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"Music is usually spurred on by
some form
of inspiration whether it is a sound heard walking down the street or
feeling
a certain way. An obvious source of inspiration is from other artists
music
and this section lists some of those which has influenced my work in
the
most profound way"
| Inspirations | |
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The KLF |
| Juno | Kraftwerk |
| My music | Others |
Jean Michel Jarre
Jean Michel Jarre has to be my most important influence in music since I started playing keyboards.First experience: When I was very young, my brother and I used to be played Oxygene while we dozed off to sleep. It's amazing the visual images you can conjour up half asleep while listening to Oxygene 1!
First attempt: I remember playing or attempting to play Oxygene 6 on an original 2 manual keyboard organ round a friend's house. It had the perfect swirling strings, pulsed sub chords and dull thudding drums!
At some time I would like to put some JMJ stuff I have covered on this site but I don't really know where I would stand with copyright. My last JMJ song is around 27 minutes long, and uses audio recording along with alot of my own music. It includes:
Oxygene 7, 5, Oxygene 2, 3, 5 and 6, Magnetic Fields 2, Equinoxe 4, Ethnicolor 1, Revolutions, Rendez-vous 2, Arpegiator (Concerts in China), Oxygene 5 , Equinoxe 7.
this colour=subtle embellishement
this
colour=main recognisable part or at least bits of it
this colour=new theme based on part of original
The KLF
The Justified Ancients played an important part on a weekly journey to Romford skating rink (Steve and John know what I mean) and their use of drums and strings had influenced many of my earlier songs.First experience: What time is Love? played on the radio.
First attempt: There was this cover I did of what time only with heavy distorted rock guitars and vocals snatched from the original. Again for copyright reasons I don't know if I should put it here. OK then just a few bars...
| Extracts from: What time to mosh? | |
| MP3 files | Verse1.1 
Verse1.2
Verse2 |
| Wav compressed | Verse1.1 Verse1.2 Verse2 |
Juno Reactor
I first came across Juno on a tape my brother gave me to play while driving all the way down to Exeter. It was taped off a techno/trance show on the radio and was really cool. Naturally being hooked on a type of music means you try to imitate and it wasn't long before I was experimenting with similar sounds, something which the JV made very easy!First experience: Driving ~300 miles to Exeter. a journey I had to repeat a number of times just so I could listen to Juno enough :)
First attempt: Reactor I guess, though I can't imagine why now because it sounds nothing like it!
Kraftwerk
Vee are Zee Robots - yess! As far as I can tell these guys were doing electronic music years before most and they became widely known in the 90's with dance/techno remixes of The Robots and Radiactivity. The way that sound effects were used often in a very dry and stark sense were very inspirational to me.First experience: In around 1986 a friend's older brother recorded me a tape with music from his record collection including 'Einstein a gogo' and 'The Robots'. This early electronic music may have moulded my music styles forever!
First attempt: Radioactivity was my first real Kraftwork attempt, done entirely on a Yamaha PSS790 keyboard. They were the days ;)
Other influences worthy of mention
Hooj
Adam F
The Shamen
Richie Rich
Ben Liebrand
To get my music
You can:
- download some of my music in MP3 format
- view or purchase a CD I have created
- view a list of all my tracks to date
| © Alan Mathers |
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Aug 2006 |