Their work, from their earliest performances as a psychedelic band who were
contemporaries of, and shared stages with, Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd and the
Jimi Hendrix Experience, all the way to being one of Europe's best known
'fusion' groups, has influenced several generations of bands, and continues to
be name-checked by today's hip experimentalists.
​Whilst the line-up of Soft Machine may have changed many times since the
heady days of the late 1960’s, the band’s spirit of musical adventure, and the
ease with which it freely avoids being pigeon holed and can move from
powerful progressive jazz fusion to atmospheric psychedelia to free
improvised jazz-rock to ambient loop music continues to make it both unique
and totally contemporary.