- Balanescu Quartet, Michael Nyman: String quartets 1-3 (Argo);
- Bruno Maderna, Satyricon (Montaigne);
- Carcass, Necroticism: Descanting the insalubrious (Earache);
- Chick Corea's Elektric Band, Beneath the mask (GRP);
- Cluster, Apropos Cluster (Curious Music);
- Conrad Schnitzler/Jörg Thomasius, Tolling toggle (Fünf und Vierzig);
- Daniel Denis, Sirius and the ghosts (Musea);
- David Behrman, Leapday night (Lovely Music);
- Diamanda Galas, Plague mass (1984 End of the epidemic) (Mute);
- Dire Straits, On every street (Warner Bros.);
- Guns n'Roses, Use your illusion I (Geffen);
- Guns n'Roses, Use your illusion II (Geffen);
- Joni Mitchell, Night ride home (Geffen);
- Jorge Palma, Só (Philips);
- Julian Cope, Peggy suicide (Island);
- Lindsay Cooper, Music for other occasions (No Man’s Land);
- Maddy Prior, Happy families (Progressive);
- Massive Attack, Blue lines (Virgin);
- Meredith Monk, Book of days (ECM);
- Metallica, Metallica (Vertigo);
- Moondog, Elpmas (Kopf);
- Nirvana, Nevermind (Geffen);
- Pearl Jam, Ten (Epic);
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Signs of life (EG);
- Pixies, Trompe le monde (4AD);
- Prince, Diamonds and pearls (Paisley Park);
- Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blood sugar sex magik (Warner Bros.);
- Richard Thompson, Rumour & sigh (Capitol);
- Rickie Lee Jones, Pop pop (Geffen);
- Robert Wyatt, Dondestan (Rough Trade);
- Salif Keita, Amen (Mango);
- Sepultura, Arise (Roadrunner);
- Swans, White light from the mouth of infinity (Young God);
- Talk Talk, Laughing stock (Polydor);
- This Mortal Coil, Blood (4AD);
- Tuxedomoon, The ghost sonata (Crammed);
- U2, Achtung baby (Island);
- Yellowjackets, Greenhouse (GRP);
- Young Gods (The), Play Kurt Weill (PIAS).