Joseph Patrick Kennith Mount (born 11 September 1982) is an English musician and record producer. He is the founder of British band

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Biography

Mount started out as a rock and roll drummer, playing in various bands at school and then in his mid teens with The Upsides and The Customers. He also taught drums to kids in his local area. His first forays into

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music started with him buying an old G3 computer from his father. It was with this setup that he set about creating beats and discovered he knew a lot more about melody than he thought he did and he began to compose music under the Metronomy moniker. Mount attended Brighton University; fellow alumni are Samuel Preston, Good Shoes, The Maccabees and DJ Scotch Egg. Speaking of influences, he mentioned "people who’ve written, recorded and produced things all on their own, like

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," but also "a lot of electronica, like

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and Funkstörung, and pop music and bands too, people like

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and

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, and these weird old folk records my parents had, like Blowzabella." Mount now lives in

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. He has two sons.

Songwriting and production credits

References

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