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  "name": "Pierre Schaeffer",
  "description": "Pierre Schaeffer appears once in our Musique Concrète list, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-30",
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      "title": "Étude aux chemins de fer",
      "year": 1948,
      "label": null,
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      "whyItMatters": "Six locomotives, cut and looped on shellac discs. The first piece of music made entirely from recordings of things, and the founding act of everything sample-based that followed.",
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