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| 1 | David Bowie | * (Blackstar) | 2016 |
| 2 | Shirley Collins | Lodestar | 2016 |
| 3 | Moor mother | Fetish bones | 2016 |
| 4 | Autechre | elseq 1-5 | 2016 |
| 5 | Nick Cave and the Bad seeds | Skeleton tree | 2016 |
| 6 | Jenny Hval | Blood bitch | 2016 |
| 7 | Noura Mint Seymali | Arbina | 2016 |
| 8 | Yves Tumor | Serpent music | 2016 |
| 9 | Gaika | Security | 2016 |
| 10 | Mark Ernestus ' Ndagga Rhythm force | Yermande | 2016 |
| 11 | Gate | Saturday night fever | 2016 |
| 12 | Solange | A seat at the table | 2016 |
| 13 | Kanye West | The life of Pablo | 2016 |
| 14 | Oren Ambarchi | Hubris | 2016 |
| 15 | Babyfather | BBF hosted by DJ Escrow | 2016 |
| 16 | 75 Dollar bill | Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm rock | 2016 |
| 17 | Anna Meredith | Varmints | 2016 |
| 18 | Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith | Ears | 2016 |
| 19 | A Tribe called quest | We got it from here … thank you 4 your service | 2016 |
| 20 | Carla dal Forno | You know what it's like | 2016 |
| 21 | David Toop | Entities inertias faint beings | 2016 |
| 22 | Leonard Cohen | You want it darker | 2016 |
| 23 | Kendrick Lamar | Untitled unmastered | 2016 |
| 24 | Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids | We be all Africans | 2016 |
| 25 | Laura Cannell | Simultaneous flight movement | 2016 |
| 26 | Ectoplasm girls | New feeling come | 2016 |
| 27 | Steve Gunn | Eyes on the lines | 2016 |
| 28 | Ian William Craig | Centres | 2016 |
| 29 | Matmos | Ultimate care II | 2016 |
| 30 | Laraaji & Sun Araw | Professional sunflow | 2016 |
| 31 | Scott Walker | The childhood of a leader (soundtrack) | 2016 |
| 32 | Bitchin Bajas & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Epic jammers and fortunate little Ditties | 2016 |
| 33 | Elysia Crampton | Elysia Crampton presents: Demon city | 2016 |
| 34 | Katie Gately | Color | 2016 |
| 35 | Shackleton with Ernesto Tomasini | Devotional songs | 2016 |
| 36 | Anxiety | Anxiety | 2016 |
| 37 | Skepta | Konnichiwa | 2016 |
| 38 | Puce Mary | The spiral | 2016 |
| 39 | Dwarfs of East Agouza | Bes | 2016 |
| 40 | Catherine Christer Hennix | Live at Issue Project room | 2016 |
| 41 | Horese lords | Interventions | 2016 |
| 42 | Roy Montgomery | R M H Q : Headquarters | 2016 |
| 43 | Frank Ocean | Blond | 2016 |
| 44 | Thalia Zedek band | Eve | 2016 |
| 45 | Charlemagne Palestine | Cathédrale de Strasborg | 2016 |
| 46 | Ben Johnston | String quartets 6, 7 & 8 | 2016 |
| 47 | Jackie Lynn | Jackie Lynn | 2016 |
| 48 | Zomby | Ultra | 2016 |
| 49 | Klara Lewis | Too | 2016 |
| 50 | Peder Mannerfelt | Controlling body | 2016 |
| 1 | Carl Stone | Electronic music from the seventies and eighties | 2016 |
| 2 | Julius Eastman | Feminine | 2016 |
| 3 | Vivien Goldman | Resolutionary | 2016 |
| 4 | # | Music of Morocco : recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959 | 2016 |
| 5 | Camberwell now | The ghost trade | 1986 |
| 6 | This heat | Deceit | 1981 |
| 7 | Arthur Russell | Tower of meaning | 2016 |
| 8 | This heat | This heat | 1979 |
| 9 | John Cage & Sun Ra | John Cage meets Sun Ra : the complete concert, june 8 1986 Coney Island NY | 2016 |
| 10 | Jack Rose | I do play Rock and Roll | 2016 |
| 11 | Bert Jansch | Avocet | 1978 |
| 12 | Gas | Box | 2016 |
| 13 | Colin Newman | A-Z | 1980 |
| 14 | Suzanne Ciani | Buchla concerts 1975 | 2016 |
| 15 | Joan La Barbara | Tapesongs | 1978 |
| 16 | Delia Derbyshire & Elsa Stansfield | Circle of light (soundtrack) | 2016 |
| 17 | Hailu Mergia & Dahlak band | Wede harer guzo | 2016 |
| 18 | Betty Davis | The Columbia years 1968-1969 | 2016 |
| 19 | Syrinx | Tumblers from the vault (1970-1972) | 2016 |
| 20 | Sun Ra | Singles : the definitive 45s collection 1952-1991 | 2016 |
| 21 | Yusuf Lateef | Live at Ronnie Scott's | 2016 |
| 22 | Bowery electric | Beat | 2016 |
| 23 | Joan La Barbara | Voice is the original instrument | 2016 |
| 24 | Träd, Gräs och Stenar | Träd, Gräs och Stenar | 2016 |
| 25 | Bert Jansch | Rosemary lane | 1971 |
| 26 | # | Boombox 1 : early independent hip hop, electro and disco rap 1979-82 | 2016 |
| 27 | Albert Ayler quartet | European radio studio recordings 1964 | 2016 |
| 28 | # | Space echo : the mystery behind the cosmic sound of Cabo Verde finally revealed! | 2016 |
| 29 | J Dilla | The diary | 2016 |
| 30 | William S. Burroughs | Curse go back | 2016 |
| 31 | Joanna Brouk | Hearing music | 2016 |
| 32 | La Monte Young & marian Zazeela | The theatre of eternal music : dream house 78'17" | 2016 |
| 33 | Patrick Cowley & Candida Royalle | Candida cosmica | 2016 |
| 34 | This heat | Health & efficiency | 1980 |
| 35 | Associates | Fourth drawer down | 1981 |
| 36 | Spontaneous music ensemble | Withdrawal | |
| 37 | Steve Reich | Four organs/Phase patterns | 2016 |
| 38 | Tony Conrad with Faust | Outside the dream syndicate | 1972 |
| 39 | Tuxedomoon | Half-mute | 1980 |
| 40 | Cluster | 1971-1981 | 2016 |
| 41 | Pylon | Live | 2016 |
| 42 | Larry Levan | Genius of time | 2016 |
| 43 | John Surman | Westering home | 1972 |
| 44 | Shaggs | Philosophy of the world | 1969 |
| 45 | Napoleon Cherry | Walk alone | 2016 |
| 46 | Duck Baker | Outside | |
| 47 | Peter Cusack | After being in Holland for two years | 1977 |
| 48 | John Cale | Music for a new society/M:Fans | 2015 |
| 49 | Anna Homler and Steve Moshier | Breadwoman & other tales | 2015 |
| 50 | Trevor Watts string ensemble | Cynosure | 2016 |
| 26 | # | Boombox 1 : early independent hip hop, electro and disco rap 1979-82 | 2016 |
| 5 | # | Digital Zandoli | 2016 |
| 4 | # | Music of Morocco : recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959 | 2016 |
| 1 | # | Sacred flute music from New Guinea : Madang/Windim mambu | 2016 |
| 7 | # | Soul sok sega : sega sounds from Mauritius 1973-1979 | 2016 |
| 28 | # | Space echo : the mystery behind the cosmic sound of Cabo Verde finally revealed! | 2016 |
| 6 | # | This is Kologo power | 2016 |
| 10 | # | Togo soul 70 | 2016 |
| 8 | Abyssinians | The 7" singles collection | 2016 |
| 24 | Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids | We be all Africans | 2016 |
| 2 | Rodrigo Amado Motion trio | Desire & freedom | 2016 |
| 14 | Oren Ambarchi | Hubris | 2016 |
| 1 | Chino Amobi & Rabit | Izlämic Europe | 2016 |
| 36 | Anxiety | Anxiety | 2016 |
| 1 | Anxiety | Anxiety | 2016 |
| 4 | Arabrot | The gospel | 2016 |
| 4 | Martin Archer | Story tellers | 2016 |
| 35 | Associates | Fourth drawer down | 1981 |
| 4 | Autechre | elseq 1-5 | 2016 |
| 27 | Albert Ayler quartet | European radio studio recordings 1964 | 2016 |
| 15 | Babyfather | BBF hosted by DJ Escrow | 2016 |
| 8 | Boosie Badazz | Thug talk | 2016 |
| 32 | Bitchin Bajas & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Epic jammers and fortunate little Ditties | 2016 |
| 46 | Duck Baker | Outside | |
| 4 | Billy Bao | The Lagos sessions | 2016 |
| 9 | Daniel Bennett & Stephen Cornford | Felifield draff | 2016 |
| 6 | Dante Boon | Clarinet (& piano) | 2016 |
| 5 | Pierre Boulez | Complete music for solo piano performed by Marc Ponthus | 2016 |
| 22 | Bowery electric | Beat | 2016 |
| 1 | David Bowie | * (Blackstar) | 2016 |
| 31 | Joanna Brouk | Hearing music | 2016 |
| 3 | Chris Brown | Six primes | 2016 |
| 2 | Erroll Brown | Orthodox dub | 1978 |
| 30 | William S. Burroughs | Curse go back | 2016 |
| 9 | John Cage & Sun Ra | John Cage meets Sun Ra : the complete concert, june 8 1986 Coney Island NY | 2016 |
| 48 | John Cale | Music for a new society/M:Fans | 2015 |
| 9 | Cam & China | Cam & China | 2016 |
| 5 | Camberwell now | The ghost trade | 1986 |
| 25 | Laura Cannell | Simultaneous flight movement | 2016 |
| 6 | Sébastien Cassanova | Cloudy others | 2016 |
| 5 | Nick Cave and the Bad seeds | Skeleton tree | 2016 |
| 45 | Napoleon Cherry | Walk alone | 2016 |
| 10 | Chronixx & Federation sound | Roots & chalice | 2016 |
| 14 | Suzanne Ciani | Buchla concerts 1975 | 2016 |
| 40 | Cluster | 1971-1981 | 2016 |
| 22 | Leonard Cohen | You want it darker | 2016 |
| 2 | Shirley Collins | Lodestar | 2016 |
| 38 | Tony Conrad with Faust | Outside the dream syndicate | 1972 |
| 33 | Patrick Cowley & Candida Royalle | Candida cosmica | 2016 |
| 28 | Ian William Craig | Centres | 2016 |
| 33 | Elysia Crampton | Elysia Crampton presents: Demon city | 2016 |
| 47 | Peter Cusack | After being in Holland for two years | 1977 |
| 18 | Betty Davis | The Columbia years 1968-1969 | 2016 |
| 16 | Delia Derbyshire & Elsa Stansfield | Circle of light (soundtrack) | 2016 |
| 29 | J Dilla | The diary | 2016 |
| 4 | Dreezy | No hard feelings | 2016 |
| 8 | Graham Dunning | Auxon | 2016 |
| 5 | Graham Dunning & Colin Webster | Oval | 2016 |
| 39 | Dwarfs of East Agouza | Bes | 2016 |
| 2 | Julius Eastman | Feminine | 2016 |
| 26 | Ectoplasm girls | New feeling come | 2016 |
| 10 | Michael Finnissy | Beat generation ballads | 2016 |
| 20 | Carla dal Forno | You know what it's like | 2016 |
| 3 | Fousek/Hansen/Tellier-Craig | No sound without a misunderstanding | 2016 |
| 9 | Gaika | Security | 2016 |
| 12 | Gas | Box | 2016 |
| 11 | Gate | Saturday night fever | 2016 |
| 34 | Katie Gately | Color | 2016 |
| 10 | Kevin Gates | Islah | 2016 |
| 3 | Vivien Goldman | Resolutionary | 2016 |
| 27 | Steve Gunn | Eyes on the lines | 2016 |
| 10 | Helm & Decimus | We will meet at other human parties | 2016 |
| 40 | Catherine Christer Hennix | Live at Issue Project room | 2016 |
| 49 | Anna Homler and Steve Moshier | Breadwoman & other tales | 2015 |
| 41 | Horese lords | Interventions | 2016 |
| 3 | Shafiq Husayn featuring Fatima & Jimetta Rose | On our way home | 2016 |
| 6 | Jenny Hval | Blood bitch | 2016 |
| 1 | Inventing masks | Inventing masks | 2016 |
| 7 | Heejin Jang | Binary breath | 2016 |
| 11 | Bert Jansch | Avocet | 1978 |
| 25 | Bert Jansch | Rosemary lane | 1971 |
| 9 | JaRu | MPC 7635 | 2016 |
| 46 | Ben Johnston | String quartets 6, 7 & 8 | 2016 |
| 1 | Ben Johnston | String quartets 6, 7 & 8 | 2016 |
| 8 | Khmer rouge survivors | They will kill you, if you cry | 2016 |
| 6 | King Tubby versus Channel One | Dub soundclash | 2016 |
| 10 | Julie Kjaer 3 | Dobbeltganger | 2016 |
| 5 | Sarathy Korwar | Day to day | 2016 |
| 7 | György & Márta Kurtág | Play Kurtág | 2016 |
| 3 | Fela Kuti & Koola Lobitos | Highlife jazz and Afro-soul 1963-1969 | 2016 |
| 15 | Joan La Barbara | Tapesongs | 1978 |
| 23 | Joan La Barbara | Voice is the original instrument | 2016 |
| 23 | Kendrick Lamar | Untitled unmastered | 2016 |
| 30 | Laraaji & Sun Araw | Professional sunflow | 2016 |
| 21 | Yusuf Lateef | Live at Ronnie Scott's | 2016 |
| 2 | Okkyung Lee & Christian Marclay | Amalgam | 2016 |
| 42 | Larry Levan | Genius of time | 2016 |
| 49 | Klara Lewis | Too | 2016 |
| 47 | Jackie Lynn | Jackie Lynn | 2016 |
| 7 | Mammoth weed wizard bastard | Y proffwyd dwyll | 2016 |
| 50 | Peder Mannerfelt | Controlling body | 2016 |
| 29 | Matmos | Ultimate care II | 2016 |
| 3 | Matmos | Ultimate care II | 2016 |
| 9 | Noel Meek | The mysteries of extremophilic folk | 2016 |
| 7 | Members of the house | Summer nites (Kornél Kovács remix) | 2016 |
| 17 | Anna Meredith | Varmints | 2016 |
| 17 | Hailu Mergia & Dahlak band | Wede harer guzo | 2016 |
| 4 | Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus | Promised land sounds : rockin' live Ruff n Tuff | 2016 |
| 6 | French Montana | Wave gods | 2016 |
| 42 | Roy Montgomery | R M H Q : Headquarters | 2016 |
| 9 | Moondog | Round the world of sound | 2016 |
| 3 | Moor mother | Fetish bones | 2016 |
| 6 | Moor mother | Fetish bones | 2016 |
| 6 | MrDougDoug | These magical numbers | 2016 |
| 10 | MssingNo | Fones | 2016 |
| 10 | Mark Ernestus ' Ndagga Rhythm force | Yermande | 2016 |
| 2 | Mark Ernestus ' Ndagga Rhythm force | Yermande | 2016 |
| 3 | Neuköllner Modelle | Sektion 1-2 | 2016 |
| 13 | Colin Newman | A-Z | 1980 |
| 7 | Nikolaienko | The sounds of pseudoscience | 2016 |
| 9 | Obadikah | Obadikah | 2016 |
| 43 | Frank Ocean | Blond | 2016 |
| 6 | Maja Osojnik | Let them grow | 2016 |
| 5 | Count Ossie and the Mystic revelation of rastafari | Grounation | 1973 |
| 2 | Overtone ensemble | Overtone ensemble | 2016 |
| 7 | Augustus Pablo | Original rockers | 1979 |
| 45 | Charlemagne Palestine | Cathédrale de Strasborg | 2016 |
| 8 | Anthony Pateras & Anthony Burr | The long exhale | 2016 |
| 5 | Ben Pest | ILA011 | 2016 |
| 10 | Phono ghosts | Solar dream reel | 2016 |
| 5 | Roly Porter | Third law | 2016 |
| 38 | Puce Mary | The spiral | 2016 |
| 1 | Puce Mary | The spiral | 2016 |
| 41 | Pylon | Live | 2016 |
| 5 | Raime | Tooth | 2016 |
| 8 | Rattle | Rattle | 2016 |
| 7 | RED trio & John Butcher | Summer skyshift | 2016 |
| 37 | Steve Reich | Four organs/Phase patterns | 2016 |
| 10 | Jack Rose | I do play Rock and Roll | 2016 |
| 9 | Roswell Rudd/Jamie Saft/Trevor Dunn/Balazs Pandi | Strength & power | 2016 |
| 7 | Arthur Russell | Tower of meaning | 2016 |
| 8 | Samrai & Platt featuring Kemikal | Tease me | 2016 |
| 16 | 75 Dollar bill | Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm rock | 2016 |
| 3 | Sex swing | Sex swing | 2016 |
| 7 | Noura Mint Seymali | Arbina | 2016 |
| 35 | Shackleton with Ernesto Tomasini | Devotional songs | 2016 |
| 44 | Shaggs | Philosophy of the world | 1969 |
| 3 | Singers & Players | Staggering heights | 1983 |
| 37 | Skepta | Konnichiwa | 2016 |
| 9 | Jessica Sligter | A sense of growth | 2016 |
| 18 | Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith | Ears | 2016 |
| 1 | Wadada Leo Smith | America's national parks | 2016 |
| 4 | Elza Soares | The woman at the end of the world (a mulher do fim do mundo) | 2016 |
| 12 | Solange | A seat at the table | 2016 |
| 8 | Ánde Somby | Yoiking with the winged ones | 2016 |
| 36 | Spontaneous music ensemble | Withdrawal | |
| 1 | Carl Stone | Electronic music from the seventies and eighties | 2016 |
| 20 | Sun Ra | Singles : the definitive 45s collection 1952-1991 | 2016 |
| 43 | John Surman | Westering home | 1972 |
| 19 | Syrinx | Tumblers from the vault (1970-1972) | 2016 |
| 4 | James Tenney | Bass works | 2016 |
| 10 | Terminal cheesecake | Dandelion sauce of the ancients | 2016 |
| 6 | This heat | Deceit | 1981 |
| 34 | This heat | Health & efficiency | 1980 |
| 8 | This heat | This heat | 1979 |
| 21 | David Toop | Entities inertias faint beings | 2016 |
| 24 | Träd, Gräs och Stenar | Träd, Gräs och Stenar | 2016 |
| 19 | A Tribe called quest | We got it from here … thank you 4 your service | 2016 |
| 3 | A Tribe called quest | We got it from here … thank you 4 your service | 2016 |
| 2 | Valerio Tricoli | Clonic Earth | 2016 |
| 8 | Yves Tumor | Serpent music | 2016 |
| 39 | Tuxedomoon | Half-mute | 1980 |
| 7 | 2 Chainz & Lil Wayne | Collegrove | 2016 |
| 8 | Federico Ughi | Heart talk | 2016 |
| 6 | Miroslav Vitous | Music of Weather report | 2016 |
| 9 | Bunny Wailer | Solomonic singles 1 : Tread along 1969-1976 | 2016 |
| 31 | Scott Walker | The childhood of a leader (soundtrack) | 2016 |
| 50 | Trevor Watts string ensemble | Cynosure | 2016 |
| 13 | Kanye West | The life of Pablo | 2016 |
| 2 | Kanye West | The life of Pablo | 2016 |
| 2 | Willow | Workshop 23 | 2016 |
| 4 | Yaroze dream uite | Yaroze dream uite | 2016 |
| 2 | Yeah You | Id vendor | 2016 |
| 1 | YG | Still brazy | 2016 |
| 1 | Yabby You & the Prophets | Beware dub | 2016 |
| 5 | Young thug | Jeffery | 2016 |
| 32 | La Monte Young & marian Zazeela | The theatre of eternal music : dream house 78'17" | 2016 |
| 4 | Adrian Younge | The electronique vouid : black noise | 2016 |
| 44 | Thalia Zedek band | Eve | 2016 |
| 48 | Zomby | Ultra | 2016 |
(donderdag 2 maart 2017)