RTP-area local music and culture

[Music Director WXDU <music AT wxdu.org>]

Hey everyone,

This will be our final set of charts for 2010.  Thanks for all your
fantastic releases!  We've really enjoyed getting the chance to play and
promote all of them!

Cheers and happy holidays,

Dan & Justin

Top 88.7
1. 21...Stereolab...Not Music...Drag City
2. 14...Soft Circle...Shore Obsessed...Post-Present Medium
3. 13...Jonquil...One Hundred Suns...Dovecote
4. 13...Various Artists...A Message from the Tribe...Universal Sound
5. 13...Various Artists...Dr. Boogie Presents Wasa Wasa...Sub Rosa
6. 12...Magda...From the Fallen Page...Minus
7. 11...Eux Autres...Broken Bow...Bon Mots
8. 10...The Parting Gifts...Strychinine Dandelions...In the Red
9. 10...The Microscopic Septet...Friday the 13th:  The Micros Play
Monk...Cuniform
10. 10...Night Control...Life Control...Kill Shaman
11. 10...North Elementary...Southern Rescue Trails...307 Knox
12. 10...Mini Mansions...s/t...Ipecac
13. 10...Of Montreal...False Priest...Polyvinyl
14. 9...Axel Krygier...Pesebre...Crammed
15. 9...Various Artists...The Soul Spectrum Beat Tape...The Soul Dojo
16. 8...Raudive...Chamber Music...Macro
17. 8...Cap-D...Polymath...All Natural Inc.
18. 8...Make...EP1...Black Iron Records
19. 8...Russian Futurists...The Weight's On the Wheels...Upper Class
20. 7...Josephine Foster & the Victor Herrero Band...Anda Jaleo...Fire
21. 7...Sunset...Loveshines But the Moon is Shinig Too...Autobus
22. 7...Novalima...Coba Coba...Cumbancha
23. 7...Amongst Myselves...Fragments...S/R
24. 7...Coolies...Master...Chapter
25. 7...Polar Bear with Jyager...Common Ground...Leaf
26. 7...Matt Haimovitz/Uccello...Meeting of the Spirits...Oxingale
27. 7...Gary War...Police Water EP...Sacred Bones
28. 7...Various Artists (Apparat)...DJ Kicks...!K7
29. 7...Floored by Four...s/t...Chimera
30. 7...Versus...On the Ones and Threes...Merge
31. 7...Studio...West Coast...Information
32. 7...Madlib...Medicine Show Vol. 10:  Black Soul...Madlib Invasion
33. 7...Last Year's Men...Sunny Down Snuff...Church Key
34. 6...Zion-I...Atomic Clock...Gold Dust
35. 6...Surf City...Kudos...Fire
36. 6...Balam Acab...See Birds...Tri Angle
37. 6...Eero Koivistoinen...3rd Version...Porter
38. 6...Hurricane Bells...Down Comes The Rain...Invisible Brigades
39. 6...Barbara Morgenstern...Fan No. 2...Domino
40. 5...Tyvek...Nothing Fits...In the Red
41. 5...William Tyler...Behold The Spirit...Tompkins Square
42. 5...Jesse Payne...Nesting...S/R
43. 5...Cough...Ritual Abuse...Relapse
44. 5...Various Artists...Said I Had A Vision:  Songs & Labels of David
Lee...Paradise of Bachelors
45. 5...Hundred In The Hands...Hundred In The Hands...Warp
46. 5...Jacky Chalard...Je Suis Vivant Mais J'aipeur de Gilbert
Deflez...Finders Keepers
47. 5...oOoOO...oOoOO EP...Tri Angle
48. 5...Southern Culture On The Skids...The Kudzu Ranch...Kudzu
49. 4...White Tiger and the Bed of Roses...s/t...s/r
50. 4...Gregory & The Hawk...Leche...Fatcat
51. 4...Gemma Ray...Lights Out Zoltar!...Bronzerat
52. 4...Various Artists...The Sound of Club Secousse, Vol. 1...Crammed
53. 4...Sharron Kraus...The Woody Nightshade...Strange Attractors
54. 4...Spanish Harlem Orchestra...Viva La Tradicion...SHO
55. 4...K.C. Accidental...Captured Anthems For An Empty Bathtub/Anthems For
The Could've Bin Pills...Arts & Crafts
56. 4...Black Congo NC...Live In Miami 1984...FrequeNC
57. 4...Kylesa...Spiral Shadow...Season Of Mist
58. 4...Ghost of a Sabertooth Tiger...Acoustic Sessions...Chimera Music
59. 4...Lyrics Born...As U Were...Decon
60. 4...The Blackberry Bushes...Little Bit of Grace...S/R
61. 4...Jefre Cantu-Ledesma...Love is a Stream...Type
62. 4...Alice Donut/Free Electric State...Split 7"...307 Knox
63. 4...The Rebel...The Race Against Time Hots Up...Junior Aspirin
64. 4...Monsonia...33 1/3...S/R
65. 4...Wooden Wand...Death Set...Young God
66. 4...Bleu...Four...The Major Label
67. 4...Various Artists...Fünf...Ostgut Ton
68. 4...Electrical Sunset...s/t...K
69. 4...Gold Panda...Lucky Shiner...Ghostly International
70. 4...Jason Adasiewicz...Sun Rooms...Delmark
71. 3...Negroni's Trio...Just Three...Mojito Records
72. 3...Sassparilla...Ramshackle...s/r
73. 3...Various Artists...Twenty Centuries of Stony Sleep...Rune Grammofon
74. 3...Chico Mann...Analog Drift...Wax Poetics
75. 3...Kendl Winter...Apple Core...K
76. 3...The Vegetable Orchestra...Onionoise...Rough Trade
77. 3...Plume Giant...Plume Giant...S/R
78. 3...Various Artists...Roots Of Chicha 2:  Psychedelic Cumbias From
Peru...Barbes Records
79. 3...Cloud Nothings...Turning On...Carpark
80. 3...Yann Tiersen...Dust Lane...Anti-
81. 3...Brent Amaker and the Rodeo...Please Stand By...Spark & Shine
82. 3...Exploding Star Orchestra...Stars Have Shapes...Delmark
83. 3...Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephen...For the Ghosts Within...Domino
84. 3...Zola Jesus...Valusia...Sacred Bones
85. 3...Maple Stave...LP 1...s/r
86. 2...Jesse Cook...Rumba Foundation...Coach House Music
87. 2...Alvin Curran...Solo Works:  The '70s...New World
88. 2...Silje Nes...Opticks...Fat Cat
88.7. 2...Sara Kirkland Snider...Penelope...New Amsterdam

World Chart
1. 9...Axel Krygier...Pesebre...Crammed
2. 7...Josephine Foster & the Victor Herrero Band...Anda Jaleo...Fire
3. 5...Jacky Chalard...Je Suis Vivant Mais J'aipeur de Gilbert
Deflez...Finders Keepers
4. 4...Various Artists...The Sound of Club Secousse, Vol. 1...Crammed
5. 4...Sharron Kraus...The Woody Nightshade...Strange Attractors
6. 4...Spanish Harlem Orchestra...Viva La Tradicion...SHO
7. 3...Chico Mann...Analog Drift...Wax Poetics
8. 3...Negroni's Trio...Just Three...Mojito Records
9. 3...Various Artists...Roots Of Chicha 2:  Psychedelic Cumbias From
Peru...Barbes Records
10. 2...el Guincho...Pop Negro...Young Turks

Jazz Chart
1.  13...Various Artists...A Message from the Tribe...Universal Sound
2.  10...The Microscopic Septet...Friday the 13th:  The Micros Play
Monk...Cuniform
3.  7...Matt Haimovitz/Uccello...Meeting of the Spirits...Oxingale
4.  6...Eero Koivistoinen...3rd Version...Porter
5.  4...Jason Adasiewicz...Sun Rooms...Delmark
6.  3...Exploding Star Orchestra...Stars Have Shapes...Delmark
7.  2...Mike Pride's From Bacteria to Boys...Betweenwhile...AUM Fidelity
8.  2...Scott Amendola Trio...Lift...Sazi
9.  1...Joe Morris...Camera...ESP-Disk'

Hip Hop Chart
1. 9...Various Artists...The Soul Spectrum Beat Tape...The Soul Dojo
2. 8...Cap-D...Polymath...All Natural Inc.
3. 7...Madlib...Medicine Show Vol. 10:  Black Soul...Madlib Invasion
4. 7...Polar Bear with Jyager...Common Ground...Leaf
5. 6...Zion-I...Atomic Clock...Gold Dust
6. 6...Balam Acab...See Birds...Tri Angle
7. 5...oOoOO...oOoOO EP...Tri Angle
8. 4...Lyrics Born...As U Were...Decon
9. 1...The Burnerz...The Burnerz...Jah Works
10. 1...Lil B...Rain in England...Weird Forest

RPM Chart
1.  12...Magda...From the Fallen Page...Minus
2.  8...Raudive...Chamber Music...Macro
3.  7...Amongst Myselves...Fragments...S/R
4.  7...Various Artists (Apparat)...DJ Kicks...!K7
5.  7...Studio...West Coast...Information
6.  6...Barbara Morgenstern...Fan No. 2...Domino
7.  5...Hundred In The Hands...Hundred In The Hands...Warp
8.  5...oOoOO...oOoOO EP...Tri Angle
9.  4...Various Artists...Fünf...Ostgut Ton
10.  4...Gold Panda...Lucky Shiner...Ghostly International


Justin Levens and Dan Ruccia
Music Directors
WXDU 88.7 FM
Duke University
Box 90689
Durham, NC 27708
music AT wxdu.org
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