The range and specificity (e.g."80s Sonic Youth", "early Mobb Deep") of his cited influences suggest someone keen to demonstrate that they're not just a Britpop babe...
Eddie Hazel, ambient Eno, Javanese gamelan, Terry Riley, Alvin Curran, John Martyn, Jason Sensation xxx,Can, Newcleus, Jerry Calliste Jr., Charles Stepney, Arthur Russell,Norman Whitfield, Harry Partch, Lou Harrison, Charles Ives, Morton Feldman, Miles Davis, Martin Hannet, The Chameleons, King Tubby, Keith Hudson, Philip Jeck, Dif Juz, Cocteau Twins, Pere Ubu, Bernard Parmegiani, Blind Idiot God, Roedelius / Cluster, Stooges, Section 25, Joy Division, New Order, Curtis Mayfield, Electric Prunes, David Axelrod, Gang Starr, early Mobb Deep, Robert Wyatt, Godspeed / A silver Mt Zion / Set Fire to Flames, Glenn Branca, Amon Duul II, Linda Perhacs, Ethiopiques (Ethiopian Funk compilations of late sixties to mid 70s heyday), Fela Kuti, Wire's '154', 80s Sonic Youth, Robert Fripp, Paul Dresher, ESP, ESG, A Certain Ratio, Street Sounds Electro 1-9, Kraftwerk, PiL's "Metal Box", The Byrds and all their offspring, Moby Grape, Skip Spence, Vashti Bunyan, Vaughan Williams, Debussy, Steve Reich, Arvo Part, Xenakis, Thomas Tallis, the Blue Nile, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Tom Verlaine, Love Unlimited Orchestra / Barry White, Live Skull, Durutti Column, Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, Autechre, Arovane, Phonem, Photek, The Remote Viewer, BoC, Bola, TG, Derrick May, Juan Atkins, 97 jungle, John Lennon, George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass", Phil K Dick, Lao Tzu, Austin Osman Spare, Milan Kundera, Charlie Kaufman, Oliver Postgate, Pete Carrol, Bukowski,Rex Probe / Serge Tcherepnin, Rothko, Turner, Anish Kapoor, Sartre, Scotland, Isles of Scilly, forgotten England,, love, dreams, nature, empty spaces, fear, exhaustion, boredom, shit music, people who talk too much, bus journeys, bathtime.
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I don't hold with Neil Young being in this category either. My favourite mit Crazy Horse records are my favourite Neil Young records.
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