- fennesz - venice (2004, touch)
- tim hecker - harmony in ultraviolet (2006, kranky)
- stars of the lid - the tired sounds of stars of the lid (2001, kranky)
- gas - pop (2000, mille plateaux)
- william basinski - the disintegration loops (2002, 2062)
- jan jelinek - loop-finding-jazz-records (2001, ~scape)
- chris watson - weather report (2003, touch)
- vladislav delay - multila (2000, chain reaction)
- grouper - dragging a dead deer up a hill (2008, type)
- lawrence english - kiri no oto (2008, touch)
and 10 honorable mentions (in no particular order)...
- oren ambarchi - in the pendulum's embrace (2007, touch/southern lord)
- boards of canada - geogaddi (2002, warp)
- ricardo villalobos - alcachofa (2003, playhouse)
- six organs of admittance - dark noontide (2002, holy mountain)
- colleen - the golden morning breaks (2005, leaf)
- steve roden - stars of ice (2008, self released)
- rosy parlane - iris (2004, touch)
- polmo polpo - the science of breath (2002, substractif)
- alva noto - xerrox vol. 1 (2007, raster-noton)
- richard skelton - marking time (2008, sustain-release/preservation)
it was kind of strange writing this because I didn't know whether to only take into account my current tastes, or albums which have been important to me throughout the decade (I was 11 years old in 2000...). I quickly decided to abolish the latter idea, and for the sake of decency leave off gorillaz' self-titled album and morning view by incubus, despite my assuredness at the time of their immortal places in music history. Slightly more unfortunately, this also knocked off kid a by radiohead, which probably influenced my current tastes more than I can know.
