1998 playlist index

h e a v y

1. "tommy boy's greatest beats" tommy boy 37
2. squarepusher "music is rotted one note" nothing 33
3. stereolab "aluminum tunes" drag city 32
4. spiritualized "live" arista 31
5. nuggets box set rhino 31
6. plastikman "artifakts" novamute 30
7. hovercraft "experiment below" mute/blast first 28
8. his name is alive "ft. lake" 4ad 27
9. 4 hero "two pages" mercury 26
10. talvin singh "ok" island 25
11. eric b & rakim "paid in full (10th anniversary edition)" 2xCD island 25
12. the jon spencer blues explosion "acme" matador 25
13. vic chesnutt "the salesman and bernadette" capricorn 25
14. p.j. harvey "is this desire?" island 24
15. john fahey "deathchants, breakdowns, and military waltzes" takoma 24
16. gang of four "100 flowers bloom" rhino 23
17. "from beyond" interdimensional transmissions 22
18. afghan whigs "1965" columbia 21
19. portishead "roseland nyc live" london 20

m e d i u m

1. matthew shipp horn quartet "strata" hatology 19
2. the great kat "bloody vivaldi" tpr 19
3. einsturzende neubauten "ende neu" nothing 19
4. bombay the hard way "guns, cars and sitars" motel 18
5. belle and sebastian "the boy with the arab strap" matador 18
6. ekstasis "wake up and dream" higher octive 17
7. the residents "wormwood" east side digital 16
8. beck "mutations" dgc 15
9. lothars "meet the lothars" camera obscura 14
10. jeb bishop "98 duets" wobbly rail 14
11. sean lennon "half horse half musician" grand royal 13
12. del mccoury, doc watson, & mac wiseman "mac, doc, & del" sugar hill 13
13. placebo "without you i'm nothing." virgin 13
14. david s. ware "go see the world" columbia/crg 13
15. bare jr. "boo-tay" epic 13
16. jad fair & yo la tengo "strange but true" matador 12
17. hazeldine "orphans" all swoll 12
18. boxhead ensemble "the last place to go" atavistic 12
19. wagon christ "tally ho!" astralwerks 10
20. lou mallozzi, hal rammel "whole or by the slice" penumbra 10
21. the gourds "gogitchershinebox" watermelon 9

adds

• melt banana "charlie" a-zap
• scott 4 "recorded in state" v2
• astor piazzolla "tango: zero hour" nonesuch
• harriet tubman "i am a man" knitting factory
• "chef aid: the south park album" american
• the beatles "white album" parlophone
• macha "indonesian recordings" jetset
• spike's choice "the desco funk 45 collection" desco
• dj mark farina "mushroom jazz 2" om
• tetsu inoue "waterloo terminal" caipirinha
• bingo gazingo CD wfmu

wcbn jazz top 20

1. oranj symphonette oranj album rykodisc
2. art ensemble of chicago coming home jamaica birdology/atlantic
3. derf reklaw from the nile ubiquity
4. living daylights 500 pound cat liquid city
5. eskelin/parkins/black kulak 29 & 30 hatology
6. herbie hancock gershwin's world verve
7. ibarra/charles drum talk wobbly rail
8. pyramid trio ancestral homeland no more records
9. VA blue note salutes motown blue note
10. matthew shipp horn quartet strata hatology
11. 11 wayne horvitz & zony mash brand spanikin new knitting factory
12. 12 david s. ware go see the world columbia
13. 13 randy weston khepera verve
14. 14 sephardic tinge morenica tzadik
15. 15 rent romus' lords of outland adapt. . . or die jazz heads
16. 16 VA critics' choice vol. 3 black saint/soul note
17. 17 kerry strayer jeru blue palmetto
18. 18 ekstasis wake up & dream higher octave
19. 19 sabir mateen trio divine mad love eremite
20. 20 kaiser/smith yo miles shanachie

Adds

1. moye calypso's smile aeco/southport
2. nigunim tzadik
3. quartet removable media southport
4. gosfield burnt ivory and loose wires tzadik

RPM :: crush collision (vinyl only) all 12"es unless otherwise noted

1. der zyklus 12" international dj gigolo
2. plasma co. "modern romantiks" electrocord
3. theo parrish "sound signatures part one" peace frog
4. dj hell "munich machine" disko b (germany)
5. sluts`n`strings & 909 "carrera remixed-vol.2" cheap (austria)
6. bolz bolz music ep world electric (germany)
7. ernst "erika" ernst (germany)
8. "dark side of the sword vol 3" v/a plasmek (italia)
9. UR instellar fugitives 3xlp UR
10. kruder & dorfmeister "the k&d sessions" studio k7

world top zen

1. bounty killer "next millennium" tvt
2. jahmali "el shaddai" penthouse
3. buju banton "til shiloh" penthouse/vp
4. "a native american odyssey" va CD putumayo
5. horace andy "mr. bassie" heartbeat
6. barrington levy "best of" vp
7. boukman eksperyans "revolution" tuff gong
8. "ragga ragga ragga 11" v"a greensleeves
9. bob marley "the complete wailers pt. 2" jad
10. grupo afro cuba "raices africanas" shanachie

beatbox: reported by chill will

1. high & mighty "the b-boy document"eastern con
2. kurupt/nore "we can freak it rmx am
3. pete rock "tru master" loud
4. keith murray/ll "incredible" jive
5. 7 l & escoteric "headswell" direct
6. the roots "don't see us" mca
7. 7 jayz "hard knock life" rockafella
8. 8 sunz of man "the plan" wutang
9. 9 shaq "heat it up" am
10. 10 big l "ebonics" fat beats