Teachers

After making a big leap with Ableton I decided to take a long think about who my influences are, which artists really opened my eyes to dance music and which albums really made an early impression. For that, I'll have to transport back to 1996. I was 14 years old and a group of us had been watching all sorts of "cool" cyberpunk films with kick ass soundtracks. We were the cool nerds who wore big jeans and metallic makeup.

• Daft Punk - Homework
• Hackers (OST)
• The Saint (OST)
• Prodigy - Fat Of The Land
• Crystal Method - Vegas
  

Hackers, and Saint Soundtracks have some great artists on- Orbital, Underworld, Leftfield, Moby, Fluke, The Chemical Brothers...
I also have to admit to having had a love of industrial at the same time too. Without which I wouldn't have my love of fuzzy dancy feedback. Perhaps it's also where I find my dislike for minimal?

• Gravity Kills - Gravity Kills
• Nine Inch Nails - Pretty hate Machine
• Spawn (OST)
• Stabbing Westward - Wither, Blister, Burn and Peel

Everything that came after, no matter how genius (Sorry Air - Moon Safari, Sorry Orbital - Altogether) wasn't as influential as these early heard albums of my teens. Will put up a list of "sheer genius" albums I love another day.

These influences explain why I love dark dirty electro. I should listen to these albums just to remind myself what it is that I want to do.