Special Krautrock Edition
Silver Jews "Strange Victory, Strange Defeat" (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, Drag City 2008)
Amon Duul, "Im Garten Sandosa" (Psychedelic Underground, Spalax)
Faust, "It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl" (So Far, Recommended)
*Popol Vuh, "Kha-White Structures 2" (In den Gärten Pharaos, Spalax)
Kraftwerk, "Wellenlänge" (Kraftwerk 2, Phillips)
Neu, "Weissensee" (S/T [1972], Brain)
Harmonia '76, "Vamos Companeros" (Tracks & Traces, Rykodisc)
La Düsseldorf, "Silver Cloud" (S/T [1976], Nova)
Guru Guru, "Girl Call" / "Next Time See You At The Dalai Lhama" (UFO, ZYX)
Can, "Halleluhwah" (Tago Mago, Spoon)
Public Image Ltd., "Careering" (Second Edition, Warner Bros / Wea)
*By Request
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Improvised Music From Around the World: Reeds and Strings
Toumani Diabate, "Ali Farka Toure" (The Mande Variations, Nonesuch)
D'Gary, "Very Ny Bado" (Akata Meso, Indigo)
Anon, "Chek i Massakai" (Cameroon: Flutes of the Mandara Mountains, Ocora)
Tuk-Mon, "Roeung Moyolvong" (Cambodia: Folk and Ceremonial Music, Auvidis/UNESCO)
Blind Lemon Jefferson, "Match Box Blues" (King of the Country Blues, Yazoo)
John Fahey, "Orinda-Moraga" (The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death, Takoma)
Jack Rose, "Kensington Blues" (Kensington Blues, VHF Records)
Mohammed Saleh and Haitham Hasan, "Ya gariya khabirini" (Music of Arabian Peninsula, Celestial Harmonies)
Mang Eppen, "Mamaos (Comic Song)" (Music Of Indonesia, Folkways)
Harry Partch, "The Dreamer that Remains" (Harry Partch Collection, Vol. 3, CRI)
Anon, "Gondang Mula Mula" (Music Of Indonesia, Folkways)
Farhat Hasan & Mahmood Ali Ibrahim, "Shepherds' Songs From Syria" (Music in the World of Islam, Vol. 3: Reeds & Bagpipes, Topic Records)
Anon, "Misra Jati Triputa Tala Mallari" (Periya Melam - Chidambaram Temple, Ocora)
Anon, "Ulad Bambara (The Sons of Bambara)" (Al-Maghrib Gnawa Music, Celestial Harmonies)
Lotfi Jormana Group, "Medley" (Folkloric Music of Tunisia, Celestial Harmonies)
Alice Coltrane, "Isis and Osiris [Live]" (Journey in Satchidananda, Impulse)
Special Vinyl Only Edition
Julius Hemphill, "Dogon A.D." (Dogon A.D., Arista Freedom)
Arthur Blythe, "The Grip" (The Grip, India Navigation)
Anthony Braxton, "Composition 6F" (The Montreux / Berlin Concerts, Arista Freedom)
Marion Brown, "Sonnymoon for Two" (La Placita: Live in Willisau, Muse)
Oliver Lake, "Hat and Beard" (Prophet, Black Saint)
Ken McIntyre, "Daybreak" (Open Horizon, Inner City)
Mark Helias, "Split Image" (Split Image, Enja)
Archie Shepp, "Moose the Mooche" (The Good Life, Varrick)
Paul Motian Trio, "Prelude" (Dance, ECM)
Chico Freeman, "Autumn in New York" (Spirit Sensitive, India Navigation)
David Murray, "B/T" (Low Class Conspiracy, Adelphi)
Art Ensemble of Chicago, "Ohnedaruth" (Phase One, Prestige)
Pharoah Sanders, "The Creator Has a Master Plan" (Karma, Impulse)
Special "Gobs of Prog" Edition
The M's, "Impossible View" (Real Close Ones, Polyvinyl)
Hawkwind, "You Know You're Only Dreaming" (In Search of Space, United Artists)
Pink Floyd, "Main Theme" (Soundtrack to the Film "More", Harvest)
Gong, "You Can't Kill Me" (Camembert Electrique, Virgin)
Soft Machine, "Facelift" (Backwards, Cuneiform)
Area, "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Arbeit Macht Frei, Cramps)
*Amon Düül, "Paramechanische Welt" (Paradieswärts Düül, Ohr)
Guru Guru, "Girl Call / Next Time See You at the Dalai Lhama" (UFO, Spalax)
Steve Hillage, "The Salmon Song" (Fish Rising, EMI/Virgin)
Be Bop Deluxe, "Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape" (Axe Victim, Harvest)
Van der Graaf Generator, "Killer" (H to He, Who Am the Only One, Charisma)
Peter Hammill, "Modern" (The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage, Charisma)
*By Request
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J Spaceman & Sun City Girls, "Spook" (Soundtrack to Mister Lonely, Drag City)
*Saint Louis Creative Ensemble, "Sold Not Told" (I Can't Figure Out Whatcha Doin' To Me, Moers)
*Lester Bowie, "Fast Last C" (Hello Dolly, Muse)
*Black Artists Group, "Something to Play On" (In Paris, Aries 1973, BAG)
*Oliver Lake, "Gallery" (Gallery, Grammavision)
*Jerome Cooper, "Movement A2" (For the People, Hat Hut)
Arthur Blythe, "Bush Baby" (Illusions, Columbia)
Revolutionary Ensemble, "New York" (The People's Republic, Horizon / A&M)
Barry Altschul, "Chael" (Another Time / Another Place, Muse)
David Eyges, "The Way It Is" (Crossroads, Music Unlimited)
Sam Rivers, "Soprano Section" (Black Africa! Villalago, Horo)
*Special AACM/BAG feature
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Special "The [Blanks]" Edition
The Futureheads, "The Beginning of the Twist" (This Is Not The World, Nul)
The Lines, "House of Cracks" (Memory Span, Acute Records)
The Wedding Present, "Santa Ana Winds" (El Rey, Manifesto)
Dream Bitches, "Hierarchy Island" (Coke and Spriters, Riyl)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, "Lie Down in the Light" (Lie Down in the Light, Palace Records)
Russian Circles, "Harper Lewis" (Station, Suicide Squeeze)
This Heat, "Health and Efficiency" (Out of Cold Storage, Recommended Records)
Fred Frith, "Glass c/w Steel" (Guitar Solos, ESD)
Massacre, "Legs" (Killing Time, Celluloid)
Minutemen, "Cut" (Ballot Result, SST)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, "One Red Rose That I Mean" (Lick My Decals Off, Baby, Reprise)
The Fall, "Tempo House" (Perverted By Language, Beggars Banquet)
Gang of Four, "Not Great Men" (Entertainment!, Rhino)
The Jam, "Funeral Pyre" (Direction Reaction Creation, Polygram)
The Kinks, "Big Sky" (The Village Green Preservation Society, Repirse)
The Clash, "Straight to Hell" (Combat Rock, Epic)
*The Replacements, "Answering Machine" (Let it Be, Twintone)
The Birthday Party, "Figure of Fun" (Prayers on Fire, 4AD)
The Germs, "Let's Pretend" (MIA - The Complete Anthology, Rhino/WEA)
The Dead Boys, "What Love Is" (Young Loud & Snotty, Sire)
The Feelies, "Slow Down" (The Good Earth, Twintone)
The Jayhawks, "Settled Down Like Rain" (Hollywood Town Hall, American)
The Church, "To Be In Your Eyes" (The Blurred Crusade, EMI/Capitol)
The Chamelons, "Up the Down Escalator" (Script of the Bridge, Statik)
The Teardrop Explodes, "When I Dream" (Kilimanjaro, Fontana)
Echo & the Bunnymen, "All I Want" (Heaven Up Here, Sire)
Joy Division, "Atrocity Exhibition" (Closer, Factory)
*By Request
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Sun Kil Moon, "Harper Road" (April, Caldo Verde)
She & Him, "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?" (Volume One, Merge)
Mudhoney, "Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More" (Superfuzz Bigmuff [2CD reissue], Sub Pop)
Retribution Gospel Choir, "Take Your Time" (S/T, Caldo Verde)
The Black Angels, "Snake in the Grass" (Directions to See a Ghost, Almost Gold)
Romano-Sclavis-Texier, "Berbere" (African Flashback, Label Bleu)
Steve Lacy Five, "Blinks" (The Way, hat ART)
Mats Gustafsson, "The Light" (Catapult, Doubt Music)
Tim Berne (Paraphrase), "Poetic Justice" (Visitation Rites, Screwgun)
Joseph Jarman & Don Moye, "Black Paladins" (Black Paladins, Black Saint)
Jerome Cooper & Oliver Lake, "Movement A2" (For the People, Hat ART)
Jimmy Lyons & Andrew Cyrille, "Exotique" (Burnt Offering, Black Saint)
Anthony Braxton, "Composition 23b" (New York, Fall 1974, Arista)
Ornette Coleman, "The Garden of Souls" (New York is Now!, Blue Note)
Wye Oak, "Please Concrete" (If Children, Merge Records)
Sun Kil Moon, "The Light" (April, Caldo Verde)
Russian Circles, "Youngblood" (Station, Suicide Squeeze)
For Against, "Friendly Fires" (Shady Side Sunny Side, Words on Music)
No Age, "Things I Did When I Was Dead" (Nouns, Sub Pop)
Be Your Own Pet, "Creepy Crawl" (Get Awkward, Ecstatic Peace)
Retribution Gospel Choir, "Breaker" (S/T, Caldo Verde)
New Bloods, "Tree" (The Secret Life, Kill Rock Stars)
The Microphones, "I'll Not Contain You" (The Glow Pt. 2, K Records)
Animal Collective, "Street Flash" (Water Curses, Domino Records)
Deerhoof, "Plus 81" (The Green Owl Compilation: A Benefit For Energy Action, Green Owl)
Voyager One, "Darling OK" (Afterhours in the Afterlife, Loveless Records)
*Bob Mould, "Best Thing" (Body of Song, Yep Roc)
Nathaniel Mackey, "Song of the Andoumboulou 17" (Strick: Song of the Andoumboulou 16-25, Spoken Engine)
Toumani Diabate, "Elyne Road" (The Mande Variations, Nonesuch)
Louis Chen, "Sorrow of Lady Zhao-jun" (Plays Zheng Solos, Hugo)
Yoro Sidibe, [Untitled 2] (S/T, Yaala Yaala / Drag City)
*Request
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The Red Krayola, "Parable of Arable Land" (The Parable of Arable Land, Charly)
John Fahey, "Beverly" (After the Ball, Collector's Choice)
Jack Rose, "Sunflower River Blues" (Kensington Rose, VHF Records)
Jenks 'Tex' Carman, "Mississippi Valley Blues" (Chippeha! The Essential Dixie Cowboy 1947-1957, Revenant)
Sun Kil Moon, "The Light" (April, Caldo Verde)
Magnolia Electric Co., "Spanish Moon Fall and Rise" (Fading Trails, Secretly Canadian)
El Perro Del Mar, "Inside the Golden Egg" (From the Valley to the Stars, The Control Group)
Hanne Hukkelberg, "Cheater's Armoury" (Rykestrasse 68, Nettwerk)
L'ocelle mare, [Untitled] (Self-Titled, Ruminance)
Gastr del Sol, "Wedding in the Park - Work from Smoke" (Crookt, Crackt or Fly, Drag City)
Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, "Conception Vessel" (It Should Have Happened a Long Time Ago, ECM)
Ted Daniel Quintet, "Tapestry" (Tapestry, Porter Records)
The Revolutionary Ensemble, "New York" (People's Republic, Horizon / A&M)
Chico Hamilton, "Sex Is A Cymbal" (And the Players, Blue Note)
The Pyramids, "Lalibela" (The Music of Idris Ackamoor 1971-2004, EM Records [Japan])
Idris Ackamoor Quartet, "Spiritual Rebirth" (The Music of Idris Ackamoor 1971-2004, EM Records [Japan])
Albert Ayler, "Universal Indians (Alt. Take)" (Love Cry, Impulse)
Animal Collective, "The Softest Voice" (Sung Tongs, Fat Cat)
Wye Oak, "Regret" (If Children, Merge)
Miwa Gemini, "Forever for Never" (This Is How I Found You, Addictive)
The Ragbirds, "Hiding Place" (Wanderlove, Self-Released)
Lo Fine, "Runaway Lullabye" (Not For Us Two, Pigeon Records)
Quiet Life, "California" (Act Natural, Safety Meeting)
Someone Still Loves you Boris Yeltsin, "Glue Girls" (Pershing, Polyvinyl Record Co)
Be Your Own Pet, "Creepy Crawl" (Get Awkward, Ecstatic Peace/Universal)
Constantines, "Shower of Stones" (Kensington Heights, Arts & Crafts)
*Peter Murphy, "Mercy Rain" (Cascade, Beggars Banquet)
Modern English, "Face of Wood" (After the Snow, 4AD)
The Rain Parade, "This Can't Be Today" (Emergency Third Rail Power Trip, Restless)
Alexander "Skip" Spence, "Little Hands" (OAR, Sundazed)
Meat Puppets, "I'm a Mindless Idiot" (Meat Puppets II, SST)
The Jayhawks, "Pray for Me" (Tomorrow the Green Grass, American)
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