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8 Bold Souls - Eight Bold Souls (1987)

8 Bold Souls - Ant Farm (1994)

8 Bold Souls - Last Option (2000)

The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators (1966)

A
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders (1993)

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992)

Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album (1996)

Arditti String Quartet / Alban Berg - Streichquartett Op. 3; Lyrische Suite (1994)

Arditti Quartet / Anton Webern - The Complete String Trios and Quartets (1991)

Claudio Arrau - Études Opus 10; Allegro de concert Opus 46 (1956)

Autechre - Confield (2001)

Albert Ayler Trio - Spiritual Unity (1965)

Albert Ayler - Prophecy (1975)

B
B12 - Electro-Soma (1993)

Joan Baez - Joan Baez (1960)

Bastard - Wind of Pain (1990)

B.B. King - Live at The Regal (1965)

The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys Today! (1965)

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)

The Beatles - With the Beatles (1963)

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (1964)

The Beatles - Rubber Soul (1965)

The Beatles - Revolver (1966)

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

The Beatles - The Beatles (1968)

Maurice Béjart / Pierre Henry / Alain Cuny - Orphée (1960)

Berliner Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan - IX. Symphonie (1963)

Tim Berne - Fractured Fairy Tales (1989)

Besombes-Rizet - Pôle (1975)

Black Country, New Road - For the First Time (2021)

Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong (2025)

Black Flag - Family Man (1984)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970)

Carla Bley & Paul Haines - Escalator Over the Hill (1971)

Ernest Bloch / Kocian Quartet / Ivan Klánský - The Two Piano Quintets (2003)

Booker T. & The M.G.'s - Green Onions (1962)

Anthony Braxton - Town Hall 1972 (1972)

Anthony Braxton - New York, Fall 1974 (1975)

Anthony Braxton - Five Pieces 1975 (1975)

Anthony Braxton - Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989 (1989)

Jacques Brel - Olympia 64 (1964)

The Peter Brötzmann Octet - Machine Gun (1968)

Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Study in Brown (1955)

James Brown - 'Live' at the Apollo (1963)

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out (1959)

Tim Buckley - Lorca (1970)

Tim Buckley - Starsailor (1970)

Solomon Burke - Rock 'n Soul (1964)
Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac (1984)

The Byrds - Fifth Dimension (1966)

The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)

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Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Safe As Milk (1967)

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (1969)
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970)
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station (1980)

Ray Charles - The Genius of Ray Charles (1959)

Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (1962)

Paul Clayton - Whaling and Sailing Songs From the Days of Moby Dick (1956)

Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)

Collegium Vocale Gent and Philippe Herreweghe - Weinen, Klagen... Cantates BWV 12, 38, 75 (2005)

John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1960)

John Coltrane - Coltrane's Sound (1964)

John Coltrane - Crescent (1964)

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)

John Coltrane - Ascension (1966)

John Coltrane - Sun Ship (1971)

John Coltrane - The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording (2001)

John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy - Evenings at the Village Gate (2023)

Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 (1985)
Count Basie and His Orchestra - Basie (1958)

The Crickets - The "Chirping" Crickets (1957)

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Tadd Dameron With John Coltrane - Mating Call (1957)

Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool (1957)

Miles Davis Quintet - Relaxin' With the Miles Davis Quintet (1958)

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970)

Miles Davis - Get Up With It (1974)
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (1980)
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters (1982)
Death - Human (1991)

Death Grips - The Money Store (2012)

Deftones - Around the Fur (1997)

Deftones - Deftones (2003)

Devo - Duty Now for the Future (1979)

Eric Dolphy - Iron Man (1968)

The Doors - The Doors (1967)

The Doors - Strange Days (1967)

Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (1969)

Nick Drake - Pink Moon (1972),

Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)

Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (1966)

Dyzan - Electric Silence (1974)

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Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (2000)

Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport (1956)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Jack Takes the Floor (1958)

Etron fou leloublan - Batelages (1977)

Bill Evans Trio - Sunday at the Village Vanguard (1961)

The Everly Brothers - A Date With The Everly Brothers (1960)

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Fats Domino - This Is Fats (1957)

Failure - Comfort (1992)

Failure - Magnified (1994)

Failure - Fantastic Planet (1996)

The Fall - Grotesque (1980)

Faust - Faust (1971)

Morton Feldman - Routine Investigations etc. (1994)

Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book (1959)
FLUX Quartet - Feldman Edition 6: String Quartet No. 2 (2002)

Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958)

Amaro Freitas - Y'Y (2024)

G
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1980)

Gang of Four - Entertainment! (1979)

Charles Gayle - Repent (1992)

Geese - Getting Killed (2025)

Genesis - Selling England by the Pound (1973)

Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba (1962)

Stan Getz & João Gilberto featuring Antônio Carlos Jobim - Getz / Gilberto (1964)

Astrud Gilberto - Beach Samba (1967)
Henry Grimes Trio - The Call (1966)

God - The Anatomy of Addiction (1994)

Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F♯A♯∞ (1997)

Glenn Gould - The Goldberg Variations (1956)
Groundhogs - Split (1971)

Friedrich Gulda His Piano and Big Band - From Vienna with Jazz (1964)

H
Françoise Hardy - Le premier bonheur du jour (1963)

Roy Haynes, Phineas Newborn, Paul Chambers - We Three (1959)

Andrew Hill - Compulsion (1965)

Andrew Hill - Point of Departure (1965)

Billie Holiday & Ray Ellis and His Orchestra - Lady in Satin (1958)

David Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds (1973)

Michael Hurley, The Unholy Modal Rounders, Jeffrey Fredericks & The Clamtones - Have Moicy! (1976)

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ICP Orchestra - Groupcomposing (1971)

Iggy Pop - The Idiot (1977)

Insides - Euphoria (1993)

INU - Meshi Kunna! (1981)

J
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp! (1979)

Bob James Trio - Explosions (1965)

Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch (1965)

Carmell Jones - The Remarkable Carmell Jones (1961)
Joy Division - Closer (1980)

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Kaizo Slumber - How Are We Feeling Today? (2023)

Leonidas Kavakos / Péter Nagy - Sonate posthume; Tzigane / Impressions d'enfance; Sonata No.3 (2003)

Roland Kayn - Tektra (1984)

The Keith Tippett Group - Dedicated to You, But You Weren't Listening (1971)

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)

King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973)

King Crimson - Red (1974)

King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation (2023)

The Kinks - Face to Face (1966)

Klangforum Wien / Peter Rundel / Wolfgang Mitterer - coloured noise (2006)

Sergey Kuryokhin - Introduction in Pop Mechanics (1987)

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Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy (1973)

Jerry Lee Lewis - "Live" at the Star-Club, Hamburg (1964)

Lil Ugly Mane - Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern (2021)
Little Richard - Here's Little Richard (1957)

Giuseppi Logan - The Giuseppi Logan Quartet (1965)

The Louvin Brothers - Tragic Songs of Life (1956)

M
Machito - Kenya (1958)

Madvillain - Madvillainy (2004)

Magma - Üdü Ẁüdü (1976)

Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba (1961)

The Mama's and The Papa's - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (1966)
Manfred Schoof Sextett - Manfred Schoof Sextett (1967)

John Mayall with Eric Clapton - Blues Breakers (1966)

Paul & Linda McCartney - Ram (1971)

Mercyful Fate - Melissa (1983)

Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath (1984)

The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop - Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956)
Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963),

Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (1964)
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime (1984)

Michio Miyagi - Masterpieces of Koto (1956),
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)

Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners (1957)

Thelonious Monk - Solo Monk (1965)

Monks - Black Monk Time (1966)

Mos Def - Black on Both Sides (1999)

Moss Icon - Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly (1993)

The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out! (1966)

The Mothers of Invention - Uncle Meat (1969)

The Mothers - The Grand Wazoo (1972)

Mstislav Rostropovich - Cello-Suiten (1995)
Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters at Newport 1960 (1960)

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The Zbigniew Namysłowski Quintet - Winobranie (1973)

Nino Nardini & Roger Roger - Jungle Obsession (1972)

Fred Neil - Fred Neil (1967)

Nico - Chelsea Girl (1967)
Nico - The Marble Index (1968)

Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch (2018)
Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)

Nirvana - In utero (1993)

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Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica (2011)
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven (2013)
The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet - Free Jazz (1961)

Buck Owens and His Buckaroos - I've Got a Tiger by the Tail (1965)

P
Eddie Palmieri - Unfinished Masterpiece (1975)

Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker (1954)

Parker / Guy / Lytton & Schlippenbach Trio - 2 × 3 = 5 (2001)

Paul Revere & The Raiders - Midnight Ride (1966)

People Under the Stairs - Question in the Form of an Answer (2000)

People Under the Stairs - O.S.T. (2002)
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing (1978)
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance (1978)

Karen Phillips - The Viola in My Life; False Relationships and the Extended Ending (1971)

Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988)

Pixies - Bossanova (1990)

The Pop Group - Y (1979)

Tom Prehns Kvartet - Tom Prehns Kvartet (1967)

Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley (1956)

Elvis Presley - Elvis is Back! (1960)

Ray Price - Night Life (1963)

Louis Prima - The Wildest (1956)

Primus - Frizzle Fry (1990)

Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese (1991)

Primus - Pork Soda (1993)

Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert (2023)

Tito Puente and His Orchestra - Dance Mania (1958)

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Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age (1998)
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (2007)

Queens of the Stone Age - Times New Roman (2023)

R
Radiohead - The Bends (1995)

Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)

Radiohead - Amnesiac (2001)

Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)

Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (1965)
Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill (1992)

Relient K - Forget and Not Slow Down (2009)

R.E.M. - Murmur (1983)

The Residents - Meet the Residents (1974)
Muhal Richard Abrams - Levels and Degrees of Light (1968)

Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959)

The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones (1964)

The Rolling Stones - Aftermath (1966)

Romanesca / Andrew Manze / Nigel North / John Toll - Violin Sonatas (1994)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Charles Dutoit / Martha Argerich - Klavierkonzert Nr.1 b-moll (1971)

S

Sabu - Palo Congo (1957)
Sambrasa Trio - Em som maior (1965)

Pharoah Sanders - Love in Us All (1974)

Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages (1991)

Archie Shepp / Bill Dixon Quartet - Archie Shepp / Bill Dixon Quartet (1963)

Shibusashirazu - 渋星 (Shibuboshi) (2004)

Sonny Simmons - Music From the Spheres (1968)
Simon and Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966)

Nina Simone - Wild Is the Wind (1966)

Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours (1955)

Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956)

Frank Sinatra - Where Are You? (1957)

Frank Sinatra - Watertown (1970)

Slayer - Reign in Blood (1986)

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (1993)

Elliott Smith - Roman Candle (1994)

Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (1995)

The Incredible Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack (1963)

The Smiths - The Smiths (1984)

The Smiths - Meat is Murder (1985)

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1986)

The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come (1987)

The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics!!! (1965)

SPK - Leichenschrei (1982)

Dusty Springfield - A Girl Called Dusty (1964)

Squid - O Monolith (2023)

Steve Roach - Structures From Silence (1984)

Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman (1970)

Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat (1971)

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge; Kontakte (1962)

The Stooges - The Stooges (1969)

The Stooges - Fun House (1970)

The Stooges - Raw Power (1973)

The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus (1977)

The Strokes - Is This It (2001)

Stuck - Freak Frequency (2023)

Suicide - Suicide (1977)
Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra - When Sun Comes Out (1963)
Sun-Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra - Atlantis (1969)

The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (1990)

Swans - Filth (1983)

T

Aki Takahashi / Mifune Tsuji / Matthijs Bunschoten / Tadashi Tanaka - (Last Composition) Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello (28 May 1987) (Released 2011)

Talk Talk - The Party's Over (1982)

Talk Talk - It's My Life (1984)

Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring (1986)

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden (1988)
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (1991)

Talking Heads - Remain in Light (1980)

Two Inch Astronaut - Bad Brother (2013)
Two Inch Astronaut - Foulbrood (2014)

Tyler the Creator - Igor (2019)

V
Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us (2024)

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (1968)
Various Artists - A Christmas Gift for You From Philles Records (1963)

Sarah Vaughan and Her Trio - At Mister Kelly's (1958)

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (1968)

W

Igor Wakhévitch - Docteur Faust (1971)

Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters at Newport 1960 (1960)

The Who - My Generation (1965)

Wipers - Is This Real? (1980)
Wipers - Over the Edge (1983)
Wipers - Youth of America (1981)

The Frank Wright Quartet - Your Prayer (1967)

X

X - Los Angeles (1980)

Iannis Xenakis - Persepolis (1972)

XTC - Drums and Wires (1979)

XTC - Skylarking (1986)

Y
Yardbirds - Yardbirds [Roger the Engineer] (1966)
Yes - Close to the Edge (1972)

Yegor i Opizdenevshie - Сто лет одиночества (1993)
YMO - BGM (1981)

Z
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (1969)