| Position | Artist | Album | Label | ||
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| 1 | Luis Ullán | Heart | |||
| 2 | Fist City | Live in Production | 
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| 3 | Salton Sea | This Boat Ain't Big Enough for the Two of Us | Indie |
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| 4 | Huntley Slim | live in studio "A" |
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| 5 | Ray Lugo | We Walk Around Like This | Jazz and Milk | ||
| 6 | Salton Sea | LIve at CKCU | Indie |
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| 7 | Six Organs of Admittance | Ascent | Drag City (2012) | ||
| 8 | Jon Laurie-Beaumont | live in studio "A" |
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| 9 | Lazro / Pauvros / Turner | Curare | No Business Records | ||
| 10 | Muffler Crunch | Little Things | 2012, Independent |
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| 11 | Odium | Burning The Bridges To Nowhere |
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| 12 | The Bills | Yes Please |
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| 13 | Big Boi | MP3 | |||
| 14 | Clayton Doley | Desperate Times | Hi-Fi Doley | ||
| 15 | Evening Hymns | Spectral Dusk |
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| 16 | Guardian Alien | See The World Given To A One Love Entity | Thrill Jockey (02012) | ||
| 17 | Guitar Mikey and The Real Thing | Out Of The Box | Earwig | ||
| 18 | Hannah Georgas | Hannah Georgas | Dine Alone Records |
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| 19 | Ibrahim Maalouf | Diagnostic | Mi'ster | ||
| 20 | Mississippi Heat | Delta Bound | Delmark Records | ||
| 21 | Moonvine | Moonvine | |||
| 22 | Orchestre Poly-Rythmo | Club Cotonou | Sons d'ailleur | ||
| 23 | Rah Rah | The Poet's Dead |
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| 24 | Salton Sea | This Boat Ain'tBig Enough for the Two of Us |
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| 25 | Scythia | For The Bear |
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| 26 | Sonore (Brotzmann / Vandermark / Gustafsson) | Cafe Oto / London | Trost | ||
| 27 | Staff Benda Bilili | Bouger le monde | Crammed | ||
| 28 | Stars | The North | Soft Revolution |
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| 29 | Torch Runner | Committed To The Ground | |||
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Top 10 broadcasts heard on-demand
| Position | Show | Host | Highlight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Free Association | Laurie-Ann Copple | Free Association |
| 2 | Friday Morning Cartunes | John Westhaver | ...lost in space again..... |
| 3 | Drunken Master Review | Drunken Master Review | |
| 4 | Pure Radio Kaos | Bobby M | |
| 5 | Rendez-vous Haïtien | Jafrikayiti | Premye Drapo Ayisyen an te Nwa e Wouj? |
| 6 | A Luta Continua | G.Walker | Gerry Schmitz interviews filmmaker Mads Brugger about "The Ambassador" |
| 7 | The Deep Blue | Jon Degan & VH3 | The Deep Blue celebrates its 11-year birthday party with some trance favourites |
| 8 | Spirit Of Vietnam | Minhtri Truong | Montreal human rights talk - Aug 30, 2012 |
| 9 | Meltdown | Dimitris & Markus | All Hail Ottawa Metal |
| 10 | No Wrong Notes | Chris Vanderwees | Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Lazro / Pauvros / Turner, Sonore (Brotzmann / Vandermark / Gustafsson) |