One of the founding fathers of modern music, Edgard Varese was experimenting with sound collage and sampling 50 years ago.  Amongst the composers who claimed him to be an influence were Harrison Birtwistle, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Morton Feldman,  Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen and a teenage Frank Zappa and his profound effect on the latter can be heard throughout Zappa's work from the Mothers Of Invention onwards. The Complete Works Volume 1 is the exact same record that turned Frank Zappa on! The recordings are savage and beautiful and far ahead of their time; they have never previously been released on compact disc.