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Garth Trinidad's Top Ten Albums of 2007
Since his early twenties, Garth Trinidad has been DJing Chocolate City on KCRW for over 10 years now. He sits on the Grammy Awards R&B board in support of the new ‘best urban alternative performance’ category, created as a direct result of his continued approach to music programming. He is a much sought after music commenter, supervisor and expert in his field. To catch his show, tune in Saturday nights on KCRW from 6:00-9:00 p.m. Until then, check out his top ten (and our old school 2004 interview of him)...
1) Alice Smith - For Lovers, Dreamers & Me (Epic)
2) Little Dragon - Little Dragon (Peacefrog)
3) Vikter Duplaix - Bold & Beautiful (BBE)
4) Little Brother - Get Back (ABB)
5) Meshell Ndegeocello - The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams (Emarcy/UMGD)
6) Tita Lima - 11:11 (Kajmere)
7) Aceyalone - Lightning Strikes (Decon)
8) J*Davey - The Land of the Lost EP (Warner Bros)
9) J Dilla - Ruff Draft (Stones Throw)
10) Sierra Leone's Refugee Allstars - Living Like a Refugee (Anti)