1996 favorites (best of)
- DJ Shadow - Entroducing...
- instrumental hip-hop, downtempo trip-hop
- Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
- out-rock, post-rock, instrumental indie rock
- Cujo - Adventures In Foam
- jazzy drum-n-bass
- Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things
- intelligent drum-n-bass
- Directions In Music - s/t
- post-rock, instrumental indie rock
- Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
- post-rock
- The Beastie Boys - The In Sound From Way Out!
- instrumental hip-hop, jazz-n-groove
- Gregory Fleckner Quintent - Monkey Boots
- electro-funk, idm
- Gary Moscheles - Shaped to Make Your Life Easier
- electro-funk, idm
- June 0f 44 - Tropics and Meridians
- math-rock, heavy indie rock
- UI - SideLong
- out-rock, post-rock, instrumental indie rock
- HIM - Egg
- out-rock, dub rock
- Roy Montgomery - Temple IV
- drone rock, kranky
- Herbert - 100 Lbs.
- leftfield techno house
- Bowery Electric - Beat
- electronic rock, kranky
- Magnog - Magnog
- drone rock, kranky
- Jake Slazenger - Das Ist Ein Groovy Beat Ja?
- electro-funk
- Jessamine - Long Arm of Coincidence
- synthetic space rock, kranky
- Funki Porcini - Love Pussycates & Carwrecks
- jazzy downtempo trip-hop
- Up, Bustle & Out - One Colour Just Reflects Another
- jazzy downtempo trip-hop
- Trans Am - s/t
- tongue-in-check indie synth rock