Just like last year, the Release crew wrote down the best albums (max 10), songs (max 5), live artists (max 3), newcomers (max 3) and artists (max 3) of 2002. The Release crew also, more or less, agreed on a top 15 album total list. There is no special order in any of the lists.
You can read previous lists here:

"Best of 98" also contains the Swedish Electronic Music Awards and the readers' foreign poll.



No order.

Covenant: "Northern Light"
Kent: "Vapen & ammunition"
VNV Nation: "Futureperfect"
Das Ich: "Antichrist"

Tiamat: "Judas Christ"
Steroid Maximus: "Ectopia"
Weeping Willows: "Into the Light"

Conjure One: "Conjure One"
The April Tears: "Consume Desire"
Sneaker Pimps: "Bloodsport"
Apoptygma Berzerk: "Harmonizer"
Melotron: "Weltfrieden"

Mesh: "Who Watches over Me?"
Space Age Baby Jane: "The Electric Love Parade"
Melody Club: "Music Machine"



Mikael Kahrle

Albums
Covenant: "Northern Light"
Das Ich: "Antichrist"

Tiamat: "Judas Christ"
Weeping Willows: "Into the Light"

The April Tears: "Consume Desire"
Sneaker Pimps: "Bloodsport"
Kent: "Vapen & ammunition"
Melody Club: "Music Machine"
Paul Oakenfold: "Bunkka"
Howard Shore: "Lord of the Ring: The Two Towers"

Songs
Covenant: "Bullet"
Melotron: "Folge mir ins Licht"
Kent: "FF"
Space Age Baby Jane: "Crazy Diamonds"
The April Tears: "Hardcoming"

Live artists
Das Ich
Jean Michel Jarre
Soft Cell

Newcomers
Conjure One
Melody Club
Dismantled

Artists
Kent
Moby

Covenant



Kristoffer Noheden

Albums
Primal Scream: ”Evil Heat”
Pere Ubu: “St Arkansas”
Super_Collider: “Raw Digits”
Manorexia: “The Radiolarian Ooze”
Suicide: “American Supreme”
Xinlisupreme: “Tomorrow Never Comes”
Thåström: “Mannen som blev en gris”
Steroid Maximus: ”Ectopia”
Sonic Youth: ”Murray Street”
Tom Waits: “Blood Money”

Songs
Pere Ubu: ”Dark”
Xinlisupreme: “Murder License“
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: “She Said”
KMFDM: “Dirty”
The Flaming Lips: “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt 1”

Live artists
Soft Cell
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Thåström

Newcomers
Xinlisupreme
Liars

Artists
David Thomas
Jim G Thirlwell
Suicide



Mattias Huss

Albums
The Streets: "Original Pirate Material"
Joseph Nothing: "Dreamland Idle Orchestra"
Kpist: "Enemies of Silence"
Koop: "Waltz for Koop"
Sparks: "Lil' Beethoven"
Steroid Maximus: "Ectopia"
Add N to (X): "Loud Like Nature"
Giant Robot: "Superweekend"
Mr Velcro Fastener: "Otherside CD"
Somatic Responses: "Touching the Void"

Songs
Ladytron: "Blue Jeans"
Pig: "Salambo"
Thåström: "Så kall så het"
Das Ich: "Das Dunkle Land"
Norah Jones: Come Away with Me

Live artists
Op:l Bastards
RinneRadio
SOLA Lars Hollmer's Global Home Project

Newcomers
The Streets
L'ombre
NNT

Artists
Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Joseph Nothing, SOLA)
Yukimi Nagano (Koop)



Niklas Forsberg

Albums
Boytronic: "Autotunes"
Apoptygma Berzerk: "Harmonizer"
Covenant: "Northern Light"
Melotron:"Weltfrieden"
Colony 5: "Lifeline"
Equatronic: "Plas:tique"
Mesh: "Who Watches over Me?"
Space Age Baby Jane: "The Electric Love Parade"
VNV Nation: "Futureperfect"
Pet Shop Boys: "Release"

Songs
Echo Image: "Endless Day (Club Version)"
VNV Nation: "Beloved"
Alpinestars featuring Brian Molko: "Carbon Kid"
Melody Club: "Electric"
A-ha: "Lifelines"

Live artists
Tyskarna från Lund
Echo Image
Pet Shop Boys

Newcomers
Colony 5
Leiahdorus
Melody Club

Artists
Apoptygma Berzerk
Pet Shop Boys
Boytronic


Johan Astemark

Albums
Ms John Soda: "no p or d"
Hellacopters: "By the Grace of God"
Richard Ashcroft: "Human Conditions"
Monolith: "Labyrinth"
f/a/v: "Freude am Verzweifeln"
The Faint: "Danse Macabre"
Death in Vegas: "Scorpio Rising"
Tarwater: "Dwellers on the Threshold"
Mago: "Definition of Raw Moments..."
The Coral: "The Coral"

Songs
Ural 13 Diktators: "Blind Love"
Wipeout: "I'm in Good Shape So I'm Fine"
Jupiter Day: "The Morning After"
Oasis: "Born on a Different Cloud"
GD Luxxe: "Reasons"

Live artists
Fake Moss
Moby
The Sounds

Newcomers
Ms John Soda
Mount Sims
The Coral

Ar
tists
Hellacopters
Ladytron
The (International) Noise Conspiracy



 


Johan Carlsson

Albums
Sneaker Pimps: "Bloodsport"
Melotron: "Weltfrieden"
Covenant: "Northern Light"
Conjure One: "Conjure One"
Kent: "Vapen & ammunition"
VNV Nation: "Futureperfect"
Mesh: "Who Watches over Me?"
Dismantled: "Dismantled"
Weeping Willows: "Into the Light"
Anthony Rother: "Hacker"

Songs
Melotron: "Folge mir ins licht"
VNV Nation: "Beloved"
Anthony Rother: "Dualis"
Apoptygma Berzerk: "Suffer in Silence"
Covenant: "Invisible and Silent"

Live artists
Haujobb
Pet Shop Boys
Covenant

Newcomers
Dismantled
Tyskarna från Lund

Artists
Kent
Covenant



Kalle Malmstedt

Albums
Paradise Lost: "Symbol of Life"
Covenant: "Northern Light"
EST: "Strange Place for Snow"
Kent: "Vapen & Ammunition"
VNV Nation: "Futureperfect"
Tiamat: "Judas Christ"
Dark Tranquillity: "Damage Done"
Moby: "18"
Sage Francis: "Personal Journals"
Looptroop: "The Struggle Continues"

Songs
Tiamat: "The Return of the Son of Nothing"
Kent: "Socker"
Covenant: "Bullet"
Håkan Hellström: "Kom igen, Lena"

Live artists
Kent
Dark Tranquillity
Håkan Hellström

Newcomer
Mando Diao

Artist
Fad Gadget
Kent



Jens Krause

Albums
Various artists: "Verschwende Deine Jugend" (compilation)
Sven Väth: "Fire"
Dkay.com: "Deeper into the Heart of Dysfunction"
Nik Page: "Sacrifight"
VNV Nation: "Futureperfect"
Male or Female: "....Recalled Moments"
Various artists: "Le Cafe Abstrait" (compilation)
FP: "Invent"
Melotron: "Weltfrieden"
Final Selection: "AntiHero"

Songs
DAF: "Der Sheriff (ein anti-amerikanisches Lied) (VNV Nation Mix)"
Dkay.com: "Übermensch"
Hype: "Winterday"
Melotron: "Wir sind"
2-Raumwohnung: "Ich & Elaine"

Live artists
Dkay.com
DAF
Fad Gadget

Newcomers
Spetsnaz
Tiefenrausch
Angelzoom

Artists
Icon of Coil
Boytronic
Covenant



Photo by: Peter Murphy

Alex Veronac

Albums
Skinny Puppy: "Puppy Gristle"
Download: "III Steps Forward"
"Pro.File1 the Meat Beat Manifesto/Jack Dangers Remix Collection"
Nine Inch Nails: "Still"
Speed Tribe: "Speed Tribe"

Song
Skinny Puppy: "Puppy Gristle"
Red Hot Chili Peppers: "By the Way"

Live artists
Fad Gadget
Peter Murphy
Images in Vogue

Newcomers
Sino
Maven
Epsilon Minus

Artists
Hocico
Clint Mansell
Cevin Key


Peter Marks

Albums
18 Summers: "Virgin Mary"
Deine Lakaien: "White Lies"
Coil: "The Remote Viewer"
Curve: "The New Adventures of Curve"
Conjure One: "Conjure One"
Klinik: "Sonic Surgery"
Michael Gira: "Living 02"
The Angels of Light: "We Were Alive!"
In Strict Confidence: "Mistrust the Angels"
DJ TeeBee: "Through the Eyes of a Scorpion"

Songs
Klinik: "On Silk Roads to the East"
18 Summers: "Here and Everywhere"
Curve: "Star"
The Angels of Light: "All Souls Rising"
Deine Lakaien: "May Be"

Live artists
The Angels of Light
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Clear Vision


Newcomers
Conjure One
HMB
Polar

Artists
Klinik
Future Prophecies