Electronics: a prehistory
Futurism and the birth of noise
Poème électronique: the long wait of Edgard Varèse
Un homme seul: Pierre Schaeffer and the art of scissors
Stockhausen: beyond the cosmos
4' 33" of everything: John Cage and other concrète solutions
Distant galaxies, deep oceans: Sun Ra and Miles Davis
Deux femmes seules: Derbyshire and Oram
Stevie Wonder and the electrification of soul
From Suicide to the Pet Shop Boys: the art of the duo
They were the robots: Kraftwerk and pop automata
Substance: from Joy Division to New Order, the Human League to the Human League, Depeche Mode to Depeche Mode
Brian Eno, the Aphex Twin and ambient's late arrival
Cutting up the world: from Cabaret Voltaire to J Dilla
Legitimacy: from Castlemorton to Skrillex
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century musical technology: a timeline
A Future sounds playlist.