What's been your inspiration for the last year?

[MangaFish]

What artists, genres and tracks have been the inspiration for your mixes / productions this last year?

Personally with the mnml and electro-house bandwaggons, i've found it hard to get inspired by techno or electro so i've been leaning back towards my more industrial routes with bands like NIN, Front 242 and Ministry.
Also I never get tired of Aphex Twin or Squarepushers output

[rotten]

sick grindcore from the locust. that's what i was listening to a very lot / took inspiration from.

[RDR]

Tom waits

and

Cold hard cash.

[thomas_figo]

chris liebing and hernan cattaneo. funny duet init.

[Bas Mooy]

joy division (since i rediscovered all my old vinyls...), the cure, speedy j's dolby surround project (amazing!), Chivas Regal, darkness in general, the streets of Rotterdam, Tony Rohr and the hiphop beats of Delic from the dutch hiphop masters Opgezwolle....and of course my muse girlfriend...:)

[Ritzi Lee]

I wouldn't say some artist or something.
But I would say that some new synths and sounds pushed me forward in more experimenting with electronic music.

[dirty_bass]

Bipolar Disorder

[vadarfone]

yeah i got into renoise more and it opened my eyes to the possibilities of a decent interface.

[prozac]

Cocoa Rosie, Joanna newsom, Skream, Vex'd, Kode 9, 30 Hz, tipper, Lux Nigra, enduser, drumcorps

[audioinjection]

elton d
kanzleramt
vince watson
house/minimal
hip hop/soul/funk
hardcore/industrial
dnb
everything going on in my life

[MangaFish]

Bipolar Disorder

hehehe

[The Overfiend]

Joyce
Sahara
God
Freemasonry
The Political Climate of World Affairs
Patrick Dean Glenn Luka Matsura Filip Mita Mika Chris Joey B. Jamie Lau Marcus Brad Carlos Mark Vinnie Chrissi Dustin Ian Joseph Mf El-P Vast Aire Alchemist
I love my enemies this year for forcing me to be better than I was before and reminding me I am still not good enough now.

[djshiva]

dubstep. from vex'd to skream and everywhere in between.

absolutely LOVING the shit. just makes me want to put dirty deep sub basslines in EVERYTHING.

[snooch]

Mastodon, my new wife, the new record store down the street with the absolutely SICK old school dub 7" collection, late '80s-early '90s industrial and EBM, Bloc Party, the entire Code Red collection, Form, Construct Rhythm, culinary school, having my chef plastic wrap my car while I took a test.

[Col]

Anything but techno tbh.

Lots of folk (new & old) and the odd pieces of avant garde goodness.

[Tiptoe]

me getting into minimal and electro kind of saved me this year cos i was going off my music a bit. now i'm loving everything again. i guess they made me realise there is a lot of stuff out there and by people and lables i've never even heard of. Since i first discovered techno this is the most excited i think i've been about music!