A guidebook to an alternative viewpoint for sci-fi, via a hip-hop album that blasts off into space, and a techno record plunged into the deep blue.

The ‘Modern Mavens’ series is a guide to some of contemporary music’s most definitive artists, going through their catalogues and deciphering their greatest qualities. These artists may not be accepted into the pantheon of the legends yet, but this series makes the case for why they should already be or definitely will be. First up, Sweden’s acoustic leading man.

KEYMAG takes a look into the technique of plunderphonics and two of its greatest accompishments, from DJ Shadow's Endtroducing to the Avalanches' Since I Left You.