artist of the year
. Carl Finlow/Voice Stealer/Random Factor
album of the year
. Atom Heart : Schnittstelle (Rather Interesting)
top 10 idm
. Atom Heart : Schnittstelle (Rather Interesting)
. Bola : Soup (Skam)
. Hat : DPS Holiday (Daisyworld)
. I-f : Fucking Consumer (Disko B) [CD version w/ extra tracks]
. Lithops : Uni Umit (Moikai)
. Mouse On Mars : Glam (Sonig)
. QBert : Wave Twisters (Galactic Butt Hair)
. Random Factor : Too Fast Into the Future (20/20 Vision)
. Two Lone Swordsmen : Stay Down (Warp)
. Voice Stealer : The All-Electric House (Subvert)
top 10 "ambient"
. Biosphere/Deathprod : Nordheim Transformed (Rune Gramofon)
. Nuno Canavarro : Plux Quba (Moikai)
. Kim Cascone : blueCube (Noton)
. Coil : Time Machines (Eskaton)
. Tetsu Inoue : Waterloo Terminal (Caipirinha)
. Tetsu Inoue : Psycho-Acoustic (Tzadik)
. Phonophani : Phonophani (Biophon)
. Terre Thaemlitz and Jane Dowe : Institutional Collaborative (Mille Plateaux)
. Various Artists : Touch Sampler Vol. 3 (Touch)
. World Standard : Country Gazette (Asphodel)
top 10 singles/eps
. Arovane : Arovane EP (Din)
. Chris De Luca : Unknown (Schematic)
. Richard Devine : Richard Coleman Devine (Schematic)
. Electronome : Music Telex EP (Viewlexx)
. Carl A. Finlow : Il.ek.tro (Klang)
. Le Car : Auto-Motif EP (Ersatz Audio)
. Andrea Parker : Ballbreaker (Mo'Wax)
. Pole : Pole EP (Kiff SM)
. John Selway : Zoids Vol. 2 (Serotonin)
. Senking : Senking EP (Karaoke Kalk)
we reviewed most of these at urban sounds at one point or another this
year, so if you're interested, check out www.urbansounds.com and
www.urbansounds.com/archives/us_mar_98/.
peace,
sc
onnow: bola : soup (skam)