Influences, Inspirations & Recommendations
A-H
The Aay Jays; Absolute Elsewhere; Absu; Accept; AC/DC; Achtzen Karat Gold; Acid Mothers Temple (& Various Incarnations); Idris Ackamoor (& The Pyramids); The Accüsed; Afrika; Reza Akbarian; Akhenaten; Hasil Adkins; Ævangelist; Aerosmith; Agnostic Front; Air; AKA; Aksak Maboul; Alamaailman Vasarat; Jameel Sadik "Jim" Al-Khalili; Alien Planetscapes; Tony Allen; GG Allin; The Allman Brothers Band; Roland Alphonso; Amanza; Amebix; AMM; Kazi Aniruddha; Anvil; Aphex Twin; Amon Düül II; Pink Anderson; Horace Andy; Kenneth Anger; Antibalas; Chairil Anwar; Aristotle; Harold Arlen; Louis Armstrong; Ash Ra Tempel - Manuel Göttsching; Asia; Mulatu Astake; The Astronauts; Atheist; Aunt Sally; Aura Noir; Marcus Aurelius; Axe Cop; Angelo Badalamenti; Bad Brains - H.R.; Bad News; Ralph Bakshi; Devendra Banhart; Clive Barker; P.T. Barnum; Roger Keith (Syd) Barrett; Robbie Basho; The Battered Ornaments; Ibn Baṭṭūṭah; Bathory; Charles Baudelaire; Les Baxter; The Beach Boys; BEAK>; Bethlehem (Gr.); Beaver & The Trappers; The Beatles - John Lennon | George Harrison; Bobby Beausoleil; Sidney Bechet; Charles Henry Allan Bennett; J.G. Bennett; B52’s; Believer; Alban Berg; Annie Besant; Beyond; Bhagavad Gita; The Birthday Party; Big Black; Black Flag; Black Magic (Ind.); Black Sabbath - Mr. Iommi | Mr. Osbourne | Mr. Butler | Mr. Ward; Blonde Redhead; H.P. Blavatsky; Blotted Science; Blue Cheer; Boards Of Canada; Lucille Bogan (Bessie Jackson); Marc Bolan - John’s Children | Tyrannosaurus Rex | T-Rex; Niels Bohr; Bölzer; Napoleon Bonaparte; Bongripper; Boredoms (ボアダムス); Alesksandor Borodin; Borsig Werke; David Bowie; Brainticket - Joel Vandroogenbroeck; Brand X; Brast Burn; LeVar Burton; Edgar Broughton Band; Arthur Brown; James Brown; Dr. Steve Brule; Tim Buckley; Siddhartha Gautama Buddha; Budgie; The Budos Band; The Bug; Charles Bukowski; Sandy Bull; Bunchofuckinggoofs; Burqa Band; Burning Witch; William S. Burroughs; Richard Francis Burton; Burzum; Mary Butler; Donald Byrd; Cadaver; Cadence Weapon; John Cage; Camel; CAN - Holgar Czukay | Damo Suzuki | Irmin Schmidt | Michael Karoli | Jaki Liebezeit | Malcom Mooney; Canada; Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band; Captain Beyond;
Carcass; Wendy Carlos; The Cars; Carlton & The Shoes; Lewis Carroll - Charles Dodgson; The Carter Family;
Johnny Cash; Carlos Castaneda; Cathedral; J.A. Ceaser; Celtic Frost; Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote; CH-BB; Madhumala Chattopadhyay; Cheech & Chong; Cheap Trick; Cherry Five; China; Noam Chomsky; Christian Death; Church of Ra; Circle Jerks; The Clay; Samuel Clemens; Patsy Cline; Cluster - Moebius | Roedelius | Kluster; Kelan Phil Cohran; Lonnie Coleman; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; John Coltrane; Alice Coltrane; Comus; Conan; Confessor; Confucius; Con Funk Shun; Contact Trio; Contortions; Ernie Coombs; Alice Cooper; Julian Cope; Henry Corbin; Chick Corea; Cosmic Jokers; Gal Costa; Floyd Council; Wayne County; Jacob Clinton John; The Cramps; Crash Course In Science; Crass; Crawl/Child; Cream; Cro Mags; Brian Cox; Cromagnon; Aleister Crowley; Robert Crumb; Cul De Sac; Culpepper’s Orchard; The Cure; Hoyt Curtin; Cynic; D.A.F; The Damnation of Adam Blessing; Salvador Dalí; Karen Dalton; Betty Davis; Miles Davis; Dead Can Dance; Dara Puspita; Henry Darger; Charles Darwin; Dayglo Abortions; DBC; D.O.A; Death - Chuck Schuldiner; Deep Purple; Deerhoof; Edgar Degas; Der Plan; Rene Descartes; Destruction; Deuter; The Deviants; Anagarika Dharmapala; Philip K. Dick; Charles Dickens; Didaktische Einheit; Bo Diddley; Die Antwoord; Die Gesunden; Die Kreuzen; Ronnie James Dio; Diogenes the Cynic; Paul Dirac; D.R.I; Discharge; Disciples of Power; Disciplina Kicme; Walt Disney; DNA; Dødheimsgard; Doom; The Doors; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Download; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes; Don Drummond; Earth; Ebony Rhythm Band; Oscar Eckenstein; Cliff Ukulele Ike Edwards; Egypt; Albert Einstein; Einstürzende Neubauten; Electric Wizard; Duke Ellington; Embryo; Emperor; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Brian Eno; Enslaved; Max Ernst; Etna; Europe; Julis Evola; Exciter; Exmagma; John Fahey; Fairfield Parlour; The Fall; Fall of Because; Far East Family Band (Far Out); Fastway; Faust; Federico Fellini; Flea; Flea On The Honey; Fleetwood Mac - Peter Green; Fleurety; Flipper; Floh De Cologne; Flux of Pink Indians; Flower Travellin’ Band (フラワー・トラベリン・バンド); Foetus; Michel Foucault; Kim Fowley; Frank Frazetta; Fred; Freedom Of Rhapsodia; Sir James George Frazer; J.F.C. Fuller; Funkadelic; The Funkees; FunTastiklons; Diamanda Galas; Gamelan Music; Gandalf; Gargamel; Marvin Gaye; The Gaylads; Mahatma Gandhi; Ron Geesin; Genesis - Peter Gabriel | Steve Hackett; Gentle Giant; Al Ghazali; Joe Gibbs; Kahlil Gibran; Philip Glass; Glass Beams; Gnaw; Goblin; Godflesh - Justin K. Broadrick; Golden Wing; Golem; Sergius Golowin; Gong; Sam Gopal; Gorguts; Glenn Gould; Grandaddy; Al Green; Groinoids; Vince Guaraldi; René Guénon; Jules Jacot-Guillarmod; G.I. Gurdjieff; Guru Guru; Brion Gysin; Death - David Hackney; ½ Orchestra; Hanatarash (ハナタラシ); Yuval Noah Harari; Harmonia; Stephan Hawking; Hawkwind - Lemmy Kilmister | Nik Turner | Robert Calvert | Dave Brock | Tim Blake; Dashiell Hedayat (Melmoth); Hellhammer; The Heliocentrics; Helmet of Gnats; Jimi Hendrix; The Heptones; Here Lies Man; Gil Scott-Heron; Werner Herzog; Hiatus; Gary Higgins; Highlighters Band; Steve Hillage; Terumasa Hino Quintet; Henry Cow - Fred Firth; Buddy Holly; Allan Holdsworth; Albert Hoffman; Lightning Hopkins; Horse; Edwin Hubble; Michael Hurley; Hüsker Dü; Shabaka Hutchings - Sons of Kemet | The Comet Is Coming | Shabaka And The Ancestors; Aldus Huxley; Hypnotic Brass Ensemble; Shin Jook Hyun (신중현)
I-P
Icecross; Toshi Ichiyanagi; Idrus; Ikebe Shakedown; I Left The Planet; India; Indonesia; Inner City Unit; The Invisible Skratch Piklz; Iron Maiden; Isna Yunita; Inter Arma; Jambinai (잠비나이); Jandek; Japan; Keith Jarrett; Alfred Jarry; Johnny!; Daniel Johnston; Spike Jones; Joy Division; James Joyce; Judas Priest; Carl Jung; Kaaos; Franz Kafka; Yussef Kamaal; Immanuel Kant; Karl Hector & The Malcouns; Andy Kaufman; K2; Albert Ketèlbey; Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Khanate; Karuna Khyal; The Kids In The Hall; Kid Koala; Killing Joke; King Crimson - Robert Fripp; King Diamond; King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard; King Tubby; Gershon Kingsly; The Kinks; KISS - Ace Frehley; Koes Bersaudara - Koes Plus; David Korten; Kraftwerk; Kreator; Stanley Kubrick; Fela Anikulapo Kuti; Kyōjinbyō (狂人病); Raphael Aloysius Lafferty; Laibach; LSD; Lard Free; Bill Laswell; T.E. Lawrence; Timothy Leary; Leash; Leave it to Beaver; Cate Le Bon; Led Zeppelin; The Legendary Pink Dots; John Lennon; Le Orme; Les Rallizes Dénudés (裸のラリーズ) - Takasi Mizutani; Martin Lings; Loefah; H.P. Lovecraft; Love - Arthur Lee; Cecil Leuter (Roger Roger); Lydia Lunch; David Lynch; Alexander III of Macedon (Alexander the Great); Niccolò Machiavelli; Ian Mackaye - Minor Threat; Magazine; Magma; Malhavoc; Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard; Man or Astro-Man?; Charles Manson; Fosco Maraini; Herbert Marcuse; Bob Marley; Mars; Karl Marx; Master Musicians Of Jajouka; Master Shake; Matching Mole; Tosihio Matsumoto; Curtis Mayfield; Mayhem; Freddie McGregor;
John McLaughlin; Joe Meek; Megadeth; Mellow Candle; Melodic Energy Commission; Memphis Jugband; Mercyful Fate; Doris Etta; Ade Syakina; David Anthony; Hailu Mergia (ኃይሉ መርጊያ); Merzbow (メルツバウ); Metallica; The Mighty Boosh; Julius Sumner Miller; Minami Deutsch (南ドイツ); Charles Mingus;
Minutemen; Misfits; Mission of Burma; Jackie Mittoo; Mix Master Mike; Mdou Moctar; The Monkees; The Monks; Wes Montgomery;
Moondog; Moondog and His Honking Geese; Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix; Alice Moore; Rosie Mae Moore; Morbid Angel; Ennio Morricone; Morricone Youth; Mortician; Mötley Crüe; MC5; Motörhead; Mount Merapi; Prophet Muhammad (PBH); The Mummies; Mungo Jerry; The Munsters; Muslimgauze; My Dying Bride; Tani Naomi; Napoleon; Neu!; Neurosis; Negativa - Steeve Hurdle; Sir Isaac Newton; The New York Dolls; Ngozi Family; Ted Nichols; Bruno Nicolai; Friedrich Nietzsche; Janko Nilović; Jack Nitzsche; NOVA; Doris Norton; Nuclear Death; Gary Numan; Nurse With Wound; Obituary; Obliveon; Ofege; OLD; OM; 1000 Kings; Yoko Ono (小野 洋子); William Onyeabor; OOIOO; Daphne Oram; Roy Orbison; Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou; George Orwell; The Orb; Johnny Osbourne; P.D. Ouspensky (Пётр Демьянович Успенский); Ozric Tentacles; Augustus Pablo; Panbers; Korla Pandit; Triloknath Pandit; Pan.They.Monium; Paramahansa Yogananda; Charlie Parker; Van Dyke Parks; Harry Partch; Paternoster; Charley Patton; PBS; Annette Peacock; Penn & Teller; Pentagram; Jean-Jacques Perrey; Lee Scratch Perry & The Upsetters; Pere Ubu; Pestilence; Pharoah Sanders; Piero Piccioni; Daniel Pinchbeck; Pink Fairies; Pink Floyd; Pink Mountaintops; Conrad Plank; Plasmatics; The Police; Popol Vuh - Florian Fricke; Genesis P-Orridge; Portal; Possessed; Elvis Presley; The Pretty Things; Primus - Les Claypool; Prince Jammy; Principle Edwards Magic Theatre; Probe 10; Public Image Limited
Q-Z
DJ Q-Bert; Quiet Sun; Question Mark; Mohd. Rafi; Fishka Rais; Ramones; Ernest Ranglin; Razor; Red Krayola; Lou Reed; Steve Reich; Ike Reiko (池玲子); Django Reinhardt; The Residents; Return to Forever; The Rhythm Boys & Adnan Othman; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; Rodinia; Fred Rogers; The Rolling Stones - Brian Jones; Henry Rollins; Jack Rose; Uli Jon Roth; Michael Rother; Roxy Music; Paul Rubin; Rudimentary Peni; Runners From 1984; Rush; Terje Rypdal; Sacrifice; Carl Sagan; Samhain; Saint Vitus; Sand; Robert Morris Sapolsky; Erik Satie; Masahiko Satoh (佐藤 允彦); Pierre Schaeffer; Conrad Schnitzler; Arthur Schopenhauer; Klaus Schulze; Kurt Schwitters; Scorn - Mick Harris; SCTV; Scorpions; Seraphim Rose; Secret Chiefs 3; Secret Oyster; Sepultura - Max Cavalera | Igor Cavalera; N. Senada; Rod Serling; Sex Pistols; Shadow; Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet; The Shaggs;
Archie Shepp; The Shaolin Afronauts;
Arnold Shoenberg; Shellac; Dimitri Shostakovich; Yatha Sidhra; Horace Silver; Silver Apples; Charanjit Singh; The Skatalites; Skinny Puppy; Skullflower; Slapp Happy; Slaughter; Slayer; Sleaford Mods; Sleep; The Slits; Hank Snow; SPK; SSD; Sodom; Benny Soebardja and Lizard; Soft Machine - Daevid Allan | Kevin Ayers | Hugh Hopper | Robert Wyatt | Mike Ratledge | Elton Dean; The Soft Moon; Om. Soneta; Soulstorm - Nick Sagias; Sound Dimension; Alexander Skip Spence; Sphynx; Spring; Sprung aus den Wolken; Stark Reality; Stereolab; Karlheinz Stockhausen; The Stooges; S.O.D.; Igor Stravinsky; Morton Subotnick; Sunn O))); Sun Ra and the Arkestra; Sunsmasher; Supersister; Screaming Lord Sutch; Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (鈴木 大拙 貞太郎); The Swallows; Swans; The Sweet - Steve Priest; Sweet Okay Supersister; Johnathan Swift; Rabindranath Tagore; Dr. Ali Raza Tahir; The Taj Mahal Travellers; Talking Heads; Tangerine Dream; The Tear Garden; Teenage Jesus & The Jerks; Teeth Of The Lions Rule Divine; Nikola Tesla; Theatre Of Eternal Music - Tony Conrad | Terry Riley | Angus MacLise; | John Cale; Leon Theremin; Thin Lizzy;
The 13th Floor Elevators - Roky Erikson; Henry David Thoreau; Thorrs Hammer; Keith Matthew Thornton (Kool Keith); Throbbing Gristle; Tibet; Tielman Brothers; Today is the Day; J.R.R. Tolkien; Leo Tolstoy; Steve Peregrine Took; Trouble; Triumph; Twink; Twisted Sister; Sun Tzu (孫子); Ulan Bator; Umoral; The Unemployed; Univers Zéro; The Upanishads; Billy Van; Van Der Graaf Generator - Peter Hammill; Van Halen; Ludovico di Varthema; Ved Buens Ende; The Vedas; Vektor; Edward Vesala; Virus; The Velvet Underground; Venom; The Viola Crayola; Voice of the Seven Woods; Voivod; Tom Waits; Mal Waldron; Eddie Warner; Watchtower - Ron Jarzombek; Roger Waters; WASP; Anton Webern; Max Webster; The West Coast Pop Art Experimental; The Whitefield Brothers; Whitehouse; The Who; Wigwam; Hank Williams; Wendy O Williams; Peter Lamborn Wilson; Winter; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Iannis Xenakis; Yellow Eyes; Yes; York Wilborn's Psychedelic Six; Lamonte Young; Larry Young; Townes Van Zandt; Frank Zappa; Zero Kama; John Zorn; Zvuki Mu (Зву́ки Му); ZZ Top