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Murcof is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Kraftwerk, The Smiths, Arvo Pärt, Jean-Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream. Those roots explain a lot about how Murcof arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Loscil, Biosphere, Ben Lukas Boysen, The Black Dog and Plastikman, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Talvin Singh, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around Murcof, reaching back through Kraftwerk and forward to Talvin Singh. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Murcof is the performing and recording name of Mexican electronic musician Fernando Corona. Corona was born in 1970 in Tijuana, Mexico and raised in Ensenada. He was for a time a member of the Tijuana-based Nortec Collective of electronic musicians under the Terrestre project name. In 2000, he returned to Tijuana. Since 2006, Corona has been living in Barcelona, Spain.
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Murcof connections
Murcof grew out of Kraftwerk, The Smiths, Arvo Pärt and Jean-Michel Jarre, shares an orbit with Loscil, Biosphere, Ben Lukas Boysen and The Black Dog, went on to shape Talvin Singh. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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