- Hash Jar Tempo : Well Oiled (Drunken Fish) (9)
- Built To Spill: Perfect From Now On (Warner) (8.5)
- Amon Tobin: Bricolage (Ninjatune) (8.5)
- Autechre: Chiastic Side (Warp) (8)
- Doldrums: Acupuncture (Kranky) (8)
- Today Is The Day: Temple Of The Morning Star (Relapse) (8)
- Laika: Sounds Of The Satellites (Too Pure) (8)
- Red Red Meat: There's A Star Above The Manger Tonight (SubPop) (8)
- Subarachnoid Space: Almost Invisible (Release) (8)
- Acid Mothers Temple: Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso Ufo (PSF) (7.5)
- Biosphere: Substrata (7.5)
- Dissolve: Third Album For The Sun (Kranky) (7.5)
- Electric Wizard: Come My Fanatics (Rise Above) (7.5)
- Laddio Bolocko: Strange Warmings (Hungarian) (7.5)
- Gravitar: Now The Road Of Knives (Charnel) (7.5)
- Bob Ostertag: Like A Melody No Bitterness (Seeland) (7.5)
- Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments: Straight To Video (Anyway) (7.5)
- Run On: No Way (Matador) (7.5)
- Geraldine Fibbers: Butch (Virgin) (7.5)
- Storm & Stress: Storm & Stress (Touch & Go) (7.5)
- Yo La Tengo: I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (Matador) (7.5)
- Belle And Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister (Enclave) (7.5)
- Alio Die: Password for Entheogenic Experience () (7.5)
- Squarepusher: Hard Normal Daddy (Warp) (7.5)
- Deerhoof: The Man The King The Girl (Kill Rock Stars)
- Hovercraft: Akathisia (Blast First) (7)
- Eat Static: Science Of The Gods (Planet Dog) (7)
- Aerial M: self-titled (Drag City) (7)
- Lowercase: Kill The Lights (Amphetamine Reptiles) (7)
- Djam Karet: The Devouring (Cuneiform) (7)
- Kreidler: Weekend (Play It Again Sam) (7)
- Space Needle: The Moray Eels Eat The Space Needle (Zero Hour) (7)
- Mainliner: Sonic (Charnel) (7)
- L@n (A-Muzik) (7)
- Paul Schutze: Nine Songs From The Garden Of Welcome Lies (1997)
- David Shea: Satyricon (Sub Rosa) (7)
- Chumbawamba: Tubthumper (Republic) (7)
- Apples In Stereo: Tone Soul Evolution (SpinArt) (7)
- Cornelius: Fantasma (Trattoria) (7)
- Ulan Bator: Vegetale (Disques Du Soleil) (7)
- Dylan Group: It's All About (Bubble Core) (7)
- Skeleton Key: Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon (Capitol) (7)
- Roni Size: New Forms (Mercury) (7)
- Bardo Pond: Lapsed (Matador) (7)
- Mogwai: Young Team (Chemikal Underground) (7)
- Loreena McKennitt: The Book Of Secrets (Quinlan Rd) (7)
- Tuatara: Breaking The Ethers (Epic) (7)
- Azusa Plane: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly & the Full Consciousness of Hidden Harmony (Camera Obscura) (7)
- Otomo Yoshihide: Sound Factory (Gentle Giant) (7)
- Ladybug Transistor: Beverley Atonale (Merge) (7)
- We: As Is (Asphodel) (7)
- Firewater: Get Off The Cross (Jetset) (7)
- Roy Montgomery: Harmony of The Spheres (Drunken Fish) (7)
- Matmos (Vague Terrain) (7)
- Cerberus Shoal: Element Of Structure/ Permanence (Audio Information Phenomenon) (7)
- Vas Deferens Organization: Zyzzybaloubah (VDO) (7)
- Gas: Zauberberg (Mille Plateaux) (7)
- Colossamite: All Lingo's Clamor (Skin Graft) (7)
- Richard Buckner: Devotion And Doubt (MCA) (7)
- Wyclef Jean: The Carnival (1997) (7)
- Lungfish: Indivisible (Dischord) (7)
- Bjork: Homogenic (Elektra) (7)
- DJ Shadow: Preemptive Strike (Mo' Wax) (7)
- American Analog Set: From Our Living Room To Yours (Emperor Jones) (7)
- Lullaby For The Working Class: I Never Even Asked For Light (Bar/None) (7)
- John Fahey: Womblife (Table Of The Elements) (7)
- Ohm: O2 (Timothy's Brain) (7)
- Salaryman (City Slang) (7)
- Spiritualized: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Arista) (7)
- Ant-Bee: Lunar Muzak (Divine) (7)
- Voodoo Child: The End Of Everything (Elektra) (7)
- Chemical Brothers: Dig Your Own Hole (Astralwerks) (7)
- Everclear: So Much For The Afterglow (Capitol) (7)
- Gus Gus: Polydistortion (4AD) (7)
- Erykah Badu: Baduizm (Motown) (7)
- Jack Drag: Unisex Headwave (Devil's weed) (7)
- Movietone: Day And Night (Drag City) (7)
- Big Swifty: Akroasis (Cherry Smash) (7)
- Monorchid: Let Them Eat (Simple Machines) (7)
- Bobby Conn: Bobby Conn (Truckstop) (7)
- Jim O'Rourke: Bad Timing (Drag City) (7)
- Red Stars Theory: But Sleep Came Slowly (Rx Remedy) (7)
- Skeleton Key: Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon (Capitol) (7)
- Jim O'Rourke: Happy Days (Revenant) (7)
- Corrupted: Paso Inferior (Frigidity Disco)
- Aqua: Aquarium (MCA) (7)
- Shallow: High Flyin' Kid Stuff (7)
- Rainer Maria: Past Worn Searching (Polyvinyl) (7)
- Wheat: Medeiros (Sugar Free) (7)
- Boxhead Ensemble: Dutch Harbor (Atavistic) (7)
- Nicolai Dunger: Eventide (1997) (7)
- X-Ecutioners: X-Pressions (Asphodel) (7)
- Missy Elliott: Supa Dupa Fly (1997) (7)
- Mike Keneally: Sluggo! (Immune) (7)
- Live Human: Live Human Featuring DJ Quest (Cosmic) (7)
- State Of Grace: Jamboreebop (RCA) (7)
- Ryoji Ikeda: +/- (Touch) (7)
- Howie B: Turn The Dark Off (Island) (7)
- Citizens' Utilities: No More Medicine (Mute) (7)
- Edith Frost: Calling Over Time (Drag City) (7)
- Fucking Champs: III (Frenetic) (7)
- Panacea: Low Profile Darkness (Position Chrome) (7)
- Danielson Famile: Tell Another Joke At The Ol' Choppin' Block (1997)
- Luke Slater: Freek Funk (NovaMute) (7)
- Bug: Tapping The Conversation (WordSound) (7)
- Radiohead: OK Computer (Capitol) (7)
- Andrew Chalk: East of the Sun (1997) (7)
- Coalesce: Give Them Rope (Edison) (7)
- Forgas Band Phenomena: Roue Libre (Cosmos) (7)
- Mats/Morgan Band: The Music Or The Money (UAE) (7)
- Larry Kucharz: Metachoral Visions (1997)
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Songwriters
- Lida Husik: Fly Stereophonic (Alias)
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Industrial
- Gravitar: Now The Road Of Knives (Charnel)
- Dissolve: Third Album For The Sun (Kranky)
- Society Burning: Tactiq (Cargo)
- Subarachnoid Space: Almost Invisible (Release)
- Doldrums: Acupuncture (Kranky)
- Aerial M (Drag City)
- Philosopher's Stone: Preparation (Kranky)
- Sister Machine Gun: Metropolis (Wax Trax)
- Mainliner: Sonic (Charnel)
- Mentallo & The Fixer: Burnt Beyond Recognition (Metropolis)
- Walking Timebombs (Charnel)
- Unit 187: Loaded (21st Circuitry)
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Electronica
- TUU: Mesh (Hearts Of Space)
- Kenneth Newby: Sirens (City Of Tribes)
- Ether: Hush (Charnel Music)
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Psychedelia
- Gravitar: Now The Road Of Knives (Charnel)
- Subarachnoid Space: Almost Invisible (Release)
- Sky Cries Mary: Moon Bathing On Sleeping Leaves (Warner Bros)
- Mainliner: Sonic (Charnel)
- Bedhead: Transaction De Novo (Trance Syndicate)
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Instrumental
- Amon Tobin: Bricolage (Ninjatune)
- Vas Deferens Organization: Zyzzybaloubah (VDO)
- Vas Deferens Organization: Sweat Your Cheeses (Charnel)
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Progressive
- Djam Karet: The Devouring (Cuneiform)
- Half Japanese: Heaven Sent (Emperor Jones)
- Bardo Pond: Lapsed (Matador)
- Phish: Slip Stitch And Pass (Elektra)
- Happy Family: Toscco (Cuneiform)
- Death Organ: Universal Stripsearch (Ad Perpetuam Memoriam)
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Britain
- TUU: Mesh (Hearts Of Space)
- Chumbawamba: Tubthumper (Republic)
- Chemical Brothers: Dig Your Own Hole (Astralwerks)
- Belle And Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister (Enclave)
- Citizens' Utilities: No More Medicine (Mute)
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Germany
- Kreidler: Weekend (Play It Again Sam)
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Japan
- Mainliner: Sonic (Charnel)
- Happy Family: Toscco (Cuneiform)
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Rest of Europe
- Ulan Bator: Vegetale (Disques Du Soleil)
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Australia
- Hash Jar Tempo :Well Oiled (Drunken Fish)
- Dissolve: Third Album For The Sun (Kranky)
- Gate: The Mono Lake (Table Of Elements)
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Canada
- Kenneth Newby: Sirens (City Of Tribes)
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