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KSPC World Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Ruben Blades and Editus Ensemble  Mundo  Sony  2 Ancient Future  Planet Passion  Ancient Future  3 Various Artists  Amandla!  ATO  4 Baka Beyond  East to West  Narada World  5 Greg Jackson/Sonikinesis  Yogamusic  Self-Released  6 Various Artists  Dutch World 2003  Conamus  7 Simon Shaheen & Qantara  Blue Flame  Ark 21  8 Hiromitsu Agatsuma  Beams  Domo  9 Bobi Cespedes  Rezos  Six Degrees  10 Mercedes Sosa  En Argentina  Philips

KSPC Jazz Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Reuben Wilson  Ogran Blues  Jazzateria  2 Jacky Terrasson  Smile  Blue Note  3 William Parker Quartet  Raining on the Moon  Thirsty Ear  4 Fred Hersch Trio  Live at the Village Vanguard  Palmetto  5 Kenny Barron Trio  Live at Bradley's  Sunnyside  6 New York Voices  Sing! Sing! Sing!  Concord  7 Assif Tsahar  Any Le-Any  Hopscotch  8 Keith Jarrett  Always Let Me Go  ECM  9 Bill Charlap  Stardust  Blue Note  10 Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory  Song For My Sister  PI Recordings

KSPC Modern Composition Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Meredith Monk  Mercy  ECM New Series  2 Stravinsky, Karis  Piano Music  Bridge  3 Messiaen  Quartet for the End of Time  Deutsche Grammaphon  4 Ligeti  The Ligeti Project (2vv.)  Teldec  5 Various Artists  Music from SEAMUS Vol. 5  SEAMUS  6 Brouwer, Papandrou  Guitar Collection  Naxos  7 Cage, Berman  Music for Prepared Piano Vol. 2  Naxos  8 Schneider, Schulman  Just West Coast  Bridge  9 Prokofiev  Sonatas for Violin and Piano  Naxos  10 Joanna MacGregor  Neural Circuits  Sound Circus

KSPC RPM Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Amon Tobin  Out From Out Where  Ninja Tune  2 Tiga  DJ Kicks  K7  3 Massive Attack  100th Window  Virgin  4 Echoboy  Giraffe  Mute  5 Hook  He's the Pants  Self-Released  6 DJ Krush  The Message at the Depth  Red Ink/Sony  7 Various Artists  Classic and Rare: La Collection Chapter 3  FComm  8 Richie Hawtin and Sven Vath  Sound of the Third Season  Novamute  9 Data 80  Data 80  Force, Inc.  10 Mr. Scruff  Trouser Jazz  Ninja Tune

KSPC Hip-Hop Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Little Brother  The Listening  ABB  2 THETHYRDAY  broKen AnJel 12"  Self-Released  3 Murs  The End of the Beginning  Def Jux  4 Roots  Phrenology  MCA  5 Planet Asia  Golden Age 12"  Threshold  6 9th Wonder  God's Stepson  Self-Released  7 Wordsworth  On Your Feet b/w That Way  Wordwide  8 Talib Kweli  Quality  Rawkus  9 Common  Electric Circus  MCA  10 Punchline  Volume One  Self-Released

KSPC Loud Rock Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 The Mae Shi  To Hit Armor Class Zero  Self-Released  2 Lightning Bolt  Wonderful Rainbow  Load  3 Sea of Tombs  Sea of Tombs  Gravity  4 DFI  DFI  Honeybear  5 Hot Cross  A New Set of Lungs  Level Plane/Sonzai  6 Ruins  Tzomborgha  Ipecac  7 Racebannon  Satan's Kickin' Yr Dick In  Secretly Canadian  8 The Lips  Pure Electrofied Sexual Energy  Self-Released  9 Kid Eternal  We Are Controlling Transmission  Teishu  10 Flametrick Subs  Something in Japanese  Kranzke

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 Jon Langford and his Sadies  Mayors of the Moon  Bloodshot  4 Paul Brill  Sisters EP  Scarlet Shame  5 The Be Good Tanyas  Chinatown  Nettwork  6 Nicolai Dunger  Tranquil Isolation  Overcoat  7 Bonnie "Prince" Billy  Master and Everyone  Palace/Drag City  8 Waco Brothers  New Deal  Bloodshot  9 Vic Chesnutt  Silver Lake  New West  10 Johnny Cash  American IV: The Man Comes Around  American