  3 Massive Attack  100th Window  Virgin  4 Various Artists  La Collection Chapter 3  FComm  5 Richie Hawtin and Sven Vath  The Sound of the 3rd Season  Novamute  6 Bizz Circuits  The Very Best of the Bizz Circuits  Deluxe  7 DJ Krush  The Message at the Depth  Red Ink/Sony  8 Data 80  Data 80  Force, Inc.  9 Various Artists  Night Owls 02  Deluxe  10 Amon Tobin  Verbal 12"  Ninja Tune

KSPC Hip-Hop Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Little Brother  The Listening  ABB  2 Roots  Phrenology  MCA  3 THETHYRDAY  broKen AnJel  12"  4 Murs  The End of the Beginning  Def Jux  5 Talib Kweli  Quality  Rawkus  6 Common  Electric Circus  MCA  7 Planet Asia  Golden Age 12"  Threshold  8 Wordsworth  On Your Feet b/w That Way  Wordwide  9 9th Wonder  God's Stepson  No Label  10 K-Os  Exit  Astralwerks

KSPC Loud Rock Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Racebannon  Satan's Kickin Yr Dick In  Secretly Canadian  2 Sea of Tombs  Sea of Tombs  Gravity  3 DFI  DFI  Honey Bear  4 The Lips  Pure Electrofied Sexual Energy  Self-Released  5 Hot Cross  A New Set of Lungs  Level Plane/Sonzai  6 Kid Eternal  We Are Controlling Transmission  Teishu  7 Song of Zarathustra  A View From High Tides  Troubleman Unlimited  8 Flametrick Subs  Something in Japanese  Kranzke  9 Free Beer  The Only Beer That Matters  Alternative Tentacles  10 City of Caterpillars  City of Caterpillars  Level Plane

KSPC Americana Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Eleni Mandell  Country For True Lovers  Zedtone  2 Devendra Banhart  Oh Me Oh My  Young God  3 Bonnie "Prince" Billy  Master and Everyone  Palace/Drag City  4 Jon Langford and his Sadies  Mayors of the Moon  Bloodshot  5 Paul Brill  Sisters EP  Scarlet Shame Records  6 Johnny Cash  American IV: The Man Comes Around  American  7 Waco Brothers  New Deal  Bloodshot  8 Rebecca Pearcy  Constellation  YoYo  9 The Be Good Tanyas  Chinatown  Nettwork  10 Vic Chesnutt  Silver Lake  New West