Paul Bultitude is an English

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and

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. He was the

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Advertising, working with his

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Dennis Smith, Tot Taylor and

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, before replacing

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as the drummer in

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. He was responsible for "discovering"

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and when she achieved

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success on Tot Taylor's Compact Records

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, Bultitude was the drummer in her band, the Wilsations. He was also the drummer for the short-lived power pop band, The Innocents.

Career

In 1982, he formed the record label Dance Network with

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Paul Bevoir and together they set about crafting executed and packaged

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, inspired by the

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and

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and

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. Bultitude was the Dance Network's in-house producer, helping to shape the talents of Bevoir and his band The Jetset. He produced three of the five

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s for The Jetset and worked with the label's other

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, Dee Walker, manufactured

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The Candees, and Jetset singer Melvyn J Taub, who recorded as Melvyn and the Smartys. He also worked outside of the Dance Network, such as producing the

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band, The Moment and more recently

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. Later in his career he worked in the mainstream

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, as an international press and promotions manager for

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and Jive, before forming The International Department, an international music promotion company, with Melvyn Taub and Doe Phillips. In June 2002, Bultitude joined a reformed

for three gigs, including a performance at London's

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. He was also in the line-up in June the following year, playing at The Scala in

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to promote the release of ''Time For Action: The Anthology'' (

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), a major CD retrospective of hits, rarities and previously unreleased tracks. The concert was filmed and released on

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References

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