Beat Authority best-of-the-year lists

Beat Authority Top 10 from 2007
  1. The Cat Empire - Two Shoes - Velour Recordings
  2. Balkan Beat Box - Nu Med - Jdub Records
  3. Bole 2 Harlem - Bole 2 Harlem, Vol. 1 - Sounds of the Mushroom
  4. Ojos de Brujo - Techari - Six Degrees
  5. Mocean Worker - Cinco de Mowo! - Mowo!, Inc.
  6. Ceu - Ceu - Six Degrees
  7. Gaudi & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Dub Qawwali - Six Degrees
  8. Los Mono - Somos los que estamos - Sonic 360
  9. Colombiafrica - Voodoo Love Inna Champetaland - Riverboat
  10. Talib Kweli - Eardrum - Warner Brothers

    HUGE HONORABLE MENTION: Fania Records massive re-release of their legendary 1970s salsa/latin jazz catalog

    BEST RE-MIX: Bob Marley - Roots, Rock, Remixed - Quango/Tuff Gong

    HONORABLE MENTIONS OUTSIDE THE "BEAT AUTHORITY" GENRE
    1 . Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature - Mute
    2. Feist - The Reminder - Cherry Tree
    3. Radiohead - In Rainbows - self-released

Delaney Flushboy Beat Authority Top 10 from 2007

  1. M.I.A. - Kala
  2. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
  3. Jens Lekman - Night Falls over Kortadala
  4. Yearsayer - All Hour Cymbals
  5. Timbuktu -- Oberoende Framkallande
  6. Panda bear - Person Pitch
  7. Radiohead - In Rainbows
  8. Led Zeppelin - II
  9. Kanye West - Graduation
  10. Studio - Yearbook 1

David's Top Ten from 2006:

  1. Gecko Turner - Guapapasea! - Quango
  2. Gotan Project - Lunático - XL Recordings
  3. Extra Golden - OK Oyot System - Thrill Jockey
  4. Muchachito Bombo Infierno - Vamos Que Nos Vamos - Diquela
  5. Michael Franti & Spearhead - Yell Fire! - Anti- Records
  6. Cibelle - The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves - Six Degrees
  7. Lila Downs - La Cantina Entre Copa y Copa - Narada
  8. Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra - Boulevard de L'Independence - World Circuit
  9. Nickodemus - Endangered Species - ESL Music
  10. Beck - The Information - Interscope

Honorable Mention:

  • Cat Empire - The Cat Empire EP - Velour Records

Don't Forget from the end of 2005:

  • Fat Freddy's Drop - Based on a True Story - The Drop Records
  • Yerba Buena - Island Life - Razor & Tie <

Delaney Flushboy's Top Ten of 2006

  1. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood - Anti- Records
  2. Quantic - An Announcement to Answer - TruThoughts
  3. Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth - Matador
  4. Joanna Newsome - Ys - Drag City
  5. Girl talk - Night Ripper - Illegal Art
  6. Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light - Matador
  7. Hot Chip - The Warning - DFA Records
  8. Califone - Roots & Crowns - Thrill Jockey
  9. Danielson - Ships - Secretly Canadian
  10. Vetiver - To Find Me Gone - Dicristina Stair Builders