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I originally posted this list on RYM (link here), so why the hell not post it here on last.fm?

This is a collection of artists who I have discovered on last.fm whose music I appreciate and whose music can either be downloaded for free there or can be listened to for free. I am going to include only lesser known artists. For the time begin, this list will consist primarily of ambient artists, as I have only been aware of such artists within the realm of ambient primarily. Any recommendations/links would be appreciated, or any artists you think should be included on this list! Also, if there are any artists who would like to be included on this list, just send me your link. If there is any information that should be corrected or modified, please let me know. Thanks!

To be on this list, an artist must:
-have no more than 50 ratings on RYM for any of their releases
-have no more than 50,000 listeners on last.fm (that's a relatively large figure, but it seems like some artists with that number of listeners on last.fm have not accumulated many ratings here on RYM)
-have at least some of their albums available on last.fm for free listening or free downloading
-be an artist that I have listened to and have deemed worthy to be on this list (yes, I can be a pretentious asshole like that, so take it :P)

I'm also listing the albums I've listened to, ordering them in order of preference (from favorite to least favorite) and rating them, just because I'm a predictable and pretentious asshole like that... still. I would provide a rating criteria, but I won't list anything I wouldn't rate under a 3 (out of 5), so I'll just say anything 4 and over is excellent and something I would definitely recommend, and anything between 3 and 4 is something I liked and would recommend- obviously. I will pretty much never rate anything with a 5- just like I would never rate anything with a 0. 4.5- the highest I will feel comfortable giving- is pretty much near perfect for me, and 3- the lowest I'll give here- still means that I think it's a good album that is worth your time, but just not something that struck me as extraordinary.


Alio Die
Ambient
Under a Holy Ritual is available for free listening
Listened to: Under A Holy Ritual (3.5/5)

All India Radio
Ambient, Downtempo, Post-Rock, Dream Pop
Listened to: These Winter Dreams (4.25), The Inevitable (3.75), Fall (3.75), 002 (3.5), A Low High (3.25)

Alpha Wave Movement
Ambient, Progressive Electronic
Listened to: A Distant Signal (4.25)

amure
Alternative Rock, Progressive Rock
Listened to: Echoes Of... (3.75)

Richard Bone
Ambient
Listened to: SERENE LIFE OF MICROBES (3.5)

Bosques de mi Mente
Ambient, Minimalism
Listened to: Ruido Blanco (3.75), LO-FI (3.5)

Caustic Reverie
Dark Ambient, Drone
Listened to: Stochastic Resonance (4.25), X-Mas EP (3)

Centinex
Death Metal
Listened to: Reflections (3.5)

Dark Drone
Dark Ambient, Drone
Listened to: Forgotten garden (3.25)

Deepspace
Ambient
Listened to: Slow Moving Lifeforms Volume One (4.5), The Glittering Domain (4.5), The Barometric Sea (4.25), Subantarctic Sessions EP (4.25), The Barometric Sun (4), Another Empty Galaxy (3.5)

Defiant Kinetics
Instrumental Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop, Ambient Techno
Listened to: The Elemental EP (4)

Dereleech
Dark Ambient, Ambient, Drone
Listened to: Downstream (4.5), Servant of Entropy (4.5), The Desert Calls My Name EP (4), Longing for the Fallen Sun (3.75), Standstill (3.5)

Distant Fires Burning
Ambient, Downtempo
Listened to: Messierobjekten (3.75)

Marc Doudin
Ambient
Listened to: Oceanview (3.5)

Dyskinesia
Noise, Sludge Metal (?), Ambient
Listened to: Dyskinesia (3.25)

Element Kuuda
Indie Electronic, Ambient
Listened to: Le Village (3.25)

Fear Of Eternity
Symphonic Black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal
Listened to: Spirit Of Sorrow (3.75)

Fejd
Folk Rock
Listened to: Huldran EP (3.5)

Felixdroid
Ambient, Minimalism
Listened to: The Longing (4.25), Drawn From Memory (3.5)

Flica
Indie Electronic, Downtempo
Listened to: Windvane & Window (3.25)

Freiband & Machinefabriek
Glitch, Ambient, Drone
Listened to: Oahu (3.75)

Gaudi & Antonio Testa
Ambient, Ambient Techno, Ambient Dub
Listened to: Continuum (3.75)

innere sicherheit
Drone, Noise, Ambient
Listened to: Tales Of The Future (3.5)

Jukeen
Ambient
Listened to: Elevated EP (3.5)

Lackluster
IDM, Ambient Techno
Listened to: Container (3.75)

Lattice
Ambient
Listened to: Songs in the Key of Glass (3.75)

Liquid Mind
Ambient, New Age
Listened to: Liquid Mind VIII: Sleep (3.25)

The Marcia Blaine School for Girls
IDM, Experimental Electronic
Listened to: Halfway Into The Woods (4.25)

Menace Ruin
Drone, Drone Doom Metal, Psychedelic Black Metal
Listened to: The Die Is Cast (3.25)

Mental Home
Doom Metal, Death Doom Metal
Listened to: Black Art (4.25), Vale (3.25)

Monte Montgomery
Acoustic Rock, Blues Rock, Hard Rock
Listened to: Architect (3.75)

M. Persson: Sounds
Ambient
Listened to: Strange skies (4), Healing Waters (3.5)

Pete Namlook
Ambient, Ambient Techno
Listened to: Silence V (4.5), Music for Urban Meditation (3.75)

Pete Namlook / Mixmaster Morris
Ambient Techno
Listened to: Dreamfist 2 (3.75), Dreamfish (3.5)

Pete Namlook / Tetsu Inoue
Ambient
Listened to: Shades of Orion 2 (3.5)

Northcape
Ambient, Downtempo, IDM
Listened to: Detach (4), Some Bright Valley EP (3.75)

Not Breathing
IDM, Experimental Electronic
Listened to: The Black Old Pueblo (4)

Oöphoi
Ambient
Listened to: Hymns to a silent sky (4.5), Mare Tranquillitatis (4)

David Parsons
Ambient
Listened to: Yatra (4.25)

Pilot of the Future
Chiptune, Ambient Techno, IDM
Listened to: Final Ninja Suite (3.75), 1 (3.25)

Pogo
Downtempo, Trip-Hop
Listened to: Wonderland (3.5)

The Prophecy
Doom Metal, Death Doom Metal
Listened to: Into The Light (4)

Resurrection
Death Metal
Listened to: Embalmed Existence (3.25)

Robert Rich
Ambient, Dark Ambient
Listened to: Numena (4.5), Gaudi (4.5), Inner Landscapes (4.25), Humidity (4.25), Calling Down The Sky (4), A Troubled Resting Place (4), Sunyata (4), Rainforest (3.75), Illumination (3.75), Music from Atlas Dei (3.5), Geometry (3.25)

Steve Roach & Erik Wøllo
Ambient
Listened to: Stream of Thought (3.75)

Justin Robert
Post-Rock, Ambient
Listened to: Alone (3.25)

Shao Rong
Chinese Lute, Instrumental, New Age
Listened to: Orchid (3.5)

Spacetime Continuum
Ambient Techno, IDM, Psybient
Listened to: Alien Dreamtime (4.75), Sea Biscuit (4.25), Emit Ecaps (3.75), Double Fine Zone (3.5)

Spiritus Mortis
Doom Metal
Listened to: The God Behind the God (3.25)

Michael Stearns
Ambient, Progressive Electronic
Listened to: Encounter (A Journey In The Key Of Space) (4.25)

Stormlord
Symphonic Black Metal, Melodic Black Metal
Listened to: The Gorgon Cult (4), Mare Nostrum (3.5), At The Gates Of Utopia (3.25), Supreme Art of War (3)

Streams of Europe
Ambient
Listened to: Meanders (4)

System 7
Progressive House, Techno
Listened to: Power of Seven (4), Live Transmissions (4), 777 (3.5), Phoenix (3)

Terminal 11
Breakcore
Listened to: Fractured Sunshine (3.75)

Ultramarine
Ambient House
Listened to: Every Man and Woman Is a Star (3.25)

Usurper
Thrash Metal, Black Metal
Listened to: Twilight Dominion (3.25)

V:28
Industrial Metal, Industrial Black Metal
Listened to: SoulSaviour (3.5)

Vatnajökull
Dark Ambient, Drone
Listened to: Drifting Ice Station (4), Arkhangelsk EP (3)

Venerean
Ambient, Dark Ambient
Available albums so far: Intermittence EP.1 (3.75), Dissociated Drones EP (3), Omega, Vol. I: Anthems for Dreaming (2.5)- Yes, I rated my own albums. I'm that much of a douche, apparently.

Vidna Obmana
Ambient, Dark Ambient
Listened to: The River of Appearance (4), Twilight of Perception (3.75), Passage in Beauty (3.75), The Spiritual Bonding (3.5), Spore (3.25)

Wedard
Depressive Black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal
Listened to: Einsamer Winterweg (4), Wo Die Ewigkeit Die Zeit Berührt (2.75)

Phillip Wilkerson
Ambient
Listened to: Vigil (4)

Wine From Tears
Death Doom Metal
Listened to: Through The Eyes Of A Mad (3.25)

My other blog posts about free music available on Last.fm can be found HERE

Andrew Havens [ambient]

Andrew Lahiff [ambient]

Azeda Booth [experimental]

Beak [experimental/electronic]

Burrito [experimental]

Caustic Reverie [dark ambient]

ch.pm [ambient/experimental]

Deepspace [ambient/experimental]

Deltamorphon [dark ambient]

Distant Fires Burning [ambient/electronic]

Doc & Lena Selyanina [ambient]

Felixdroid [ambient/experimental]

Feos [ambient/experimental]

Forrest Fang [ambient/experimental]

Gøberfin [experimental]

Incandescent Void [ambient]

ionola [ambient]

Jeff Harrington [ambient/experimental]

Jimahl [ambient]

Joe Soup [experimental]

Juta Takahashi [ambient]

Matthew That [ambient/electronic]

Mick Coxinha [experimental/psychedelic]

Mooma [ambient]

Mundanes [experimental]

The North Sea [experimental/psychedelic]

Phillip Wilkerson [ambient/experimental]

Phrozenlight [ambient]

Proton Kinoun [space ambient]

Pterodata [ambient/electronic]

Roncatto Braathen [ambient/experimental]

SilverlagE [experimental/noise]

soft damages [ambient/experimental]

Solar-Wind [ambient]

South American Beauty Culture [ambient/experimental]

Susperia-Electrica [ambient/electronic]

Tim Doyle [ambient/experimental]

VE [ambient chillout]

So... here's the inevitable top albums list for 2008. I chose to cut this list at 100, even though I was originally going to make this simply an "albums of 2008" list and include all the albums I've listened to from the year thus far. Since I made the cut at 100, every album here is one that I'd recommend at least to fans of the genre of any particular artist/album. Anything in the top 50 I'd definitely recommend regardless, and anything in the top 25 is pretty much essential from my viewpoint. Also, as shown below, I've indicated the albums that either surprised me or disappointed me (based on previous albums from the particular artist).

I made this list about a month ago, and just decided to post here it here for the hell of it. I'll probably change it, or even delete it, sometime in the future. So here's for shits and giggles...

*Good surprise
**Disappointment

1. ColdWorld- Melancholie²
2. Deepspace- The Glittering Domain
3. Jóhann Jóhannsson- Fordlândia*
4. Darkspace- Dark Space III
5. Agalloch- The White EP
6. Have a Nice Life- Deathconsciousness
7. Deathspell Omega- Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum: Chaining the Katechon EP
8. M83- Saturdays = Youth*
9. Virgin Black- Requiem - Fortissimo
10. Genghis Tron- Board Up the House

11. Deepspace- Subantarctic Sessions EP
12. Esoteric- The Maniacal Vale
13. Aeveron- Existential Dead End
14. Nadja- The Bungled & the Botched*
15. Steve Roach- Landmass
16. Ihsahn- angL*
17. Skepticism- Alloy
18. This Will Destroy You- This Will Destroy You
19. Moonsorrow- Tulimyrsky EP
20. Dereleech- Downstream
21. Portishead- Third
22. Lifelover- Konkurs*
23. Enslaved- Vertebrae*
24. A Forest of Stars- The Corpse of Rebirth
25. Sun Kil Moon- April

26. October Falls- The Womb of Primordial Nature
27. Ólafur Arnalds- Variations of Static EP
28. TV on the Radio- Dear Science
29. Mörker- Höstmakter
30. Atmosphere- When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
31. Cor Scorpii- Monument
32. Leviathan- Massive Conspiracy Against All Life*
33. Deerhunter- Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
34. I Shalt Become- Requiem
35. The Black Dog- Radio Scarecrow
36. Celestia- Frigidiis Apotheosia: Abstinencia Genesiis
37. Darkestrah- The Great Silk Road
38. Fennesz- Black Sea
39. Decrepit Birth- Diminishing Between Worlds
40. Opeth- Watershed**
41. Meshuggah- obZen
42. Rotten Sound- Cycles
43. The Roots- Rising Down
44. Neutral- Serpents in the Dawn
45. M. Persson: Sound- Strange Skies
46. Nachtmystium- Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1
47. Why?- Alopecia
48. Nine Inch Nails- Ghosts I-IV*
49. Origin- Antithesis
50. Steven Bernstein- Diaspora Suite

51. Gojira- The Way of All Flesh
52. Scar Symmetry- Holographic Universe
53. 65daysofstatic- The Distant and Mechanized Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties EP
54. Dismember- Dismember*
55. Caustic Reverie- Stochastic Resonance
56. S.V.E.S.T.- Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum: Le Diable est ma raison EP
57. Amon Amarth- Twilight of the Thunder God
58. Manual- Confluence
59. Felixdroid- The Longing
60. Clark- Turning Dragon
61. Austere / Isolation- Bleak...
62. Earth- The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
63. VI- De Praestigiis Daemonum EP
64. Nortt- Galgenfrist
65. The Black Angels- Directions to See a Ghost
66. Abigail Williams- In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns*
67. Equilibrium- Saga
68. R.E.M.- Accelerate
69. Lustmord- Other
70. Robert Rich & Ian Boddy- React
71. Cynic- Traced in Air**
72. Autechre- Quaristice**
73. Stormlord- Mare Nostrum*
74. Deicide- Till Death Do Us Part*
75. Beach House- Devotion
76. Dark Fortress- Eidolon*
77. Bloodbath- Unblessing the Purity EP
78. The Verve- Forth*
79. Nas- Untitled*
80. Moonspell- Night Eternal

81. Woodtemple- Sorrow of the Wind
82. Ratatat- LP3
83. Ereb Altor- By Honour
84. MGMT- Oracular Spectacular
85. Steve Roach- A Deeper Silence**
86. Baptism- Grim Arts of Melancholy
87. Bosques de mi Mente- Ruido blanco
88. Satyricon- The Age of Nero
89. Belong- Colorless Record EP
90. Coldplay- Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends *
91. of Montreal- Skeletal Lamping
92. The Monolith Deathcult- Trivmvirate
93. Destroyer- Trouble in Dreams
94. Jesu / Battle Of Mice- Jesu / Battle of Mice
95. Brocken Moon- Das Märchen vom Schnee
96. Iskald- Revelations of Reckoning Day
97. The Dø- A Mouthful
98. Bloodbath- The Fathomless Mastery
99. Nine Inch Nails- The Slip
100. Jazzanova- Of All the Things

More blog posts about free music on Last.fm can be found HERE

Aaron Ackerson [electronic]

adamsmith [ambient/electronic]

Audiac [electronic/krautrock]

audiobytes for autobots [electronic/mashups]

bassment [electronic]

Ben Reilly [trance/techno]

Dasubot [electronic]

Datafreq [electropop/synthpop]

Dead Times [experimental/electronic]

Deepspace [ambient/experimental]

Deporitaz [electronic]

Din Stalker [bitpop]

DJ Brody [house/chillout]

dMb Music [ambient/electronic]

Dr. Hoffman [goa/trance]

El Vatican [ambient/electronic]

Escape From Wherever [ambient/electronic]

Facial Vision [electronic/experimental]

Felixdroid [ambient/experimental]

Feos [ambient/experimental]

Forrest Fang [ambient/experimental]

GO! With Fourteen O [nintendocore/8-bit screamo]

HealeyIsland [electronica/experimental rock]

Laenn [electronica/trance]

landscape observer [goa/trance]

Liquid Ham [electronic]

Locust Toybox [electronic]

noble savage [electronic/psytrance]

Panda steps in chocolate [electronica]

Phillip Wilkerson [ambient/experimental]

Pilot of the Future [electronic]

RazorBeamz [electronic]

soft damages [ambient/experimental]

Spinning Voices [bitpop/electronic]

Steptime [goa/trance]

Tim Doyle [ambient/experimental]

zalabim [electronic/psytrance]

Each week I list the top 15 Chez Musinum connected artists who appear on our group charts, extending the list to include any ties. The bottom tier is given one point for the week, and each additional listener counts as an additional point.

Let's say there is a six-way tie for 13th place one week, at four listeners. Since the next tier would start at 19th place, those 6 artists are the bottom tier and get one point apiece. Those with five listeners would get 2 points, and those with ten listeners would get 7 points. If the bottom tier is at three listeners the following week, that tier would get 1 point and ten listeners would be worth 8 points.

The monthly score is just the sum of the weekly scores. (Note that even though an artist who gets points one week may have one or more listeners in another week, those won't count unless the rank is 15 or higher.)

Two more lists are produced, one for albums and one for tracks, following similar rules, with one difference:

Instead of including the entire last tier when it would extend past 15 items, I omit that tier. In other words, rather than at least 15, I use at most 15. In the example above, with a 6-way tie for 13th place among albums or tracks, I would include only the top 12. The reason for this is that with albums and tracks, the list flattens out very quickly, so you can have something like a thirty-way tie for 11th place... compounding that is the fact that there's not as much consistency from week to week in album and especially track plays, so that each week tends to add a lot of new items. Thus with the rules the same, we end up with perhaps 30 artists, 50 albums, and 100 tracks. This change keeps the lists manageable and meaningful.

Artists

40 points
Pixieguts

28 points
Phillip Wilkerson

22 points
HealeyIsland

19 points
Deepspace

17 points
Northcape

16 points
Felixdroid

12 points
Metricks

10 points
Remergence

8 points
Aaron Marshall, VFSix

7 points
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts

6 points
Corrientes, Krackatoa

5 points
Terry Springford, Ben Barden


4 points
Dementio13, Solid Electro, Corrado Rossi

3 points
M. Persson: Sounds, The Peach Tree


2 points
Akashic Crow's Nest, Streams of Europe, inn3rflow, Milo Moesche, Tim Doyle, Friends of redhalo

1 point
Kellplanet, Koobakoop, Serkan Süleymaniye, Mr.Smiff, Hyperborea, 4c3, Ana Gori, Max Waves, Dual Echelon


Albums

11 points
Pixieguts - Walking on Mercury

9 points
Pixieguts - evolution

6 points
Metricks - Roots 98

5 points
HealeyIsland - West Of Here Is West Of Here;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Pixiegraf

4 points
Terry Springford - Trust

3 points
Aaron Marshall - Noir Ambiance


2 points
Phillip Wilkerson - Collection I;
Deepspace - The Barometric Sea;
VFSix - vfsecret;
Implicit Audio Frequency - EP

1 point
Phillip Wilkerson - The Dream Beneath;
HealeyIsland - Temporary Demonstration One;
Northcape - Detach EP;
VFSix - VF's World;
Aleksandr Shubin - First;
M. Persson: Sounds - Strange skies;
Friends of redhalo - Friends of redhalo;
Kellplanet - Continua;
Mr.Smiff - "This is not an Album!Don't try to mix Me!!!"


Tracks

9 points
Pixieguts - Sunshine (with Mario Dujic)

4 points
Pixieguts - One Moment (w Dementio13 + TRavvy)

3 points
Friends of redhalo - It's Getting Thick

2 points
Pixieguts - Pacific Highway (Northcape version);
Deepspace - Arctic Sun and Weather Experiment;
Aaron Marshall - The Salt Flats;
Terry Springford - When I Need To, Hairclip, and Green & Blue

1 point
Pixieguts - I'm Gonna Fly (with Corrientes) and Shot After Midnight (with Crimson Death);
HealeyIsland - the desert chorus vx, Why So Miserable, and You are my nemesis;
Deepspace - Slow Moving Lifeform 2;
Northcape - So Many and On The Hill;
Aaron Marshall - Peace and Gravity;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Prahran;
Ben Barden - Moon Eclipse;
Friends of redhalo - kcihT gnitteG s'tI;
Herrera - Wurly One;
Pilot of the Future - Loadscreen;
dadala - night of the squid;
Streams of Europe - Emergence

Congrats everybody! Don't touch that dial!

Each week I list the top 15 Chez Musinum connected artists who appear on our group charts, extending the list to include any ties. The bottom tier is given one point for the week, and each additional listener counts as an additional point.

Let's say there is a six-way tie for 13th place one week, at four listeners. Since the next tier would start at 19th place, those 6 artists are the bottom tier and get one point apiece. Those with five listeners would get 2 points, and those with ten listeners would get 7 points. If the bottom tier is at three listeners the following week, that tier would get 1 point and ten listeners would be worth 8 points.

The monthly score is just the sum of the weekly scores. (Note that even though an artist who gets points one week may have one or more listeners in another week, those won't count unless the rank is 15 or higher.)

Two more lists are produced, one for albums and one for tracks, following similar rules, with one difference:

Instead of including the entire last tier when it would extend past 15 items, I omit that tier. In other words, rather than at least 15, I use at most 15. In the example above, with a 6-way tie for 13th place among albums or tracks, I would include only the top 12. The reason for this is that with albums and tracks, the list flattens out very quickly, so you can have something like a thirty-way tie for 11th place... compounding that is the fact that there's not as much consistency from week to week in album and especially track plays, so that each week tends to add a lot of new items. Thus with the rules the same, we end up with perhaps 30 artists, 50 albums, and 100 tracks. This change keeps the lists manageable and meaningful.

Artists

39 points
Pixieguts

34 points
Phillip Wilkerson

33 points
Deepspace, Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts

26 points
Northcape

18 points
Felixdroid

16 points
Metricks

15 points
Remergence, VFSix

12 points
HealeyIsland

9 points
Corrientes

7 points
M. Persson: Sounds

4 points
Aaron Marshall, Akashic Crow's Nest, Krackatoa, Max Waves

3 points
Gilles Mathieu, Herrera, inn3rflow, Serkan Süleymaniye, Solid Electro, Streams of Europe, Terry Springford, Tim Doyle

2 points
Hyperborea, Solar-Wind

1 point
Ben Barden, Jukeen, Koobakoop, Lungbutter, Metricks & GaiaBeat, Renato Ventura, skin contact, The Peach Tree, VFSix feat. Pat Appleton


Albums

16 points
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Pixiegraf

13 points
VFSix - vfsecret

11 points
Metricks - Roots 98

10 points
Pixieguts - Pixieguts!

9 points
Pixieguts - Walking on Mercury

7 points
Deepspace - The Barometric Sea

6 points
HealeyIsland - West Of Here Is West Of Here

4 points
Northcape - Detach EP and New Tracks;
Aaron Marshall - Noir Ambiance

3 points
Pixieguts - evolution;
inn3rflow - still tryin to find that sound;

2 points
Deepspace - Subantarctic Sessions (EP);
Felixdroid - Odd Dots and Squiggles and Soundscape3;
Streams of Europe - Meanders

1 point
Phillip Wilkerson - Collection I;
Deepspace - The Barometric Sun;
Felixdroid - The Longing;
Remergence - The Remixes;
M. Persson: Sounds - Strange skies;
Krackatoa - Sun Dripping Down the Stainglass;
Gilles Mathieu - Irish Mass (version1);
Serkan Süleymaniye - aşk
Metricks & GaiaBeat - Illusory Origin
Aleksandr Shubin - First;
Corrado Rossi - Other Corrado's songs;
David Elsener - Inside My Room


Tracks

4 points
VFSix - Tears

3 points
Northcape - Pacific Highway (feat. Pixieguts);
Metricks - Pearl and Waterfoam;
Dj Sid-the Apocalypze - Liquid Mix

2 points
Pixieguts - In The Night (Mix Hieronymus), End This Day (w Dj SID-the Apocalypze-Trip Into Funk RMX), One Moment (w Dementio13 + TRavvy), and Shot At Midnight (with Dementio13);
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Currawong Rise V2;
VFSix - Say What You Want;
Friends of redhalo - It's Getting Thick

1 point
Phillip Wilkerson - On the French Riviera;
Deepspace - The First Glimpse of The... and Hymn 1 (Through the Barometri;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Prahran;
Felixdroid - The Space between...;
Remergence - Probably (Styler Remix);
VFSix - Mr. Rabbit;
HealeyIsland - Saint Anthony's Dream;
Aaron Marshall - Peace and Gravity;
HealeyIsland - Saint Anthony's Dream;
Gilles Mathieu - Montagnera (A Biasgina) and Irish Mass - 4 - Is Naofa (Sanctus);
Terry Springford - Green & Blue;
VFSix feat. Pat Appleton - chances;
Ben Barden - Moon Eclipse;
Implicit Audio Frequency - State of Mind Winter 73;
VFSix feat. S.C.E. - Utopian Fate



Congrats everybody! Don't touch that dial!



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Each week I list the top 15 Chez Musinum connected artists who appear on our group charts, extending the list to include any ties. The bottom tier is given one point for the week, and each additional listener counts as an additional point.

Let's say there is a six-way tie for 13th place one week, at four listeners. Since the next tier would start at 19th place, those 6 artists are the bottom tier and get one point apiece. Those with five listeners would get 2 points, and those with ten listeners would get 7 points. If the bottom tier is at three listeners the following week, that tier would get 1 point and ten listeners would be worth 8 points.

The monthly score is just the sum of the weekly scores. (Note that even though an artist who gets points one week may have one or more listeners in another week, those won't count unless the rank is 15 or higher.)

Two more lists are produced, one for albums and one for tracks, following similar rules, with one difference:

Instead of including the entire last tier when it would extend past 15 items, I omit that tier. In other words, rather than at least 15, I use at most 15. In the example above, with a 6-way tie for 13th place among albums or tracks, I would include only the top 12. The reason for this is that with albums and tracks, the list flattens out very quickly, so you can have something like a thirty-way tie for 11th place... compounding that is the fact that there's not as much consistency from week to week in album and especially track plays, so that each week tends to add a lot of new items. Thus with the rules the same, we end up with perhaps 30 artists, 50 albums, and 100 tracks. This change keeps the lists manageable and meaningful.

Artists

58 points
Pixieguts

37 points
Deepspace

25 points
Northcape

23 points
Felixdroid

22 points
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts

17 points
Phillip Wilkerson

15 points
Corrientes

7 points
Krackatoa, Metricks, M. Persson: Sounds, Remergence, The Mighty Acts Of God, VFSix

6 points
HealeyIsland, Tim Doyle

5 points
Dj Sid-the Apocalypze,Streams of Europe

3 points
ifal, Metricks & GaiaBeat

2 points,
Herrera, Koobakoop, 8m2stereo

1 point
Ambient Anarchist, Ana Gori, Friends of redhalo, inn3rflow, Jazztobakk, Max Waves, Richard Sydney, Serkan Süleymaniye, Solid Electro


Albums

21 points
Pixieguts - Walking on Mercury

13 points
Deepspace - The Barometric Sea;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Pixiegraf

12 points
Pixieguts - Pixieguts!

7 points
Pixieguts - evolution;
VFSix - vfsecret

6 points
Deepspace - The Barometric Sun

5 points
HealeyIsland - West Of Here Is West Of Here

4 points
Streams of Europe - Meanders

3 points
Felixdroid - Odd Dots and Squiggles;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Pixiegraf Reworked;
VFSix - VF's World;
ifal - preview tracks

2 points
Deepspace - Subantarctic Sessions (EP);
Phillip Wilkerson - Collection I;
Metricks - Roots 98;
Metricks & GaiaBeat - Illusory Origin

1 point
Northcape - Detach EP;
Jazztobakk - Jazztobakk;
Serkan Süleymaniye - aşk


Tracks

7 points
Pixieguts - Lullaby (with Dj Sid-the Apocalypze)

6 points
VFSix - Tears

5 points
VFSix - Princess Of Nothing

4 points
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Last Time V2, Clearview V2, and Green Red Blue Yellow;
ifal - Uncle Dubious

3 points
Deepspace - The First Glimpse of The...;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Pixieswim V2;
Dj Sid-the Apocalypze - Liquid Mix;

2 points
Pixieguts - End This Day (w Dj SID-the Apocalypze-Trip Into Funk RMX), Phantom Brain (w Electromagnetic Impulses), nda (with Phase Speed);
Felixdroid - Pulse;
Corrientes - Romantic Dream - Corrientes & Titee;
Koobakoop - Beginnings & Ends

1 point
Pixieguts - Currawong Rise (with Dementio13 - Pickfords Mix), Pacific Highway (with Dementio13), and In The Night (Mix Hieronymus);
Deepspace - The Barometric Sea, Sol, and Euphandemonium;
Northcape - Rainfall;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Clearview, Currawong Rise V2, Pixieswim V2, and Shot At Midnight V2;
Phillip Wilkerson - On the French Riviera;
VFSix - Moscow(Reinvented RMX w DJ Sid-the Apocalypze);
HealeyIsland - Saint Anthony's Dream;
ifal - Something from you;
Solid Electro - Lost in a Star;
C.P. McDill - Spread a Little Happiness "new mix" (Saluki Regicide);
Streams of Europe - From the Top of the Mountain to the Bottom of the Sea;
The Golden Dawn - MOONLIGHT


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