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Dorian Concept

Dorian Concept is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The Cinematic Orchestra. Those roots explain a lot about how Dorian Concept arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Daedelus, Bibio, Lapalux, Machinedrum and Flying Lotus, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Flying Lotus, Bibio and The Cinematic Orchestra, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around Dorian Concept, reaching back through The Cinematic Orchestra and forward to Flying Lotus. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

Background

Oliver Thomas Johnson, known by the alias Dorian Concept, is an Austrian composer, music producer and keyboardist whose work draws on an eclectic variety of sources including modal and free jazz, funk, hip-hop, electronic, ambient, and soundscape music. Johnson adopted his stage name as a teenager as a reference to the Dorian scale.

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Dorian ConceptThe Cinematic Orches…Flying LotusBibioThe Cinematic Orches…DaedelusBibioLapaluxMachinedrumFlying LotusNosaj ThingTeebsPlaid

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Dorian Concept connections

Dorian Concept grew out of The Cinematic Orchestra, shares an orbit with Daedelus, Bibio, Lapalux and Machinedrum, went on to shape Flying Lotus, Bibio and The Cinematic Orchestra. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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