Here's the playlist for 10/20/96
(Those titles with a "#" were donations)
| Artist | Title | Album |
| Gentle Giant | The Runaway / Experience | Playing the Fool |
| The Mistakes | Aye-Aye Monster | The Mistakes |
| Daniel Denis | Sirius | Sirius and the Ghosts |
| John Abercrombie / Marc Johnson / Peter Erskine | Four on One | Abercrombie / Johnson / Erskine |
| Rhesus O | Crier pour donner | Rhesus O |
| Steve Jansen / Richard Barbieri | Swim There | Stone to Flesh |
| Europa String Choir | Sermon on the Mount | The Starving Moon |
| Weather Report | Birdland | Heavy Weather |
| Steve Hahn | Birdland | Stickburst |
| Univers Zero | La faulx | Heresie |
| Dark | Heavy Metal | Dark |
| Doctor Nerve | Spy Boy | Did Sprinting Die? |
| Magma | Ki Ïahl Ö Lïahk | Bruxelles 1971 |
| Arsnova | Kali | # The Goddess of Darkness |
| National Health | Missing Pieces (FEATURED ALBUM) | |
| Paga | Haunted | Haunted |
| Richard Pinhas | Southbound | L'ethique |
| Thinking Plague | The Guardian | In This Life |
| Jim Studnicki | Ensnared | # The Second Day |
| PFS | Raising the Dead | 279 |
| Area | Are(A)zione | Are(A)zione |
| Robert Fripp | 2001 | 1999 |