Song | Artist | Source (VA = various artists) (*** = new & recommended)
Mosquito Festival | Danny Guglielmo | Americana Vol. 1: Vox Populi (VA)
Sing Song Girl | Sleepy Hall & His Collegians | Oriental Illusions (VA)
Happiness | King Missile III | Failure ***
Utsuho | DJ Matsuoka | 12 inch
Hai Cium Dong | Javanese street musicians | Street Music Of Java (VA)
Dream Song # 3 | Susie Ibarra | Home Cookin'
Come Around | Skip Bifferty | Skip Bifferty
My Lucky Day | Jason Falkner | Can You Still Feel?
The Theme From Studio X | Joe Leahy & His Orchestra | The Charming Miss Edie Adams
Heaven's In the Back Seat Of My Cadillac | Stereo Total | Juke-Box Alarm
Micro Mini Cool | Takako Minekawa | Cloudy Cloud Calculator
Crap | The Tiger Lillies | Ad Nauseam
I Love Trash | Oscar the Grouch | (unknown)
Fresh Garbage | Spirit | Time Circle
To Day Retrieval | Tortoise/Autechre | 12 inch
Every Dog Has His Day | Eddie Bo | Check Mr. Popcorn
Wilderness | Manu Dibango | Racubah! (VA) ***
Hardcore Jollies | Funkadelic | Hardcore Jollies
"side one" excerpt | Karuna Khyal | Alomini 1985 ***
Best Batch Yet | Captain Beefheart | Doc At the Radar Station
I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love | Muddy Waters | His Best, 1956--64
Sometimes the Sky Is Filled With Rain | Inga Rumpf | In the Beginning
Melodia del Rio | Ruben Gonzalez | Introducing
Kabary Boketra | D'Gary | Malagasy Guitar
v. | Nmperign | 44' 38"/5
At the Mountains Of Madness | Mumbles | Deep Concentration (VA)
Siboney | The New Session People | Play Famous Songs From Days-Gone-By
Western Spaghetti | Sad Rockets | Plays
Roulette Rhumba | Lalo Schifrin | The Reel Lalo Schifrin
Dim Catcher | Tove Nilsen | Flash Caravan
Rock Fort Rock | The Skatalites | Ball Of Fire
El Cumbanchero | Brave Combo | World Dance Music
In My Neighborhood | Bonniwell Music Machine | Beyond the Garage
Amplifier | The dB's | Repercussion
Ocean | Brazzaville | Brazaville
Sotto le stelle del jazz | Paolo Conte | Best Of
I Dare To Hope | King Missile III | Failure
Invisible Boyfriend | Continental Drifters | Continental Drifters
Dope On Plastic (instrumental) | Rob Swift | Dope On Plastic
Jungle Brother (accapella) | The Jungle Brothers | Jungle Brother: the Remixes
Les autres oiseaux | Jean Derome | Torticolis ***
Shangri-la | The Kinks | Arthur
Isn't Lonely Lovely | Barbara Manning | 1212
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