Nora en Pure: influences, peers and legacy

Every connection with its receipt

Nora En Pure built a career on melodic, nature-facing deep house — strings, birdsong, plucked arpeggios — released largely through Enormous Tunes out of Zurich. This mix traces the Swiss/South African roots, the indie-dance lineage that shaped her, and the ambient and classical strains behind her 'Purified' aesthetic.

The Kynda mix for Nora en Pure

• Key Influence · Sunshine by Wankelmut (2012). Nora En Pure emerged from the same early-2010s European deep house wave that Wankelmut's remix work defined: warm organ chords, shuffling garage-tinged drums and vocal snippets over melodic loops. Her breakout 'Come With Me' (2013) arrived in exactly this lane, released via Zurich's Enormous Tunes, whose catalogue sat alongside Wankelmut's Berlin output on the same blog and Beatport deep house charts.
• Influencia Obscura · Roots in the Sky by Oskar Sala (1974). Sala's trautonium electronics — famously the shrieking birds of Hitchcock's 'The Birds' — represent the older European tradition of building organic, animal-like sound from machines. Nora En Pure's records are stitched with birdsong, water and insect field recordings under the plucked synth lines, and her 'Purified' brand frames electronic music as nature transcription: a lineage that runs back through this kind of pre-digital sound design.
• Local Roots · Boogie Nights by EDX (2011). Maurizio Colella, aka EDX, is the central figure of Swiss house and a fellow Zurich-area producer whose Sirup label runs parallel to Nora En Pure's Enormous Tunes home. Both artists helped make Switzerland an unexpected hub for melodic deep house in the 2010s, sharing remix credits, radio slots and festival bills across the German-speaking club circuit.
• Beyond the Medium · Planet Earth by Alastair Fothergill (2006). Nora En Pure's whole visual and thematic identity — track titles like 'Morning Dew' and 'Wetlands', videos shot in mountains and coastline, and her advocacy for conservation charities — sits in the tradition of sweeping natural-history filmmaking. The orchestral-plus-landscape grammar of this series is the clearest non-musical parallel to how her records frame melody as scenery.
• Peer · Zwarte Zwaan by Ben Böhmer (2019). Böhmer works the same melodic-house-and-strings territory, with cinematic chord movement and long, patient builds, and both artists became fixtures of the Anjunadeep/Purified festival ecosystem in the late 2010s. They occupy adjacent slots on the same European festival bills, sharing an audience that wants euphoria without the hard drop.
• From the Canon · Come With Me by Nora En Pure (2013). The breakout that made her name: a plucked-string hook, brushed percussion and a hushed vocal, issued through Zurich's Enormous Tunes. It travelled from blogs to Beatport's deep house chart and became the blueprint she has refined ever since, leading to her 2016 invitation to record a two-hour BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix for Pete Tong's show.
• Key Collaborator · Waterfalls by Sons of Maria (2016). The Swedish duo are core Enormous Tunes labelmates, part of the small roster of producers who built the Zurich label's melodic deep house identity alongside Nora En Pure. Their remix and release history is intertwined with hers on that imprint, and their plucked, sun-warmed productions demonstrate the house style she and the label defined together.
• Legacy · Innerbloom by Rüfüs Du Sol (2016). The Australian trio's slow-burn, emotionally literal dance music shares Nora En Pure's audience and its logic: long builds, live-feeling instrumentation, festival crowds treating house music as catharsis. Their rise ran alongside hers on the same melodic-house festival circuit, and the two acts are routinely programmed and playlisted together as the genre's flagship names.

What influenced Nora en Pure

• True by Spandau Ballet. Her single 'Saltwater' contains elements of Spandau Ballet's 'True'. “she started with the single "Saltwater" which contains elements of " True " by Spandau Ballet” (Wikipedia)
• The Blue Marble by NASA / Apollo 17 crew (1972). The Blue Marble (NASA / Apollo 17 crew) — culture for Nora en Pure (wikidata.org)
• Planet Earth by Alastair Fothergill (2006). Planet Earth (Alastair Fothergill) — culture for Nora en Pure
• Roots in the Sky by Oskar Sala (1974). Roots in the Sky (Oskar Sala) — ghost for Nora en Pure
• Beauty by Bruno Sanfilippo (2010). Beauty (Bruno Sanfilippo) — ghost for Nora en Pure
• Miracle by Kaskade (2011). Miracle (Kaskade) — titan for Nora en Pure
• Sunshine by Wankelmut (2012). Sunshine (Wankelmut) — titan for Nora en Pure

Peers and kindred spirits

• Paul Harris. Produced remixes for Paul Harris. “a whole catalogue of EPs and remixes (for artists such as Faithless , Wretch 32 , Klingande , Oliver Heldens , Paul Harris and his side project Dirty Vegas )” (Wikipedia)
• Klingande. Produced remixes for Klingande. “a whole catalogue of EPs and remixes (for artists such as Faithless , Wretch 32 , Klingande , Oliver Heldens , Paul Harris and his side project Dirty Vegas )” (Wikipedia)
• Pete Tong. Guest-mixed for Pete Tong's Essential Mix radio show. “In July 2016, she was invited to put together a two-hour long mix for Pete Tong's radio show: "BBC's Essential Mix".” (Wikipedia)
• Dirty Vegas. Produced remixes for Paul Harris's side project Dirty Vegas. “a whole catalogue of EPs and remixes (for artists such as Faithless , Wretch 32 , Klingande , Oliver Heldens , Paul Harris and his side project Dirty Vegas )” (Wikipedia)
• Wretch 32. Produced remixes for Wretch 32. “a whole catalogue of EPs and remixes (for artists such as Faithless , Wretch 32 , Klingande , Oliver Heldens , Paul Harris and his side project Dirty Vegas )” (Wikipedia)
• Oliver Heldens. Produced remixes for Oliver Heldens. “a whole catalogue of EPs and remixes (for artists such as Faithless , Wretch 32 , Klingande , Oliver Heldens , Paul Harris and his side project Dirty Vegas )” (Wikipedia)
• Joris Voorn. Performed alongside Joris Voorn at Tomorrowland's Daybreak Session. “the Tomorrowland "Daybreak Session" (a 3-hour set on the mainstage of alongside Joris Voorn , Carl Cox and others)” (Wikipedia)
• Helvetic Nerds. States she is part of the group Helvetic Nerds. “Being part of the Helvetic Nerds in Switzerland, Nora En Pure has a year-long studio and label partnership with Enormous Tunes label owner Christian Hirt.” (Wikipedia)
• Christian Hirt. Long-term studio and label partnership with Christian Hirt. “Nora En Pure has a year-long studio and label partnership with Enormous Tunes label owner Christian Hirt.” (Wikipedia)
• Faithless by Liv Ullmann (2000). Produced remixes for Faithless. “a whole catalogue of EPs and remixes (for artists such as Faithless , Wretch 32 , Klingande , Oliver Heldens , Paul Harris and his side project Dirty Vegas )” (Wikipedia)
• Carl Cox. Performed alongside Carl Cox at Tomorrowland's Daybreak Session. “the Tomorrowland "Daybreak Session" (a 3-hour set on the mainstage of alongside Joris Voorn , Carl Cox and others)” (Wikipedia)
• Around the World by Daft Punk (1997). Around the World (Daft Punk) — geography for Nora en Pure (musicbrainz.org)
• Take Me Higher by Croatia Squad (2015). Take Me Higher (Croatia Squad) — collaborator for Nora en Pure
• Loneliness by Lane 8 (2018). Loneliness (Lane 8) — peer for Nora en Pure
• Zwarte Zwaan by Ben Böhmer (2019). Zwarte Zwaan (Ben Böhmer) — peer for Nora en Pure
• Boogie Nights by EDX (2011). Boogie Nights (EDX) — geography for Nora en Pure
• Waterfalls by Sons of Maria (2016). Waterfalls (Sons of Maria) — collaborator for Nora en Pure

Who Nora en Pure influenced

• Innerbloom by Rüfüs Du Sol (2016). Innerbloom (Rüfüs Du Sol) — legacy for Nora en Pure
• Lovers by Sultan + Shepard (2020). Lovers (Sultan + Shepard) — legacy for Nora en Pure