Here’s something we didn’t have on our bingo card for 2026: there’s a new release on the way from Jean-Michel Jarre. Instead, it's a proper weighty tome that tells the story of electronic music, a genre he played a not-insignificant role in shaping himself. The book also charts the technical breakthroughs, such as tape manipulation, the switch from analogue to digital recording and AI-assisted music. “Through these machines, Jarre traces the evolution of a century of sonic experimentation, underscoring the ideas, technologies and cultural movements that shaped electronic music as we know it today.” Machines, Thames & Hudson say, “is the account of an artist whose life and work are inseparable from the history of electronic music itself.