Prog Lists: My Favorite Albums of Each Year

    2025   

1. PROGHMA-C Equation_Toxic: A

2. CHERCÁN Chercán

3. MAUD THE MOTH The Distaff

4. SINGLELITO Non-Consciousness

5. DEPOSED KING Letters to a Distant Past

6. STEPHEN THELEN Worlds in Collision

7. NUMEN The Outsider

8. ANGE Cunégonde

9. FALLEN LETTERS Mindfractures

10. SIGILU Beta

11. WIPPY BONSTACK Tactile Demons

12. WIPPY BONSTACK Correct Irregulars

13. HIROMI'S SONICWONDER Out There

14. ATOMIC TIME Subsounds

15. SOLSTICE Clann

16. JOHN HOLDEN The Great Divide

17. STORCHI By Far Away

18. TRITOP Tritop 120

19. DOMINIC SANDERSON Blazing Revelations

20. AVKRVST Waving at the Sky

21. OBIYMY DOSCHU Vidrada

22. NANKAI TRIO Antarctica 

23. TALE CUE Eclipse of the Midnight Sun

24. ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF Iconoclasts

25. DEMO RUMUDO Second Nature

26. DOCTORS OF SPACE Fusing Your Synapses

27. DISCIPLINE Breadcrumbs 

28. STEREOLAB Instant Holograms on Metal Film

29. GÉRALD MASSOIS Demain à l'aube

30. MALABRIEGA Frippada Andaluza 

31. TOM PENAGUIN Beginnings

32. FULGUROMATIC Fulguromatic

33. PAREIDOLON The Unattainable Shore

34. SOFT FFOG Focus

35. OLOGRAM La mia scia

36. SQUID Cowards 

37. CORDE OBLIQUE Cries and Whispers

38. KARFAGEN Omni

39. DREAM THEATER Parasomnia

40. RED BAZAR Blood Moon

Special Mention:

LARS FREDRIK FRØISLIE Quattro Racconti

QUADRECA Vanisher, Horizon Scraper

CICADA Gazing the Shades of White

Honorable Mentions:

41. DANEFAE Trost

42. DAAL Decoding the Emptiness

43. HOFFOOT Phantom Limb

44. JAMIE PARKER Do You Dream of Luminous Things?

    2024   

1. PLANTOID Terrapath

    (tie) BENT KNEE Twenty Pills Without Water

3. MIDAS FALL Cold Waves Divide Us 

4. MAGICK BROTHER & MYSTIC SISTER Tarot, Part I

5. INNER EAR BRIGADE Perkunas

6. SLIFT Ilion

7. BELIEVE The Wyrding Way

8. THE AMAZING Piggies

9. HANDS OF THE HERON Quiet Light

10. ARNAUD BUKWALD Orange Fuze

11. VIENTOS MODERADOS DEL ESTE Un Manual de Signos y Síntomas

12. BIG BIG TRAIN The Likes of Us 

13. RITUAL The Story of Mr. Bogd, Part 1

14. ARNAUD BUKWALD with DIDIER MALHERBE Moondragore

15. GEORDIE GREEP The New Sound 

16. VIIMA Väistyy Mielen Yö 

17. THE ARISTOCRATS Duck

18. PURE REASON REVOLUTION Coming Up to Consciousness 

19. CIELO DRIVE Pieces from a Broken Star

20. ALEX CARPANI BAND The Good Man

21. TOM PENAGUIN Tom Penaguin

22. VYLET PONY Monarch of Monsters

23. COMPASSIONIZER The Fellowship of the Mystery

24. ACTIONFREDAG Lys fremtid i mørke 

25. CALIGULA'S HORSE Charcoal Grace

26. SLEEPMAKESWAVES It's Here, But I Have No Names for It 

27. NEW GHOST A Dagger in Every Tide

28. AETHER Trans-Neptunian Objects

29. MONKEY3 Welcome to the Machine

30. BEARDFISH Songs for Beating Hearts

Honorable Mentions:

31. KARFAGEN Land of Chameleons

32. ALCEST Les chants de l'aurore

33. COLIN MASSON The Visitor

34. THE CHRONICLES OF FATHER ROBIN The Songs & Tales of Airoea, Book 3: Magical Chronicle (Ascension)

35. ELLESMERE Stranger Skies

36. MEER Wheels Within Wheels

37. GRECO BASTIÁN With a Little Hell from MORE Friends

38. RETURNED TO THE EARTH Stalagmite Steeple

Special Mentions:

VYLET PONY Girls Who Are Wizards

THE CURE Songs of a Lost World

EMMA VOLARD Alibi

BRAINSTORY Sounds Good

     2023    

1. OIAPOK OisoLün

2. AISLES Beyond Drama

3. EARTHSIDE Let the Truth Speak

4. BILLIE BOTTLE'S TEMPLE OF SHIBBOLETH Billie Bottle's Temple of Shibboleth

5. HOMUNCULUS RES Ecco l'impero dei doppi sensi

6. MOTORPSYCHO Yay!
7. VESPERO De ludo globi
8. JACK O' THE CLOCK The Warm, Dark Circus
9. THE MERCURY TREE Self Similar

10. KARMAMOI Strings from the Edge of Sound

11. MICE ON STILTS I Am Proud of You.

12. OK GOODNIGHT The Fox and the Bird

13. BATTLESTATIONS Memoirs of Once

14. AMOEBA SPLIT Quiet Euphoria

15. LAZULI 11 

16. STEFANO PANUNZI Pages from the Sea

17. ZOPP Dominion

18. AGUSA Prima Material

19. CARAVELA EXCARLATE III

20. DOMINIC SANDERSON Impermanence

21. NE OBLIVISCARUS Exul

22. DEPOSED KING One Man's Grief

23. HANIA RANI Ghosts

24. KARNATAKA Requiem for a Dream

25. EYELESS OWL Murmurations

26. AVKRVST The Approbation

27. ATSUKO CHIBA Water, It Feels Like It's Growing

28. THE FILIBUSTER SALOON Going Off Topic

29. RASCAL REPORTERS The Strainge Case of Steve

30. ADVENT HORIZON A Cell to Call Home

31. FISH ON FRIDAY 8mm

32. SEVEN IMPALE Summit

33. AVIATIONS Luminaria

34. OZRIC TENTACLES Lotus Unfolding

35. ISOBAR III 

36. ACTIONFREDAG Turist i eget liv

37. AGLAIA Existentialism

38. CAIRO Nemesis

39. ULTRAPHAUNA No No No No 

40. SEQUENTIA LEGENDA Alcyone 

41. SONAR (with David Torn and J. Peter Schwalm) Three Movements

42. CROWN LANDS Fearless

43. MANNA/MIRAGE Autobiographie

44. SWANS The Beggar

45. AETHER Aether

46. SQUID O Monolith

47. SUNCHILD Exotic Creatures and a Stolen Dream

48. LARS FREDRIK FRØISLIE Fire Foretellinger 

49. SINGLE CELLED ORGANISM Event Horizon

50. MYSTERY Redemption

Honorable Mentions:

ISPROJECT The Archinauts

ENSLAVED Heimdal

UNITED PROGRESSIVE FRATERNITY Planetary Overload, Part 2 - Hope

THE GREAT WIDE NOTHING Hymns for Hungry Spirits, Vol. II

KATATONIA Sky Void of Stars

BARONESS Stone

ARNAUD BUKWALD La marmite cosmique 7 - Uncle Bizarre

THE CHRONICLES OF FATHER ROBIN The Songs & Tales of Airoea, Book I: The Tale of Father Robin (State of Nature)

NINE SKIES The Lightmaker

MONIKA ROSCHER BIGBAND Witchy Activities and the Maple Death

COSMIC GROUND Entropy

Special Mentions:

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS Live from Hafursey, A Cercle Production

PAT METHENY Dream Box

FRENCH TV A Ghastly State of Affairs

IO EARTH Sanctuary

     2022    

1. iNFiNiEN Beyond the Veil

2. WIPPY BONSTACK 22

3. RANESTRANE Apocalypse Now

4. FIVE-STOREY ENSEMBLE Presence

5. GADADU The Weatherman Is Wrong

6. GREEN ASPHALT Green Asphalt

7. BREIDABLIK Alduorka

8. IKARUS Plasma

9. MOTORPSYCHO Ancient Astronauts

10. KLAUS SCHULZE Deus Arrakis

11. OHMA Between All Things

12. DAVE BRONS Return to Arda 

13. WESERBERGLAND Sacrae Symphonae nr. 1

13. KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD Changes

15. TOEHIDER I Have Little to No Memories of These Memories

16. ELDER Innate Passage

17. RETURNED TO THE EARTH Fall of the Watcher

18. DREADNAUGHT The Endless

19. STRANGE POP Ten Years Gone

20. TANGERINE DREAM Raum

21. BLACK MIDI Hellfire

22. GRICE Polarchoral

23. JAMBINAI Apparition

24. ALIANTE Destinazione Oblique

25. STEVE VAI Inviolate 

26. MIDLAKE For the Sake of Bethel Woods

27. BIRTH Born

28. MARILLION An Hour Before It's Dark

29. KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, & Lava

30. SILENT TEMPLE Faery Revolution

31. HAVEN OF ECHOES The Indifferent Stars

32. JONAS LINDBERG & THE OTHER SIDE Miles from Nowhere

33. INNER PROSPEKT Grey Origin

34. VON HERTZEN BROTHERS Red Alert in the Blue Forest

35. BEN CRAVEN Monsters from the Id

36. BIG BIG TRAIN Welcome to the Planet

37. ALMS The Trial

38. ONSÉGAN ENSEMBLE Realms 

39. ROLAND BÜHLMANN Emnalóc

40. THE POWER OF THREE Time Horizon

Honorable Mentions:

THE LIGHT IN THE OCEAN Deep Reef Dream

PURE REASON REVOLUTION Above Cirrus

MOON X Zap!

KARFAGEN Land of Green and Gold

GHOST TOAST Shade Without Color

Special Mention:

JAMBINAI Apparition

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD Laminated Denim

SON LUX Original Soundtrack Music for the film Everything, Everywhere, All the Time 

     2021    

1. NEEDLEPOINT Walking Up That Valley

2. GIANT SKY Giant Sky

3. ACCORDO DEI CONTRARI UR-

4. HANDS OF THE HERON 13 Moons

5. CALIGONAUT Magnified As Giants

6. SHAMBLEMATHS 2

7. RACHEL FLOWERS Bigger on the Inside

8. MONOBODY Comma

9. BATTLESTATIONS Splinters, Vol. 2 - Bruise

10. YOO DOO RIGHT Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose

11. MANNA / MIRAGE Man Out of Time

12. SKE Insolibilia

13. MONO Pilgrimage of the Soul

14. A FORMAL HORSE Meat Mallet

15. BLACK MIDI Cavalcade

16. KANT FREUD KAFKA Historias el acantilado

17. SMALLTAPE The Hungry Heart

18. CICCADA Harvest

19. KRISTOFFER GILDENLÖW Let Me Be a Ghost

20. ARGOS The Other Life

21. JORDSJØ Pastoralis

22. GLASS KITES II

23. AGUSA En annan värld

24. INNER PROSPEKT Canvas Two

25. BEAUTIFUL BEDLAM Beautiful Bedlam

26. PALE MANNEQUIN Colours of Continuity

27. DAVE BAINBRIDGE To the Far Away

28. KONOM Konom

29. BIG BIG TRAIN Common Ground

30. EMERALD DAWN To Touch the Sky

Honorable Mentions:

FROST* Day and Age

CAST Visegimus

SYLVAN One to Zero

MISTER ROBOT Robot Dreams

     2020    

1. MAGICK BROTHER & MYSTIC SISTER Magick Brother & Mystic Sister

2. PENDRAGON Love over Fear

3. THE RETICENT The Oubliette

4. THE LIGHT IN THE OCEAN The Pseudo-Scientific Study of Oceanic Neo-Cryptid Zoology

5. BATTLESTATIONS Inform

6. NEON HEART Neon Heart

7. ONCE AND FUTURE BAND Deleted Scenes

8. ARNAUD BUKWALD La marmite cosmique, no. 6

9. WESERBERGLAND Am Ende der Welt

10. ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF All Thoughts Fly

11. JOHN LUDI Mistakes Have Been Made

12. HOMUNCULUS RES Andiamo in giro di notte e ci consumiamo nel fuoco

13. ABEL GANZ The Life of the Honeybee and Other Moments of Clarity

14. VESPERO The Four Zoas

15. GALIA SOCIAL Rise

16. MARJANA SEMKINA Sleepwalking

17. DAI KAHT II

18. JARDON The Fading Thought

19. MOTORPSYCHO The All Is One

20. JOHN HOLDEN Rise and Fall

21. HIBISCUS BISCUIT Reflections of Mine

22. UBI MAIOR Bestie, Uomini e Dèi

23. THE OCEAN Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic

24. PAT METHENY From This Place

25. KARFAGEN Principles and Theory of Spektra

26. CORDE OBLIQUE The Moon Is a Dry Bone

27. LOGOS Sadako e le mille gru di carta

28. MOURA Moura

29. THE BARDIC DEPTHS The Bardic Depths

30. ELLESMERE Wyrd

Honorable Mentions:

ANTONY KALUGIN Marshmallow Moondust

VICTOR GO The Leap
PURE REASON REVOLUTION Eupnea

FREN Where Do You Want Ghosts to Reside?

LA MASCHERA DI CERA S.E.I.

LUNATIC SOUL Through Shaded Woods

ZIO Flower Torenia

MOON MEN Tales of Space Pirates

     2019    

1. JAMBINAI Onde

2. TIRILL Said the Sun to the Moon
3. THIEVES' KITCHEN Genius Loci
4. FUZZ PUDDLE Speciecide
5. SEVEN STEPS TO THE GREEN DOOR The? Lie
6. FLY PAN AM C'est ça

7. HAMMOCK Silencia
8. THE LOOMINGS Hey, Weirdo!

9. MONKEY3 Spheres

10. STEVE HAUSCHILDT Nonlin

11. THE TEA CLUB If / When

12. ARNAUD BUKWALD La marmite cosmique V

13. BENT KNEE You Know What They Mean

14. IAMTHEMORNING The Bell
15. MONO Nowhere, Now Here

16. BLACK MIDI Schlagenheim

17. DIZZY MYSTICS Wanderlost

18. UNITED PROGRESSIVE FRATERNITY Planetary Overload, Part 1 - Loss

19. STEVE UNRUH Precipice
20. KARFAGEN Echoes from Within The Dragon's Island

21. MODERN-ROCK ENSEMBLE Night Dreams & Wishes

22. DIAGONAL Arc

23. IQ Resistance
24. CONSIDER THE SOURCE You Are Literally A Metaphor
25. CHARLIE CAWOOD Blurring Into Motion

26. THE PSYCHEDELIC ENSEMBLE Mother's Tales

27. EX CANIX Shaman

28. BIG BIG TRAIN Grand Tour
29. ALIO DIE & INDALASKA Tempus Fugit

30. RETROSPECTIVE Latent Advidity

Honorable Mentions:

FORMAL HORSE Here Comes a Man from the Council with a Flamethrower

OPETH In Cauda Venenum

JORDSJØ Nattfiolen

ELECTRIC ASTURIAS Trinity

Special Mention:

DE LORIANS De Lorians

     2018    

1. UNAKA PRONG Salinity Now!
2. MIDAS FALL Evaporate
3. KEOR Petrichor

4. TOBY DRIVER They Are the Shield
5. MONOBODY Raytracing

6. IVAR BJØRNSON & EINAR SELVIK Hugsjá

7. STARVING DAUGHTERS Strange Valleys
8. LOW Double Negative 
9. JULIA HOLTER Aviary
10. HYPNO5E A Backward Glance on a Travel Road: Alba - Les Ombres Errantes

11. ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF Dead Magic
12. ALL TRAPS ON EARTH A Drop of Light
13. ALTO PALO Frozen There
14. NOSOUND Allow Yourself
15. SEQUENTIA LEGENDA Renaissance
16. LA DOTTRINA DEGLI OPPOSTI Arrivaderci sogni
17. SEVEN REIZH L'albatros
18. HOMUNCULUS RES Della stessa sostanza dei sogni
19. REGAL WORM Pig Views
20. METHEXIS Topos

21. DEAD CAN DANCE Dionysus
22. VAK Budo
23. GLEB KOLYADIN Gleb Kolyadin
24. BUBU El eco del sol

25. VYLET PONY Our Light and After

26. FEM Mutazione

27. ATMOSPHERES Reach
28. PiNioL Bran Coucou
29. RICHARD WILEMAN Veil
30. MIDLIFE Phase

31. JOSÉ MARIA BLANC La herencia de Pablo

32. SONAR (with David Torn) Vortex

33. CANTURBE Flotteur

34. GALASPHERE 347 Galasphere 347
35. DEWA BUDJANA Mahandini

36. DAAL Decalogue of Darkness

37. EMPEROR NORTON Emperor Norton
38. JOHN HOLDEN Capture Light
39. THE FLOOD Chamber Music
40. MONNAIE DE SINGE The Last Chance

Honorable Mentions:
STEVE ROACH Molecules of Motion
GALAHAD Seas of Change
CATU KUÁ Que Vengan los Párajos
ALIO DIE & AGLAIA Amitabha
MANNA/MIRAGE Rest of the World
NOT A GOOD SIGN Icebound
ÁNGEL ONTALVA & VESPERO Carta Marina

KNOWER Life

Special Mention:
STOP MOTION ORCHESTRA Lightworks
ARNAUD BUKWALD La marmite cosmique, menu no. 4

     2017    

1. DEMEN Nektyr
2. VYLET PONY Mystic Acoustics

3. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO async

4. BATTLESTATIONS Vixit

5. CICADA White Forest

6. FIVE-STOREY ENSEMBLE Night en Face
7. TREE TOPS Ghosts Don't Dance with Shoes
8. ANATHEMA The Optimist

9. THE CONTORTIONIST Clairvoyant

10. SOUP Remedies

11. BELIEVE Seven Widows

12. YVES POTIN/JAZZCOMPUTER.ORG Forest Stairways

13. CHEER-ACCIDENT Putting Off Death

14. BRIAN ELLIS Suspension 

15. BIG BAD WOLF Pond Life
16. UNAKA PRONG Adult Contemporary
17. KANT FREUD KAFKA Onírico 
18. PSYCHIC EQUALIZER The Lonely Traveller
19. SIIILK Endless Mystery

20. AQUASERGE laisse ça être

21. SEQUENTIA LEGENDA Ethereal

22. DAM KAT ALAWN

23. EKOS Otra Dimensión

24. SOUL ENEMA Of Clans and Clones and Clowns
25. BUBBLEMATH Edit Peptide
26. EYOT Innate
27. AMAROK Hunt
28. CAST Power and Outcome
29. INNER EAR BRIGADE Dromology
30. CAMEMBERT Negative Toe

31. KOTEBEL Cosmology

32. WOBBLER From Silence to Somewhere

33. ALIO DIE & LINGUA FUNGI Lento

34. WESERBERGLAND Sehr Kosmish Ganz Progisch

35. SEAS OF MIRTH Hark! The Headland Approacheth
36. ACCORDO DEI CONTRARI Violato Intatto

37. BIG BIG TRAIN Grimspound
38. ALIO DIE They Grow Layers of Life Between
39. HIMMELLEGEME Myth of Earth
40. BENT KNEE Land Animal

Honorable Mentions:

DRAW THE SKY Humanity

KETTLESPIDER Kettlespider
ROBERT JÜRJENDAL Simple Past/Lihtminevik
SILHOUETTE  The World Is Flat and Other Alternative Facts 

ELECTRIC MOON Stardust Rituals

TANGERINE DREAM Quantum Gate8

Special Mention:
UTOPIANISTI Brutopianisti

      2016     

1. ALEXANDRE DESPLAT The Danish Girl (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2. MICE ON STILTS Hope for a Mourning
3. TONY PATTERSON Equations of Meaning
4. GHOST MEDICINE Discontinuance

5. AXON-NEURON Metamorphosis

6. VANETA Antimemory

7. THE GHOSTS OF JUPITER The Great Bright Horses

8. UNAKA PRONG Margot

9. STARSABOUT Halflights
10. THE MERCURY TREE Permutations

11. MOTHER TURTLE II
12. IAMTHEMORNING Lighthouse
13. STARE AT THE CLOUDS This Clear Divide
14. UTOPIANISTI The Third Frontier

15. PROMENADE Noi al dir di di noi
16. THE ARBORIST Acrylic Road

17. LOST WORLD Of Things and Beings
18. GADI CAPLAN Morning Sun

19. iNFiNiEN Light at The Endless Tunnel

20. MANTRA VEGA The Illusion's Reckoning

21. DUNGEN Häxan
22. THE WINSTONS The Winstons

23. ILL WICKER  Untamed 
24. ANAKDOTA Overloading
25. KAYO DOT Plastic House on Base of Sky
26. ULVER ATGCLVLSSCAP
27. THENCE We Are Left With A Song
28. GRAVITY SAYS_I Quantum Unknown
29. WHALEPHANT KaMMA
30. JACK O' THE CLOCK Repetitions of The Old City - I

31. BILLY COBHAM Drum 'n' Voice, Vol. 4

32. THE COLIN TENCH PROJECT Hair in a G-String (Unfinished but Sweet)

33. YVES POTIN Waters
34. ANTOINE FAFARD Sphère
35. PLINI Handmade Cities
36. SHAMBLEMATHS Shamblemaths
37. INGRANAGGI DELLA VALLE Warm Spaced Blue
38. SEVEN IMPALE Contrapasso
39. NOSOUND Scintilla
40. AMOEBA SPLIT Second Split

Honorable Mentions:
41. AKT II (Binario)
42. ARNAUD BUKWALD La marmite cosmique 

43. AMPLEDEED BYOB

44. MYRATH Legacy
45. YUGEN Death by Water
46. VESPERO Lique Mekwas

47. RESINA Resina
48. ZHONGYU Zhongyu
49. MATTHEW PARMENTER All Our Yesterdays
50. LOST KITE Remains

51. SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO Work in Progress

     2015     

1. CICADA Light Shining Through the Sea
2. ALIO DIE & LORENZO MONTANÀ Holographic Codex
3. BATTLESTATIONS The Extent of Damage
4. STEVEN WILSON Hand. Cannot. Erase.
5. MYSTERY Delusion Rain

6. ZA! Lolosimo

7. SYLVAN Home 

8. LA COSCIENZA DI ZENO La notte anche de giorno

9. ANEKDOTEN Until the Ghosts Have All Gone 

10. NEEDLEPOINT Aimless Mary

11. PROGRESSION BY FAILURE Sonic Travelogue

12. ABIGAIL'S GHOST Black Plastic Sun

13. THIEVES' KITCHEN The Clockwork Universe

14. OZRIC TENTACLES Technicians of the Sacred

15. CICCADA The Finest of Miracles 
16. THE PSYCHEDELIC ENSEMBLE The Sunstone

17. DUNGEN Allas Sak
18. JAGA JAZZIST Starfire 
19. VOLA Inmazes 
20. KLONE Here Comes the Sun

21. THE AMAZING Picture You
22. MANNA/MIRAGE Blue Dogs

23. MAGMA Slag Tanz

24. MONOBODY Monobody

25. JAM IT! Following the Unknown

26. 3RDEGREE Ones & Zeroes, Part 1
27. LEPROUS The Congregation
28. SVETAMUZIKA Present Simple
29. ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF The Miraculous
30. HOMUNCULUS RES Come si diventa ciò che si era

31. CORVUS STONE Unscrewed 
32. METHEXIS Suiciety 

33. NEMO Coma

34. TOE Hear You 
35. ABSTRAKT Limbosis 
36. ADVENT The Silent Sentinel 
37. THE TEA CLUB Grappling
38. NATIVE CONSTRUCT Quiet World
39. COSMIC GROUND 2
40. KAMASI WASHINGTON The Epic

Honorable Mentions:

KARDA ESTRA Strange Relations

    2014     

1. BENT KNEE Shiny Eyed Babies
2. ANTOINE FAFARD Ad Perpetuum
3. FAUN Luna

4. KANT FREUD KAFKA No tengas miedo

5. SEVEN IMPALE City of the Sun
6. AALTO Ikaro
7. THE MERCURY TREE Countenance
8. HUMANA PROG Flori, Frutti, Farfalle
9. HANS ZIMMER Interstellar (music from the Original Motion Picture soundtrack)
10. SYD ARTHUR Sound Mirror

11. PINGVINORKESTERN Push
12. JAKOB Sines
13. PRINCE Art Official Age
14. JERZY ANTCZAK Ego, Georgius
15. MOTORPSYCHO Behind the Sun
16. UT GRET Ancestor's Tale
17. ELECTRIC ORANGE Volume 10
18. HOMÍNIDO Estirpe Lítica
19. MONO The Last Dawn
20. THE CONTORTIONIST Language

21. MAGIC BUS Transmission from Sogmore's Garden
22. IAMTHEMORNING Belighted
23. FEM Sulla bolla di Sapone
24. TAYLOR WATSON (A)Synchronous
25. CIRRUS BAY In Search of Joy

26. DISTORTED HARMONY Chain Reaction
27. DREAM THE ELECTRIC SLEEP Heretics
28. Begin Again (music from and inspired by the original motion picture)
29. NOMADS OF HOPE Breaking the circles for a while
30. KAYO DOT Coffins on Io

31. DAVE BAINBRIDGE Celestial Fire

Honorable Mentions:

32. PHI Now the Waves of Sound Remain
33. AGORÀ Ichinen
34. FREDDEGREDDE Brighter Skies
35. ATOMIC APE Swarm 
36. CORVUS STONE II
37. SUNN O))) and ULVER Terrestrials
38. ALEX CARPANI 4 Destinies
39. MARGIN Teatime
40. HELIOPOLIS City of the Sun

    2013    

1. HOMUNCULUS RES Limiti all'eguaglianza della parte con il tutto
2. FIVE-STOREY ENSEMBLE Not This City

3. THE GABRIEL CONSTRUCT Interior City

4. VOTUM Harvest Moon

5. JAMES BLAKE Overgrown
6. SETNA Guérison
7. KARNIVOOL Asymmetry
8. EDISON'S CHILDREN The Final Breath Before November
9. AIRBAG The Greatest Show on Earth
10. I KNOW YOU WELL MISS CLARA Chapter One

11. MIDAS FALL Wilderness

12. MIDLAKE Antiphon 
13. NOT A GOOD SIGN Not A Good Sign
14. TIRILL Um Himinjǫður
15. FLICKER How Much Are You Willing to Forget?

16. LIFESIGNS Lifesigns

17. KOSMOS Salattu Maailma

18. STELLARDRONE Light Years

19. EMPTY DAYS Empty Days
20. ULVER Messe I.X-VI.X

21. LIZARD Master & M

22. BROTHER APE Force Majeure
23. MIDDAY VEIL The Current

24. INNER EAR BRIGADE Rainbro

25. MOTORPSYCHO Still Life with Eggplant

26. SCARLET STORIES Scarlet Stories
27. DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS In Extremis
28. THIEVES' KITCHEN One for Sorrow, Two for Joy

29. INGRANAGGI DELLA VALLE In hoc signo

30. THE PSYCHEDELIC ENSEMBLE The Tale of The Golden King

Honorable Mentions:

UNREAL CITY La crudelta di Aprile

THE GATHERING Afterwords

BEYOND-O-MATIC Relations in the Border Between
THE WORM OUROBOROS Of Things That Never Were

VIENNA CIRCLE Silhouette

STEVEN WILSON The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories)

HAKEN The Mountain

     2012     

1. VIOLETA DI OUTONO Espectro

2. IAMTHEMORNING ~
3. L'ESTATE DI SAN MARTINO Talsette di Marsantino
4. SWANS The Seer

5. KOTEBEL Concerto for Piano and Electric Ensemble

6. BIG BIG TRAIN English Electric, Part 1

7. SYLVAN Sceneries

8. BATTLESTATIONS In a Cold Embrace

9. MAGMA Félicité Thösz

10. THE TEA CLUB Quickly, Quickly, Quickly 

11. JENSEN CODE The True Colors of Mars 2

12. I AND THOU Speak 

13. NINE STONES CLOSE One Eye on the Sunrise

14. MYSTERY The World Is a Game
15. ÄNGLAGÅRD Viljans Ôga
16. DAAL Dodecahedron

17. MOTORPSYCHO The Death Defying Unicorn
18. VAURA Selenelion

19. METHEXIS The Fall of Bliss
20. ARANIS Made in Belgium

21. THE GATHERING Disclosure

22. DEAD CAN DANCE Anastasia

23. ANATHEMA Weather Systems
24. CICADA Let's Go
25. THINKING PLAGUE Decline and Fall

26. TO-MERA Exile
27. 3RDEGREE The Long Division

28. THE ENID Invicta

29. DISTORTED HARMONY Utopia

30. DEAN WATSON Imposing Elements

Honorable Mentions:

RIVERSEA Out of an Ancient Sea

RHYS MARSH & THE AUTUMN GHOST The Blue Hour

     2011     

1. THE AMAZING Gentle Stream

2. LAGARTIJA Particelle

3. FAUN Eden

4. CORDE OBLIQUE A Hail of Bitter Almonds
5. NORTH SEA RADIO ORCHESTRA I a Moon

6. SLEEPMAKESWAVES …and so we destroyed everything

7. ANATHEMA Falling Deeper

8. WOBBLER Rites at Dawn

9. THE PSYCHEDELIC ENSEMBLE The Dream of the Magic Jongleur
10. MY BROTHER THE WIND I Wash My Soul in the Stream of Infinity

11. PENDRAGON Passion

12. KATE BUSH 50 Words for Snow

13. AKT Blemmebeya

14. CAMEMBERT Schnörgl Attahk

15. CICADA Pieces

16. SANHEDRIN Ever After

17. SKE 1000 autunni

18. WHITE WILLOW Terminal Twilight

19. FREQUENCY DRIFT Ghosts…
20. AUTUMN CHORUS The Village to the Vale

21. FAUNS Awaiting the Sun

22. TUNE Lucid Moments

23. FEN Epoch

24. ABRETE GANDUL Enjambre Sismico
25. IONA Another Realm
26. DUNGEN Skit I Allt
27. HUMBLE GRUMBLE Flanders Fields
28. MOOGG Le ore, i giorni, gli anni
29. FACTOR BURZACO II
30. TENHI Saivo

Honorable Mentions:

31. THE FUTURE KINGS OF ENGLAND Who Is This Who Is Coming? 

32. KARDA ESTRA New Worlds

33. INTROITUS Elements

34. BON IVER Bon Iver
35. EDISON’S CHILDREN In the Last Waking Moments

36. SOLUS3 Corner of the World

37. UNEXPECT Fables of the Sleepless Empire
38. AMPLIFIER The Octopus
39. LEPROUS Bilateral

40. DISCIPLINE To Shatter All Accord
41. SEAN FILKINS War and Peace and Other Stories of Love and Hate

     2010     

1. CICADA Over the Sea/Under the Water
2. FUNIN Unsound
3. BROTHER APE  A Rare Moment of Insight

4. DOMINA CATRINA LEE Songs from the Breastbone Drum

5. GIFTS FROM ENOLA Gifts from Enola

6. ATARAXIA Llyr
7. VESPERO By the Waters of Tomorrow
8. COLLAPSE UNDER THE EMPIRE The Sirens Sound
9. FOURTEEN TWENTY-SIX Lighttown Closure

10. CICCADA A Child in the Mirror

11. MY EDUCATION Sunrise

12. MR. GIL Skellig

13. ANATHEMA We’re Here Because We’re Here
14. T Anti-Matter Poetry

15. YUGEN Iridule

16. LUNATIC SOUL II
17. UNIVERS ZERO Clivages

18. FROGG CAFÉ The Bateless Edge

19. ARANIS RoqueForte
20. JAGA JAZZIST One-armed Bandit

21. THE TEA CLUB Rabbit
22. ALCEST Écailles de lune

23. STICK MEN Soup
24. KHATSATURJAN Disconcerto Grosso
25. HYPNOS 69 Legacy
26. IL TEMPIO DELLE CLESSIDRE Il tempio delle Clessidre
27. QUANTUM FANTAY Bridges of Kukuru
28. AREKNAMÉS In Case of Loss
29. ARGOS Circles
30. ALGERNON Ghost Survelliance

Honorable Mentions:
SHAOLIN DEATH SQUAD Five Deadly Venoms
DUNGEN Skit I Altt
RED SPAROWES The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer
BILLY COBHAM Drum 'n' Bass 3

THE LENS Regeneration
THE PSYCHEDELIC ENSEMBLE The Myth of Dying

     2009     

1. PROGHMA-C Bar-do Travel 
2. MAUDLIN OF THE WELL Part the Second

3. THE BOX D’après le horla de Montpassant

4. AIRBAG Identity

5. MAGMA Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré

6. MAD CRAYON Preda

7. CORDE OBLIQUE The Stones of Naples

8. AISLES In Sudden Walks

9. GA'AN - Ga'an

10. BIG BIG TRAIN The Underfall Yard

11. THE APPLESEED CAST Sagarmatha

12. TOE For Long Tomorrow
13. THE CLIENTELE Bonfires on the Heath
14. BEARDFISH Destined Solitaire

15. ARCANE Chronicles of the Waking Dream 

16. THE NERVE INSTITUTE Fictions

17. YVES POTIN Out of The City
18. ANUBIS 230503
19. WOBBLER Afterglow
20. GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA Detta Har Hänt

21. CIRRUS BAY A Step into Elsewhere

22. KOTEBEL Ouroboros
23. PINKROOM Psychosolstice

24. IZZ The Darkened Room

25. RISHLOO Feathergun

26. DELIRIUM Il nome de vento
27. iNFiNiEN iNFiNiEN
28. MASTODON Crack the Skye

29. CASPIAN Tertia 

30. KARNIVOOL Sound Awake

Honorable Mentions:

FEN The Malediction Fields

IOEARTH IOEarth

KARDA ESTRA Weird Tales

     2008     

1. NOSOUND LightDark

2. DUNGEN 4

3. JANNICK TOP Infernal Machina

4. BERSARIN QUARTETT Bersarin Quartett
5. DATURAH Reverie

6. JEAVESTONE Spices, Species and Poetry Patrol

7. PENDRAGON Pure

8. FROM.UZ The Overlook

9. UNIVERSAL TOTEM ORCHESTRA The Magus

10. WILLOWGLASS Book of Hours

11. THOM BRENNAN Stories from the Forest

12. DIAGONAL Diagonal

13. PINEAPPLE THIEF Tightly Unwound

14. VON HERTZEN BROTHERS Love Remains The Same

15. MAGENTA Metamorphosis
16. MILLENIUM Exist

17. RATIONAL DIET At Work

18. PANDORA Dramma di un Poeta Ubriaco 

19. MOON SAFARI Blomljud

20. THIEVES' KITCHEN The Water Road

 

21. FARMERS MARKET Surfin' USSR

22. VOTUM Time Must Have a Stop
23. SYRINX Qualia
24. JELLY FICHE Tout ce que j’ai rêvé 
25. FROST* Experiments in Mass Appeal

26. THE QUIET EARTH ORCHESTRA The Quiet Earth Orchestra

27. LUNATIC SOUL Lunatic Soul 

28. BELIEVE Yesterday Is a Friend

29. MOONGARDEN Songs from the Lighthouse

30. DARK SHOT One Shot

Honorable Mentions: 

SOMA PLANET Bholenath

PANZERBALLETT Starke Stücke

     2007     

1. ULVER Shadows of the Sun

2. BIG BIG TRAIN The Difference Machine

3. HIROMI’S SONICBLOOM (HIROMI UEHARA) Time Control

4. KLAUS SCHULZE Kontinuum

5. VIOLETA DE OUTONO Volume 7
6. MOTH VELLUM Moth Vellum

7. PORCUPINE TREE Fear of a Blank Planet

8. ELECTRIC ORANGE Morbus
9. YVES POTIN Elsewhere
10. GAZPACHO Night

11. OMAR RODRIQUEZ-LOPEZ The Apocalypse Inside of an Orange

12. ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE The Black Tomato
13. THORK Nula Jedan
14. QUIDAM Alone Together

15. RADIOHEAD In Rainbows

16. SETNA Cycle I
17. RETROSPECTIVE Spectrum of the Green Morning

18. KNIGHT AREA Under a New Sign
19. RIVERSIDE Rapid Eye Movement
20. CORDE OBLIQUE Volontà d'arte

21. SATELLITE Into the Night
22. RITUAL The Hemulic Voluntary Band
23. DEVIN TOWNSEND Ziltoid the Omniscient

24. EPICA The Divine Conspiracy

25. KARDA ESTRA The Last of the Libertine
26. NIGHTWISH Dark Passion Play

27. SENOGUL Senogul

28. THE FLOWER KINGS The Sum of No Evil

29. OCEANSIZE Frames
30. THE REASONING Awakening

Honorable Mentions:

OUTERLIMITS Stromalite

NEW TROLLS Concerto Grosso, The Seven Seasons

MANNING Songs from the Bilston House
PHIDEAUX Doomsday Afternoon
THIS WILL DESTROY YOU This Will Destroy You
LAZULI En avant doute...
RATIONAL DIET Rational Diet

DUNGEN Tio Bittar

     2006     

1. KOTEBEL Omphalos

2. PURE REASON REVOLUTION The Dark Third

3. UZVA Uomo

4. MAGYAR POSSE Random Avenger

5. SYLVAN Posthumous Silence

6. ROBIN GUTHRIE Continental and 2 EPS, Everlasting and Waiting For Dawn

7. KARDA ESTRA The Age of Science and Enlightenment
8. IONA The Circling Hour
9. PAATOS Silence of Another Kind10. FROST* Milliontown

11. ANTIQUE SEEKING NUNS Double Eggs with Chips (and Beans)
12. iNFiNiEN How to Accept
13. ESPERS II

14. BILLY COBHAM Drum 'n' Voice 2

15. MAGISTER DIXIT Cellules de Crises

16. MONO You Are There 
17. VIIMA Ajatuksia Maailman Laidalta 

18. OOIOO TAIGA
19. MIDLAKE The Trials of Van Occupanther 

20. RED SPAROWES Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Red Sun

21. ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE Øresund Space Collective

22. ONE SHOT Ewaz Vader

23. NEXUS Perpetuum Karma

24. BELIEVE Hope to See Another Day
25. TO-MERA Transcendental

26. UNEXPECT In a Flesh Aquarium

27. RUSSIAN CIRCLES Enter

28. PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI Stati di immaggionazione
29. ESTRADASPHERE Palace of Mirrors
30. THE GATHERING Home

Honorable Mentions: 

NEGURA BUNGET Om

THE D PROJECT Shimmering Lights

GUTHRIE GOVAN Erotic Cakes

     2005     

1. ODYSSEY: "The Greatest Tale"

2. OCEANSIZE Everyone Into Position

3. MEDIAEVAL BAEBES Mirabilis

4. NIL Nil Novo Sol
5. FAUN Renaissance
6. GREGG KOFI BROWN Together as One

7. RIVERSIDE Second Life Syndrome

8. SEIGES EVEN The Art of Navigating by the Stars 
9. PAT METHENY The Way Up

10. KATE BUSH Aerial

11. NOSOUND Sol29

12. FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM Mourning Sun

13. THE MARS VOLTA Frances The Mute

14. KVAZAR A Giant's Lullaby
15. KOENJI HYAKKEI Angherr Shisspa

16. WILLOWGLASS Willowglass

17. GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT All Is Violent, All Is Bright
18. ANTHONY PHILLIPS Field Day

19. SIGUR ROS Takk...

20. THE EVPATORIA REPORT Golevka

Honorable Mentions: 

MY EDUCATION Italian

INDUKTI S.U.S.A.R.

THE FUTURE KINGS OF ENGLAND The Future Kings of England

RED SPAROWES At the Soundless Dawn

JAGA JAZZIST What We Must

PORCUPINE TREE Deadwing

     2004     

1. BARK PSYCHOSIS Code Name: DustSucker

2. MAGENTA Seven

3. AMAROK Quentadharken

4. MAGMA K.A.

5. KARDA ESTRA Voivode Dracula
6. PAATOS Killocain
7. STEREOLAB Margerine Eclipse
8. DUNGEN Ta Det Lugnt

9. DAVE BAINBRIDGE Veil of Gossamer
10. ANGRA Temple of Shadows

11. THORK Weila
12. MY EDUCATION 5 Popes
13. SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEM Of Natural History
14. INDUKTI S.U.S.A.R.

15. HIROMI UEHARA Brain

16. WHITE WILLOW Storm Season

17. ASTURIAS Acoustic Asturias: Bird Eyes View
18. ORPHANED LAND Mabool--The Story of the Three Sons of Seven7 

19. GUAPO Five Suns

20. KNIGHT AREA The Sun Also Rises

Honorable Mentions:

MATTHEW PARMENTER Astray

BIG BIG TRAIN Gathering Speed
IQ Dark Matter

MARILLION Marbles
AYREON The Human Equation

UNIVERS ZERO Implosion

     2003     
1. HANS ZIMMER The Last Samurai (Original Motion Picture Score)
2. KOOP Waltz for Koop

3. MASSIVE ATTACK 100th Window

4. ANTIQUE SEEKING NUNS Mild Profundities

5. KARDA ESTRA Constellations

6. Colossus/Musea Records presents: Kalevala: A Finnish Progressive Rock Epic

7. FAUN Licht

8. KAYO DOT Choirs of the Eye
9. THE MARS VOLTA De-loused in the Comatorium
10. OCEANSIZE Eflouresce

11. MEW Frengers 

12. NIL Quarante jours sur le Sinaï 

13. BILLY COBHAM Drum 'n' Voice - All That Groove

14. SATELLITE A Street Between Sunrise and Sunset

15. RIVERSIDE Out of Myself

16. LA MASCHERA DI CERA Il Grande Labrinto

17. FROGG CAFÉ Creatures 

18. MOONGARDEN Round Midnight

19. TAAL Skymind

20. THE GATHERING Souvenirs

21. EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place 

22. ARCADE FIRE Arcade Fire

23. AFTER CRYING Show

24. ESPERS Espers

25. BLUR Think Tank 

26. KBB Four Corner's Sky

27. DJAM KARET Night in Baku

28. OSI Officeof Strategic Influence

29. ANATHEMA A Natural Disaster

30. HIROMI UEHARA Another Mind

Honorable Mentions:

MAR DE ROBLES Mar de Robles

ROBERT WYATT Cuckooland

     2002     

1. PÄATOS Timeloss

2. THE FLAMING LIPS Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

3. QUIDAM The Time Beneath the Sky

4. DOVES The Last Broadcast 

5. SIGUR RÓS ( )

6. FAUN Zaubersprüche

7. BONDAGE FRUIT V - Skin

8. AGALLOCH The Mantle

9. PAT METHENY Speaking of Now  

10. PAIN OF SALVATION Remedy Lane

11. 35007 Liquid

12. IZZ I Move

13. THE FLOWER KINGS Unfold the Future 

14. GRAND STAND Tricks of Time

15. KENSO Fabulis Mirabilibus De Bombycosi Scriptis

16. LA MASCHERA DI CERA La Maschera di Cera

17. TAAL Skymind

18. FROGG CAFÉ Frogg Café

19. PORCUPINE TREE In Absentia

20. GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR Yanqui U.X.O.

21. JAGA JAZZIST A Livingroom Hush

22. DREDG El Cielo

23. TÉMPANO The Agony and the Ecstacy

24. ECHOLYN Mei

25. PETER GABRIEL Up

26. MOTORPSYCHO It's a Love Cult

27. PARALLEL OR 90 DEGREES More Exotic Ways To Die

28. AL DI MEOLA Flesh on Flesh

29. HIDRIA SPACEFOLK Symbiosis 

30. ISIS Oceanic

Honorable Mentions:

ULVER Lyckantropen Themes

     2001     

1. BJORK Vespertine
2. 

MOTORPSYCHO Phanerothyme

3. MAUDLIN OF THE WELL Leaving Your Bodymap

4. KARDA ESTRA Eve

5. BILLY COBHAM Drum 'n' Voice - All That Groove

6. KOENJI HYAKKEI Nivraym

7. MAUDLIN OF THE WELL Bath

8. SEVEN REIZH Strinkadenn Ys

9. STEREOLAB Sound-Dust

10. TOOL Lateralus

11. BUBBLEMATH Such Fine Particles of the Universe

12. OPETH Blackwater Park

13. ANATHEMA A Fine Day to Exit

14. THE WATCH Ghost

15. NO-MAN Returning Jesus

16. HAMADRYAD Conservation of Mass

17. BILL BRUFORD'S EARTHWORKS The Sound of Surprise

18. NEXUS Metanoia

19. PÄR LINDH PROJECT Veni, Vidi, Vici

20. PEKKA POHJOLA Views

Honorable Mentions: 

JAGA JAZZIST A Livingroom Hush

DEVIN TOWNSEND Terria

PALLAS The Cross & The Crucible

MAGENTA Revolutions

MOSTLY AUTUMN The Last Bright Light

     2000     
1. DOVES Lost Souls
2. IONA Open Sky 
3. THE GATHERING If_then_else 
4. KBB Lost and Found 
5. PORCUPINE TREE Lightbulb Sun 
6. BONEY JAMES & RICK BRAUN Shake It Up!

7. COLDPLAY Parachutes 

8. RADIOHEAD Kid A 
9. THE FLOWER KINGS Space Revolver 
10. CABEZAS DE CERA Cabezas de Cera 

11. WHITE WILLOW Sacrament 
12. EVERON Fantasma

13. TAAL Mister Green 
14. CHROMA KEY You Go Now 
15. DON CABALLERO American Don 
16. CAFEINE Nouveaux mondes 
17. GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven 
18. DEADWOOD FOREST Melodramatic 
19. TRISTEZA Dream Signals in Full Circles 

20. PAIN OF SALVATION The Perfect Element - Part 1

Honorable Mentions:

SYMPHONY X V - The New Mythology Suite 

ULVER Peredition City 

ECHOLYN Cowboy Poems Free

STEVE & JOHN HACKETT Sketches of Satie

STEVE WALSH Glossolalia

FATES WARNING Disconnected

     1999     
1. SIGUR RÓS Ágætus Byrjun
2. OLGA KHARITIDI & JIM WILSON Entering the Circle

3. PERRY BLAKE Still Life

4. THE FLOWER KINGS Flower Power

5. EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL Temperamental

6. ON THE VIRG Serious Young Insects

7. CAMEL Rajaz

8. JOHN CORIGLIANO The Red Violin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9. DAVID SYLVIAN Dead Bees on a Cake

10. FINISTERRE In ogni luogo

11. THE FLAMING LIPS The Soft Bulletin

12. MR. BUNGLE California

13. ANEKDOTEN From Within

14. LINKIN PARK Hybrid Theory

15. DIDO No Angel

16. ANATHEMA Judgment

17. BILL BRUF/ORD'S EARTHWORKS A Part, and Yet Apart

18. BONDAGE FRUIT IV
19. LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT 2
20. SINKADUS Cirkus

Honorable Mentions:

OPETH Still Life

THE BETA BAND The Beta Band

FRENCH TV The Violence of Amateurs

DREAM THEATRE Scenes from a Memory

PORCUPINE TREE Stupid Dream

SOLARIS Nostrodamus: Book of Prophecies

UNIVERSAL TOTEM ORCHESTRA Rituel Alieno


     1998     
1. LES NUBIANS Princesses Nubiennes

2. MASSIVE ATTACK Mezzanine

3. CARLOS NAKAI & NAWANG KHECHOG Winds of Devotion
4. BRUFORD LEVIN UPPER EXTREMITIES Bruford Levin Upper Extremities
5. THINKING PLAGUE In Extremis
6. CHROMA KEY Dead Air for Radios
7. THE GATHERING How to Measure a Planet?
8. ABRAXAS Centurie

9. ANATHEMA Alternative 4

10. AYREON Into The Electric Castle

Honorable Mentions:

TORTOISE TNT

NIGHTWISH Oceanborn

LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT Liquid Tension Experiment
MARK HOLLIS Mark Hollis

MORTE MACABRE Symphonic Holocaust
MESHUGGAH Chaosphere


     1997     
1. STEREOLAB Dots and Loops
2. ALAIN ESKANAZI/BRAINSCAPES Chakradancer
3. PAT METHENY Imaginary Day
4. PÄR LINDH PROJECT Mundus Incompertus

5. HÖYRY-KONE Huono Parturi

6. OLIVE Extra Virgin

7. MONO Formica Blues

8. BJÖRK Homogenic
9. VOLARÉ Uncertainty Principle
10. RADIOHEAD OK Computer

11. THE FLOWER KINGS Stardust We Are

12. THE GATHERING Nighttime Birds
13. ART ZOYD Häxan
14. IN THE WOODS Omnio

15. DISCIPLINE Unfolded Like Staircase

16. FATES WARNING A Pleasant Shade of Gray

17. AFTER CRYING 6

18. SINKADUS Aurum Nostrum
19. ROBERT WYATT Shleep
20. DJAM KARET The Devouring

Honorable Mentions:

DAVID CROSS Exiles

BONDAGE FRUIT III - Récit
SYMPHONY X The Divine Wings of Tragedy


     1996     
1. LANDBERK Indian Summer
2. EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL Walking Wounded
3. BONDAGE FRUIT II
4. RUYICHI SAKAMOTO 1996
5. DEAD CAN DANCE Spiritchaser
6. QUIDAM Quidam
7. ANGRA Holy Land

8. OLIVE Extra Virgin

9. ULVER Kveldssanger

10. AFTER CRYING De Profundis

11. STEREOLAB Emperor's Tomato Ketchup 

12. JAMIROQUAI Travelling Without Moving
13. SHIELA CHANDRA Bone Crone Drone

14. TOOL Ænima

15. FIONA APPLE Tidal
16. PAULA COLE This Fire

17. CARDIACS Sing to God

18. PORCUPINE TREE Signify
19. STEVE HACKETT Genesis Revisited
20. BECK Odelay

Honorable Mentions:

TORTOISE Millions Now Living Will Never Die

KULA SHAKER K

THE FLOWER KINGS Retropolis

PENDRAGON The Masquerade Overture


     1995     
1. PORCUPINE TREE Sky Moves Sideways
2. STANLEY CLARKE, AL DI MEOLA, & JEAN-LUC PONTY Rites of Strings
3. THE TEA PARTY The Edges of Twilight

4. THE FLOWER KINGS Back in the World of Adventures

5. SECRET GARDEN Songs from a Secret Garden 
6. VANGELIS Voices

7. ALANIS MORISSETTE Jagged Little Pill

8. CASSANDRA WILSON New Moon Daughter
9. NATALIE MERCHANT Tiger Lily

10. PAT METHENY GROUP We Live Here

11. DUNWICH Il chiarore sorge due volte

12. MR. BUNGLE Disco Volante

13. BJÖRK Post

14. DON CABALLERO 2
15. KLAUS SCHULZE In Blue
15. ANNIE LENNOX Medusa
16. TO ROCOCO ROT To Rococo Rot
17. ALBION Albion

18. SCOTT WALKER Tilt

19. KING CRIMSON Thrak 

20. ANEKDOTEN Nucleus

Honorable Mentions:

GARBAGE Garbage

THE GATHERING Mandylion

RADIOHEAD The Bends


     1994     
1. LANDBERK One Man Tells Another
2. BONDAGE FRUIT I

3. COLLAGE Moonshine

4. BARK PSYCHOSIS Hex

5. JON ANDERSON Change We Must
6. SEAL II
7. KINGSTON WALL III: Trilogy
8. ÄNGLAGÅRD Epilog
9. VANGELIS Blade Runner OST

10. PÁR LINDH PROJECT Gothic Impressions

11. JULIA FORDHAM Falling Forward

12. EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL Amplified Heart

13. AFTER CRYING Föld És Ég

14. OZRIC TENTACLES Arborescence

15. DREAM THEATER Awake

16. DES'REE I Ain't Movin' 

17. BEASTIE BOYS Ill Communication

18. ROINE STOLT The Flower King

19. MARILLION Brave

20. CITZEN CAIN Somewhere But Yesterday

Honorable Mentions:

CLEPSYDRA More Grains of Sand 

PORTISHEAD Dummy

SOUNDGARDEN Superunknown

THE CRANBERRIES No Need to Argue

     1993     
1. OZRIC TENTACLES Jurassic Shift
2. JANET JACKSON Janet.
3. COCTEAU TWINS Four-Calendar Café
4. NEW ORDER Republic
5. CONCRETE BLONDE Mexican Moon

6. ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE Facing Future

7. DEAD CAN DANCE Into the Labyrinth
8. DEPECHE MODE Songs of Faith and Devotion
9. KINGSTON WALL II
10. DURAN DURAN Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)

Honorable Mentions:
CYNIC Focus

IONA Beyond These Shores

BJÖRK Debut

THE CRANBERRIES Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
LENNY KRAVITZ Are You Going to Go My Way?

PATRICK GAUTHIER Sur les flots verticaux 

VOIVOD The Outer Limits 

DEATH Individual Thought Patterns



     1992     
1. SADE Love Deluxe
2. PAT METHENY Secret Story
3. AFTER CRYING Megalázottak é Megszomorítottak

4. SWING OUT SISTER Get In Touch With Yourself

5. LUKA BLOOM The Acoustic Motorbike

6. OPUS III Mind Fruit

7. ECHOLYN Suffocating the Bloom

8. K.D. LANG Ingénue
9. TORIO AMOS Little Earthquakes

10. PAUL WELLER Paul Weller

11. THE CHURCH Priest=Aura

12. IONA The Book of Kells

13. ALICE IN CHAINS Dirt
14. ÄNGLAGÅRD Hybris

15. PSYCHOTIC WALTZ Into The Everflow

16. DREAM THEATER Images and Words

17. KINGSTON WALL I 

18. LUSH Spooky

19. ANNIE LENNOX Diva

20. THE CURE Wish

Honorable Mentions:

PETER GABRIEL Us

SUZANNE VEGA 99.9ª F

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Core

MONTEFELTRO Il Tempo di Far la Fantasia

     1991     
1. JULIA FORDHAM Swept
2. ANDY M. STEWART Songs of Robert Burns
3. LUTHER VANDROSS Power of Love
4. SOUL FAMILY SENSATION New Wave
5. MR. BUNGLE Mr. Bungle

6. SEAL Seal

7. PEARL JAM Ten
8. P.M. DAWN Of The Heart, Of The Soul And Of The Cross: The Utopian Experience
9. LLOYD COLE Don't Get Weird on Me, Babe

11. MICKEY HART Planet Drum
12. RAIN TREE CROW Rain Tree Crow

13. MY BLODDY VALENTINE Loveless

14. KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION Strange Free World

15. MASSIVE ATTACK Blue Lines
16. ROBERT WYATT Dondestan

17. TALK TALK Laughing Stock
18. KLF The White Room

19. CLEPSYDRA Hologram

20. DJAM KARET Burning the Hard City

Honorable Mentions:

PENDRAGON The World

ATHEIST Unquestionable Presence

THE COMMITMENTS The Commitments

THE DREAM ACADEMY A Different Kind of Weather 

     1990     
1. JONN SERRIE Tingri
2. OTTMAR LIEBERT Nouveau Flamenco

3. AFTER CRYING Overground Music

4. DEAD CAN DANCE Aion
5. COLLAGE Basnie
6. ENIGMA MCMXC a.D.

7. HAPPY MONDAYS Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches

8. ANTHONY PHILLIPS Slow Dance

9. MR. SIRIUS Dirge

10. OZRIC TENTACLES Erpland

11. THE SUNDAYS Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
12. LUSH Gala
13. GEORGE MICHAEL Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1
14. ASTURIAS Brilliant Streams
15. MY BLOODY VALENTINE Glider
16. PROPAGANDA 1234
17. TOAD THE WET SPROCKET Pale
18. TRASHCAN SINATRAS Cake

19. KALABAN Don't Panic

20. PETER MURPHY Deep

Honorable Mentions:

SOLARIS Solaris 1990

RIDE Nowhere


     1989     
1. THE CURE Disintegration
2. KATE BUSH The Sensual World
3. JULIA FORDHAM Porcelain
4. SWING OUT SISTER Kaleidoscope World
5. PAZZO FANFANO DI MUSICA Pazzo Fanfano di Musica

6. BLUE NILE Hats

7. MARY BLACK No Frontiers 
8. TEARS FOR FEARS The Seeds of Love
9. PAT METHENY GROUP Letter from Home
10. JANE SIBERRY Bound by the Beauty

11. PETER MURPHY Deep
12. THE NEVILLE BROTHERS Yellow Moon
13. ALLAN HOLDSWORTH Secrets

14. XTC Oranges and Lemons
15. PETER GABRIEL Passion
16. YOUNG MC Stone Cold Rhymin'
17. SIMPLY RED A New Flame 

18. INDIGO GIRLS Indigo Girls
19. NEIL YOUNG Freedom
20. STEVE REICH Different Trains

Honorable Mentions:
CARDIACS On Land and Sea
HECENIE Légendes

LISA STANSFIELD Affection
THE STONE ROSES The Stone Roses
PRIMUS Suck on This!


     1988     
1. EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL Idlewild
2. LOVE AND MONEY Strange Kind of Love
3. COCTEAU TWINS Blue Bell Knoll
4. SADE Stronger Than Pride
5. LES NEGRESSES VERTES Mlah!
6. THE STYLE COUNCIL Confessions of a Pop Group
7. WIM MERTENS Whisper Me
8. BRUCE COCKBURN Big Circumstance

9. MARK ISHAM Original Soundtrack Music for the film Les Modernes

10. JANE SIBERRY The Walking

11. PREFAB SPROUT From Langley Park to Memphis

12. GALADRIEL Muttered Promises from an Ageless Pond

13. BOBBY BROWN Don't Be Cruel
14. OFRA HAZA Shaday
15. TALK TALK Spirit of Eden
16. DEAD CAN DANCE The Serpent's Egg
17. GIPSY KINGS Gipsy Kings
18. FRANK ZAPPA You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 2
19. JOHNNY HATES JAZZ Turn Back the Clock
20. SUGARCUBES Life's Too Good

Honorable Mentions:
THOMAS DOLBY Aliens Ate My Buick
MIDAS Beyond the Clear Air

TONI CHILDS Union
HOTHOUSE FLOWERS People
JULIA FORDHAM Julia Fordham

ASTURIAS Circle in the Forest


     1987     
1. SWING OUT SISTER It's Better to Travel
2. PAT METHENY GROUP Still Life (Talking)
3. MR. SIRIUS Barren Dream
4. THE CURE Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
5. DAVID SYLVIAN Secrets of the Beehive
6. LES MYSTÈRES DES VOIX BULGARES Les Mystères des Voix Bulgares
7. GEORGE MICHAEL Faith
8. PRINCE Sign 'O The Times
9. THE ART OF NOISE In No Sense? Nonsense!

10. DANNY WILSON Meet Danny Wilson

11. DEAD CAN DANCE Within the Realm of a Dying Sun

12. JANE SIBERRY The Walking

13. DEF LEPPARD Hysteria
14. JOHN SERRIE And The Stars Go With You

15. LOVE AND ROCKETS Earth, Sun, Moon
16. ROBBIE ROBERTSON Robbie Robertson
17. SUZANNE VEGA Solitude Standing

18. U2 The Joshua Tree
19. DEPECHE MODE Music for The Masses

20. WHITESNAKE Whitesnake

21. PET SHOP BOYS Actually
22. STING ...Nothing Like The Sun
23. ZAKIR HUSSEIN Making Music
24. BILL BRUFORD'S EARTHWORKS Earthworks
25. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO Neo Geo
26. SWANS Children of God

27. DAVID TORN Cloud About Mercury

28. JANE'S ADDICTION Jane's Addiction

29. VIOLETA DE OUTONO Violeta de Outono

30. ALLAN HOLDWORTH Sand

Honorable Mentions:

VOIVOD Killing Technology

     1986     
1. ANITA BAKER Rapture
2. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia

3. DAVID SYLVIAN Gone to Earth

4. THE MOON AND THE MELODIES The Moon and the Melodies

5. COCTEAU TWINS Victorialand
6. ROSIE VELA Zazu
7. JULIAN BREAM, JOHN ELIOT GARDINER and THE MONTIVERDI ORCHESTRA Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez

8. EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL Baby, The Stars Shine Bright

9. ASTOR PIAZZOLLA Tango: Zero Hour
10. XTC Skylarking

11. PETER GABRIEL So

12. PET SHOP BOYS Please

13. THE BEASTIE BOYS Licensed to Ill
14. TALK TALK The Colour of Spring
15. CLAN OF XYMOX Medusa
16. CLAIRE HAMMILL Voices
17. IT'S IMMATERIAL Life's Hard and Then You Die
18. JANET JACKSON Control
19. WHAM! Music from the Edge of Heaven
20. CAMEO Word Up!

21. CROWDED HOUSE Crowded House

22. THE HOUSEMARTINS London 0 Hull 4 

23. THIS MORTAL COIL Filigree and Shadow
24. HERBERT VON KARAJAN / BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Beethoven: Symphony NO. 9 "Choral"
25. CHRIS REA On The Beach
26. HERBIE HANCOCK & Others 'Round Midnight Movie Soundtrack
27. UNIVERS ZERO Heatwave
28. AIN SOPH Hat and Field

29. NEWS FROM BABEL  Letters from Home

30. THE LOVER SPEAKS The Lover Speaks

Honorable Mentions:

CAMBERWELL NOW The Ghost Trade

SHUB_NIGGURATH Les Morts Vont Vite

THE BLOW MONKEYS Animal Magic

ROBERT CRAY Strong Persuader

     1985     
1. COCTEAU TWINS Tiny Dynamine/Echoes on a Shallow Bay
2. THE DREAM ACADEMY The Dream Academy
3. TEARS FOR FEARS Songs from the Big Chair
4. PREFAB SPROUT Steve McQueen
5. COCTEAU TWINS Aikea-Guinea

6. DIF JUZ Extractions
7. KATE BUSH Hounds of Love
8. PROPAGANDA A Secret Wish
9. YELLO Stella
10. MINIMAL COMPACT Raging Souls

11. DEAD CAN DANCE Spleen and Ideal

12. EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL Love Not Money

13. KIP HANRAHAN Vertical's Currency
14. CLANNAD Macalla
15. THE STYLE COUNCIL Our Favourite Shop
16. SADE Promise
17. PHAROAH SANDERS Shukuru
18. LOREENA McKENNITT Elemental
19. JANE SIBERRY The Speckless Sky
20. THE SMITHS Meat Is Murder

21. SUZANNE VEGA Suzanne Vega

22. RY COODER Paris, Texas
23. ANNE PIGALLE Everything Could Be So Perfect
24. SIMPLY RED Picture Book
25. PENDRAGON The Jewel 

26. RUN-D.M.C. King of Rock
27. BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE This Is Big Audio Dynamite
28. GENE LOVES JEZEBEL Immigrant
29. PAUL HARDCASTLE Paul Hardcastle
30. BRIN FERRY Boys and Girls

Honorable Mentions:
CLAN OF XYMOX Clan of Xymox
PRESENT Le poison qui rend fou

     1984     
1. DAVID SYLVIAN Brilliant Trees
2. COCTEAU TWINS Treasure
3. EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL Everything But the Girl
4. EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL Eden

5. NEWCLEUS Jam on Revenge
6. FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD Welcome to the Pleasuredome
7. BRUCE COCKBURN Stealing Fire
8. JANE SIBERRY No Borders Here
9. PAT METHENY GROUP First Circle

10. SOLSTICE Silent Dance

11. THE STYLE COUNCIL Café bleu

12. HOWARD JONES Human's Lib
13. CHANGE Change of Heart

14. PRINCE Purple Rain

15. MANUEL GÖTTSCHING E2-E4

16. LAURIE ANDERSON Mister Heartbreak
17. DAVID GILMOUR About Face
18. M + M Mystery Walk
19. XTC The Big Express

20. U2 Unforgettable Fire

21. SOLARIS Marsbéli Krónikák (Martian Chronicles)

22. NEVILLE MARRINER AND THE ACADEMY OF ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS Amadeus (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

23. LOS JAIVAS Obras de Violeta Parra

24. SADE Diamond Life

25. DAVID & STEVE GORDON Peaceful Evening
26. CAMEO She's Strange
27. WHODINI Escape
28. AMBITOUS LOVERS Envy
29. KING CRIMSON Three of a Perfect Pair
30. RUN-D.M.C. Run-D.M.C.

31. JOE JACKSON Body and Soul
32. UNIVERS ZERO Uzed

33. TALK TALK It's My Life

34. ART OF NOISE Who's Afraid of The Art of Noise?
35. THE SMITHS The Smiths
36. STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN AND DOUBLE TROUBLE Couldn't Stand the Weather
37. MICHAEL HEDGES Aerial Boundaries
38. AL JARREAU High Crime
39. DON HENLEY Building the Perfect Beast
40. NENA 99 Luftballons

Honorable Mentions:

THE CARS Heartbeat City
SIMPLE MINDS Sparkle in the Rain
CLANNAD Legend


     1983     
1. THE FIXX Reach the Beach

2. AZTEC CAMERA High Land, Hard Rain

3. TEARS FOR FEARS The Hurting

4. BARBRA STREISAND Yentl
5. BRUCE COCKBURN The Trouble with Normal
6. XTC Mummer
7. GENESIS Genesis
8. RE-FLEX The Politics of Dancing
9. AMENOPHIS Amenophis

10. JEAN-LUC PONTY Individual Choice

11. MARK ISHAM Vapor Drawings
12. U2 War
13. THE STYLE COUNCIL Introducing The Style Council
14. A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS Listen
15. ROBERT PALMER Pride
16. MARIANNE FAITHFULL A Child's Adventure
17. JAH WOBBLE, THE EDGE, HOLGER CZUKAY Snake Charmer
18. LONNIE LISTON SMITH Dreams of Tomorrow

19. KING SUNNY ADÉ Synchro System

20. WILLIAM ACKERMAN Past Light

21. MONSOON Third Eye

22. THE POLICE Synchronicity

23. MADONNA Madonna
24. JAPAN Oil on Canvas
25. GANG OF FOUR Hard
26. AL DI MEOLA Scenario
27. KAJAGOOGOO White Feathers

28. THOMAS DOLBY Blinded by Science

29. DIVINYLS Desperate

30. YES 90125

31. SHADOWFAX Shadowdance
32. THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER Bodies and Souls
33. CODONA 3
34. PINK FLOYD The Final Cut
35. ESKATON Fictions
36. JOHN CAFFERTY AND THE BEAVER BROWN BAND Eddie and the Cruisers OST
37. KLAUS SCHULZE - Trancefer

38. MORAZ - BRUFORD Music for Piano and Drums
39. TEENA MARIE Robbery
40. FLIM & THE BBs Tricycle

Honorable Mentions:

THE CHURCH Seance

DEF LEPPARD Pyromania

STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Texas Flood


     1982     
1. HAIRCUT ONE HUNDRED Pelican West
2. KATE BUSH The Dreaming
3. JOE JACKSON Night and Day

4. GEORGE WINSTON December
5. THE NEW AMERICAN ORCHESTRA Blade Runner Soundtrack Music 
6. TRACEY THORN A Distant Shore
7. ANTHONY PHILLIPS & ENRIQUE BERRO GARCIA Private Parts and Pieces III: Antiques

8. SIMPLE MINDS New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)

9. PETER GABRIEL Peter Gabriel ("Security")

10. MICHAEL JACKSON Thriller

11. A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS A Flock of Seagulls

12. THE ROCHES Keep On Doing

13. ROXY MUSIC Avalon
14. ANNETTE PEACOCK Sky-skating

15. BRIAN ENO Ambient 4: On Land

16. NINA HAGEN NunSexMonkRock

17. BERLIN Pleasure Victim
18. KING CRIMSON Beat
19. PHILIP GLASS Glassworks
20. ADRIAN BELEW Lone Rhino

21. ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER Caverna Magica
22. ICEHOUSE Primitive Man
23. KING SUNNY ADÉ Juju Music

24. PAT METHENY GROUP Offramp
25. XTC English Settlement
26. ANDY SUMMERS AND ROBERT FRIPP I Advance Masked
27. PRINCE 1999
28. THOMAS DOLBY The Golden Age of Wireless
29. KENSO II
30. TWELFTH NIGHT Fact and Fiction 

Honorable Mentions:

CHICK COREA Touchstone

PHIL COLLINS Hello, I Must Be Going

JEFFREY OSBORNE Jeffery Osborne
EAST Hüség 

LAURIE ANDERSON Big Science
MICHAEL CRENSHAW Marshall Crenshaw
GENESIS Three Sides Live
FRIDA Something's Going On

     1981     
1. RICKIE LEE JONES Pirates
2. KING CRIMSON Discipline
3. JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, ALEXANDRE LAGOYA, and MICHEL LEGRAND Pastorales de Noël
4. ANTHONY PHILLIPS 1984
5. ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER Behind the Gardens - Behind the Wall - Under the Tree...
6. ESKATON 4 Visions
7. PAT METHENY & LYLE MAYS As Falls Witchita, So Falls Wichita Falls
8. BRIAN ENO & JON HASSELL Fourth World Possible Musics, Volume Two: Dream Theory in Malaya
9. U2 October
10. TOM TOM CLUB Tom Tom Club

11. THE POLICE Ghost in the Machine
12. JOHN MCLAUGHLIN Belo Horizonte
13. JOHN MARTYN Glorious Fool

14. TANGERINE DREAM Thief OST
15. BRUCE COCKBURN Inner City Front
16. LOS JAIVAS Alturas de Machu Picchu
17. SBB Memento z banalnym triptykiem
18. GENESIS ABACAB
19. CAMEL Nude
20. VAN HALEN Fair Warning

21. AL JARREAU Breakin' Away

22. UNIVERS ZERO Ceux du Dehors

23. PHIL COLLINS Face Value
24. STEVIE NICKS Bella Donna
25. BUDDY GUY Stone Crazy!
26. EIDER STELLAIRE I
27. SANTANA Zeebop!
28. OSIRIS Osiris

29. THE TUBES The Completion Backwards Principle

30. EAST Játékok

Honorable Mentions:
PENGUIN CAFÉ ORCHESTRA Penguin Café Orchestra

JOAN ARMATRADING Walk Under Ladders

MATERIAL Memory Serves

STEVE HACKETT Cured

     1980     
1. U2 Boy
2. BRIAN ENO with Harold Budd Ambient Two: Plateaux of Mirror
3. TALKING HEADS Remain in Light
4. LARAAJI Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
5. FLAIRCK Gevecht met de Engel
6. STEELY DAN Gaucho

7. THE BUGGLES The Age of Plastic

8. DEN ZA DEN Den Za Den

9. BRIAN ENO & JON HASSELL Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics

10. STEVE TIBBETTS Yr

11. SBB Memento Z Banalnym Tryptikiem

12. GENESIS Duke
13. ITOIZ Ezekiel

14. ANTHONY PHILLIPS Private Parts & Pieces II: Back to the Pavillion

15. TONY WILLIAMS Play or Die

16. KATE BUSH Never For Ever

17. GEORGE WINSTON Autumn

18. AC/DC Back in Black

19. PAT BENETAR Crimes of Passion

20. PERERIN Haul Ar Yr Eira

21. GUNESH ENSEMBLE Gunesh

22. PETER GABRIEL Peter Gabriel ("Melt")

23. THE POLICE Zenyattà Mondatta

24. YES Drama

25. XTC Black Sea

26. HAROLD GROSSKOPF Synthesist
27. AL DI MEOLA Splendido Hotel
28. BARBRA STREISAND Guilty
29. IVORY Sad Cypress 

30. IAN CARR'S NUCLEUS Awakening

31. LONNIE LISTON SMITH Love Is the Answer

32. MIKE RUTHERFORD Smallcreep's Day

33. ZAMLA MAMAZ MANNA Familjesprickor

34. PRESENT Triskaidekaphobie

35. PETE TOWNSEND Empty Glass

36. BLUE ÖYSTER CULT Cultösaurus Erectus

37. LOVERBOY Loverboy

38. THE ROMANTICS The Romantics

39. JEAN-LUC PONTY Civilized Evil
40. ASIA MINOR Between Flesh and Divine

Honorable Mentions:

BRAND X Do They Hurt?

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS The Psychedelic Furs

DAVID BOWIE Scary Monsters

ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVERS IN THE DARK Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark
YELLO Solid Pleasure

QUEEN Flash Gordon OST

STEVE WINWOOD Arc of a Diver

SKY Sky 2

ULTRAVOX Vienna

     1979     
1. FREDDIE HUBBARD The Love Connection
2. RICKIE LEE JONES Rickie Lee Jones

3. LAURENT THIBAULT Mais on peut pas rêver tout le temps

4. MICHAEL JACKSON Off the Wall
5. HERBIE HANCOCK The Piano

6. EARL KLUGH Heart String

7. EBERHARD WEBER Fluid Rustle

8. FIRYUZA Firyuza (Фирюза / Фирюза)

9. DIDIER LOCKWOOD New World

10. WAYNE SHORTER The Soothsayer

11. NEIL YOUNG Live Rust

12. STEVE HACKETT Spectral Mornings
13. CONVENTUM Le bureau central des utopies

14. IAN CARR'S NUCLEUS Out of the Long Dark

15. TOTO Hydra

16. ART FARMER with JOE HENDERSON Yama

17. TOTO BLANKE'S ELECTRIC CIRCUS Friends

18. BRUFORD One of A Kind

19. ICEBERG Arc-en-ciel

20. TANGERINE DREAM Force Majeure

21. ANYONE'S DAUGHTER Adonis

22. PASSPORT Garden of Eden

23. PINK FLOYD The Wall

24. PAT BENATAR In the Heat of the Night

25. HENRY COW Western Culture

26. LABORATORIUM Quasimodo

27. IVORY Sad Cypress

28. OREGON Roots in the Sky

29. LEB I SOL Rucni Rad

30. CRUSADERS Street Life

31. JOE SAMPLE Carmel 

32. PAT METHENY New Chautauqua

33. ANDRE FERTIER's CLIVAGE Mixtus Orbis

34. JEAN-LUC PONTY A Taste for Passion

35. ANTHONY PHILLIPS Sides

36. NEUSCHWANSTEIN Battlement

37. RAHMANN Rahmann

38. HERB ALBERT Rise

39. MARIANNE FAITHFULL Broken English

40. TIDELINE The Crowded Room

Honorable Mentions:
LARRY CORYELL with John Scofield and Joe Beck Tributaries
ATLAS Blå Vardag
UNIVERS ZERO Hérésie
PEKKA POHJOLA Visitation
ROBERT FRIPP Exposure
TRILOGY Here It Is
SUPERTRAMP Breakfast in America
CHRISTOPHER CROSS Christopher Cross

     1978     
1. NINA HAGEN BAND Nina Hagen Band
2. CHICK COREA The Mad Hatter

3. JACK DE JOHNETTE New Directions

4. U.K. U.K.
5. HAROLD BUDD Pavillion of Dreams
6. CHICK COREA Friends

7. BABYLON Babylon

8. STEVE REICH Music for 18 Musicians
9. KLAUS SCHULZE X
10. BUBU Anabelas

11. MIKE OLDFIELD Incantations

12. FLAIRCK Variaties Op Een Dame

13. JEAN-LUC PONTY Cosmic Messenger

14. ÉDITION SPÉCIALE Horizon Digital

15. CHRIS HINZE - SIGI SCHWAB - EBERHARD WEBER - LALA KOVACEV Wide and Blue

16. CAROL OF HARVEST Carol of Harvest

17. EBERHARD WEBER Silent Feet

18. EDEN Erwartung

19. ATILA Reviure

20. ANNETTE PEACOCK X-Dreams

21. BILLY COBHAM Inner Conflicts

22. NATIONAL HEALTH Of Queues and Cures
23. ANTHONY PHILLIPS Private Parts & Pieces

24. PAUL WINTER CONSORT Common Ground

25. HERBIE HANCOCK Sunlight

26. BRUFORD Feels Good to Me

27. REO SPEEDWAGON You Can't Tune a Fish, But You Can Tune a Piano

28. MICHAL URBANIAK Ecstasy

29. STEVE HACKETT Please Don't Touch

30. THE CARS The Cars

31. GATEWAY Gateway 2

32. GENESIS And Then There Were Three…

33. BILLY COBHAM Simplicity of Expression, Depth of Thought

34. ANTHONY PHILLIPS Wise After the Event

35. ZYMA Thoughts

36. RONNIE LAWS Flame

37. GÒTIC Escenes

38. MATRIX Wizard 

39. TOTO Toto 
40. SBB Slovenian Girls

41. LONNIE LISTON SMITH Loveland 

42. BOB JAMES Touchdown

43. THE MUFFINS Manna/Mirage

44. CATHEDRAL Stained Glass Stories

45. ANGE Guet-Apens

46. PAT METHENY GROUP Pat Metheny Group

47. CHUTE LIBRE Ali Baba

48. BENNIE MAUPIN Moonscapes

49. EX OVO PRO Dance Lunatic

50. EX VITAE Mandarine

51. JANNE SCHAFFER Earmeal

52. CHICK COREA Secret Agent

53. NATIONAL HEALTH National Health

Honorable Mentions:

PETER GABRIEL Peter Gabriel ("Scratches")

HAPPY THE MAN Crafty Hands

JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Equinoxe

ALAN PARSONS PROJECT Pyramid

HEART Dog and The Butterfly

AL DI MEOLA Casino

BLUE ÖYSTER CULT Some Enchanted Evening

     1977     
1. JONI MITCHELL Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
2. STEELY DAN Aja

3. JAN AKKERMAN Jan Akkerman
4. RENAISSANCE Novella
5. ANTHONY PHILLIPS The Geese and The Ghost
6. SHAKTI (with John McLaughlin) Natural Elements
7. BILLY JOEL The Stranger
8. PINK FLOYD Animals
9. EBERHARD WEBER The Following Morning
10. ALAN PARSONS PROJECT I, Robot

11. HERBIE HANCOCK The Herbie Hancock Trio

12. EBERHARD WEBER Silent Feet

13. FERMÁTA Huascaran

14, SUPERTRAMP Even in the Quietest Moments...

15. PAT METHENY Watercolors

16. ISLAND Pictures

17, JOHN MARTYN One World

18. PETER GABRIEL Peter Gabriel ("Car")

19. YES Going for the One
20. BRIAN ENO Before and After Science

21. LARRY CORYELL & PHILIP CATHERINE Twin-House

22. LOCANDA DELLE FATE Forse le lucciole non si amano più

23. KENNY LOGGINS Celebrate Me Home

24. BRAND X Moroccan Roll

25. BOB JAMES BJ4

26. BILLY COBHAM Magic

27. NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN I Cry, I Smile 

28. ATOLL Tertio

29. PULSAR Halloween

30. ICEBERG Sentiments

31. KLAUS SCHULZE Mirage

32. BLUE ÖYSTER CULT Spectres 

33. BOB JAMES Heads

34. WEATHER REPORT Heavy Weather

35. TANGERINE DREAM Encore (Live 1977) 

36. RICK WAKEMAN Criminal Record

37. UNIVERS ZERO Univers Zero (1313)

38. SANTANA Moonflower 

39. AL DI MEOLA Elegant Gypsy
40. JEAN-LUC PONTY Enigmatic Ocean

Honorable Mentions:

ENGLAND Garden Shed

FORGAS Cocktail

HAPPY THE MAN Happy the Man

MODRY EFEKT Svitanie

GROBSCHNITT Rockpommel's Land

HAWKWIND Quark, Strangeness and Charm

ELOY Ocean

MACHIAVEL Jester

     1976     
1. JAN AKKERMAN & KAZ LUX Eli
2. JANNE SCHAFFER Katharsis

3. GENESIS A Trick of the Tale
4. SBB Pamiec

5. FERMÁTA Pieseň z hôľ (Songs from Ridges)

6. PICCHIO DAL POZZO Picchio dal Pozzo

7. RETURN TO FOREVER Romantic Warrior
8. NOVA Vimana
9. COS Viva Boma 

10. NUCLEUS Alleycat 

11. HERMANN SZOBEL Szobel

12. POLLEN Pollen

13. CELESTE Principe di un giorno

14. ALAS Alas

15. PETER FRAMPTON Frampton Comes Alive!

16. GENESIS Wind and Wuthering

17. ALAN PARSONS PROJECT Tales of Mystery and Imagination

18. BOSTON Boston
19. BILL CONTI Rocky Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 
20. HEART Dreamboat Annie

21. GEORGE BENSON Breezin'

22. STEPHEN BISHOP Careless

23. STEVIE WONDER Songs in the Key of Life

24. JEAN-LUC PONTY Imaginary Voyage 

25. BOZ SCAGGS Silk Degrees

26. HERBIE HANCOCK Secrets

27. CHICK COREA The Lepruchaun

28. THE NEW TONY WILLIAMS LIFETIME Million Dollar Legs

29. BILLY COBHAM Life & Times

30. CHICK COREA My Spanish Heart

31. GONG Gazeuse!

32. CAMEL Moonmadness 

33. THE OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS Men from Earth

34. STEELY DAN The Royal Scam

35. RAGNARÖK Ragnarök

36. HARMONIUM L'heptade
37. SLOCHE Stadacone
38. GOBLIN Roller
39. WEATHER REPORT Black Market
40. JEAN MICHEL JARRE Oxygène 

41. AL STEWART The Year of the Cat

42. MAGMA Üdü Wüdü

43. OPUS-5 Contre Courant

44. ZAO Kawana

45. McCOY TYNER Fly with the Wind

46. AREA Maledetti

47. FAR EAST FAMILY BAND Parallel World

48. KLAUS SCHULZE Moondawn
49. BRAND X Unorthodox Behaviour
50. EAGLES Hotel California

51. FINCH Beyond Expression

52. SCHICKE & FÜHRS & FRÖHLING Symphonic Pictures

53. BOB JAMES Three

54. JEAN-LUC PONTY Aurora

55. THE SOFT MACHINE Softs

56. PAT METHENY Bright Size Life

57. LARRY CORYELL Basics

58. AL DI MEOLA Land of the Midnight Sun 

59. MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA Inner Worlds

60. MAHOGANY RUSH IV

Honorable Mentions:

STOMU YAMASH'TA, et al. Go

DONALD BYRD Caricatures

RUSH 2112

     1975     
1. LENNY WHITE Venusian Summer

2. AREA Crac!

3. CORTEX Troupeau bleu

4. HARMONIUM Si on avait besoin d’une cinqième saison
5. LONNIE LISTON SMITH and THE COSMIC ECHOES Visions of a New World

6. PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI Chocolate Kings

7. MICHAL URBANIAK Fusion III

8. TODD RUNDGREN Initiation

9. RENAISSANCE Scheherazade and Other Stories 

10. FOCUS Mother Focus

11. GENTLE GIANT Free Hand

12. CHRIS SQUIRE Fish Out of Water

13. GINO VANNELLI Storm at Sunup

14. RALPH TOWNER Solstice

15. GATEWAY Gateway

16. THE EAGLES One of These Nights

17. THE SOFT MACHINE Bundles 

18. JUKKA HAURU Episode

19. ETNA Etna

20. HERBIE HANCOCK Man-Child

21. SUPERTRAMP Crisis? What Crisis?

22. NEKTAR Recycled
23. JEFF BECK Blow by Blow

24. ATOLL L'Araignée-Mal

25. MARION BROWN Vista

26. STRAWBS Ghosts 

27. MAXOPHONE Maxophone

28. STEVE HACKETT Voyage of the Acolyte

29. FRIPP & ENO Evening Star 

30. STANLEY CLARKE Journey to Love

31. JACK DeJOHNETTE'S DIRECTIONS Cosmic Chicken 

32. 10CC The Original Soundtrack

33. ELEVENTH HOUSE featuring LARRY CORYELL Level One

34. JEREMY STEIG Temple of Birth

35. ZAO Shekina

36. JOHN ABERCROMBIE Timeless

37. TANGERINE DREAM Rubycon

38. HATFIELD AND THE NORTH The Rotters' Club

39. MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA Visions of the Emerald Beyond

40. MANEIGE Les Porches

41. ARTI E MESTIERI Giro di valzer per domani

42. KLAUS SCHULZE Timewind
43. GILGAMESH Gilgamesh

44. GOBLIN Profundo Rosso

45. AMBROSIA Ambrosia

46. RETURN TO FOREVER No Mystery

47. TRACE Birds

48. EDDIE HENDERSON Sunburst

49. GONG Shamal

50. NUCLEUS Snakehips Etcetera

51. EXIL Fusionen

52. SLOCHE J'un oeil

53. APOTEOSI Apoteosi

54. SEBASTIAN HARDIE Four Moments

55. STEELY DAN Katy Lied

56. STYX Equinox

57. BILLY COBHAM A Funky Thide of Sings

58. DONALD BYRD Places and Spaces

59. FRANK ZAPPA AND THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION One Size Fits All

60. STOMU YAMASH'TA Raindog

61. IL VOLO Essere o non essere?

62. TOTO BLANKE Spider's Dance

63. FREDDIE HUBBARD Liquid Love

64. CHERRY FIVE Cherry Five

65. RICK WAKEMAN The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and The Knights of The Round Table

66. VANGELIS Heaven and Hell

67. MANEIGE Maneige

68. EARTH, WIND & FIRE Gratitude

69. AEROSMITH Toys in the Attic

70. THE BEE GEES Main Course

Honorable Mentions:

BRIAN ENO Another Green World

ELECTROMAGNETS Electromagnets

     1974     
1. GENESIS The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
2. UTOPIA Todd Rundgren's Utopia
3. MIKE OLDFIELD Hergest Ridge
4. SUPERTRAMP Crime of the Century

5. YES Relayer
6. PTARMIGAN Ptarmigan

7. TODD RUNDGREN Todd

8. FOCUS Hamburger Concerto

9. ARTI & MESTIERI Tilt

10. EGBERTO GISMONTI Academia de Danças

11. DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES War Babies

12. RENAISSANCE Turn of the Cards

13. GINO VANELLI Powerful People

14. BRIAN AUGER'S OBLIVION EXPRESS Straight Ahead

15. JULIAN PRIESTER Love, Love

16. HERBIE HANCOCK Thrust 

17. Michał URBANIAK Atma 

18. JANNE SCHAFFER Andra LP

19. WAYNE SHORTER Moto Grosso Feio

20. JUKKA TOLONEN The Hook

21. GENTLE GIANT The Power and The Glory

22. BILLY COBHAM Total Eclipse

23. JAMES VINCENT Culmination

24. MICHAEL NAURA QUINTET Vanessa 

25. STEELY DAN Pretzel Logic

26. PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI L'isola di niente

27. QUELLA VECCHIA LOCANDA Il tempo della Gioia

28. JONI MITCHELL Court and Spark

29. BLUE ÖYSTER CULT Secret Treaties

30. MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA Apocalypse

31. EDDIE HENDERSON Inside Out

32. COS Posaeolian Train Robbery

33. HATFIELD AND THE NORTH Hatfield and the North

34. SANTANA Borboletta

35. KING CRIMSON Red

36. NUCLEUS Under the Sun

37. LONNIE LISTON SMITH & The Cosmic Echoes Cosmic Funk

38. CHRIS HINZE COMBINATION "Sister Slick"

39. HORACEE ARNOLD Tales of the Exonerated Flea 

40. TOM SCOTT AND THE L.A. EXPRESS Tom Scott and The L.A. Express

41. CHARLIE MARIANO Cascade

42. RETURN TO FOREVER Where Have I Known You Before?

43. KOOL AND THE GANG Light of Worlds

44. BENNIE MAUPIN The Jewel in The Lotus

45. IDRIS MUHAMMAD Power of Soul 

46. FRUUPP Seven Secrets 

47. NEKTAR Down to Earth

48. DOOBIE BROTHERS What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
49. ROBIN TROWER Bridge of Sighs

50. STRAWBS Hero and Heroine

51. GRYPHON Midnight Mushrumps

52. AREA Caution Radiation Area

53. GONG You

54. CAMEL Mirage

55. ANGE Au-dela du délire

56. CARLOS GARNETT Black Love 

57. ATMOSPHERES (Featuring Clive Stevens and Friends) Atmospheres

58. MISSUS BEASTLY Missus Beastly

59. TRIUMVIRAT Illusions on a Double Dimple

60. . EGG The Civil Surface

61. GRYPHON Red Queen to Gryphon Three

62. CHRISTIAN VANDER Tristan et Isolde (Wurdah Itah)

63. EBERHARD WEBER The Colours of Chloë

64. FREDDIE HUBBARD High Energy

65. HUBERT LAWS In the Beginning

66. ROBERT WYATT Rock Bottom

67. BILLY JOEL Streetlife Serenade

68. JEREMY STEIG Monium

69. FRANK ZAPPA The Grand Wazoo

70. PERIGEO Genealogia

Honorable Mentions:

MOOSE LOOSE Elgen Er Løsen

DAVE LIEBMAN Drum Ode

JOACHIM KÜHN Cinemascope

     1973     
1. MAGMA Mëkanïk Dëstruktïw Kömmandöh
2. LONNIE LISTON SMITH & The Cosmic Echoes Astral Traveling

3. DEVADIP CARLOS SANTANA & MAHAVISHNU JOHN McLAUGHLIN Love,  Devotion & Surrender

4. GENESIS Selling England by the Pound

5. PINK FLOYD Dark Side of the Moon
6. STEVIE WONDER Innervisions
7. AREA Arbeit Macht Frei
8. LED ZEPPELIN Houses of the Holy
9. GENTLE GIANT In a Glass House
10. DEODATO Prelude

11. CARAVAN For Girls Who Go Plump in the Night

12. PASSPORT Looking Thru

13. NEKTAR Remember the Future

14. THE WHO Quadrophenia

15. 

CERVELLO Melos

16. IL ROVESCIO DELLA MEDAGLIA Contaminazione

17. ELTON JOHN Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

18. PINK FAIRIES Kings of Oblivion
19. THE ISLEY BROTHERS 3 + 3
20. HERBIE HANCOCK Head Hunters

21. MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA Birds of Fire

22. RENAISSANCE Ashes Are Burning

23. HENRY COW LegEnd

24. GENTLE GIANT Octopus

25. EDDIE HENDERSON Realization

26. DONALD BYRD Street Lady

27. SANTANA Welcome

28. FRUUPP Future Legends

29. FRANCO BATTIATO Sulle corde di Aries

30. ALPHATAURUS Alphataurus

31. BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO Io sono nato libero 
32. TODD RUNDGREN A Wizard, A True Star

33. ELTON JOHN Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player

34. THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Brothers & Sisters

35. JOHN MARTYN Solid Air 

36. RICK WAKEMAN The Six Wives of Henry VIII

37. MIKE OLDFIELD Tubular Bells

38. SPIROGYRA Bells, Boots & Shambles

39. STYX II

40. JOE WALSH The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get

41. GRYPHON Gryphon

42. GONG Radio Gnome Invisible Part 2: Angel's Egg 

43. SAMLA MAMMAS MANNA Måltid 

44. MICHAL URBANIAK GROUP Paratyphus B
45. IAN CARR with NUCLEUS Labyrinth
46. DONALD BYRD Black Byrd
47. PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS Band on the Run
48. BRAINTICKET Celestial Ocean 

49. JUMBO Vietato ai minori di 18 anni?

50. HERBIE HANCOCK Sextant

Honorable Mentions:

BILLY COBHAM Spectrum

       1972     
1. ALAN STIVELL Renaissance of the Celtic Harp
2. SANTANA Caravanserai
3. KHAN Space Shanty

4. PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI Per un amico

5. GENESIS Foxtrot

6. YES Close to the Edge
7. URIAH HEEP Demons and Wizards

8. NEKTAR A Tab in the Ocean

9. FOCUS 3

10. IL BALLETTO DI BRONZO Ys

11. PASSPORT Second Passport

12. HERBIE HANCOCK Crossings

13. POPUL VUH Hosianna Mantra

14. AGITATION FREE Malesch
15. JEFF BECK GROUP "Orange"
16. TODD RUNDGREN Something / Anything
17. DONALD BYRD Ethiopian Nights

18. STEELY DAN Can't Buy a Thrill
19. HÖLDERLIN Hölderlin's Traum

20. PENTANGLE Solomon's Seal

21. REALE ACCADEMIA DI MUSICA Reale Accademia di Musica

22. CHICK COREA Return to Forever

23. RENAISSANCE Prologue

24. LARRY CORYELL Offering

25. GENTLE GIANT Three Friends

26. CYMANDE Cymande
27. SUPERSISTER Pudding en Gisteren
28. APHRODITE'S CHILD 666
29. SOFT MACHINE Fifth

30. JETHRO TULL Thick as a Brick

31. QUELLA VECCHIA LOCANDA Quella Vecchia Locanda

32. STEVIE WONDER Talking Book

33. STRAWBS Grave New World

34. MOVING GELATINE PLATES The World of Genius Hans

35. URIAH HEEP Magician's Birthday

36. WEATHER REPORT I Sing The Body Electric

37. LE ORME Uomo di Pezza

38. BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
39. GNIDROLOG Lady Lake

40. IAN CARR Belladonna

Honorable Mentions:

FRANK ZAPPA The Grand Wazoo

     1971     
1. AMERICA America
2. PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY Ram

3. MARVIN GAYE What's Going On?

4. EGG The Polite Force 

5. YES Fragile

6. FOCUS Moving Waves
7. GENESIS Nursery Cryme
8. CARAVAN In the Land of Pink and Grey

9. GIL SCOTT-HERON Pieces of a Man

10. SUPERSISTER To the Highest Bidder

11. THE ORIGINAL CAST Godspell
12. CAROLE KING Tapestry
13. THE ORIGINAL CAST Jesus Christ Superstar
14. NEKTAR Journey to the Centre of the Eye
15. SPIROGYRA St. Radigunds

16. THE CARPENTERS Carpenters 

17. LED ZEPPELIN IV or "Runes"
18. GENTLE GIANT Acquiring the Taste

19. EARTH AND FIRE Song of the Marching Children

20. BRÖSELMASCHINE Bröselmaschine

21. TERJE RYPDAL Terje Rypdal

22. HERBIE HANCOCK Mwandishi

23. COMUS First Utterance

24. NUCLEUS We'll Talk About It Later

25. ASH RA TEMPEL Ash Ra Tempel

26. THE WOODS BAND The Woods Band

27. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR Pawn Hearts 

28. MELLOW CANDLE Swaddling Songs

29. OSIBISA Osibisa

30. LARRY CORYELL Barefoot Boy

31. MICHAEL NAURA QUARTETT Call

32. THE WHO Who's Next

33. ALICE COLTRANE Universal Consciousness

34. SANTANA III

35. BRAINTICKET Cottonwoodhill

36. MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA The Inner Mounting Flame

37. EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER Tarkus

38. TRAFFIC The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys 

39. JAN DUKES DE GREY Mice and Rats in the Loft

40. YES The Yes Album

41. TUDOR LODGE Tudor Lodge

42. NUCLEUS Solar Plexus

43. FUCHSIA Fuchsia

44. WAYNE SHORTER Odyssey of Iska

45. URIAH HEEP Look At Yourself

46. JETHRO TULL Aqualung

47. ROY HARPER Stormcock

48. WIGWAM Fairyport

49. GONG Camembert Electrique
50. McDONALD AND GILES McDonald and Giles

Honorable Mentions:

ALICE COLTRANE Journey in Satchidinanda

FREDDIE HUBBARD First Light

TODD RUNDGREN Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren

     1970     
1. CROSBY,  STILLS, NASH & YOUNG Déjà Vu

2. LINDA PERHACS Parallelograms

3. DAVID AXELROD Earth Rot

4. GENTLE GIANT Gentle Giant

5. GENESIS Trespass

6. EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER Emerson, Lake & Palmer 

7. TONY WILLIAMS LIFETIME (Turn It Over)

8. SOFT MACHINE Third

9. THE CARPENTERS Close to You
10. ELTON JOHN Elton John

11. WOLFGANG DAUNER TRIO Music Zounds

12. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR H to He, Who Am the Only One

13. SUPERSISTER Present from Nancy

14. CARAVAN If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You

15. SANTANA Abraxas

16. EGG Egg

17. LARRY CORYELL Spaces

18. AHORA MAZDA Ahora Mazda 

19. STEELEYE SPAN Hark! The Village Wait
20. FOTHERINGAY Fotheringay

21. DREAMS Dreams

22. JOHN McLAUGHLIN Devotion

23. MIROSLAV VITOUS Purple

24. ALICE COLTRANE Ptah, The El Daoud

25. CHICAGO II 

26. TREES The Garden of Jane Delawney

27. YES Time and a Word

28. FRANK ZAPPA Hot Rats

29. JEAN-LUC PONTY King Kong - Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa

30. CHASE Chase

31. NUCLEUS Elastic Rock

31. ASSOCIATION P.C. (Pierre Courbois) Earwax

33. BLACK SABBATH Paranoid

34. SPIRIT The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus

35. MILES DAVIS Bitches Brew

36. AMON DÜÜL Yeti

37. TRAFFIC John Barleycorn Must Die
38. SUPERTRAMP Supertramp

39. FREDDIE HUBBARD Red Clay

40. HERBIE MANN Stone Flute

Honorable Mentions:

JAN GARBAREK Afric Pepperbird

KING CRIMSON Lizard

THE MANDRAKE MEMORIAL Puzzle

GRAND FUNK RAILROAD Closer to Home

     1969     
1. KING CRIMSON In the Court of the Crimson King
2. HERBIE HANCOCK Fat Albert Rotunda

3. 'IGGINBOTTOM 'Igginbottom's Wrench

4. BURT BACHARACH The Original Soundtrack Music for the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

5. CHICAGO Chicago Transit Authority
6. YES Yes

7. SOFT MACHINE Volume Two
8. SANTANA Santana

9. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY It's a Beautiful Day

10. PENTANGLE Basket of Light

11. RENAISSANCE Renaissance

12. JACK DE JOHNETTE The De Johnette Complex

13. GENESIS From Genesis to Revelation

14. JOE BYRD & THE FIELD HIPPIES The American Metaphysical Circus

15. THE 5TH DIMENSION The Age of Aquarius

16. TERRY RILEY A Rainbow in Curved Air

17. COLOSSEUM Valentyne Suite

18. FRANK ZAPPA Hot Rats

19. THE BEATLES Abbey Road

20. LED ZEPPELIN II 

21. BRIAN AUGER, JULIE DRISCOLL & THE TRINITY Street Noise

22. TONY WILLIAMS LIFETIME Emergency!

23. LARRY CORYELL Coryell

24. FAIRPORT CONVENTION Liege & Lief

25. BLIND FAITH Blind Faith

26. DAVID AXELROD Songs of Experience

27. AMON DÜÜL II Phallus Dei

28. THE WHO Tommy

29. RARE BIRD Rare Bird

30. LED ZEPPELIN I

31. HERBIE MANN Stone Flute

33. JOHN McLAUGHLIN Extrapolation

34. NAT "Cannonball" ADDERLY Calling Out Loud 
33. BRIAN AUGER & THE TRINITY Befour 

34. THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION Uncle Meat

35. THE MANDRAKE MEMORIAL Medium

36. SPIRIT Spirit

37. JETHRO TULL Stand Up

38. WAYNE SHORTER Super Nova

39. MILES DAVIS In a Silent Way

Honorable Mentions:

MILES DAVIS Filles de Kilamanjaro

DONALD BYRD Fancy Free

     1968     
1. DAVID AXELROD Song of Innocence

2. THE COLLECTORS The Collectors

3. PINK FLOYD A Saucerful of Secrets

4. LILY AND MARIA Lily and Maria

5. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The United States of America

6. ULTIMATE SPINACH Behold and See

7. FRANK ZAPPA and the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra Lumpy Gravy

8. TERJE RYPDAL Bleak House

9. DON ELLIS Autumn

10. ULTIMATE SPINACH Ultimate Spinach

11. HERBIE HANCOCK Speak Like a Child

12. JOE HENDERSON Power to the People

13. STEVE MARCUS Tomorrow Never Knows

14. JEREMY STEIG Jeremy & The Satyrs

15. THE DON ELLIS ORCHESTRA Autumn

16. MILES DAVIS QUINTET Miles in the Sky

17. IRON BUTTERFLY In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

18. THE PENTANGLE The Pentangle

19. STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK Wake Up … It's Tomorrow

20. H.P. LOVECRAFT II 

21. DON ELLIS Shock Treatment

22. THE NICE The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack 

23. Hair Original Broadway Cast Recording

24. CARAVAN Caravan

25. FAMILY Music in a Doll's House

26. PROCOL HARUM Shine On Brightly

27. TERRY RILEY In C

28. THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION We're Only in It for the Money

29. THE PRETTY THINGS SF Sorrow

30. THE PENTANGLE Sweet Child 

31. THE SOFT MACHINE The Soft Machine

32. THE BEATLES The Beatles (The White Album)

33. APHRODITE'S CHILD End of the World

34. SPANKY & OUR GANG Like to Get to Know You

35. BLUE CHEER Vincebus Eruptum

36. BLUE CHEER Outsideinside 

37. LARRY CORYELL Lady Coryell

38. SIMON & GARFUNKEL Bookends

39. THE MANDRAKE MEMORIAL The Mandrake Memorial

40. THE MICHAEL MANIERI QUARTET Insight

Honorable Mentions:

HORACE SILVERS Serenade to a Soul Sister

JEFF BECK Truth

BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS Child Is Father to the Man

MIKE MAINIERI Journey Thru an Electric Tube
KLAUS DOLDINGER Goes On
LARRY CORYELL Lady Coryell

     1967     
1. STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK Incense & Peppermints

2. THE MOODY BLUES Days of Future Passed

3. DON ELLIS ORCHESTRA 'Live' at Monterey!

4. THE ASSOCIATION And Then… Along Comes The Association

5. LOVE Forever Changes

6. LEE MORGAN Cornbread

7. THE DOORS The Doors

8. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE Surrealistic Pillow

9. THE BEATLES Magical Mystery Tour

10. MILES DAVIS QUINTET Sorcerer

11. THE WEST COAST POP EXPERIMENTAL BAND Part One

12. THE CHOCOLATE WATCH BAND No Way Out

13. THE BEATLES Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

14. THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE Are You Experienced?

15. THE BEAU BRUMMELS Triangle

16. JOHN COLTRANE Expression

17. FIFTY FOOT HOSE Cauldron

18. THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION Absolutely Free

19. THE ZODIAC Cosmic Sounds

20. FRANK SINATRA & ANTÔNIO CARLOS JOBIM Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

21. MILES DAVIS QUINTET Miles Smiles 

22. WAYNE SHORTER Adam's Apple

22. ROY AYERS Virgo Vibes

23. DON ELLIS Electric Bath

24. H.P. LOVECRAFT H.P. Lovecraft

25. PROCOL HARUM Procol Harum

26. KALEIDOSCOPE Tangerine Dream

27. DON ELLIS OCTET Pieces of Eight (Live at UCLA) 

28. ANTÔNIO CARLOS JOBIM Wave

29. THE GARY BURTON QUARTET Lofty Fake Anagram

30. JOHN COLTRANE Kulu Sé Mama

Honorable Mentions:

ASTRUD GILBERTO & Walter Wanderly A Certain Smile
ASTRUD GILBERTO Beach Samba

THE JAZZ CRUSADERS Uh Huh

GARY BURTON Duster

PINK FLOYD The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

THE YARDBIRDS The Yardbirds Greatest Hits

THE FREE SPIRITS Out of Sight and Sound

THE DOORS Strange Days

     1966     
1. SIMON & GARFUNKLE Parsely, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
2. SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL '66 Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

3. JOHN COLTRANE Ascension

4. DON ELLIS ORCHESTRA 'Live' at Monterey ! 

5. SIMON & GARFUNKLE Sounds of Silence

6. JOHN COLTRANE Meditations

7. LARRY YOUNG Unity

8. THE GEORGE BENSON QUARTET It's Uptown

9. WAYNE SHORTER Speak No Evil

10. THE BYRDS The Fifth Dimension

11. THE BEATLES Revolver

12. THE YARDBIRDS Over Under Sideways Down

13. THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION Freak Out!

__1965__
1. VINCE GUARALDI TRIO A Charlie Brown Christmas: Original Soundtrack

2. HERBIE HANCOCK Maiden Voyage

3. WAYNE SHORTER Etcetera

4. MILES DAVIS QUINTET E.S.P.

5. ANTHONY WILLIAMS Spring

6. WAYNE SHORTER Juju

7. MINGUS The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady

8. JOHN COLTRANE A Love Supreme 

9. ASTRUD GILBERTO The Astrud Gilberto Album

10. BOB DYLAN Highway 61 Revisited

11. THE YARDBIRDS For Your Love

12. THE YARDBIRDS Having a Rave Up

13. ART BLAKEY'S JAZZ MESSENGERS Indestructible
14. ASTRUD GILBERTO The Shadow of Your Smile

   1964   

1. HERBIE HANCOCK Empyrean Isles

2. STAN GETZ & JOÃO GILBERTO Getz / Gilberto

3. ERIC DOLPHY Out to Lunch

4. SIMON & GARFUNKEL Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.

5. ANDREW HILL Point of Departure

6. ANTHONY WILLIAMS Life Time
7. WAYNE SHORTER Night Dreamer
8. GRACHAN MANCOUR III Evolution
9. DONALD BYRD A New Perspective

    1963   

1. DEXTER GORDON Our Man in Paris

2. HERBIE HANCOCK My Point of View

3. MILES DAVIS Seven Steps to Heaven

4. BILL EVANS Conversations with Myself 

5. KENNY DORHAM Una Mas (One More Time)
6. JACKIE MacLEAN One Step Beyond
7. STAN GETZ & LUIZ BONFÁ Jazz Samba Encore!

    1962    

1. HERBIE HANCOCK Takin' Off

2. THE BILL EVANS TRIO Moonbeams

3. DEXTER GORDON Go

4. STAN GETZ & CHARLIE BYRD

5. VINCE GUARALDI Cast Your Fate to the Wind: Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus

    1961    

1. BILL EVANS TRIO Explorations
2. BILL EVANS Sunday at the Village Vanguard
3. BILL EVANS Waltz for Debbie
4. JOHN COLTRANE My Favorite Things
5. OLIVER NELSON The Blues and the Abstract Truth

    1960    

BILL EVANS TRIO Portrait in Jazz

MILES DAVIS Sketches of Spain

    1959    

MILES DAVIS Kind of Blue

BILL EVANS Everybody Digs Bill Evans

DAVE BRUBECK Time Out

My Favorite Long-Playing Jazz-Rock Fusion Songs of the "Classic Era," 1966-1978

The long-playing song, sometimes called an "epic," or "suite," or "mesmeric," is one of the defining links between that which purists want to call, separately, "progressive rock music" or "prog." (The other would probably be the continual exploration and experimentation of new possibilities in sound, recording, and engineering that were made possible through an explosion of new electronic technologies and equipments coming to availability in the 1960s and 1970s.) It is here my goal to find and insert the great long-playing songs produced by Jazz-Rock Fusion artists during the "Classic Era" of the founding and development of that which we call Jazz-Rock Fusion, that is, 1966 to about 1979 or 1980.

1. "Prince Of The Sea" - Lenny White - (100/100)
    "Slightly All the Time" - The Soft Machine - (100)
    "Table talk" (12:03) - Out Of Focus - (100)
    "Sorcery 1" - Gateway - (100)
    "Every Step of the Way" - Santana - (100)

    "Sea Song" - Pat Metheny - (100)

    "Also Sprach Zarathustra" - Deodato - (100)

    "Inspirations Of Love" (9:48) - New Tony Williams Lifetime - (100)

    "Splat" (11:40) - Nucleus - (100)

    "Край Родной / Native Land" (9:46) - Firyuza - (100)

11. "Actual Proof" - Herbie Hancock - (98.75)

12. "The Szuite" - Hermann Szobel - (98)

      "Pori 72" - Jazz Q - (98)
14. "Images/Eternal Worlds/Epilogue" - Julian Priester * (97.5)

      "Pieseň z hôľ (Song From Ridges)" - Fermáta - (97.5)

      "One Word" - Mahavishnu Orchestra - (97.5)

      "The Life Divine" - Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - (97.5)

      "Seifenblasenleiden" - Exil - (97.5)

19. "The Romantic Warrior" - Return to Forever - (97)

20. "Silver Bird Is Heading For The Sun" - Terje Rypdal - (96.667)

"The Lovers" - Les McCann * (96.5)

"Indian Lady" - Don Ellis Orchestra - (96.43)

"The Mad Hatter Rhapsody" (10:50) - Chick Corea - (96.25)

"The Traitor" (9:36) - Herbie Hancock - (92.25)

"500 Miles High" - Return To Forever - (96.25)

"Devotion" - John McLaughlin - (96.25)

"Piece For Banjo And Kazoo" (9:00) - Charlie Mariano - (96.25)

"Variations for Trumpet" - Don Ellis Orchestra - (96.25)

"Dear Alice" (13:06) - Chick Corea - (96)

"Articolazioni" - Arti E Mestieri - (96)
"T. on a White Horse" - Eberhard Weber - (96)

"In the Dead of Night" suite - UK - (96)

"Return to Forever" - Chick Corea - (96)

"Boogie Woogie Waltz" - Weather Report - (96)

"Song To The Pharoah Kings" - Return to Forever - (95.833)

"Travelling, Pts 1 & 2" - Joachim Kühn - (95.625)

"Pamiec w Kamein Wasta" - SBB * (95)

"Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra" - Jean-Luc Ponty * (95)

"Unity" - Chris Hinze Combination - (95)

"Vision Is a Naked Sword" - Mahavishnu Orchestra - (95)

"Solarization: Solarization/Second Phase/Crescent Sun/Voyage/Solarization-Recapitulation" - Billy Cobham - (95)

"Butterfly" - Herbie Hancock - (95)
"Moana I" - Eberhard Weber - (95)

"Zanzibar" - Volker Kriegel - (95)

"Beach Ball Tango" (11:11) - Tony Williams - (95)

"Camara" (9:25) - Édition Spéciale - (95)

"Wizard (Musical Impressions Of J.R.R. Tolkein's Unforgettable Mage, Gandalf From "The Lord Of The Rings")" (10:55) - Matrix - (95)

"Water Torture" - Herbie Hancock - (95)
"W Kolysce Dioni Twych (Ojcu)" - SBB - (95)

"You'll Know When You Get There" - Herbie Hancock - (95)

"Inside Out" - Eddie Henderson - (95)

"Narodziny" - Extra Ball - (95)

"Emergency" - Tony Williams Lifetime - (95)

"Tsajama" - Out Of Focus - (95)

"Sly" - Herbie Hancock - (95)

"In Tangier/Paradise Beach" - Herbie Mann - (95)

"Why Should I Lend You Mine" (11:16) - Brand X - (95)

"Huascaran I" (13:41) - Fermáta - (95)

"Typhareth (Beauté)" (12:44) - Zao - (95)

"Life Suite" - Stanley Clarke - (94.58)

"Ban-Ban Caliban" (9:22) - The Soft Machine - (94.375)

"Aurora Borealis" - Jukka Tolonen - (94)

"Xingu" - Stomu Yamash'ta - (94)

"Moody Modes" - Billy Cobham - (94)

"Sangria For Three" - Tony Williams Lifetime - (94)

"Episode (Santiago 11. 9. 73)" (12:37) - Jukka Hauru - (94)

"Seriously Deep" (17:47) - Eberhard Weber - (94.29)

"Z Ktorych Krwi Frew Moja" - SBB - (93.75)

"Djinji" - Marion Brown - (93.75)

"Prologue/Rainbow One" - Neil Ardley - (93.75)

"Spaces (Infinite)" (9:16) - Larry Coryell - (93.75)

"New York City" (9:32) - Miroslav Vitous - (93.75)

"Wrong Is Right" (9:00) - Larry Coryell - (93.75)

"Land of the Midnight Sun" - Al Di Meola - (93.75)

"Hello Your Quietness (Islands)" - Larry Young - (93.75)

"More About D" - Volker Kriegel - (93.75)
"Let Us Go into the House of the Lord" - Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - (93.33)

"The Emperor" - Donald Byrd - (93.333)

"Slums on Wheels" - Volker Kriegel - (93.33)

"Deliverance" - John Lee & Gerry Brown - (93.33)

"Saxophonie" (15:25) - Ex Vitae - (93.333)

"C.T.6" - Dedalus - (93.33)

"The Muffin Talks Back" (9:52) - Billy Cobham - (92.5)

"Sleeping Giant" - Herbie Hancock * (92.5)

"Prologue/Love, Love" - Julian Priester * (92.5)

"Sea Of Tranquility" - Billy Cobham - (92.5)

"Astral Dreams" - Atmospheres - (92.5)

"Scorpio-Libra" - Eddie Henderson - (92.5)

"Out-Bloody-Rageous" - The Soft Machine * (92.5)

"Purple" - Miroslav Vitous - (92.5)

"Vashkar" (9:54) - Paul Bley, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny, Bruce Ditmas - (92.5)

"Beginning Again" - Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - (92.5)

"Nothing Again" - Missus Beastly - (92.5)

"Keep Your Soul Together" - Freddie Hubbard - (92.5)

"Lungs" (12:08) - Gateway - (92.5)

"Alegries Del Mediterrani" (9:17) - Iceberg - (92.5)

"Shamal" (9:00) - Gong - (92.5)

"World's end" (9:55) - Out Of Focus - (92.5)
"Hazard Profile" - The Soft Machine * (92.22)

"Prince and The Sea" - Lenny White - (92)

"Eyes That Can See In The Dark" (12:19) - Eberhard Weber - (92)

"Ostinato (for Angela)" - Herbie Hancock - (92)

"Pięciobój nowoczesny" - Laboratorium * (91.875)

"No Motion Picture" - Eberhard Weber * (91.875)

"Call to Higher Consciousness" - Larry Coryell - (91.875)

"Enigmatic Ocean" - Jean-Luc Ponty - (91.86)

"Alleycat" (14:05) - Nucleus - (91.667)

"Spectrum" - Tony Williams Lifetime - (91.25)

"Struggle Of The Sea Turtle" - Jean-Luc Ponty - (91.25)

"Brigitte" - Freddie Hubbard - (91.25)

"Perpetuum II" - Fermáta - (91.25)

"Jam Tune" (previously known as "Spencer Tracy") (9:43) - Tony Williams - (91.25)

"Baraka Sasa" (10:29) - Freddie Hubbard - (91.25)

"Sometime Ago / La Fiesta" - Chick Corea - (91.111)

"The Duel of The Jester and The Tyrant (Parts I & II)" - Return to Forever - (91)

"W Kolysce Dloni Twych (Ojcu)" - SBB - (91)
"Huchen 55, C" - Out Of Focus - (91)

"Wasting Time" - Zyma -  (91)

"L.S.B." - Out Of Focus - (90.71)

"Leprechaun's Dream" (13:03) - Chick Corea - (90.667)
"Wassilissa" - Mother Gong * (90.5)

"Imaginary Voyage" - Jean-Luc Ponty - (90.1875)

"Concerto for Jazz/Rock Orchestra, Parts 1-4" (14:25) - Stanley Clarke - (90)

"Chameleon" - Herbie Hancock - (90)

"Sound Pieces" - Michał Urbaniak Group - (90)

"Slight Touch Of Hepatitis" - Toto Blanke - (90)

"125th Street Congress" - Weather Report - (90)

"The Torture Never Stops" - Frank Zappa - (90)
"Snakehips Dream" - Nucleus - (90)

"Oceanus" - Ralph Towner - (90)

"Huchen 55, B" - Out Of Focus - (90)

"Khalid of Space, Part Two (Welcome)" Larry Young - (90)

"Rainbow Seven/Epilogue" - Neil Ardley - (90)

"Gypsy Queen" (11:50) - Larry Coryell - (90)

"Bumpin' On Sunset" - Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - (90)

"Flame-Sky" - Santana - (90)

"Theme 3: Rites Of Man" - Ian Carr's Nucleus - (90)

"B.M." - Moose Loose - (90)

"Clea" - Matrix - (90)

"Light as a Feather" - Return To Forever - (90)

"Lungs" (12:08) - John Abercrombie - (90)

"Space Guerilla" (10:48) - Missus Beastly - (90)

"Vento, Pioggia e Sole" - Perigeo - (90)

"Chris" (9:31) - Larry Coryell - (90)

"Spirit Level" - Nucleus - (90)

"A Huchen 55" - Out Of Focus - (90)

"Oasis" - Nucleus - (90)

"Black Cards" - Out Of Focus - (90)

"Hit The P. Tit" - Association P.C. - (90)

"Destiny's Children" - Freddie Hubbard - (90)

"One Way" - Stomu Yamash'ta - (90)

"Naxos" - Ian Carr with Nucleus - (90)

"Deliverance" - Chris Hinze Combination - (90)

"Silent Feet" (12:10) - Eberhard Weber - (90)

"Mandarine" (9:42) - Ex Vitae - (90)

"Alive And Kicking" (9:30) - Nucleus - (90)

"Percolations, Part 1 + Part 2" (10:00) - Gong - (90)

"Basic Laws" (11:46) - Miroslav Vitous -  (90)

"Càntics de la carn" (11:18) - Iceberg - (90)

"That's Very Easy" (9:04) - Out Of Focus - (90)

"Sanctuary" (10:54) - Miles Davis - (90)

My Highest-Rated Jazz-Rock Fusion Albums of the 21st Century

The Masterpieces:

1. OIAPOK OisoLün (2023) - 95.0

2. GREGG KOFI BROWN Together As One (2005) - 94.89

3. MONOBODY Raytracing (2018) - 94.6875

4. UZVA Uoma (2006) - 94.61

5. MONOBODY Monobody (2014) - 94.61

6. BONEY JAMES & RICK BRAUN Shake It Up! (2000) - 94.375

7. ANTOINE FAFARD Ad Perpetuum (2014) - 94.0

8. I KNOW YOU WELL MISS CLARA Chapter One (2013) - 93.70

9. AMOEBA SPLIT Quiet Euphoria (2023) - 93.697

10. ACCORDO DEI CONTRARI Ur- (2021) - 93.53

11. HIROMI'S SONICWONDER Out There (2025) - 93.33

12. UTOPIANISTI The Third Frontier (2016) - 93.33

13. JAGA JAZZIST Sunfire (2015) - 93.33

14. GADADU The Weatherman Is Wrong (2022) - 92.79

15. KBB Lost and Found (2000) - 92.59

16. iNFiNiEN Beyond the Veil (2021) - 92.50

The Minor Masterpieces:

17. CAMEMBERT Negative Toe (2017) - 92.27

18. HIROMI’S SONICBLOOM (HIROMI UEHARA) Time Control (2007) - 92.222

19. IKARUS Plasma (2022) - 92.1785

20. BILLY COBHAM Drum 'n' Voice - All That Groove (2001)  - 92.10

21. BILLY COBHAM Drum 'n' Voice, Vol. 4 (2016) - 91.875

22. ONE SHOT Ewaz Vader (2006) - 91.79 

23. BILL BRUFORD'S EARTHWORKS The Sound of Surprise (2001) - 91.667

24. KAMASI WASHINGTON The Epic (2015) - 91.58

25. MONOBODY Comma (2021) - 91.43

26. ACCORDO DEI CONTRARI Violato intatto (2017) - 91.43

27. CAMEMBERT Schnörgl Attahk (2011) - 91.30

28. BILLY COBHAM Drum 'n' Voice 2 (2006) - 91.29

29. KNOWER Life (2016) - 91.02

30. BIG BAD WOLF Pond Life (2017) - 91.0

31. MANNA / MIRAGE Man Out of Time (2021) - 90.94

32. DOMINA CATRINA LEE Songs from the Breastbone Drum (2010) - 90.90

33. GUTHRIE GOVAN Erotic Cakes (2006) - 90.87

34. ME'SHELL NDEGÉOCELLO The Omnichord Real Book (2023) - 90.81

35. BILLY COBHAM Drum 'n' Bass 3 (2010) - 90.80

36. DEWA BUDJANA Mahandini (2018) - 90.79

37. STARVING DAUGHTERS Strange Valleys (2019) - 90.71

38. JAGA JAZZIST What We Must (90.69)

39. MANNA/MIRAGE Autobiographie (2023) - 90.26

40. HIROMI UEHARA Brain (2004) - 90.21

41. KOOP Waltz for Koop (2001) - 90.0

42. SYRINX Qualia (2008) - 90.0

43. JAM IT! Following the Unknown (2015) - 90.0 

44. CABEZAS DE CERA Cabezas de Cera (2000) - 90.0

45. PEKKA POHJOLA Views (2001) - 90.0 

The Near-Masterpieces:

46. PAT METHENY GROUP Speaking of Now (2002) - 89.65

47. FARMERS MARKET Surfin' USSR (2008) - 89.34

Other Notable Albums:

JUPU GROUP Umpeen Kasvoivat Polut (2022) - 88.80

UTOPIANISTI Reason in Motion (2024) - 88.65

JAGA JAZZIST A Livingroom Hush (2002) - 88.25

HIROMI UEHARA Another Mind (2003) - 88.15

ONE SHOT Dark Shot (2008) - 87.45

KVAZAR A Giant's Lullaby (2005) - 87.40

PAT METHENY The Way Up (2005) - 86.25

As-yet unreviewed:

KENSO Fabulis Mirabilibus de Bombycosi Scriptis (2002) 

STANLEY CLARKE The Stanley Clarke Band (2010)

HERBIE HANCOCK River - The Joni Letters (2007)

AL DI MEOLA Flesh on Flesh (2002)

CAB CAB (2000)

CAB CAB 2 (2001)

CAB CAB 4 (2004)

CAB Theatre of Marionnettes (2009)

BILLY PRESTON with NOVECENTO You and I (2004 edition of 1997 recordings)

EUMIR DEODATO The Crossing (2010)