Blue Note Records (Gettin' Around by Dexter Gordon, 1965)
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Capitol Records (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles, 1967)
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DFA Records ("Losing My Edge" b/w "Beat Connection" by LCD Soundsystem, 2002)
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DFA Records (B-side label)
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Drag City Records (Ys by Joanna Newsom, 2006)
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ECM Records (Codona by Collin Walcott, Don Cherry and Nana Vasconcelos, 1980)
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Fania Records (Fania All Stars Live by Fania All Stars, 1978)
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Flying Dutchman Records (Blues and the Soulful Truth by Leon Thomas, 1972)
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Flying Nun Records ("Baby's On Fire" by 3D's, 1992)
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Folkways Records (Folk Music of India by Various Artists, 1950)
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Goner Records (Live at Goner Records by The Reigning Sound, 2005)
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Harvest Records (Meddle by Pink Floyd, 1971)
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Impulse! Records (Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard by John Coltrane, 1962)
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Jagjaguwar (Tramp by Sharon Van Etten, 2012)
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Lebendige Vergangenheit (Preiser Records) (performances by Pawel Lisizian)
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Matador Records (Mother of All Saints by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, 1992)
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Merge Records (Funeral by Arcade Fire, 2005)
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Nonesuch Records (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco, 2002)
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PAN ("Disingenuity" b/w "Disingenuousness" by Keith Fullerton Whitman, 2010)
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Stiff Records (New Boots and Panties!! by Ian Dury, 1977)
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Sublime Frequencies (Guitar El Chark by Omar Khorshid, 2010)
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Sub Pop (Strand by The Spinanes, 1996)
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Sugar Hill Records (Drop the Bomb by Trouble Funk, 1982)
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Verve Records (Norman Granz Jam Session/The Charlie Parker Sides by Charlie Parker with Benny Cater, Johnny Hodges, Ben Webster & Oscar Peterson, 1976)
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Hyperdub (Burial by Burial, 2007)
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ZZK Records (Rio Arriba by Chancha Via Circuito, 2010)
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