Chestnuts, nuggets & evergreens from the back catalog of experimental, avant-garde, and Modernist music, including: Modernist and Experimental composition! Experimental jazz and improvisation! Experimental and Art rock! Outsiders and oddballs! Musique concrète, microtones, Plunderphonics, and computer music! And much more.
UPDATED: Classical roots these days, too!
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Gay Hussar | Agaskodo Telive'rek | Psycho Goulash |
| Chthonian | Zu | Carboniferous |
| Masters of Science Fiction | Lazy Magnet | Is Music Even Good? |
| I Dreamed I Had to Take a Test... | Laurie Anderson | United States Live |
| Zig Zag Wanderer | Captain Beefheart | Safe As Milk |
| It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl | Faust | So Far |
| Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance | The Mothers of Invention | We're Only In It for the Money |
| King Kong | Residents | Eat Exuding Oinks! Ralph Records' 1977 Radio Special |
| Swastikas on Parade | Residents | The Third Reich 'n' Roll |
| Meet You in the Subway | Chrome | Subterranean Modern |
| Someday You'll Be King | MX-80 | 7" |
| Come Across - Dancing in the Street | Fred Frith | Gravity |
| Perfect Scrambled Eggs | Negativland | Potatoes |
| 59 to 1 | Tuxedomoon | Half-Mute |
| The Ballad of Sawney Bean/Sawney's Death Dance | Snakefinger's Mid-Evil Vestal Virgins | Potatoes |
| Is Guava a Donut? | Renaldo & the Loaf | Songs for Swinging Larvae |
| The Man in the Dark Sedan | Snakefinger | Green Postures |
| Is Guava a Donut? (Part 2) | Renaldo & the Loaf | Songs for Swinging Larvae |
| Bimbo | Yello | 7" |
| Everything You Want | Tuxedomoon | Subterranean Modern |
| Dark Companion | Tuxedomoon | 7" |
| excerpt | Residents | Meet the Residents |
| Smelly Tongues | Snakefinger | 7" |
2012
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Test Tube [Yamatsuka Eye/Boredoms were most requested, commented on in 2012] | "Dekoboko Hajime" and Yamantaka Eye | Nani Nani |
| Hilo Himo | John Zorn and Yamantaka Eye | Naninani II |
| Jungle Taitei | Boredoms | Super Roots, Vol. 8 |
| Super Coming | Boredoms | Super Ae |
| Happy Song | Sun Araw/Congos/M. Geddes Gengras | Icon Give Thank |
| Castle in Your Heart | Chicago Underground Duo | Age of Energy |
| Through & Through | Emeralds | Just to Feel Anything |
| Passage | Oren Ambarchi | Audience of One |
| Track 1 [Still Unable...] | Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi | Imikuzushi |
| After the Showers | Aaron Dilloway | Modern Jester |
| Mother of the World | Swans | The Seer |
| The Corascene Dog | Earth | Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 2 |
Special guest Brian treats us to a showcase of female electronic & experimental composers and musicians.
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Animallattice | Caroline K | Now Wait for Last Year |
| The Snow Queen | Vicki Jackman | Whispering Pages |
| Mnemonics III | Pauline Oliveros | Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 |
| A Harmonic Algorithm (1981) | Laurie Spiegel | Obsolete Systems |
| Busy Microbes | Harper, Russe & St. George | Electrosonic |
| Rotolock | Daphne Oram | Oramics |
| Purple Dust | Daphne Oram | Oramics |
| Stress-Osaka (June 1969) | Eliane Radigue | Feedback Works |
| Fried Mushroom | Kim Gordon, DJ Olive & Ikue Mori | SYR 5 |
| Shimmer | Maggi Payne | Ahh-Ahh - Music for Ed Tannenbaum's Technological Feats, 1984-1987 |
| East River Dawn | Laurie Spiegel | The Expanding Universe |
| Pardon Monsieur (Smash Hits Mix) | Pardons | Do Whatever You Want, Don't Do Whatever You Don't Want |
| Etude 1 | Mireille Chamass-Kyrou | Traces One |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Test Tube | "Dekoboko Hajime" and Yamantaka Eye | Nani Nani |
| Hilo Himo | John Zorn and Yamantaka Eye | Naninani II |
| Jungle Taitei | Boredoms | Super Roots Vol. 8 |
| Let's Sit Right Down - The Passing | Curlew | A Beautiful Western Saddle |
| Spike | Woods | Woods Family Creeps |
| The Boy Beats the Rams | Fred Frith | Gravity |
| Evolution | Fred Frith | Cheap at Half the Price |
| Levity | Fred Frith | Prints |
| Pigmy Pig | Moondog | H'art Songs |
| Tam O'Shanter | Czech State Philharmonic & José Serebrier | Chadwick: Aphrodite, Symphonic Sketches, Tam O'Shanter, Melpomene, Suite symphonique, Elegy |
| Becker: Symphonia Brevis | Louisville Orchestra & Jorge Mester | Charles Ives, Henry Cowell and John Becker: Premiere Recordings |
| Intégrales | Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra & Christopher Lyndon-Gee | Varèse: Arcane/Integrales/Deserts |
| Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean | Robert Shaw Chorale & RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra | God Bless America: A Star-Spangled Spectacular! |
| Symphony No. 4: II. Allegretto | Christoph von Dohnanyi, Cleveland Orchestra & Jahja Ling | Ives: Symphonies No. 1-4; Orchestral Sets No. 1-2 |
| Solo Dancer [request] | Charles Mingus | The Black Saint & the Sinner Lady |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Hath-Arob | John Zorn & Electric Masada | 50th Birthday Celebration Vol. 4 |
| Parish of Tama (Ossuary Dub) | John Zorn & Painkiller | Execution Ground |
| Dystopia | Bill Laswell | Version 2 Version: A Dub Transmission |
| Space-Time Paradox | Bill Laswell | Version 2 Version: A Dub Transmission |
| Turf War | Bill Laswell | Filmtracks 2000 |
| In Tundra | Bob Ostertag | Getting a Head |
| Stravinsky: Concertino for String Quartet | Claremont Quartet | Arnold Schoenberg - Anton Webern - Igor Stravinsky - Joanna Nickrenz, Claremont Quartet - Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte - String Qu |
| This Is It | MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse | Live |
| Consume Mao | Ground Zero | Revolutionary Pekinese Opera Version 1.28 |
| Porno Holocaust | Mike Patton | Adult Themes for Voice |
| Tuppasuita | God Is My Co-Pilot | Mir Shlufn Nisht |
| Weekend Sex Change | The Dillinger Escape Plan | Calculating Infnity |
| Scrolling Sideways | Phantomsmasher | Phantomsmasher |
| Halibut Jones | Phantomsmasher | Phantomsmasher |
| Boule | Renaldo & the Loaf | Buy or Die Number 14 |
| Spring Any Day Now | Fred Frith | Gravity |
| Davul | 16-17 | When All Else Fails |
| Good Girl Blues | Ornette Coleman | Complete Science Fiction Sessions |
| Makahaa (Reprise) | John Zorn | The Gift |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Radiance, Pt. 3 | Keith Jarrett | Radiance |
| Last Call | Last Exit | Köln |
| Mojave | Ikue Mori with Robert Quine and Marc Ribot | Painted Desert |
| Abie the Fisherman | Gary Lucas | Busy Being Born |
| Carousel | Mr. Bungle | Mr. Bungle |
| Blaze of the Grail | Secret Chiefs 3 | Book M |
| Rosemary's Baby | Fantomas | The Director's Cut |
| Einstein on the Beach: Knee Play 1 | Lucinda Childs, Michael Riesman & Sheryl Sutton | Glass Box: A Nonesuch Retrospective |
| Koyaanisqatsi | Philip Glass | Koyaanisqatsi |
| Cloudscape | Philip Glass | Koyaanisqatsi |
| Book II Fuga V a 4 voci BWV874 | Emerson String Quartet | Bach - Fugues |
| Book II Fuga VII a 4 voci BWV876 | Emerson String Quartet | Bach - Fugues |
| Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV846: Prelude | Glenn Gould | Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846-853 |
| Prelude to Einstein on the Fritz | P.D.Q. Bach | 1712 Overture & Other Musical Assaults |
| A Rainbow in Curved Air | Terry Riley | A Rainbow in Curved Air |
| Lontano | Claudio Abbado & Wiener Philharmoniker | György Ligeti: Clear or Cloudy |
| Main Title (Overture) | Louis and Bebe Barron | Forbidden Planet (Original MGM Soundtrack) |
| Star Trek (Original Series Main Title) | Alexander Courage | The Best of Star Trek - 30th Anniversary Special! |
| Credo in Us | So Percussion | Cage 100 Bootleg Series |
| Inconsolable Windows in Search of Distraction | Mike Patton | Adult Themes for Voice |
| Poison Ivy | Mephista | Black Narcissus |
| Redeye Skimmer | Ikue Mori | Class Insecta |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Earthbound | Mylab | Mylab |
| The Pit and the Pendulum | Ikue Mori | Garden |
| Bamboo Battle | Ikue Mori | Garden |
| Roll Over Beethoven | Jad Fair & Naofumi Ishimaru | Half Monster |
| Scud Attack | Painkiller & John Zorn | Guts of a Virgin/Buried Secrets |
| Tortured Souls | Painkiller & John Zorn | Guts of a Virgin/Buried Secrets |
| Drumming, Part One | Steve Reich | From the Kitchen Archives: New York, New York 1979 |
| Quarry Procession | meredith monk | Beginnings |
| Floe | Philip Glass | Glassworks |
| Facades | Philip Glass | Glassworks |
| A. - 31 VII 69 1026 - 1049 PM Munich From Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Ligh | LaMonte Young & Marian Zazeela | The Black Record |
| Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41 | Claremont Quartet | Arnold Schoenberg – Anton Webern – Igor Stravinsky – Joanna Nickrenz, Claremont Quartet - Ode To Napoleon – String Quartet |
| Church of Anthrax | John Cale & Terry Riley | Church of Anthrax |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Lonely Woman | Ornette Coleman | The Shape of Jazz to Come |
| Cage: Solo for Voice 45 | Joan La Barbara | Tapesongs |
| A True Story of a Story of True Love | The Books | The Lemon of Pink |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| On the Rebound | Floyd Cramer | My Education (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
| Unpack Your Adjectives | Daniel Johnston | Schoolhouse Rock Rocks! |
| Tosca: "Un tal baccano in chiesa! Bel rispetto!" | Italo Tajo, Michel Sénéchal, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicola Recigno & Sherrill Milnes | Puccini: Tosca |
| Super Coming | Boredoms | Super Ae |
| Die Walküre: The Ride of the Valkyries | Sir Georg Solti & Wiener Philharmonic | Wagner: Favorite Overtures |
| Valkyries loops | Sir Georg Solti & Wiener Philharmonic, e-lo | |
| Candy Man | The KLF | Who Killed the JAMS? |
| What's Opera Doc? | "Bugs Bunny" | Bugs Bunny On Broadway |
| In an 18th Century Drawing Room | Raymond Scott | The Music of Raymond Scott - Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights |
| Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op. 325 | Eugene Ormandy & the Philadelphia Orchestra | Johann Strauss Jr. Super Hits (Waltzes and Polkas) |
| Variations On Johann Strauss | Carl Stalling | The Carl Stalling Project Volume 2 |
| Different Trains: I. America-Before the War | Kronos Quartet | Reich: Different Trains |
| De Materie: Part IV | ASKO Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeeuw & Schoenberg Ensemble | Louis Andriessen: De Materie |
| Tanz der sieben Schleier | Berliner Philharmoniker & Herbert Von Karajan | Also sprach zarathustra |
| Strauss - Zwischenspiel Aus "Capriccio" - Interlude | Okapi & Aldo Kapi Orchestra | Opera Riparata: Tribute to Bruno Munari |
| Daphne, Tragedy In One Act: Daphnes Verwandlung "Ich Komme - Ich Komme" - "Mondlichtmusik" | Renée Fleming, Semyon Bychkov & WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln | Strauss: Daphne |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Mazurkas, Op. 6: No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor | Arthur Rubinstein | The Original Jacket Collection: Rubinstein Plays Chopin |
| Guiraud: Caprice | The Ulster Orchestra, Thierry Fischer & Philippe Graffin | Rare French Works for Violin & Orchestra |
| Symphony No. 26 in E-Flat, K. 184: I. Molto Presto | Berliner Philharmoniker & Karl Böhm | Mozart: 46 Symphonies |
| Don Giovanni, Act II, Scene Five, Finale: Don Giovanni, a Cenar Teco - Da Qual Tremore Insolito | Gottlob Frick, Carlo Maria Giulini, Philharmonia Orchestra & Eberhard Wächter | Mozart: Don Giovanni |
| Symphony No. 1 in C Major: II. Adagio | Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic | Bizet: Symphony No. 1 in C Major - Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne - Von Suppé: Die Schöne Galatea Overture |
| Ravel: Alborada Del Gracioso | Charles Dutoit: Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Bolero/Rapsodie Espagnole/La Valse/Alborada Del Gracioso |
| Keyboard Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36, No. 1: Allegro | June Chun | Clementi, M: Keyboard Sonatinas - Opp. 36, 38 |
| Sonatine Bureaucratique: Allegro - Andante - Vivace | Aldo Ciccolini | Great Recordings of the Century - Satie: Works for Piano |
| Je Te Veux | Yuji Takahashi | Satie: Pieces Pour Piano |
| Bolero | Boston Symphony Orchestra & Charles Münch | Ravel Bolero |
| Symphony No. 5, Funeral March | Uri Cane Ensemble | Mahler: Urlicht - Primal Light |
| Funeral March | Flanger | Spirituals |
| Happy Soul | Daniel Johnston | Artistic Vice |
| Hard Time | Daniel Johnston | Big Big World |
| Fantasia On Greensleeves | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Neville Marriner | Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works |
| Greensleeves | John Coltrane | The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings |
| Greensleeves | meredith monk | Beginnings |
| Greensleeves (a capella version) | Naing Naing | Toad Fever |
| Dying on the Vine | John Cale | Fragments of a Rainy Season |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Main Title: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra) (Movie Version) | Vienna Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan | 2001: A Space Odyssey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
| Macbeth, Op. 23 | Eliahu Inbal & Orchestre de la Suisse Romande | Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche, Op. 28 & Macbeth, Op. 23 |
| Guntram, Op. 25, TrV 168: Ewig Einsam/Wenn Du Einst Die Gauen | Ben Heppner, Andrew Davis & Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Ben Heppner Sings Richard Strauss |
| Madama Butterfly: Un Bel Di Vedremo | Herbert von Karajan, Mirella Freni & Wiener Philharmoniker | Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Highlights |
| Piano Sonatine, Op. 11: III. Sehr Langsam, "Fragment an Sich" | Michael Krücker | Nietzsche: Complete Solo Piano Works |
| They Are There!, third take | Charles Ives | Ives Plays Ives: The Complete Recordings of Charles Ives at the Piano |
| Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Adorno, Part 2 | Kenneth Goldsmith | Live on WFMU |
| Gnossiennes: No. 3 - Lent | Pascal Rogé | Satie: 3 Gymnopédies |
| Miles and Miles of Miles | Malcolm McLaren | Paris |
| Musique d'ameublement: I. Tenture de cabinet préfectoral | Bernard Desgraupes & Ensemble Erwartung | Essential Satie |
| Uncle Meat | Le Concert Impromptu | Prophet Attitude |
| Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 (1912): Part I - 2. Colombine | Christine Schäfer, Ensemble InterContemporain & Pierre Boulez | Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Herzgewächse & Ode to Napoleon |
| Babel | Igor Stravinsky, CBC Symphony Orchestra & Festival Singers of Toronto | Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky Choral Music |
| Six Studies for String Quartet, I. | Leipziger Streichquartett | Theodor Adorno and Hanns Eisler Works for Orchestra |
| Sonata II | John Tilbury | Cage: Sonatas & Interludes |
| Variations IV: Performance Introduction - Excerpts from 7pm to 8 pm | David Tudor & John Cage | Cage: Variations IV - From a Live Performance at the Feigen/Palmer Gallery in Los Angeles, August 1965 |
| Prelude à l'après-midi D'un Faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) | Belgrad Philharmonic Orchestra & Igor Markevitch | Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Scottish March, Clair de lune & Iberia |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus | Sun Ra | Interstellar Low Ways |
| Life Stinks | Pere Ubu | The Modern Dance |
| Impossible Love | Daniel Johnston | Rejected Unknown |
| Horses | Mayo Thompson | Corky's Debt to His Father |
| Baby Lemonade | Syd Barrett | Barrett |
| Brown | John Oswald | Plunderphonics 69/96 |
| Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310: Presto | Maria-Jaõa Pires | Mozart: Piano Sonatas K. 310, 333 & 545 |
| Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra: III. Allegro capriccioso ma tempo gusto (Revised 1949 Version) | Philippe Entremont, Robert Craft & Columbia Symphony Orchestra | NPR Milestones of the Century: The Music of Stravinsky |
| Credo in US | Quatuor Helios | John Cage: Credo in Us/Imaginary Landscapes/+ |
| Dying on the Vine | John Cale | Artificial Intelligence |
| The Big Gundown | John Zorn | The Big Gundown |
| Don Juan, Op. 20 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Sir Georg Solti | Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, Etc. |
| Cinéma | Alexandre Tharaud & Eric La Sage | Satie: Avant-derniès pensées |
| They Are There! second take | Charles Ives | Ives Plays Ives: The Complete Recordings of Charles Ives at the Piano |
| Timbres durées | Olivier Messiaen | Archives GRM: Les visiteurs de l'aventure concrète |
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| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Prelude | Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Sir Georg Solti | Wagner: Favorite Overtures |
| Melancholia Prologue (from "Tristan und Isolde" Prelude) | The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra & Richard Hein | Melancholia Original Soundtrack |
| Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: "Mein Kind, von Tristan und Isolde" | Chicago Symphony Orchestra, José Van Dam & Sir Georg Solti | Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg |
| Wagner: Siegfried Idyll (Howard Shore transcription) | Lang Lang | A Dangerous Method |
| Central Park in the Dark | Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic | Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2 |
| Praise the Lord, O My Soul (Greek Chant) | Polyansky, USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir | Rachmaninov Vespers |
| Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments: III. Allegro | Olli Mustonen, Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester, Berlin & Vladimir Ashkenazy | Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano & Winds - Ebony Concerto - Capriccio - Movements |
| Symphonie op. 21 | Pierre Boulez | Anton Webern Complete Works, Opp. 1-31 |
| Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Op. 36 - I. Poco allegro | Rafael Kubelik - S.O. des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Szeryng, Zeitlin, Brendel | Arnold Schoenberg - Violinkonzert, Klavierkonzert; Berg - Violinkonzert |
| Lulu Suite: II. Ostinato | Wiener Philharmoniker & Claudio Abbado | Alban Berg Collection |
| String Quartet No. 5 in B flat major, Sz. 102, BB 110 - II. Adagio Molto | Quatuor Parker | Bartók: Quatuors Nos. 2 &5 |
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| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| The Wooden Prince, Sz. 60 (Op. 13): III. 2nd Dance: Dance of the Trees | Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Pierre Boulez | Bartók: The Wooden Prince -- Cantata Profana |
| Hungarian Sketches: Bear Dance | Fritz Reiner & Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta & Hungarian Sketches |
| Hungarian Peasant Songs for Orchestra, Sz.100: Ballade | Budapest Festival Orchestra & Iván Fischer | Bartók: Orchestral Music |
| Hungarian Peasant Dances | Budapest Festival Orchestra & Iván Fischer | Bartók: Orchestral Music |
| Menuet antique | Charles Dutoit & Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal | Ravel: Bolero - Alborada del Gracioso - Daphis & Chloë - La Valse - Pavane - Rapsodie Espagnole |
| Scherzo à la Russe | Philharmonia Orchestra & Michael Tilson Thomas | Essential Igor Stravinsky |
| Firebird Suite (abridged) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra, James Levine | Fantasia 2000 |
| Petrouchka: Premier tableau (Scene I): Fête populaire de la Semaine Grasse (The Shrove-tide Fair) | Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic | Great Performances - Stravinsky: Petrouchka, Pulcinella Suite |
| Allegro Barbaro, Sz. 49 | Zoltán Kocsis | Kocsis Plays Bartok |
| Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring): Action Rituelle Des Ancetres - Dance Sacrale - L'Elue | Cleveland Orchestra & Pierre Boulez | Stravinsky: Pétruchka, Rite of Spring |
| El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat): VI. Part II: Danze del molinera (Farruca) (Miller's Dance) | Asturias Symphony Orchestra & Maximiano Valdes | Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos, El Amore Brujo |
| The Prophecy of Isaiah, H. 383 | Soloists, Prague Radio Chorus, Kühn Mixed Chorus & Pavel Kühn | Martinu: Mount of Three Lights, The Prophecy of Isaiah, Hymn to St. James |
| Ten Easy Piano Pieces: No. 5 Evening in Transylavnia | June de Toth | Bartók: Solo Piano Works, Vol. 3 |
| Original Rags | Guido Nielsen | Scott Joplin: The Complete Rags, Marches, Waltzes & Songs |
| 24 Préludes, Op. 28, No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor: Molto Agitato | Alexandre Tharaud | Chopin: Préludes, Op. 28 |
| Mörike-Lieder: Elfenlied | Christianne Stotijn | Schubert/Berg/Wolf Lieder |
| Wozzeck - Improvisation - The Midnight Sun | Renée Fleming & Fred Hersch | Haunted Heart |
| Lieder, Op. 2: No. 2 "Schlafend trägt man mich" | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Aribert Reimann | Alban Berg Collection |
| Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 | Glenn Gould & Donald Gramm | Schoenberg: Lieder |
| Verklarte Nacht for String Sextet, Op. 4: Adagio (Molton Tranquillo) [Er Lasst Sie Um Die Starken Huften] | Nash Ensemble & Thomas Allen | Shostakovich, Schoenberg: Chamber Works |
| Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Neville Marriner | Fauré: Requiem, Ravel: Pavane & Others |
| The Unanswered Question | Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic | Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2 |
| Tablet | meredith monk | Songs from the Hill/Tablet |
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| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Ballet Mecanique | Daniel Spalding & Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra | Antheil: Ballet Mecanique, Serenade for String Quartet |
| Dynamic Motion | Chris Brown | New Music: Piano Compositions by Henry Cowell |
| Henry Cowell - Ostinato Pianissimo | New Jersey Percussion Ensemble | Percussion Music |
| The Banshee | Henry Cowell | Piano Music |
| Imaginary Landscape No. 1 | Percussion Group Cincinnati | Cage: Works for Percussion |
| Imaginary Landscape No. 2: "March No. 1" | Percussion Group Cincinnati | Cage: Works for Percussion |
| Williams Mix | John Cage | OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music |
| Étude Aux Chemins de Fer (1948) | Pierre Schaeffer | Early Modulations: Vintage Volts |
| Silver Apples of the Moon - Part A | Morton Subotnick | Silver Apples of the Moon |
| I Hear a New World | Joe Meek and the Blue Men | I Hear a New World |
| Roldán: Ritmicas No. 6 (Tiempo de Rhumba) & 5 (Tiempo De Son) | The Manhattan Percussion Ensemble/John Cage and Paul Price | Earle Brown - A Life in Music - Vol. 1 |
| Ionisation | Asko Ensemble & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Varèse: The Complete Works |
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| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Voice of Theremin | Lydia Kavina | Original Works for Theremin: Music from the Ether |
| Sleep | Godspeed You Black Emperor! | Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Avatar | Swans | The Seer |
| My Father My King | Mogwai | My Father My King |
| Kol Nidre | The Electric Prunes | Release of an Oath |
| Kol Nidre, Op. 39 | Sao Paulo Symphony Chorus, John Neschling, Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra & Stephen Bronk | Schoenberg, A.: Kol Nidre - Bernsten, L. Halil - Bloch, E.: Baal Shem - Zeisl, E.: Requiem Ebraico (Remembrance) |
| Kol Nidre | Erik Friedlander, Joyce Hammann, Lois Martin & Mark Feldman | Zorn: The String Quartets |
| Part 1 | Die Like a Dog Quartet | Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler |
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| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Boa | Don Cherry & Jon Appleton | Human Music |
| Today Is Only Yesterday's Tomorrow | Lothar and the Hand People | Space Hymn |
| Electricity | Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band | Safe As Milk |
| Outer Space/Radar | Bernard Herrmann | The Day the Earth Stood Still |
| Polyphonic Aetherphon | Leon Theremin | Big Ears: Fitzgerald's Manifesto |
| Free Music No. 1 (For Four Theremins) | Percy Grainger | An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music Vol. 2 |
| Theremin in the Rain | Gordon Monahan | Theremin in the Rain |
| See Through Theremin | Gordon Monahan | Theremin in the Rain |
| Voice of Theremin | Lydia Kavina | Original Works for Theremin |
| Music for Theremin and Gamelan | David Simons | Fung Sha Noon |
| Trio for Theremin & Electric Keyboard | Dave Soldier & Richard Lair | Thai Elephant Orchestra |
| Les Carnaval Des Animaux: No. 12. Le Cygne (arr. for Theremin and Piano) | Clara Rockmore & Nadia Reisenberg | The Art of the Theremin |
| Oraison | Olivier Messiaen | OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music |
| Sisters! Brothers! Small Boats of Fire Are Falling From the Sky! | A Silver Mt. Zion | Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward |
| The Micro Disneycal World Tour | Cornelius | Fantasma |
| Attack On Love | Yo La Tengo | Electr-O-Pura |
| A Theremin Inside the Piano | Gordon Monahan | Saskatchewan Sound Installations |
| Wolff: Exercise 28 | Lydia Kavina & Ensemble Sospeso: Gemeinhardt, Menzies, McCoy | Spellbound! Original Work for Theremin |
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| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Les Noces: 1. Scene One | International Piano Quartet, Robert Craft, Simon Joly Chorale & Tristan Fry Percussion Ensemble | Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex, Les Noces |
| Jeux (Poème Dansé) | Charles Dutoit & Orchestre symphonoique de Montréal | Debussy - La Mer - Images - Nocturnes - Jeux - Printemps |
| Eventyr, "Once Upon a Time": Eventyr (Once Upon a Time) | The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra & Myer Friedman | Delius: Paris/Brigg Fair/Eventyr/Irmelin/La Calinda |
| Over The Hills and Far Away | David Lloyd-Jones & English Northern Philharmonia | Delius: Orchestral Works |
| Five Orchestra Pieces Op. 16, II. | Hans Rosbaud | Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot lunaire; Fünf Orchesterstücke; Ode an Napoleon Buonaparte |
| The Owl and the Pussy-cat | Adrienne Albert, Igor Stravinsky & Robert Craft | Recent Stravinsky Conducted by the Composer |
| Son, Op. 52: Allegro Appassionato | Yehuda Hanani & Michelle Levin | Barber: Sonata, Op. 6; Foss: Capriccio; Ornstein: Sonata, Op. 52 |
| Sonata da Chiesa: I. Chorale | Nathan Durham, James Stubbs, Michael Dumouchel, Joseph Anderer & Veronica Salas | Virgil Thomson: Chamber Works |
| The Seasons (Ballet in One Act): IV. Prelude, Fall | American Composers Orchestra & Dennis Russell Davies | Cage: The Seasons |
| Aeolian Harp | Henry Cowell | Sounds of New Music |
| Fourteen Bagatelles: No. 2 Allegro giocoso, Three Burlesques: No. 2 A Bit Drunk | Béla Bartók | Bartók at the Piano |
| Blues for Piano | Conlon Nancarrow | Nancarrow: Lost Works, Last Works |
| Punk China Doll | Naked City | Naked City |
| 6 Morceaux, Op. 51: No. 6 Valse Sentimentale (arr. for Theremin and Piano) | Clara Rockmore & Nadia Reisenberg | The Art of the Theremin |
| The Sleepwalker | The Residents | Lonely Teenager |
| o'hell | John Oswald | 69 Plunderphonics 96 |
| Closing | Philip Glass Ensemble | Glassworks |
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| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| A Hello-Hello! And Goodbye Too! | Sun Ra | Sunrise in Different Dimensions |
| The Cosmic Explorer | Sun Ra | Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (Volume 1) |
| A Jackson in Your House | Art Ensemble of Chicago | A Jackson In Your House/Message to Our Folks |
| 00000000010 | ryoji ikeda | matrix |
| 00000000001 | ryoji ikeda | matrix |
| As In | Jim O'Rourke | In Memoriam Gilles Deleuze |
| nb2e_vortex.aiff | Kim Cascone | Modulation & Transformation 4 |
| Module 10 | Alva Noto | Transform |
| Synkopoint | Vladislav Delay | Clicks & Cuts, Vol. 1 |
| The Walk to the Paradise Garden, from a Village Romeo & Juliet | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Christopher Seaman | Delius: Brigg Fair & A Song Before Sunrise |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Study No. 3a | Conlon Nancarrow | Studies for Piano Player |
| Vakuum - Hallucinationen | Caspar Johannes Walter | Touch! Don't Touch! Music for Theremin |
| Prelude | Hans-Ola Ericsson | Messiaen - Complete Music for Organ |
| Myths, Op. 30: No. 1. The Fountain of Arethusa | Krzystof Bakowski & Anna Gorecka | Syzmanowski, K.: Violin Sonata, Op. 9 - Myths, Op. 30 - Nocturne and Tarantella - Roxana's Aria |
| Spectral Canon for Conlon Nancarrow (1976 version; piano roll punched by Nancarrow) | James Tenney | Cold Blue |
| Will the Circle Be Unbroken | Mark Rankin & Just Intonation Banjo | World |
| Bonaparte's Retreat | W.H. Stepp | Library of Congress - A Treasury of Field Recordings |
| Rodeo - Four Dance Episodes (Instrumental): IV. Hoedown | London Symphony Orchestra Orchestra, William Warfield & Aaron Copland | Copland Conducts Copland |
| John Henry | London Symphony Orchestra & Aaron Copland | The Copland Collection: Orchestral & Ballet Works |
| American Holiday | American Symphony Orchestra & Leon Botstein | Siegmeister: American Holiday |
| Fireworks, Op. 4 | New York Philharmonic & Igor Stravinsky | Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky - The Classic LP Recordings |
| Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: "Why fum'th in fight" | Alistair Dixon & Chapelle du Roi | Thomas Tallis: The Complete Works - Volume 6 |
| Fantasia On a Theme By Thomas Tallis For Double String Orchestra | Philharmonia Orchestra & Herbert von Karajan | Britten: Variations On a Theme By Frank Bridge - Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis - Handel: Water Music Suite |
| Zayt gezunterheyt? | Noël Akchoté | Szeroka Street: Yiddish Songs, Vol. 1 |
| Overture On Hebrew Themes, Op. 34: Un Poco Allegro | Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado & Stefan Vladar | Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Classical Symphony Op. 35, March Op.99 & Overture Op. 34 |
| Parsifal: Blumenmädchen - Szene | Charlotte Müller, Maria Nezadal, Minny Ruske-Leopold, Ingeborg Holmgren, Hilde Sinnek, et al. | Wagner: Bayreuth Festival 1927 |
| Arnold Schönberg: Begleitmusk Zu Einer Lichtspielszene, Op. 34 (1929-1930) | Ensemble Recherche, Lothar Zagrosek | Lichspielmusik - Weill, Schreker, Schönberg, Berg, Hauer, Eisler |
| Snows of Fujiyama | Henry Cowell | Piano Music |
| Cage: HPSCHD: Solo VII | Jukka Tiensuu | The Frivolous Harpsichord |
| Piece for Tape (untitled) | Conlon Nancarrow | Nancarrow: Late Works, Last Works |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Sonata for two pianos and percussion: III. Allegro non troppo | Béla Bartók, Ditta Bartók Pásztory, Henry J. Baker & Edward J. Rubsam | Bartók at the Piano |
| String Quartet No. 1: II. Adagio | Shem Nemeth, Renee Jolles, Ronald D. Arbone & Maxine Neuman | Virgil Thomson: Chamber Works |
| Concerto for Viola and Orchestra Op. posth. (1945) Sz. 120: III. Allegro vivace | Geza Nemeth, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra & Andras Korodi | B. Bartók: Four Pieces for Orchestra, Rhapsody Nos. 1 and 2, Concerto for Viola and Orchestra |
| Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, Op. 36: III. Allegro Ma Non Troppo | André Previn, London Symphony Orchestra & Vladimir Ashkenazy | Prokofiev: Complete Concertos |
| Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11 (1909): 1. Mässige Viertel | Maurizio Pollini | Schoenberg: The Piano Music |
| Ornstein: Nocturne for Clarinet and Piano | David Niethamer & Jennifer Rinehart | Leo Ornstein: Nocturne for Clarinet and Piano; Erik Lundborg: Ghost Sonatine; Michael Dellaira: Maud; etc. |
| Henry Cowell: Ostinato Pianissimo | New Jersey Percussion Ensemble | Percussion Music |
| London's Bridge Is Falling Down | Charles Seeger | Songs for Political Action |
| Hands | Charles Seeger | Songs for Political Action |
| Seeger: John Hardy | Schoenberg Ensemble, Oliver Knussen | Ruth Crawford Seeger: Portrait |
| Air for Solo Violin and String Orchestra | Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Richard Auldon Clark | Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Richard Auldon Clark plays Cowell |
| I Dream Too Much | Sun Ra & Sun Ra Arkestra | Reflections in Blue |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Handel: Wassermusik Adagie e staccato | Berliner Philharmoniker/Rafael Kubelik | Wassermusik - Water Music (Complete) |
| Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 3 | Quator Hêlios | Credo In Us |
| II B.S. (RZA's Mingus Bounce Mix) | Charles Mingus | Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked |
| Underwater Waltz | Vladimir Ussachevsky | Sounds of New Music |
| Fantasy In Space | Otto Luening | Sounds of New Music |
| The City Wears a Slouch Hat: Phone Call | John Cage | The Lost Works |
| Sonata II | Boris Berman | American Classics: Cage - Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano |
| Offrandes | Asko Ensemble, Riccardo Chailly | Varèse: The Complete WOrks |
| Ebony Concerto | Dimitri Ashkenazy, Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester, Berlin & Vladimir Ashkenazy | Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano & Winds - Ebony Concerto - Cappriccio - Movements |
| Aeolian Harp and Sinister Resonance | Henry Cowell | Piano Music |
| Windsong | Harry Partch | The Harry Partch Collection, Vol. 3 |
| Lonely Woman | Ornette Coleman | The Shape of Jazz to Come |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Sonic Contours | Vladimir Ussachevsky | Sounds of New Music |
| Banshee | Henry Cowell | Sounds of New Music |
| Piano Sonata | Leo Smit | Copland: The Complete Works for Solo Piano |
| Amériques - Original Version | Riccardo Chailly & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Varèse: The Complete Works |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Isoldes Liebestod, S. 447 - piano transcription after Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" | Jean-Yves Thibaudet | Liszt Transcriptions (completed by Busoni) |
| Pelleas Et Melisande-symphonie (Pelleas and Melisande Symphony) (Arr. M. Constant) | Jun Marki & Lyon National Orchestra | Debussy: Symphonie Pelleas Et Melisande, Tois Etudes, Clair de Lune & Berceuse Heroique |
| Piano Sonata | Michael Lewin | American Classics: Griffes - Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 |
| The Banshee | Henry Cowell | Piano Music |
| Reverberation | Vladimir Ussachevsky | Sounds of New Music |
| Transposition | Vladimir Ussachevsky | Sounds of New Music |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Sonata No. 2 for Piano, Concord, Mass: Emerson (excerpts) | Charles Ives | Ives Plays Ives |
| Night Thoughts (Homage to Ives) | Leo Smit | Copland: The Complete Music for Solo Piano |
| My Father Knew Charles Ives | BBC Symphony Orchestra & John Adams | Adams: The Dharma At Big Sur - My Father Knew Charles Ives |
| Ives: Sunrise | Continuum | Ives: Three Quarter-Tone Pieces; Five Take-Offs; Hallowe'en; Sunrise |
| Ives: Calcium Light Night | Ensemble Modern | American Classics: Charles Ives |
| March, the Circus Band | US Marine Band | Charles Ives' America |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod | Berlin Philharmoniker/Abbado | Wagner: Orchestral Pieces from Parsifal - Tristan & Isolde - Tannhäuser |
| Schoenberg: 5 Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16: III. Farben | Cleveland Orchestra/von Dohnanyi | Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht & 5 Pieces for Orchestra & Chamber Symphony |
| Bartók: Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110 | Alfons Kontarsky, Christoph Caskel & Heinz Koenig | Bartók: Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion - Stravinsky: Concerto & Sonata for 2 Pianos |
| Hoiby: A Month In the Country, Act I: Duet: I Can Never Remember All the Words…, "The Nightingale and the Lark" | Andrew Garland, Julia Faulkner & Lee Hoiby | Hoiby: Songs |
| Hovhaness: Magnificat, Op. 157: Gloria Patri | St. John's Boys and Girls Choir, St. John's Cathedral Choir, Eric Plutz, Donald Pearson & St. John's Cathedral Festival Orchestr | Hovhaness: Symphony No. 29, 4 Bagatelles, Rubaiyat, Prayer of St. Gregory |
| Sonic Contours | Vladimir Ussachevsky | Pioneers Of Electronic Music |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Ruby My Dear | Thelonious Monk | Genius of Modern Music vol. 1 |
| Ruby My Dear | Steve Lacy | Solos Duos Trios: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note |
| The Match | Steve Lacy | Solos Duos Trios: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note |
| Bussotti: Piano Piece for David Tudor III from Piece de chair II, 1959 | David Tudor | Music for Piano |
| Stockhausen: Klavierstücke XI | Herbert Henck | Karlheinz Stockhausen Klavierstücke I-XI |
| Lawn Wake I & II [request] | The Flashbulb | Red Extension of Me |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| The Shaggs' Own Thing | The Shaggs | The Shaggs |
| Feldman: For Philip Guston: I. Pt. I | California EAR Unit | Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston |
| Opening | Philip Glass | Glassworks |
| Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation No. 1 | Glenn Gould | Glenn Gould Edition - Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 |
| The Shaggs' Own Thing (Vocal Version) | The Shaggs | The Shaggs |
| Eating the Sky | John Giorno | The Nova Convention |
| [with] Concerto for 2 Harpsichords, Strings, and Continuo in C Minor, BWV 1060 | Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood | J. S. Bach: Orchestral Suites 1-4, 2 Concerti |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Bach: Fugue in D Minor from 'The Art of the Fugue' | The Swingle Singers | Jazz Sebastian Bach |
| Bach: Contrapunctus 3 | Laibach | Laibachkunstderfuge |
| Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: I. Aria | Keith Jarrett | J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations |
| Sonata for Harpsichord, H. 368: Sonata for Harpsichord, H.368 | Monica Knoblochová | Martinu & Falla: Harpsichord Works |
| Stravinsky: "Good, people, just a moment:..." from The Rake's Progress | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus | Essential Igor Stravinsky |
| Hindemith: "Die Vier Temperamente" Für Klavier Und Streichorchester | Berliner Philharmoniker, Hans Gieseler, Hans Otte & Paul Hindemith | Hindemith Conducts Hindemith |
| Chinese Envoy | John Cale | Songs for a New Society |
| The Watershed | Mark Hollis | Mark Hollis |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| John Cage Excerpt, N. 7 | John Cage | Caged/Uncaged (A Rock, Experimental Homage to John Cage) |
| Aerial Song | Tod Dockstader | An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music, Vol. 2 |
| Cowell: Dynamic Motion | Chris Brown | New Music: Piano Compositions by Henry Cowell |
| Reich: Six Marimbas | Manhattan Marimba Quartet, Steve Reich | Steve Reich: Sextet - Six Marimbas |
| Schoenberg: String Quartet in D Major: I. Allegro Molto | Schoenberg Quartet | Schoenberg: Chamber Music |
| The Star-Spangled Banner (orch. Stravinsky) | London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas | Stravinsky in America |
| Stravinsky: Symphony in 3 Movements | Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky | Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements, Symphony in C & Symphony of Psalms |
| Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles: Interlude | London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen | Stravinsky: The Flood, Abraham and Isaac, Variations, Requiem Canticles - Wuorinen: A Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky |
| Book of Ways 12 | Keith Jarrett | Book of Ways |
| Excerpts from the Firebird (Stravinsky) | Alice Coltrane | Lord of Lords |
| Bach: Prelude & Fugue in E Flat Minor [The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I] | Rebecca Pechefsky | EARLY - American Festival of Microtonal Music |
| Berio: Folk Songs - Black Is the Colour | Stella Doufexis | Arnold Schönberg/Luciano Berio |
| God Bless The Child | Eric Dolphy | The Illinois Concert |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Esther's Nose Job | Soft Machine | Somewhere in Soho |
| Up With People | Oneida | Happy New Year |
| Mammary Intercourse | Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. | Wild Gals A-Go-Go |
| e-lo's mix 5/10/12 | Oneida, Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. | |
| Hurry On Sundown | Hawkwind | Space Ritual Volume 2 |
| Cosmic Magic Of Love part 1 | Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. | St. Captain Freak Out & the Magic Bamboo Request |
| Song for Wild | Mark Fry | Dreaming with Alice |
| Why Dow We Treat Ourselves Like We Do? | Daevid Allen | Now Is the Happiest Time of Your Life |
| Bitches Brew | Miles Davis | Miles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East |
| Helen Buddha; Miss Condom X | Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. | Son of a Bitches Brew |
| Sad Emission | Bill Laswell, Hoppy Kamiyama | A Navel City/No One Is There |
| Metempsychosis | Arzachel | Arzachel |
| Kandy Korn | Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | Mirror Man |
| Watermelon In Easter Hay | Frank Zappa | Beat the Boots |
| Pink Lady Lemonade - You're from Outer Space Pt. 2 | Acid Mothers Temple & the Cosmic Inferno | Pink Lady Lemonade - You're from Outer Space |
| Telemusik | Karlheinz Stockhausen | Stockhausen: Mikrophonie I / Mikrophonie II / Telemusik |
| Phantom of Galactic Magnum | Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. | Electric Heavyland |
| Riley: In C [excerpt] | Bang on a Can | A Sampler from Cantaloupe Music |
| Black Satin | Miles Davis | On the Corner |
| Black Satin Loops | Miles Davis, e-lo |
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Language Is a Virus from Outer Space | Laurie Anderson | United States Live |
| That Other Thing | Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone | Departure of Reason |
| Debussy: Estampes, L. 100: II. La Soirée dans Grenade | Pascal Rogé | Debussy: Piano Music II |
| Music of the Spheres | Johanna M. Beyer | An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music, vol. 2 |
| Winds and Sweeping Pines | Chicago Underground Duo | Age of Energy |
| Duo for Renats | Dave Soldier & Richard Lair | Thai Elephant Orchestra |
| Wise in Time | Muhal Richard Abrams | Young at Heart/Wise in Time |
| Cage: Aria | Hilde Torgersen | John Cage: Will You Give Me To Tell You |
| John Cage | Christian Marclay | More Encores |
| Dorian Reeds | DJ Spooky | Sound Unbound |
| Dorian Reeds | Terry Riley | Reed Streams |
| Space Age Ballad | Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. | New Geocentric World of Acid Mothers Temple |