◇ image via WikipediaSaul Williams
Saul Williams is a Hip hop and Industrial act. Their sound grew out of Warpaint, The Kills, Atticus Ross, The Bug and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Those roots explain a lot about how Saul Williams arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as El-P, dead prez, The Coup, Shabazz Palaces and Busdriver, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Kills, Ghosts I–IV, Mongrel, Scroobius Pip and Miguel, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 49 connections around Saul Williams, reaching back through Warpaint and forward to The Kills. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Saul Williams connections
Saul Williams grew out of Warpaint, The Kills, Atticus Ross and The Bug, shares an orbit with El-P, dead prez, The Coup and Shabazz Palaces, went on to shape The Kills, Ghosts I–IV, Mongrel and Scroobius Pip. 49 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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