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Music has been a part of my life from an early age. In high school and beyond, I was exposed to classical music and orchestras through my parents and through learning an instrument for many years. This also led to an understanding of music theory. After high school, as I matured, I began to explore music more, starting with classic musicians and expanding out from there. I'm hoping to get a career in sound design in the future; if I do, I have no doubt my musical tastes will influence the way I work.

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This electronic musician had a significant on frontman Thom Yorke's understanding of music, influencing the band's decision to move away from a more conventional alt rock sound that was popular at the time and delve more into electronic music (Zoric, 2000). Over a decade later, he still considers Aphex Twin to be his most important influence in hindsight (Dazed Digital, 2013).

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Funk, disco, R&B and house of the 70s and 80s

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Funk, disco, R&B and house of the 70s and 80s

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Their debut album Homework (1997) includes the track Teachers which lists many of their influences, the majority of which are rooted in the electronic house music scene of the time, as well as the funk, R&B and disco sound that was popular in their younger years. Artists include well known musicians like George Clinton of Funkadelic, as well as lesser known names like Jammin Gerald or Romanthony, the latter of which would go on to become a prominent collaborator on their sophomore album.

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This acclaimed singer-songwriter was a core influence on not only Daft Punk's sound, but their visual. According to the duo (Rayner, 2007), they saw Williams' musical film Phantom of the Paradise dozens of times in their formative years. Its music and costume design was an inspiration for the duo's career and their iconic robot helmets, and they would go on to collaborate with Williams heavily on what would be their final album (Gopalan, 2013).

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The mythical French robot duo are very much a formative band for me. Daft Punk's irresistible neo disco grooves are still a regular listen, their fresh and innovative sound being a gateway drug to many other artists since. Their discography is short in the scheme of things, but their impact is undeniable.

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A new addition to their increasingly diverse range of musical inspirations, frontman Stu Mackenzie drew from his lifelong love of hip hop as inspiration for some tracks on their more recent albums. According to Mackenzie (in Fantano 2022), he began to experiment with turntables and produce music with hip hop stylings as a way to pass time during the Covid-19 pandemic, which led to a fresh and unique direction on their album Omnium Gatherum.

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Tame Impala and the Australian psychedelia scene

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Tame Impala and the Australian psychedelia scene

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Psychedelic rock has been rapidly growing in the Australian musical landscape in the last decade or so. Both King Gizzard and spearhead artist Tame Impala have collaborated in the past and taken ideas from each other (Kelly, 2023), forming connections with other bands in the country such as Pond or Tropical Fuck Storm (Newstead, 2022), collaboratively forming a burgeoning movement.

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In recent years, the band have begun to incorporate a heavier sound on some of their albums influenced greatly by classic metal bands of the formative age. According to frontman Stu Mackenzie, he was heavily inspired by bands such as Slayer, Metallica, and Motorhead, which all influenced the sound of many of King Gizzard's earlier albums, but especially so their 2019 album Infest the Rats' Nest (Young, 2019). The band have continued to incorporate this sound into their discography since.

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These Aussie rockers have quickly climbed to become one of my favorites of all time. They cover everything from neo psychedelic garage to old school rockabilly, microtonal Turkish prog, high octane thrash metal and even beyond, with an unmistakable flair and an album repertoire in the last 10 years or so that many artists don't manage to achieve in a lifetime.

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Much like Talking Heads, REM's unique lyrical style and approach to music had a huge impact on Radiohead, specifically frontman Thom Yorke, who has listed them as an influence in many interviews. What drew Yorke to the band was REM frontman Michael Stipe's songwriting and stage personality (Fricke 2011), inspiring him to channel that in his own work, even going so far as to claim he's "ripped them off left, right and centre for years and years" (in Draper, 2004).

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A pioneering music producer, Giorgio Moroder has been dubbed the "father of disco" for his contributions to the genre (Crae, 2018), and of electronic dance music as a whole (Brewster, 2017). Much of the sound that Daft Punk draw from can be traced to his work, and the duo paid homage to him by including him as a prominent collaborator on Random Access Memories (2013).

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Radiohead's roots are strongly linked to this pioneering musical group.Talking Heads' highly influential and innovative instrumentation are part of what inspired Radiohead to be more than a rock band, and their songs share similar unconventional lyrical stylings. It should also be noted that the band named themselves after an obscure track from them, 'Radio Head' (Starkey, 2021).

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A key pillar of my musical experience over the years, their blend of alt rock and electronica sent me tumbling down a rabbit hole of innovation that I never quite came back from. I still love both aspects of the band's output, but their more experimental albums were a huge part of me discovering what music can be.