The Wire End Of Year Lists 1992
Albums
1. Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of...
2. Don Byron - Tuskegee Experiment
3. Ornette Coleman/Howard Shore - Naked Lunch: Original Soundtrack
4. Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
5. Kronos Quartet - Pieces Of Africa
6. Madonna - Erotica
7. Sonic Youth - Dirty
8. Pavement - Slanted And Echanted
9. James Macmillan - The Confessions Of Isobel Gowdie
10. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
11. Neil Young - Harvest Moon
12. Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
13. Tom Waits - Bone Machine
14. Bahia Black - Ritual Beating System
15. L7 - Bricks Are Heavy
16. Brian Eno - Nerve Net
17. Courtney Pine - To The Eyes Of Creation
18. Godflesh - Pure
19. Joe Henderson - Lush Life
20. Henryk Gorecki - Symphony No 3
21. Nicholas Collins - It Was A Dark And Stormy Night
22. Ultramarine - Every Man And Woman Is A Star
23. Gnawa Music Of Marrakesh - Night Spirit Masters
24. Basehead - Play With Toys
25. Future Sound Of London - Accelerator
26. New York Composers Orchestra - First Programme In Standard Time
27. Miles Davis - Doo-Bop
28. John Tavener - The Protecting Veil
29. Main - Hydra-Calm
30. Praxis - Transmutation
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Albums
1. Bjork - Debut
2. Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II
3. Joe Henderson - So Near So Far
4. Bill Frisell - Have a Little Faith
5. Brodsky Quartet - Crumb/Schubert
6. Trans-Global Underground - Dream of 100 Nations
7. Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
8. PJ Harvey - 4-Track Demos
9. American Music Club - Mercury
10. Various - Chess Blues Box
11. PM Dawn - The Bliss Album
12. PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
13. Butterfly Child - Onomatopoeia
14. TS Monk - Take One
15. Ice - Under the Skin
16. Orbital - Orbital
17. Last Exit - Head First Into the Flames
18. Charles Gayle - Touchin' On Trane
19. Insides - Euphoria
20. Einstuzende Neubauten - Tabula Rosa
21. Pet Shop Boys - Very
22. Pram - The Star Are So Big...
23. Various - Beyond the Machines
24. Stock, Housen & Walkman - Giving Up With
25. Goats - Tricks of the Shade
26. Breeders - The Last Splash
27. De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate
28. Thomas Koner - Permafrost
29. Caspar Brotzmann Massaker - Koksofen
30. Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy
31. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
32. Mori/Jauniaux - Vibraslaps
33. Diamanda Galas - Vena Cava
34. Paul Weller - Wild Wood
35. Blue Humans - Clear to Higher Time
36. King Crimson - The Great Deceiver
37. Sylvia Hallett - Skimming
38. Sublette/Weiner/Persuasions - Ships at Sea...
39. Michael Nyman - The Piano: Original Sound Track
40. Giuffre/Bley/Swallow - Fly Away Little Bird
41. (c) - Witch
42. Beloved - Conscience
43. Karlheinz Stockhousen - Stimming
44. Stina Nordenstam - Memories of a Color
45. Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Griots
46. Haniwa - Happy People
47. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
48. Don Grolnick - Night Town
49. Alexander Goehr - Sing, Ariel
50. Reload - Short Stories
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Albums
1. Portishead - Dummy
2. Massive Attack - Protection
3. David Toop & Max Eastley - Buried Dreams
4. Peter Brotzmann - Die Like a Dog
5. Laika - Silver Apples of the Moon
6. Charles Gayle - Live at Disobey
7. Jeru the Damaaja - The Sun Rises in the East
8. John Oswald - Grayfolded
9. Orang - Herd of Instinct
10. Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble - Officium
11. AMM - Newfoundland
12. Bill Frisell - Music for the Films of Buster Keaton
13. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
14. Earthling - Nothing/Nothingness
15. FM Einheit/Caspar Brotzmann - Merry Christmas
16. Nick Cave - Let Love In
17. Orbital - Snivilization
18. Paul Schutze - The Surgery of Touch
19. 4 Hero - Parallel Universe
20. Craig Mack - Flava in Ya Ear
21. Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
22. Warren G - Regulate...G-Funk Era
23. Plastikman - Musik
24. Mu-ziq - Tango N'Vectif
25. Cheb Khaled - N'ssi N'ssi
26. Kristin Hersh - Hips and Makers
27. Robin Holloway - Concerto for Orchestra No.2
28. Trans-Global Underground - Internationsal Times
29. MC Solaar - Prose Combat
30. Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer
31. Tricky - Ponderosa
32. Jeff Buckley - Grace
33. God - The Anatomy of Addiction
34. Roni Size - Music Box
35. Fun-Da-Mental - Seize the Time
36. Suns of Arqa - Govinda's Dream (A Guy Called Gerald Remixes)
37. Blur - Parklife
38. Mouse ON Mars - Vulvaland
39. Scorn - Evanescence
40. Nirvana - Unpugged in New York
41. Ascension - Five Titles
42. Ken Ishii - Innerelements
43. Moody Boyz - Product of the Environment
44. Frnk Zappa - The Yellow Shark
45. Baaba Maal - Firin' In Fouta
46. Roger Sessions - Chamber Music
47. Metalheads - Inner City Life
48. Joshua Redman - Mood Swing
49. Bary Guy/London Jazz ComposersÕ Orchestra - Portraits
50. Jon Hassel & Bluescreen - Dressing for Pleasure
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Albums
1. Tricky - Maxinquaye
2. A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology
3. Scott Walker - Tilt
4. Ornette Coleman & Prime Time - Tone Dialing
5. Oval - 94 Diskont
6. Techno Animal - Re-Entry
7. Ra12 DÕAngelo - Brown Sugar
8. Autechre - Tri Repetae
9. John Wall - Alterstill
10. Panasonic - Vakio
11. Giya Kanchelli - Abii Ne Viderem
12. Bjork - Post
13. Paul Schutze - Apart
14. Arthur Russell - Another Thought
15. David Toop - Screen Ceremonies
16. Musica Transonic - Musica Transonic
17. Tortoise - Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters
18. John Coltrane - Stellar Regions
19. Paul Bley/Evan Parker/Barre Phillips - Time Will Tell
20. Derek & the Ruins - Saisoro
21. Natacha Atlas - Diaspora
22. Massive Attack Versus Mad Professor - No Protection
23. David S Ware - Cryptology
24. Vanessa Daou - Zipless
25. Mansour Seck - NÕDer Fouta Tooro Vols 1 & 2
26. Evan Parker - 50th Anniversary Concert
27. John Oswald - Grayfolded 2: Mirror Ashes
28. Wagon Christ - Throbbing puch
29. Laurie Anderson - The Ugly One with the Jewels
30. Toumani Diabate - Djelika
31. Frances-Marie Uitti - 2 Bows
32. Tindersticks - Bloomsbury Theatr 12.3.95
33. Iannis Xenakis - La Legende D'Eer
34. Eleni Karaindrou - Ullysses's Gaze
35. Money Mark - Money Mark's Keyboard Repair Shop
36. Hector Zazou - Songs of the Cold Seas
37. Mark Anthony Turnage - On All Fours
38. Spring Heel Jack - There Are Strings
39. Pram - Sargasso Sea
40. Stereolab - Music for the Amorphous Body Study Centre
41. Ntshuks Bonga's Tshisha! - Urban Ritual
42. Mu-ziq - In Pine Effect
43. Federico Mompou - Musica Callada
44. Pablo's Eye - You Love Chinese Food
45. Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
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Albums
1. Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
2. Nearly God - Nearly God
3. Einsturzende NEubauten - Ende Neu
4. Derek Bailey - Guitar, Drums 'N' Bass
5. Plug - Drum 'N' Bass For Papa
6. Arcana - The Last Wave
7. Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things
8. Ornette Coleman - Sound Museum
9. David Toop - Pink Noir
10. Cristian Vogel - Specific Momentific
11. Photek - The Hidden Camera EP
12. Paul Schutze & Phantom City - Site Anubis
13. Ui - Unlike: Remixes
14. Lamb - Lamb
15. Patti Smith - Gone Again
16. DJ Spooky - Songs Of A Dead Dreamer
17. Steve Reich - City Life
18. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
19. Sheila Chandra - ABoneCroneDrone
20. David Shea - The Tower Of Mirrors
21. Ground Zero - Revolutionary Pekinese Opera
22. Joe Maneri Quartet - Let The Horse Go
23. AMM - Live In Allentown
24. Orbital - In Sides
25. Undark - Undark
26. Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album
27. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
28. Erkki-Sven Tuur - Crystallisatio
29. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
30. David S Ware - Godspelized
31. Caspar Brotzmann & Page Hamilton - Zulutime
32. Jeremy Peyton Jones - North South East West
33. Lewis Taylor - Lewis Taylor
34. Nonplace URban Field - Raum Fur Notizen
35. Ghostface Killa - Ironman
36. Herbie Hancock - The New Standard
37. 0 - Olento
38. Fushitsusha - Purple Trap
39. Godflesh - Songs Of Love And Hate
40. Barry Adamson - Oedipus Schmoedipus
41. King Crimson - Thratattak
42. Ikue Mori/Kato Hideki/Fred Frith - Death Ambient
43. Oumou Sangare - Worotan
44. Gastr Del Sol - Upgrade And Afterlife
45. Rhys Chatham & Martin Wheeler - Neon 12"
46. New Kingdom - Paradise Don't Come Cheap
47. Microstoria - _snd
48. The Fall - Teh Light User Syndrome
49. John Butcher - London & Cologne
50. DJ Vadim - USSR Repertoire (The Theory Of Verticality)
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Albums
1.Robert Wyatt - Shleep
2.Jim O'rourke - Bad Timing
3.Wabi Sabi - Wabi Sabi
4.Arto Lindsay - Mundo Civilizado
5.Mouse On Mars - Autoditacker
6.Tomasz Stanko Septet - Litania: Music Of Krzysztof Komeda
7.Gyorgy Ligeti - Ligeti Edition Vols. 1-6
8.Roni Size And Reprazent - New Forms
9.John Wall - Fractuur
10.Porter Ricks - Biokinetics
11.Henry Threadgill & Make A Move - Where's Your Cup?
12.Autechre - Chiastic Slide
13.Gravediggaz - The Pick, The Sickle And The Shovel
14.Bjork -Homogenic
15.Farmers Manual - Fsck
16.Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
17.Vinicius Cantuaria - Sol Na Cara
18.Toru Takemitsu - Film Music
19.Various Artists - Driftworks
20.Fushitsusha - A Death Never To Be Complete
21.Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
22.Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
23.Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
24.The Fall - Levitate
25.Fushitsusha - The Time Is Nigh
26.Tom Recchion - Chaotica
27.Stereolab - Dots And Loops
28.Iannis Xenakis - Kraanerg
29.Joe Maneri Quartet - In Full Cry
30.Ground Zero -Consume Red
31.Paul Schutze - Second Site
32.Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble - Towards The Margins
33.General Magic - Frantz!
34.Porter Ricks- Porter Ricks
35.John Zorn - Duras: Duchamp
36.Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
37.Bisk - Strange Or Funny Ha Ha?
38.Portishead- Portishead
39.Kaffe Matthews - Cdann
40.George Crumb - Quest
41.Metheny/Bailey/Bendian/Wertico - The Sign Of 4
42.Guschwachs - Guschwachs
43.Jeff Mills - The Other Day
44.Maurizio - M
45.Giya Kancheli- Caris Mere
46.Patti Smith - Peace And Noise
47.Ornette Coleman & Joachim Kuhn - Colors
48.Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
49.Arcana - Arc Of The Testimony
50.Hariprasad Chaurasia - Four Drums
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Albums
1. Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves (Geffen)
2. Pole - CD 1 (Kiff SM)
3. Gastr Del Sol - Camoufleur (Domino)
4. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - f#a# (Kranky)
5. Tortoise - TNT (City Slang)
6. Arto Lindsay - Noon Chill (Rykodisc)
7. Cornelius - Fantasma (Matador)
8. PhonosycographDISK - Ancient Termites (Bomp Hip-Hop)
9. Plastikman - Consumed (NovaMute)
10. Mark Hollis (Polydor)
11. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire? (Island)
12. Royal Trux - Accelerator (Domino)
13. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs (V2)
14. Pluramon - Render Bandits (Mille Plateaux)
15. Tony Conrad - Early Minimalism Vol. 1 (Table of the Elements)
16. Davis S. Ware - Go See The World (Columbia)
17. Chris Watson - Outside The Circle (Touch)
18. Third Eye Foundation - You Guys Kill Me (Domino)
19. Diamanda Galas - Malediction And Prayer (Mute)
20. Rhythm & Sound with Tikiman - Showcaase (Burial Mix)
21. Derek Bailey & Min Xiao-Fen - Viper (Avant)
22. Massive Attack - Mezzanine (Virgin)
23. Boredoms - Super ae (WEA Japan)
24. Fushitsusha - Withdrawe, This SableDisclosure Ere Devot'd (Victo)
25. Gas - Zauberberg (Mille Plateaux)
26. Two Dollar Guitar - Train Songs (Smells Like Records)
27. Black Star - Mos Def Talib Kweli Are Black Star (Rawkus)
28. Add N To X - On The Wires Of Our Nerves (Satellite)
29. Bang On A Can - Music For Airports (Point)
30. David Tudor - Rainforest (Mode)
31. Alan Licht & Loren MazzaCane Connors - Hoffman Estates (Drag City)
32. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Love Is The Devil OST (Asphodel)
33. Kreidler - Appearance And The Park (Kiff SM)
34. Pere Ubu - Pennsylvania (Cooking Vinyl)
35. Pulp - This Is Hardcore (Island)
36. Coil - Time Machiens (Eskaton)
37. Various Artists - Decay Product (Chain Reaction)
38. Chicago Underground Duo - 12" Of Freedom (Thrill Jockey)
39. Mix Master Mike - Anti-Theft Device (Asphodel)
40. Die Like A Dog Quartet - Little Birds Have Fast Hearts (FMP)
41. Terre Thaemlitz - Means From An End (Mille Plateaux)
42. Req - Frequency Jams (Skint)
43. Acid Mothers Temple And The Melting Paraiso UFO (PSF)
44. Money Mark - Push The Button (Mo' Wax)
45. David Grubbs - The Thicket (Drag City)
46. Arnold Dreyblatt - The Sound Of One String (Table Of The Elements)
47. Vega Vainio Vaisanen - Endless (Blast First)
48. Slapp Happy - Ca Va (V2)
49. Ester Brinkmann - 8+1 (Suppose)
50. Martin Klapper & Roger Turner - Recent Croaks (Acta)
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Albums
• Mouse on Mars - Niun Niggung (Domino)
• Sonic Youth - Goodbye 20th Century (Smells Like/SYR)
• Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark, Vol 1 (Chalice)
• Matmos - The West (Deluxe/Vague Terrain)
• John Butcher & Phil Durrant - Secret Measures (Wobbly Rail)
• Arto Lindsay - Prize (Rykodisc)
• Jim O'Rourke - Eureka (Domino)
• Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensembe - Drawn Inward (ECM)
• Supersilent - Supersilent 4 (Rune Grammafon)
• David Sylvian - Dead Bees on a Cake (Virgin)
• Mos Def - Black on Both Sides (Rawkus)
• Pan Sonic - [A] (Blast First)
• Die Like a Dog Quartet - Little Birds Have Fast Hearts (FMP)
• Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltange in the Milky Night
• (Duophonic)
• Tom Waits - Mule Variations (Epitaph)
• Pita - Get Out (Mego)
• Basement Jaxx - Remedy (XL)
• Capt. Beefheart & the Magic Band - Grow Fins: Rarities 1965-82 (Revenant)
• The Fall - The Marshall Suite (Artfull)
• DJ Vadim - USSR Life from the Other Side (Ninja Tune)
• Isotope 217 - Utonian Automatic (Thrill Jockey)
• Philip Jeck - Surf (Touch)
• Company Flow - Little Johnny from the Hospital (Rawkus)
• Powerfield - Electronic Electric Electronic (Paratactile)
• Vinicius Cantuaria - Tacuma (Rykodisc)
• Charlemagne Palestine - Schlingen-Blangen (New World)
• Tom Ze - Postmodern Platos (Luaka Bop)
• Crank - Wanton Phenomena (Mille Plateaux)
• Paul Panhuysen - Lost for Words (Table of the Elements)
• Lamb - Fear of Fours (Fontana)
• Jon Hassell - Facinoma (Water Lily Acoustics)
• Ali Farka Toure - Niafunke (World Circuit)
• Paul Panhuysen - Partitas for Long Strings (XI)
• The Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Vol 14: Boston Music Hall 11/30/73 &
• 12/2/73 (Grateful Dead)
• Alog - Red Shift Swing (Rune Grammafon)
• Angus MacLise - The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (Siltbreeze/Quakebasket)
• Argan - South Moroccan Moter Berber (Barraka Al-Farnatshi)
• Luciano Berio - Sequenzas (Deutche Grammaphon)
• Femi Kuti - Shoki Shoki (Talkin' Loud)
• Alan Silva & William Parker - A Hero's Welcome: Pieces for Rare Occasions
• (Eremite)
• Innerzone Orchestra - Programmed (Talkin' Loud)
• Caspar Brotzmann - Mute massaker (Mute)
• Aphrodite - Aphrodite (V2)
• Pole - Pole 2 (Kiff SM)
• To Rococo Rot - The Amateur View (City Slang)
• Jonathan Harvey - Le Tombeau De Messiaen (Sargasso)
• Flanger - Templates (N'Tone)
• Chicago Underground Trio - Possible Cube (Delmark)
• Pelt - Empty Bell Ringking in the Sky (VHF)
• Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma - Sampradaya (Realworld)
