From: B BRACKEN <bbracken AT cps.cmich.edu>
Subject: top 20?
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 22:08:01 -0500 (EST)

hello,
the following is a list of my "top 20" for the year, however, i continued below
that with a list of things that were just as good, or almost as good as the top
20 list...here it is i guess:

Christoph Charles Undirected music 1986-1996 Mille Plateaux
Kevin Drumm Perdition Plastics
RLW Tulpas box set Selektion
Muller/voicecrack/ORourke Table, Chair, and Hatstand for4ears
Jim ORourke Happy Days Revenant
Bernhard Gunter Impossible Grey Metamkine
Farmers Manual FSCK Tray
Bernhard Gunter/John Duncan Home, Unspeakable Trente Oiseaux
Microstoria Reprovisors Mille Plateaux
Fennesz Hotel Parrel.ll Mego
Merzbow Scumtron remixes Blast First
Fransisco Lopex Untitled Music for Geography Sedimental
Organum Kammer Aeroplane
Amm Before Driving... Matchless
FJF Blow Horn Okka
Eddie Prevost Trio Touch Matchless
David Grubbs Banana Cabbage... Table of the Elements
Rehburg and Bauer Fasst Touch
Ryoji Ikeda +/- Touch
Tony Conrad Early Minimalism box set Table of the Elements

thats 20...but here are the rest which i rate equally as good:

Mika Vainio Onko Touch
Morphogenisis Formative Causation Mycophile
Loren Mazzacane Connors Colloden Harvest Roadcone
Ziel 12 Sieben
Bruesseler Platz 12 Sieben
Akita/Azuma/Haswell/Sakaibara Ich Schnitt... Mego
Mouse on Mars Audoditaker Thrill Jockey
Mouse on Mars Instrumentals Sonor
Francisco Lopez untitled 74 Table of the Elements
Evan Parker/Eddie Prevost Most Materiall Matchless
Derek Bailey/Tony Oxley Soho Suites Incus
Bailey/Butcher/Marshall Incus
Jim ORourke Bad Timing Drag City
General Magic/Pita Live and Final Fridge Source
V/A Double Articulation (shea/Hazan/Mouse on Mars/Oval/Main/Scanner) Sub Rosa
Christian Marclay Records Atavistic
Panasonic Kulma Blast First
Steve Roden Crop Circles Trente Oiseaux
Jliat The Nature of Nature Jliat
General Magic Frantz Mego
DKV Live Okka
Mats Gustaffson/Hamid Drake For Don Cherry Okka
Yasunao Tone Solo for Wounded CD Tzadik
You Fantastic Pals ep Skin Graft
Evan Parker Solo in Chicago Okka
Anthony Braxton/George Graewe Okka

---thanks to doug o. for doing this.  Cant wait for more this year.
-ben