Jim Morgan, host of Colored Mind Drops (Friday Midnight-3am)

Here's my favorite 2005 releases as of 12/30/2005, including reissues I haven't featured on the show before as well as mixes and compilations. A couple of items from the very end of 2004 might be on here as well.

1. American Primative Volume II: Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939) (Revenant)
2. Paavoharju: Yhä Hämäräa (Fonal)
3. DJ Shadow: Funky Skunk (self-released mix)
4. German Oak: German Oak (Radioactive)
5. Jesu: Jesu (Hydra Head)
6. Run The Road (Vice)
7. Skullflower: Orange Canyon Mind (Crucial Blast)
8. Primitive Calculators: Primitive Calculators (Chapter Music)
9. The Psychic Paramount: Gamelan into the Mink Supernatural (No Quarter)
10. Whitehorse: Live Oct / Nov 2004 (self-released)
11. Omit: Tracer (The Helen Searsdale Agency)
12. Black Merda: The Folks From Mother's Mixer (Funky Delicacies)
13. Hijokaidan: The Lord of the Noise (Alchemy)
14. Boredoms: Seadrum / House of Sun (Atlantic)
15. Richard Youngs: Advent (Jagjaguar)
16. Love's a Real Thing: The Funky, Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa (Luaka Bop)
17. New Thing! (Soul Jazz)
18. Satan's Rats: What a Bunch of Rodents (Overground)
19. Lightning Bolt: Hypermagic Mountain (Load)
20. Espers: The Weed Tree (Locust)

Honorable Mention: The fm3 Buddha Machine by Christiaan Virant and Zhanj Jian, a small plastic device that emits ghostly lo-fi sound loops. This thing helped me see eternity in a plate of toasted waffles one morning.