Martin Glover, also known as Youth, (born 27 December 1960) is a record producer and a founding member and bassist of the UK band Killing Joke. He is a member of The Fireman along with Paul McCartney. Glover was born in Africa.
Glover originally named himself Pig Youth after the reggae chanter Big Youth, who was popular with late 70's London punk bands.
Soon after exiting Killing Joke, Youth started the WAU! Mr Modo label, releasing a selection o...
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Martin Glover, also known as Youth, (born 27 December 1960) is a record producer and a founding member and bassist of the UK band Killing Joke. He is a member of The Fireman along with Paul McCartney. Glover was born in Africa.
Glover originally named himself Pig Youth after the reggae chanter Big Youth, who was popular with late 70's London punk bands.
Soon after exiting Killing Joke, Youth started the WAU! Mr Modo label, releasing a selection of industrial techno dubs, and heavy sound system dubs from artists like Napthali, Mannasseh, Bim Sherman and Jah Warrior. These disco mixes, released in the late 80's, are long deleted and fetch high sums in private sales.
Also during that time, Glover founded his own commercially oriented dub funk band Brilliant (band), which recorded one album in 1986, but disbanded later.
Youth's connections with dub continued in the mid 90's when he was asked by Adrian Sherwood to remix some of Bim Sherman's tracks for a reworking of the "Miracle" album....
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