Dub techniques of King Tubby, Scratch Perry, The Scientist and Flying Lizards. Eq fiddling, delay overdriving everything else, hands always on my 4 track faders, various left field sounds. Just you know, no musical instruments and long digital instead of a space echo. Also I really don't convey the laid back mood, couldn't if I tried. Also plastikman on filter sweeps, there is several tracks where there is only a drum machine, filter, and delay, and get rid of the drum machine part.
I think if you just have noise influences it can get a bit inbred, though it certainly does not have to music influences either.
That said, there were a lot of performers where I lived that used 4 tracks extensively as instruments but have now quit and I miss them a lot, and I realized most genres of music I listen to are recorded on a 4 track, so I got a nice Tascam cassette 4 track for 50 bucks. I don't scoff at people with computers but it is easier and more satisfying for me to have access of multiple controls, and the irreplaceable aesthetics of magnetic tape or what someone said "the oil painting of electronic music".
Giacinto Scelsi, this is more of coincidence as I have been playing the casiotone synth while detuning it at the same time, and now appreciate Scelsi pieces he composed with detuning a clavioline, the 50's version of a casiotone. Each note slightly off from the last, also doing this with tape speed and filters. When successful can really create a complex mood, but difficult not have a lot incoherent moments when putting things together, which is sometimes good.
