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Isao Tomita is a Ambient and Classical act. Their catalogue also touches Electronic and Synth-pop. Their sound grew out of Wendy Carlos. Those roots explain a lot about how Isao Tomita arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Mike Oldfield, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Art of Noise, Mort Garson and Susumu Yokota, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Murcof, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Mac DeMarco and Shinichiro Yokota, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 21 connections around Isao Tomita, reaching back through Wendy Carlos and forward to Murcof. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Isao Tomita connections
Isao Tomita grew out of Wendy Carlos, shares an orbit with Mike Oldfield, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Art of Noise and Mort Garson, went on to shape Murcof, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Mac DeMarco and Shinichiro Yokota. 21 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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