| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 | Clue to Kalo | Come Where When You Sleepwalk | Mush |
| 2 | The Soviettes | The Soviettes | Adeline |
| 3 | The Clogs | Lullaby For Sue | Brassland |
| 4 | +/- | {Plus Minus} | Teenbeat |
| 5 | Mindflayer | Take Your Skin Off | Bulb |
| 6 | Kreamy 'Lectric Santa | Music For Meditation Relaxation and the Imminent Overthrow of All World Governments | Star Krunch |
| 7 | Kruzenshtern and Parohod | The Craft of Primitive Klezmer | Solnze |
| 8 | Hans Fjellestad | 33 | Accretions |
| 9 | Things Explode | Things Explode | Self Released |
| 10 | Tsurubami | Gekkyukekkaichi | Strange Attractors |
| 11 | Death Cab For Cutie | Transatlanticism | Barsuk |
| 12 | Various | Bulb Singles #1 | Bulb |
| 13 | Do Make Say Think | Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn | Constellation |
| 14 | CurseovDialect | Lost In The Real Sky | Mush |
| 15 | The Von Trapps | The Von Trapps | Self Released |
| 16 | Experimental Dental School | Experimental Dental School | Self Released |
| 17 | X27 | 7'' | Show and Tell |
| 18 | Quintron | Are You Ready For an Organ Solo? | 31G |
| 19 | The Broke Revue | Oldtime-Futureshock | Milon Studies |
| 20 | Erase Errata | At Crystal Palace | Troubleman Unlimited |
| 21 | The Electrogroup / St. Avalanche | Split 7" | |
| 22 | Various | Gravity Video 2 | Gravity |
| 23 | TRS-80 | Shake Hands With Danger | File-13 |
| 24 | Why? | Early Whitney EP | Anticon |
| 25 | Polmo Polpo | Like Hearts Swelling | Constellation |
| 26 | Kid 606 | The Illness | Tigerbeat6 |
| 27 | Cobra High | Sunset in the Eye of the Hurricane | Cold Crush |
| 28 | The Faux | Techno Synth Scary Punk | Tarantula |
| 29 | Casinotone for the Painfully Alone | Twinkle Echo | Tomlab |
| 30 | Hella / Dilute | Split CD | Sickroom |
| 31 | Nathan Michel | Dear Bicycle | Tigerbeat6 |
| 32 | Skeleton Coast | Write it Dow, Burn It Up | Hold Fast |
| 33 | Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | Live | Sickroom |
| 34 | Lithpops | Scrypts | Thrill Jockey |
| 35 | Cherron | 7'' | Self Released |