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‘THE ART OF THE GENRE’

How many of these artists have influenced you?

1. Beastie Boys
2. System of a Down
3. Scatman John
4. Flaming Lips
5. Kraftwerk
6. Sex Pistols
7. The Doors
8. Fatboy Slim
9. The Avalanches
10. Van Der Graaf Generator

Most people we’ve asked answered with a few, depending on their kind of music and this is the thing that confuses us!

While some argue that the accessibility of music now is leading to over saturation and artists getting lost among the masses, a fantastic aspect of having access to nearly every piece of music created means influences don’t have to be limited to 1 or 2 genres.

It seems the world has always defined music taste via genre — from the start of rock n roll, throughout musical history you were either…

Prog or

Mods or

Eminem or

The Boy Bands

This suggests influences can only come from one genre when for many bands, an array of genres influence them.