Pharoah Sanders · 1974 Spin it Again - Pharoah Sanders in '74, still chasing that frequency Coltrane pointed at, and some nights he actually touches it.

Karlheinz Stockhausen · 1971 Spin it Again - Stockhausen in 1971, still convinced that sound itself was the argument, and honestly, after an hour of this, you start to think he was right.

Brian Eno · 1978 Spin it Again - Four sides of tape loops and held piano notes that made waiting somewhere feel like the only reasonable thing a person could do.

Kraftwerk · 1974 Spin it Again - Kraftwerk in 1974, still half-human, building the machines that would eventually replace them.

Kraftwerk · 1978 Spin it Again - Four Germans in Düsseldorf decided machines were more honest than people, and turned out to be right.

Kraftwerk · 1977 Spin it Again - Four Germans in 1977 decided that the future sounded like train windows and chrome, and the rest of electronic music has spent fifty years trying to catch up.

LaSalle Quartet · 1975 Spin it Again - Four string quartets spanning Schoenberg's entire arc, played by four Germans in 1974 who had no interest in making it easier on you.

Joni Mitchell · 1972 Spin it Again - She wrote these songs alone in the Canadian wilderness and it shows in the best possible way.

Joni Mitchell · 1971 Spin it Again - She sat down at a piano in 1971 and decided to just say the whole thing, and nobody's really recovered from it since.

Joni Mitchell · 1974 Spin it Again - Joni Mitchell figured out that jazz musicians could make pop songs feel like they were falling apart in exactly the right places, and then she proved it.

Herbie Hancock · 1974 Spin it Again - Hancock took the electric funk he was building on Head Hunters and tightened every screw until there was almost no room left to breathe, which is exactly the point.

Pharoah Sanders · 1974 Spin it Again - Pharoah Sanders in 1974, still chasing something cosmic but letting the silence do more of the work this time.

Sun Ra · 1973 Spin it Again - Sun Ra decided the cosmos needed a bandleader and nobody in 1973 had a convincing argument against it.

Fleetwood Mac · 1975 Spin it Again - Buckingham and Nicks walked in off the street and the band immediately sounded like they'd been waiting for them the whole time.

Fleetwood Mac · 1979 Spin it Again - Lindsey Buckingham blew a $1 million recording budget making something that sounded like it was recorded in a parking garage, and he was right to do it.

Fleetwood Mac · 1977 Spin it Again - Four people actively falling apart held it together just long enough to cut something that still sounds like it knows something you don't.

Keith Jarrett · 1975 Spin it Again - Keith Jarrett sat down at a bad piano in Cologne with no plan and played for an hour, and it turns out that was enough.

Arvo Pärt · 1978 Spin it Again - Pärt stripped piano and violin down to the kind of silence that makes you realize most music is just noise filling a room.

Weather Report · 1975 Spin it Again - Zawinul spent 1975 making jazz feel like it had somewhere to be, and for once it did.

Harmonia · 1974 Spin it Again - Roedelius, Moebius, and Rother locked into something so unhurried and machine-calm that forty years later producers are still trying to get back there.