Here's the playlist for 8/9/97
(Those titles with a "#" were donations)
| Artist | Title | Album | Label |
| Magma | "Iss" Lanseï Doïa | 1001 Degrees Centigrades | Seventh |
| Boud Deun | Neither | # Astronomy Made Easy | Cuneiform |
| Bill Bruford's Earthworks | Emotional Shirt | Earthworks | E'G |
| National Health | The Collapso | Complete [National Health] | ESD |
| Ruins | Stone Eater | Hyderomastgroningem | Tzadik |
| Deus ex Machina | Si tu bene valeas ego bene valeo | ProgFest '95 | Musea |
| Jordan Rudess / Rod Morgenstein | Odd Man Out | # Rudess Morgenstein Project | Domo Records |
| Michael Shrieve | Bella Coola | Stiletto | Novus |
| Michael Zentner | Parts | Present Time | Ozone |
| Gentle Giant | Mister Class and Quality? / Three Friends | Three Friends | Columbia |
| Can | Halleluhwah | Tago Mago | Spoon |
| Frank Zappa | The Black Page (new age version) | Make a Jazz Noise Here | Barking Pumpkin |
| Art Zoyd | Alléluia | Marathonnerre I | Atonal |
| Peter Gabriel | Mercy Street | So | Geffen |
| David Torn | Egg Learns to Walk | Cloud about Mercury | ECM |
| Ange | Au-delà du délire (FEATURED ALBUM) | Philips | |
| P.F.M. | Pictures of a City / Bollate Guitar Jam / Bollate Keyboard Jam | 10 Anni Live 1971-1981 (disc one) | RTI |
| Industrial Soup | Half a Baker's Dozen | # A Flagrant Display of Subtlety | independent |
| Lacrymosa | Welscher Tanz "Wascha mesa" | Joy of the Wrecked Ship | SSE |
| Robby Aceto | Shane Heads for the Immaculate Mountains | # Alchemical Samplings 1996 [Code] | Alchemy |
| Happy Family | Rolling the Law Court | Happy Family | Cuneiform |
| X-Legged Sally | Charge | The Land of the Giant Dwarfs | Bang!Productions |
| Doctor Nerve | Our Soldiers Are Soft as Babies, and They Squander Their Stipends A-Whoring | Beta 14 ok | Cuneiform |
| Andrew Art | The Waltz of Hopelessness | # True Move | independent |
| Present | Samana | Le poison qui rend fou | Cuneiform |
| Brian Gingrich | Winter's Blue Arc | # Anxious Days and Forty Nights | independent |
| Patrick Moraz / Bill Bruford | Hazy | Music for Piano and Drums | E'G |
| Richard Pinhas | Last Coda from the Western Wail | Live, Paris 1982 | Cuneiform |
| Shadowfax | Song for My Brother | Watercourse Way | Lost Lake Arts |