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Cowboy Rhythmbox – Influences

 
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Nathan Gregory Wilkins and Richard X are both very talented music-makers in their own right but when they come together to form Cowboy Rhythmbox they become the most rhythmically gifted pairing in all the ol' West. Their music is tailor-made for dancing and you'll be unable to keep your hips from swinging like an almighty pendulum each and every time you tune in. They've got a new EP that's just dropped via Phantasy that we're massive fans of here at R$N Towers – it's been blaring everywhere from the rooftops right down to the dungeon basement – so we decided to ask the pair about some of the tracks that have influenced them the most.

Fantasma is out now via Phantasy.

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Yello You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess

RichX: Maybe subconsciously the mix of technology and exotica comes from our shared love of Yello, a few people maybe picked up on the vocal vibes on ‘Fantasma’ having some of that feel. This album is just smothered in an odd other worldly and jungle-y atmosphere.

  • Yello You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess

    RichX: Maybe subconsciously the mix of technology and exotica comes from our shared love of Yello, a few people maybe picked up on the vocal vibes on ‘Fantasma’ having some of that feel. This album is just smothered in an odd other worldly and jungle-y atmosphere.

  • Christian S. - The Power Of Now 'The Power Of Now' Sampler/Ep

    RichX: Great sequencer and drum machine workout track – there’s loads of other Comeme music that feels like it shares that same mix of high and low tech and off the wall ideas as we’re investigating.

  • Unique 3 - Digicality

    RichX: Using heavy sub bass again in our music like on “Natives” is something we’re enjoying again. Takes me back to the Bleep and early/mid Sheffield house days . This odd Unique 3 album track has that great mix of programmed drums and ridiculously low subs that you won’t hear if you’re playing from your laptop.

  • More Jive Rhythm Trax - 112 Bpm - Next Phase

    RichX: Records like this, a cappella records with thinned out drum tracks, library records, promo discs and inhouse radio acetates are the sort of places you’d traditionally dig for the less obvious sounds or catch a nice drum sample. We now add to this by casting our net over everything from random YouTube clips through satellite radio to picking up the musical crumbs cut up on our hard drives.

  • Roberto De Simone - Secondo Coro Delle Lavandaie

    NGW: Another record that I have played to death. There is something about the combination of heavy, primitive drums and ladies shouting in a language I do not understand that’s incredibly intoxicating. It’s such a great formula, so great that we stole it for both “Shake” and “Rattle.”

  • Schoolly D- Psk, What Does It Mean?

    NGW: Those drums!!! Such a heavy, raw, immense sounding record, this was the heaviest thing I’d ever heard when it came out in 1985. In many ways I now think of this more in terms of an industrial or a punk record than a hip hop record. It has that attitude. It’s like listening to Suicide from an alternate reality in which Alan Vega was a rapper from Philadelphia, not a punk from Brooklyn.

  • Tres Demented - Demented (Or Just Crazy)

    NGW: This hasn’t left my record box since it came out 13 years ago. A masterpiece from Carl Craig based around the drums from Anger by Rinder & Lewis and the pitched down vocals from a rock classic, creative sampling at it’s best.

  • Rebolledo Y Daniel Maloso - Venganza Y Seducción

    NGW: Tension + sleaze = perfection. This record is so simple, that’s it’s beauty. Comeme is such a great record label, it was an honour to release our first track with them (Shake).

  • Marcus Mixx - Without Makeup (Ron Hardy Mix)

    NGW: One of the ultimate drum machine records. Another one that hasn’t left my record box in a long time (10 years and counting). There are so few elements and yet it has so much energy. I will never tire of this.

  • Throbbing Gristle - A Debris Of Murder

    NGW. Slow sleazy electronic exotica from one of the most consistently inspiring figures in British music. This is what I like to hear/play in nightclubs…