the most important influence thread

[CypherOne]

Orbital.

I sound nothing like them but they are my inspiration.

[Philly]

Led Zepplin and David Bowie got me hooked on music. Punk (Ramones/Clash/Pistols) made me think - I can do that!

[Josmoker]

Hey Moritz

My greatest inspiration are probably the toys I use and those lovely weird sounds they can produce second greatest inspiration are the things I see, hear and feel - (ad Mausoleum: I don't think the things I smell have been a big musical inspiration for me so far, could be interesting as well, though )

As to my most important influence musicwise was probably Paul Schneider. When I got to know him during our military service he made it cross my mind that I myself could actually make music, even without being able to play an instrument. He also was the one who properly introduced me to the world of electronic music and one of my most important musical influences - Luke Vibert - so much pure fun in his music...

Cheers, Jo

[ModuLR]

my brother (9 years older, and talented enough to play the drums)... he was really into music in the late 70's thru the 80's... so I got exposed to everything he listened to as a youngster.

That ranged from...

Kraftwerk to Billy Cobhamn to Funkadelic to Blondie.

He was into a wide range of stuff, and taught me how to make pause button mix tapes with all of it... so I got into splicing my own edits on what I thought was his "high end" Sanyo stereo. This was the first time I realized how fun it was to "make" music in a sense...

The next phase would be probably me coming into my own... Early electro (thru the breakin' phase that lost steam after '86), into HipHop. HipHop taught me alot about listening to different styles of music (ya'know.. diggin' for samples). It got me extremely curious, and gave me a whole knew appreciation... then it just snowballed from there.

On the technology front... I'd have to give credit to Adlib for their wonderful game card that need nothing but play GM sounds but allowed me to create my first chunk of recorded music, and a lovely Pro-Audio Spectrum 16 I bought a couple years later. I never owned a proper sampler or any other piece of hardware... I always managed to make it work on the computer.... so props to all the techies out there.

Beyond that, lots of credit to Jason Limm for creating Impulse Tracker (one of the few PC trackers that properly supported the PAS-16).

Too many music thank you's to list... to all of them.


oh! and I forgot.. lots of movies too!

[haydxn]

things that got me into music?

well, my dad used to play mike oldfield records all the time which kinda got me interested in harmonies and things.

my spectrum once had in it loaded a magazine covertape, which had a jukebox based on music composed with the 'beep' command, and one of the tracks was a particularly lovely blippy rendition of 'Axel F', and that got me thinking about melodies and tunes too. i tried to beep my way to glory but was frankly shit.

the next crucial step was playing around with octamed on the amiga! those were some crazy days of knowing jack shit about what i was doing but loving spending hours on it anyway, even tho i'd come up with something that was terrible. yes trackers were an influence for sure.

bizarrely, the next step in my musical life involved taking up guitar and a fascination with oasis! i think the actual influence was listenning to Oasis whilst flicking thru a copy of Argos catalogue looking for birthday present ideas, and saw a picture of someone holding an electric guitar [that could be ME! a ROCK STAR! *swoon*] crumbs bums! my dad got me an electric guitar and i was really focused on teaching myself to play well. i heard radiohead and got really into them in a big way, and then muse & longpigs... then i decided to jack in my a-levels and go to ACM in guildford to be a proper rockstar...

then joining a band!! then moving to guildford proper to be in the band!! then the band splitting up so i was stuck there and abandoned music for a year completely.



then i bought a computer after working for a year or two, and installed a demo of fruity loops whilst i was holding my guitar, and came up with a shitty mess of distorion and low quality recording. and i was revitalised!

computers became my new inspiration, and now i have gone mental! lots and lots of money spent on all kinds of things, equipment etc...

now i'm really into sound design in particular.. any sound that attacks my ears thruout the day is my new influence/inspiration.

that's my story!

[Moritz Morpheus MkIII]

Hey Moritz

My greatest inspiration are probably the toys I use and those lovely weird sounds they can produce second greatest inspiration are the things I see, hear and feel - (ad Mausoleum: I don't think the things I smell have been a big musical inspiration for me so far, could be interesting as well, though )

As to my most important influence musicwise was probably Paul Schneider. When I got to know him during our military service he made it cross my mind that I myself could actually make music, even without being able to play an instrument. He also was the one who properly introduced me to the world of electronic music and one of my most important musical influences - Luke Vibert - so much pure fun in his music...

Cheers, Jo

hey jo!
paul would be very happy if he ´d read this!

[CypherOne]

hey Moritz - how's that baby of yours?

[origami]

ok

1. 80's: I grow up listening to the music my brother and sister listens to: Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Smiths...

2. 1990: I realise I love electronic sounds. I realise I prefer synths over other instruments.

3. 1993: I try to start a band with a friend called Our personal Darkness. I write some songs but my friend always delays the start of the project. But the seed for my musical project starts here.

4. 1995: I discover my love for industrial/EBM music.

5. 1998: I discover the band I love the most: The Legendary Pink Dots, and finally leave behind the sort of cage I was in regarding music. Even though I keep loving industrial music over all, I open myself to other bands. (Pink Floyd, Radiohead, etc)

6. 2003: I discover the amazing development in music software and I think: why don't I start making music now that I can afford it?' and start my project Origami.

[DwarfNebula]

in fluencia:

at the age of 13/14
- my brother gave me sum vinyl: The Clash (same), Talking Heads (remain in light), Zappa (live at the roxy)
- turning a dustbin upside down is quite a drum, a fu banjo w/ just two rusty strings (untuned) is capable of makin noise and melody at the same time

a bit later:
- smoking weed while listening to music

from then on:
- good music i listen to, bad music i have to listen to
- every musical instrument i got my hands on
- lots of artists

some of the very important artists:
the clash, frank zappa, talking heads, the velvet underground, miles davis, john coltrane, acdc, fugazi, jimi hendrix, prodigy, goldie, roni size, the "ninja tune" record label (amon tobin, roots manuva), el p, madlib .........................

[BONES]

My biggest influence? People. All of you. You self-centred, braindead, moronic, myopic sheep. Your pathetic, petty, day-to-day concerns, your inexhaustable capacity for complete stupidity, the automaton-inspired way in which you drag yourselves through your appalling and pointless lives without even the merest hint of understanding that you are less than nothing. Your ability to satisfy your every whim without the slightest thought of the consequences of any of your actions. Or better yet, your ability to justify even the most appalling and inexcusable behaviour.
If I didn' have a creative outlet I am sure they would have bought the death penalty back, just for me, by now. As it happens, I'm left-handed so I figured that would make it difficult to learn guitar. [What the hell did I know in 1981!?!] As all my favourite bands had guitar and synths [Ultravox, the Stranglers, the Cure, Simple Minds, Fischer Z, Killing Joke, etc], synths seemed an obvious second choice. They also appealed to my geekier side. Even though all my friends at school learned an instrument and played in the school band and had record collections, etc, etc, I had no real interest in music until the punk revolution rolled around. I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard "Peaches" on the radio. Then there was 2JJ/JJJ and the incredible live scene of the time in Sydney that opened up a whole world to me.

[AndreasE]

Moody Blues, Yes, Genesis, & ELP mostly.

Moody Blues
King Crimson
Tangerine Dream
Peter Gabriel
Euro Progressive Rock
psychedelic music

The same for me!

[CypherOne]

My biggest influence? People. All of you. You self-centred, braindead, moronic, myopic sheep. Your pathetic, petty, day-to-day concerns, your inexhaustable capacity for complete stupidity, the automaton-inspired way in which you drag yourselves through your appalling and pointless lives without even the merest hint of understanding that you are less than nothing. Your ability to satisfy your every whim without the slightest thought of the consequences of any of your actions. Or better yet, your ability to justify even the most appalling and inexcusable behaviour.
If I didn' have a creative outlet I am sure they would have bought the death penalty back, just for me, by now. As it happens, I'm left-handed so I figured that would make it difficult to learn guitar. [What the hell did I know in 1981!?!] As all my favourite bands had guitar and synths [Ultravox, the Stranglers, the Cure, Simple Minds, Fischer Z, Killing Joke, etc], synths seemed an obvious second choice. They also appealed to my geekier side. Even though all my friends at school learned an instrument and played in the school band and had record collections, etc, etc, I had no real interest in music until the punk revolution rolled around. I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard "Peaches" on the radio. Then there was 2JJ/JJJ and the incredible live scene of the time in Sydney that opened up a whole world to me.

wow, you have a geeky side?

[donkey tugger]

My biggest influence? People. All of you. You self-centred, braindead, moronic, myopic sheep. Your pathetic, petty, day-to-day concerns, your inexhaustable capacity for complete stupidity, the automaton-inspired way in which you drag yourselves through your appalling and pointless lives without even the merest hint of understanding that you are less than nothing. Your ability to satisfy your every whim without the slightest thought of the consequences of any of your actions. Or better yet, your ability to justify even the most appalling and inexcusable behaviour.
If I didn' have a creative outlet I am sure they would have bought the death penalty back, just for me, by now. .

See the xosos autobiograpghy is going down well then bones.

[mystahr]

There's heaps and heaps of things that have inspired me and to day still inspire me ranging from the beauty of nature to great music. In my very early years the music played at home was a mixture between the beatles/elvis/James Last. My teenyears I was in a drumband which would march the streets on occasions. There was really only one band that I can recall having a major influence on me and that was Queen.
In the early eighties Italo had a great influence on me and from that slowly grew the love for danceable music that started with my first 12inch being Joe Bataan's Rap o Clap o and ended in a huge collection of vinyl (which has found a new owner a few years back). My late teens DJíng myself was a dream which I forfilled and Ferry Maat, Corné Klijn and the DJ's from Stad Den Haag radio got me moving to buying more and more. Deodato's Fire in the Sky is a track that I know still does something special with me. In the 90's I lived the life of a house-DJ and that was about the music I came in contact with only; DJ Dimitri, Marcello and Carl Craig being the ones who influenced me a lot.
I hung up the needles just before the millenium and was music-less for a bit except for playing some CD's at home; the early 2000's my influence lay more in nature, painting and poetry. Until in the summer of 2003 I had saved enough to buy myself a little studio. That was the moment that I came in control of creating sounds myself and since that hardware has influenced my music big time; the purity of the Juno60 or the magical qualities of the Fizmo still enchant me.

Right now anything could inspire me (including the diversity of tracks that are shared right here at kvr) even the hail that is falling on my windows inspires. I just love all music and even a single sound could turn me on

[clueless]

You self-centred, braindead, moronic, myopic sheep. Your pathetic, petty, day-to-day concerns, your inexhaustable capacity for complete stupidity, the automaton-inspired way in which you drag yourselves through your appalling and pointless lives without even the merest hint of understanding that you are less than nothing. Your ability to satisfy your every whim without the slightest thought of the consequences of any of your actions. Or better yet, your ability to justify even the most appalling and inexcusable behaviour.

Moooo