| Influences | Beauty->Love->Heartbreak->Anger->Melancholia.
David Lynch, Chris Cunningham, Luis Bunuel, Joel Peter Witkin, the train set I had when I was a kid, Frank Zappa, Pete Townshend / The Who, Orson Welles, Robert Fripp, Stanley Kubrick, Dead Can Dance, My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Bill Hicks, Miles Davis, Led Zeppelin, Bret Easton Ellis, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Dawkins, Brian Wilson / Beach Boys, sprawling double vinyl LPs in gatefold sleeves, Japanese bondage, Joy Division, XTC, Nick Drake, Can, Neu!, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Abba, Mansun, Mikael Akerfeldt / Opeth, The Necks, Red House Painters, Massive Attack, Scorn / Lull / Mick Harris, The Smiths, Radiohead, Meshuggah, Nine Inch Nails, Jeff Lynne / ELO, Low, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Arvo Part, Lindsay Anderson's "If" and "Oh Lucky Man", The Cure, Dalek, Carpenters, Underworld, Hawkwind, almost all 70's progressive rock (VDGG, Yes, Camel, Genesis, Mike Oldfield, Caravan, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, Ange, Rush, Magma, Hatfield and the North / Egg, Gong, Focus, Henry Cow, Area...etc), but virtually no progressive rock after that. The same applies for Krautrock (Faust, Embryo, Cluster, Conrad Schnitzler, Popul Vuh..etc). A lot of electronica, especially the holy Warp trinity of Aphex Twin, Autechre, and Squarepusher, but also Monolake, Plaid, Bola, 808 State, Boards of Canada, Venetian Snares, Photek, Jan Jelinek, µ-Ziq, Brothomstates, Arovane, Panacea, Gas, 2nd Gen, The Prodigy, Pan Sonic, Vladislav Delay, and Murcof. The so called minimal techno of Plastikman, Surgeon, and Ricardo Villalobos. A lot of industrial music from 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 Thomas Koner, The Hafler Trio, Richard Chartier, Uton, Asmus Tietchens, VidnaObmana, Fear Falls Burning, William Basinski, Organum, and Mirror. Brian Eno, The Waterboys, Prince (80's vintage), Neil Young, SLAB!, Swans, Black Sabbath, Lasse Hoile, Public Image Ltd (especially Metal Box), Neurosis, The Fall, Linda Perhacs, Free, Bjork "Vespertine", Magazine, T-Rex, Wolf Eyes, Khanate, The Police, Wolfgang Press, Fritz Lang, Chris Morris, Incredible String Band, Kevin Ayers, Syd Barrett, Fairport Convention, Cardiacs, Jakob, Tom Waits, Harry Nilsson, The Velvet Underground (especially the third album), David Bowie, Isis, The Durutti Column, Oval, Franz Kafka, Donovan, DJ Shadow, OMD, Gary Numan, A Certain Ratio, The Doors, The Taj Mahal Travellers, Jonathan Miller's "Whistle and I'll Come to You", Soft Machine, Steely Dan, Circle, Momus, Mew, Roy Harper, John Martyn, Magna Carta, Trans Am, Terry Riley "A Rainbow in Curved Air", The Moody Blues, Will Oldham, Alan J Pakula, Aphrodite's Child "666", Vangelis "Earth" and "Beauborg", Santana, Todd Rundgren, Goblin / Dario Argento, Smog, Scott Walker, Faun Fables, Captain Beefheart "Trout Mask Replica", Rhys Chatham, Family, Deep Purple, Sonic Youth, Portishead, Jim O'Rourke, Paul Schutze, Steve Reich, Vivian Stanshall, Consolidated, George Harrison "All Things Must Pass", Slayer "Reign in Blood", Metallica "Master of Puppets", Diamond Head, Talking Heads, Godley / Creme "Consequences", Air, Oceansize, Fovea Hex, Van Morrison, Pan American, Donna Summer, Ivor Cutler, Wendy Carlos "Sonic Seasonings", Third Eye Foundation, Tarkovsky, Alice Coltrane, James Joyce, Grace Jones "Slave to the Rhythm", Jimi Hendrix, Esoteric, Sunn O))), The Byrds, CSN,, Wire, Bruce Cockburn (70's vintage), Meat Beat Manifesto, Faure "Requiem", Alanis raging against her ex-boyfriend (and "Thank You" of course), Fleetwood Mac, Propoganda "A Secret Wish", Astral Social Club, Tim Hardin, Japan, Peter Hammill, Faith No More, Earth, Frank Sinatra, Kate Bush, Orbital, Dom "Edge of Time", Morton Feldman, Keith Jarrett, Jean Cocteau, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jeff Beck, "The Wicker Man" (not the abysmal Hollywood remake), Chic / Sister Sledge, Alain Resnais "Night and Fog", Philip Glass, Love, Sly and the Family Stone, The Mars Volta, Terje Rypdal, Marvin Gaye, Gojira, Katatonia, The Band, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, DAF, Univers Zero, Rod Stewart / The Faces, Morbid Angel, The Stranglers, Asian Horror Movies (especially Shutter, and Ju-On), Bauhaus "Bela Lugosi's Dead", The Damned "New Rose", Shit N Shine, Jeff Wayne "War of the Worlds", Mastodon, Serge Gainsbourg "Historie De Melodie Nelson", "The Company of Wolves" (Neil Jordan movie), Sun Ra, Talk Talk, Trevor Horn productions especically Grace Jones "Slave to the Rhythm", Peter Gabriel, Prefab Sprout, Oren Ambarchi, Lard Free, Queen, The Blue Nile "Hats", Supertramp, Joni Mitchell, Set Fire to Flames, Chemical Brothers, Corrupted, LCD Soundsystem, Harmony Korine "Gummo", Burzum, Pharoah Sanders, Killing Joke, Birchville Cat Motel, Rapoon, Goldfrapp "Felt Mountain", Boris, The Bee Gees, Merzbow, Stars of the Lid, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, The Bonzo Dog Band, Heldon.
And everything else.
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