Pixies, New Order, Air, The Verve, Slowdive, Stone Roses, Eno, Talking Heads, Teenage Fanclub, Radiohead, Blur, My Bloody Valentine, Boards of Canada, Scott Walker, Catherine Wheel, Daft Punk, The Smiths, Zero 7, U2, Sigur Ros, Jeff Buckley, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Belle & Sebastian, Boston, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Kitchens of Distinction, Luna, Richard Hawley, The Ocean Blue, 80s R&B/Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis productions, classic rock / quiet storm / lite fm radio formats, UK chart pop, Kompakt Kompakt Kompakt, The DFA, hypermelodic singer/songwriters (they're rare), druggy atmospherics ...and it goes off in 1, 000 directions from there., ,