MeggaMusic : Best Albums of 1992
In alphabetical order, not in order of preference.
- 4 Non Blondes - Bigger, Better, Faster, More!
Atlantic / Interscope | Alt/Indie-Rock | ▶ - Alice In Chains - Dirt
Sony / Columbia | Alt-Rock; Metal; Grunge - All About Eve - Ultraviolet
MCA | Goth-Rock; Ethereal; Excellent; Underrated | ▶ - Alpha & Omega - Watch and Pray & Overstanding
Alpha & Omega Records | Dub - Altern 8 - Full On ... Mask Hysteria
Network | Acid-Techno; UK Hardcore/Rave - Amaruvision - Light Energy Performance
Free Form | Psychill; Ambi-Tribal-Trance; AOTYC - And Also The Trees - Green Is The Sea
Normal Records | New Wave | ▶ - Änglagård - Hybris
Mellotronen, Sweden | Prog Rock | ▶ - Annie Lennox - Diva
RCA / BMG | ▶ - Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Apollo Records | ▶ - Astralasia - The Politics of Ecstasy
Magick Eye / Voiceprint | Psychedelic; Global-Trance; Psychill | ▶ - Astralasia & Suns Of Arqa - Sul-E-Stomp: Astral Ambient Excursions
Magick Eye Records
- Banco de Gaia - Freeform Flutes & Fading Tibetans
World Bank | Ambi-Global-Trance; Psychill | ▶ - Bel Canto - Shimmering, Warm & Bright
Crammed Discs | Synth/Dream-Pop | ▶| ▶ - Bernd Kistenmacher - Live & Studio Tapes '92
Musique Intemporelle | New Age - Biosphere - Microgravity
Apollo | Electronic; IDM; Ambient-Techno - Brian Eno - Nerve Net
Opal - Brian Keane & Omar Faruk Tekbilek - Beyond The Sky
Celestial Harmonies | World Music | ▶| ▶ - Buckethead - Bucketheadland
Avant Records | Prog Rock; Avant-Metal; Extraordinary Guitar Virtuoso | ▶
- Cabaret Voltaire - Technology: Western Re-Works
Virgin - Catherine Wheel - Ferment
Fontana | Indie; Shoegaze | ▶| ▶ - Christopher Franke - The London Concert
Sonic Images / Varèse-Sarabande | Tangerine Dream solo effort - Clock DVA - Digital Soundtracks
Contempo | Industrial; Electro-Crossover | ▶ - Cosmic Baby - Stellar Supreme
MFS / Logic | Acid/Techno/Ambi-Trance; SGATT - Cul de Sac - Ecim
Capella | Post/Math-Rock; Glenn Jones guitar | ▶ - Curve - Doppelgänger
Anxious | Industro-gaze; Gothic-Rock; Darkwave | ▶ - Curve - Pubic Fruit
Anxious / Charisma | Post-Punk; AOTYC | ▶
- Daevid Allen And Kramer - Who's Afraid?
Shimmy Disc | Prog/Art/Psy/Folk-Rock | ▶| ▶ - Damon & Naomi - More Sad Hits
Shimmy Disc | Indie; Shoegaze | ▶ - David Parsons - Dorje Ling
Fortuna | New Age; Ambi-Cultural-Tribal-Trance; Ambient | ▶| ▶ - Dead Flowers - Moontan
Mystic Stones | Psychedelic Rock - Deep Forest - Deep Forest / Sweet Lullaby (mixes)
Dance Pool / Epic | New Age; Ambi-Tribal-Dance; Global-Pop | ▶ - Deuter - Henon
Kuckuck | New Age Classic; Neoclassical; Chillout | ▶ - Devil Doll - Sacrilegium
Hurdy Gurdy | Avant-Symphonic-Rock; Dark-Gothic/Slavonic-Neofolk | ▶ - Die Form - Confessions
Danceteria | Industrial-Techno; Electro-Gothic; EBM; SGATT - Dominic Woosey - Straylight
Recycle Or Die | Berlin School; Electronic; Ambient | ▶| ▶ - Donna Regina - Lazing Away
Our Choice | Indie/Dream-Pop | ▶ - Drüg Free Americä - Trip
Cybersound | Industrial; Acid; Techno - Durutti Column - Dry
Materiali Sonori
- EMF - Stigma
Parlophone / EMI - Erik Wøllo - Solstice
Origo Sound | New Age
- Faith No More - Angel Dust
Slash Records | Alt-Rock - Finitribe - An Unexpected Groovy Treat
One Little Indian | Leftfield; Electro; Industrial-Dance - Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years: The Chain
Warner Bros. - Front Line Assembly - Caustic Grip
Third Mind / Wax Trax! | Industrial; EBM - Front Line Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant
Third Mind | ▶
- Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors - Trance
Raven | Tribal; Didgeri-Jazz-Funknotica! | ▶| ▶ - Geodesium - Fourth Universe
Loch Ness Productions | New Age; Space | ▶ - Ghost - Second Time Around
PSF, Japan | Psychedelic Rock - Gong - Shapeshifter
Celluloid / Viceroy | Prog/Psy-Rock/Fusion | ▶ - Górecki - Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Nonesuch | London Sinfonietta / D.Zinman / Dawn Upshaw | ▶ - Guided By Voices - Propeller
Rockathon | Indie-Rock; Lo-Fi
- Hawkwind - Electric Tepee
Essential Records | Space-Rock | ▶| ▶ - Hector Zazou - Sahara Blue
Made To Measure | Cinematic; Star-Studded-Cast - Helios Creed - Kiss To The Brain
Amphetamine Reptile | Space/Psy/Kraut/Industrial-Rock - Helmet - Meantime
Interscope | Metal - Horizon 222 - Through The Round Window
Dove / ZZO | Ambi-Tribal-Trance | ▶| ▶
- Inspiral Carpets - Revenge Of The Goldfish ™ / Two Worlds Collide
Mute | Indie; Shoegaze | ▶
- Jah Shaka - Far-I Ship Dub
Jah Shaka Music - Jah Shaka - New Testaments Of Dub Pt.1
Jah Shaka Music - Jawbox - Novelty
Dischord | US Punk; Post-Hardcore - Jim Kirkwood - Ancient Fields
Kirkwood Cassettes | Berlin School; Fantasy; Dungeon Synth | ▶ - Jim Kirkwood - Knight Of A Dark Grail
STS Magazine | Berlin School; Dark Ambient | ▶ - Jim Kirkwood - Lord Of The Dreaming
Kirkwood Cassettes | ▶ - Joe Satriani - The Extremist
Relativity | Rock; Guitar Virtuoso - Jonn Serrie - Planetary Chronicles, Vol. 1
Miramar | New Age; Ambient; Space | ▶| ▶ - Juliana Hatfield - Hey Babe
Mammoth | Indie-Rock
- Kangaroo Moon - Bagpipes On The Beach
Music Suite | World; Neofolk - Karunesh - Heart Chakra Meditation
Nightingale | New Age; Meditational | ▶ - King Tubby - Water Dub
Esoldun | ▶ - Kingston Wall - Kingston Wall I
Trinity / Zen Garden | Psychedelic Rock | ▶| ▶ - Klaus Schulze - Royal Festival Hall Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
Venture - KLF - Chill Out 3: The Lost Ambient
KLF Bootleg - Kong - Phlegm
Dreamtime | Alt-Thrash/Metal; Psy-Industrial; Rave; Crossover | ▶| ▶ - Krel - Dark Star
Krel Tapes | Space-Rock | ▶ - Krel - Hawkwind Tepee Tour May 1992
Bootleg | ▶
- L7 - Bricks Are Heavy
Slash | Post-Punk; Alt-Rock; Pretend We're Dead | ▶ - Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
Atlantic | Indie-Rock; Evan Dando & Juliana Hatfield | ▶ - Lights In A Fat City - Somewhere (Reissue)
City Of Tribes | World; Ambi-Tribal-Trance; Stephen Kent (Didgeridoo) | ▶ - Love Is Colder Than Death - Mental Traveller
Hyperium / Semantic | Neo-Gothic/Folk; Darkwave; Ethereal | ▶| ▶ - Luna² - Lunapark
Elektra | Indie | ▶ - Lustmord - The Monstrous Soul
Side Effects / Soleilmoon | Dark Ambient
- Mad Professor - Dub Me Crazy 12: Dub Maniacs On The Rampage
Ariwa - Magic Mushroom Band - Magick Eye / Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
Magick Eye (12") | ▶ - Magic Mushroom Band - Re-Hash
Voiceprint / Magick Eye | Psychedelic Rock - Mandragora - Earthdance
Mystic Stones | Psychedelic Rock | ▶ - Massive Attack - Hymn Of The Big Wheel EP
Circa / Wild Bunch | ▶| ▶ - Material with Ginger Baker - Live In Japan
Jimco - Meat Beat Manifesto - Satyricon
Mute / PIAS | Industrial; Electro; Big/Break-Beat; Dub; Leftfield | ▶| ▶ - Michael Brook - Cobalt Blue
4AD | Prog New Age; Ambi/Future-Jazz - Michael Garrison - A Positive Reflecting Glow: The Michael Garrison Collection Vol. I
Windspell - Michael Garrison - Tranquility Cove: The Michael Garrison Collection Vol. II
Windspell - Ministry - ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ (Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs)
Sire / Warner Bros. - Moby - Moby
Instinct - Muslimgauze - Zul'm
Extreme | Ethnotronic | ▶
- Neil Young - Harvest Moon
Reprise | ▶ - New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Body Exit Mind
PIAS | Indie; Post-Punk - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream
Mute - Nik Tyndall - Farwind Islands
Sky | New Age - Nine Inch Nails - Halo 06: Fixed (Fist Fuck!)
Island | Industrial - Nocturnal Emissions - Reliquary // Music For Butoh
Earthly Delights | Avant-Ambient; Experimental
- O Yuki Conjugate - Undercurrents (In Dark Water)
Staalplaat | Ambi-Tribal; Ambient - One Dove - Transient Truth (Sabres Of Paradise Mixes)
Boy's Own - Opus III - Mind Fruit / It's A Fine Day
EastWest / PWL International | ▶ - Orbital - Halycon EP / Radiccio EP / The Naked And The Dead/Dub
Internal - Orbital - Mutations
FFRR | Remixes by: Ray Keith, Moby, Sasha, Joey Beltram, Dave Angel, MBM - Orbital - Orbital (12" Promo/Sampler)
FFRR | Electronic; Techno
- Pale Saints - In Ribbons
4AD | Indie; Shoegaze; AOTYC - Perfume Tree - Dust
Zulu | Leftfield; Psy/Goth-Rock; Trip Hop; Dubnotica; Neofolk; AOTYC | ▶ - Pete Namlook & Dr. Atmo - Silence
Rising High / Fax | Ambi-Tribal-Trance; Avant-Ambient | ▶ - Phish - A Picture Of Nectar
Elektra | Ragtime; Jam; Blues-Jazz; Alt/Psy-Folk-Rock; aka Phish - PJ Harvey - Dry
Too Pure - Pop Will Eat Itself - The Looks Or The Lifestyle / Token Drug Song / Bulletproof
RCA | Indie; Leftfield; On-U Sound Remixes | ▶| ▶ - Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34: The Complete Trip
Delerium / Snapper | Psychedelia; Ambi-Trance | ▶ - Praxis - Transmutation: Mutatis Mutandis
Axiom | Bill Laswell, Buckethead, Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins & co - Pressurehed - Infadrone
Cleopatra | Industro-Space-Rock - Prodigy - The Prodigy Experience
XL | ▶ - Project Pitchfork - Entities
Hypnobeat | Electro-Industro-Goth; Darkwave - Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia - Obsidian: Organically Decomposed
Kk | Tribal-Trance; SGATT - Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia - Ov Biospheres and Sacred Grooves
Kk | Tribal-Trance; SGATT
- Qntal - Qntal I
ClassX | Neo-gothic/folk; Electro-Medieval-Crossover; Darkwave | ▶| ▶| ▶
- R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
Warner Bros. - Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Epic - Rapoon - Dream Circle
Dove | Ambi-Tribal; Ethnochill; Tablatronic - Recoil - Bloodline
Mute | Industrial; Electro; Synthpop - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Blasting Off / Train of Hope
Beggars Banquet | ▶ - Ride - Going Blank Again
Creation | Indie; Shoegaze | ▶ - Robert Fox - The Fire And The Rose
FX Music | New-Age - Roger Waters - Amused To Death
Columbia | Prog/Art-Rock; Star-studded cast
- Saint Etienne - So Tough (Advance Pre-Release Version)
Heavenly / Warner Bros. - Scorn - Deliverance
Earache | Industrial; Dubnotic; Illbient | ▶| ▶ - Scorn - Vae Solis
Earache | Industrial; Noise/Thrash; Debut Album | ▶ - Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
Epic | Rock; Grunge; Mark Lanegan | ▶ - Sheila Chandra - Weaving My Ancestors' Voices
Real World | World; Folk; Drone; Monsoon vocalist (Ever So Lonely) - Siouxsie & The Banshees - Twice Upon A Time – The Singles
Wonderland / Polydor | ▶ - Skinny Puppy - Last Rights
Nettwerk | Psy-Industrial; EBM - Snog - Lies Inc.
Machinery | Industro-Goth - Software - Software-Visions
Innovative Communication | Berlin School; Reissue; AOTYC | ▶ - Solitaire - Plains and Skies
Musique Intemporelle | Ambi-Tribal; Ambient | ▶| ▶ - Soup Dragons - Hotwired
Big Life / Mercury | Indie Rock - Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
Dedicated | Shoegaze | ▶ - Stereo MC's - Connected
4th & Broadway / Gee Street - Stereolab - Peng!
Too Pure | Neokraut; Indietronic; Marvellous | ▶| ▶ - Stereolab - Switched On
Too Pure | Neokraut; Indietronic; Wonderful - Steve Roach - World's Edge
Fortuna | Ambi-Tribal; Ambient | ▶ - Steve Roach & Robert Rich - Soma
Hearts Of Space | New Age World; Ambi-Tribal | ▶ - Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Atlantic | Alt-Rock; Grunge - Sweetest Child feat. Maria McKee - Sweetest Child (Trans Tribal Ritual Stomp)
Geffen | Youth Remix - Sugar - Copper Blue
Creation / Rykodisc | Alt/Retro-Rock; Post-Punk - Sun Dial - Reflecter
UFO Records | Psychedelic Rock; Marvellous - Suns Of Arqa - Alap Joe Jhala
Arka Sound | World; Ethnochill; Dubnotic; Exceptional; AOTYC | ▶ - Suns Of Arqa - Cradle
Earthsounds | World Ambient; Ethnochill; Drone; Feat. Tim Wheater (flute) | ▶| ▶ - Suns Of Arqa - Jaggernaut Whirling Dub
Arka Sound | Ethnodub; Ambi-Cultural-Tribal-Trance; Exceptional | ▶ - Suns Of Arqa - Kokoromochi
Arka Sound | Ethno-dub/chill; World-Crossover; Exquisite | ▶ - Sven Väth - Accident In Paradise
Eye Q | Techno/Trance; IDM; Ambient - Swans - Love Of Life
Young God | Art-Rock; Neofolk; Post-Punk - Syndromeda - Dream Sequence
Syndromeda Archives / Neu Harmony | Berlin School - System 7 - 777
Big Life | Steve Hillage & Miquette Giraudy; Feat. Orb (Alex P, Thrash, Greg Hunter, Youth)
- Tangerine Dream - Deadly Care
Silva Screen | Soundtrack - Tangerine Dream - Dreaming On Danforth Avenue
Bootleg Concert - Tangerine Dream - Quinoa
Volt - Teardrop Explodes - Floored Genius: The Best Of Julian Cope & The Teardrop Explodes 1979-91
Island - Terminal Cheesecake - Pearlesque Kings Of The Jewmost
World Serpent | Psychedelic Rock | ▶| ▶ | ▶ - Terry Riley - Descending Moonshine Dervishes
Kuckuck | Minimalist; Ambient | ▶ - The Cure - Wish
Fiction - The Damned - The MCA Singles A's + B's
Connoisseur Collection - The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury / Television, The Drug Of A Nation
4th & Broadway | Conscious; Hip-Hop; Crossover | ▶ - The Drum Club - U Make Me Feel So Good (mixes)
Guerilla | Hard/Deep House; Trance; SGATT - The Fall - Code: Selfish
Cog Sinister / Fontana - The Flaming Lips - Hit To Death In The Future Head
Warner Bros. | Psychedelic Rock - The Future Sound Of London - Accelerator
Jumpin' & Pumpin' | Ambi-Techno; Nu-Breakz; Prog-House; Post-Rave; Crossover | ▶ - The Jesus And Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
Blanco Y Negro | Indie; Shoegaze; AOTYC | ▶ - The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld: Patterns & Textures Version
Big Life | Leftfield; Ambi-Techno; Ambient Dub; Ambient | ▶ - The Orb - Assassin (mixes)
Big Life / WAU! Mr. Modo - The Orb - Blue Room
Big Life | Ambient Dub; Supergroup | ▶ - The Orb - U.F. Orb
Big Life / WAU! Mr. Modo | AOTYC | ▶ - The Sundays - Blind
Parlophone | Indie-Pop - The Tear Garden - The Last Man To Fly
Nettwerk | Psychedelia - The Telescopes - The Telescopes
Creation | Indie-Rock - Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Mother Of All Saints
Matador | Avant-Indie; Post-Punk; Alt-Lo-Fi - Timeshard - Hypoborean Dome Temples Of Apollo
Timeshard Tapes | Psychill; Gloop-Rock; Dubnotica; Prog-Ambi-Techno; Exquisite | ▶ - Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Atlantic | Alt-Pop; Schools of Kate Bush & Stevie Nicks - Thru Black Holes Band - Nightmare City ⓘ
Aural Innovations | Psychedelia - Thru Black Holes Band - Smoking Glass Wreckage Of The Alien Octopus Face
Aural Innovations | ▶ - Thru Black Holes Band - Space Knowledge Of The Ancients
Aural Innovations | ▶ - Thru Black Holes Band - The Ice Age
Aural Innovations | ▶
- Unrest - Imperial f.f.r.r.
TeenBeat / Guernica | Post-Punk; Indie; Lo-Fi
- Various - Ambient Dub Volume 1: The Big Chill
Beyond | ▶ - Various - Artificial Intelligence
Warp | ▶ - Various - Fun With Mushrooms
Delerium | Saddar Bazaar, Dead Flowers, Omnia Opera, Tangle Edge, Praise Space Electric... - Various - True North
Miramar | Tangerine Dream, Jonn Serrie, Paul Speer, James Reynolds - Verve - Gravity Grave // Verve // All In The Mind: EPs
Hut Recordings; 3 x EPs - Vidna Obmana - Shadowing in Sorrow
Decade Collection | Ambient
- Ween - Pure Guava
Elektra | Alt-Rock - White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1
Geffen | Metal - Wooden Baby - Crop Circles On The Sun
Crohinga Well | Psychedelic Rock; Ozrics offshoot
- X Marks The Pedwalk - Paranoid Illusions
Zoth Ommog | Industrial - XTC - Nonsuch
Virgin Records
A very big year!
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Label | Genres; Styles; Comments
Label | Genres; Styles; Comments
Approximate Genres
Eclectic, Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelia, Space Rock, Prog Rock, Art Rock, Shoegaze, Post-Punk, Grunge, Industrial, EBM, Darkwave, Industro-Goth, Krautrock, Berlin-School, World Music, Tribal, Dub, Acid Jazz, Acid-House, Trip-Hop, Fusion, Future/Nu-Jazz, Worldbeat, New-Age, Neofolk, Ethereal, Avantgarde, Neoclassical, Indie/Alternative, Synthpop/Electronica, Techno/IDM, Lounge, Chillout, Ambient, Drone, Head Music, Crossover, Ambi-Cultural-Tribal-Trance™.
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