Looking Back on Premillennium Tension

Josh Kay and Romulo Del Castillo, musicians, Phoenecia; owners of Schematic Music Company record label
1. Bisk, Ticklish Matters (Sub Rosa)
2. Matmos, West (Vague Terrain Records)
3. Mos Def, Black on Both Sides (Rawkus)
4. Autechre, ep7 (Warp)
5. Crank, Heftbag (Mille Plateau)
6. Ko-Wreck Technique, Ko-Wrektion (Chocolate Industries/Warp)
7. Various Artists, Voices In My Lunchbox (Plug Research)
8. Monolake, Interstate (Imbalance)
9. Burger/Ink, Las Vegas (Matador)
10. Lithops, Sequenced Twinset (Sonig)

Manuel Pila, musician, The Baboons
1. Chucho Valdés, Briyumba Palo Congo (Blue Note)
2. Zap Mama, A Ma Zone (Luaka Bop)
3. David Bowie, Hours ... (Virgin)
4. Los Zafiros, Bossa Cubana (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
5. Me'Shell NdegéOcello, Bitter (Warner Bros.)
6. Ibrahim Ferrer, Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
7. The Pretenders, Viva el Amor (Reprise)
8. Eliades Ochoa y El Cuarteto Patria, Sublime Illusion (Higher Octave)
9. Cassandra Wilson, Traveling Miles (Blue Note)
10. Chico O'Farrill, Heart of a Legend (Fantasy)

Carlos Suarez, manager of Esperanto Music
1. Chico O'Farrill, Heart of a Legend (Fantasy)
2. Barbarito Torres, Havana Cafe (Havana Caliente)
3. Lenine, Na Pressao (EMI Brazil)
4. Joaquin Sabina, 19 Dias y 500 Noches (BMG International)
5. Ruben Blades, Tiempos (Sony Discos)
6. Bill Laswell, Imaginary Cuba (Wicklow/BMG)
7. Thievery Corporation, DJ Kicks (K7)
8. Los Van Van, Llego Van Van (Havana Caliente)
9. Francisco Aguabella, Agua de Cuba (Cubop)
10. Caetano Veloso, Livro (Nonesuch)

Andrew Yeomanson, musician, Spam Allstars
1. Quintron, These Hands of Mine (Skin Graft)
2. Triggaman, Trigganometry (Push the Button)
3. Curd Duca, elevator 2 (Mille Plateau)
4. Los Zafiros, Bossa Cubana (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
5. Fulano de Tal, etc. (Radiovox)
6. Caetano Veloso, Livro (Nonesuch)
7. Blowfly, Blowfly for President reissue (Oops)
8. Chico O'Farrill, Heart of a Legend (Fantasy)
9. The Mighty Two, African Dub Almighty Chapters 1-4 reissue (Joe Gibbs Music)
10. Bill Laswell, Imaginary Cuba (Wicklow/BMG)

Lee Williams, musician, The Square Egg
1. David Bowie, Hours ... (Virgin)
2. The Roots, Things Fall Apart (Universal/MCA)
3. Prince Paul, A Prince Among Thieves (Tommy Boy)
4. Perry Farrell, Rev (WEA/Warner Bros.)
5. Jazzy Fatnastees, Once and Future (Universal/MCA)
6. Me'Shell NdegéOcello, Bitter (Warner Bros.)
7. Brian McKnight, Back At One (Universal/Motown)
8. Macy Gray, On How Life Is (Epic)
9. The Square Egg, Rediscovering The Art of Living (self-released)
10. 28 Gates, What Do You Think? (Fat Toe Records)

Eric Rasco, music director, WVUM-FM (90.5)
1. Jim O'Rourke, Eureka (Drag City)
2. Prince Paul, A Prince Among Thieves (Tommy Boy)
3. Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin (Warner Bros.)
4. Autechre, ep7 (Warp)
5. Couch, Fantasy (Kitty-Yo)
6. Plone, Plone (Warp)
7. Momus, Stars Forever (Le Grand Magistery)
8. To Rococo Rot, The Amateur View (Mute)
9. Add N to X, Avant Hard (Mute)
10. The Olivia Tremor Control, Black Foliage (Flydaddy)

Frank Falestra, a.k.a Rat Bastard
1. Robert Pollard, Kid Marine (Fading Captain Series)
2. Robert Pollard, Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (Fading Captain Series)
3. Guided by Voices, Do the Collapse (TVT)
4. Cock ESP, We Mean It This Time (Blackbean & Placenta)
5. Laundryroom Squelchers, G-spot Remover (MP3.com)
6. Laundryroom Squelchers, GAIN (MP3.com)
7. Prick Decay, Studies for Postal Orgies (Chocolate Monk)
8. Wrong, The Customer Is Always (Sunship)
9. Various Artists, Color in Absence Sound (Hell's Half Halo)
10. Metalux, III (BE)

Seven, Chocolate Industries record label
1. Mos Def, Black on Both Sides (Rawkus)
2. Stereolab, Cobra and Phases Group (Elektra)
3. Blue Six, Sweeter Love (Wave)
4. Company Flow, Little Johnny from the Hospital (Rawkus)
5. Plaid, Rustproof Clockwork (Warp)
6. Polyrhythm Addicts, Rhythm Related
(Nervous)
7. Gang Starr, Full Clip (Virgin)
8. El Captain Funkaho, Atari 2600 (Stone Throw)
9. The Isolationist, Isolationist (Jazz Fudge)
10. Rec Center, Lonely People (Rotten Soil)

Greg "DJ Stryke" Chin
1. Richie Hawtin, Decks, EFX, & 909 (Minus/Novamute)
2. John Beltran/Indio, Indio (Transmat)
3. L.S.G., Into Deep (Superstition)
4. Christian Smith and John Selway, Vanguard (Tronic)
5. Adam Beyer, Protechion (Drumcode)
6. Underworld, Beaucoup Fish (V2)
7. Leftfield, Rhythm and Stealth (Columbia)
8. Sting, Brand New Day (A&M)
9. John Williams, Star Wars Episode One Soundtrack (Sony Classical)
10. Everything But the Girl, Temperamental (Atlantic)