KALX DJ Faves of 2002

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Read on as KALX DJs list their favorites of the past year, 2002

1. Sleater Kinney - One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)
2. Black Heart Procession - Amore Del Tropico (Touch & Go)
3. Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice (Swami)
4. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (Interscope)
5. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights (Matador)
6. Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish (Saddle Creek)
7. Beck - Sea Change (Geffen)
8. DJ Shadow - The Private Press (MCA)
9. Sigur Ros - ( ) (MCA/Fat Cat)
10. Rjd2 - Ghostwriter (Definitive Jux)
11. Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz and Thee Glitz (Emperor Norton)
12. Doves - The Last Broadcast (Capitol)
13. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes (Interscope)
14. Denali - Denali (Jade Tree)
15. Neil Halstead - Sleeping on Roads (4AD)
16. Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown (Sub Pop)
17. Your Enemies Friends - Wiretap E.P. (Buddyhead)
18. Rocket From the Crypt - Live from Camp X-Ray (Vagrant)
19. The Music - The Music (Hut)
20. Boom Bip - Seed to Sun (Lex)

Top 5 Singles

1. Fischerspooner - "Emerge" (Ministry of Sound/International Deejay Gigolos)
2. The Rapture - "House of Jealous Lovers" (DFA)
3. Basement Jaxx - "Get Me Off *Superchumbo remix*" (XL)
4. Missy Elliot - "Work It" (Elektra)
5. FC Kahuna - "Hayling" (Nettwerk/City Rockers)

1. Guided By Voices - "Everywhere With Helicopter" (Matador)
2. Uncle Earl - "Freight Train" (Uncle Earl)
3. Le Tigre - "Much Finer" (Mr. Lady)
4. Spoon - "Stay Don't Go" (Merge)
5. Quixotic - "Anonymous Face" (Kill Rock)
6. My Dad Is Dead - "Stories Left Untold" (Vital Cog)

• Neko Case - Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
• Dave Holland Big Band - What Goes Around (ECM)
• Sleater-Kinney - One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)
• Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Plastic Fang (Matador)
• Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf (Interscope)
• Various Artists - TEN YEARS OF DISCHORD (Dischord)
• Bob Dylan - Live 1975 (Columbia)
• Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow (MCA)
• Uncle Tupelo - 89/93: An Anthology (Columbia/Legacy)
• Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me (Fat Possum)

1. Neil Halstead - Sleeping on Roads (4AD)
2. Clinic - Walking with Thee (Domino)
3. The Streets - Original Pirate Material (Atlantic)
4. Sigur Ros - untitled (MCA)
5. Belle and Sebastian - Storytelling (Jeepster)
6. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (Warp)
7. Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where (Ninja Tune)
8. Felix da Housecat - Kitten and Thee Glitz (Emperor Norton)
9. Thievery Corporation - Richest Man in Babylon (Eighteenth Street Lounge Music)
10. Future Pilot AKA - Tiny Waves, Mighty Sea (Domino)

1. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
2. Iron and Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
3. Dalek - From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots
4. Sigur Ros - () (MCA)
5. Sonic Youth - Murray Street
6. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)
7. ...and You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes (Interscope)
8. Your Enemies Friends - The Wiretap EP
9. Gomez - In Our Gun (Virgin)
10. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Good Health (Lookout)
11. The Epoxies - The Epoxies (Dirtnap)
12. Bantam - Bantam
13. DJ Shadow - The Private Press (MCA)
14. DJ Z-Trip and DJ P - Uneasy Listening, Vol 1 (ZTRIP)
15. Sixteen Horsepower - Folklore (Jetset)

1. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (Matador)
2. The Clientele - Lost Weekend EP (Acuarela)
3. Sigur Ros - ( ) (MCA)
4. Black Heart Procession - Amore Del Tropico (Touch and Go)
5. Clinic - Walking With Thee (Domino)
6. The Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top (Mute)
7. Golden Boy and Miss Kitten - Or (Emperor Norton)
8. Neil Halstead - Sleeping on Roads (4AD)
9. Low - Trust (Kranky)
10. Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown (Sub Pop)
11. Ladytron - Light and Magic (Emperor Norton)
12. The Epoxies - The Epoxies (Dirtnap)
13. The Doves - The Last Broadcast (Heavenly)
14. Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil Keep Your Ears to the Ground (Saddle Creek)
15. The Numbers - Numbers Life (Tigerbeat6)
16. Vitesse - You Win Again Gravity (Hidden Agenda)
17. Radio 4 - Gotham (Gern Blandsten)
18. TTC - Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque (Big Dada)
19. Subtonix - Tarantism (Troubleman)
20. Quixotic - Mortal Mirrors (Kill Rockstars)

1. Various Artists - AFTER THE PLAYBOY MANSION: A LAIDBACK SELECTION MIXED BY DIMITRI FROM PARIS (Astralwerks)
2. Nightmares On Wax - Mind Elevation (Warp)
3. Various Artists - DISCO SPECTRUM VOL. 3 (Barely Breaking Even)
4. Mustafa - Onda Unda EP (white label; catalogue number: OU41)
5. Various Artists - REWIND! (Ubiquity)
6. Various Artists - DISCO NOT DISCO 2 (Strut)
7. Crispin J. Glover & D'MusiK - The Contemporary Discotheque EP (One Little Indian)
8. Cosmic Force - Chocolate Starfish 12" (Vertige Productions)
9. Les Hommes - Les Hommes (Eighteenth Street Lounge)
10. Various Artists - CALIFORNIA SOUL (Ubiquity)

1. Don Lennon - Downtown (Secretly Canadian)
2. 2 Many DJs - As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Vol 2 (Pias)
3. Shapiros - Shapiros (Library)
4. Neil Halstead - Sleeping on Roads (4AD)
5. Various Artists - BLUE SKIED AN' CLEAR (Morr Music)
6. Sondre Lerche - Faces Down (Astralwerks)
7. Run For Cover Lovers - The Difficult Nature of Interpersonal Relationships = (Rockin' Pussy)
8. Mum - Finally We Are No One (Fat Cat)
9. Jeffrey Lewis - Last Time I Took Acid I Went Insane (Rough Trade)
10. The Rapture - "House of Jealous Lovers" (DFA)

1. Numbers - Numbers Life (Tigerbeat 6)
2. Various Artists - CAN'T STOP IT: AUSTRALIAN POST-PUNK 1978-82 (Chapter)
3. Lost Sounds - Rat's Brains and Microchips (Empty Records)
4. Theoretical Girls - Recordings 1978-81 (Acute Records)
5. The Epoxies - The Epoxies (Dirtnap Records)
6. Deerhoof - Reveille (5RC/Kill Rock Stars)
7. Mr. Lif - I Phantom (Def Jux)
8. Various Artists - DYNAMITE WITH A LASERBEAM (Three One G)
9. To Live and Shave in L.A. - The Wigmaker in 18th Century Williamsburg (Menlo Park Recordings)
10. Nate Denver's Neck - Prepare to Die (King Crab)
11. Subtonix - Tarantism (Troubleman Unlimited)
12. Gary Wilson - You Think You Really Know Me *Re-issued* (Motel Records)
13. Various Artists - DISCO NOT DISCO VOLUME 2 (Strut)
14. FM Knives - Useless and Modern (Moo La La)
15. Various Artists - IF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY DIDN'T EXIST IT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO INVENT IT (5RC)

(Best Singles)

1. Crack: We Are Rock - "My Dad's Boyfriend" (Self-Released)
2. Gravy Train!!! - "You Make Me Gay" (S.P.A.M.)
3. Glass Candy & The Shattered Theater - "Johnny Are You Queer?" (Self-Released)
4. Nelly - "It Is Getting Hot In Here"
5. Pink & Brown - "So Long, Special Treat" (Load)
6. Numbers/Erase Errata - Mini Disc (Tigerbeat 6)
7. Tracy + The Plastics - Best of the 70's, 80's, and 90's (Chainsaw)
8. Total Shutdown - Broadcast Performances (Life is Abuse)
9. Chromatics/Monitor Bats (Gold Standard Labels)

1. John Zorn -Filmworks #11, Secret Lives: Hidden Children and their Rescuers During WWII (Tzadik)
2. Louis Sclavis - Dans La Nuit (ECM)
3. Elvis Costello - When I was Cruel (Island)
4. Radio Zumbido - los Ultimos Dias del AM (Palm Pictures)
5. Shalabi Effect - Trial of St. Orange (Alien8)
6. Hikashu - History (Tzadik)
7. Pop Off Tuesday - Pop Ahoy (Pickled Egg)
8. Flaming Stars - Sunset and Void (Alternative Tentacles)
9. Parker and Lily - Here Comes Winter (Manifesto)
10. Kahil El'Zabar Trio - Love Outside of Dreams (Delmark)
11. Hermanos Ayala - Bomba de Loiza (Blue Jackal)
12. Tarun Bhattacharya - Santur (India Archive)
13. DJ Spooky - Optomety (Thirsty Ear)
14. Chicago Underground Duo - Axis and Alignment (Thrill Jockey)
15. Rabinnical School Dropouts - Cosmic Tree (Tzadik)
16. Rasputina - Cabin Fever! (Instinct)
17. Andrew Hill - A Beautiful Day (Palmetto)
18. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight (Merge)
19. Soundtrack - NAQOYQATSI (Sony Classical)
20. A Whisper in the Noise -Through The Ides of March (Self Released)

• Kenneth Atchley - Fountains (Auscultare Research)
• Michael Nine - Self-Medicated (Neural)
• Henry Flynt - Raga Electric (Locust)
• Various Artists - MICROCASSETTOR (Sounds from the Pocket)
• Daniel Mensch - The Face of Vehemence (Groundfault)
• Zbigniew Karkowski - Consciously Unconscious Unconsciously Conscious (Metamkine)
• Barbara Ess/ Peggy Ahwesh - Radio Guitar (Ecstatic Peace!)
• Negativland - Death Sentences of the Polished and Structurally Weak (Seeland)
• Theoretical Girls - Theoretical Record (Acute)
• Tangerine Dream Syndicate - III Violins for III Stooges (Alchemy)

• Quails - Atmosphere (Inconvenient)
• Vanishing - In The Bat Haus (Cochon)
• Epoxies - The Epoxies (Dirtnap)
• Foghorn Stringband - Rattlesnake Tidal Wave (Siren Music Co.)
• Capricorns - In The Zone (Paroxysm)
• FM Knives - Useless and Modern (Moo-La-La)
• Numbers - Numbers Life (Tigerbeat 6)
• Tracy & The Plastics - Forever Sucks E.P. (Chainsaw)
• Hello Goodbye - Heart Attack (Racing Junior)
• Subtonix - Tarantism (Troubleman Unlimited)
• KiIl-A-Watts - Electrorock (Rip Off)
• Triggers - Gasoline (Vinyl Warning)
• Gossip - Arkansas Heat (Kill Rock Stars)

• Tino's Breaks 6 - Hallowe'en Dub (Tino Corp.)
• Tejada, John - daydreams in cold weather (Plug Research)
• Shakatura - Shakatura (Ceiba)
• Nookie - In @ the Deepend (Good Looking Organisation)
• Various Artists - NIGHT OWLS 2 (deluxe)
• Dylan - Trapped in beats. Volume 2 12" (Outbreak)
• Devine, Richard - Aleamapper (Schematic)
• Datach'i - Wearealwayswellthankyou (Caipirinha)
• Brothomstates - Claro (Warp)
• A Number of Names - Shari Vari remixes 12" (Puzzlebox)

• All Girl Summer Fun Band - All Girl Summer Fun Band (K)
• Cranes - Future Songs (Instinct)
• David Cross - Shut Up You Fucking Baby! (SubPop)
• Neil Halsted - Sleeping on Roads (4AD)
• Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (Matador)
• Low - Trust (Kranky)
• M=FAm - Finally We Are No One (FatCat)
• Pia Fraus - In Solarium (Clairecords)
• Pipas - A Cat Escaped (Matine)
• Various Artists - BLUE SKIED AN' CLEAR (Morr Music)

Ten catchy songs of 2002 that aren't from the above

• Apples In Stereo - "That's Something I Do"
• Free Loan Investments - "Hard to Smile"
• Ladytron - "Seventeen"
• Missy Elliott - "Work It"
• Flaming Lips - "Do You Realize?"
• Adult - "Don't You Stop"
• Happy Supply - "Sparky Song"
• Fischerspooner - "the 15th"
• Liars - "Mister You're on Fire Mister"
• Numbers - "Too Cool to Say Hi"

• Neu! - Reissues (Astralwerks)
• Fantomas - Directors Cut (Ipecac)
• Annie Gosfield - Flying Sparks And Heavy Machinery (Tzadik)
• Clinic - Walking with Thee (Domino)
• Negative Beatles - Meet The Negative Beatles (self-released)
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP (YYY)
• Zmrzlina - Katastrophe Volume Three (Incidental)
• Subtle - Summer EP (self-released)
• Hives - Main Offender EP (Big Wheel Recreation) and Barely Legal (Gearhead)
• Pagans - Shit Street and The Pink Album (Crypt)
• Rocket From the Tombs - Live from Punk Ground Zero (Smog Veil)
• Shalabi Effect - Trial of St-Orange (alien8)
• Epoxies - Epoxies (Dirtnap)
• Rovo - Tonic 2001 (Tzadik)
• Cogs - Open Kimono* (LunaSea)
• Butthole Surfers - Humpty Dumpty LSD (Latino Bugger Veil)
• Numbers/Erase Errata - Split CD (Tigerbeat6)
• Monopause/Aaviko - Split 7 (Electro Motive)
• Radio Zumbido - Los Ultimos Dias Del AM (Palm Pictures)
• Quails - Atmosphere (Inconvenient)
• Helen Love - Radio Hits 3 (Damaged Goods)
• Negativland - Deathsentences of the Polished and Structurually Weak (Seeland)
• Theoretical Girls - Theoretical Record (Acute)
• Subtonix - Tarantism (Troubleman Unlimited)

• Kevn Kinney - Broken Hearts and Auto Parts (Evil Teen)
• Neko Case - Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
• Low - Trust (Kranky)
• L'Altra - In The Afternoon (Aesthetics)
• Dory Tourette and the Skirtheads - Version 7" (S.P.A.M.)
• Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice (Swami)
• Don Lennon - Downtown (Secretly Canadian)
• Black Heart Procession - Amore Del Tropico (Touch and Go)
• Iron and Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle (Sub Pop)
• Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain (Secretly Canadian)

• Nels Cline Singers - Instrumentals (Cryptogramaphone)
• Saint of Killers - Saint of Killers (Edgetone)
• Red Bennies - Yes it's Lo-Fi 2 - With A hug (Rest 30 Records)
• Antibalas - Talkatif (Ninja Tune)
• Rovo - Tonic (Tzadik)
• Badenya - Manden Jaliya in New York City (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
• Live Human - Live (Hip Hop Slam)
• Joan Jeanrenaud - Metamorphosis (New Albion)
• Various Artists - AFRICA RAPS (Trikont)

• All Girl Summer Fun Band - All Girl Summer Fun Band (K)
• Death Cab For Cutie - You Can Play These Songs With Chords (Barsuk)
• Doug Martsch - Now You Know (Warner Brothers)
• Stereo Total - Music Automatique (Kill Rock Stars)
• Various Artists - 20 YEARS OF DISCHORD (Dischord)
• Mates of State - Our Constant Concern (Polyvinyl)
• Beck - Sea Change (Geffen/Interscope)
• The Capricorns - In the Zone (Paroxysm)

• Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (Warp Records)
• Blue States - Man Mountain (ESL Music)
• Camper van Beethoven - Tusk (Pitch A Tent)
• Centrozoon - The Cult of: Bibbiboo (Burning Shed)
• Do Make Say Think - &Yet &Yet (Constellation)
• The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner Brothers)
• The Fucking Champs -V (Drag City)
• Alastair Galbraith & Matt DeGennaro - Long Wires in Dark Museums Volume One (Emperor Jones)
• Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Yanqui U.X.O. (Constellation)
• Low - Trust (Kranky)
• MC Mabon - Nia Non (Ankst)
• Negativland - Death Sentences of the Polished and Structurally Weak (Seeland)
• Origami Arktika -Vardogr ()
• Out Hud - Street Dad (Kranky)
• Palestine/Coulter/Mathoul - Maximin (Young God)
• Steve Reich - Tehillim/The Desert Music (Cantaloupe)
• Rovo - Tonic 2001 (Tzadik)
• Schlammpeitziger - Collected Simplesongs of my Temporary Past ()
• Raymond Scott/Metropole Orchestra - Kodachrome (Basta)
• Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World (Beggars XL)
• Soundtrack - THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (Hollywood)
• Various Artists - NART NIBBLES ()
• Vibracathedral Orchestra - Dabbling With Gravity and Who You Are (VHF)
• Tom Waits - Alice and Blood Money (Anti-)
• Yohimbe Brothers (DJ Logic and Vernon Reid) - Front End Lifter (Atlantic)

• Rollins Band - Nice ()
• M.I.R.V. - Dancing Naked in a Minefield (Pop Smear)
• The Dillinger Escape Plan w/ Mike Patton - Irony is a Dead Scene (Epitaph)
• David Sylvian - Damaged ()
• Adriana Calcanhotto - Maritomo (Sony International)
• Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (Blue Note)
• Casandra Wilson - Belly of The Sun (Blue Note)
• Hem - Rabbit Songs (Bar/None)
• Various Artists - MUNDIAL MUZIQUE (Guidance)
• Buju Banton - ()
• Jim Lauderdale w/ Ralph Stanley - Lost in the Lonesome Pines (Dualtone)
• Tabla Beat Science - Live in San Francisco at Stern Grove (Palm Pictures)

• Mr. Lif - I Phantom (Definitive Jux)
• Neon Hearts - Popular Music re-issue (Overground Records)
• Rasputina - Cabin Fever! (Instinct)
• El-P - Fantastic Damage (Definitive Jux)
• Numbers - Numbers Life (Tigerbeat6)
• Gary Wilson - You Think You Really Know Me re-issue (Motel)
• Subtonix - Tarantism (Troubleman)
• The Epoxies - The Epoxies (Dirtnap)
• FM Knives - Useless and Modern (Moo-La-La)
• Various Artists - DISCO NOT DISCO VOL. 2 (Strut)
• Various Artists - CAN'T STOP IT: AUSTRALIAN POST-PUNK 1978-82 (Chapter)

1. Quails - Atmosphere (Inconvenient)
2. Monotrona - Hawkeye & Firebird (Menlo Park)
3. Mum - Finally We Are No One (Fatcat)
4. Numbers - Numbers Life (Tigerbeat6)
5. Mia Doi Todd - The Golden State (Sony)
6. Cornelius - Point (Matador)
7. MC Paul Barman - Paullelujah (Coup d'Etat)
8. Quixotic - Mortal Mirror (Kill Rock Stars)
9. Kompressor - Crush Television (self-released)
10. Gossip - Arkansas Heat (Kill Rock Stars)
11. Winfred E. Eye - A Bottle, A Dog, Some Milk, A Bottle (Luckyhorse Industries)
12. Experimental Dental School - Hideous Dance Attack (self-released)
13. Tracy & the Plastics - Forever Sucks EP (Chainsaw)
14. DJ Vadim - USSR: The Art of Listening (Ninja Tune)
15. Ziegenbok Kopf - The Architecture of Dark Dance (Toyo)

Top 5 Reissues

1. A Certain Ratio - Early (Soul Jazz)
2. Nina Simone - It Is Finished (RCA)
3. Jimmy Castor Bunch - 16 Slabs of Funk (RCA)
4. Gong - Angel's Egg (Get Back)
5. Various Artists - IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS RHYTHM (Soul Jazz)

1. Clinic - Walking With Thee
2. Tom Waits> - Blood Money
3. Moby - 18
4. Pia Fraus - In Solarium
5. Richard Buckner - Impasse
6. Azure Ray - Burn and Shiver
7. Hot Club of Cowtown - Ghost Train

• Goapele - Even Closer (Red Urban)
• Nightmares on Wax - Mind Elevation (Warp)
• People Under the Stairs - O.S.T. (Om)
• Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow (MCA)
• DJ Shadow - The Private Press (MCA)
• Boom Bip - Seed to Sun (Lex)
• Rjd2 - Ghostwriter (Def Jux)
• Thievery Corporation - Richest Man in Babylon (ESL)

Singles

• Aesop Rock - "Daylight" (Def Jux)
• Lifesavas - "Hellohihey" (Quannum)
• Hieroglyphics feat. Goapele - "Soweto" (Red Urban)
• Nas - "Made You Look" (Columbia)
• Zion I - "Kharma" (Raptivism)

• Julie Doiron - Desormais (Jagjaguwar)
• Ted Nugent - The Utlimate... (Sony Legacy)
• Client/Server - End Of (Three Lonely Kaiju)
• Radar Brothers - ...And the Surrounding Mountains (Merge)
• Larsen - Rever (Young God)
• Tom Watson - Country & Watson (Theologian)
• Los Tigres Del Norte - Uniendo Fronteras (Fonovisa)
• Geoff Soule - A Wild Man Brandishing an Uprooted Tree (Super Mega)
• Chris Smith - Map Ends: 1995-2001 (Empereor Jones)
• Deerhoof - Reveille (Kill Rock Stars)