Harry Partch · 1952 Spin it Again - Harry Partch built his own instruments just to make sounds Western tuning wouldn't allow, and this is the record where that stubbornness finally had somewhere to go.

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.

Fiona Apple · 2012 Spin it Again - Fiona Apple alone in a room with her piano and her demons, and she won.

Sun Ra · 1963 Spin it Again - Sun Ra in 1963, before most people had a framework for what he was doing, pointing a microphone at the part of the room where the sound goes to die.

Oneohtrix Point Never · 2011 Spin it Again - Daniel Lopatin ran infomercials and mall ambience through a shredder in 2011 and came out the other side with something that actually felt like memory.

Grouper · 2008 Spin it Again - Liz Harris recorded this in her bedroom and somehow made fog sound like grief.

Julia Holter · 2008 Spin it Again - Julia Holter at nineteen, before anyone was paying attention, which is usually when the interesting thing happens.