Name the most obvious/strongest influences on your music. Don't say "everything" because I think even if you have very eclectic taste, there will still be some landmark moments in your musical history where certains things "clicked" with you and imprinted stronger than all the other stuff. Even if you say an entire musical style or movement influenced you, there must be certain ones in the style/moment that stood out the most. Also, your favorite music might not necessarily be the most influencial on you. For example, I love some prog rock stuff, but you'd probably never hear me make any of it myself.
For me:
Sakamoto Ryuichi - Master composer, avan garde experimentalist, one of the pioneers of electronic music, and passionate humanitarian. His vast knowledge of all musical styles/time periods/ethnic cultures and the way he incorporates them into his work just boggles my mind. No wonder his fans call him "The Professor."
Art of Noise - I love genre bending experimentalists, and these guys are one of the best ever. Advanced compositions provided by Ann Dudely and crazy manglings by the others.
Frazier Chorus - I love the blend of jazz and pop. Very unique sound--more accessible than jazz, but far more sophisticated than pop.
Debussy/Ravel - It's hard for me to seperate them, since they are collaborators and both are equally talented. I just can't get enough of 19th century french impressionism.
New Order - king of moody synth pop.
The Sunday - got me to learn how to strum that folky guitar style.
Cocteau Twins - My guitar never sounded the same after hearing them.
Bigod 20 - The most interesting industrial band of the EBM school.
PIG - after hearing Raymond Watt's wickedness, no other industrial entity impresses me anymore.
B'z - best Japanes hard rock band ever--but I love because they fuse jazz, funk, electronic, and pop into their hard rock--which sounds like nothing I've ever heard.
Psy S - one of the most innovative pop bands ever. Experimental and genre blending style.
Conan the Barbarian soundtrack - Still Basil's best score ever.
Morikawa Miho - Some of the best arrangements in pop music ever. Latin, jazz, funk, soul, and electronic all blended together.
Kawai Sonoko - The most elegant pop music I've ever heard. Almost too sophisticated to be called pop.
Various Japanese animation soundtracks - specifically, The Macross TV/film soundtracks (great blend of jazz and classical), Megazone 23 1&2, Kimagure Ornage Road (jazz, rock, and pop), Bubble Gum Crisis (electronic, hard rock), Yotoden (traditonal Japanese and jazz--yeah, tell me about it), A Wing of Honneamise (composed by Sakamoto and friends)..etc.
Who influenced your music the most?
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- KVRAF
- 1644 posts since 18 Mar, 2004 from Lincoln, CA
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- KVRAF
- 1959 posts since 10 Aug, 2004 from Valencia, Spain.
ok there they go...
*The Young Gods...the way they blend industrial with psychedelia is superb.
*Depeche Mode...how they added darkness to pop has always influenced me a lot.
*Skinny Puppy..the scariest band ever, their atmospheres are the darkest I've ever listened to.
*OHGR...superb, Ogre's way of singing influences me a lot. (some people say i'm a mixture of Ogre and Gahan...I wish I were)
*Front 242...inevitable.(better thanh Bigod 20!!! I'm joking, I like Bigod 20 a lot and was surprised to see their name here)
*Future Sound of London...their ambient atmospheres influence are the perfect counterbalance to my industrial song structures.
*The Legendary Pink Dots...without a doubt my favourite band, imagine that Pink Floyd and Can merged in one band and embraced electronics...
*The Young Gods...the way they blend industrial with psychedelia is superb.
*Depeche Mode...how they added darkness to pop has always influenced me a lot.
*Skinny Puppy..the scariest band ever, their atmospheres are the darkest I've ever listened to.
*OHGR...superb, Ogre's way of singing influences me a lot. (some people say i'm a mixture of Ogre and Gahan...I wish I were)
*Front 242...inevitable.(better thanh Bigod 20!!! I'm joking, I like Bigod 20 a lot and was surprised to see their name here)
*Future Sound of London...their ambient atmospheres influence are the perfect counterbalance to my industrial song structures.
*The Legendary Pink Dots...without a doubt my favourite band, imagine that Pink Floyd and Can merged in one band and embraced electronics...
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- KVRAF
- 2401 posts since 29 Dec, 2002 from In the dark
I can split my "music career" in two distinct periods.
The first was the "BloodHound" period. It started early as a guitar player. I watched and tried to copy Brian Finch & Kenny Henson note for note. That took me through the Eric Clapton, BB King and later the Slash period. I was a guitar junky. That was all I could do.
The second was the "Sepheritoh" era. It started at the end of the first era with me joining KvR. My eyes opened. For a while I was really unsure of myself as I found the wonderfull world of comuter music and it was an effort to move from doing covers of blues songs to being a composer. The greatest influences in this transition were Remco (Emerald Tablet), Gordon (Beardedone) and Dave (Kriminal), but also many others like Sleek and Mully had a lot to do with it. Not only did they teach me the basics of theory and pointed me in the right directions (I started buying books on orchestration, scoring etc), but the greatest influence came from a moral support and encourgement.
Also have to add that people like YouTM and Ixox who always gives thourough reviews of the music in the contests helped me a tremendous lot.
I do not think I can point in any direction anymore and say my music sound like this-or-that artist. I still listen to a lot of music like I always did, but I changed the way I listen.
The first was the "BloodHound" period. It started early as a guitar player. I watched and tried to copy Brian Finch & Kenny Henson note for note. That took me through the Eric Clapton, BB King and later the Slash period. I was a guitar junky. That was all I could do.
The second was the "Sepheritoh" era. It started at the end of the first era with me joining KvR. My eyes opened. For a while I was really unsure of myself as I found the wonderfull world of comuter music and it was an effort to move from doing covers of blues songs to being a composer. The greatest influences in this transition were Remco (Emerald Tablet), Gordon (Beardedone) and Dave (Kriminal), but also many others like Sleek and Mully had a lot to do with it. Not only did they teach me the basics of theory and pointed me in the right directions (I started buying books on orchestration, scoring etc), but the greatest influence came from a moral support and encourgement.
Also have to add that people like YouTM and Ixox who always gives thourough reviews of the music in the contests helped me a tremendous lot.
I do not think I can point in any direction anymore and say my music sound like this-or-that artist. I still listen to a lot of music like I always did, but I changed the way I listen.
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35449 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Lunatique quoth Name the most obvious/strongest influences on your music.
I doubt if any of them would be obvious. And most of those that are strong aren't really so in a musical sense, but in an 'idea' sense.
Ive probably listed most of these before, because this sort of thread has turned up before, but there's no harm in doing it again...
BBC Radiophonics Workshop - the first realisation that I had that sounds were incredible things, and, to me, much more attractive from an 'I want to do that' point of veiw than music.
Punk (all of it) - the idea that music wasnt a precious artform restricted to those who were lucky and pretty.
Peter Hammill - one of the most cutting edge and forward looking songwriters ever to write music. An incredible singer and musician, and a constant pusher of boundaries.
Tangerine Dream - For me, their earliest-to-70's stuff took those things called 'synthesisers' and made landscapes from them. And I wanted to make landscapes too.
The Cocteau Twins - there was a lesson there about never being afraid to just keep adding effects until you got something unearthly. Pity Robin Guthrie was such a twat though.
The Loved One - a band I read about in a music-and-recording magazine I cant even remember the title of, who used to have a regular section called 'Home Recording is Skill in Music'. There were two guys who had produced an album called 'Locate and Cement' which was abstract collages of sounds and noises, and they'd recorded it on a 4-track portastudio. I ordered it that day. (Same way I heard about/bought stuff by Danielle Dax. actually) Insane stuff; dark, menacing, fragmented. And incredible. I only know one of one other person who has actually heard anything by them (Scot Solida), but the album was copylefted, so one day I'm going to get it off vinyl and onto the web...
Wire - On 'The Ideal Copy' at the start of one track, there's a sound. Just a sound which gets played just two or three times. And it raises the hackles on the back of my neck. It is a perfect sound. Oh yeah, and there was a Bruce Gilbert track on some magazinbe tape I had which was called U-mu-U or something. Awesome rhythmic noise from nothing mroe than a few guitar pedals.
Startled Insects - I had a mate who was into Thirlwell and all sortsa similar stuff. This band's album 'Curse of the Pehermones' was harder and more brutal and more interesting than anything he'd ever played me. Lesson - propoganda is bullshit. The end result is what counts.
Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium. Avante garde death metal... the usurping of a whole (somewhat cliched) genre into something wonderful. Lesson - anything can work with anything else if you do it right.
Throwing Music - the really dark stuff is people's lives, not black leather, shades and combat boots.
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Back to landscapes, but with a whole narrative built in, driven by dynamics that I hadnt heard since Van Der Graaf. Poignant and dark.
I doubt if any of them would be obvious. And most of those that are strong aren't really so in a musical sense, but in an 'idea' sense.
Ive probably listed most of these before, because this sort of thread has turned up before, but there's no harm in doing it again...
BBC Radiophonics Workshop - the first realisation that I had that sounds were incredible things, and, to me, much more attractive from an 'I want to do that' point of veiw than music.
Punk (all of it) - the idea that music wasnt a precious artform restricted to those who were lucky and pretty.
Peter Hammill - one of the most cutting edge and forward looking songwriters ever to write music. An incredible singer and musician, and a constant pusher of boundaries.
Tangerine Dream - For me, their earliest-to-70's stuff took those things called 'synthesisers' and made landscapes from them. And I wanted to make landscapes too.
The Cocteau Twins - there was a lesson there about never being afraid to just keep adding effects until you got something unearthly. Pity Robin Guthrie was such a twat though.
The Loved One - a band I read about in a music-and-recording magazine I cant even remember the title of, who used to have a regular section called 'Home Recording is Skill in Music'. There were two guys who had produced an album called 'Locate and Cement' which was abstract collages of sounds and noises, and they'd recorded it on a 4-track portastudio. I ordered it that day. (Same way I heard about/bought stuff by Danielle Dax. actually) Insane stuff; dark, menacing, fragmented. And incredible. I only know one of one other person who has actually heard anything by them (Scot Solida), but the album was copylefted, so one day I'm going to get it off vinyl and onto the web...
Wire - On 'The Ideal Copy' at the start of one track, there's a sound. Just a sound which gets played just two or three times. And it raises the hackles on the back of my neck. It is a perfect sound. Oh yeah, and there was a Bruce Gilbert track on some magazinbe tape I had which was called U-mu-U or something. Awesome rhythmic noise from nothing mroe than a few guitar pedals.
Startled Insects - I had a mate who was into Thirlwell and all sortsa similar stuff. This band's album 'Curse of the Pehermones' was harder and more brutal and more interesting than anything he'd ever played me. Lesson - propoganda is bullshit. The end result is what counts.
Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium. Avante garde death metal... the usurping of a whole (somewhat cliched) genre into something wonderful. Lesson - anything can work with anything else if you do it right.
Throwing Music - the really dark stuff is people's lives, not black leather, shades and combat boots.
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Back to landscapes, but with a whole narrative built in, driven by dynamics that I hadnt heard since Van Der Graaf. Poignant and dark.
An idiot on Set Theory:
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
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- KVRAF
- 1789 posts since 17 Mar, 2004 from Bretagne, the west of France
Kraftwerk
Klaus Schultze
Tangerin Dream
Van Gelis
Jean Michel Jarre
Hmm, I wonder why I play keyboards
Actually it's very simple, my mother is a proffesionial pianist ....
Rony
Klaus Schultze
Tangerin Dream
Van Gelis
Jean Michel Jarre
Hmm, I wonder why I play keyboards
Actually it's very simple, my mother is a proffesionial pianist ....
Rony
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- Boss Lovin' DR
- 14312 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
Hi-spirits international
Leeds
LS12 2PY
Leeds
LS12 2PY
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- addled muppet weed
- 111294 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
darker stuff really,i tend to be more influenced by what i read than what i hear.dont get me wrong i love a lot of stuff i sound like im not trying to say i dont but for me personally im trying to tell the dark images i get from the material i read be it the news or fiction or whatever.
altho saying that the one man in the world who ever made me want to be a musician was syd barrett,i used to lie awake listening to my tapes of his when i was about 8 (from my uncle)and they were just like nursery rhymes
which i suppose is what i try to do without words and darker
then again it would be a shame not to list such bands as can pink floyd gong and many others along the way as somehow influencing me
altho saying that the one man in the world who ever made me want to be a musician was syd barrett,i used to lie awake listening to my tapes of his when i was about 8 (from my uncle)and they were just like nursery rhymes
which i suppose is what i try to do without words and darker
then again it would be a shame not to list such bands as can pink floyd gong and many others along the way as somehow influencing me
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- KVRAF
- 2323 posts since 4 Mar, 2004 from Portugal (Lagos)
Kraftwerk
Durutti Column
Michael Rother/Neu!
Stereolab
Michael Nyman
Apocalyptica
This Mortal Coil
Philip Glass
Brian Eno
Wim Mertens
Dead Can Dance
Aphex Twin
...
By any order you want. And the list never ends
Durutti Column
Michael Rother/Neu!
Stereolab
Michael Nyman
Apocalyptica
This Mortal Coil
Philip Glass
Brian Eno
Wim Mertens
Dead Can Dance
Aphex Twin
...
By any order you want. And the list never ends
Eventually something intelligent will appear written here. Watch this space.
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- KVRian
- 1278 posts since 24 May, 2004
Buckshot LeFonque
Prefuse 73
Massive Attack
Air
LTJ Bukem
Lonnie Liston Smith
Herbie Hancock
Keith Jarret
Philip Glass
(Early) Steve Reich
Pink Floyd
Tangerine Dream
Every sound and every noise i hear.
Prefuse 73
Massive Attack
Air
LTJ Bukem
Lonnie Liston Smith
Herbie Hancock
Keith Jarret
Philip Glass
(Early) Steve Reich
Pink Floyd
Tangerine Dream
Every sound and every noise i hear.
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- KVRAF
- 3588 posts since 13 May, 2004 from montreal
- Ligeti's choral music as used in 2001 (traumatised me at six in conjunction with all those enigmatic images - probably the thing that's stuck with me longest in terms of the reaction I want to provoke)
- Punk (particularly of the Crass/Flux school - though the sloganeering was tiresome at times they did put their money where their mouths were...)
- Whitehouse (eloquent and subtle - look beneath appearances - perfect fusion of form and intention. As someone else once said, the only group that really embodies their intentions.)
- John Duncan (the foremost modern explorer of the boundaries of life and perception)
- Krysztof Penderecki's 60's works (unsurpassed orchestral power)
- Maurizio Bianchi (1979-1984, the truest terminal soundtrack for our fragmented world)
- Vagina Dentata Organ ("The most fanatical band in the world!")
- Current 93 (more emotion in one song than in some entire genres)
- Organum (for sheer primeval mystery and beauty)
- The New Blockaders (the purest voice of sonic nihilism)
- Zoviet-France (music from the primitive past of everywhere and nowhere)
- Etant Donnes (the power of the violence and beauty of nature as means for alchemical transformation)
- Merzbow (mid-80's tape works, pure automatist bliss)
- The Hafler Trio (for exposing the falseness of truth and the all-encompassing effects of context on the perception. and being very nice.)
These were my primary influences when I began in earnest around 1986/87. In recent years I've been trying not to be influenced so much - I know it's working when I can play people something and not have them say 'Oh, it sounds like so-and-so.'.
- Punk (particularly of the Crass/Flux school - though the sloganeering was tiresome at times they did put their money where their mouths were...)
- Whitehouse (eloquent and subtle - look beneath appearances - perfect fusion of form and intention. As someone else once said, the only group that really embodies their intentions.)
- John Duncan (the foremost modern explorer of the boundaries of life and perception)
- Krysztof Penderecki's 60's works (unsurpassed orchestral power)
- Maurizio Bianchi (1979-1984, the truest terminal soundtrack for our fragmented world)
- Vagina Dentata Organ ("The most fanatical band in the world!")
- Current 93 (more emotion in one song than in some entire genres)
- Organum (for sheer primeval mystery and beauty)
- The New Blockaders (the purest voice of sonic nihilism)
- Zoviet-France (music from the primitive past of everywhere and nowhere)
- Etant Donnes (the power of the violence and beauty of nature as means for alchemical transformation)
- Merzbow (mid-80's tape works, pure automatist bliss)
- The Hafler Trio (for exposing the falseness of truth and the all-encompassing effects of context on the perception. and being very nice.)
These were my primary influences when I began in earnest around 1986/87. In recent years I've been trying not to be influenced so much - I know it's working when I can play people something and not have them say 'Oh, it sounds like so-and-so.'.
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- KVRAF
- 7672 posts since 9 Nov, 2003 from Netherlands
I wish I knew; along the way I have heard good music and at our house allready a big variety was played (beatles, elvis, shadows) and when I became a teen top pop (dutch show) was a big influence. I think my first record bought was Joe Banaan Rap-o-clap-o. As far as I can remember I was always busy with music and was infected for DJ'ing at a very early phase. Italo-disco and new beat pushed me into the house-scene and today I make ambient music
Okay if I were to name one majorly big influence: it would be nature and all its rhythms and sounds
Okay if I were to name one majorly big influence: it would be nature and all its rhythms and sounds
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- KVRist
- 420 posts since 30 Apr, 2004 from grand rapids, michigan
this will be interesting...
Depeche Mode
VNV Nation
Lamb of God
KMFDM
Bile
Ministry (pre-filthpig)
Slayer
Frontline Assembly
Skinny Puppy
NIN
most of the 80's synthpop/new wave stuff i've ever heard... and random songs from every other genre of electronic music.
Depeche Mode
VNV Nation
Lamb of God
KMFDM
Bile
Ministry (pre-filthpig)
Slayer
Frontline Assembly
Skinny Puppy
NIN
most of the 80's synthpop/new wave stuff i've ever heard... and random songs from every other genre of electronic music.
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- Narcissistic Messiah
- 4565 posts since 8 Apr, 2002 from https://soundcloud.com/remcoh
probably the music i listened
to the most often in my life
in no particular order :
Tchaikovsky
Fitzgerald
Buckley
Goodman
Debussy
Jobim
Sting
Drake
Satie
Sade
to the most often in my life
in no particular order :
Tchaikovsky
Fitzgerald
Buckley
Goodman
Debussy
Jobim
Sting
Drake
Satie
Sade