| 1 | 071 NELLY THE MASTER BEAT | "Ong'costile" | single | They have strange beats, sometimes, these songs you come across when you get to hear things |
| 2 | Dominowe | "Uswazi" | State of Mind | that are not from where you're from, |
| 3 | Guiss Guiss Bou Bess | "Tik Tik" | single | but mostly the people from there are symmetrical and hopeful, too |
| 4 | General C'mamane | "Burning Bridges" | single | and thus you can always pretty much bounce. |
| 5 | Agreement. | "LETLO MOTOPA KGOLE" | single | Eventually your periodicity and the song's will align, for a moment or a blissful eternity. |
| 6 | Tsa Manyalo | "Ayanda Tsa Manyalo (Kego nyaka sehubeng)" | single | The gift of generous dance music is that you only move, |
| 7 | Maredi Maredi | "Ditxuwana gadi etelane" | Bjang Kapa Bjang | and your simple willingness becomes part of a complex ritual. |
| 8 | Smiso Khumalo sa | "Umjolo uyanyisa" | I Automatic voice | Dance like you agree, undaunted by the always-real possibility that the song's affirmation will turn out to be "The millet is disgusting", |
| 9 | Ntencane | "Unyaka Nonyaka" | Isivulwe Yonke | not "time after time". |
| 10 | abafana baka mgqumeni | "Isiyoyoyo" | single | At least we have millet, |
| 11 | Aphiwe | "Imibuzo" | Imibuzo | and questions. |
| 12 | QHUBINJA | "Foreva Yena" | single | In another timeline, I think, it isn't Paul Simon who brings Soweto to America in the 80s, |
| 13 | Mfanomhlophe | "Ung`Jutheleni" | single | it's Woody Guthrie, walking through the townships in the 1950s, singing "This Land Is Your Land", |
| 14 | 071 NELLY THE MASTER BEAT | "Tobetsa" | single | and maybe with a 30-year-earlier start, |
| 15 | Bongeziwe Mabandla | "sisahleleleni (i)" | amaXesha | African dance music would have been here before streaming, before everything is everywhere |
| 16 | Zap Mama | "Day by Day" | single | and thus inevitably in the shadows of K-pop and reggaeton. |
| 17 | Derya | "STATÜ" | single | Maybe in this history, Marie Daulne brings American new wave from New York to Kinshasa, and Turkish Hip Hop from Izmir to Brussels, |
| 18 | Ona Mafalda | "Respirar" | Ona | and then by the 2010s you'd be just as likely to find English Bulgarian royalty at a Boston music college. |
| 19 | SunKissed Lola | "Paki Sabi" | single | We have bass guitars everywhere by now, because there's this low space in our hearts, |
| 20 | Aiyana | "Space" | single | and the Tagalog pop-punk bands don't think they have to sound British, |
| 21 | Shit Present | "Cram the Page" | What Still Gets Me | but the British ones still sound like Sleeper. |
| 22 | Teenage Joans | "Superglue" | single | Who listens to these songs and thinks "if only AI could make this easier?" |
| 23 | Skating Polly | "I'm Sorry For Always Apologizing" | single | Four chords and eight notes or whatever: |
| 24 | Petal | "YOU REALLY LOVE ME" | single | you don't need a large language model for this, |
| 25 | BLOXX | "Happy Anniversary (To Being Lonely)" | single | you just need to want to bounce. |
| 26 | Poppy | "Spit" | Spit +1 | We're even happy when we're angry, |
| 27 | North Atlantic Oscillation | "Clock" | United Wire | tangled in precessive wires, |
| 28 | fish narc | "it burns" | single | retracing forgotten steps. |
| 29 | Ryan Oakes | "GROUND ZERO" | single | Sometimes the drums just tick, and it's the voice that hits the beats; |
| 30 | Fayence Dream | "Bombastic" | Shrinking Violet | sometimes they explode. |
| 31 | Fat Nick | "Songs on the Radio" | single | There's a line from "Just What I Needed" to "Closing Time" to the next horizon, |
| 32 | Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness | "Last Rites" | single | and it passes through every point on this plane |
| 33 | House of Harm | "Taste the Light" | single | in a labyrinthine ecstasy of reference and anticipation. |
| 34 | PJ North | "Not Want To" | single | The Columbus pop-punk bands aren't afraid of Memphis or Denton, |
| 35 | Bright Light Bright Light | "Boys Etc." | single | and the Welsh NYC disco orchestras fit into your hand. |
| 36 | Darin | "Starkare" | single | Walk along a quay, |
| 37 | Strange Ranger | "She's on Fire" | She's On Fire 2 | wary of the luminous dust you disturb. |
| 38 | Graywave | "Cycle" | Cycle +1 | One day that will be you, |
| 39 | Breakfast for Dinner | "Tell Me Something" | single | a layer of possibility over timeless stone, |
| 40 | The Differential | "Hennessy - 1 Take Version" | single | willing to wait but willing to be lifted. |
| 41 | Snow Strippers | "Again" | April Mixtape 3 | What if the AI could hear these songs from inside our dreams, |
| 42 | BLÜ EYES | "Olive" | The Last Songs I'll Write About You | and all we have to do is want to hear them? |
| 43 | Miki Ratsula | "what would the neighbors think?" | what would the neighbors think? +1 | There's always a way to convince yourself that you yearn impatiently for release: |
| 44 | CXLOE | "Flight Risk" | single | from feeling too young |
| 45 | MILCK | "Closer" | Closer +1 | or too unnamed, |
| 46 | Christia Visser | "Chocolate Sigarette" | single | from the meticulous logic of temptation |
| 47 | ISLA LAVANDA | "Fin De Una Generación" | single | or its unraveling strength, |
| 48 | Chica Sobresalto | "La Monogamia" | single | from fragility |
| 49 | Muro María | "Lejos" | Lejos +3 | or monument. |
| 50 | Mœnia | "Llámame Si Me Necesitas" | Stereo Hits Vol. 2 | The 80s never ended, |
| 51 | Pipiolas | "San Peter" | San Peter +1 | but nothing ever ends. |
| 52 | Aiko el grupo | "Toro" | single | We will eventually manage to make a robot that feels real when you kiss it, |
| 53 | Hey Zuri | "Trotamons Salvatges" | Miratge 6 | and when you push it away, writes a song about taking you back. |
| 54 | Anabel Lee | "Me das asco" | single | Send it out on tour, |
| 55 | Daeria | "El Alquimista" | Morfeo | so the other robots can see what it feels like to confuse yourself with your skin. |
| 56 | Lumsk | "En Harmoni" | Fremmede Toner | Woody gets back from South Africa and heads north into Norway in search of trolls, |
| 57 | Sammary | "Cascades" | single | into lands that do not exist to be claimed. |
| 58 | Tulip | "Black Rainbow" | The Perpetual Dream | We rise up, |
| 59 | Shattered Vessels | "Beautiful Lies" | single | and then there we are, standing, |
| 60 | Delta | "The Tower" | single | at the black gates. |
| 61 | Crown Solace | "Dangerous Eyes" | single | They just unlatch. |
| 62 | Nereids | "Flying to the Sun" | single | We had problems with feral pigs, and we always liked ironwork. |
| 63 | MistoriA | "SANDGLASS" | CURSE 6 | There's no dark empire, |
| 64 | Metamorph | "Spellbound" | Spellbound Empress 6 | but we always kind of wanted one, too, |
| 65 | The Spectre Beneath | "Forsaken... We All Fall" | single | so we wrote some of its songs. |
| 66 | Friendship Commanders | "Fail" | Fail +1 | We have plenty of millet. |
| 67 | Cyan Kicks | "I Never Said 4ever" | I Never Said 4ever | Too much, really. We ordered some at the beginning of Covid, |
| 68 | Halocene | "Maleficent" | Maleficent 6 | and confused boxes with cases, and you can only eat a little of it at a time. |
| 69 | Barbe-Q-Barbies | "Come Back" | single | You can't chew any faster with AI. |
| 70 | How We End | "Levitate" | single | Superfoods, supergroups: |
| 71 | VENUES | "Haunted House" | Haunted House +2 | terrible biographies you write yourself like you imagine you want to be adored. |
| 72 | Scarlet Aura | "Îngeri și demoni" | Rock în sânge și voință | You don't need to understand Romanian to tell that this is a metal band. |
| 73 | Once There Was | "Kom Nu" | Kom Nu +1 | Ironwork, vines: |
| 74 | Pagan Throne | "Mourning Night" | single | metonymy for entwined belief. |
| 75 | Winterstorm | "The Phoenix Died (Remember)" | The Phoenix Died (Remember) +2 | Marching is the self-conscious version of bouncing, |
| 76 | Horn | "Höhen" | 20 | and you learn something about yourself when you find out which one you're embarrassed to do while you're being watched. |
| 77 | Kostnatění | "Rukojmí empatie" | single | The reverent evocation of evil |
| 78 | Spirit Adrift | "I Shall Return" | single | is an allegorical alternative to millions of actual people living as foes. |
| 79 | Stormburst | "Peace Of Mind" | single | We find the robot standing in the hallway, looking at itself in the mirror, |
| 80 | Tygers Of Pan Tang | "Light of Hope" | Bloodlines | one hand tracing spherical figures at its side. |
| 81 | Winger | "Heaven's Falling" | Seven | There are schools that will teach you the fifth, sixth and seventh chords, |
| 82 | Gloryhammer | "Holy Flaming Hammer of Unholy Cosmic Frost" | Holy Flaming Hammer of Unholy Cosmic Frost +1 | but we've heard a millions songs with those already, too. |
| 83 | CALETWOLF | "ASTRAY" | ASTRAY +1 | The shadows of K-pop and reggaeton are projections of the light from your eyes, |
| 84 | Finally | "tou" | single | and thus will confirm any canon you choose to love: |
| 85 | JIEMEI | "DigDigDig" | single | bright swords, |
| 86 | 燐舞曲 | "-World Etude-" | - 茈 - 4 | anti-gravity fields, |
| 87 | SATORI MONSTER | "Colors" | single | glorious ensemble finales. |
| 88 | Lion net girl | "TONIGHT" | single | You can make an idol group out of a math-rock band and four girls who can't sing, |
| 89 | husky | "goddess" | Disloser/goddess 2 | but they're symmetrical and hopeful, |
| 90 | 楠木 ともり | "それを僕は強さと呼びたい" | single | and devotion to designated symbols |
| 91 | nolala | "marrie" | i my me mine | is a way to organize our yearning. |
| 92 | LOT SPiRiTS | "rainy" | single | This machine also kills fascists |
| 93 | The Otals | "そしてチャイナブルー(UMBG)" | single | in a billowing blur of smoke and blood |
| 94 | BLUE ENCOUNT | "有罪布告" | single | by dispersing allegiance without assigning power. |
| 95 | kanon | "Wherever we are" | single | You don't need a billion parameters to infer the next chord |
| 96 | Maki | "pulse" | single | when there are only four to choose from, |
| 97 | BLACK GROW BERRY | "SAKURA" | single | and the one you pick becomes correct. |
| 98 | Earthists. | "Hyperhell" | single | We feed the AI Marvin Gaye and Ed Sheeran, and then stand back and wait to sue. |
| 99 | Manntra | "Morana" | single | There's a business model in this, |
| 100 | ASP | "Ich, der Teufel und du" | Ich, der Teufel und du +3 | or a morality tale. |
| 101 | Vintersea | "Devil's Churn" | Woven Into Ashes | Sometimes the bounce is more of a sway, |
| 102 | Wounds of Recollection | "You Were Never Loved" | You Were Never Loved +1 | a thrashing in near-darkness that renders loneliness as triumphalism |
| 103 | Blackbraid | "Moss Covered Bones on the Altar of the Moon" | single | until your flailing empty hand hits another. |
| 104 | Rise to the Sky | "Funeral For My Home" | single | What if the AI stopped trying to fill the empty space in front of each of us, |
| 105 | Ingrina | "Ice Flares" | single | and instead poured its love into the fissures that divide us: |
| 106 | Heretoir | "At Dusk" | At Dusk +2 | from each other, |
| 107 | Blissful Euphoria | "Celestial Melancholy" | single | from the void, |
| 108 | Forgotten. | "In A Constant State Of Pain Part 1" | Forgive Me Please | from joy. |
| 109 | Boris | "You Are the Beginning" | single | You are the beginning. |
| 110 | Minas Morgul | "Inter Stellas" | single | You are watched by chattering idiot gods |
| 111 | Omega Virus | "THOUSAND YARD STARE" | THOUSAND YARD STARE +2 | who will try to finish your sandwiches. |
| 112 | Violet Cold | "Fluorescence" | single | Woody died before loop pedals and reverb models. |
| 113 | Driigomes | "Dreamtime" | The Neverending 4 | Dance like you are being shown a revelatory truth |
| 114 | The Ephemeron Loop | "Lattice Dysmorphism of Lysothymic Oneiroid" | Psychonautic Escapism | in an inscrutable encoding, |
| 115 | Secret Archives of the Vatican | "Járnviðr" | single | and now you know for certain that we can be redeemed, |
| 116 | William Brittelle | "Psychedelics: I. Deep Blue (You Beat Me)" | Rough Magic | but no component of how. |
| 117 | Gyllene Tider | "Gyllene Tider igen" | Gyllene Tider igen +1 | It's probably guitars. |
| 118 | RinRin | "All The Things She Said" | single | It's probably words we've already said a hundred times, and heard a thousand. |
| 119 | Def Leppard | "Hysteria" | Drastic Symphonies 2 | We have to know that we're alone tonight, |
| 120 | Kadmium | "Tell It To My Heart - Metal Cover Version" | single | but that we're the only ones. |
| 121 | Rain Paris | "Villain" | single | We try to solve isolation with enmity, |
| 122 | UMC | "Remedy" | Remedy +3 | but at least we have each other. |
| 123 | PelleK | "Kizuna no Kiseki (From "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba") - Full Japanese Version" | single | And millet. |