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KALX DJ Faves of 1998
joy, lists, lists, more lists, and more joy
Updated: 15 Feb. 1999
Read on as KALX DJs list their favorites of the past year,
1998
Snappy The Alligator —
Mo —
Roscoe 2000 —
Papa Trini —
brother grimm —
Hank Chinaski —
Naes —
Bryan —
Rick Sylvain —
Vanessa —
Anne with an E —
Kitty —
Mike Burma —
the changeling —
Mickey —
Vince —
Pineapple —
Leslie —
Sergio —
Snappy The Alligator
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Elliott Smith - XO
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Niagra - 01
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Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K & D Sessions
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Eighty Mile Beach - Inclement Weather
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The Artist (Prince) - Crystal Ball
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Chris Von Sneidern - Wood & Wire
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Cowboy Junkies - Miles From Our Home
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Hazeldine - Orphans
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Dana & Karen Kletter - Dear Enemy
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Ozomatli - Ozomatli
Mo
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Kristin Hersh - Strange Angels
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Stereo Total - Stereo Total
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Komeda - What Makes It Go
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Creeper Lagoon - I Become Small & Go
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You Am I - #4 Record
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Actionslacks - One Word
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Kristin Hersh - Murder, Misery & Then Goodnight
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PJ Harvey - Is This Desire
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Beulah - Handsome Western States
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Himuro - Nichiyobi
Roscoe 2000
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Movietone - day and night
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jeff buckley - sketches for my sweetheart the drunk
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e o tchan - do brasil
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spaceheads - ho! fat wallet
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mark hollis - s/t
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lucinda williams - car wheels on a gravel road
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gastr del sol - camoufleur
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ill-ease - live at the gate
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pluramon - render bandits
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denis charles - captain of the deep
Papa Trini
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The Coup - Steal this Album
Kristin Hersh - Strange Angels
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Virginia Rodrigues - Sol Negro
Badar Ali Khan - Lost in Qawwali II
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Lhasa - La Llorona
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Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
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Pimp Daddy Nash - Private Leftfield Downtempo Fuzz
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Outkast - Aquimini
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Kahimi Karie - Kahimi Karie
brother grimm
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Quasi - Featuring "birds"
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Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
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Stereo Total - Stereo Total
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For Stars - For Stars
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Belle & Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
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The Hangovers - Slow Dirty Tears
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The Minders - Hooray for Tuesday
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Aisler's Set - Terrible Things Happen
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Cat Power - Moon Pix
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Os Mutantes - reissue of first album
Hank Chinaski
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Lucinda Williams
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Belle & Sebastian
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Kristin Hersh
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Gillian Welch
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Elliot Smith
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Rufus Wainwright
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Komeda
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John Lennon box set
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Brian Jonestown Massacre
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Hugh
Naes
no particular order
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Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach - painted from memory (mercury)
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Billy Bragg / Wilco - mermaid avenue (elektra)
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Invisibl Skratch Piklz - shiggar fraggar show (hip hop slam)
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Whiskeytown - faithless street (mood food)
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DJ Qbert - wave twisters (galactic butt hair)
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Willie Nelson - teatro (island)
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Elmer - songs of sin and retribution (too many records/no idea)
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The Coup - steal this album (dogday)
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Masada - nine and ten - (diw - Japan)
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Richard Buckner - since - (mca)
honorable mentions:
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Dr Dre Del - mic of defiance (carpetheads of g&h production)
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Dwight Yoakam - a long way home (reprise)
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Red Meat - 13 (ranchero)
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Hellworms - crowd repellent (alternative tentacles)
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Heather Myles - highways and honkytonks (rounder)
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Deke Dickerson - number one hit record (hightone)
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The Hot Club of Cowtown - Swingin Stampede (hightone)
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The Weird Lovemakers - flu shot (empty)
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Public Enemy - he got game sndtrk (def jam)
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Andre Williams - silky (in the red)
Bryan
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Calexico - The Black Light
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P J Harvey Is This Desire?
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Massive Attack - Mezzanine
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Kristin Hersh - Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight
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Howe Gelb - Hisser
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Fuck - Conduct
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Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
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Elliott Smith - XO
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Cornelius - Fantasma
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Virginia Dare - Baby Got Away
Rick Sylvain
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Tilt - Collect 'em All CD (Fat Wreck Chords)
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Special Forces - Posthumously Yours 7" (Cheetah's Records)
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One Man Army - Dead End Stories CD (Adeline Records)
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Billy Nayer Show - Villain That Love Built CD (Big Sam's Giant Records)
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Mr. T Experience - Road to Ruin 12" (Clear View)
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Dead End Cruisers - Deep Six Holiday CD (TKO Records)
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Working Stiffs - Liquid Courage CD (TKO records)
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Jumbo Shrimp - Thingie CD (Floride Treatment)
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Hepcat - Right on Time CD (Epitaph)
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Bodies - bodies 7" (TKO Records)
Vanessa
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Elliott Smith - XO
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Belle and Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
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Beck - Mutations
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Amon Tobin - Permutation
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Sur Sudha LP
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Beth Orton and Terry Callier - "Dolphins" (song)
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Damon and Naomi - Playback Singers
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Carlos Gardel - Best of ... LP
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Chessie LP
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Sean Lennon - Into the Sun
honorable mentions (it was a tough cut):
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Air - "La Femme d'Argent" (song)
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Delaney LP
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Roni Size - Brown Paper Bag
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Cesaria Evora LP
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Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
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Mercury Rev - "Holes" (song)
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Quasi - "the Happy Prole" (song)
Anne w/ an E
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Los Amigos Invisibles - The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera
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Various Artists - RUCKUS JUIECE AND CHITLINS VOL. 1
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Various Artists - RUCKUS JUIECE AND CHITLINS VOL. 2
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Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes
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Various Artists - CHEF AID: THE SOUTH PARK ALBUM
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Fantastic Plastic Machine - Fantastic Plastic Machine
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Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
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Various Artists - TRIP DO BRASIL
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The Coup - Steal This Album
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Mr. T Experience - Road To Ruin
Kitty
In no particular order:
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Beck - Mutations
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Liz Phair - whitechocolatespaceegg
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Elliott Smith - XO
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Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk
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Various Artists - BELEZA TROPICAL #2
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Komeda - What Makes It Go
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Black Company - Filhos Da Rua
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Etienne de Rocher - the EP cd's
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A Tribe Called Quest - The Love Movement
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Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Mike Burma
ALBUMS
- Secret Chiefs 3 - Hurqaalya aka Second Grand Consitution (Amarillo)
- David Slusser - Delight at the End of the Tunnel (Tzadik)
- The Conet Project (Irdial Discs - UK)
- Bikini Kill - The Singles (Kill Rock Stars)
- various artists- ETHIOPIQUES (BDA)
- David Weinstein - Perfume (Avant - Japan)
- Bombay The Hard Way soundtrack (Motel Records)
- Sun City Girls - Dulce (Abduction)
- various artists - BLIP, BLEEP: SOUNDTRACKS TO IMAGINARY VIDEOGAMES (Lucky Kitchen)
- various artists - TEENAGE SHUTDOWN SERIES (Teenage Shutdown)
- various artists - ORIBITONES, SPOON HARPS AND BELLOWPHONES (ellipsis arts)
- John Zorn - Music for Children (Tzadik)
- Sounds of North American Frogs (Smithsonian Folkways)
- various artists - RRR500 (RRRecords)
- Reatards - Teenage Hate (Goner)
- Thurston Moore - Root (Lo Recordings)
- John Zorn - Masada (Avant - Japan)
- Stereophonic Space Sound - The Fluid Soundbox (Mai Tai)
SONGS
- Kirby Grips - Beautiful Stupid Angel
- Cadallaca - You’re My Only One
- R.L. Burnside - Let My Baby Ride
- The Makers - God In The Palm Of My Hand
- Robert Pollard - Subspace Biographies
- The Rondelles - Safety In Numbers
- The Rondelles - Mission: Irresistible
- Aislers Set - Long Division
- Monkey Mafia - Blow The Whole Joint Up
- The Ex - Mother
- Kent 3 - 1. Peter 4:3
the changeling
- Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson - VH1 Storytellers
- Baby Snufkin - Pokey In The Bobo
- Meat Beat Manifesto - Actual Sounds & Voices
- Offspring - Americana
- Scooby Doo Snack Treats - The Ultimate Collection
- Here Are The Facts You Requested - Shocks And Struts
- The Dingees - Armageddon Massive
- Action League - (self titled)
- Squirrel Nut Zippers - Perrenial Favorites
- Buster Poindexter - Spanish Rocketship
Mickey
(no particular order)
ALBUMS
- Lauryn Hill - Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
- The Coup - Steal This Album (Polemic/Dog Day)
- Vijay Iyer - Architextures (Asian Improv/Red Giant)
- Morcheeba - Big Calm (China/Sire)
- Black Star - S/T (Rawkus)
- Lenny Kravitz - 5 (Virgin)
- 80 Mile Beach - Inclement Weather (OM)
- Gang Starr - Moment of Truth (Nootrybe/Virgin)
- Caetano Veloso - Livro (Polygram Brasil)
- 4Hero - Two Pages (Talkin' Loud/Mercury)
bubbling under:
- Rasco - Time Waits for No Man (Stones Throw)
- Brand Nubian - The Foundation (Arista)
- Pete Rock - Soul Survivor (Loud)
- Outkast - Aquemini (Laface)
SINGLES
- Work the Angles - Dilated Peoples (ABB)
- The Freshest (Revolution Remix) - Red Foo & Dre Kroon (Bubonic)
- You Never Knew - Hieroglyphics (Hiero)
- Inside - Terra Deva (OM)
- A Rose Is Still A Rose - Aretha Franklin (Arista)
- Give Me Your Love - 60 Channels feat. Angie Hart (World Domination)
- Ocean Within - Saul Williams & KRS-One (Immortal)
- Killer Instinct - Styles of Beyond feat. Divine Styler (Bilawn)
- Return of the B-Girl (EP) - T-Love (Pickininny)
- Crosstown Beef - Medina Green (Rawkus)
bubbling under:
- Representation - Yard Massive (Black Scorpion)
- Manifesto - Talib Kweli (Rawkus)
- State to State (Beatnut remixes) No I.D. feat Common & Dug Infinite (Relativity)
- Return - Self Scientific
- pace Cases - Mass Influence (Elemental)
Vince
(no particular order)
- Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
- Mark Eitzel - Caught In A Trap and I Can't Back Out 'Cause I Love You Too Much, Baby
- Neutral Milk Hotel - Aeroplane Over the Sea
- Amon Tobin - Permutations
- Lounge Lizards - Queen of All Ears
- Unwound - Challenge For A Civilized Society
- Third Eye Foundation - You Guys Kill Me
- Edaline - Old City Scenes 10"
- Conet Project - the 4 disc Numbers Stations set
- Thurston Moore - Root remixes
Pineapple
- Jets To Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary
- Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
- Belle and Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
- Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
- Massive Attack - Mezzanine
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook - Remixed (Star Rise)
- Various Artists - SADDLE CREEK RECORDS (A SAMPLER CD)
- Billy Nayer Show - The Villian that Love Built
- Madredeus - O Paraiso
- Barbara Manning - In New Zealand
Honorable Mentions:
- Charles Amirkhanian
- Plastilina Mosh
- Iao Core
- Jungle Brothers (EP)
- Ozomatli
- Beck
- Clancy Children reissue
- Pixies (live at BBC)
- Elliot Smith
Leslie
- Don Byron & Existential Dread - Nu Blaxploitation
- Marc Cary - The Antidote
- Steve Coleman - Genesis and the Opening of the Way
- Ravi Coltrane - Moving Pictures
- Lhasa - La Lloraona
- Nova Ghost Sect Tet - Life On Uranus
- Greg Osby - Zero
- Leon Parker - Awakening
- Humberto Ramirez - Treasures
- Salim Washington and RBA - Love in Exile
Sergio
- Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
- various artists - BIRTH OF THE COOL FUNK
- various artists - PETE TONG ESSENTIALS
- various artists - TRIP DO BRASIL
- Propellorheads - Decksanddrumsandrockandroll
- Armand Van Helden - Endter the Meatmarket
- Chemical Brothers - Brother's Gonna Work it Out
- various artists - BUSTIN' LOOSE
- Galactic - Crazyhorse Mongoose
- DJ Andy Smith - The Document
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