Leave it to a goony Brit-turned-Angeleno to reinvigorate my excitement about electronic music with an album where doing everything wrong turns out to be right, and as Pitchfork said, is “so big, garish and dumb it’s almost psychedelic.” I’d remove that “almost”—this is HudMo picking up where SOPHIE left off, and maybe most significantly, evoking how Aphex Twin’s “Windowlicker” flipped a sun-saturated vision of big-booty America into a glorious cartoon nightmare, both hilarious and disturbing, pained and joyous.
2. Wet Leg - Wet Leg Domino
A band you just have to root for, summoning some of the most inspiring grooves and leftfield lyrics since the Pixies, seemingly effortlessly, from the Isle of Wight, apparently. In 2021 they taught me that it wasn't “chaise lounge” (was I the only one who thought that?) and in 2022, they teach me how to feel young again, if only for 36 minutes.
3. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers Interscope
OK sure, placing an 80-minute confessional by a hip-hop eminence with a who’s who of features next to a 36-minute jaunt of homemade pop songs by a couple of wee Brits highlights the absurdity of this album-ranking exercise, but Morale set the tone for new direction in hip hop in 2022: anguished, ambitious, honest, profound.
4. The Soft Pink Truth - Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This? Thrill Jockey
This Matmos side project is now on its 7th album and getting more and more fun, evoking classic African disco like Kiki Gyan. I found myself returning to Deeper over and over in various uncomforatbele seats on various airplanes in the last couple months; its patient, meticulously-layered disco groove was both mesmerizing and strangely appropriate to staring down at our wacky world.
5. Jockstrap - I Love You Jennifer B Rough Trade
Various outlets slot this album into “electronic,” but Love has such an opulent and wildly diverse production style, at times incorporating a whole orchestra and at times just a ukelele or what sounds like an ‘80s drum machine under a pillow, that it’s almost uncategorizable. Tongue-in-cheek or not, these are great songs, theatrical and wry, weird and yet weirdly familiar.
6. Daphni - Cherry Jiaolong
So many “side projects” in this year’s list! Dan Snaith’s Caribou has gotten pretty housey itself over the years, but the Daphni moniker, initiated as a club DJ identity, retains its more experimental and breezy vibe to great advantage on Cherry. It proves that sometimes, in the hands of a genius like Snaith, sketches can be masterpieces.
7. Alvvays - Blue Rev Polyvinyl
Even though I hate the cold more than ever these days I’m weirdly drawn to watching endless YouTube videos about isolated northern landscapes like Svalbard or Alaska. Maybe the solitude of Alvvays’ original homes of Nova Scotia and P.E.I. helped produce these truly original artists, who delivered an album that’s a bit like the New Pornographers via My Bloody Valentine, but mostly like nothing else.
8. DJ Python & Ela Minus -
♡ Smugglers Way
Two seemingly disparate artists who have both appeared in my lists individually, but joined forces this year in a collaboration that may have been inspired by Python’s 2020 remix of Minus’ single “they told us it was hard but they were wrong,” which brought gauzy syncopation to her brooding electro. This album's lovey-dovey title expresses both the surprisingly heartfelt lyrics and the project’s inspiring merging of artistic souls.
9. Whatever the Weather - Whatever the Weather Ghostly
At my day job, a lot of “ambient” music comes across my desk that seems cynically designed to appeal to algorithms and make cash money from piles of plays. This new project from Loraine James is the opposite: music that’s hypnotic and atmospheric but with just enough strangeness and tense twists and turns to feel, well, real, bringing you into what the Quietus called “jellied depths.”
10. The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention XL
Despite all of Thom Yorke’s and Jonny Greenwood’s efforts to hide in non-Radiohead bands or aliases or soundtracks or whatever, their music still reaches out to grab me, unexpectedly and thrillingly, with soaring chord changes, irresistible krautrock grooves and devastating turns of phrase that somehow fit the moment so perfectly you feel like they should be the official record of the times.
11. Kerri Chandler - Spaces and Places(Kaos)
12. Black Rave Culture - Vol. 2(Black Rave Culture)
13. Axel Boman - LUZ (Studio Barnhus)
14. Megan Thee Stallion - Traumazine(300)
15. Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn - Pigments(Merge)
16. Chat Pile - God's Country (Flenser)
17. Confidence Man - TILT(Heavenly)
18. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer(Deewee / Because)
19. DECIUS - Decius Vol 1 (The Leaf Label)
20. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down(Secretly Canadian)
21. Rival Consoles - Now Is (Erased Tapes)
22. J Rocc - A Wonderful Letter(Stones Throw)
23. Tomu DJ - Half Moon Bay(Franchise)
24. Pearson Sound - Red Sky EP (Hessle)
25. dreamcastmoe - Sound Is Like Water(Ghostly)
26. Tove Lo - Dirt Femme (mtheory)
27. Conjunto Primitivo - Morir y Renacer(Chicago Research)
28. SZA - SOS(RCA)
1. Altrice - "bda creature" Jiaolong
Like my album of the year, this song reminded me of everything that excites me about electronic music: repetition that enfolds you, unexpected sonic juxtapositions, and an affect that's both deeply referential and unquestionably new. I found myself playing it for everyone who would let me: “but listen to where the subs change! And when that clap comes in–arrrgh!” Based on everyone’s baffled looks this all may be stuff only I like these days, but from the moment this came into my inbox, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up, and they still do, every time I listen to it.
2. Hudson Mohawke - "Bicstan" Warp
The thrilling hyperspeed centerpiece of this neon-colored tribute to America gone wild.
3. Kelela - "Washed Away" Warp
An artist whose work has always been about sonic experimentalism flips the script with al song that’s all about her voice, in both senses: a pure sound and a powerful message.
4. Two Shell - "Home" Mainframe
For the last time, no, me and Mykill are not Two Shell.
5.
Eliza Rose, Interplanetary Criminal - "B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All)" Warner UK
What a year for British chart-toppers: this and LF System below re-establishing the UK as the center of thrilling accessible dance music.
I love this Malian singer but admit it’s been her dancey collabs where I appreciated her the most; here, she evokes what I loved about Muzi’s “Stimela Segolide”: a gorgeous, melancholy groove.
7. KH - "Looking At Your Pager" Ministry of Sound
In terms of who wielded a classic sample the most effectively this year I’ll give the edge to Kieran, but just barely…
8. LF System - "Afraid to Feel" Warner UK
…because “Afraid to Feel” is also an inspired, hands-in-the-air crate-digger find, deployed to maximum effect.
9. DECIUS - "Look Like a Man" The Leaf Label
To paraphrase the Quietus: it makes me feel mucky… in a good way.
10.
Jessie Ware - "Free Yourself" EMI
Co-produced with Dua Lipa, the best diva disco pop jam of the year.
11. Pharrell, 21 Savage, Tyler, the Creator - "Cash In Cash Out" (Colombia)
12. The Smile - "The Smoke" (XL)
13. Kendrick Lamar - "The Heart Part 5" (Interscope)
14. Yune Pinku - "DC Rot" (Platoon)
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Perfume Genius - "Spitting Off the Edge of the World" (Secretly Canadian)
16. Daphni - "Cloudy" (Jiaolong)
17. Nick León, Dj Babatr - "Xtasis" feat. Dj Babatr (Thatratrax)
18. Sofi Tukker - "Original Sin" (Ultra)
19. Weval - "Minute by Minute" (Technicolour)
20. Megan Thee Stallion - "Anxiety" (300)
21.
Channel Tres - "Just Can't Get Enough" (GODMODE)
22. Disco Lines - "Baby Girl" (Arista)
23. Tove Lo - "No One Dies From Love" (mtheory)
24. Hitkidd & GloRilla - "F.N.F. (Let's Go)" (Blac Noize!)
25. HAAi, Jon Hopkins - "Baby, We're Ascending" (Mute)
26. Cinthie - "Organ" (!K7)
27. ROSALÍA - "SAOKO" (Columbia)
28. Hikaru Utada - "Somewhere Near Marseilles" (Sony)
29. Dj Python - "Angel" (Incensio)
30. Fever Ray - "What They Call Us" (Mute)
31. Session Victim - "Trying to Make it Home" (Rhythm Section International)
32. Kendrick Lamar - "N95" (Interscope)
33. Nikki Nair - "Step 2" (N Goes to Infinity)
34. Jockstrap - "Greatest Hits" (Rough Trade)
35. elkka - "I Just Want To Love You" (Ninja Tune)
36. Joy Orbison, Overmono - "Blind Date" (XL)
37. Sudan Archives - "Home Maker" (Stones Throw)
38. Helena Hauff - "Touching Plastic" (fabric)
39. Megan Thee Stallion - "Plan B" (300)
40. Sofia Kourtesis, Manu Chao - "Estación Esperanza" (Ninja Tune)
41. J Rocc "Dancing With the Best" (Stones Throw)
1. Low - Hey What
2. Bicep - Isles
3. Space Afrika - Honest Labour
4. L'Rain - Fatigue
5. Leon Vynehall - Rare, Forever
6. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
7. Joy Orbison - still slipping vol. 1
8. Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
9. Xenia Rubinos - Una Rosa
10. Madlib - Sound Ancestors
SINGLES
1. Anz - "You Could Be"
2. Dusky - "Hildegard"
3. TSHA - "Power"
4. Sylvester - "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (Soulwax For Despacio Remix)"
5. Low - "Days Like These"
6. Helado Negro - "Outside the Outside"
7. Jayda G - "All I Need"
8. DJ Tennis - "Atlanta"
9. ABSOLUTE. - "Sage comme une image (Good as Gold)"
10. Overmono - "So U Kno"
1. Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
2. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
3. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
4. DJ Python - Mad Amable
5. The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
6. Ant LaRock - BK
7. Sault - Untitled (Black Is)/Untitled (Rise)
8. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
9. Fontains D.C. - A Hero's Death
10. Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
SINGLES
1. India Jordan - "For You"
2. Ela Minus - "Dominique"
3. Tame Impala - "Lost In Yesterday"
4. Bad Bunny - "Safaera"
5. Jayda G - "Both of Us"
6. Megan Thee Stallion - "Savage (Remix) (Feat. Beyonce)"
7. Overmono - "Everything U Need"
8. The Avalanches feat ft. Jamie xx, Neneh Cherry, CLYPSO - "Wherever You Go"
9. Kelly Lee Owens - "Melt!"
10. Thundercat - "Dragonball Durag"
1. Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love
2. Thom Yorke - Anima
3. FKA twigs - Magdalene
4. Barker - Utility
5. Floating Points - Crush
6. Tyler, the Creator - Igor
7. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
8. Michael Kiwanuka - KIWANUKA
9. Muzi - Zeno
10. Special Request - Offworld
SINGLES
1. FKA twigs - Cellophane
2. Georgia - About Work the Dancefloor
3. Jenny Hval - Accident
4. Muzi - Stimela Segolide
5. Tyler, the Creator - EARFQUAKE
6. Marie Davidson - Work It (Soulwax Remix)
7. Thom Yorke - Impossible Knots
8. Michael Kiwanuka - You Ain't the Problem
9. Holly Herndon - Frontier
10. Caribou - You and I
1. Low - Double Negative
2. DJ Koze - Knock Knock
3. Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love
4. Robyn - Honey
5. Leon Vynehall - Nothing is Still
6. Beach House - 7
7. Skee Mask - Compro
8. SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES
9. Tirzah - Devotion
10. Helena Hauff - Qualm
SINGLES
1. DJ Koze - Pick Up
2. Childish Gambino - This is America
3. Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
4. Tirzah - Gladly
5. Yves Tumor - Noid
6. SOPHIE - Is It Cold In the Water?
7. Bicep - Opal (Four Tet Remix)
8. Georgia - Started Out
9. Jungle - House In LA
10. Marie Davidson - Work It
1. David Bowie - Blackstar
2. Kaytranada - 99.9%
3. Leon Vynehall - Rojus (Designed to Dance)
4. Solange - A Seat at the Table
5. A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service
6. Jessy Lanza - Oh No
7. ANOHNI - Hopelessness
8. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
9. Ian William Craig - Centres
10. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
SINGLES
1. Drake - One Dance
2. Solange - Don't Touch My Hair
3. Kanye West - Ultralight Beam
4. David Bowie - Lazarus
5. Leon Vynehall - Midnight on Rainbow Road (Beat Edit) / Blush
6. Beyonce - Formation
7. ANOHNI - Drone Bomb Me
8. A Tribe Called Quest - We the People...
9. Jenny Hval - Conceptual Romance
10. Kaytranada - LITE SPOTS
1. Jamie xx - In Colour
2. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
3. Tame Impala - Currents
4. George FitzGerald - Fading Love
5. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
6. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
7. Floating Points - Eleania
8. Bob Moses - Days Gone By
9. Grimes - Art Angels
10. Hunee - Hunch Music
SINGLES
1. Tame Impala - Let It Happen
2. Jamie xx - I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)
3. Grimes - Flesh Without Blood
4. Kendrick Lamar - Alright
5. Drake - Hotline Bling
6. Jamie xx - Loud Places
7. Camelphat - Constellations
8. Death Cab for Cutie - Black Sun
9. Panda Bear - Boys Latin
10. Linstrom - Home Tonight
1. Caribou - Our Love
2. FKA Twigs - LP1
3. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
4. Todd Terje - It's Album Time
5. Beck - Morning Phase
6. Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband
7. Perfume Genius - Too Bright
8. Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
9. Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited
10. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
SINGLES
1. Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting on You)
2. Caribou - Can't Do Without You
3. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
4. tUnE-yArDs - Water Fountain
5. Run the Jewels - Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)
6. Little Dragon - Klapp Klapp
7. Caribou - Our Love
8. Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High)
9. iLoveMakonnen - Tuesday
10. Todd Terje - Delorean Dynamite
1. Kanye West - Yeezus
2. My Bloody Valentine - m b v
3. Disclosure - Settle
4. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
5. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
6. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
7. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
8. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
9. Special Request - Soul Music
10. Juana Molina - Wed 21
SINGLES
1. Daft Punk - Get Lucky
2. Kanye West - Black Skinhead
3. The National - Sea of Love
4. Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home
5. Sophie - Bipp
6. Disclosure feat. AlunaGeorge - White Noise
7. [tie] David Bowie - Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Remix by James Murphy)
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
8. Kanye West - New Slaves
9. Chris Malinchak - So Good to Me
10. DJ Rashad - I Don't Give a Fuck
1. Tame Impala - Lonerism
2. Com Truise - In Decay
3. Grimes - Visions
4. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
5. Beach House - In Bloom
6. Chromatics - Kill for Love
7. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble
8. Allah-Las - S/T
9. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
10. Jon Talabot - fin
SINGLES
1. Grimes - Oblivion
2. Nas - The Don
3. Bear in Heaven - Sinful Nature
4. Julio Bashmore - Au Seve
5. Hot Chip - Motion Sickness
6. Actress - Caves of Paradise
7. Santigold - Disparate Youth
8. Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
9. Disclosure - Latch
10. Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools (Drank)
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Little Dragon - Ritual Union
3. Com Truise - Galactic Melt
4. TV On the Radio - Nine Types of Light 5. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
6. Tycho - Dive
7. Low - C'mon
8. SBTRKT - S/T
9. Machinedrum - Room(S)
10. The Field - Looping State of Mind
SINGLES
1. Gil Scott Heron & Jamie xx - I'll Take Care of You
2. PJ Harvey - Words that Maketh Murder
3. Lil Wayne - Six Foot Seven Foot
4. Julio Bashmore - Battle for Middle You
5. The Drums - Money
6. James Blake - Limit to Your Love
7. M83 - Midnight City
8. SBTRKT - Wildfire
9. Washed Out - Amor Fati
10. Jay-Z & Kanye West - N****s in Paris
1. KANYE WEST - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - This Is Happening
3. THE NATIONAL - High Violet
4. CARIBOU - Swim
5. TAME IMPALA - InnerSpeaker
6. VAMPIRE WEEKEND - Contra
7. BONOBO - Black Sands
8. ARCADE FIRE - The Suburbs
9. HOT CHIP - One Life Stand
10. GORILLAS - Plastic Beach
SINGLES
1. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - Dance Yrself Clean
2. BIG BOI - Shutterbug
3. KANYE WEST - Power
4. ARCADE FIRE - The Suburbs
5. MAGNETIC MAN -
I Need Air
6. GORILLAZ - Stylo
7. TENSNAKE - Coma Cat
8. ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI - Round and Round
9. JANELLE MONAE - Tightrope
10. CARIBOU - Odessa
1. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Merriweather Post Pavillion
2. THE XX – S/T
3. FLAMING LIPS – Embryonic
4. BIBIO– Ambivalence Avenue 5. THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART– S/T 6. BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW- Eating Us 7. BLOCKHEAD – The Music Scene 8. MOS DEF – The Ecstatic 9. BAT FOR LASHES – Two Suns 10. LITTLE DRAGON – Machine Dreams
SINGLES
1. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – "My Girls"
2. PHOENIX –"1901"
3. MAJOR LAZER – "Pon De Floor"
4. GRIZZLY BEAR –"Two Weeks" 5. JOY ORBISON – "Hyph Mngo" 6. MIIKE SNOW - "Animal (Fake Blood remix) 7. BAT FOR LASHES – "Daniel" 8. LA ROUX– "In For the Kill" (Skream) 9. MASSIVE ATTACK – "Psyche (Flash Treatment) 10. JAY-Z – "Empire State of Mind"
1. PORTISHEAD – Third
2. TV ON THE RADIO – Dear Science
3. LIL WAYNE – Tha Carter III
4. M83– Saturdays = Youth 5. HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR – S/T 6. THE VERY BEST -Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit Are the Very Best 7. SANTOGOLD – S/T / SANTOGOLD VS. DIPLO – Top Ranking 8. FLYING LOTUS – Los Angeles 9. BEACH HOUSE – Devotion 10. KANYE WEST – 808s and Heartbreak
SINGLES
1. SANTOGOLD "L.E.S. Artistes"
2. LIL WAYNE "A Milli"
3. MGMT "Time to Pretend"
4. GLASVEGAS "Geraldine"
5. FAKE BLOOD "Mars"
6. KANYE WEST "Love Lockdown"
7. VAMPIRE WEEKEND "A-Punk"
8. DJ MUJAVA "Township Funk"
9. PORTISHEAD "Machine Gun"
10. CUT COPY "Hearts on Fire"
1. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Sound of Silver
2. RADIOHEAD In Rainbows
3. M.I.A. Kala
4. LIL WAYNE –Da Drought 3 / The Carter III 5. OF MONTREAL – Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? 6. KANYE WEST -Graduation 7. BLONDE REDHEAD – 23 8. JAY-Z – American Gangster 9. CARIBOU – Andorra 10. GUI BORATTO – Chromophobia
SINGLES
1. Rihanna – "Umbrella"
2. LCD Soundsystem – "All My Friends" / "Someone Great"
3. Battles – "Atlas"
4. M.I.A. – "Boyz"
5. Kanye West feat T-Pain – "Good Life"
6. UGK feat. Outkast – "Int'l Players Anthem"
7. Amy Winehouse - "Rehab"
8. Timbaland feat. Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake – "Give It To Me"
9. Justice – "D.A.N.C.E."
10. Dude N Nem – "Watch My Feet"
1. J DILLA Donuts
2. TV ON THE RADIO Return to Cookie Mountain
3. SONIC YOUTH Rather Ripped
4. BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT S/T
5. GNARLS BARKLEY St. Elsewhere
6. THOM YORKE The Eraser
7. THE FLAMING LIPS At War With the Mystics
8. GHOSTFACE KILLAH Fishscale
9. YEAH YEAH YEAHS Show Your Bones
10. THE KNIFE Silent Shout
SINGLES
1. GNARLS BARKLEY "Crazy"
2. HOT CHIP "Over and Over" 3. NELLY FURTADOw/ TIMBALAND "Promiscuous" 4. CHRISTINA AGUILERA "Ain't No Other Man" 5. SILVERSUN PICKUPS "Lazy Eye" 6. THE FLAMING LIPS "The W.A.N.D." 7. RIHANNA "SOS" 8. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE "My Love" 9. JUNIOR BOYS "In the Morning" 10. THOM YORKE "Black Swan"
1. M.I.A. Arular 2. THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Twin Cinema 3. BLOC PARTY Silent Alarm 4. BECK Guero 5. ENGINEERS S/T 6. KANYE WESTLate Registration 7. TOM VEK We Have Sound 8. VITALIC OK Cowboy 9. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM S/T 10. DANGER DOOM The Mouse and the Mask SINGLES
1. GORILLAZ "Feel Good Inc."
2. (Tie) KANYE WEST "Gold Digger" / The Legendary K.O. "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People"
3. M.I.A. "Bucky Done Gun"
4. AMERIE "1 Thing"
5. TOM VEK "C-C (You Set the Fire in Me)"
6. DAVID BANNER "Play"
7. CIARA feat. LUDACRIS "Oh"
8. LADY SOVEREIGN "Random"
9. PAUL WALL feat. BIG POKEY "Sittin' Sideways"
10. KELLY CLARKSON "Since You Been Gone
1. BLONDE REDHEAD
Misery is a Butterfly 2. FRANZ FERDINAND S/T 3. KOMEDA Kokomemedada 4. AUTOLUXFuture Perfect 5. DANGER MOUSE The Grey Album 6. AIR Talkie Walkie 7. THE STREETSA Grand Don't Come for Free 8. TV ON THE RADIO Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes 9. DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979You're a Woman, I'm a Machine 10. ARCADE FIRE Funeral
SINGLES
1. FRANZ FERDINAND "Take Me Out" 2. JAY-Z "99 Problems" 3. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "Yeah" 4. NINA SKY "Move Your Body" 5. M.I.A. "Galang" 6. TV ON THE RADIO "Staring at the Sun" 7. SNOOP DOGG FEAT. PHARRELL "Drop it Like It's Hot" 8. FAITHLESS "Mass Destruction" 9. ELTRO "Motorboat" 10. ERIC PRYDZ "Call on Me"
2003
ALBUMS
1. THE WHITE STRIPES Elephant 2. NADA SURF Let Go 3. DIZZEE RASCAL Boy In Da Corner 4. THE RAVEONETTESChain Gang of Love 5. RADIOHEAD Hail to the Thief 6. LUNGFISH Love is Love 7. SOFT PINK TRUTHDo You Party? 8. YEAH YEAH YEAHSFever to Tell 9. HIDDEN CAMERASThe Smell of Our Own 10. THE STROKES Room on Fire
SINGLES
1. OUTKAST "Hey Ya" 2. THE WHITE STRIPES "7 Nation Army" 3. 50 CENT "In Da Club" 4. PANJABI MC "Beware of the Boys (Mundian to Bach Ke)" 5. THE CURE VS BJORK "Hidden Forest" (GordyBoy bootleg) 6. JUNIOR SENIOR "Move Your Feet" 7. LUMIDEE "Never Leave" 8. ELECTRIC SIX "Danger! High Voltage" 9. ADAM FREELAND VS. NIRVANA "Smells Like Freeland" 10. BEYONCE "Crazy In Love"
2002
ALBUMS
1. THE STREETS Original Pirate Material 2. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Songs for the Deaf 3. INTERPOL Turn on the Bright Lights 4. 2MANYDJS As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 5. DOVES Last Broadcast 6. SLEATER-KINNEY The New Beat 7. COLDPLAY A Rush of Blood to the Head 8. WILCO Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 9. DJ SHADOW The Private Press 10. FELIX DA HOUSECAT Kittenz and Thee Glitz
SINGLES
1. THE WHITE STRIPES "Fell in Love with a Girl" 2. FISCHER SPOONER "Emerge" 3. MISSY ELLIOTT "Work It" 4. EMINEM "Without Me" 5. THE STROKES VS. CHRISTINA AGUILERA "Stroke of Genie-us" (Freelance Hellraiser bootleg) 6. THE HIVES "Hate to Say I Told You So" 7. KHIA "My Neck My Back" 8. KYLIE MINOGUE "Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head" 9. NELLY "Hot In Herre" 10. YEAH YEAH YEAHS "Bang"
2001
ALBUMS
1. LowThings We Lost in the Fire 2. Spiritualized Let It Come Down 3. The Strokes Is This It 4. Beta BandHot Shots II 5. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club S/T 6. New Order Get Ready 7. Richie Hawtin DE9: Close to the Edit 8. RadioheadAmnesiac 9. Basement JaxxRooty 10. The White StripesWhite Blood Cells
SINGLES
1. Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On 2. Gorillaz - 19-2000 3. System of a Down - Chop Suey 4. Nelly - Ride Wit Me 4. (tie!) Jay-Z - Izzo (HOVA) 5. Groove Armada - Superstylin' 6. Madonna - Don't Tell Me 7. The Faint - Agenda Suicide 8. Tool - Schism 9. Weezer - Island in the Sun 10. Utada Hikaru - Traveling
2000
ALBUMS 1. GRANDADDYThe Sophtware Slump 2. RADIOHEADKid A 3. GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR! Levez vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas to Heaven! 4. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGERated R 5. PRIMAL SCREAM XTRMNTR 6. DOVESLost Souls 7. AT THE DRIVE INRelationship of Command 8. EMINEM Marshall Mathers LP 9. YO LA TENGOAnd Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out 10. OUTKAST Stankonia
SINGLES
1. Zombie Nation "Kernkraft 400" 2. Aaliyah "Try Again" 3. Madonna "Music" 4. Queens of the Stone Age "Lost Art of Keeping a Secret" 5. Armand van Helden "Koochy" 6. Azzido Da Bass "Dooms Night" 7. Storm "Time to Burn" 8. Belle & Sebastian "Legal Man" 9. A Perfect Circle "Judith" 10. Detroit Grand Pubahs "Sandwiches"
1999
ALBUMS
1. The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs
2. Sleater-Kinney The Hot Rock 3. MobyPlay 4. Death in Vegas The Contino Sessions 5. Low Secret Name 6. Queens of the Stone AgeS/T 7. Built to SpillKeep It Like a Secret 8. Godspeed You Black Emperor!Slow Riot for New Zero Canada 9. Royal TruxVeterans of Disorder 10. UnderworldBeaucoup Fish SINGLES
1. Ginuwine "What's So Different" 2. Underworld "King of Snake" 3. TLC "Silly Ho" 4. Basement Jaxx "Rendez-Vous" 5. Aphex Twin "Windowlicker" 6. The Roots w/ Erikah Badu "You Got Me" 7. 702 "Where my Girls At " 8. Len "Steal My Sunshine" 9. ODB "Gimme My Money" 10. Moby "Bodyrock"
1998 - LOST :(
1997
ALBUMS
1. Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space 2. Built to Spill Perfect from Now On 3. Pavement Brighten the Corners 4. The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole 5. Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One 6. Radiohead OK Computer 7. Primal Scream Vanishing Point 8. Roni Size Reprazent New Forms 9. Fatboy Slim Better Living Through Chemistry 10. Dandy Warhols The Dandy Warhols Come Down SINGLES
1. The Verve "Bittersweet Symphony" 2. Blur "Song 2" 3. Roni Size / Reprazent "Share the Fall" 4. Fatboy Slim / Pierre Henry "Psyche Rock" 5. Cornershop "Brimful of Asha" 6. Oasis "D'You Know What I Mean" 7. Dandy Warhols "Not if You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" 8. Gus Gus "Believe" 9. Notorius B.I.G. "Hypnotize" 10. Bjork "Joga"
1. Low - Hey What
1. Anz - "You Could Be"
1. Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
1. India Jordan - "For You"
1. Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love
1. FKA twigs - Cellophane
1. Low - Double Negative
1. DJ Koze - Pick Up
1. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
1. LCD Soundsystem - Tonite
1. David Bowie - Blackstar
1. Drake - One Dance
1. Jamie xx - In Colour
1. Tame Impala - Let It Happen
1. Caribou - Our Love
1. Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting on You)
1. Kanye West - Yeezus
1. Daft Punk - Get Lucky
1. Tame Impala - Lonerism
1. Grimes - Oblivion
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
1. Gil Scott Heron & Jamie xx - I'll Take Care of You
1. KANYE WEST - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
1. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - Dance Yrself Clean
1. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Merriweather Post Pavillion
1. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Sound of Silver
1. Rihanna – "Umbrella"
1. J DILLA Donuts
1. GNARLS BARKLEY "Crazy"
1. M.I.A. Arular
1. GORILLAZ "Feel Good Inc."
1. FRANZ FERDINAND "Take Me Out" 
1. THE WHITE STRIPES Elephant
1. OUTKAST "Hey Ya"
1. THE STREETS Original Pirate Material
1. THE WHITE STRIPES "Fell in Love with a Girl"
1. Low Things We Lost in the Fire 
1. Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On
1. GRANDADDY The Sophtware Slump
1. Zombie Nation 
1. The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs
