Stevie Wonder · 1973 Spin it Again - He played the clavinet like it was a typewriter and the Moog like it was a gospel choir.

Masayuki Takayanagi · 1975 Spin it Again - Solo guitar improvisation from 1975 that remains one of the most radical statements in free music — recorded in one take with a prepared guitar and a telephone ringing somewhere in the distance.

Faust · 1973 Spin it Again - A band from Wümme signed to Virgin, followed by a guy in a big coat, and made an album that sounds like a machine learning to play folk songs.

Amon Düül II · 1970 Spin it Again - They recorded three sides of wild improvisation and one side of restrained folk, then called it Yeti.

Can · 1972 Spin it Again - Jaki Liebezeit played his drums like he was programming a machine years before anyone had invented one.

Can · 1971 Spin it Again - Damo Suzuki sang in a language he invented on the spot, Jaki Liebezeit played drums like a human sequencer, and the whole thing was recorded in a medieval castle with a Grundig tape machine. That’s the kind of album you turn up at midnight.

Al Di Meola · 1977 Spin it Again - He was twenty-two, recording at Electric Lady, and he brought Steve Gadd, Anthony Jackson, Jan Hammer, and Paco De Lucia into one room. The tape never stood a chance.

Mahavishnu Orchestra · 1973 Spin it Again - Five men in a London studio played so hard the tape almost melted.

Return to Forever · 1976 Spin it Again - Four virtuosos, no overdubs, sounding like a fantasy movie that never existed.

Toru Takemitsu · 1977 Spin it Again - Takemitsu dreamed a garden with five sides and wrote the quietest masterpiece of the 1970s.

Alvin Lucier · 1970 Spin it Again - Alvin Lucier sat in his living room, pressed record, and let his own voice dissolve into the architecture — it is the most beautiful proof ever captured that every room has a song.

John Martyn · Spin it Again - A timeless record from John Martyn that rewards close listening.

Bill Evans · 1975 Spin it Again - A 1975 record from Bill Evans that rewards close listening.

The Waites Ensemble · 1974–1976 Spin it Again - Mid-seventies Decca chamber recordings that sound like the musicians are breathing in the same room with you—no tricks, no compression, just tape running at the right speed.

Alvin Lucier · 1970 Spin it Again - A 1970 record from Alvin Lucier that rewards close listening.

Al Green · 1975 Spin it Again - Al Green and Willie Mitchell made songs so economical they sound like they recorded themselves.

Marvin Gaye · 1976 Spin it Again - Marvin Gaye recording in a Belgian castle to avoid the IRS, making an album so sensual it stalled on radio.

Hans-Joachim Roedelius · 1980 Spin it Again - Roedelius made albums that punish casual listening and reward total attention—this is the one that changed how European composers thought about silence.

Jon Hassell · 1978 Spin it Again - A 1978 record from Jon Hassell that rewards close listening.

Weather Report · 1978 Spin it Again - Narada Michael Walden produced Weather Report into a hypnotic space where synthesizers and fretless bass circled each other like dancers who knew exactly where the other was going.