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KGNU Top Specialty Recordings - 2002: Based on all shows reporting
Artist Title Label
New World
1 Kronos Quartet Nuevo Nonesuch Records
2 Various Artists Darker Than Blue: Soul From Jamtown Blood & Fire
3 Various Artists Traveler '02 Six Degrees
4 Various Artists Red Hot + Riot MCA Records
5 Issa Bagayogo Timbuktu Six Degrees
6 Susana Baca Espiritu Vivo Luaka Bop
7 1 Giant Leap 1 Giant Leap Palm Pictures
8 Various Artists Afro Rock Vol.1 Kona Records
9 Bob Marley & The Wailers Legend Tuff Gong
10 Various Artists Sahara Groove Arc
11 Hasna El Becharia Djazair Johara Indigo
12 Various Artists Globalista Import-Export Trikont
13 Various Artists Samba Bossa Nova Putumayo
14 Various Artists Rough Guide To Paris Café Music World Music Network
15 Mary Youngblood Beneath The Raven Moon Silver Wave Records
16 Sainkho Namtchylak Stepmother City Ponderosa Music & Arts
17 Mali Music Mali Music Astralwerks
18 Kodo Mondo Head Sony Music
19 Tama Espace Real World
20 Orchestra Baobob Pirates Choice World Circuit
Jazz        [ top ]
1 Medeski Martin & Wood Uninvisible Blue Note Records
2 Matthew Shipp Nu Bop Thirsty Ear
3 Cinematic Orchestra Every Day Ninja Tune
4 DJ Spooky Optometry Thirsty Ear
5 Ron Miles Heaven Sterling Circle Records
6 Guillermo E. Brown Soul At The Hands Of The Machine Thirsty Ear
7 Cassandra Wilson Belly Of The Sun Blue Note Records
8 Bobby McFerrin Beyond Words Blue Note Records
9 Patricia Barber Verse Premonition
10 Norah Jones Come Away With Me Blue Note Records
11 Soulive Next Blue Note Records
12 Bill Frisell The Willies Nonesuch Records
13 William Parker Quartet Raining On The Moon Thirsty Ear Communication
14 Tied & Tickled Trio Electric Avenue Tapes Rooftop Promotion
15 Art Ensemble Of Chicage :Rarum Vi ECM Records
16 Dirty Dozen Brass Band Medicated Magic Ropeadope
17 Chicago Underground Duo Axis And Alignment Thrill Jockey
18 Pfeuti Pigeon Post Oh!Tonito
19 John Surman/Jack Dejohnette Invisible Nature ECM Records
20 Chet Baker Deep In A Dream Capitol Records
Rap/R&B        [ top ]
1 Little Axe Hard Grind Fat Possum
2 Various Artists Africa Raps Trikont
3 Blackalicious Blazing Arrow MCA Records
4 United Dope Front Constant Elevation Self Produced
5 DJ Shadow The Private Press MCA Records
6 Ttc Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque Big Dada/Ninja
7 Herbaliser Something Wicked This Way Comes Ninja Tune
8 Karl Denson The Bridge Relaxed Records
9 Various Artists Grazing In The Trash Vol 2 Soul Fire
10 Massive Attack Blue Lines Capitol Records
11 Martha Redbone Home Of The Brave Self Produced
12 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Dap-Dippin' With... Daptone
13 Various Artists Funky 16 Corners Stones Throw Records
14 Solomon Burke Don't Give Up On Me Fat Possum
15 Dilated Peoples Expansion Team Capitol Records
16 Robert Randolf And The Family Band Live At The Wetlands
17 The Coup Party Music 75 Ark
18 Jamiroquai A Funk Odyssey Epic Records
19 Whitefield Brothers In The Raw Soul Fire
20 X-Ecutioners Built From Scratch Loud Records
Techno/Electronica        [ top ]
1 Organic Grooves Black Cherry Aum Fidelity
2 Various Artists Verve//REMIxed Verve Records
3 Oojami Bellydancing Breakbeats Mondo Melodia
4 Ursula 1000 Kinda' Kinky 18th Street Lounge
5 Zap Mama Push It To The Max Luaka Bop
6 Various Artists Suba Tributo Six Degrees
7 ChEMIcal Brothers Come With Us Virgin Records
8 St. Germaine Boulevard F Communications
9 DJ Cheb I Sabbah Krishna Lila Six Degrees
10 Various Artists Zen And The Art Of Chilling, Vol One Mondo Melodia
11 Tabla Beat Science Live In San Francisco At Stern Grove Palm Pictures
12 Various Artists I Love Serge: Electronica Gainsbourg Pagan Records
13 Nitin Sawhney Prophesy V2 Music
14 Telepopmusik Genetic World Capitol Records
15 Thievery Corporation The Richest Man In Babylon 18th Street Lounge
16 Tino Tino's Breaks Self Produced
17 Kabul Workshop Trigana Tinder Records
18 Various Artists Recline Six Degrees
19 Various Artists Rough Guide To Arabesque World Music Network
20 Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble Cd Shanachie Entertainment
Modern/Avant Garde        [ top ]
1 Beau Hunks Kodachrome-Compositions Of Raymond Scott Basta
2 Frank Pahl & Klimperei Music For Desserts Self Produced
3 Amy Denio & Petunia To Lie Tenderly Self Produced
4 Residents The Residents' Petting Zoo East Side Digital
5 Bang On A Can Bang On A Can Classics Cantaloupe Music
6 Fred Frith Accidental Rer
7 Lutz Glandien The 5th Elephant Rer
8 Meredith Monk Mercy ECM Records
9 Negativland Dick Vaughn's Moribund Music Of The '70's Seeland
10 Fred Frith Gravity Rer
11 Unamunos Quorum Between Breaths Self Produced
12 Controlled Bleeding Can You Smell The Rain Between Tone Casualties
13 Pfly Duckapus Self Produced
14 Banabila Spherics Tone Casualties
15 Drexciya Harnessed The Storm Rooftop Promotion
16 Codec Scovill Clinical Imperfections Nonresponse
17 The Coma Savants Coma Savant Uvulittle
18 Iannis Xenakis Persepolis & REMIxes Asphodel
19 Joscha Oetz Vieles Ist Eins Accretions
20 Marcos Fernandez Hybrid Vigor Accretions
Classical        [ top ]
1 Seim/Braekke/Johansen The Source And Different Cikadas ECM Records
2 Misha Alperin Night ECM Records
3 Paul Hillier Fragments: Theatre Of Voices Harmonia Mundi
4 Eleni Karaindrou Music For Trojan Women By Euripides ECM New Series
5 Martha Masters Guitar Recital Naxos
6 Rick Sprague Dreams Of Love Self Produced
7 Dennis James Cristal: Glass Music Through The Ages Sony Classical
8 John Adams Naive And Sentimental Music Nonesuch Records
9 The Harp Consort Feat: Andrew Lawrence-King Missa Mexicana Harmonia Mundi
10 Luciano Berio Voci ECM New Series
11 Angele Dubeau & La Pieta It Etait Une Fois Analekta
12 Paquito D'rivera The Clarinetist Pimienta
13 Erik Satie Pianoworks: Riri Shimada Legacy
14 Bela Bartok 44 Duos For Two Violins: Andras Keller, Janos Pilz ECM New Series
15 Steve Reich Tehillim The Desert Music Cantaloupe Music
16 Michael Gordon Decasia Cantaloupe Music
17 Yo-Yo Ma Yo-Yo Ma Plays The Music Of John Williams Sony Classical
18 Elizabeth Dolin/Francine Kay Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Janacek Analekta
19 Xenia Ensemble Eastern Approaches Felmay
20 Yo-Yo Ma Yo-Yo Ma Plays Bach Legacy
Americana (Folk, Country, Bluegrass, Blues)        [ top ]
1 Otis Taylor Respect The Dead Northern Blues
2 The Flatlanders Now Again New West
3 Various Artists Dressed In Black Dualtone
4 Tony Furtado American Gypsy What Are Records?
5 Pete Wernick's Live Five Up All Night Self Produced
6 Hank Williams III Risin Outlaw Curb Records
7 Corey Harris Downhome Sophisticate Rounder
8 Steve Earle Sidetracks E-Squared
9 Eva Cassidy Imagine Blix Street
10 Hank Williams III Lovesick Broke & Driftin' Curb Records
11 The Hot Club Of Cowtown Ghost Town Hightone Records
12 Bela Fleck And The Flecktones Live At The Quick Columbia Records
13 Various Artists Mississippi Blues Putumayo
14 Jerry Douglas Lookout For Hope Sugar Hill Records
15 Jorma Kaukonen Blue Country Heart Columbia Records
16 David Grisman Quintet Dawgnation Acoustic Disc
17 Various Artists Ultimate Mardi Gras Mardi Gras
18 Reeltime Travelers Livin' Reeltime, Thinkin' Old-Time Self Produced
19 Nickel Creek This Side Sugar Hill Records
20 Various Artists Caught In The Webb Koch
Blues        [ top ]
1 Otis Taylor Respect The Dead Northern Blues
2 Corey Harris Downhome Sophisticate Rounder
3 Various Artists Mississippi Blues Putumayo
4 Various Artists Ultimate Mardi Gras Mardi Gras
5 R L Burnside & The Sound Machine Raw Electric 1979-1980 Inside Sounds/Inside Memp
6 Delbert McClinton Room To Breathe New West
7 Rory Block I'm Every Woman Rounder
8 Ruthie Foster Runaway Soul Self Produced
9 Various Artists Colorado Blues Society 2001 Self Produced
10 Elliott Sharp's Terraplane Music For Yellowman Zoar Music
11 Roy Rogers Slideways Evidence
12 John Mooney All I Want Blind Pig Records
13 Various Artists Rough Guide To Delta Blues World Music Network
14 Shemekia Copeland Talking To Strangers Alligator Records
15 Washboard Chaz Blues Trio Courtyard Blues Corrugated
16 Rick Holmstrom Hydraulic Tone Cool Records
17 Charlie Musselwhite One Night In America Telarc Blues
18 Omar & The Howlers Big Delta Blind Pig Records
19 BB King & Pee Wee Crayton Blue On Blues Fuel 2000
20 T-Model Ford Bad Man Fat Possum
Space        [ top ]
1 Danny Heines What Worlds They Bring Vada Disc
2 Various Artists Trance Planet Triloka Records
3 Carlos Santana Divine Light Legacy
4 Kitaro An Ancient Journey Domo
5 Alias Zone Lucid Dreams Cybermotion
6 Steve Tibbets A Man About A Horse ECM Records
7 Gabrielle Roth And The Mirrors Bardo Raven
8 Various Artists 156 Strings Cuneiform Records
9 Mark Deutsch Fool Self Produced
10 Bill Douglas Homeland Hearts Of Space
11 Kazu Matsui Bamboo Narada
12 Mercan Dede Nar Double Moon
13 Steve Skinner Dream River Flying Dog
14 Bozo Adagio Magic Music Marx
15 Layne Redmond & Tommy Brunjes Trance Union Self Produced
16 Ancient Future Planet Passion Self Produced
17 Scott Medina Nectar Of The Strings Self Produced
18 Cybertribe Sacred Memories New Earth
19 Steve Gorn Colors Of The Mind Dharma Moon
20 Jonathan Goldman Medicine Buddha Etherean Music
Rock        [ top ]
1 John Trudell Bone Days Daemon
2 The Bran Flakes Bounces Happi Tyme
3 Tom Waits Blood Money Anti/Epitaph
4 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Nonesuch Records
5 Tom Waits Alice Anti/Epitaph
6 Keller Williams Laugh Sci Fidelity
7 Michelle Shocked Deep Natural Mighty Sound
8 Bonnie Raitt Silver Lining Capitol Records
9 Los Lobos Good Morning Aztlan Mammoth Records
10 Eels Souljacker Dreamworks
11 Various Artists Japan For Sale Vol. Two Sony Music Imports
12 Buffalo Daughter I Emperor Norton
13 Van Morrison Down The Road Universal Records
14 Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Warner Bros Records
15 Steve Earle Jerusalem ArtEMIs
16 Giant Sand Cover Magazine Thrill Jockey
17 Rasputina Cabin Fever Instinct Records
18 Sonic Youth Murray Street Geffen Records
19 The Residents Demons Dance Alone East Side Digital
20 Smokey & Miho Smokey & Miho Self Produced
Gospel        [ top ]
1 Madame W.M.Andrews Make Up For The Time I've Lost Self Produced
2 Blind Boys Of Alabama Higher Ground Realworld Records
3 Staple Singers Uncloudy Day Rhino Records
4 Various Artists Wow Gospel 2002 Verity
5 Various Artists Sacred Steel Convention Arhoolie Productions
6 Various Artists The Rough Guide To Gospel World Music Network
7 Holmes Brothers Righteous! Rounder
8 The New Spiritual Wonders Gospel Of The Rockies Self Produced
9 Christianaires Thank You Marxan
10 Various Artists Saved! - Northernblues Gospel Allstars Northern Blues
11 Women Of Excellence Mass Choir Where There's A Will There's A Way Self Produced
12 Helen Baylor My Everything Diadem
13 Various Artists Praise In His Presence Live Harborwood
14 The Sprituals Project Choir Cd Self Produced
15 Various Artists The Gospel Divas Tommy Boy Records
16 Various Artists None But The Righteous: Masters Of Sacred Steel Ropeadope
17 Fred Hammond Speak Those Things: Pol Chapter 3 Verity
18 Various Artists Gospel Greats Vol 8:The Diary Of A Worshipper Verity
19 Excelsior Soul Interpretations Verity
20 Ben Tankard The Best Of Ben Tankard Verity
Ñ Alternative        [ top ]
1 Various Artists Y Tu Mama Tambien Zomba/Verity
2 Trio Mocoto Samba Rock Six Degrees
3 Radio Zumbido Los Ultimos Dias Del Am Palm Pictures
4 Los De Abajo Cybertropic Chilango Power Luaka Bop
5 Manu Chao Radio Bemba Sound System EMI Latino
6 Various Artists Miguel Rios Y Las Estrellas Del Rock Latino BMG
7 Various Artists Tributo A Soda Stereo BMG
8 Ziroq Cd Triloka Records
9 Babasonicos Jessico Delanuca
10 Los Cafres Espejitos Dln
11 Various Artists Wea Rock Sampler Wea Latina
12 Aleks Syntek De Noche En La Ciudad EMI Latino
13 Quetzal Sing The Real Vanguard
14 Manu Chao Esperanza Virgin Records
15 Kapanga Operacion Rebenque Delanuca
16 Cafe Tacuba Vale Callampa MCA Records
17 Vico C Emboscada EMI Latino
18 Los Violadores Lo Mejor De Los Violadores Delanuca
19 Ozomatli Embrace The Chaos Interscope
20 Voz De Mano Polen Self Produced