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"Sarah Vaughan, I liked her voice. Her tonality is like super, super pure. Really crisp and clean. It has everything. It has emotion, execution, tonality, texture, timing, all that stuff. I think she's one of the greatest singers of all time."Watch this moment
"Future Sound of London, 'Lifeforms.' Their first album 'Accelerator' was sort of club-based and then they kind of flipped the script. It's got a little bit of atmospheric found sound, hip hop beats, vintage synthesizers."Watch this moment
"I don't really actually know this record very well, but it's Cannonball Adderley. Cannonball Adderley was, yeah, amazing. He's blazing fast but also a really sensitive player with a really nice tone that was definitely his own."Watch this moment
"I just like this guy. I don't know this record very well, but, Neon Indian. I just really dig this dude."Watch this moment
"Hearing Ministry for the first time really affected me because it was the first time I heard aggressive electronic music. It was like rock, but it was electronic. They really fucked with guitar tones running through digital processing and synthesizers."Watch this moment
"Surfer Rosa, classic, everybody knows it. As a kid, I mean the cover was pretty hot. That's what got me, of course, at first. Then I heard it and, man, it really changed a lot for me."Watch this moment
"That's why I always called The Sugarcubes the Icelandic B-52s. There’s just a dude saying stuff... As a kid, it put me in another mind space that I'd never been in before without even any drugs. It was just very transportive but very alien."Watch this moment
"For use of melody and contemporary electronic stuff, they're just super inspiring, ever since the Black Dog days. There's just nobody like them."Watch this moment
"I think this is probably my favorite Smiths album. It was more atmospheric and experimental than other Smiths records."Watch this moment
"Jan Jelinek, 'Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records.' This is a, I don't know, house/minimal techno record, just made up of samples. And a few people do that. He really kind of pioneered it with his Farben alias."Watch this moment
"This record, 'Badmotorfinger,' for me... It just changed my life. I'd never heard anything like that before."Watch this moment
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