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Robin Guthrie is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Majesty Crush, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Phil Spector, The Ronettes and The Pop Group. Those roots explain a lot about how Robin Guthrie arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Harold Budd, Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser, Cocteau Twins, Slowdive and Roger Eno, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Gun Club, Lush, Ulrich Schnauss, Edwyn Collins and Felt, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 41 connections around Robin Guthrie, reaching back through Majesty Crush and forward to The Gun Club. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Robin Andrew Guthrie is a Scottish musician, songwriter, composer, record producer and audio engineer, best known as the co-founder of the dream pop band Cocteau Twins. During his career Guthrie has performed guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums and other musical instruments, in addition to programming, sampling and sound processing.
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Robin Guthrie connections
Robin Guthrie grew out of Majesty Crush, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Phil Spector and The Ronettes, shares an orbit with Harold Budd, Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser, Cocteau Twins and Slowdive, went on to shape The Gun Club, Lush, Ulrich Schnauss and Edwyn Collins. 41 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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