Top 20 Albums of 2005

Caveat: The nature of radio airplay is to concentrate on one or two important focus tracks. Therefore, not all these albums are necessarily "good" throughout, though most are. As always, buyer beware!
artist	ALBUM TITLE	label / cat.no.
1. Pitch Black [nz]	APE TO ANGEL	Waveform 05102
2. Various Artists	CHILLING GODDESS	Peak 004*
3. Grey Area	AND THEN THE CLOUDS	Waveform 05103
4. Various Artists	NATURAL BORN CHILLERS	*AlephZero 03#**
5. Various Artists	SMOOTH CHILL - THE RADIO SINGLES	Waveform 05101
6. Maneesh De Moor	SADHANA	Mdmsound.com
7. Bliss	QUIET LETTERS	Quango 1003
8. Bluetech	ELEMENTARY PARTICLES (EP)	Native State 001*
9. Al-Haca Soundsystem	INEVITABLE	*Different Drummer 26#**
10. Various Artists	GROOVE CLOSET	Ball of Waxx 132
11. Tara Putra	GROOM MOUNTAINS	Spiritual Beings 7239*
12. Adham Shaikh	FUSION	*Sonicturtle 131101#**
13. Anoushka Shankar	RISE	Angel 80295
14. Thievery Corporation	THE COSMIC GAME	ESL 081
15. Colin Mansfield	MILLIONS	Blue Water 009#
16. The Winston Giles Orchestra	SOUNDTRACKS FOR SUNRISE	*Playup 20002#**
17. Midival Punditz	MIDIVAL TIMES	Six Degrees 1109
18. Various Artists	LEFT COAST LIQUID VOL. 1	Native State 002*
19. Timewarp, Inc.	DUB MY FUNKY GROOVE	Timewarp 001*
20. Cantoma	CANTOMA	Quango 1005

* denotes import. # denotes prior year release (usually an import that took a while to get to us) that we exposed most in 2005.