Autechre · 2001 Spin it Again - Sean Booth and Rob Brown in 2001, just after they'd decided grids were for other people.

Brian Eno · 1978 Spin it Again - Four tape loops running at different lengths, and somewhere in the spaces between them, Eno quietly ended the idea that music had to demand your attention.

Autechre · 1997 Spin it Again - Autechre in a BBC studio in 1997, running out the kind of corroded, patient machine-music that makes you realize the grid they were working from had already been folded into something you couldn't quite see.

Fennesz · 2001 Spin it Again - Fennesz ran Beach Boys records through a laptop until the guitars turned to static and the static turned back into something that almost felt like a summer you can't quite remember.

Herbie Hancock · 1973 Spin it Again - Herbie Hancock walked out of Miles Davis's band and into a funk club, and nobody who was there that night ever fully recovered.

Bill Evans · 1959 Spin it Again - Bill Evans in 1959, playing piano like he was working something out privately and just forgot to close the door.

Miles Davis · 1970 Spin it Again - Miles Davis walked into the studio in 1970 with electric guitars and a couple of drummers and just refused to explain himself.

Miles Davis · 1969 Spin it Again - Miles Davis turned the volume down so low in 1969 that you had to lean in, and once you did, you couldn't hear anything else the same way again.

Tinariwen · 2017 Spin it Again - Saharan blues recorded in the Mojave Desert with Kurt Vile sitting in, and somehow it sounds exactly like it should.

Oneohtrix Point Never · 2010 Spin it Again - Lopatin was still deep in the tape loop era here, and you can hear him figuring out that nostalgia is most effective when it sounds like it's dissolving.

Talk Talk · 1991 Spin it Again - Mark Hollis walked away from everything that made Talk Talk famous and came back with something that sounds like a room breathing.

Leon Thomas · 1973 Spin it Again - Leon Thomas yodeling over spiritual jazz like he's trying to contact something the rest of us stopped believing in a long time ago.

Pharoah Sanders · 1994 Spin it Again - Pharoah Sanders in his sixties, still finding the part of the tenor saxophone that sounds like it's coming from somewhere you can't quite name.

Alice Coltrane · 1971 Spin it Again - Alice Coltrane buried her husband two years before this and came back with a harp, a tambura, and a swami, and somehow that's the least strange thing about it.

Steely Dan · 1974 Spin it Again - Fagen and Becker figured out that jazz could be smug and it still sounds like a Tuesday night that went somewhere unexpected.

Donald Fagen · 1982 Spin it Again - Donald Fagen cashed out his Steely Dan ticket and spent it all on one quiet, fluorescent-lit night in 1982 that still sounds like it knows something you don't.

Steely Dan · 1977 Spin it Again - Fagen and Becker hired the best session players in Los Angeles and then made them feel slightly inadequate.

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

Boards of Canada · 2002 Spin it Again - Boards of Canada found the frequency where childhood memory starts to curdle and stayed there for seventy-one minutes.

Broadcast · 2005 Spin it Again - Trish Keenan and James Cargill stripped the band down to just the two of them and came out the other side with something that sounds like a transmission from a frequency nobody else bothered to find.