| 4.5 superb |
| Actress Splazsh |
| Wired were right and this deserves all the praise it got. Astoundingly vibrant, lush and innovative techno music |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified |
| Amon Tobin Out From Out Where |
| Amon Tobin Bricolage |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs |
| Arandel In D |
| Architects Nightmares |
| Autechre Oversteps |
| Autechre Exai |
| BNJMN Black Square |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Boddika and Joy Orbison Froth/Mercy |
| The Great Annihilators; let the monstrous woodblock raving commence |
| Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun |
| Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein |
| Claude Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L. 86 |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Deadboy Here |
| The one tune that makes me rave and cry at the same time all the timerIn retrospect, a classicr |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| DJ Krush Kaku-Sei |
| Don Caballero What Burns Never Returns |
| Edgard Varese Ionisation |
| Efterklang Tripper |
| Efterklang Parades |
| This album is an astoundingly singular, vibrant and downright gorgeous masterpiece that can easily rub shoulders on a Kid A level |
| Einsturzende Neubauten Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. |
| Extra Life Secular Works |
| Extra Life Made Flesh |
| Igor Stravinsky L'Oiseau de feu |
| Infected Mushroom IM The Supervisor |
| Jacaszek Treny |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt |
| Jega Variance |
| Joy Orbison Hyph Mngo/Wet Look |
| Hyph Mngo is the sexiest song everrWet Look ain't too shabz either |
| Karenn Sheworks004 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward |
| Kayo Dot Coyote |
| Krzysztof Penderecki St. Luke Passion |
| Lucy Wordplay For Working Bees |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E♭ “Eroica” Op. 55 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven "Pathétique" Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Matthew Herbert One Pig |
| Max Richter The Blue Notebooks |
| Merzbow Sphere |
| MF DOOM Special Herbs: The Box Set |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition |
| Monolake Silence |
| Monolake Ghosts |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In |
| Oceansize Effloresce |
| Oceansize Frames |
| Olivier Messiaen Quatuor Pour la Fin du Temps |
| Orphans of Cush White Noize |
| Pantha Du Prince This Bliss |
| Phaeleh Fallen Light |
| Photek Modus Operandi |
| Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567 |
| Henceforth, Radiohead should put all their music into the hands of underground (with a few exceptions) producers. The results are for the most part astounding. |
| Rob Swift The Architect |
| Sandwell District Feed-Forward |
| Shed Shedding The Past |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild |
| Stendeck Scintilla |
| Swans The Great Annihilator |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble I Forsee the Dark Ahead, If I Stay |
| Don't enrage, but this is a better and more credible Submotion Orchestra |
| Tool Ænima |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| Zu Carboniferous |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Actress Hazyville |
| Alice in Chains Jar Of Flies |
| Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto Vrioon |
| Autechre Quaristice |
| Basic Channel BCD |
| Blawan His He She And She |
| Booka Shade Movements |
| Brokenchord Bluestar |
| Some of the sexiest music of 2010, along with Eleven Tigers;rturns out Lithuania is the new home of mad tunesr |
| Camo and Krooked Above & Beyond |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms World Of Sleepers |
| Cosmin TRG Simulat |
| Extremely effective and chill techno from a romanian guy who likes to play with FaltyDL? Why not!? |
| Deadboy U Cheated |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca |
| Eagles For Hands Eagles For Hands |
| Ed Rush and Optical Travel The Galaxy |
| Eleven Tigers Clouds Are Mountains |
| EPMD Strictly Business |
| Erik Satie Gymnopédies |
| Extra Life Ripped Heart |
| Who doesn't like spastic artpop? More beautiful, disturbing and bizarre melodies and rhythms from Looker and co. |
| Felix Mendelssohn "Italian" Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90 |
| Fennesz Endless Summer |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX We're New Here |
| Who would have thought that a 127 year old black American and a white twenty something from London could make such deep tunes |
| Girl Unit Wut |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House |
| Holy Other With U |
| Instra:mental Resolution 653 |
| Jacaszek Glimmer |
| A gorgeous and spellbinding blend of Baroque acoustics with electronic manipulations. The Platonic concept reveals a world of haunting beauty behind a veil of subtle distortions and sonic disturbances. One of the better albums of the year. |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must |
| James Blake Klavierwerke |
| James Blake James Blake |
| Its an insanely quirky, deliciously strange feast for the ears, although it turns out James Blake is Marvin Gaye for white rave kids. Which is not a bad thingr |
| Joy Orbison Wade In/Jels |
| Karenn Sheworks001 |
| Kreng L'Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10, No. 1 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2, No. 3 |
| Monolake Hongkong |
| A superb example of stone cold minimal techno with just enough groove to make it sound like sex |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica |
| Pangaea Hex/Fatalist |
| Hex is a absolutely mental tune for blowing off the roofs of clubs |
| Pariah (UK2) Safehouses |
| Future SOund of London Present, here's fifty characters you pedantic lil poos |
| Pariah (UK2) Detroit Falls |
| These are such jokishly sexy tunes for a 21 year old guy who only heard about dubstep in 2007 |
| Pearson Sound and Ramadanman FabricLive.56 |
| Peverelist Jarvik Mindstate |
| Peverelist Dance Til The Police Come |
| Ridiculously massive tune, proving once again that Hessle are the top label around |
| Ricardo Villalobos Alcachofa |
| Roly Porter Aftertime |
| Ryoji Ikeda +/- |
| Shackleton Three EPs |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day |
| Submerse Streams |
| Sun Ra The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol 1 |
| Terror Danjah Gremlinz |
| TesseracT One |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Here Be Dragons |
| The National Boxer |
| Torche Meanderthal |
| Tortoise TNT |
| Vladislav Delay Vantaa |
| Weather Report Heavy Weather |
| Zomby Dedication |