Songs that push and keep pushing music forward are often tracks that one needs to listen to several times, such as these 11 ...

In the world of electronic music, Aphex Twin, real name Richard D James, comes out on top. The Cornish-born producer still sits at the helm to this day of pioneering a genre through his eclectic sound ...

I am also aware, though, of the genre’s very worthy history as “functional music,” to borrow a phrase from the man who more or less invented ambient music, Brian Eno. As he told me in an ...