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Kanye West Inspired By Phil Collins On New Album

Plus Boy George and The Police

By Daniel Melia on Tuesday 25th November 2008 Photo by wenn

Kanye West channeled Eighties rockers Phil Collins, The Police and Boy George for inspiration for his new album 808s & Heartbreaks.

West takes a new musical direction for his latest LP, singing instead of rapping on the majority of the tracks - and he admits he listened to a lot of different styles of music as he experimented to perfect a stripped down sound.

He tells MTV News, "I listened to Phil Collins, Boy George, The Police, Gary Numan. I ended up getting more polished as a designer, you know I designed the tracks.

"I'm kind of a minimalist - the more and more skilled I get at interior design and architecture stuff, the things that appeal to me are very minimal but functional spaces so I wanted my tracks to be minimal but functional."

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