Think of all your favourite musical styles: rock, hip hop, house, drum n bass, free jazz. Did you know that these were all pioneered by one band, Aether Flyer, way back in 1928? This group of extraordinary gentlemen invented such techniques as sampling, time stretching and circuit bending. They also built the first ever electric guitar and a crude early form of the digital synthesiser.
Aether Flyer’s album, The Loose and Pasty Rootchunk Medley, was banned at the time by the establishment who found it to be offensive to public morals and a threat to powerful interests in the music industry. The band was forced to go into hiding in the Amazon jungle. Over the next eighty years, their technical ideas and stylistic innovations were copied by countless musical artists.