| 1 | TeamMate | "We Belong" | single | An anthem is a song that gets bigger the more people sing it. |
| 2 | Owen Rabbit | "Kalgoorlie" | One | But the opposite thing, a song that sounds like it maybe couldn't even be sung a second time, is no less heroic. |
| 3 | Gjan | "Wild" | single | We can dance to even the quiet heartbeats. |
| 4 | Natalie McCool | "Cardiac Arrest" | The Great Unknown | We can dance to ourselves, undetectably, as we walk. |
| 5 | Enemy of Reality | "Reflected" | Arakhne | Or we can gallop in on fire-breathing steeds. |
| 6 | Bethlehem | "Wahn schmiedet Sarg" | single | Sometimes art is just the painstaking durable recreation of momentary aghast pain, |
| 7 | Diapsiquir | "Comédie Verticale" | 180° | or a cryptic organization of confusions. |
| 8 | Last Leaf Down | "The Path" | single | Sometimes it's a way of formalizing diffidence, |
| 9 | Murg | "Mästarens resa i mörkret" | single | sometimes a way to abrade obsidian until it can absorb shed blood, |
| 10 | Root | "Life of Demon" | Kärgeräs - Return from Oblivion | sometimes a way to excavate dark resonant chambers under tormented hills. |
| 11 | Burning Point | "Incarnation" | The Blaze | Still, almost everything also has a classic form |
| 12 | Firewind | "Hands of Time" | single | not designed to appeal to anybody but people who already know they love this. |
| 13 | Machinae Supremacy | "My Dragons Will Decimate" | single | Do you already love Swedish j-metal? |
| 14 | Morning Dwell | "At The End Of The Universe" | The Guardians Of Time | What do you think you would mean if you said "no"? |
| 15 | Armored Dawn | "Hino da Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras" | single | You don't have to hate anything else to love Germanic folk-metal from Brazil. |
| 16 | Icon For Hire | "Supposed to Be" | You Can't Kill Us | As a kid, I would flip albums over to see if the credits said whether there were synthesizers or not, |
| 17 | The Gospel Youth | "Pills, Promises & Pure Regret" | single | not because I ever had anything against guitars, but because unpredictable technology always seemed like a portal to unknown realms, |
| 18 | Unicorns Killed My Girlfriend | "Never Let Go" | single | and I wanted to know how people would choose to set their own voluntary boundaries. |
| 19 | Daniel Skye | "No Party" | single | Devices are levers, like any other machine, and you chose what you use each power to move, |
| 20 | Johnny Foreigner | "I Didn't Leave the Pop Punk Life, the Pop Punk Life Left Me" | The X and the O EP 4 | and when the lever's best use is to bash open an old broken thing to see what it has inside. |
| 21 | Hodge | "Body Drive" | Body Drive EP 3 | And this is more true, even if it seems less, of any attempt at even rudimentarily autonomous technology. |
| 22 | Black Sun Empire | "Elusive" | Caterpillar 3 | Or, at least, I think I've thought this more or less since I first saw a spirograph. |
| 23 | Shalt | "Wavering" | Inertia 5 | The artistic act is setting something in motion. |
| 24 | ADR | "Every Node" | Throat | The difference between setting it in motion uphill or downhill, and thus whether there's any sense in which it keeps going without your constant effort, is a question of form. |
| 25 | Throwing Snow | "Cosms" | Cosms +1 | And the question of whether you can tell the difference, from your angle of view, is of course also separate. |
| 26 | Bright Light Bright Light | "Time After Time" | Cinematography 6 | If you're lost, and you look, who is waiting to be found? |
| 27 | Angel Haze | "Resurrection" | single | And who is not waiting for anything? |
| 28 | Draper | "Jealous" | single | And who just wants to dance? |
| 29 | 3LAU | "You Want More" | single | The planet is always spinning. Usually you don't notice, but that doesn't make it spin any slower. |
| 30 | San Holo | "Light" | single | The dizzy feeling when you notice is terrifying, but in the way that terror is the opposite of death. |
| 31 | Protostar | "Echoes of the Past" | single | The essences of this ride are the constant subjective inevitability of being flung out into space, |
| 32 | Kura | "TORA" | single | and our collections of the books of spells that we ardently believe are the magic that holds us to the ground. |
| 33 | Josh Garrels | "The Light Came Down" | The Light Came Down | And who knows, it's not like we have ever lived here without them. |
| 34 | Waa Wei | "一萬個不回頭的方法" | 末路狂花 | And if other people seem to have different books, maybe they're just loose translations. |
| 35 | Immanu El | "Winter Solstice" | Hibernation | Look back, after you've been flung off, and it's all pretty clearly one single tiny ball of grinding rock |
| 36 | Witchery | "Lavey-athan" | In His Infernal Majesty's Service | in a one-sided war with its own surface. |
| 37 | Celldweller | "New Elysium - Celldweller VIP" | New Elysium 2 | Which, if nothing else, is pretty to watch flare across the nightside. |
| 38 | Dan Bull | "Red Dead Resentment" | Red Dead Resentment +1 | Some things are serious, some trivial. |
| 39 | Borislav Slavov | "Run and Reload" | single | From space, they're all just flickering lights. |
| 40 | Le Roi | "Ek kan Nie Wag" | single | One creature's endangered home planet is another creature's disco ball, |
| 41 | Clayton Anderson | "Only To Borrow" | Only To Borrow 6 | so mistaking ourselves as special is not just a survival instinct, it's how we lasted even this long. |
| 42 | Jordan Gray | "Platinum" | single | All of these layers are frivolous and shiny and heartbreakingly thin. |
| 43 | Linnea Olsson | "Weekend" | single | As we are too underneath. |
| 44 | Farväl till ungdomen | "En vinternatt" | single | And yet we find reasons to mark the rotations during which we still cling here. |
| 45 | Tommy Nilsson | "Ljudlöst och salt" | single | The opposites of relentless entropy are sentimental melancholy |
| 46 | Gackt | "Belong to You" | Belong to You +2 | and defiant solipsism |
| 47 | Red Cell | "The Ladder" | single | and ominous anticipation of anything other than decay. |
| 48 | The Algorithm | "idle" | Brute Force: Overclock 4 | We claim this disintegration as destruction, |
| 49 | Einherjer | "Dreamstorm" | Dragons of the North XX | and these irresistible monsters as agents of our wills |
| 50 | Tengger Cavalry | "Galloping Steeds" | Sunesu Cavalry | and auteurs of our wardrobes. |
| 51 | Smiler | "Bless My Soul" | All I Know | All accents are human accents. |
| 52 | Plastician | "Hard Kore" | Straight Outta Croydon EP 2 | Boundaries clearly visible in daylight |
| 53 | Yungen | "Cuffing Season" | single | come alive and tangle with shadows |
| 54 | Shystie | "Heat Fm 96.6" | single | and become other ways to traverse open spaces |
| 55 | VIXX | "Badbye" | VIXX 2016 CONCEPTION KER Special Package | and end up on some other spaces' other sides; |
| 56 | UP10TION | "Stuck On You" | BURST 6 | become alchemy for extracting one metabolism's nutrients from another metabolism's candy shell; |
| 57 | Patryk Scelina | "Revelations" | The Realm of Wonders | resolve into definitive translucence |
| 58 | Dune Rats | "Scott Green" | single | and helpless certainty. |
| 59 | Nas | "Wrote My Way Out" | single | The difference between immitation and innovation is just order. |
| 60 | Pavel Dovgal | "Floating Beams" | The Aura | The difference between foreground and background is just order. |
| 61 | No! Not the Bees! | "Datamosh" | High Spirits 6 | The difference between decadence and revolution is just order. |
| 62 | Måns Zelmerlöw | "Glorious" | single | We are all international whether we sing so or not. |
| 63 | Kelemen Kabátban | "Felkel A Város" | single | All our idioms are tactics for hiding this temporarily from ourselves. |
| 64 | Odett | "Kétszer Kettő" | single | There's no way to explain your own issues to somebody else without them sounding at least halfway ridiculous. |
| 65 | Algar | "New Road" | Chiptunes on Steroids | There's a very simple reason for this effect: we are ridiculous by mere conception. |
| 66 | Atrey | "Honeymoon (feat. Zagami Jericho)" | single | We hold this truth to be self-evident, and then we play a game in which we pretend to forget. |
| 67 | Dronny Darko | "Three Rulers" | Spira Igneus | But everything else remembers. |
| 68 | Eruca Sativa | "Confundiste" | Barro y Fauna | We pretend not to be quietly equal, like we are each of us louder than everybody else. |
| 69 | Allie X | "ALEXANDRA" | single | "Society" is our system for taking concurrent turns at this. |
| 70 | The A.M. Experiment | "Empty House Filled with Memories Haunting Me, Pt. 2" | Ex Nihilo | Serenity is realizing that the resulting cacophony isn't obscuring beauty, it's illuminating it, |
| 71 | Eternal Idol | "Is the Answer Far from God?" | single | and that writing abstruse commentary in the margins channels the same impulses as holding torches to the pages in order to read them in better light. |
| 72 | Music For Cats | "Black Cat Friday" | single | Who you say you're singing for is part of your song. |
| 73 | Heuning | "Vandag" | single | But when you sing it, you let it go. |
| 74 | Chiral | "Voodoo" | single | What you put together, be assured someone else will earnestly disassemble. |
| 75 | Felin | "Destruction Therapy" | FELIN - EP 6 | Progress isn't linear. Progress isn't even measured in the same dimensions that describe the actions. |
| 76 | Balbina | "Die Regenwolke" | single | You can revoke a law, but you can't get back history the way it was before you lost. |
| 77 | TP4Y | "Lovecation" | single | You can walk away, but you can't unfall out of any of the loves that made you. |