TIER 3 : THE ESSENTIALS OF 2008 : TOP 40

ALL ENTRIES ARE LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY ARTIST

2562 – Aerial
Aidan Baker And Tim Hecker – Fantasma Parastasie (Alien8)
Alva Noto – Unitxt (Raster-Noton)
Anders Ilar – Sworn (Level)
Another Electronic Musician – Five (m5MD)
BLÆRG – Auspices & Vagaries (Bottle Imp Productions)
Balmorhea – Rivers Arms (Western Vinyl)
Bluetech – Phoenix Rising (Somnia)
Claro Intelecto – Metanarrative (Modern Love)
DJ Hidden – We Are Haunted; The Signs (Prspct) & Past The Flesh; Prayer’s End (Killing Sheep)
Daturah – Reverie (Golden Antenna / Graveface)
Digitonal – Save Your Light For Darker Days (Just Music)
Fjordne – The Last 3 Days Of Time (Dynamophone)
Funckarma – Vell Vagranz (n5MD)
Ginormous – At Night, Under Artificial Light (Hymen)
Goldmund – The Malady Of Elegance (Type)
Grails – Doomsdayer’s Holiday (Temporary Residence Limited)
Hammock – Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow (Darla)
Hecq – Golden Pines (Binkcrsh)
Hol Baumann – Human (Ultimae)
Igorrr – Moisissure (self)
Integral – Rise (Tympanik)
Jasper TX – Black Sleep (Miasmah)
Juxta Phona & Offthesky – !Escape Kit! (Somnia)
Kangding Ray – Automne Fold (Raster-Noton)
Kaya Project – And So It Goes (Interchill)
Machinefabriek – Dauw (Dekorder)
Meat Beat Manifesto – Autoimmune (Planet Mu / Metropolis)
Near The Parenthesis – L’Eixample (n5MD)
Nico Muhly – Mothertongue (Bedroom Community)
Ø – Oleva (Sähkö)
Ott – Skylon (Twisted)
Paavoharju – Laulu Laakson Kukista (Fonal)
Richard Skelton – Marking Time (Preservation)
Silent Land Time Machine – &hope still (Time-Lag / Indian Queen)
Skyphone – Avellaneda (Rune Grammofon)
Slow Dancing Society – Priest Lake Circa ’88 (Hidden Shoal)
Stephan Mathieu – Radioland (Die Schachtel)
The Drift – Memory Drawings (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
William Basinski and Richard Chartier – Untitled 1-3 (LINE)