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Gong is a Progressive rock act. Their sound grew out of Acid Mothers Temple, Soft Machine, Hawkwind, Kevin Ayers and Dean Fujioka. Those roots explain a lot about how Gong arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Soft Machine, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Matching Mole and Amon Düül II, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into System 7, Hatfield and the North, Mino Cinelu, Motivation Radio and Man, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 34 connections around Gong, reaching back through Acid Mothers Temple and forward to System 7. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Gong connections
Gong grew out of Acid Mothers Temple, Soft Machine, Hawkwind and Kevin Ayers, shares an orbit with Soft Machine, Hatfield and the North, National Health and Matching Mole, went on to shape System 7, Hatfield and the North, Mino Cinelu and Motivation Radio. 34 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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