BIOGRAPHY
"There is an element of death in life, and I am astonished that one pretends to ignore it: death, whose unpitying presence we experience in each turn of fortune we survive because we must learn how to die slowly. We must learn to die: all of life is in that."
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Letters
dub KULT doesn't serve up an arid musical mono-culture, but a rich mix. The diversity of his music is a reflection of his background half-Indian, half-English, part-time member of both the cool crowd and the geek gaggle, neither definitively house nor techno. The music he makes is for both the head and the body. Even tunes that seem made for those moments when you're lost on the dance-floor always have some latent, brooding meaning an intention. Like few DJs of his generation, dub KULT understands that at the centre of clubbing madness lies a still, reflective core.
It's a special insight into party music that's great for your soul. Dub KULT's records and his label, Living, get props from everyone from Steve Bug and Richard Grey to Ricardo Villalobos and Andy Weatherall, even Sven Vath. He's put out tunes through Warp's off shoot, Arcola, influential German labels Traum and Raum...Musik, plus he's already done the soundtrack for Channel 4's Burning Man film, the Tomorrow's World Live show, as well as for legendary fetish fashion show, The Torture Garden.
And the name? Kult has it's roots in the infamous club nights Dub ran with the Kult collective, since 1997. Dancefloors were wiggled and grooved upon from everywhere from the ICA to dodgy Dalston warehouses and swank West London clubs. Guests have included Nathan Coles, Tyler T-Bone Stadius, Richard Grey, Cylob, Evil Eddie Richards and Brit underground legend Tom Churchill.
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Baccara - Guido Schneider and Andre Galluzi - Highgrade Records
Hispaniola - Minilogue - Cocoon Recordings
Crypt - dub KULT - Curle
Specter's trip - Marc Heyen - Synket
Exotique feat. Miss Kinda (Max D Loved Remix) - The Ball breakers - Deeperfect
Crystalline - Lars Wickinger - Living Records
Haze Ward - The Dolphins - SCI + TEC
Digital Audio Use-Abuse - Maritz Piske - Organic Domain Recods
Goose Step - Agaric - Raum...Musik
Meanwhile - Johnjon - Baalsaal Music
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Petit Mal out now on vinyl
He’s the biggest UK producer you’ve never heard of. dub KULT's records and his label, Living, get props from everyone from Bug to Villalobos to Weatherall to Vath. He’s been remixed by Guido Schneider and remixed Efendin, and been in Groove’s top 10 techno releases of the year as early as 2003. He's released on Warp's offshoot Arcola, German labels Traum and Raum...Musik, Belgium’s Curle and has a track coming on the UK’s veryverywrongindeed and a remix of Petar Dundov due out soon on Music Man. He did the soundtrack for Channel 4's upcoming Burning Man film, the Tomorrow's World Live show and he’s played more gigs in Europe than he is ever likely to do in the UK ...
It’s a bit more cerebral an approach than the usual. “At the centre of clubbing madness,” dub says, “lies a still, reflective core. There always has to be some brooding meaning, even at the moments of the most insane dancefloor abandon.” Which is why dub is currently working with a folk singer and a new, visually driven-live set due in 2008...
PETIT MAL EP - OUT NOW ON VINYL THROUGH NEUTON. LISTEN (SHORT SAMPLES ONLY):
Petit Mal |
Ole |
50 ways
Veryverywrongindeed 4: dub KULT's the fly / brave and afraid
Here's both sides of the Veryverywrongindeed MO: a tweaking dancefloor freakout WTF!? moment and an evocative, emotional take on vulnerability - lyrics and all. An explanation? Read the Tim Sheridan
Faith messageboard posting.
And for what it's worth, the song was overheard and snapped up at an Ibizan villa party. dub KULT is one of the seven artists working with veryverywrongindeed - one of biggest UK wonky minimalists you've never heard of, having had a Groove top 10 as far back as 2003, and now releasing on Traum/Raum, Curle, Music Man, Signals, and working with the bassplayer of the Guillemots on new music...
Listen to samples:
The fly |
Brave and afraid
