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Doesn't matter the genre. Rock, Hip Hop, EDM, anything. Tell us, NG.

At 4/30/12 10:58 PM, Sequenced wrote: Me, myself and I

touche good sir.

At 4/30/12 10:59 PM, pieandeggs wrote:

At 4/30/12 10:58 PM, Sequenced wrote: Me, myself and I

touche good sir.

Actually it's touché.
Anyway I remember we had a thread like this once not too long ago, got around 30 replies I think.

Ron Jeremy

My desire for sexual reproduction

At 5/1/12 07:54 AM, MrSaint wrote: My desire for sexual reproduction

and with a win, it's the russian!

Gift of Gab (+Chief Xcel, Blackalicious, Quaanum records)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYxIN8vKGIo
Danny Brown http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnOA8SWrYlQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmqU0dqZzAQ, +DopeFiend)

Those two lyrically are the most inspiration as of late. Dopefiend/Danny are both from Detroit and their bruiser brigade sound rules. Gift of Gab is amazing and his main rap troupe Blackalicious is also good in this regard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqqPyKumZqM

I don't even fall under rock, hip-hop or EDM for the vast majority of my songs.

So, inspirations in any random order: Enya (<3), Akiko Shikata, Niamh Kavanagh, Vangelis, Kitaro, Gene Krupa (<3), The Shadows, Yoko Shimomura, John Michael Talbot, Evanescence.

I draw a lot of ideas from a number of artists.

Oddly enough, Eichiru Oda...and he's not a musician.

I can't point to an instance where I've been like, "ok, I've been inspired now," after hearing a song, but I guess if I had to name someone, I would say.....eh, how bouts Wesley Willis. Rock and Roll McDonalds inspired me to dinner, and later, I was inspired to McRib diahreah.

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. Diablo Swing Orchestra. Ludwig van Beethoven. Gustav Holst. Rammstein and Slipknot. Victor Wooten. Harmonium.

At 5/1/12 11:09 AM, TroisNyxEtienne wrote: I don't even fall under rock, hip-hop or EDM for the vast majority of my songs.

So, inspirations in any random order: Enya (<3), Akiko Shikata, Niamh Kavanagh, Vangelis, Kitaro, Gene Krupa (<3), The Shadows, Yoko Shimomura, John Michael Talbot, Evanescence.

I draw a lot of ideas from a number of artists.

Yoko Shimomura <3 Dearly Beloved is the most beautiful thing ever composed.

Many artists. NIN, Bloodhound Gang, Psychostick, Tool, Shiina Ringo, Karnivool, Eskmo, 12 rounds, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Zu, Saul Williams, and probably lots more. I tried to keep it to artists that inspire me vs artists I really enjoy listening to . Animals as leaders and Amon Tobin are amazing, but they haven't really effected my music. Other artists I love may end up influencing and inspiring me in the future. I look forward to that.

almost every artist I like inspires me, but right now I'm gonna say Rameses B - that guy is amazing in all genres he does

wish I knew who/what in particular.

I really enjoyed writing pop/rock music but I didn't take it too seriously. I had some fun times jamming with friends and all was good. After a few years, I began to lose interest because our little band didn't really get together anymore, and writing seemed to bore me as I could not create anything totally original...

And then there was Skrillex. After hearing his hit, Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, I realised there was a whole new world in the electronic genre. There was a way new sounds could be created and actually sound fantastic. If it weren't for Skrillex, I probably would have lost interest in music and would be nowhere near as good as I am now... I also would not have lost so much money on gear, but anyway...

disclaimer: I am not a wannabe Skrillex, my eyes were simply opened to the fact that we can create original, interesting, and awesome sounds, and implement them into great tunes.

At 5/2/12 04:14 PM, pieandeggs wrote:
Yoko Shimomura

I like her music, too. She's done so many different games, but my favorites from her are "The Darkness Nova", "U.B.", "Blue of the End", and "The 13th Dilemma".

At 5/3/12 05:23 PM, Buoy wrote:

At 5/1/12 07:20 PM, kaffekane wrote: Oddly enough, Eichiru Oda...and he's not a musician.

One Piece inspires your music? How?

A world that is equally serious and zany, and pulls it off just right. I would like to be able to convey a world (or maybe a universe?) like that someday. True that I'm not even close to that kind of mark.

That world is also a contrast ranging from lighthearted freedom to extreme dystopia. How many people can imagine so big and succeed?

At 4/30/12 10:50 PM, pieandeggs wrote: Doesn't matter the genre. Rock, Hip Hop, EDM, anything. Tell us, NG.

Feed Me. Even though I know my mixes will never be as crystal clear as his.

At 4/30/12 10:50 PM, pieandeggs wrote: Doesn't matter the genre. Rock, Hip Hop, EDM, anything. Tell us, NG.

Crystal Castles originally. I'll stop here before I add anything sarcastic ("What inspires you?" is a damn dangerous question in the internet)

I have a good list of unknown artists in general but well-known in the scene.

Purper Motion, Nemesis, Skaven, Warder, Wayfinder, bkl, Kebby(kb), 4mat, Mentor, blkpanther. And much more.

Ron Jeremy

and

Charles Bukowski

My inspiration list could go on for pages :P

Bach, Corelli, Boccherini, Sweelinck, Bononcini, Mozart, Haydn, Clementi, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Hummel, Dvorak, Chopin, Pierne, Glinka, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Grieg, Debussy, Wagner, Holst, Elgar (who was himself inspired by German Romantic composers), Verdi, more Beethoven, more Brahms, more Mendelssohn, John Williams, Michael Giacchino, James Newton Howard, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, James Dooley, Graeme Norgate, Grant Kirkhope, Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori, Christopher Lennertz, Hans Zimmer, then a little Tchaikovsky and topped off with some more Beethoven, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff for good measure.

I'm inspired by many people, places, and things.

More Visual:
Hayao Miyazaki
Shigeru Miyamoto
Mondrian

More Audio:
Kanye West
Bangladesh
Vampire Weekend