2001 Rewind
December 2007
50 Records Of The Year plus specialist charts
Bjørk Vespertine (One Little Indian)
Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein (Def Jux)
Fennesz Endless Summer (Mego)
Charley Patton Various Screamin' and Hollerin'
The Blues: The Worlds Of Charley Patton (Revenant)
Le Tigre Feminist Sweepstakes (Chicks On
Speed)
John Coltrane The Olatunji Concert: The Last
Live Recording (Impulse!)
John Cale New York in the 1960s: Sun Blindness
Music (Table Of The Elements)
Missy Elliot Miss E... So Addictive (East
West)
Herbert Bodily Functions (Studio
!K7/soundslike)
No-Neck Blues Band Sticks And Stones May Break
My Bones But Names Will Never Hurt Me (Revenant/SoundAtone)
Saul Williams Amethyst Rock Star
(American)
Jay-Z The Blueprint (Roc-a-fella)
Shuggie Otis Inspiration Information
(Luaka Bop)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds No More Shall We
Part (Mute)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Ease Down The Road
(Domino)
Electrelane Rock It To The Moon (Let's
Rock!)
Miles Davis Live At the Fillmore East 7 March
1970: It's About That Time (Columbia Legacy)
Radiohead Amnesiac (Parlophone)
Low Things We Lost In The Fire (Tugboat)
NERD In Search Of... (Virgin)
John Oswald 69 Plunderphonics 96
(Seeland)
Spring Heel Jack/The Blues Series Continuum
Masses (Thirsty Ear)
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso Ufo
La Novia (Eclipse)
The Velvet Underground The Bootleg Series Vol
1: The Quine Tapes (Universal)
The Necks Aether (Fish Of Milk)
Taku Sugimoto Italia (A Bruit Secret)
Tortoise Standards (Warp/Thrill Jockey)
Toshimaru Nakamura & Sachiko M Do
(Erstwhile)
Matmos A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To
Cure (Matador)
Jackie O Motherfucker Liberation (Road
Cone)
Fushitsusha Origin's Hesitation (PSF)
Mercury Rev All Is Dream (V2)
Nam June Paik Works 1958-79 (Sub Rosa)
Pulp We Love Life (Island)
David S Ware Corridors & Parallels
(AUM Fidelity)
Glass Cage Glass Cage (Paratactile)
Roots Manuva Run Come Save Me (Big Dada)
Buck 65 Man Overboard (Anticon)
Cyclo Cyclo (Raster-Noton)
John Butcher/Derek Bailey/Rhodri Davies
Vortices & Angels (Emanem)
Blectum From Blechdom Haus De Snaus
(tigerBeat6)
DJ/Rupture Gold Teeth Thief (Negrophonic)
Morton Feldman String Quartet (II)
(hat[now]ART)
Aesop Rock Labor Days (Def Jux)
Spontaneous Music Ensemble Challenge
1966-67 (Emanem)
His Name Is Alive Someday My Blues Will Cover
The Earth (4AD)
Jemeel Moondoc Revolt Of The Negro Lawn
Jockeys (Eremite)
Supersilent 5 (Rune Grammofon)
Sylvia Hallett White Fog (Emanem)
Various Artists Solid Steel Presents DJ Food
& DK Now, Listen! (Ninja Tune)
Jackie-O Motherfucker Liberation (Road
Cone)
Low Things We Lost In The Fire (Tugboat)
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson & Sigur Rós Angels
Of The Universe (Krunk)
Electrelane Rock It To The Moon (Let's
Rock!)
Set Fire To Flames Sings Reign Rebuilder
(130701)
Tortoise Standards (Warp)
Mercury Rev All Is Dream (V2)
Bing Selfish Dizzy With Success (Alcohol)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Ease Down The Road
(Domino)
No-Neck Blues Band Sticks And Stones May Break
My Bones But Names Will Never Hurt Me (Revenant/Sound Atone)
Bardo Pond Dilate (Matador)
Stars Of The Lid The Tired Sounds Of...
(Kranky)
Papa M Whatever, Mortal (Domino)
Four Tet Pause (Domino)
Various Studio One Roots (Soul Jazz)
Niney The Observer Microphone Attack
1974-78 (Blood And Fire)
The Skatalites Herb Dub Collie Dub
(Motion)
Various Now Thing (Mo' Wax)
Rhythm & Sound with Cornell Campbell King
In My Empire (Burial Mix)
The Love Grocer A Little Rain Must Fall
(DubHead)
Burning Spear Spear Burning (Pressure
Sounds)
Various Jack Ruby Presents The Black
Foundation (Heartbeat)
King Tubby & Errol Thompson The Black
Foundation In Dub (Heartbeat)
Various Darker Than Blue: Soul From Jamdown
1973-77 (Blood And Fire)
Various Dread Meets Punk Rockers Uptown
(Heavenly)
Lee 'Scratch' Perry Born In The Sky: Upsetter
At The Controls 1969-75 (Motion)
Lee Perry Divine Madness... Definitely
(Pressure Sounds)
Various Studio One Soul (Soul Jazz)
Linval Thompson & Friends Rockers From
Channel One (Trojan)
Matmos A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To
Cure (Matador)
Fennesz Endless Summer (Mego)
Alva.Noto Transform (Mille Plateaux)
Oval Ovalcommers (Thrill Jockey)
Monolake Cinemascope (Monolake)
Mouse On Mars Idiology (Domino)
Pan Sonic AaltoPiiri (Blast First)
Blectum From Blechdom Haus De Snaus
(Tigerbeat6)
Herbert Bodily Functions (!K7/soundslike)
Biosphere Substrata/Man With A Movie
Camera (Touch)
Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Albert Ayler
(Staubgold)
Stephan Mathieu FrequencyLib (Ritornell)
Russell Haswell Live Salvage 1997-2000
(Mego)
Prefuse 73 Vocal Studies And Uprock
Narratives (Warp)
The Monks Of The Monastery Of Gyütö, Tibet
Voice Of The Tantra (Ocora)
Akikazu Nakamura Shakuhachi Music From Kyushu:
Daibosatsu (Nippon Columbia)
Various Origins Of Guitar Music In Southern
Congo And Northern Zambia (SWP)
Antibalas Liberation Afro Beat Vol 1
(Ninja Tune)
Julian Kytasty Black Sea Winds (November
Music)
Femi Kuti Fight To Win (Wrasse)
Rachid Taha Medina (Ark 21)
Various Bosavi: RainForest Music From Papua
New Guinea (Smithsonian Folkways)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Body And Soul (Real
World)
Taraf De HaÏdouks Band Of Gypsies
(Nonesuch)
Orlando Cachaito Lopez Cachaito (World
Circuit)
Various The Rough Guide To The Music Of
Okinawa (World Music Network)
Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman Nankuru
Naisa (World Music Network)
Various Rembetika: Songs Of The Greek
Underground 1925-47 (Trikont)
Various Doob Doob O'Rama 2: More Film Songs
From Bollywood (Normal)
Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein (Def Jux)
Missy Elliot Miss E... So Addictive (East
west)
Aesop Rock Labor Days (Def Jux)
Jay-Z The Blueprint (Roc-A-Fella)
Dungeon Family Even In Darkness (Arista)
Ludacris Southern Hospitality (Def Jam)
cLOUDdEAD cLOUdDEAD (Big Dada)
The Coup Party Music (75 Ark)
DJ Krush Zen (Red Ink)
NERD In Search Of... (Virgin)
Edan Mic Manipulator (Lewis Recordings)
Roots Manuva Run Come Save Me (Big Dada)
Bigg Juss Black Mamba Serums (Sub Verse)
Solid Steel Presents DJ Food & DK Now,
Listen! (Ninja Tune)
Yesterday's New Quintet Angles Without
Edges (Stones Throw)
Strings with Evan Parker Strings With Evan
Parker (Emanem)
AMM Tunes Without Measure Or End
(Matchless)
Sylvia Hallett White Fog (Emanem)
John Butcher/Derek Bailey/Rhodri Davies
Vortices & Angels (Emanem)
Fred Frith Clearing (Tzadik)
Shoji Hano & Derek Bailey Fish (PSF)
Luigi Archetti & Bo Wiget Low Tide
Digitalis (Rune Grammofon)
Radu Malfatti/Thomas Lehn/Phil Durrant
Dach (Erstwhile)
Joe Morris Singularity (AUM Fidelity)
Bark! Swing (Matchless)
Supersilent 5 (Rune Grammofon)
Music Now Ensemble 1969 Silver Pyramid
(Matchless)
Franz Hautzinger Gomberg (Grob)
Tore Elgarøy The Sound Of The Sun (Rune
Grammofon)
Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe Mass
Projection/Gradually Projection (DIW)
John Coltrane The Olatunji Concert
(Impulse!)
Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Arkestra It Is
Forbidden (Total Energy)
Miles Davis Live At The Fillmore East 7 March
1970: It's About That Time (Columbia Legacy)
David S Ware Corridors And Parallels (AUM
Fidelity)
Dave Douglas Witness (RCA Victor)
Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet
Flutter (Tzadik)
Peter Brötzmann Fuck De Boere
(Atavistic/Unheard Music Series)
Jemeel Moondoc Revolt Of The Negro Lawn
Jockeys (Eremite)
George Lewis & The NOW Orchestra The
Shadowgraph Series (Spool)
Vandermark 5 Acoustic Machine (Atavistic)
Barry Guy New Orchestra Inscape-Tableaux
(Intakt)
Joe McPhee & Hamid Drake Emancipation
Proclamation (Okka Disk)
Tim Berne The Shell Game (Thirsty Ear)
Satlah Exodus (Tzadik)
Alan Silva & The Sound Visions Orchestra
Visions (Eremite)
Stefano Scodanibbio Six Duos (New
Albion)
Ellen Band 90% Post Consumer Sound (XI)
Ingram Marshall Kingdom Come (Nonesuch)
Ian Pace Tracts (NMC)
Morton Feldman String Quartet (II)
(Hat[Now]ART)
Garrett List Rwanda 94 (Carbon 7)
Phill Niblock Touch Works For Hurdy Gurdy And
Voice (Touch)
John Wall Constructions V-VII
(Utterpsalm)
Lucia Dlugoszewski The Music Of... (CRI)
Helmut Lachenmann Mouvement (Kairos)
Chas Smith Nikko Wolverine (Cold Blue)
Kaija Saariaho From The Grammar Of Dreams
(Ondine)
George Crumb Zeitgeist/Music For A Summer
Evening (Bridge)
Mark Feldman Book Of Tells (Enja Nova)
R Murray Schäfer String Quartets
(Atma)
Keiji Haino Abandon All Words (Alien8)
Peter Cusack Your Favourite London Sounds
(LMC)
Philip Jeck Vinyl Coda IV (Intermedium)
People Like Us A Fistful Of Knuckles
(Caciocavallo)
John Oswald 69 Plunderphonics 96
(Seeland)
Bernhard Günter Crossing The River (Night
Music) (Trente Oiseaux)
Henry Flynt Graduation And Other New Country
& Blues Music (Ampersand)
Pärson Sound Pärson Sound
(Tillindien/Subliminal Sounds)
Current 93 & Nurse With Wound Bright
Yellow Moon (United Durtro)
Stephen Vitiello Bright And Dusty Things
(New Albion)
Terre Thaemlitz Fagjazz (Comatonse)
Brian Eno & J Peter Schwalm Drawn From
Life (Virgin Venture)
Terry Riley You're No Good (Organ Of
Corti)
Phonophani Genetic Engineering (Rune
Grammofon)
Pierre Bastien Mecanoid (Rephlex)
Afro-Rock - Vol 1 (Kona)
Anti NY (Gomma)
Barry 7's Connectors (Lo Recordings)
Clicks + Cuts 2 (Mille Plateaux)
Electric Ladyland: Clickhop Version 1.0 (Mille Plateaux)
Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow! Vintage Fiddle Music
1927-35 (Old Hat)
The Funky 16 Corners (Stones Throw)
Golden Years Of The Soviet New Jazz Vol 1 (Leo)
Harlem World: The Sound Of The Big Apple Rappin' (Heroes
& Villians)
In The Beginning There Was Rhythm (Soul Jazz)
Invalid Object Series (FÄllt)
Love, Peace & Poetry: Japanese Psychedelic Music
(Normal)
Mottomo Otomo: Unlimited XIII (Trost)
MW Pour Robert Wyatt (Inpolysons)
Nigeria 70 (Strut)
Nuggets: Luke Vibert's Selection (Lo Recordings)
Philadelphia Roots (Soul Jazz)
Rough Trade Shops: 25 Years (Mute)
Saturday Night Fish Fry (Soul Jazz)
Roots, Rock, Ravers (Transparent)
Jacques Berrocal Parallèles (Alga
Marghen)
Dave Burrell Echo (Get Back/BYG Actuel)
William Burroughs Break Through In Grey
Room (Sub Rosa)
Cornelius Cardew Four Principles On
Ireland (Ampersand)
James Chance & The Contortions White
Cannibal (ROIR)
Phil Cohran & The Artistic Heritage Ensemble
On The Beach (Aestuarium)
Coil Love's Secret Domain (Threshold
House)
Einstürzende Neubauten Strategies Against
Architecture III (Mute)
Electric Eels Eyeball Of Hell (Scat)
The Fall Backdrop (Cog Sinister)
Faust BBC Sessions (ReR)
Henry Flynt New American Ethnic Music Vol 1:
You Are My Everlovin'/Celestial Power (Recorded)
The Grateful Dead The Golden Road (Rhino)
Jonzun Crew Lost In Space (Tommy Boy)
Fela Kuti Fela Box 3 & 4 (Barclay)
Ennio Morricone & Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova
Consonanza Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura OST
(Dagored)
mU-ziq Tango N' Vectif (Planet MU)
Neu! Neu! 75 (EMI/Grönland)
Nurse With Wound Chance Meeting On A
Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella (United
Dairies)
The Ramones The Ramones (Sire)
Phil Ranelin Vibes From The Tribe (Hefty)
Alan Silva & The Celestrial Communication
Orchestra Seasons
(Get Back/BYG Actuel)
Wayne Shorter The All Seeing Eye (Blue
Note)
Morton Subotnick Electronic Works Vol 1
(Mode)
Cecil Taylor Unit It Is In The Brewing
Luminous (hatOLOGY)
This Heat Deceit (These)
23 Skidoo Seven Songs (Ronin)
Vienna Art Orchestra The Minimalism Of Erik
Satie (hatOLOGY)
X Los Angeles (Rhino)
Larry Young Lawrence Of Newark
(Perception)
The Electorate
This year's charts were compiled from the votes of the following contributors (each contributor's individual record of the year is shown in brackets): Steve Barker (Shuggie Otis Inspiration Information), Clive Bell (Low Things We Lost In The Fire), Chris Blackford (Miklos Rozsa String Quartets), Ben Borthwick (Random_Inc Jerusalem Tales Outside The Framework Of Orthodoxy), Philip Clark (Giorgio Occhipinti Global Music And Circular Thought), Julian Cowley (Stefano Scodanibbio Six Duos), Christoph Cox (Morton Feldman String Quartet (II)), John Cratchley (Spring Heel Jack The Blue Series Continuum Masses), Alan Cummings (Fushitsusha Origin's Hesitation), Phil England (John Oswald 69Plunderphonics 96), Kodwo Eshun (NERD In Search Of...), Sasha Frere-Jones (Destiny's Child Survivor), Natalie Gravenor (A Certain Frank Nothing), Louise Gray (Thalia Zedek Been Here And Gone), Andy Hamilton (Julian Kytasty Black Sea Wind), Jim Haynes (Bernhard Gunter Crossing The River), Richard Henderson (Shuggie Otis Inspiration Information), Tony Herrington (John Coltrane The Olatunji Concert), Ken Hollings (Marumari Supermogadon), Ben House (The Fall Are You Missing Winner), Hua Hsu (Saul Williams Amethyst Rock Star), David Keenan (Acid Mothers Temple La Novia), Rahma Khazam (Phill Niblock Touch Works For Hurdy Gurdy And Voice), Biba Kopf (Bob Dylan Love And Theft), Art Lange (Charley Patton Screamin' & Hollerin' The Blues), Jerome Maunsell (Fennesz Endless Summer), Ruth McNeil (White Stripes White Blood Cells), Will Montgomery (Miles Davis Live At Fillmore East), John Mulvey (Spiritualized Let It Come Down), Anne Hilde Neset (Le Tigre Feminist Sweepstakes), Edwin Pouncey (No-Neck Blues Band Sticks And Stones...), Mosi Reeves (Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein), Simon Reynolds (Pulp We Love Life), Tom Ridge (The Tyde Once), Stephen Robinson (Glass Cage Glass Cage), Peter Shapiro (Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein), Chris Sharp (The Necks Aether), Philip Sherburne (Herbert Bodily Functions), Bill Shoemaker (Barry Guy New Orchestra Inscape Tableaux), Andy Tait (Herbert Bodily Functions), Dave Tompkins (Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein), David Toop (Björk Vespertine), Dan Warburton (Bubbadinos Yup We're Beating A Dead Horse), Ben Watson (Bark! Swing), Jon Weldon (NERD In Search Of...), Rob Young (John Coltrane Olatunji Concert)
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