Have you heard King Garbage's overlooked EP from this year? Pitch perfect and nuanced update on trip-hop. No feigned 'darkness' or posturing here. -- CFCF
And if you haven't seen it yet, here's the scene from Wim Wenders's documentary on Yohji Yamamoto that inspired me to make 'Music For Objects'. -- CFCF
Jason Molina was a huge inspiration to me as a songwriter, and his album 'Ghost Tropic' was a big influence on 'Outside', especially on "The Forest at Night". I love the endless repetition of the chord structure, being gradually built on, taken apart, with the words filling the space made by those cavernous drums...
I found out about Japanese band Dip in the Pool a couple years ago thanks to the internet. They've been inspiring me since -- they have quite a few records and they're all wonderful in their own unique ways. Kind of like a Japanese Cocteau Twins, but with its thick tapestries of sound punctuated by beautiful silence...
Tom asked me to remix a track from his record TOTAL LOSS. I chose "Running Back" because I wanted to give it a bit of swing. When I realized the song needed a verse to round things out and give it the properly Janet vibe I was going for, I asked the man Cadence Weapon to rap on it...