Under The Influence

Following the release of ‘What Do The Stars Say To You’ – a collaborative album under his WARM moniker – Chicago house legend Ron Trent opens up about his formative influences

Following the release of her ‘LP.8’ album, Welsh producer Kelly Lee Owens reveals how witchcraft, Enya and er… gravy have shaped her work

Composer, producer, remixer and DJ Mark Reeder reveals his formative influences, including Brian Eno, Tony Wilson and a Moog gifted by Klaus Schulze

Ambient composer Roger Eno, who has recently released a new album, ‘The Turning Year’, talks about cultural awakenings, blissful pottering and the beauty of stillness

Marking her first single in three decades with the ‘Love Action’-sampling ‘Get Me To The Weekend’, Betty Boo reveals her formative influences

Former Mansun frontman and now a solo artist in his own right, Paul Draper reels off some of his favourite formative influences

Oslo-based electroacoustic musician Natasha Barrett reveals her influences – from owls and raspberries to Soundfield microphones

Late-night films, surrealist art and “scraping across the wave shapes”, Thomas Leer revisits his past ahead of the re-release of ‘The Bridge’, his 1979 classic with the late Robert Rental

Tom Middleton of Global Communication and GCOM reveals the influences that inform his music making 

Acid house, kosmische and the sounds of the city… Death In Vegas orchestrator Richard Fearless explains how all this and more have fed the creation of his latest album, ‘Future Rave Memory’