hits and misses for me so far...
Oar--50/50, some of its truly cracked soul, some of it just sounds like a draggy mess
Neu 75--I love Can so much, I always want to get behind Neu, but somehow I can't quite... where's the funk? Feels like time has passed this by
Pere Ubu--yes! finally they hit for me with Modern Dance
Brigitte Fontaine--pretty great once you get past the endless first track, which is so bloody... French
Just Ice--I like it, but this is one of the top 5 or so hip-hop releases ever? Really?
Scott Walker--finally the impetus to check him out... I can see where the legend comes from but it's a little too camp for me
Roy Harper--very nice, I see why Zep loved him
Jam Pie--like it but feel like there's a lot of similar grime tracks, why this one
Tortoise--again, made me finally check them out, i like it, heavy dub vibes
Vivien Goldman--hadn't heard past Laundrette before, excellent stuff
Bernard Parmegiani--superb, amazingly composed and structured really, almost like songs
Thomas Leer--sorry, don't see it yet, especially not two tracks!
Mandjou--nice
Implog--nope, sorry, feels very marginal
Allen Touissant--good stuff, but hard to see why it beats out a lot of boringly obvious soul. Two instrumentals is at least one too many.
Cheb Khaled---hmm, those synths <i>are</i> great
Renegade Legion--got bored after the intro, which is admittedly fabulous; seems fairly generic
Edu Lobo--very good until it gets into the second half suite, which I'm not sure about--that Kyrie track is a bit dodgy
Clube de Esquina--yes lovely
Tom Jobim--absolutely fantastic, love it, should have been higher
In sum, wonderful list, but I have to say I think you did veer on the side of obscurity for obscurity's sake... and I could just see the White Album coming at number 6... and mixing 12 inches with albums is kind of weird... but thanks for all the discoveries... listening to the stuff I didn't know back to back did communicate some kind of Woebot aesthetic... let's just say it puts the accent on the woe...