Jim Keyerleber

Radiohead,Thom Yorke, Fear Falls, Pole, Tetsu Inoue, Namlook,Magazine, Be Bop Deluxe, Can, Faust, Fetters Cat Power, Ladytron, Faust, Coil, Tangerine Dream,Tetsu Inoue, Peter Namlook, Bill Laswell, NEU, Tool, Beethoven, Bach and Brahms Chris Cunningham, Luis Bunuel, Joel Peter Witkin, the train set I had when I was a kid, Frank Zappa, Orson Welles, Robert Fripp, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, James Joyce, Bill Hicks, Miles Davis, Jeff Lynne / ELO, Meshuggah, Pete Townsend / The Who, Bret Easton Ellis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Brian Wilson / Beach Boys, sprawling double vinyl LPs in gatefold sleeves, Japanese bondage, XTC, Nick Drake, Can, Neu!, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Abba, Mikael Akerfeldt / Opeth, The Necks, Red House Painters, Massive Attack, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Sigur Ros, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Arvo Part, Air, Underworld, Hawkwind, Oceansize, Fovea Hex, almost all 70's progressive rock (King Crimson, Pink Floyd, VDGG, Yes, Camel, Genesis, Mike Oldfield, Caravan, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, Ange, SBB, Rush, Magma, Hatfield and the North / Egg, Gong, Focus, Henry Cow, Area, PFM, Arti and Mestieri..etc), but virtually no progressive rock after that. The same applies for Krautrock (Faust, Embryo, Cluster, Popul Vuh..etc). A lot of electronica, especially the holy Warp trinity of Aphex Twin, Autechre, and Squarepusher, but also Monolake, Plastikman, Plaid, Bola, Scorn, Boards of Canada, Surgeon, Venetian Snares, Photek, Jan Jelinek, Brothomstates, Arovane, Panacea, Gas, 2nd Gen, Pan Sonic, Vladislav Delay, and Murcof. A lot of industrial music from the golden era of the late 70's / early 80's especially Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, MB, Whitehouse, SPK, Zoviet France, Nurse With Wound, Esplendor Geometrico, Muslimgauze. A whole lot of experimental / drone-based music, especially Richard Chartier, Thomas Koner, The Hafler Trio, Uton, Asmus Tietchens, VidnaObmana, Fear Falls Burning, William Basinski, Organum, and Mirror. Eno, The Waterboys, Prince (80's vintage), Neil Young, Swans, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Lasses Hoile and Gjersten, PIL, Neurosis, Linda Perhacs, Free, Bjork, Magazine, T-Rex, Wolf Eyes, Khanate, The Police, Fritz Lang, Chris Morris, Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Cardiacs, Tom Waits, The Durutti Column, Oval, Franz Kafka, Joy Division, Donovan, DJ Shadow, OMD, Gary Numan, A Certain Ratio, The Doors, Steely Dan, Circle, Momus, Mew, Roy Harper, John Martyn, Trans Am, Magazine, Terry Riley "A Rainbow in Curved Air", The Moody Blues, Will Oldham, Alan J Pakula, Aphrodite's Child "666", Santana, Todd Rundgren, Smog, Scott Walker, Isis, Captain Beefheart "Trout Mask Replica", Family, Deep Purple, Mansun, Jim O'Rourke, Paul Schutze, Steve Reich, Vivian Stanshall, Slayer "Reign in Blood", Talking Heads, Godley / Creme "Consequences", Donna Summer, Ivor Cutler, Wendy Carlos "Sonic Seasonings", Third Eye Foundation, Tarkovsky, Alice Coltrane, The Smiths, Esoteric, Sunn O))), The Byrds, CSN, Cardiacs, Wire, Meat Beat Manifesto, Faure "Requiem", Fleetwood Mac, Sinatra, Kate Bush, , Keith Jarrett, Jean Cocteau, Mahavishnu Orchestra,"Night and Fog", Philip Glass, Love, Cocteau Twins, The Mars Volta, Terje Rypdal, Marvin Gaye, Gojira, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, DAF, Univers Zero, Morbid Angel, The Stranglers, Asian Horror Movies (especially Shutter, and Ju-On), Trevor Horn, Jeff Wayne "War of the Worlds", Sun Ra, Talk Talk, Joni Mitchell, Dead Can Dance, The Cure, The Carpenters, LCD Soundsystem, M.I.A., Harmony Corine "Gummo", Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, , Killing Joke, Birchville Cat Motel, Goldfrapp "Felt Mountain", Boris, Merzbow, Stars of the Lid, The Bonzo Dog Band, Lindsay Anderson's "If" and "Oh Lucky Man", Heldon to name a few.