A display of multi-tasking that one watches live in a state of disbelief.

The visionary electronic composer who wrote the DR. WHO theme.

He reclaimed the rhythms of the body and the industrial machine.

He invented the breakbeat, a key element of hip-hop.

The “Master of Records” remains enigmatic despite his renown.

“OH BABY, YOU… YOU GOT WHAT I NEED!”

He invented a sound and lost his mind.

Warning messages, hysterical laughter, the cawing of crows and buzzards.

From anime to pop, this composer doesn’t think about genre.

“I left Memphis to spread the news / Memphis women don’t wear no shoes”

In comparison to the Beliebers, he is a cipher.

Woozy chromaticism, electronica goofs, shaggy-dog ragas.

The ghost in Cash’s machine was Sturm und Drang Romanticism.

“The greatest blues singer that I ever knew.”

“The fingering and pedaling are often of a revolutionary character.”

Forget everything you thought you knew about “Half-Pint” Jaxon.

Twisting, wry and dolorous laments.

Though he ended up on the world’s biggest stages, he was a mensch.

“Adventures Close to Home” became one fan’s anthem.

The Queen of the Beatniks produced a psych masterpiece in 1969.

Dorky chic, unmusically musical, awkwardly sexy.

“I had to burn a guy a little and they gave me a little time”

His brilliance is perpetually muffled.

If he can make a comeback, maybe the human race can too.