Stimming – Influences

Such an epic piece. I think I don’t need words for this. Thanks for joining me here!

Krust has been a big influence for me because he has a very special trade mark sound – his radical dryness is something I respect a lot. I’ve been into drum&bass a lot when I was younger, or lets say, when drum&bass for me was still a vital and open musical form and even back then he was one with a very special sound aesthetic. especially on his album “coded language” where this track is from. Here he used a lot real instruments, blended with dirty and dry analogue sounds – very inspiring to me!

A great recipe where all the ingredients fit perfectly together. Not too many elements as usual in a dance track and a sort of darkness which clubs are made for (at least the one’s I like). This squarewave-hook that everyone immediately understands without being simple is just great!

Everytime I hear this track its making me excited. It makes me feel butterflies in my stomach and I become a little bit envious of Flume as well. Great sidechain compression (the “pop-out” effect)! This is goes into my inspiration box for future tracks.

I love Fink. When I’m on a plane, flying back home after an exhausting weekend this is the music I listen to. it helps me to sort my mind again. Even when most of his tracks sound kind of blue he has a very sensitive humour in his lyrics which I is like chilli on a mango. (His music is very far away from a mango, more like a biological grown potato without chemicals – I’m german, we love potatoes so this is a big compliment ;))

I rediscovered this a couple of weeks ago and immediately fell in love again – even if I can’t be the one.
the combination of a rough and dry rock instrumentation with her voice is still stunning and fresh. everyone knows their track hedonism but I thought this one is even better. I love strings, I admit.

For the one’s who don’t know him – his tracks are released on ninja tune and 2005 he made the game-soundtrack for Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. There he developed a very new, very “neo” sound. it is very complicated to follow and its mostly in between sound-design and music but on a sophisticated level which, in my opinion, no one else can reach on our world right now (!). everything that came after (including) chaos theory is worth discovering but I warn you – once your ear is able to follow this, you will find a lot more music very boring!

DJ Krush is a big influence for me, in my very early years I discovered him through the movie blade. his minimal approach to (tr-)hiphop combined with japanese soundscapes, always at ease but with emotions coming out of a zen garden – I love it. you should also listen to his latest work, especially “black rain” and my favourite album is Kakusei.