2018 Top Ten List Spotlight: Masa

2018 Countdown
12/10/2018
KEXP
Last Poets // photo by Hollis King

Since November, we've been spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2018. Tune in this Friday, December 14th as KEXP counts down the Top 90.3 Albums of 2018, as voted on by our listeners! And check out more top albums from KEXP DJs, staff, and volunteers here.

Masa's 2018 Top Ten Albums

artist album label
Funkadelic Reworked By Detroiters Westbound Records
The Last Poets Understand What Black Is Studio Rockers
The Orb No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds Cooking Vinyl
Kasper Bjørke Quartet The Fifty Eleven Project Kompakt
Ground Sunizm ESP Institute
Soundwalk Collective What We Leave Behind - Jean-Luc Godard Archives The Vinyl Factory
Seleccion Natural (Oscar Mulero, Exium & Reeko) Seleccion Natural PoleGroup
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto Site specific performance at the Glass House Noton
Various Artists Don't Mess With Cupid, 'Cause Cupid Ain't Stupid трип
Scuba Scuba - A Mutual Antipathy Revisited Hotflush Recordings

Masa's 2018 Top Ten Singles

artist album label
Jon Dixon Erudition A Tribute To Marcus Belgrave Planet E
Chris Carter Chemistry Lessons Volume 1.1 - Coursework Mute
Enzo Siragusa & Martin Buttrich Three Squared EP Fuse London
Missing Channel (Claude Young Robert Hood) FJAAK 002 FJAAK
SHDW & Obscure Shape Die Augen Des Teufels From Another Mind
Toto Chiavetta Nothing Really Matters Innervisions
Radio Slave Trans Rekids
Yoshinori Hayashi Harleys Dub Jheri Tracks
Slam Cyclone Soma
Soundwalk Collective What We Leave Behind - Jean-Luc Godard Archives (The Remixes) The Vinyl Factory

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