Fairmont – Influences

Jake Fairley, known further afield as Fairmont, returned to Favourite Robot this month with his Close Your Mind EP. Darker, more mature sounds and attitude abound, the record lies at the deeper end of melodic, synth-centric techno. Touching on post-punk, new wave and hinting at the Moroder-esque, the tracks are detailed, balanced and full sounding dancefloor food, likened readily to stuff by the Knife an Max and Mara.
So let Jake tour you around the artists and tracks which shone brightly at turning points in his life – some extremely nice electronic music collected here, and an interesting Stooges cover…
Rather than an “all time” list I thought I would compile the songs that were influential to me at a specific moment in my life – when I moved away for the first time and went to Germany in 2003. I’ll start it off with Closer Musik who made such amazing songs in their short run.
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