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Top 88.7

1. 15...Hot Panda...How Come I'm Dead?...Mint
2. 14...Blonde Redhead...Penny Sparkle...4AD
3. 13...Owen Pallett...A Swedish Love Story EP...Domino
4. 12...Clinic...Bubblegum...Domino
5. 12...Deerhunter...Halcyon Digest...4AD
6. 12...Frankie Rose & the Outs...s/t...Slumberland
7. 11...Various...Picadilly Sunshine Part Four...Past & Present
8. 11...Kooley High...Eastern Standard Time...Mecca
9. 10...Bobbie Bare Jr....A Storm-A Tree-My Mother's Head...Naked Albino
Recordings
10. 10...Altar Eagle...Mechanical Gardens...Type
11. 10...Women...Public Strain...Jagjaguwar
12. 10...Glasser...Ring...True Panther Sounds
13. 10...No Age...Everything in Between...Sub Pop
14. 10...Breathe Owl Breathe...Magic Central...Hometapes
15. 9...Tricky...Mixed Race...Domino
16. 9...Jupe Jupe...Invaders...S/R
17. 9...Swans...My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky...Young God
18. 9...Atmosphere...To All My Friends EP...Rhymesayers
19. 8...The Bad Plus...Never Stop...E One
20. 8...The Moaners...Nocturnal...Holidays for Quince
21. 8...Mahjongg...The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger...K
22. 8...Unkle...The Answer EP...Surrender
23. 8...Various Artists...Clouds Over the Pacific...Stones Throw
24. 8...Bruce Haack...Farad: The Electric Voice...Stones Throw
25. 7...High Violets...Cinema...Comet Rock
26. 7...Philip Jeck...An Ark for the Listener...Touch
27. 7...Chico Trujillo...Chico de Oro...Barbes Records
28. 7...Klezwoods...Oy Yeah!...Accurate
29. 7...Octopus Project...Hexadecagon...Peek-a-Boo
30. 7...Nobunny...First Blood...Goner
31. 7...Mice Parade...What It Means To Be Left-Handed...Fat Cat
32. 7...Gil Scott-Heron...I'm New Here...XL
33. 6...Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green...Apex...Pi
34. 6...Crazy Dreams Band...War Dream...Holy Mountain
35. 6...We Love...We Love...Bpitch Control
36. 6...Grupo Fantasma...El Existential...National Geographic Music
37. 6...Las Rubias del Norte...Ziguala...Barbes Records
38. 6...Aids Wolf...March to the Sea...Skin Graft
39. 6...Honored Guests...Please Try Again...Breakfast Mascot
40. 6...John & Jehn...Time for the Devil...Naïve
41. 6...Department Of Eagles...Archive:  2003-2006...American Dust
42. 6...Tom Zé...Estudando o Bossa:Nordeste Plaza...Luaka Bop
43. 5...Sun Ra...The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra...ESP-Disk
44. 5...Ted Lucas...Ted Lucas...OM
45. 5...Various Artists/Xaviera Simmons...Thundersnow Road...Merge
46. 5...Anibal Velasquez y su Conjunto...Mambo Loco...Analog Africa
47. 5...Ed Masuga...Let Me Tune My Heartstrings...s/r
48. 5...Bee vs. Moth...Acronyms...s/r
49. 5...Pivixki...Gravissima...Lexicon Devil
50. 5...Grasscut...1 Inch: 1/2 Mile...Ninja Tune
51. 5...Various Artists...An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music/Sixth
A-chronology...Sub Rosa
52. 5...Weird Weeds...Help Me Name Melody...Autobus
53. 5...Luke Doucet and the White Falcons...Steel City Trawler...Six Shooter
54. 5...Grinderman...Grinderman 2...Mute/Anti-
55. 5...Superchunk...Majesty Shredding...Merge
56. 4...Lucky Peterson...You Can Always Turn Around...Dreyfuss Jazz
57. 4...Sun City Girls...Funeral Mariachi...Abduction
58. 4...Acorn Project...Generation Debt...S/R
59. 4...Spoek Mathambo...Mishini Wam...BBE Records
60. 4...La Otracina...Reality Has Got to Die...Holy Mountain
61. 4...Wild Wild Geese..."Sorry... Earth"...Odessa
62. 4...Dark Dark Dark...Wild Go...Supply and Demand
63. 4...Bryce Clayton Elman...The Marrow of Modern Divinity...Blondena
64. 4...Vinegar Creek Constituency...Angel of the Last Waltz...s/r
65. 4...Embarrassing Fruits...Frontier Justice...Trekky
66. 4...Megafaun...Heretofore...Hometapes
67. 4...Crocodiles...Sleep Forever...Fat Possum
68. 4...Madlib...Medicine Show Vol. 8: Advanced Jazz...Madlib Invazion
69. 4...Mount Kimbie...Crooks & Lovers...Hotflush
70. 4...The Thermals...Personal Life...Kill Rock Stars
71. 4...!!!..."Strange Weather... Isn't It?"...Warp
72. 3...Lou Harrison...Scenes from Cavafy...New World
73. 3...Esperanza Spalding...Chamber Music Society...Heads Up
74. 3...A Hideous Blue...A Horrendous Red...S/T
75. 3...Adam H. Stephens...We Live On Cliffs...Saddle Creek
76. 3...Warm Widow...Widower...White Box
77. 3...Marc Ribot...Silent Movies...Pi
78. 3...Monkey Puzzle Trio...White World...Slowfoot
79. 3...Half-Handed Cloud..."As Stowaways in Cabinets of Surf... We Live-out
in Our Members a Kind of Rebirth"...Asthmatic Kitty
80. 3...Deolinda...Dios Selos e Un Carimbo...World Connections
81. 3...Walkmen...Lisbon...Fat Possum
82. 3...Autechre...Move of Ten...Warp
83. 3...Otem Rellik...Elephant Graveyard...Square Into Circle
84. 3...Prince Rama...Shadow Temple...Carpark
85. 3...Nini + Ben...The Reasons We Try...Buffle Bear
86. 2...Issac Delgado...Love...Calle54
87. 2...Miss Tess..."Darling... Oh Darling"...s/r
88. 2...Lois Deloatch...Roots...s/r
88.7 2...Father Murphy...No Room for the Weak EP...Aagoo

Loud

1. 9...Swans...My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky...Young God
2. 6...Aids Wolf...March to the Sea...Skin Graft
3. 5...Pivixki...Gravissima...Lexicon Devil
4. 5...Various Artists...An Anthology of Noise & Electronic
Music/SixthA-chronology...Sub Rosa
5. 4...La Otracina...Reality Has Got to Die...Holy Mountain
6. 2...Coliseum...House With a Curse...Temporary Residence
7. 1...Thomas Koner...Nunatuk, Tiemo, Permafrost...Type
8. 1...Indignant Senility...Plays Wagner...Type
9. 1...Oneohtrix Point Never...Returnal...Editions Mego
10. 1...Black Time...More Songs About Motorcycles & Death...Wrench

Hip Hop

1. 11...Kooley High...Eastern Standard Time...Mecca
2. 9...Atmosphere...To All My Friends EP...Rhymesayers
3. 8...Various Artists...Clouds Over the Pacific...Stones Throw
4. 7...Gil Scott-Heron...I'm New Here...XL
5. 4...Madlib...Medicine Show Vol. 8: Advanced Jazz...Madlib Invazion
6. 3...Otem Rellik...Elephant Graveyard...Square Into Circle
7. 2...Shabazz Palaces...Shabazz Palaces/Of Light EP...Templar
8. 2...Bilal...Airtight's Revenge...Plug Research
9. 1...Camu Tao...King of Hearts...Fat Possum/Definitive Jux
10. 1...Aloe Blacc...Good Things...Stones Throw

World

1. 7...Chico Trujillo...Chico de Oro...Barbes Records
2. 7...Klezwoods...Oy Yeah!...Accurate
3. 6...Tom Zé...Estudando o Bossa:Nordeste Plaza...Luaka Bop
4. 6...Grupo Fantasma...El Existential...National Geographic Music
5. 6...Las Rubias del Norte...Ziguala...Barbes Records
6. 5...Anibal Velasquez y su Conjunto...Mambo Loco...Analog Africa
7. 4...Spoek Mathambo...Mishini Wam...BBE Records
8. 3...Deolinda...Dios Selos e Un Carimbo...World Connections
9. 2...Various Artists...Roots of O.K. Jazz: Congo Classics
1955-56...Crammed Discs
10. 2...Issac Delgado...Love...Calle54

Jazz

1.   8...The Bad Plus...Never Stop...E One
2.   6...Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green...Apex...Pi
3.   5...Sun Ra...The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra...ESP-Disk
4.   5...Bee vs. Moth...Acronyms...s/r
5.   4...Madlib...Medicine Show Vol. 8: Advanced Jazz...Madlib Invazion
6.   3...Esperanza Spalding...Chamber Music Society...Heads Up
7.   3...Marc Ribot...Silent Movies...Pi
8.   3...Monkey Puzzle Trio...White World...Slowfoot
9.   2...Miss Tess...Darling, Oh Darling...s/r
10. 2...Lois Deloatch...Roots...s/r

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Justin Levens and Dan Ruccia
Music Directors
WXDU 88.7 FM
Duke University
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Durham, NC 27708
music AT wxdu.org
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