Culprit 1 a.k.a. Culprit One (born James Hannam) is a British DJ, remixer and

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producer.

Early life and education

Hannam holds a degree in music from the

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and attended

Crosskeys College Coleg Gwent - Crosskeys (generally known as Crosskeys College) is the largest campus of Coleg Gwent. It is located next to Risca Road in Crosskeys, near Newport in Wales. The college was previously a technical college and a coal mining college. H ...

in the Welsh valleys, where the

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also studied.

Career

Hannam's music has been broadcast on

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and

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(who contributed sleeve notes to first album 'Running in Order'). Eddy Temple-Morris,

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and

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have also supported Culprit 1 releases. "What I Use", the first recording made under the Culprit 1 moniker, was released in July 2003 on

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. Hannam went on to perform at the American

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event and subsequently signed to Exceptional Records. Following popular events with a

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early in 2007 (two members of which also performed with

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on his 2006 UK tour), he found favour in the classical music world, earning the support of influential UK radio station Classic FM. In November 2010, Exceptional released Hannam's second album ''Theme 2'', featuring vocal contributions from Smiler, Polarbear and Iko.

Discography

Remix discography

Other information

* Unusually for a producer in a traditionally serious and publicity-shy genre, Hannam maintains an amusing, tongue-in-cheek journal and

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group, in which he regularly describes his studio experiments,

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recipes and journeys back to Wales. * A couple that met at the debut Culprit 1 performance in October 2003, married in 2008. * The name Culprit 1 was influenced by a graffiti scrawling at Newport bus station. * At Bettws High School in

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, Hannam won the 1992 Eisteddfod keyboard solo competition with a rendition of

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's European hit "No Limits". * Hannam's first job after graduating from university was a club reviewer for the UK dance magazine ''

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''. The editor at the time was Conor McNicholas, who later became editor of the music magazine ''

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''.

References

External links

Culprit 1 Official website

Culprit 1 Official MySpace page

Culprit 1 biography from BBC Wales

Beatportal interview, May 2007

Western Mail interview, June 2007
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