Neu! · 1975 Spin it Again - Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger spent half the record trying to kill each other and the other half sounding like they invented the next twenty years of music, which they did.

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.