Field Recording
6,510works
18,589pressings
1912first year
Works per year
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Format by decade
| Format | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinyl | 59% | 95% | 96% | 89% | 47% | 3% | 6% | 12% | 14% |
| File | · | · | · | · | · | · | 11% | 51% | 52% |
| CD | · | · | · | · | 18% | 69% | 51% | 11% | 10% |
| Cassette | · | · | · | 6% | 31% | 25% | 4% | 12% | 15% |
| CDr | · | · | · | · | · | · | 20% | 11% | 7% |
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Most-pressed works
| Title | Artist | Year | Pressings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. | Slipknot | 1996 | 61 |
| Songs Of The Humpback Whale | Humpback Whale | 1970 | 48 |
| One Stormy Night | The Mystic Moods Orchestra | 1966 | 45 |
| Brian Jones Plays With The Pipes Of Pan At Joujouka | Master Musicians Of Jajouka | 1971 | 34 |
| Musique Du Burundi | Various | 1968 | 30 |
| Ростовские Звоны = Rostov Chimes = Das Rostower Glockengeläute = Les Carillons De Rostov | Various | 1965 | 27 |
| Railroad: Sounds Of A Vanishing Era | No Artist | 1959 | 26 |
| Environments (Totally New Concepts In Sound - Disc 1) | No Artist | 1969 | 26 |
| The Balinese Gamelan: Music From The Morning Of The World | David Lewiston | 25 | |
| Negro Prison Songs From The Mississippi State Penitentiary | Alan Lomax | 1958 | 25 |
| African Sanctus | David Fanshawe | 1973 | 22 |
| The Lure Of The Grand Canyon | Ferde Grofé | 1961 | 19 |
| Environments (New Concepts In Stereo Sound) (Disc 2) | No Artist | 1970 | 19 |
| Musique D'Afrique Occidentale | Mandinka | 1953 | 18 |
| The Medium Is The Massage: With Marshall McLuhan | Marshall McLuhan | 1967 | 18 |
| Playground Psychotics | Frank Zappa | 1992 | 18 |
| Substrata | Biosphere | 1997 | 18 |
| Steam Locomotive Rail Sounds - A Farewell To Steam | No Artist | 1958 | 17 |
| Whales Alive | Paul Winter (2) | 16 | |
| Голоса Птиц В Природе | No Artist | 1961 | 16 |
| Kingdom Of The Sun (Peru's Inca Heritage) | David Lewiston | 1969 | 16 |
| Environments (Totally New Concepts In Stereo Sound - Disc 3) | No Artist | 1971 | 16 |
| Africa - Drum, Chant & Instrumental Music | Steve Jay | 1976 | 16 |
| Rail Dynamics | No Artist | 15 | |
| Echoes Of The Storm | No Artist | 15 |
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Built from the Discogs monthly data dumps (CC0), snapshot 2026-09-01. Counts are of catalogued works and pressings, not of listening.