Post your top 10 musical influences outside of EDM

This is the 'full list' of EDM as listed on Wikipedia:

Ambient
Ambient house
Ambient techno
Dark ambient
Drone music
Illbient
Isolationism
Lowercase
Psybient
Breakbeat
Baltimore Club
Big beat
Breakbeat hardcore
Broken beat
Florida breaks
Hip hop
Nu skool breaks
4-beat
Chiptune
Game Boy music
Video game music
Disco
Cosmic disco
Euro disco
Hardcore breaks
Hi-NRG
New Beat
Space disco
Eurobeat
Europop
Hard NRG
Italo disco
Italo dance
Nu-disco
Downtempo
Acid jazz
Balearic Beat
Chill out
Dub music
Dubtronica
Ethnic electronica
Moombahton
New age music
Nu jazz
Trip hop
Drum and bass
Clownstep
Darkcore
Darkstep
Drumfunk
Hardstep
Intelligent drum and bass
Jump-Up
Liquid funk
Neurofunk
Oldschool jungle
Darkside jungle
Ragga-jungle
Raggacore
Sambass
Techstep
Trancestep
DrumStep
Electro
Crunk
Electro backbeat
Electro-grime
Electro hop
Electropop
Electronica
Berlin school
Electroacoustic
Musique concrète
Contemporary classical music
Dubstyle
Electronic art music
Folktronica
Freestyle music
IDM
Glitch
Skweee
Sound art
Synthpop
Synthcore
Electronic rock
Alternative dance
Dance-punk
Dance-rock
Dark Wave
Electroclash
Electropunk
Ethereal Wave
Grind
Indietronica
New rave
Nintendocore
Space rock
Synthpop
Synthpunk
Eurodance
Bubblegum dance
Eurotrance
Hardcore/Hard dance
Bouncy house
Bouncy techno
Breakcore
Darkcore
Digital hardcore
Doomcore
Gabber
Happy hardcore
Hardstyle
Jumpstyle
Makina
Noisecore
Speedcore
Terrorcore
UK hardcore
House
Acid house
Chicago house
Deep house
Diva house
Electro house
Euro house
Fidget house
French house
Freestyle house
Funky house
Ghetto house
Hardbag
Hard NRG
Hip house
Italo house
Latin house
Minimal house/Microhouse
Scouse house
Swing house
Tech house
Tribal house
UK Hard house
US garage
Vocal house
Industrial
Aggrotech
Coldwave
Cybergrind
Dark electro
Death industrial
Electronic body music
Electro-Industrial
Futurepop
Industrial metal
Neue Deutsche Härte
Industrial rock
Noise
Japanoise
Power noise
Power electronics
Witch House/Drag
Post-disco
Dance-pop
Chillwave
Rave breaks
Progressive
Progressive breaks
Progressive drum & bass
Progressive House/Trance
Disco house
Dream house
Jumpstyle/Jumphouse
Space house
Progressive techno
Techno
Acid techno
Detroit techno
Free tekno
Ghettotech
Minimal
Nortec
Rave music
Rotterdam techno
Schranz / Hardtechno
Symphonic techno
Tecno brega
Techno-DNB
Techstep
Toytown Techno
Yorkshire Techno
Trance
Acid trance
Classic trance
Dream trance
Euro-trance
Hard trance
Hardstyle
Neo-trance
Progressive trance
Psychedelic trance/Goa trance
Dark psytrance
Full on
Psyprog
Psybient
Psybreaks
Suomisaundi
Tech trance
Uplifting trance
Orchestral Uplifting
Vocal trance
UK garage
2-step
4x4
Bassline
Breakstep
Dubstep
Funky
Grime
Speed garage

The term is meaningless bollocks. We have to stop using it.

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Originally Posted by lethal_pizzle

This is the 'full list' of EDM as listed on The term is meaningless bollocks. We have to stop using it.

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It's about as useful of a term as "Techno" which everyone loves to use for anything EDM.

Everything is 'computer music'. The percentage of 'real bands' still recording to reel-to-reel or 4-track with no computer in there must be tiny now.

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Originally Posted by lethal_pizzle

Everything is 'computer music'. The percentage of 'real bands' still recording to reel-to-reel or 4-track with no computer in there must be tiny now.

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True I guess what I am meaning is more of a "computer instrument" as opposed to traditional instruments (guitars, keyboards, drums, etc).

@Geekgod... yes, using 'techno' for anything other than techno is equally unsatisfactory

Anyway following the disrail; my top 10.

Radiohead (although a lot of their output is indistinguishable technically from 'EDM')
Pink Floyd
Nirvana
Smashing Pumpkins (up to and including Melon Collie)
U2 (up to and including Achtung Baby)
Curtis Mayfield
Spiritualized
Lee 'Scratch' Perry
The Police
The Beatles

@GeekGods - are people who use samples of proper stuff in or out? We can then have hip-hop and related (although they are bundled in with EDM above, and 'Electronic Rock' which scuppers NIN and ATR).

B-52's
Talking Heads
Beatles
311
REM
Andreas Vollenweider
Robbie Robertson
Smashing Pumpkins
Aerosmith
Van Halen

Blur, not oasis
pumpkins
nin
lcd soundsystem(i know this is pretty EDMish)
Qotsa
bright eyes
nirvana
alice in chains
radiohead
pixies

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Originally Posted by lethal_pizzle

@GeekGods - are people who use samples of proper stuff in or out? We can then have hip-hop and related (although they are bundled in with EDM above, and 'Electronic Rock' which scuppers NIN and ATR).

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Good question, I left out all of my hip hop and "electronic" influences. My list would be very different but I just didn't know :)

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Originally Posted by GeekGod

It's about as useful of a term as "Techno" which everyone loves to use for anything EDM.

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Exactly. Not everybody though. Normal people who haven't got an unhealthy obsession with music use these terms.

But people who don't understand the lexicon should not be writing the language. Resist!