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ALTERNATE UNIVERSE INNOVATORS

REEVES GABRELS

GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS

As David Bowie’s right-hand man from the garage punk of Tin Machine through to the hippy dream that was Hours... and everywhere in-between, Gabrels’ impressionistic style is part blazing technique, part abstract sonic terrorism.

WHERE TO START

BABY UNIVERSAL

The post-chorus melody in Tin Machine’s “Baby Universal” is a study in sustain and whammy control.

BOSS LEVEL

A SMALL PLOT OF LAND

The solo to the dark industrial jazz weirdness, it’s full of uncomfortably outside notes and weird, skittering speed-licks.

RICKY WILSON

GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS

By the time he joined the

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