Other Music New Release Update
December 27, 2000
The Other Music Staff Picks: Top 10s for 2000
Welcome to our second annual year-end staff top-10 lists for 2000. This year, the lists come from folks at both our Cambridge, MA and NYC stores. Some staffers specified that their lists be in a particular order, others didn't. Sorry for the length -- there are quite a few people working at Other Music these days. We hope that you find the lists as fun and informative as we did.
GEOFF ALBORES (nyc)
* Omar Bashir - Magam
* Cat Power - Covers
* Art Ensemble of Chicago w/Fontella Bass - Les Stances a Sophie
* Anti-Pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue
* Attica Blues - Test, Don't Test
* Daniel Givens - Age
* Bjork - Selma Songs
* Omar - Best By Far
* Don Cherry - Mu pt. 182 reissue
* Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, live at Central Park West August 2000
SANDRA BARRETT (cambridge)
* Men's Recovery Project - Bolides Over Basra
* White Stripes - De Stijl
* ESG - A South Bronx Story reissue
* Various - Fort Thunder Maximum Megamix
* Gizmos - Studio Recordings 1976/1977 reissue
* Chicks On Speed - Will Save Us All
* Young Marble Giants - Salad Days reissue
* Peaches - The Teaches Of Peaches
* Quintron - Unmasked Lightyear Of Infinityman
* Various Artists - Love, Peace & Poetry: Asian Psychedelic Music
SEANNA BARRY (cambridge)
* Amon Tobin - Supermodified
* Talib Kweli & DJ Hi-Tek - Reflection Eternal
* Various - Xen Cuts
* Various - Solesides Greatest Bumps
* Various - Plus 8 Classics 90-97
* Various - Rapid Transit
* Matthew Herbert - Let's All Make Mistakes
* Various - Putting the Morr Back in Morrissey
* Common - Like Water for Chocolate
* Del - Both Sides of the Brain
CHRIS BROKAW (cambridge)
* Ma, Meyer, O'Connor - Appalachian Journey
* Amsterdam String Trio - Winter Theme
* Bettie Serveert - Private Suit
* Throttle - Transporter
* Bill Dixon - Berlin Abrozzi
* Gonzales - Gonzales Uber Alles
* J Mascis - More Light
* Ragazzi - We Do It All The Time
* Silkworm - Contempt
* Chris Smither - Live As I'll Ever Be
TOM CAPODANNO (nyc)
* Bertrand Burgalat "The Sssound of Mmmusic"
* Cubismo Grafico "Mini"
* Destroyer "Thief"
* Ladytron "Miss Black and Her Friends"
* Margo Guryan "Take A Picture" reissue
* Sigur Ros "Agaetis Byrjun"
* Takako Minekawa & Dymaxion "Maxi On"
* The Clientele "Suburban Light"
* Thomas Brinkman "Klick"
* Tomoki Kanda "Landscape of Smallers Music"
MARISA CERIO (nyc)
* Radiohead - Kid A
* Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
* PJ Harvey - Stories from the City...
* Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts...
* New Order - BBC Sessions
* Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
* The Clientele - Suburban Light
* The Fall - The Unutterable
* Gang of Four - Entertainment reissue
* Maher Shalal Hash Baz - From a Summer to Another Summer
JO ANN COLAGIACOMI (nyc)
* Radiohead - Kid A
* Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts and Flowers
* Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
* Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
* Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child...
* Art Ensemble of Chicago - Les Stances a Sophie
* Cat Power - The Covers Record
* Vashti Bunyan - Another Diamond Day reissue
* Vladislav Delay - Entain
* PJ Harvey - Stories From the City...
* New Order - BBC Sessions
DAVID DAY (cambridge)
* Slum Village - Fantastic Vol. II
* Phoenix - United
* Sun Ra - Lanquidity reissue
* Luomo - The Next Episode In House
* Chicks On Speed - Will Save Us All
* Various - Putting The Morr Back In Morrissey
* ESG - A South Bronx Story reissue
* PJ Harvey - Stories from the City...
* Radiohead - Kid A
* Archie Shepp - Blase/Pan African Festival reissue
J. DENNIS (cambridge)
* Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of Bewilderbeast
* Common - Like Water for Chocolate
* Cubismo Grafico - Mini
* DAngelo - Voodoo
* Various - Frikiywa Collection II
* Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott?
* Various - Naked Music Carte Blanche Vol. 1
* St. Germain - Tourist
* Thievery Corporation - Mirror Conspiracy
NICK DRANE (cambridge)
* Idyll Swords - II
* Pizzicato Five - 5th Release From Matador
* Eels - Daisies Of The Galaxy
* Moore, Shoup, Makihara - Hurricane Floyd
* Planetarium - Age Of Anxiety
* Stereolab - First Of The Microbe Hunters
* Tahiti 80 - Puzzle
* Various - At Home with The Groovebox
* Yo La Tengo - Danelectro EP
* Papas Fritas - Buildings and Grounds
ROBIN EDGERTON (nyc)
* Tom Ze - Jogos De Armar (Faca Voce Mesmo) and s/t,
Se O Caso E Chorar/Todos Os Olhos, Estudando O
Samba/Corrieo Da Estacao Do Bras reissues
* Various - Bollywood Funk (reissue comp)
* Avey Tare & Panda Bear - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit
They've Vanished
* Optiganally Yours - presents Exclusively Talentmaker
* Fugu - Fugu 1
* Los Samplers - Descargas
* Manhattan Brothers - Best Of reissue
* Ladytron - Miss Black & Her Friends
* Various - IF's Mixed Up in the Hague Vol. 1
* Noonday Underground - Self Assembly
GIAN CARLO FELEPPA (nyc)
* Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
* Tim - Ammonia Storm
* Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day reissue
* Icky Boyfriends - Talking To You Is Just Like Being Dead
* People Like Us - Fistful of Knuckles
* Kahimi Karie - Once Upon a Time
* Thee Headcoats - Elementary Singles Collection
* Melted Men - Ingrown Toenail
* Judy Garland Speaks- Celebrities At Their Worst
* Anti-Pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue
* Dylan Willemsa - Ion Sports
NICK E. FOLLETT (cambridge)
* Thievery Corp. - The Mirror Conspiracy
* Sun Ra - Lanquidity
* Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo
* Anti-Pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue
* Suba - Sao Paolo Confessions
* The Fringe - From NYC
* Masada - Live in Seville
* Radiohead - Kid A
* Chicago Underground Trio - Flamethrower
* Various - Shake Sauvage
LISA GARRETT (nyc)
* Chicks on Speed - Will Save Us All
* Anti-Pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue
* Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
* Broadcast - Noise Made By People
* The Go-Betweens - Friends of Rachel Worth
* B. Fleischmann - A Choir of Empty Beds
* Various - I-F's Mixed Up in The Hague
* Antibalas - Liberation Afrobeat
* Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists...
* Bjork - Selmasongs
JEFF GIBSON (nyc)
* Insides - Sweet Tip
* The Spacious Mind - The Mind Of A Brother
* Maher Shalal Hash Baz - From A Summer to Another Summer
* Magic Carpathians - Ksiega Utopii
* Sun City Girls - Carnival Folklore Resurrection series
* Suckle - Against Nurture
* Saint Etienne - The Sound Of Water
* Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo
* Dead C - s/t
* Antony & The Johnsons - s/t
* Die Trip Computer Die - We Are Your Friends
* Teenage Fanclub - Howdy
* Vibracathedral Orchestra - Versatile Arab Chord Chart
* The Fall - Unutterable
DANIEL GIVENS (nyc)
* The Eternals - s/t
* Town & Country - It All Has To Do With It
* Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek - Reflection Eternal/Train of Thought
* Omar - Best By Far
* Attica Blues - Test Don't Test
* Tabla Beat Science - Tala Matrix
* Milford Graves - Stories
* Divine Styler - Word Power 2
* Leila - Courtesy of Choice
* Sun-Ra - Greatest Lost Albums & Lanquidity reissues
GRAHAM GULDEN (nyc)
* High On Fire - The Art of Self-Defense
* Big L - Big Picture
* Anti-Pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue
* Black Dice - s/t
* Jay-Z - The Life and Times of Sean Carter Vol. 3
* At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
POLLY HANSON (cambridge)
* Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
* Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists...
* Trembling Blue Stars - Broken By Whispers
* Go-Betweens - Friends of Rachel Worth
* Alain Goraguer - La Planete Sauvage soundtrack
* Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors
* Willard Grant Conspiracy - Mojave
* Cat Power - The Covers Record
* Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
* Summer Hymns - Voice Brother & Sister
DUANE HARRIOTT (nyc)
* Quasimoto - The Unseen
* Movietone - Blossom-Filled Streets
* Archie Shepp - Blase/Pan African Festival reissue
* Outkast - Stankonia
* MF Doom - Operation Doomsday
* Basement Jaxx/Airto - Better Daze
* Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott?
* Pepe Braddock - Deep Burnt 12
* Moodymann - Don't You Want My Love 12
* Madlib - Remixes 12
TIM HASLETT (cambridge)
* Pernice Brothers Tour EP
* Kid 606 - Straight Outta Compton (MC DSP Mix) 7
* Joe Pernice - Big Tobacco
* Mannie Fresh - Ca$h Money Is An Army
* Pan American - Bugs 12
* Regis - Disintegration of Our Faith 12
* Richard Sands - Crack Habit 12
* Rubberoom - Black Box 12
* Barbara Manning - Under One Roof
DAN HIRSCH (cambridge)
* Ryoji Ikeda -Matrix
* Morton Feldman (played by John Tilbury) - All Piano
* Iannis Xenakis - Persepolis
* Schlippenbach Quartet - Hunting the Snake
* Keith Rowe and Evan Parker - Dark Rags
* Anderson/Jordan/Parker/Drake - 2 Days in April
* Go-Betweens - Friends of Rachel Worth
* Bablicon - Orange Tapered Moon
* Company Flow/Cannibal Ox 12
DAN HOUGLAND (nyc)
* Jeff Mills - Metropolis 12
* Blur - Music Is My Radar 12
* Avey Tare & Panda Bear - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
* Benjamin Diamond - Strange Attitude 4x12
* Bluejam/Chris Morris
* Clientele - Suburban Light
* snd - stdio
* Boredoms - Vision Creation New Sun (1999)
* Motor - Hexen
* Sensational - Heavy Weighter
CASEY KEENAN (cambridge)
(a few of these are pre-2000 releases)
* Lilys - Selected
* Sun City Girls - Dreamy Draw
* Oval - Process
* Alva - Slattery For Ungdom
* Sandy Bull - Inventions For Electric Guitar
* Nobukazu Takemura - Sign 12
* Captain Beefheart - Grow Fins box
* I.S.O. - Gravity Clock
* snd - stdio
* Ol' Dirty Bastard - Nigga Please
MICHAEL KLAUSMAN (nyc)
* Mike Cooper - Paper and Smoke reissue
* Giancinto Scelsi - Piano Works
* Terry Riley - Music for the Gift reissue
* Matt Suggs - Golden Days Before They End
* Mark Fry - Dreaming with Alice reissue
* Centipede - Septober Energy reissue
* Brigitte Fontaine - s/t reissue
* Francois Baschet - Les Structures Sonores reissue
* Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn reissue
* Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day reissue
NICOLE LANG (cambridge)
* Starlight Mint - Dream That Stuff Was Made Of
* Enon - Believo!
* Mooney Suzuki - People Get Ready
* Granddaddy - Sophtware Slump
* Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors
* Common - Like Water for Chocolate
* De La Soul - Mosaic Thump
* Modest Mouse - Moon & Antarctica
* Beachwood Sparks - Beachwood Sparks
JOSH MADELL (cambridge)
* Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
* Uusitalo - Vapaa Muurari
* Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
* Jurassic Five - Quality Control
* ESG - A South Bronx Story reissue
* Art Ensemble w/Fontella Bass - Les Stances A Sophie
* Various - Putting The Morr Back In Morrissey
* Amon Tobin - Supermodified
* Anti-Pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue
TROY McEVERS (cambridge)
* Delgados - Great Eastern
* Hopewell - Curved Glass
* Meisha - Meisha Returns Meisha Forever
* Grandaddy - Sophtware Slump
* Piano Magic - Artists' Rifles
* Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Raise Your Skinny Fists...
* Fuxa - 2000
* Whip - Song Song
* Radiohead - Kid A
* Alain Goraguer - La Planete Sauvage soundtrack
CHRIS O'ROURKE (nyc)
* U2 - Beautiful Day
* Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
* Vladislav Delay - Multila
* Lambchop - Nixon
* Phoenix - United
* Rick Rizzo/Tara Key - Dark Edson Tiger
* Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
* Flying Burrito Bros. - Hot Burritos Anthology 1969-1972
* Anti-Pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue
* Spacious Mind - The Mind of A Brother
* Sun Ra - When Angels Speak of Love reissue
DAVID PORTNER (nyc)
* Quasimoto - The Unseen
* Vladislav Delay - Multila
* Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day reissue
* Outkast - Stankonia
* Black Dice - s/t
* Dettinger - Oasis
* Jay-Z - The Life and Times of Sean Carter Vol. 3
* Eyvind Kang - Story of Iceland
* Luomo -Vocalcity
* Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
TOM PRATT (nyc)
* Morton Feldman - All Piano
* Vladislav Delay - Entain
* Dubravko Detoni with Acezantez
* David Tudor / John Cage - Rainforest II + Mureau
* Movietone - Blossom Filled Streets
* Kevin Drumm / Martin Tetreault - Particles and Smears
* snd - stdio
* Ake Hodell - Verbal Brainwash and other works reissue
* Royal Trux - Pound For Pound
* Thomas Brinkmann - Klick
BERT QUEIROZ (nyc)
* Amon Tobin - Supermodified
* Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo
* Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
* Phoenix - United
* Mellow - Another Mellow Summer
* Jah Wobble - Molam Dub
* Black Box Recorder - Facts of Life
* Art Ensemble of Chicago w/ Fontella Bass - Les Stances a Sophie
* Various - Xen Cuts
* Various - Bollywood Funk
LYNDON ROELLER (nyc)
* Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors
* Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica
* Richard Buckner - The Hill
* Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
* Common - Like Water for Chocolate
* Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
* Lambchop - Nixon
* Anti-Pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue
* Moles - Untune the Sky reissue
* Various - Xen Cuts
JEREMY SPONDER (nyc)
* Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child...
* Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
* Vladislav Delay - Entain
* Broadcast - Noise Made By People
* Radiohead - Kid A
* Teenage Fanclub - Howdy
* Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
* Gas - Pop
* At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
* The Clientele - Suburban Light
GILMORE TAMMY (cambridge)
(some late 1999)
* ESG - A South Bronx Story reissue
* Le Tigre - s/t
* Maffeo & Canty - Union Themes
* Sleater Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One
* Sarah Dougher - Walls Ablaze
* Augustus Pablo - Dub, Reggae, & Roots reissue
* Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - No Old Guy Lo Fi Cry
* David Berman - Actual Air (book)
* Scrawl Columbus Community Fest (Live)
* Boredoms - Rebore Vol. II mixed by Ken Ishii
ISAAC D. TILTON (cambridge)
* Various - Putting The Morr Back In Morrissey
* ESG - A South Bronx Story
* Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
* Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
* Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists...
* Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
* Badly Drawn Boy - Hour Of Bewilderbeast
* Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
* Radiohead - Kid A
* OutKast - Stankonia
CHRIS VANDERLOO (nyc)
* Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
* Clientele - Suburban Light
* Vladislav Delay - Entain
* Gas - Pop
* Various - Clicks and Cuts
* Mark Kozelek - Rock'N'Roll Singer
* Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2
* Papas Fritas - Buildings and Grounds
* Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl
* Phoenix - United
LYDIA VANDERLOO (nyc)
* The Go-Betweens - The Friends of Rachel Worth:
* Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
* Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2
* Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
* The Clientele - Suburban Light
* Birdie - Some Dusty
* Radiohead - Kid A
* Belle & Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child...
* Broadcast - The Music Made by People
* Sigur Ros - Agetis Byrjun
PHIL WALDORF (nyc)
* Chicks on Speed - The Unreleases
* Destroyer - Thief
* Thomas Brinkmann - Rosa
* Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
* Vladislav Delay - Multila
* Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman reissue
* Papas Fritas - Buildings and Grounds
* Lee Hazlewood - 13 reissue
* Cat Power - The Covers Record
* Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
JOSHUA ZUCKER (nyc)
* Love Life - The Rose He Lied By
* Various - No New York reissue
* Joy Division - BBC Sessions
* Avey Tare & Panda Bear - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
* Fennesz - Live in Melbourne/Il Libro Mio
* Radiohead - Kid A
* Pimmon - Assembler
* The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycho Candy
* Section 25 - Always Now/The Key of Dreams reissues
* Mouse on Mars - Instrumentals reissue
Staffers not represented:
Deborah Campbell (cambridge)
Melissa Cox (nyc)
Andy Giles (nyc)
Rachel Gold (cambridge)
Amy Lee Grill (cambridge)
Matt Hanks (nyc)
Noah Lennox (nyc)
Saheer Umar (nyc)
Thanks for reading, and best wishes for 2001.
-all of us at Other Music
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