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Ennio Morricone is an Academy Award-winning Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor. Considered one of the most influential, versatile and experimental composers of all time, he has produced over 500 scores and over 100 of his classical works. He was indoctrinated in music by his father, who gave him his first lessons in reading music and taught him  to play various instruments.

Ennio Morricone is an Academy Award-winning Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor. Considered one of the most influential, versatile and experimental composers of all time, he has produced over 500 scores and over 100 of his classical works. He was indoctrinated in music by his father, who gave him his first lessons in reading music and taught him  to play various instruments.

KSHMR has been influenced by Ennio again with symphonic elements which has been a unique style for productions by him. When we listen to KSHMR’s songs, most of them have a vibe of orchestral music. His intro music for main stage performances were also similar to Ennio Morricone’s music. KSHMR has an ability of combining all those genres into one and making them sound impressive and epic. That’s what I learnt while comparing the similarities and differences.

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The Beatles, formerly known as the Quarrymen or  Silver Beatles, are an English music quartet known as the Fab Four,  a global epitome of the hopes and dreams of a generation that matured in the 1960s. The main members are John Lennon (born 9 October 1940 in Liverpool, Merseyside, UK – 8 December 1980 in New York, New York), Paul McCartney (formally Sir James Paul McCartney, born 1942). Born June 18,  Liverpool), George Harrison (b. Liverpool, 25 February 1943 – 29 November  2001, Los Angeles, California, USA) with Ringo Starr (a.k.a. Richard Starkey, born 7 July 1940)

(Miller, 2022)

Kshmr has a quality of mixing different aged music categories in new age music. I have listened to songs of KSHMR which exaggerate the feel off 90’s.

He always tries to blend completely different music styles with EDM. I heard lots of specific elements of KSHMR with a blend of electronic music. He already has proved that any music genre can be mixed together if the emotions as completely same as what we think. I have hard kind of a similarity with beatles in few of his songs. “World we left behind” is a good example to show what exactly kshmr wanted to express in his creations which was blended with Old Beatles vibe.

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Black Sabbath is an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne.・It was a band. Black Sabbath are often recognized as pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped define the genre with releases such as Black Sabbath (1970), Paranoid (1970) and Master of Reality (1971).(Black Sabbath, n.d.)

Yanni was a former band member of the “Chameleon” band. He was the keyboardist on that band

“Yanni played keyboards for the rock and roll band Chameleon, who had made a name for themselves in the two cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Spurred on by their success, Chameleon launched regional tours including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Chicago, Iowa, and Dakota. They also self-produced two albums  during this period.” (About | Yanni, n.d.)

Yanni is a Rock music lover, he has blended rock music on his creations too, But not with electric guitars. He used to make distorted sounds on synthesizers. The song "Vertigo" has a kind of rock inspiration. He has said Black Sabbath is also a band that he got influenced. But that should be his ealy days. somehow he has a mix of classical and many other musical genres which he got inspired.

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Frédéric Chopin, French in full Frédéric François Chopin, Polish Fryderyk Franciszek Szopen, (born March 1, 1810 [see Researcher’s Note: Chopin’s birth date], Żelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, Duchy of Warsaw [now in Poland]—died October 17, 1849, Paris, France), Polish French composer and pianist of the Romantic period, best known for his solo pieces for piano and his piano concerti. Although he wrote little but piano works, many of them brief, Chopin ranks as one of music’s greatest tone poets by reason of his superfine imagination and fastidious craftsmanship. (Plantinga, 2022)

Yanni's second influence was Chopin. I can assure you that Yanni has almost the same technique as Chopin. There is a song called "Until Last Moment" by Yanni, which is very similar to Chopin's "Nocturne". Yanni plays this song "Until The Last Moment "full of emotions and feelings. I feel the same way when I listen to Chopin's music. Yanni said his second influence was Chopin. So it is true.

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Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 in Bonn, Archdiocese of Cologne [Germany]; died March 26, 1827 in Vienna, Austria), German composer of the classical and romantic major musician in the transition period between.

One of Yanni's influences was Beethoven. Listening to Beethoven's music, I could tell that Yanni was influenced by Beethoven. Yanni has always composed music with symphonic accents. All  his compositions were based on piano and many other symphonic instruments, also he has mixed new electronic synthesizers on his music. He did a lot of experimentation with his own music. You'll hear sounds like Beethoven and modern versions of Yanni's music.

“My parents loved classical music. So I was exposed to classical music very early. And I love Beethoven. That’s my favorite.” (Yanni Speaks: World Music Icon Talks About Influences, the Foibles of Fame, and His Future, n.d.)

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Bob Marley, fully Robert Nesta Marley (born 6 February  1945, Nine Mile, St. Ann, Jamaica; died 11 May  1981, Miami, Florida, USA), early ska, rocksteady and reggae music form emerged in the 1970s with a shocking rock-influenced hybrid that catapulted him to international superstardom.(White, 2022)

Tash Sultana has a sort of reggae mix. Tash Sultana's 'Jungle' is the same sort of rock mix reggae style. An article in an online magazine stated that Tash was influenced by Bob Marley. Whenever I listened to her music (Boladale, 2017), I felt some sort of reggae rhythm in most of the songs. She's always rhythmic with reggae-like guitar grooves. I think she was also influenced by Bob Marley.

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Jimi Hendrix, real name James Marshall Hendrix, was an American rock guitarist, singer, and composer. He was born John Allen Hendrix on November 27, 1942, and passed away on September 18, 1970, in London, England. He combined British avant-garde rock techniques with American blues, jazz, rock, and soul traditions to reimagine the electric guitar.

By Charles Shaar Murray Last Updated: Sep 14, 2022

Tash was influenced by Jimi with the way he play the guitar. I assume she learned a lot about playing guitar. Jimi was a great guitarist  During early 90’s. Jimi was a unique guitarist and he had his own style of playing guitar. When I see Tash performing I heard lots of similarities like Jimi’s playings. And obviously Tash is having the same playing style as Jimi. The tones of the guitars sounds so similar as Jimi.

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Erykah Badu is an American rhythm and blues singer who goes by the name Erica Wright and was born on February 26, 1971, in Dallas, Texas, in the United States. Her neo-soul vocals have drawn comparisons to jazz great Billie Holiday.

Tash Sultana was inspired by the music style of Eryka Badu. When she listen to Erica’s songs, She always had a feeling of looping them.

Sultana responds when asked about her musical influences, "I love Erykah Badu."I'm like laying out all the instruments in the song, like I'd loop it, every time I listen to her music.(Pratt, 2018)

by Tim Casagrande • 08/01/2018

Once I listened to Erykah’s songs I felt the same vibe of Tash. I can hear a similarity with Tash and Erykah. I was able to understand what Tash got from Erykah’s Songs. The rhythm and the groove she makes on her songs always sounds like Erykah's genre. But it’s a kind of a blend with new music styles.

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Tash Sultana, a gender-flexible multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, producer and sound engineer, has been named one of Australia's hardest-working music exporters. Tash began playing the guitar from a young age after receiving a gift from their late grandfather. Tash began to explore other instruments, such as piano, keyboard, synth, bass, drums/percussion, beatmaking/sampling, beatboxing, trumpet, saxophone, flute, mandolin, oud, harmonica, lap steel, panpipes, and guitar. She then arranged her performances into loop style, with percussive and finger tapping style guitar playing in coordination with her vocal range stretching up to 5 octaves. By the age of 13, Tash was playing open mic nights up to six times a week across Victoria. Tash's refusal to conform to norms in society led to her taking to the streets of Melbourne to perform for crowds, using her unique skills to attract attention on Melbourne's famous 'Bourke Street'. In 2016, a viral bedroom recording of the song "Jungle" by The Beatles surfaced.

(https://www.tashsultana.com/#about)

Tash sultana’s performances were so unique once I saw her on you tube. I loved the way she perform because she use lots of techniques to deliver her music as a one band.  There are lots of sound gears like Loop pedals,Synthesizers, Live instruments etc. Each time when I watch her videos, I always tried to figure out how she link all the instruments in a Digital Audio Workstation and programmed them to perform without any other instrumentalists. She use ableton software to do the arrangements. I have seen her as a great instrumentalist, vocalist as well as a great audio engineer. She knows exactly how to do the mix for all of her instruments. I am curious when it comes to her music programming techniques.

I always wanted to learn how she perform with a computer and play all the instruments with looping systems. The quantization of her playings was done while the performance is live. I am so interested to learn how she does those things so confidently.

Her influences include "Erykah Badu, Jimmy Hendrix, and Bob Marley," R&B, and classical music (Meet Tash Sultana, the Self-taught Aussie Musician Who Just Blew the Roof off Vicar St, 2017)

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Yanni, in full Yanni Chryssomallis, (born November 14, 1954, Kalamata, Greece), Greek-born American composer and keyboardist who was a leading figure in late 20th-century New Age music—a characteristically non arousing genre of popular music, often entirely instrumental and used for relaxation or meditation.

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Yanni has been an influence on my life since my childhood. When I was in grade 9 at high school, I had the chance to see one of Yanni's concert videos. That concert completely blew my mind and I got addicted to his music. He was the only musician which I have seen in my life, who blended different music cultures around the world and deliver them as a well developed music piece. He has a great talent in working with synthesizers.

He has been making music for people’s hearts with the addition of electronic feel to his symphonic ideas. I learned alot about world music because of him. The first time I saw a didgeridoo in my life was from the concerts by Yanni. So I used to research about Didgeridoos and finally I made one by my hand for the High School project. Also I saw an Armenian wind Instrument called ‘Duduk’ and that sounded so great. I’ve got interest about all those instruments just because of Yanni. So I felt deep inside my heart ‘this man is amazing’. From that moment I really wanted to make my own compositions like Yanni. I started experimenting a lot about sounds which projects out from Instruments. Also I have learned the most important thing about life from Yanni. He always gives a positive motivative speech once he perform at a concert. Those speeches made myself so confident. Even now I always think positive because of yanni. He inspired me alot. He always said his religion is humanity. After hearing this live at the audience once I went to a real concert I felt the same. I believed on it. This is how Yanni became one of the most lovable influence in my life.

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Hans Florian Zimmer is one of Germany's most famous film score composers and  music producers, having composed music for over 150 Hollywood films. He understands music very well and is one of those composers who deserves a prominent place in the category of living legends. His father died when he was just six years old, and Zimmer surrendered himself to music. He entered the industry by writing jingles for commercials and performing in rock bands.

When I listen to most of kshmr's songs, I hear a lot of orchestral music  in his productions. He used to mix orchestral music with his EDM. Songs such as "Dharma", "Jungle His Whistle", and his new album "Andromeda" have parallels with Hans' Zimmer-like orchestral music. However, KSHMR has undergone a very different transformation when it comes to his compositions. He is experimenting further with electronic music combined with  orchestral music.

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I believe I was born to make Music. I am a music producer and a DJ. My interest has been influenced by three artists. My main genres of interest are EDM, Electronic pop. I love making more experimental music like blending different types of genres together. I believe that makes sense of having a great outcome. Music is always a universal language. All I have to do is talk to people and make them feel better.

I have been experimenting stuff for more than three years. Still I'm learning a lot and trying to make my projects sounds perfect. I always watched lots of videos of how DJ producers make their songs. That's how I learned to produce my own songs. I felt so much happy about myself cuz, I had few of an audience in my Native country. I've got like 7000+ subscribers on you tube and 4000+ monthly listners on Spotify. I am so proud of myself cuz I came along this way by myself.

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Niles "Cyranizzy" Hollowell-Dhar (born  October 6, 1988), better known as KSHMR, is quickly becoming one of the most memorable names in the electronic music industry. KSHMR is based in Berkeley, California, and  has been making EDM since 2013 after KSHMR left indie pop duo He's The Cataracs.KSHMR first made his mark on the EDM scene with the song "Megalodon" when his first major song was released in  early  2014. KSHMR is also known for collaborating on songs with many famous producers such as Borgeous and DVBBS..

KSHMR was an iconic artist who inspired me a-lot to become a music producer as well as a DJ. I dreamed a-lot to appear on a stage like 'Tomorrowland', 'Ultra Music Festival' and 'EDC' as a world ranking Dj. KSHMR's very first song I listened was 'Jungle Whistle'. That song inspired me a-lot. I always felt like 'if he can be that much famous and also be creative, why I can't?' This is how I came into producing Music.

Kshmr always produce songs using Ableton. I have seen lots of his master classes with Ableton on his screen. I used to search what he use as third party plugins to make his songs sound good. Also I have downloaded many of Synthesizers like Sylenth, Nexus, Spire and serum etc.
Kshmr designs his unique lead sounds using 'Sylenth'. I tried to make many songs sounds like KSHMR's Songs, but it never happened.

He usually organize his songs to sound perfect and energetic. Sometimes he design sounds similar to organic sounds to make his drops sound unique and punchy. Also he has released bunch of sample packs which is so much useful for music producers. Sounds of kshmr is a series of sample packs he has released.