Top 100 Albums (For The Truly Ambitious)

60’s

1. Eric Dolphy – At the Five Spot, Vol. 1 (1961)

2. Mal Waldron – The Quest (1961)

3. Max Roach – We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (1961)

4. Oliver Nelson – Blues and the abstract truth (1961)

5. Hank Mobley – No Room For Squares (1963)

6. Grachan Moncur III – Evolution (1964)

7. France Gall – Baby Pop (1966)

8. Patty Waters – Sings (1966)

9. Sun Ra – Other Planes of There (1966) (interchangeable with other 60’s output)

10. Isaac Haynes – Hot Buttered Soul (1969)

70’s

11. Miles Davis – Bitches Brew (1970)

12. Philip Cohran – The Malcolm X Memorial (A Tribute in Music) (1970)

13. Marion Brown – Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (1970)

14. Nara Leão - Dez Anos Depois (1971)

15. Magma – 1001 degrees Centigrade (1971)

16. Can – Tago Mago (1971)

17. Hamza El Din - Escalay (The Water Wheel) (1971)

18. Faust – So Far (1972)

19. Tangerine Dream – Zeit (1972)

20. Caetano Veloso – Transa (1972)

21. Noah Howard – The Black Ark (1973)

22. Willie Colón – Lo Mato (1973)

23. Harmonia – Musik Von (1974)

24. Sand – Golem (1974)

25. Keith Hudson – Pick a Dub (1974)

26. Masahiko Togashi – Rings (1975)

27. Parliament - Mothership Connection (1975)

28. 高柳昌行 - Axis Another Revolable Thing vol. 1 (1975)

29. Jean-Claude Éloy - Gaku-no-Michi (1978)

30. Günter Schickert– Überfällig (1979)

31. Robert Ashley – Automatic Writing (1979)

32. Univers Zero – Heresie (1979)

80’s

33. Young Mable Giants – Colossal Youth (1980)

34. The Feelies – Crazy Rhythms (1980)

35. Lemon Kittens - We Buy A Hammer For Daddy (1980)

36. Associates – Fourth Drawer Down (1981)

37. VA - Afro-Arabian Crossroad: Music of the Tihama on the Red Sea, North Yemen (1983)

38. Swans – Filth (1983)

39. Cocteau Twins – Treasure (1984)

40. Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime (1984)

41. Hellebore – Il y a Des Jours (1985)

42. Moniek Darge – Sounds of Sacred Places (1987)         

43. Bathory – Blood Fire Death (1988)

44. Ono Gakaku Kai – Gagaku (1988)

45. Jungle Brothers – Done by the Forces of Nature (1989)

90’s

46. Dimi Mint Abba & Khalifa Ould Eide – Moorish Music From Mauritania (1990)

47. Master’s Hammer – Ritual (1991)

48. Luigi Nono – A Pierre; Quando stanno morendo; Post-Prae-Ludium No.1 (1991)

49. Main Source – Breaking Atoms (1991)

50. Boredoms – Pop Tatari (1992)

51. Dog Faced Hermans – Hum of life (1993)

52. 不失者 - Hisou (Pathétique) (1994)

53. Morton Feldman – For Bunita Marcus (Hildegard Kleeb) (1994)

54. DJ Screw – Hard Times (1994)

55. Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda (1994)

56. Harvey Milk - my love is higher than your assessment of what my love could be (1994)

57. Kokane – Funk upon a time (1994)

58. Goodie Mob – Soul Food (1995)

59. Burzum – Filosofem (1996)

60. U.G.K. – Ridin’ Dirty (1996)

61. Sun City Girls - 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda (1996)

62. AMM – Before Driving to the Chapel We Took Coffee With Rick and Jennifer Reed (1997)

63. Morton Feldman - For Philip Guston (The California EAR Unit) (1997)

64. This Heat - Made Available: John Peel Sessions (1977) (1997)

65. Kevin Drumm – Guitar (1997)

66. Ground Zero – Consume Red (1997)

67. Herbie Nichols – The Complete Blue Note Recordings (1997)

68. Pan Sonic – Kulma (1997)

69. Swans – Swans Are Dead (1998)

70. Outkast – Aquemini (1998)

71. The Coup – Steal This Album (1998)

72. Lull – Moments (1998)

73. Gas – Königsforst (1999)

74. Haunted House – Up in Flames (1999)

00’s

74. Broadcast – The Noise Made by People (2000)

75. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – lift yr. skinny fists like antennas to heaven (2000)

76. Greg Kelley – Trumpet (2000)

77. Angels of Light – How I Loved You (2001)

78. Kaffe Matthews, Andrea Neumann & Sachiko M – In Case of Fire Take the Stairs (2001)

79. Paysage D’Hiver – Winterkaelte (2001)

80. Kevin Drumm – Sheer Hellish Miasma (2002)

81. Eliane Radigue – Adnos I-III (2002)

82. Sackiho M & Sean Meehan – Untitled (2002)

83. Taku Sugimoto, Masafumi Ezaki & Taku Unami  - Trio at Offsite (2002)

84. Ellen Allien – Berlinette (2003)

85. Cerberus Shoal – Claiming the Knoblessone (2003)

86. Jerome Noetinger & Erikm – What A Wonderful World (2003)

87. Radu Malfatti/Taku Sugimoto (Raku Sugifatti)-Futatsu (2003)

88. Toshiya Tsunoda - Scenery of Decalcomania (2004)

89. Corrupted – El Mundo Frio (2005)

90. Nikos Veliotis, Taku Sugimoto, Kazushige Kinosh*ta & Taku Unami – Quartet (2005)

91. Keith Rowe, Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura & Otomo Yoshihide – Erstlive 5 (2005)

92. Birchville Cat Motel – Chi Vampires (2006)

93. Nmperign / Jason Lescalleet – Love Me Two Times (2006)

94. The Knife – Silent Shout (2006)

95. Luigi Nono – Prometeo, Tragedia dell'ascolto (2007)

96. Masahiko Okura, Taku Sugimoto & Taku Unami - Chamber Music Concerts vol.1 (2008)

97. Michael Pisaro – Metal Hearing I (2009)

98. Hello (Takahiro Kawaguschi / Shinjiro Yamaguchi) – Hello (2009)

99. Work/Death - Tender Comrades (2010)

100. Michael Pisaro – Fields Have Ears (6) (2012)