Autechre

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For 60 years, HERBIE HANCOCK has taken the bonnet off music, hacking its valves and gears, forging a future as yet unseen. He shaped jazz and funk and synth-rock; Miles and Joni felt the benefit. Now he's a Polar Music Prize laureate. "I've always been this geek, this nerdy guy,"

The human experience is hard. One of life’s pleasures for Eureka Machines is “having these little tunes, at gigs, that give people a couple of hours to get out of their heads”.

The Fateful Symmetry MUTE 7/10

With 28 albums’ worth of songs to choose from, “hopefully there will be some surprises”.

The playful, melancholic genius of Erik Satie