This could be different to your favourite albums or whatever, but what are the albums or singles that influenced you to start making music? This could also be interpreted in a 'what would your All Back to Mine / Late Night Tales selection look like'?
I'll post mine in a bit.
― hongro strulkington (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link
10 is impossible
aphex twin - SAW 85-92"" - analord EPsluke vibert/jeremy simmonds - weirsYMO - BGMsakamoto - esperanto/illustrated musical encyclopediajon hassell - aka darbari javaeno - music for filmspyrolator - wunderlandmr. fingers - ammnesiagas - zauberbergxon (richard h. kirk from cab voltaire) - dissonance EPburger ink - las vegastanaka hirokazu & suzuki keiichi - mother 2 (earthbound) ostcocteau twins - victorialanddrexciya - neptune's lairthe other people place - lifestyles of the laptop cafeterry riley - shri camellaurie spiegel - the expanding universeautechre - entire discographyjapan - gentlemen take polaroidsherbie hancock - mr handsoneohtrix point never - riftssilver apples - s/t & contacttangerine dream - white eagledonna summer - i feel love (patrick cowley edit)manuel gottsching - e2-e4haruomi hosono - coincidental musicyasuaki shimizu - music for commercialsdeepchord/echospace - liuminquadrant - quadrant dubactress - RIPcarl craig as psyche/BFC - elements
― clouds, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
David Bowie, 'Aladdin Sane'Kraftwerk, 'Trans Europe Express'Dusty Springfield, 'Dusty In Memphis'Pet Shop Boys, 'Actually' / 'Introspective' / 'Behaviour'Kate Bush, 'The Kick Inside'The Velvet Underground & Nico, s/tBilly Joel, 'Glass Houses'and about a thousand others
― passive-aggressive rageaholic (snoball), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
Forgot to answer my own question. Ten releases that have influenced me to make music. This was a harder exercise than it seemed, because I kept questioning the difference between really loving an album and to what extent it actually had an impact on my sound/aesthetic preferences... But here it is. Mostly ugly white blokes: Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (film)Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Tropical GangstersPere Ubu - Dub HousingThe Boo Radleys - Giant StepsThe Beach Boys - Smiley SmileTom Waits - the Frank TrilogyDead Rat Orchestra - (live performances)Black Dice - Beaches & Canyonsof Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Obv there's a lot more stuff out there. I mean, Autechre are so important to opening up this world of music that I always go back to, but it's not really audible in the kind of stuff I'm doing RN. I'd say Kate Bush too, but that's more of a recent thing and she's a very obvious reference point, I feel. Also, loads of dub, funk, hip hop, world music and dance music but no specific releases to encapsulate these.
― hongro strulkington (dog latin), Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:49 (nine years ago) link