Songs you listen to for inspiration?

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:19 pm

And why?

I'll start it off..

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1g09GzbctlA - Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored

Pure, raw energy.. put headphones on, lean back, close your eyes.. by the time Ian Brown says "I gotta be adored" if you don't smile let alone brock out., i'll be shocked!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UJkeVkYq8Es - Radiohead - Optimistic

Same as above, the "Da nah nah nah nah" bit always makes me smile. Pulled from one of the best albums ever..

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UFRrwBQxjbI - Joy Division - Shadow Play

The guitar and the vocals how they sound the way the drums have been mastered.. the energy again, so amazing.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bp2hKfi1B60 - Portishead - Elysium

....... is all I can see to that, perfection in my eyes.... the break down is just amazing, then the.. .."and its your............." BOOM .. *shakes head* amazing.

rendr · Post by **rendr** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:42 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiWUp4cHta4

N-Type & The Others - Teknophobe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx4G5qc_R7g

Bar9 - Murda Sound

&

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYEAS5Rn3sM

Calyx - Warrior

...at the moment, because I want to work on my basslines.

rynke · Post by **rynke** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:59 pm

it varies alot, but i might listen to some of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuaG-TCpbtw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax7cdHiZ010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JQ6-E43aiE

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8HJkRkvpHw

but tbh, if i really want to get inspired i listen to dubstep or dnb

Edit: Some dubstep tracks that inspires me:

Reso - Oticon
Skream - Colourful
Toasty - Angel
Joint Forces - Joe Grizzly (wicked bassline!! makes me wanna wake up the neighbourhood

)
Widdler - Sensi Samurai (cant wait to get it on vinyl! man, that track is just big!!)
JSL - The Kraken
Goth Trad - The Clown
Mala - Earth run red
Vex'd - Killing floor
Sub Scape - Tomahawk
2000F/Obeah - Copenhagen Massive
The Others - Everybody do the super skank
-and so on...
(And i actually like some of the stuff on Number Nin6's myspace:
www.myspace.com/numbernin6 - calcify is big)

zeno · Post by **zeno** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 11:21 pm

John Scofield
Victor Wooten
TeeBee
Miles Davis
Aesop Rock
Bernard Purdy
Jaco Pastorius
Wynton Marsalis
Jurassic 5
Lusine
Dabrye
Buddy Rich
Tipper
EdIt
John Zorn
Shen
The Derek Trucks Band
Benga
Mike Paton
Kentaro
Pink Floyd
Ghostly International
Herbie Hancock
Cut Chemist
Kurtis Blow
Africa Bambaataa
Lee Scratch Perry
Photek
Bob Marley
Kode_9
Burning Spear
Chet Atkins
Plug
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Dj Marky
So much more...

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 11:21 pm

You get inspration from things at face value then?? I get inspiration from moods and feelings in tunes.. Not really the way its sounds..

requiem.mf · Post by **requiem.mf** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 11:28 pm

Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE-ML-BAAfY - moment at 2:46 - 2:48 and guitar layering.

Xiu Xiu - I Luv The Vally OH - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4UVJM6m5po - kickass bassline overall and sense of space starting at 2:05.

Proem - I Don't Know How To Tell - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FbjE_jb ... re=related - atmosphere is great and killer synths.

Jawbreaker - First Step - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7xUscfRsqM - actually almost anything by Blake Schwarzenbach is basic input (1 guitar, 1 bass, 1 drumset, 3 chords / power chords) and output is simply phenomenal.

rynke · Post by **rynke** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 11:29 pm

Legendary wrote:You get inspration from things at face value then?? I get inspiration from moods and feelings in tunes.. Not really the way its sounds..

Well, moods and feelings kinda comes along, in my opinion... Isnt that what music is about?

stapleface · Post by **stapleface** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:15 am

i sometimes find listening to something different completely then coming back to making dub tunes helps immensely.
sometimes i'll just get the guitar out, play some heavy riffage or some chilled bluesy licks, not make beats for 3 days or so, then when I come back to it I get a huge wave of inspiration.

EDIT: Oh yeah, songs XD. Metallica's master of puppets album, BB King's "thrill is gone", and anything by Machine head

djake · Post by **djake** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:36 am

aphex twin - IZ-US

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4emvVQ8zpmk

aphex twin - Analogue bubblebath 1

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3UGhMFwPW ... re=related

n basically all of his work, im a bit of an aphex freak, ive even got a aphex tattoo

alot of autechre's stuff...LP5 in particular

example: autechre - 777

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EbHp24SAkb8

loads more really but those are two of the main ones

rendr · Post by **rendr** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:52 am

djake wrote: n basically all of his work, im a bit of an aphex freak, ive even got a aphex tattoo

Is it Richard D James grinning in a perverted manner?

djake · Post by **djake** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:53 am

Rendr wrote:
djake wrote: n basically all of his work, im a bit of an aphex freak, ive even got a aphex tattoo
Is it Richard D James grinning in a perverted manner?

djake · Post by **djake** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:00 am

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uIeA2ct5S ... re=related

also that track is amazing

sam the dnb man · Post by **sam the dnb man** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:03 am

Mainly metal.

Hard dnb such as current value and limewax.

Dj hype - Closer to god.

I watch alot of live metal gigs.

seeing the crowd react to the band can give me goosebumps.

also videos of andy C mixing makes me wanna mix. the guy is a machine

stapleface · Post by **stapleface** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:15 am

i heard that andy C gets all his tunes repressed to the same tempo so he doesnt really have to mix

whatever gets the job done though

djake · Post by **djake** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:21 am

Stapleface wrote:i heard that andy C gets all his tunes repressed to the same tempo so he doesnt really have to mix

whatever gets the job done though

funny i heard that too

rendr · Post by **rendr** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:23 am

djake wrote:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uIeA2ct5S ... re=related

also that track is amazing

Aphex Twin is the boy, all of his work is amazing. I think I've got about 2GB of his work.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z4cLmbw6q0

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7YGArUy-qac

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg98bewrzFg < fucking beautiful tune

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TaXqU7hVVhI

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DffuKV8yzG8 (ignore the video lol)

diverseconcepts · Post by **diverseconcepts** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:40 am

For inspiration I usually peep...

Burial - Archangel

LTJ Bukem - Atlantis

Gill Scott heron - Angel Dust

Feist - Honey Honey ( Which I'm in the middle of remixing )

Mos Def - Umi Says

Aurora Borelis.

Minimal... Very minimal...

Shit like that?

caeraphym · Post by **caeraphym** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:59 am

Radio 4

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