Richard Fearless – Influences

I remember my sister and her mate playing this and me dancing round the room like crazy when I was tiny. Still to this day I find it a really inspirational mix. The use of delays is brilliant.

One of the first techno tracks that blew my head off, the whole 69 series in fact and Piece: Free your Mind. These were the records that shaped my course in electronic music and started my love affair with Detroit.

Bobby Gillespie first got turned me onto this album, and this track is something that when I’m mixing I always listen to when I want inspiration on how far you can take the song. The percussion, repetition the use of delays, is absolutely beautiful. Pure gold.

Man Machine is in my all time top 5 albums, a timeless piece of magic, what other album sounds as fresh now as it did then ? Anyway this track Rucksack though an earlier piece is just wild man and I love when you listen to their earlier work you can see the shape of things to come. Flute parts that will transgress to synth line etc… Stunning piece of music.

Once Iggy rang me up in NYC, he was living in this shack in the bottom of his garden in Florida painting and working on a new Stooges album. He said they had a toy mike, a kid’s drum kit and one of those Marlboro packet guitar amps, and that’s how they wrote the Weirdness, fucking wild visual. But man what an insane band. People ask you what gig would you have loved to have been at more than any other; Got to be Stooges at their peak for me.

This alternative mix by the Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper is one of my favourite all time songs. Harmonies aren’t really a big part of Death in Vegas, though there’s some lovely ones going on the Black Acid album if I do say it myself! The Beach Boys must be one of my top all time bands, the soundtrack to many DIV tour bus antics

I found this recorded cassette tape when I was a kid, fell in love with it and for years didn’t know who it was. It was this track later recorded slightly different I believe, that really hit home though with its magical heartfelt vocals.

My Bloody Valentine what can I say, the man’s a genius full stop, I fucking love this band. The fact that Kevin is such a massive Beach Boys fan, it totally makes sense when you listen to his music, check City Girl from his Lost in Translation score. When I toured with Primal Scream as their dj I would sit on the side of the stage where Kevin was and just get lost in the sounds he was generating, visually it seemed like he was even playing, an effortless magic.