Let’s pick another year at random… 2002. Here’s a mixtape I made at the time:
And here’s list of the best albums of that year, as decided by how much I’ve listened to them:
 | DJ Rupture | Gold Teeth Thief |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y6IbLbypWo | ||
 | The Notwist | Neon Golden |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXX42Wv7dWI | ||
 | Pet Shop Boys | Disco 3 |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BaHnHizQxA | ||
 | DJ Rupture | Minesweeper Suite |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8i4n1Wdxy0 | ||
 | Arto Lindsay | Invoke |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNCGhhR7cOQ | ||
 | Juana Molina | Tres Cosas |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9GlysEiTpI | ||
 | Various | Disco Not Disco 2 |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkeb7TBsjXg | ||
 | Moloko | Statues |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaXY7bSoMpE | ||
 | Propaganda | Outside World |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHKm4mLTLs8 | ||
) | Various | Secondhand Sounds: Herbert Remixes |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHU1pG728O8 | ||
 | Max Tundra | Mastered By Guy At The Exchange |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFFMiPKT_PA | ||
 | Jan Jelinek | Computer Soup |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQA1-2eDSfI | ||
) | Tuxedomoon | Concert In St. Petersburg |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfw2Jr84mPE | ||
 | Nobukazu Takemura | 10th |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fGEcyMS6WQ | ||
 | ESG | Step Off |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYe8K1BUmq4 | ||
 | Sidsel Endresen & Bugge Wesseltoft | Out Here. In There. |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47IsBpCSLVU | ||
 | The Breeders | Title TK |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7F3vWGQsVI | ||
And… 2002 was a great year! It’s all bangers. We get both of the bootleg remix epics from DJ\Rupture, and we get folktronica classics from The Notwist, as well as glitchy pop from Nobukazu Takemura, Jan Jelinek and Max Tundra.
It’s all good stuff.