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Dub KULT is one of the few DJs and producers out there who has an instinctive feel for rocking a dance-floor while also having both something to say and the skills with which to express himself. Live and on record, he plays techno and house sometimes deep, sometimes hard but always infused
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Dub KULT is one of the few DJs and producers out there who has an instinctive feel for rocking a dance-floor while also having both something to say and the skills with which to express himself. Live and on record, he plays techno and house sometimes deep, sometimes hard but always infused with some kind of off-kilter alien funk. He doesn't just do looping bangers, and he doesn't get lost in self-indulgence, but he does produce superbly funky, danceable yet lush music that has both attitude and soul. A special insight into party music that's great for your soul and your head sets dub KULT apart from most producers and this has made him one of those artists the techno scene relies on for peaktime sounds. His records 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. Most recently, he's been putting his money where his mouth is and has started a record label all of his own. Living Records has been getting support from everyone from Dave Mothersole to Larent Garnier and is set to be a bit of a label to be reckoned with in 2007. 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. 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. dub KULT is a man whose whole career has been dedicated to the un-ending call-and-response of rhythm, this time expressed in electronic music.
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