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Nujabes is a Hip hop act. Their sound grew out of C.L. Smooth, Terry Callier, Laurindo Almeida, Gigi Masin and Fat Jon. Those roots explain a lot about how Nujabes arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Shing02, Witness, Kenichiro Nishihara, Blazo and MF DOOM, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into No Rome, Shing02, Minmi, Substantial and Ta-ku, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 34 connections around Nujabes, reaching back through C.L. Smooth and forward to No Rome. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Jun Seba , born Jun Yamada , better known by his stage name Nujabes, was a Japanese music producer best known for his atmospheric instrumental mixes sampling from hip-hop, soul, and jazz, as well as incorporating elements of trip hop, breakbeat, downtempo, and ambient music.
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Nujabes connections
Nujabes grew out of C.L. Smooth, Terry Callier, Laurindo Almeida and Gigi Masin, shares an orbit with Shing02, Witness, Kenichiro Nishihara and Blazo, went on to shape No Rome, Shing02, Minmi and Substantial. 34 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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