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20 Jazz Funk Greats is a Industrial act. Their sound grew out of Paul McCartney and Adam and the Ants. Those roots explain a lot about how 20 Jazz Funk Greats arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Venus Gang and Nadia Cassini, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Radiohead and Matmos, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 6 connections around 20 Jazz Funk Greats, reaching back through Paul McCartney and forward to Radiohead. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
20 Jazz Funk Greats is the third studio album by British industrial music group Throbbing Gristle, released in December 1979 by the band's Industrial Records label. Known for its tongue-in-cheek title and artwork, it has been hailed as the band's best work, with Fact naming it the best album of the 1970s and Pitchfork naming it the best industrial album of all time.
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20 Jazz Funk Greats grew out of Paul McCartney and Adam and the Ants, shares an orbit with Venus Gang and Nadia Cassini, went on to shape Radiohead and Matmos. 6 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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