We wrote down our favourites among albums (max 10), songs (max 5), live artists (max 3), newcomers (max 3) and artists (max 3) of 2003 (mostly from Release genres). No order within the lists.

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




Mikael Kahrle

Albums
Melotron: "Sternenstaub"
Goldfrapp: "Black Cherry"
Dead Can Dance: "Wake"
Rotersand: "Truth Is Fanatic"
Kamera: "Kamera"
Ministry: "Animositisomina"
Alice in Videoland: "Maiden Voyage"
Pet Shop Boys: "Disco 3"
Camouflage: "Sensor"
Tiamat: "Prey"

Songs
Melotron: "Der Anfang"
Massive Attack: "Special Cases"

Camouflage: "I Can't Feel You"
And One: "Strafbomber"
Laibach: "B Maschina!"

Live artists
Ministry
VNV Nation
Laibach

Newcomers
Alice in Videoland
Client
Kamera

Artists
Goldfrapp
Alice in Videoland
Ohgr



Kristoffer Noheden

Albums
Fat Truckers: “Fat Truckers”
Coil: “Live Three”
The Kills: “Keep on Your Mean Side”
Ministry: ”Animositisomina”
Spiritualized: ”Amazing Grace”
The Angels of Light: “Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home”
Sophie Rimheden: “Hi-fi”
The Rapture: “Echoes”
Various Artists: "Rough Trade Shops: Post Punk 01"
Colder: “Again”

Songs
Lolita Storm: “I Am Your Enemy”
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: “Babe, I’m on Fire”
LFO: “Freak”
Peaches: “I Don’t Give a...”
Blacksmoke: “Fuck the Fuckin’ Fuckers”

Live artists
Fat Truckers
The Kills

Newcomers
Sophie Rimheden
Colder
Relaxed Muscle

Artists
Coil
Fat Truckers
Sophie Rimheden



Mattias Huss

Albums
Barbara Morgenstern: "Nichts Muss"
Sophie Rimheden: "Hifi"
Erlend Øye: "Unrest"
Appliance: "Are You Earthed?"
Martin L Gore: "Counterfeit 2"
Kahimi Karie: "Trapéziste"
Pepe Deluxe: "Beatitude"
Don Johnson Big Band: "Breaking Daylight"
Ringo Sheena: "Karuki, zamen, kuri no hana"
Noriko Tsujiko: "From Tokyo to Niagara"

Songs
Peaches: "Tombstone, Baby"
Apollo Schwabing: "Popmaschinen"
Ellen Allien: "Alles Sehen"
Raveonettes: "Attack of the Ghostriders"
Neverwood: "Winter and the Sun"

Live artists
Sparks
Pan Sonic
Hoppy Kamiyama

Newcomers
Sophie Rimheden
Dizzee Rascal
Client

Artists
Tori Amos
Diamanda Galás



Niklas Forsberg

Albums
Re.Work: "Coma"
Camouflage: "Sensor"
Bobby: "Romantic & Bleeding"
Karl Bartos: "Communication"
Iris: "Awakening"
Intricated: "A:void"
Panzerveps: "Bastardlove"
Venus Hum: "Big Beautiful Sky"
Wolfsheim: "Casting Shadows"
Martin L Gore: "Counterfeit 2"

Songs
Syrian: "No Atmosphere"
Karl Bartos: "Electronic Apeman"
Camouflage: "Lost"
Pet Shop Boys: "Flamboyant"
Client: "Diary of an 18 Year Old Boy"

Live artists
Welle:Erdball
Melotron
Tyskarna från Lund

Newcomers
Bobby
Syrian
Universal Poplab

Artists
Camouflage
Venus Hum



Johan Carlsson

Albums
Celldweller: ”Celldweller”
Gridlock: ”Formless”
Iris: “Awakening”
Haujobb: “Vertical Theory”
Massive Attack: “100th Window”
Plaid: "Spokes"
Goldfrapp: “Black Cherry”
Delerium: “Chimera”
Melotron: “Sternenstaub”
Collide: ”Some Kind of Strange”

Songs
Delerium: ”Above The Clouds”
Iris: “Wait Move On”
Goldfrapp: “Strict Machine”
Front Line Assembly: “Anti”
Melotron: “Der Anfang”

Live artists
Martin Gore
Ministry
DAF

Newcomers
Alice In Videoland

Artists
Bill Leeb & Rhys Fulber (Delerium, Front Line Assembly, Conjure One)


 

 


Jens Krause

Albums
Client: "Client"
DAF: "15 neue DAF Lieder"
Front 242: "Pulse"
Spalding Rockwell: "Kate"
Severe Illusion: "Discipline Is Reward Enough"
Blank & Jones: "The Mix Vol 2"
DJ Hell: "Electronicbody-Housemusic"
Dave Gahan: "Paper Monsters"
And One: "Aggressor"
Klee: "Unverwundbar"
2Raumwohung: "In wirklich"

Songs
Front 242: "Loud"
DAF: "Sex/Liebeszimmer"
Client: "Here & Now"
Terence Fixmer & Douglas McCarthy: "Freefall"
Joke Jay: "Puppenmädchen"

Live artists
DAF
Dave Gahan
Mobile Homes

Newcomers
Kaycee
Client
Spetsnaz

Artists
VNV Nation
Alice in Videoland
Dave Gahan



Photo by: Peter Murphy

Alex Veronac

Albums
Skinny Puppy: "Back + Forth Vol 6"
Psyche: "Babylon Deluxe"
Meat Beat Manifesto: "Storm the Studio" (re-mastered re-release)
Laibach: "Wat"
S.V.D.: "Hope"
Cevin Key/Ken Marshall: "the Dragon Experience"
Clint Mansell: "Requiem For A Dream: The Remix Project"
Killing Joke: "Killing Joke"
Weave: "Fraktal"
Ohgr: "Sunnypsyop"

Songs
Skinny Puppy: "Optimissed"
Covenant: "Call the Ships to Port"
Ohgr: "Jako"
Skinny Puppy: "Scared"
Outkast: "Hey Ya!"

Live artists
Ministry
Ian McCulloch
Malhavoc

Newcomers
Fixmer / McCarthy
Digital Geist
D.Y.M.

Artists
Ohgr
Cevin Key/Ken Marshall
Hocico


Peter Marks

Albums
Sophia: "Deconstruction of the World"
Chandeen: "Echoes"
Holger Flinsch: "Regayov"
La Floa Maldita: "Salut Jacques"
Richard Devine: "Asect/Dsect"
Klinik: "Akhet"
Lamb: "Between Darkness and Wonder"
Substanz-T: "Electric Opium"
Krom: "It All Makes Sense Now"
Concrete Blonde: "Live in Brazil"

Songs
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: "Babe, I'm on Fire"
The Creatures: "Seven Tears"
Anthony Rother: "Break Down The Wall"
Mila Mar: "Beside"
Xingu Hill: "The Lonely Gardener"

Live artists
Denali


Newcomers
Xanopticon
Roadking

Artists
Alien Sex Fiend
Electronic Corporation
All About Eve



Karin Martinsson

Albums
Qntal: "III Tristan und Isolde”
Deine Lakaien “Live in Concert”
Chicks on Speed: ”99 Cent”
Ohgr: “Sunnypsyop”
DAF: ”15 Neue DAF Lieder”
Laibach: "WAT"

Songs
Qntal: “Name der Rose”
The Crüxshadows: “Cassanara”
Ohgr: “Majik”
Chicks on Speed: “Shooting from the Hip”
Atrium Carceri: “Machine Elves”

Live artists
Qntal
The Klinik
Deine Lakaien

Newcomers
-

Artists
Chicks on Speed
Sonar
Liberator



Mike Whyte

Albums
Aphex Twin: “26 Mixes for Cash”
Bogdan Raczynski: “Renegade Platinum Mega Dance Attack Party: Don the Plates”
The Bug: “Pressure”
Polyspace: “Tactual Sense”
Hans Joachim Irmler: “Life Like”
Lords Of Acid: “Greatest T*ts”
Various Artists: “Rephlexions”
Various Artists: “The Last Minute Soundtrack”
Martin L Gore: “Counterfeit 2”
Tes: “X2”

Songs
The Bug: “Killer”
AFX: “Smojphace EP”
Chris Clark: “Ceramics Is the Bomb”

Live artists
Bogdan Raczynski
LFO
Max Tundra

Newcomers
Tes
The Bug

Artists
Bogdan Raczynski
Max Tundra