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Jun 7
Archangel
Burial · 2011 Spin it Again - A 2011 record from Burial that rewards close listening.
genre:Electronic
Jun 7
Four Saints in Three Acts
Virgil Thomson · 1934 Spin it Again - Virgil Thomson set Gertrude Stein's word-mush to American hymns and called it an opera. It works because they refused to explain it.
genre:Modern Classical
Jun 7
Forgotten Operas
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.
genre:Classical
Jun 7
Innocents
Moby · 2013 Spin it Again - Moby surrendered the spotlight and made something smaller, which made it infinitely larger.
genre:Downtempo
Jun 7
always centered at night (quiet home: remixes dj mix)
Moby · 2023 Spin it Again - Moby proved his melodies never needed percussion in the first place; these remixes are the proof.
decade:2020s
Jun 7
Selected Ambient Works 85–92
Aphex Twin · 1992 Spin it Again - A teenager with a sampler, a four-track, and no idea he was inventing a genre.
genre:Techno
Jun 7
Danzindan-Pojidon
Inoyama Land · 1983 Spin it Again - This album sounds like a memory of a garden that never quite existed.
genre:Electronic
Jun 7
Music for Nine Post Cards
Hiroshi Yoshimura · 1982 Spin it Again - Japanese environmental music that makes Eno sound like he was trying too hard.
decade:1980s
Jun 7
Still Way
Satoshi Ashikawa · 1982 Spin it Again - A piano in a room with the windows open, recorded as the air itself moved through the space — this is what ambient music sounds like when it treats silence as an instrument.
decade:1980s
Jun 7
Green
Hiroshi Yoshimura · 1986 Spin it Again - He designed sound for Japanese corporations and then made this album in his living room with no budget — and it sounds like a forest waking up.
decade:1980s
Jun 6
Visible World
Jan Garbarek · 1995 Spin it Again - A record that sounds like dawn breaking over a frozen fjord, where every note has room to breathe.
genre:World Fusion
Jun 6
Neighbourhood
Jan Garbarek · 2006 Spin it Again - Garbarek proves that restraint can be the loudest statement.
genre:World Fusion
Jun 6
Rites
Jan Garbarek · 1998 Spin it Again - A double album that proves restraint is the most powerful instrument in the room.
genre:World Fusion
Jun 6
Citadelamerica
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.
genre:World Fusion
Jun 5
async
Ryuichi Sakamoto · 2017 Spin it Again - He looked into the void and came back with field recordings and a Bach chorale played backwards.
genre:Experimental
Jun 5
A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden
Toru Takemitsu · 1977 Spin it Again - Takemitsu dreamed a garden with five sides and wrote the quietest masterpiece of the 1970s.
genre:Avant-Garde
Jun 5
Magnetic North
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.
genre:Electronic
Jun 5
A Mutual Dissolution of Structures
Grouper & Jarboe · 2011 Spin it Again - Two women who understand that silence is a musical instrument.
genre:Ambient
Jun 5
I Am Sitting in a Room
Alvin Lucier · 1970 Spin it Again - Alvin Lucier sat in his living room, pressed record, and let his own voice dissolve into the architecture — it is the most beautiful proof ever captured that every room has a song.
decade:1970s
Jun 5
The Flowering
Jarboe · 1996 Spin it Again - She built an album out of silence, cello, and a voice that doesn't sing like anyone else's—the sound of someone thinking through beauty when nobody's watching.
decade:1990s
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