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TOP 88.7

1. 15...The Bad Plus...The Rite of Spring...Sony Masterworks
2. 12...Protomartyr...Under Color of Official Right...Hardly Art
3. 11...Alvarius B/Sir Richard Bishop...If You Don't Like
It...Don't!...Three Lobed Recordings
4. 11...The Souljazz Orchestra...Inner Fire...Strut
5. 10...John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff...Everything Except
Goodbye...self-released
6. 10...Steve Gunn and Mike Gangloff...Melodies for a Savage Fix...Imprec
7. 10...Afterhours...Lowlife...Not Not Fun
8. 10...Mac Demarco...Salad Days...Captured Tracks
9. 9...The Brothers and Sisters...Dylan's Gospel...Light in the Attic
10. 9...Ruby the Rabbitfoot...New as Dew...Normaltown
11. 9...Uncle Tupelo...No Depression...Sony
12. 9...Liars...Mess...Mute
13. 8...Diali Cissokho and Kaira Ba...The Great Peace...S/R
14. 8...Lud...Defenestration Boulevard...s/r
15. 8...Art Jackson...Tulip Tree Poplar Flower...s/r
16. 8...Freddie Gibbs and Madlib...Pinata...Madlib Invazion
17. 8...Cahalen Morrison and Eli West...I'll Swing My Hammer with Both My
Hands...s/r
18. 8...Wye Oak...Shriek...Merge
19. 8...Woods...With Light and Love...Woodsist
20. 8...Tokyo Police Club...Forcefield...Mom+Pop
21. 7...Jenks Miller/J Toth...Roads to Ruin...Three Lobed
22. 7...Skemata...Demo...Sorry State
23. 7...Pedrito Martinez Group...Pedrito Martinez Group...Motema
24. 7...Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio...Follow the Sun...Delmark
25. 7...Chris Speed...Really OK...Skirl
26. 7...Jimi Goodwin...Odludek...Heavenly
27. 7...Leon Russell...Life Journey...Universal
28. 6...Horseback...Piedmont Apocrypha...Three Lobed Records
29. 6...Totally Slow...Totally Slow...Self-Aware / Headfirst!
30. 6...Jonas Reinhardt...Ganymede...Constellation Tatsu
31. 6...Dead Rider...Chills on Glass...Drag City
32. 6...Various...Hardcore Traxx: Dance Mania Records 1986-1997...Strut
33. 6...David Novick...Your Sister's Hand...GOD?
34. 6...Ava Luna...Electric Balloon...Western Vinyl
35. 6...Cloud Nothings...Here and Nowhere Else...Carpark
36. 6...Nightmares on Wax...Feelin' Good...Warp
37. 6...Intended Immigration...La Demoiselle du Fonque...Wooden Hat
38. 6...Bombay Dub Orchestra...Tales from the Grand Bazaar...Six Degrees
39. 6...The Notwist...Close to the Glass...Sub Pop
40. 5...Magpie Feast...Out of the Womb...self-released
41. 5...Bob Frank...Bob Frank...Light in the Attic/Vanguard
42. 5...Francesco Guerri...Prima di qualsiasi altra cosa allora si
perderà...s/r
43. 5...Good Throb...Culture Vulture 7"...Muscle Horse
44. 5...The Seldom Scene...Long Time...Seldom Scene...Smithsonian Folkways
45. 5...Yellow Ostrich...Cosmos...Barsuk
46. 5...Burnt Ones...Gift...Castle Face
47. 5...The Belle Brigade...Just Because...ATO
48. 5...Various Artists...Suicide Squeeze Presents: Forever
Singles...Suicide Squeeze
49. 5...Connect_icut...Small Town by the Sea...Aagoo
50. 4...Narcoman...Demo...Sorry State
51. 4...Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble...Intergalactic Beings...FPE
Records
52. 4...Tiger Hatchery...Sun Worship...ESP Disk
53. 4...Lace Curtain...3rd EP...Mexican Summer
54. 4...Solids...Blame Confusion...Fat Possum
55. 4...Axemen...Derry Legend...Luxury Products
56. 4...The War On Drugs...Lost in the Dream...Secretly Canadian
57. 4...Obnox...Louder Space...12XU
58. 4...Inutili...Music to Watch the Clouds on a Sunny Day...Aagoo
59. 4...Golden Retriever...Seer...Thrill Jockey
60. 4...Woo...When the Past Arrives...Drag City
61. 4...Caetano Veloso...Abracaco...Nonesuch
62. 4...Flaco Jimenez y Tomas Ortiz de Los Alegres de Teran...Flaco Jimenez
y Tomas Ortiz de Los Alegres de Teran...Arhoolie
63. 4...Roberto Fonseca...Yo...Montuno/Concord
64. 4...Drive By Truckers...English Oceans...ATO
65. 3...Jack Carter and the Armory...Anthropomorphic Disfiguration...s/r
66. 3...Bardo Pond...Refulgo...Three Lobed
67. 3...The Fat Babies...18th and Racine...Delmark
68. 3...Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey...And Other Desert Towns...Relative
Pitch
69. 3...Aloa...Aloa...Medical
70. 3...Thee Tsunamis...Delirium and Dark Waters 7"...Magnetic South
Recordings
71. 3...Wyrd Visions...Half-Eaten Guitar...PW Elverum and Sun
72. 3...Cherry Glazerr...Haxel Princess...Burger
73. 3...The Body...I Shall Die Here...RVNG Intl.
74. 3...Papir...III...El Paraiso
75. 3...Trust...Joyland...Arts & Crafts
76. 3...Michael Yonkers...Michael Lee Yonkers...Drag City/Galactic Zoo Disk
77. 3...Koen Holtkamp...Motion...Thrill Jockey
78. 3...Psychic Wheels...Peripheral Drift...Superdreamer
79. 3...S. Carey...Range of Light...Jagjaguwar
80. 3...Perfect Pussy...Say Yes to Love...Captured Tracks
81. 3...Various Artists...Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch
Canticles...Numero Group
82. 3...Charlie Dennard...From Brazil to New Orleans...s/r
83. 2...Dex Romweber Duo...Images 13...Bloodshot
84. 2...Peter Walker..."Second Poem to Karmela" or Gypsies Are
Important...Light in the Attic / Vanguard
85. 2...Vinny Golia and Urs Leimgruber...Empiricism in the West...Relative
Pitch
86. 2...Tycho...Awake...Ghostly International
87. 2...Jack Wright and Ben Wright...As If Anything Could Be the
Same...Relative Pitch
88. 2...Carla Bozulich...Boy...Constellation

RPM

1. 10...Afterhours...Lowlife...Not Not Fun
2. 6...Various...Hardcore Traxx: Dance Mania Records 1986-1997...Strut
3. 6...Nightmares on Wax...Feelin' Good...Warp
4. 5...Connect_icut...Small Town by the Sea...Aagoo
5. 2...Hecker...Articulação...Editions Mego
6. 2...Burial...Rival Dealer...Hyperdub
7. 2...Donato Dozzy & Nuel...The Aquaplano Sessions...Spectrum Spools
8. 2...Kassel Jaeger...Toxic Cosmopolitanism...Editions Mego
9. 1...Drekka...Ekki Gera Fikniefnum...Dais
10. 1...Marcus Schmickler and Julian Rohrhuber...Politiken der
Frequenz...Editions Mego

WORLD

1. 11...The Souljazz Orchestra...Inner Fire...Strut
2. 8...Diali Cissokho and Kaira Ba...The Great Peace...S/R
3. 7...Pedrito Martinez Group...Pedrito Martinez Group...Motema
4. 6...Intended Immigration...La Demoiselle du Fonque...Wooden Hat
5. 6...Bombay Dub Orchestra...Tales from the Grand Bazaar...Six Degrees
6. 4...Caetano Veloso...Abracaco...Nonesuch
7. 4...Flaco Jimenez y Tomas Ortiz de Los Alegres de Teran...Flaco Jimenez
y Tomas Ortiz de Los Alegres de Teran...Arhoolie
8. 4...Roberto Fonseca...Yo...Montuno/Concord
9. 2...Debruit & Alsarah...Aljawal...Soundway
10. 1...Imarhan Timbuktu...Akal Warled...Clermont Music

JAZZ

1. 15...The Bad Plus...The Rite of Spring...Sony Masterworks
2. 7...Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio...Follow the Sun...Delmark
3. 7...Chris Speed...Really OK...Skirl
4. 5...Francesco Guerri...Prima di qualsiasi altra cosa allora si
perderà...s/r
5. 4...Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble...Intergalactic Beings...FPE
Records
6. 4...Tiger Hatchery...Sun Worship...ESP Disk
7. 3...The Fat Babies...18th and Racine...Delmark
8. 3...Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey...And Other Desert Towns...Relative
Pitch
9. 2...Jack Wright and Ben Wright...As If Anything Could Be the
Same...Relative Pitch
10. 2...Vinny Golia and Urs Leimgruber...Empiricism in the West...Relative
Pitch

LOUD

1. 7...Skemata...Demo...Sorry State
2. 6...Horseback...Piedmont Apocrypha...Three Lobed Records
3. 4...Narcoman...Demo...Sorry State
4. 3...The Body...I Shall Die Here...RVNG Intl.
5. 1...Die Schacht...Halber Selbstbetrug 7"...Siltbreeze
6. 1...Demon Eye...Leave the Light...Soulseller
7. 1...Johnny Noise...The Day Is Coming...Siltbreeze
8. 1...Indian...From All Purity...Relapse
9. 1...Libyans...Expired Language...Sorry State
10. 1...Monoshock...Walk to the Fire...S-S

Ben Cox and Sarah Carrier
Music Directors
WXDU 88.7 FM
Duke University
Box 90689
Durham, NC 27708
music AT wxdu.org
919-684-2957