From Sean Cooper Sent Sat, Jan 9th 1999, 05:50
artist of the year . Carl Finlow/Voice Stealer/Random Factor album of the year . Atom Heart : Schnittstelle (Rather Interesting) top 10 idm . Atom Heart : Schnittstelle (Rather Interesting) . Bola : Soup (Skam) . Hat : DPS Holiday (Daisyworld) . I-f : Fucking Consumer (Disko B) [CD version w/ extra tracks] . Lithops : Uni Umit (Moikai) . Mouse On Mars : Glam (Sonig) . QBert : Wave Twisters (Galactic Butt Hair) . Random Factor : Too Fast Into the Future (20/20 Vision) . Two Lone Swordsmen : Stay Down (Warp) . Voice Stealer : The All-Electric House (Subvert) top 10 "ambient" . Biosphere/Deathprod : Nordheim Transformed (Rune Gramofon) . Nuno Canavarro : Plux Quba (Moikai) . Kim Cascone : blueCube (Noton) . Coil : Time Machines (Eskaton) . Tetsu Inoue : Waterloo Terminal (Caipirinha) . Tetsu Inoue : Psycho-Acoustic (Tzadik) . Phonophani : Phonophani (Biophon) . Terre Thaemlitz and Jane Dowe : Institutional Collaborative (Mille Plateaux) . Various Artists : Touch Sampler Vol. 3 (Touch) . World Standard : Country Gazette (Asphodel) top 10 singles/eps . Arovane : Arovane EP (Din) . Chris De Luca : Unknown (Schematic) . Richard Devine : Richard Coleman Devine (Schematic) . Electronome : Music Telex EP (Viewlexx) . Carl A. Finlow : Il.ek.tro (Klang) . Le Car : Auto-Motif EP (Ersatz Audio) . Andrea Parker : Ballbreaker (Mo'Wax) . Pole : Pole EP (Kiff SM) . John Selway : Zoids Vol. 2 (Serotonin) . Senking : Senking EP (Karaoke Kalk) we reviewed most of these at urban sounds at one point or another this year, so if you're interested, check out www.urbansounds.com and www.urbansounds.com/archives/us_mar_98/. peace, sc onnow: bola : soup (skam)