Here's my list: Favorites for 2003 1. Various Artists, Amplify Box SetAmplify 2002, Tokyo, Erstwhile The Nakamura/Muller recording tint on disc 2 was the best thing I heard all year. Also recommended: Seven Guitars, Cardew¹s Treatise, pp. 82-84, disc 7 and the improv sets by Otomo Yoshihide/Gunter Muller, Cosmos, and the Keith Rowe/Marcus Schmickler/Thomas Lehn. 1. Oren Ambarchi/Gunter Muller/Voice Crack, Oystered, Audiosphere 2. ISO, ISO, YCAM 3. Gunter Muller/Otomo Yoshihide, Time Travel, Erstwhile 4. Keith Rowe/John Tilbury, Duos for Doris, Erstwhile 5. Radian, rec.extern, Thrill Jockey 6. Keith Rowe/Oren Ambarchi, Flypaper, Staubgold 7. Gunter Muller, Eight Landscapes, For 4 Ears 8. Fennesz, Live in Japan, Headz 9. Sachiko M, Derive, Noise Asia 10. Martin Siewert/Martin Brandlmayr, Too Beautiful to Burn, Erstwhile 11. Tetuzi Akiyama, Resophonie, A Bruit Secret 12. Otomo Yoshihide/Martin Tetreault, Studio, Analogue, Numerique, Ambiances Magnetiques 13. OtomoYoshihide, Blue, Headz 14. Otomo Yoshihide/Sachiko M/Taku Sugimoto, Les Hautes Solitudes, Out One Disc 15. Kozo Inada/Philip Samatzis, f[ ], Digital Narcis 16. Kaffe Matthews/Sachiko M/Andrea Neumann, In Case of Fire Take the Stairs, IMJ 17. Toshimaru Nakamura, No-Input Mixing Board 3, Alcohol 18. Philip Samartzis/Sachiko M, Artefact, Dorobo 19. Rowe/Ambarchi/Otomo/Sachiko M/Avenaim, Thumb, Grob 20. Dafeldecker/Kurzmann/Drumm/Erik M/Dieb 13/Noetinger, S/T (Green), Charhizma 21. Phill Niblock, Touch Food, Touch 22. Matt Davis/Phil Durrant/Mark Wastell, Open, Erstwhile 23. Werner Dafeldecker/Franz Hautzinger/Sachiko M/John Tilbury, Absinth, Grob 24. Jerome Noetinger/Erik M, What a Wonderful World, Erstwhile 25. The Necks, Athenaeum, Homebush, Quay, Raab, Schock Records 26. Keith Rowe/Marcus Schmickler/Thomas Lehn, Rabbit Run, Erstwhile 27. Tetuzi Akiyama/Toshimaru Nakamura/Taku Sugimoto/Mark Wastell, Foldings, Confront 28. Alfred Harth, Seoul Milk, CDRalso his CDR Vor Gang 29. Various Artists, Meeting at Off-Site Vol. 2, IMJ 30. Yuko Nexus 6, Journal de Tokyo, Sonore 31. Ichiraku Yoshimitsu/Kazushige Kinoshita/Taku Unami, Cymbal Violin Lapsteel, Hibari 32. Kang Tae-hwan/Miyeon/Park Je-chun, Improvised Memories, Good Belated Discoveries 1. Ambarchi/Fennesz/Pimmon/Rehberg/Rowe, Afternoon Tea, Ritornell (This recording is fabulous) 2. Repeat, Temporary Contemporary, For 4 Ears 3. Marina Rosenfeld, theforestthegardenthesea, Charhizma 4. Voice Crack/Gunter Muller, Buda Rom, For 4 Ears 5. Ticklish, S/T, Grob 6. Gordon Mumma, Studio Retrospect, Lovely 7. Dumb Type, Memorandum, CCI 8. Dumb Type, S/N, C-DSA 9. Richard Pinhas/Maurice Dantec, Shizotrope 3: Le Pli, Emma 10. Pierre Schaeffer, L¹Oeuvre Musicale, INA GRM 11. Choi Sun-bae, Freedom, Chap Chap 12. Christian Alati/Giuseppe Ielasi/Ruggero Radaele 13. Taku Sugimoto/Kevin Drumm, Den, Sonore 14. Taku Sugimoto/Kevin Drumm, Duo, Meme 15. Taku Sugimoto/Annette Krebs, Duo in Berlin, Slub 16. Kang Tae-hwan/Ichiraku Yoshimitsu/Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Clearness, Psycho Disc, CDR 17. Ichiraku Yoshimitsu/Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Cynical Athlete, Psycho Disc, CDR Reissues 1. Miles Davis, Complete Jack Johnson, Columbia 2. Alan Silva, Luna Surface, Sunspots 3. Dave Burrell, Echo, Sunspots 4. Sun Ra, Live at Montreux, Universe 5. Sun Ra, It¹s After the End of the World, Universe