Culprate (real name: John Hislop) is a British
electronic music
Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...
producer, whose music ranges from
IDM to
dubstep. He established his role in the burgeoning UK dubstep scene by releasing
EPs
EPS, EPs or Eps may refer to:
Commerce and finance
* Earnings per share
* Electronic Payment Services, in Hong Kong, Macau, and Shenzhen, China
* Express Payment System, in the Philippines
Education
* Edmonton Public Schools, in Edmonton, Al ...
on Dubsaw Recordings and Inspected Records from 2010 to 2013.
Around 2014, his music started to incorporate influences found in
experimental rock music from bands like
Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards); brothers Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments) and Colin Greenwood (bass) ...
and
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic music, psychedelic groups, they were distinguished by their extended compositions, sonic experimentation, philo ...
.
To release this music, he founded the label Open Outlets. At first, this was only used to release his own music, but ever since 2017, other artists have been allowed onto its roster.
On 29 November 2019, Culprate's
crowdfunding
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page
for a brand-new album on
Indiegogo went live, promising to be a spiritual successor to his albums ''Colours'' and ''Deliverance'', of which has a projected release date of July 2020. The album, entitled ''αριθμός τέσσερα'', was eventually released in 2022.
Discography
;Studio albums
*''Flatline'' (2011, Gradient Audio)
*''Colours'' (2011, Gradient Audio)
*''Deliverance'' (2014, Open Outlets)
*''αριθμός τέσσερα'' (2022, self-released)
;Extended plays
*''Culprate / Suspect & Switchdubs - Don't Do That / Rotary'' (2009, Dubsaw Recordings)
*''Trench Foot / Flagrance'' (2010, Dubsaw Recordings)
*''Balkansky & Culprate - Sundrome / Android'' (2011, Dubsaw Recordings)
*''5 Star EP'' (2011, Inspected Records)
*''Nightmares In Reality EP'' (2012, Inspected Records)
*''The Great Expedition'' (2013, Inspected Records)
*''Mask'' (2015, Open Outlets)
*''Dawn'' (2017, Open Outlets)
*''Unity Project, Pt. 1'' (2017, Open Outlets)
*''Unity Project, Pt. 2'' (2017, Open Outlets)
*''Unity Project, Pt. 3'' (2018, Open Outlets)
*''Unity Project, Pt. 4'' (2018, Open Outlets)
*''Others'' (2018, Inspected)
References
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British record producers
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