Klute is the primary recording alias of Thomas Harold George Withers, a drum and bass producer and DJ from Ipswich, United Kingdom, UK. He is also the drummer, vocalist and songwriter of the English Hardcore punk, hardcore band The Stupids (band), The Stupids.
Klute first turned to electronic production in the early 1990s, experimenting with techno before turning to drum and bass. He released two 12" singles under the 'Override' alias in 1995 and 1996, as well as appearing on Ninja Tune compilations. In 1997 he released the 12" single ''Deep Control'' under the alias 'The Spectre'. In 1998 the debut Klute LP ''Casual Bodies'' was released on the Certificate 18 imprint; ''Fear of People'' followed in 2000.
In 2001 he established the label Commercial Suicide. This released his own material, including the albums ''Lie, Cheat & Steal'' (2003), ''No One's Listening Anymore'' (2005), ''The Emperor's New Clothes (album), The Emperor's New Clothes'', (2007) and ''Music for prophet'' (2010). All of these albums are double CDs with one drum and bass disc and another of downtempo techno and breakbeat and received widespread acclaim in the electronic music community. The track "Time 4 Change" from ''No One's Listening Anymore'' was the last tune played on-air by John Peel.
Commercial Suicide has also released tracks from Break (artist), Break, Digital (artist), Digital, Spirit (artist), Spirit, Calibre (artist), Calibre, Dom & Roland, Hive (record producer), Hive, SKC (musician), SKC, Gridlok (artist), Gridlok, Jamal (artist), Jamal, Method One (artist), Method One and Chris Su.
As well as releasing music on his own label, Klute has releases on Hospital Records, 31 Records, Soul:R, Shogun Audio, Metalheadz, and Breakbeat Science Recordings.
Discography
Albums
* ''Casual Bodies'' – Certificate 18 (1998)
* ''Fear of People'' – Certificate 18 (2000)
* ''Part of Me'' – Hospital Records (2002)
* ''Lie, Cheat & Steal'' – Commercial Suicide (2003)
* ''No One's Listening Anymore'' – Commercial Suicide (2005)
* ''The Emperor's New Clothes'' – Commercial Suicide (2007)
* ''Music For Prophet'' – Commercial Suicide (2010)
* ''The Draft'' – Commercial Suicide (2013)
* ''Read Between The Lines'' – Commercial Suicide (2017)
* ''Whatever It Takes'' – Commercial Suicide (2019)
References
External links
Commercial Suicide official siteKlute - Official Facebook PageCommercial Suicide Facebook PageKlute – RA DJ Page*
* [ Allmusic.com biography]
Living people
English record producers
English drum and bass musicians
English electronic musicians
1968 births
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