Aural Innovations Staff Top 10 Picks For 2000

Chuck Rosenberg

1. Census of Hallucinations - s/t
2. Species Being - Orgone Therapy
3. F/i - Space Mantra/BDC reissue
4. Mr. Quimby's Beard - The Definitive Unsolved Mysteries of...
5. Cookin' With Kurt - s/t
6. Barlow/Petersen/Wivinus - s/t
7. Avey Tare and Panda Bear - Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished
8. ST 37 - I Love to Talk, If There's Anything to Talk About
9. Quarkspace - Spacefolds 6
10. Schema - s/t
11. Moondance Experiment - Your Movements

Scott Heller

1. Ole Lukkoye - Crystal Crowbar (Think Progressive) Russia
2. Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush - Eye of the Storm (no label) Canada
3. Gas Giant - Pleasant Journey in Heavy Tunes (Burnt Hippie Recordings) Denmark
4. Ozric Tentacles - The Hidden Step (Stretchy) UK
5. Spiha - Tooth and Helmet (Metamorphos) Finland
6. Free - Songs of Yesterday 5CD Box Set (Island Remasters) UK
7. Hal 9000 - Was he better in bed than I was (Loudspreaker) Germany
8. Gov't Mule - Life before Insanity (Capricorn) US
9. On Trial - Psychedelic Freakout Party (Burnt Hippie Recordings) Denmark
10. Black Label Society - Stronger than Death (Spitfire Records) US

Jerry Kranitz (in no particular order)

1. SubArachnoid Space - A New And Exact Map
2. Abunai! - Round Wound
3. Freaky Fungi CDR reissue of Mr Quimby's Beard's first release (originally cassette only)
4. Circle - Prospekt
5. JFK Jr Royal Airforce
6. Yeti - Things To Come...
7. Hochenkeit - omu4h 4aholab/400 boys
8. Ethereal - Ten Electronic Music Studies
9. Quarkstock 2000 Space Rock and Avant-Prog Festival
10. Strange Daze 2000 Space Rock Festival

Keith Henderson

1. Hawkestra 10/21/2000 - Uneven performance, but magical 3.5 hour event at Brixton Academy in London. Lemmy, Dave, Simon H., Nik, Tim Blake, and the spirit of Bob Calvert floating somewhere nearby. Cue time warp.
2. Quarkstock 2000 - Two-day Memorial Day weekend full of outstanding space rock performances, championed by Columbus' own Quarkspace. Especially fun was Arc Met's set, now archived on 'Viva.'
3. Strange Daze 2000 - The fourth annual outdoor space rock extravaganza... as good as always. Daevid Allen's University of Errors and Harvey Bainbridge headlining.
4. Circle's first US tour, to support the release of Prospekt (2000), and the US releases of Pori (Feldspar) and Andexelt (tUMULt).
5. Abunai! - Round Wound - amazing collection of space jams
6. Space Cadet Elroy - Metaphorical Fire - fantastic conceptual space epic from NW Ohio
7. Helio Sequence - Com Plex - great sounds on this one, both vintage and modern
8. Hochenkeit - omu4h 4aholab/400 boys - Strange title, interesting avant-garde stuff
9. Acid Jam 2 - two long discs full of Woronzow's star lineup
10. Korai Orom - Korai 2000 - It ain't out quite yet, but the anticipation of it alone deserves mention

Jeff Fitzgerald

1. Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
2. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
3. White Willow - Sacrament
4. Transatlantic - SMPTe
5. The Flower Kings - Alive on Planet Earth
6. Ozric Tentacles - The Hidden Step
7. Flying Saucer Attack - Mirror
8. Nodens Ictus - Spacelines
9. The Flower Kings - Space Revolver
10. Therion - Deggial


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