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KSPC World Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Luciana Souza  Brazilian Duos  Sunnyside  2 Karsh Kale  Realize  Six Degrees  3 Ruben Blades and Editus Ensemble  Mundo  Sony  4 Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited  Manhungetunge  Anonym  5 Various Artists  Rough Guide to the Asian Underground  World Music Network  6 Various Artists  La Musica della Mafia Vol. II  Play It Again Sam  7 Axiom of Choice  Unfolding  Narada World  8 Youssou N' Dour  Nothing's in Vain  Nonesuch  9 Greg Jackson/Sonikinesis  Yogamusic  Self-Released  10 Various Artists  Amandla!  ATO

KSPC Jazz Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Assif Tsahar  Ayn Le-Any  Hopscotch  2 Fred Hersch Trio  Live at Village Vanguard  Palmetto  3 John Hicks  Music in the Key of Clark  High Note  4 Arthur Blythe  Focus  Savant  5 New York Voices  Sing! Sing! Sing!  Concord  6 Jeff Parker  Like-Coping  Delmark  7 Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Jazz Ensemble  Cape Town Shuffle  Delmark  8 Michael Cook  Statements  Black Hat Records  9 Roy Haynes  Love Letters  Columbia  10 Roscoe Mitchell  Song For My Sister  PI Recordings

KSPC Modern Composition Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Kilar  Music for Orchestra  Naxos  2 Various Artists  Music from SEAMUS Vol. 5  SEAUMUS  3 Gyorgy Ligeti  Etudes  Naxos  4 Pierre Boulez  Pli Selon Pli  Deutsche Grammaphon 20-21  5 Cage, Karis  Sonatas and Interludes  Bridge  6 Schneider, Schulman  Just West Coast  Bridge  7 Iannis Xenakis  Orchestral Works and Chamber Music  Col Legno Collage  8 Peter Serkin  The Ocean That Has No East and No West  Koch, Int.  9 Stravinsky, Karis  Piano Music  Bridge  10 Penderecki  Orchestral Music  Naxos

KSPC RPM Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Aphex Twin  26 Mixes For Cash  Warp  2 DJ Krush  The Message at the Depth  Red Ink/Sony  3 Echoboy  Giraffe  Mute  4 The Funky Lowlives  Cartouche  Stereo Deluxe  5 Tiga  DJ Kicks  K7  6 Codec and Flexor  Tubed  Emperor Norton  7 Massive Attack  100th Window  Virgin  8 Amon Tobin  Out From Out Where  Ninja Tune  9 Jori Hulkkonen  Different  F Comm/PIAS America  10 Hook  He's the Pants  Self-Released

KSPC Hip-Hop Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 Brother Ali  Room With a View 12"  Rhymesayers  2 Cunninlynguists  SouthernUnderground  QN5  3 Little Brother  The Listening  ABB  4 Athletic Mic League  Got 'Em Sayin' 12"  Lab Technicians  5 THETHYRDAY  One Finger 12"  Self-Released  6 Jaylib  The Official 12"  Stones Throw  7 Various Artists  Blow To the State  Coup D'Etat  8 Mystic  No Competition 12"  Dreamworks  9 Punchline  Volume One  Self-Released  10 Joe Budden  Pump It Up 12"  Def Jam

KSPC Loud Rock Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 The Mae Shi  To Hit Armor Class Zero  Self-Released  2 Glass Candy  Love Love Love  Troublemen Unlimited  3 Hot Cross  A New Set of Lungs  Level Plane/Sonzai  4 Lightning Bolt  Wonderful Rainbow  Load  5 Sea of Tombs  Sea of Tombs  Gravity  6 Examination of the...  We Are the Architects of Desire  Force Again  7 DFI  DFI  Honeybear  8 Ruins  Tzomborgha  Ipecac  9 Articles of Faith  Complete Vol. 1 1981-1983  Alternative Tentacles  10 The Paper Chase  Hide the Kitchen Knives  Beatville

KSPC Americana Top 10

Rank Artist Title Label 1 The Be Good Tanyas  Chinatown  Nettwerk American  2 Nicolai Dunger  Tranquil Isolation  Overcoat  3 Howe Home  The Listener  Thrill Jockey  4 Damien Jurado  Where Shall You Take Me?  Secretly Canadian  5 Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter  Reckless Burning  Burn, Burn, Burn  6 Eleni Mandell  Country for True Lovers  Zedtone  7 Daniel Lanois  Shine  Anti  8 Dear Nora/Mates of State  Split 7"  Polyvinyl  9 Kathleen Edwards  Failer  Zoe  10 Mark Lemhouse  Big Lonesome Radio  Yellow Dog