Florine Stettheimer · 2005 Spin it Again - This is what happens when a painter writes an opera — the wit is visible even in the staff paper.

Jan Garbarek · 2006 Spin it Again - Garbarek proves that restraint can be the loudest statement.

Jan Garbarek · 2009 Spin it Again - He took his saxophone to the edges of the earth, brought back the wind, and asked a string quartet to hold still long enough to hear it.

Jon Balke · 2008 Spin it Again - This is what happens when a jazz pianist listens to Eastern European folk music in a studio designed by the ECM house engineer.

Kasai Allstars · 2000 Spin it Again - Congolese guitar music so unhurried it rewrites what groove actually means.

Konono No. 1 · 2004 Spin it Again - They plugged thumb pianos into homemade amps and accidentally invented the future of percussion.

Kayo Dot · 2004 Spin it Again - A band that decided metal could contain violin passages without sacrificing heaviness, and built an album so structurally weird it still sounds like nothing else.

Diamanda Galas · 2003 Spin it Again - A 2003 record from Diamanda Galas that rewards close listening.

Jarboe · 2003 Spin it Again - A 2003 record from Jarboe that rewards close listening.

Laurens Dommett · 2008 Spin it Again - A man alone with his guitar and a voice that sounds like it's breaking mid-sentence, building minor-key songs that refuse to grow beyond their own loneliness.

Susana Baca · 2002 Spin it Again - She spent decades in the Peruvian highlands collecting songs and stories; this album is what happens when those become personal.

David Byrne & Brian Eno · 2001 Spin it Again - A 3 a.m. conversation between a nervous system and a city, recorded in New York the year everything changed.

Ryoji Ikeda · 2005 Spin it Again - A 40-minute composition built entirely from frequencies below perception, where silence and signal trade places like they're arguing about what music actually is.

Fennesz · 2001 Spin it Again - He took a guitar and a laptop and made something that sounds like neither, or like both singing in a language not yet invented.

Fennesz & Ryoji Ikeda · 2004 Spin it Again - An Austrian guitarist and a Japanese composer made an album where texture and mathematics finally stopped arguing.

Cristian Fennesz · 2001 Spin it Again - An Austrian guitarist spent months feeding his Strat through Max/MSP in a Tokyo studio, and walked out with one of the most patient and precise ambient records ever made.

Alva Noto · 2006 Spin it Again - Ryoji Ikeda processes sound like a lab processes specimens—isolate, measure, degrade, listen to what remains.

Ryoji Ikeda · 2006 Spin it Again - Ryoji Ikeda proves that data makes sound better than most musicians make music.

William Basinski · 2004 Spin it Again - A 2004 record from William Basinski that rewards close listening.

Carsten Nicolai · 2003 Spin it Again - Carsten Nicolai made an album from sine waves and mathematical ratios, proving that beauty and precision are not opposites.