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Top 88.7
1.    15...Various Artists...Destroy That Boy! More Girls with Guitars...Ace
2.    12...Amadou & Miriam...Welcome to Mali...Because/Nonesuch
3.    12...Vieux Farka Toure...Fondo...Six Degrees
4.    11...Francoiz Breut...A l'Auvigiette...Groove Attack
5.    11...Various Artists...Funk Mundial...Man Recordings
6.    10...Duet for Theremin & Lap Steel...s/t...s/r
7.    10...Grizzly Bear...Veckatimest...Warp
8.    10...Various Artists...Acid Dreams - Epitaph...Past & Present
9.    10...Whole World Laughing...Eight Songs for Cy...s/r
10.    9...Arthur Russell...Love is Overtaking Me...Audika
11.    9...Bibio...Ambivalence Avenue ...Warp
12.    9...Sun Ra...Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold...Jazz
13.    9...Thee Oh Sees...Help...In the Red
14.    8...Jack-O & the Tennessee Tearjerkers...The Disco Outlaws...Goner
15.    8...Portland Cello Project...The Thao & Justin Power Sessions...Kill
Rock Stars
16.    8...Sonic Youth...The Eternal...Matador
17.    8...The Scene is Now...Total Jive...Lexicon Devil
18.    8...Various Artists...Acid Dreams - Testament...Past & Present
19.    7...Dinosaur Jr....Farm...Jagjaguwar
20.    7...Dirty Projectors...Bitte Orca...Domino
21.    7...Doom...Born Like This...Lex
22.    7...Intelligence...Face Surfers...In the Red
23.    7...Iron and Wine...Around the Well...Sub Pop
24.    7...Moritz Von Oswald Trio...Vertical Ascent...Honest Jons
25.    7...Original Instrument...s/t...Kracfive
26.    7...Ted Taylor Organsound...Hymns A'Swinging...Trunk
27.    7...The Warlocks...The Mirror Explodes...Tee Pee
28.    7...Various Artists...The Electric Asylum Vol. 2...Past & Present
29.    7...Various Artists...Thai Funk ZudRangMa...ZRM
30.    7...Yawning Sons...Ceremony to the Sunset...Lexicon Devil
31.    6...Federico Aubele...Amatoria...Eighteenth Street Lounge
32.    6...Anthony William Herndon...Metronome Theramin vol. 2...s/r
33.    6...Bombadil...Tarpits and Canyonlands...Ramseur
34.    6...Ted Daniel Trio...The Loft Years...Ujamaa
35.    6...Watts Ensemble...Crime & Time...Kill Shaman
36.    6...The Field...Yesterday and Today...Kompakt
37.    6...Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO...Lord of the
Underground...Alien8
38.    6...Japandroids...Post-Nothing...s/r
39.    6...Tortoise...Beacons of Ancestorships...Thrill Jockey
40.    6...Various Artists...Made in Iceland 2...Iceland Export
41.    6...Au Revoir Simone...Still Night, Still Light...Our Secret Record
Company
42.    6...Double Dagger...More...Thrill Jockey
43.    5...Groupshow...The Martyrdom of Groupshow...~scape
44.    5...Various Artists...The Silence Was Warm, Volume 2...Symbolic
Interaction
45.    5...Voodeux...The Paranormal...Mothership
46.    5...Deertick...Born on Flag Day...Partisan
47.    5...Lord Cut-Glass...s/t...Chemikal Underground
48.    5...Ty Segall...Lemons...Goner
49.    5...John Hebert...Byzantine Monkey...Firehouse
50.    5...Levon Helm...Electric Dirt...Vanguard
51.    5...Tree People...Human Voices...Guerszen
52.    5...Julien Chaptal...Tokens...Remote Area
53.    5...The Juan MacLean...The Future Will Come...DFA
54.    5...Floating Action...s/t...s/r
55.    5...New Town Drunks...The Ballad of Stayed and Gone...s/r
56.    5...Casiotone for the Painfully Alone...Vs. Children...Tomlab
57.    4...Kreng...L'Autopsie Phenomenale de Dieu...Miasmah
58.    4...Various Artists...Songs from Wild Tigers I Have
Known...Dutro/Jnana
59.    4...$tinkworx/Kinoeye...MKB/Mean Old World 12"...W.T.
60.    4...Kettel...Myam James 2...Sending Orbs
61.    4...Suck...Time to Suck...Shadoks
62.    4...Sir Richard Bishop...The Freak of Araby...Drag City
63.    3...Reigning Sound...Live at Goner 6.25.05...Goner
64.    3...Craig Green + David King...s/t...Long Song
65.    3...Giovanni Maier...Technicolor...Long Song
66.    3...Harbinger...Second Coming...Guerszen
67.    3...Those Darlins...s/t...Oh Wow Dang
68.    3...BJ Nilsen...The Short Night...Touch
69.    3...Jim Ryan's Forward Energy Trio...Portland...Edgetone
70.    3...Hal Onserud...Hal 2008...pfMentum
71.    3...Rich West...Mayo Grout's Known Universe...pfMentum
72.    3...Various Artists...Panama! 2: Latin Sounds, cumbia tropical &
calypso funk on the isthmus, 1967-77...Soundway
73.    3...Music Lovers...Masculine Feminine...Le Grand Magistry
74.    3...Pink Mountaintops...Outside Love...Jagjaguwar
75.    3...Citified...Absence...Eskimo Kiss
76.    3...Cave...Psychic Psummer...Important
77.    2...Loop 2.4.3...Zodiac Dust...Music Starts from Silence
78.    2...Acoustic Guitar Trio...Vignes...Long Song
79.    2...Gato Barbieri...In Search of Mystery...ESP-Disk
80.    2...Chuck Mead...Journeyman's Wager...Grassy Knoll
81.    2...Mark Cool...Pie...s/r
82.    2...Jody Diamond...In That Bright World...New World
83.    2...Antripodean Collective...Funcall...Extreme
84.    2...Arthur Kell Quartet...Victoria...BJU
85.    2...JD Allen Trio...Shine...Sunnyside
86.    2...Kaiser/Walter/Smith...Plane Crash...ugExplode
87.    2...Model Figures...Modest Yowl...Replay
88.    2...Circle...Hollywood...Ektro
88.7.  2...Goslings...Occasion...Not Not Fun

World Chart
1.    12...Amadou & Mariam...Welcome to Mali...Because/Nonesuch
2.    12...Vieux Farka Toure...Fondo...Six Degrees
3.    11...Francoiz Breut...A l'Auvigiette...Groove Attack
4.    11...Various Artists...Funk Mundial...Man Recordings
5.    7...Various Artists...Thai Funk ZudRangMa...ZRM
6.    6...Federico Aubele...Amatoria...Eighteenth Street Lounge
7.    3...Various Artists...Panama! 2: Latin Sounds, cumbia tropical &
calypso funk on the isthmus, 1967-77...Soundway
8.    2...Eva Ayllon...Kimba Fa...Four Quarters
9.    2...Jody Diamond...In That Bright World...New World
10.    2...Extra Golden...Thank You Very Quickly...Thrill Jockey

RPM Chart
1.    10...Duet for Theremin & Lap Steel...s/t...s/r
2.    9...Bibio...Ambivalence Avenue ...Warp
3.    7...Moritz Von Oswald Trio...Vertical Ascent...Honest Jons
4.    7...Original Instrument...s/t...Kracfive
5.    6...Tortoise...Beacons of Ancestorships...Thrill Jockey
6.    6...The Field...Yesterday and Today...Kompakt
7.    5...Voodeux...The Paranormal...Mothership
8.    5...Julien Chaptal...Tokens...Remote Area
9.    5...Groupshow...The Martyrdom of Groupshow...~scape
10.    5...Various Artists...The Silence Was Warm, Volume 2...Symbolic
Interaction

Jazz Chart
1.    9...Sun Ra...Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold...Jazz
2.    7...Ted Taylor Organsound...Hymns A'Swinging...Trunk
3.    6...Ted Daniel Trio...The Loft Years...Ujamaa
4.    6...Watts Ensemble...Crime & Time...Kill Shaman
5.    5...John Hebert...Byzantine Monkey...Firehouse
6.    3...Craig Green + David King...s/t...Long Song
7.    3...Giovanni Maier...Technicolor...Long Song
8.    3...Jim Ryan's Forward Energy Trio...Portland...Edgetone
9.    3...Hal Onserud...Hal 2008...pfMentum
10.    3...Rich West...Mayo Grout's Known Universe...pfMentum

Loud Rock Chart
1.    6...Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO...Lord of the
Underground...Alien8
2.    3...Cave...Psychic Psummer...Important
3.    2...Circle...Hollywood...Ektro
4.    2...Goslings...Occasion......Not Not Fun
5.    1...Social Junk...Concussion Summer...Not Not Fun
6.    1...Zaïmph...Serpent's Bite...Heavy Blossom
7.    1...Magik Markers...Balf Quarry...Drag City
8.    1...Hasegamwa/Igler...s/t...Archive
9.    1...Rice Corpse...Mrs. Rice...Dual Plover/SubJam
10.    1...Amocoma...Go to Hell...Tumult

Stephen Conrad and Dan Ruccia
Music Directors
WXDU 88.7 FM
Duke University
Box 90689
Durham, NC 27708
music AT wxdu.org
919-684-2957