Editing Soft Machine (section)

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Soft Machine's music encompasses [[progressive rock]],<ref name=Lynch2/><ref name=consequenceofsound>[https://consequence.net/2015/03/r-i-p-daevid-allen-founder-of-gong-and-soft-machine-has-died/ "R.I.P. Daevid Allen, founder of Gong and Soft Machine, has died"] by Ben Kaye, ''[[Consequence of Sound]]'', 13 March 2015</ref><ref>Macan, Edward. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=b98dJ3cYAksC&pg=PT256 Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture]''; Oxford University Press; 1 edition 9 January 1997; {{ISBN|978-0195098884}}</ref><ref>Holm-Hudson, Kevin (editor).''[https://books.google.com/books?id=JQCPAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA10 Progressive Rock Reconsidered ]''; Routledge; 21 October 2001; {{ISBN|978-0815337157}}</ref><ref name=avclub>[http://www.avclub.com/article/a-guide-to-the-best-and-a-bit-of-the-worst-of-prog-79776 "A guide to the best (and a bit of the worst) of prog rock"] by Jason Heller, ''[[The A.V. Club]]'', 7 June 2012</ref>{{Overcite|reason=Does this point really need five citations?|date=December 2024}} [[experimental rock]],<ref>[[Paul Hegarty (musician)|Hegarty, Paul]]. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=fsaoAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT58 Beyond and Before: Progressive Rock since the 1960s]''; Bloomsbury Academic; 23 June 2011; {{ISBN|978-0826423320}}; p.105</ref><ref>Blake, Andrew. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=t7d0DH0qHc8C&pg=PA151 The Land Without Music: Music, culture and society in twentieth-century Britain]''; Manchester University Press, 15 February 1998; {{ISBN|978-0719042997}}; p.151</ref> [[jazz fusion|jazz rock]],<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/subgenre/jazz-rock-ma0000012014 "Jazz » Fusion » Jazz-Rock"], ''[[AllMusic]]''</ref><ref>Rupprecht, Philip. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=DBu_CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA425 British Musical Modernism: The Manchester Group and their Contemporaries]''; Cambridge University Press; 18 August 2015; {{ISBN|978-0521844482}}; p.425</ref> [[jazz]],<ref name=Lynch2/><ref>[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/gong-soft-parade-founder-daevid-allen-dead-at-77-20150313 "Gong, Soft Machine Founder Daevid Allen Dead at 77"] byDaniel Kreps, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', 13 March 2015</ref> [[proto-prog]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Greene |first=Doyle |title=Rock, Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, 1966–1970: How the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground Defined an Era |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ELeaCwAAQBAJ |year=2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2403-7 |page=182}}</ref> [[psychedelic rock]]<ref name=consequenceofsound/> and [[art rock]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/robert-wyatt-mn0000292915/biography|title=Robert Wyatt {{!}} Biography & History|last=Dougan|first=John|website=AllMusic|access-date=6 January 2020}}</ref> The band are part of the [[Canterbury scene]] of progressive rock.<ref name=Lynch2/><ref name=avclub/> According to Hugh Hopper: "We weren't consciously playing jazz rock, it was more a case of not wanting to sound like other bands; we certainly didn't want a guitarist".<ref name=mojo>Irvin, Jim. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=AVQbF9lTBwgC&pg=PA208 The MOJO Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion]''; Canongate Books Ltd; 4th edition: 1 November 2007; {{ISBN|978-1841959733}}; p.208</ref>