Martin Glover, also known as Youth or Orion, (born 27 December 1960) is a record producer and a founding member and bassist of Killing Joke. He is a member of The Fireman along with Paul McCartney. Glover was born in Africa.
Early career edit:
Glover originally named himself Pig Youth after the reggae chanter Big Youth, who was popular with late 1970s London punk bands. At age 15 he was in a punk band named The Rage, which toured with The Adverts. Later he joined 4" Be 2" - a band formed by John Lydon's brother Jimmy Lydon - and recorded with them the "One of the Lads" single.
Soon after exiting Killing Joke in 1982, Martin Glover founded his own commercially oriented dub funk band Brilliant, which recorded one album in 1986, but disbanded later.
In 1989, Youth and Alex Paterson started the WAU! Mr. Modo label. Their early releases of a selection of industrial techno dubs, and heavy sound system dubs from artists like Napthali, Manasseh, Bim Sherman and Jah Warrior are long deleted and fetch high sums in private sales.
Youth's connections with dub continued in the mid-1990s when he was asked by Adrian Sherwood to remix some of Bim Sherman's tracks for a reworking of the Miracle album. He also recently appeared on a Ted Parsons/NIC dub album. The remix Youth contributes opens with a sample from Glen Brown's "Version '78", a track originally released on the South East label.
In the early nineties Glover formed techno and house music duo Blue Pearl with American female singer Durga McBroom, scoring a handful of hit singles including their debut "Naked In The Rain", originally issued on blue vinyl, which reached #4 in the UK Singles Chart and was also a #5 dance hit in the U.S. in 1990. It was followed by "Little Brother" and "(Can You) Feel the Passion".
Later career edit:
His Butterfly Records label has produced such artists as Take That, Wet Wet Wet, Tom Jones, The Orb, Maria McKee and Heather Nova. Youth was the co-producer of The Verve's Urban Hymns and Dolores O'Riordan's 'Are You Listening?'.
He also produced and remixed for other bands including Primal Scream, Embrace, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Art of Noise, Crowded House, Zoe, P.M. Dawn, Yazoo, Erasure, U2, Bananarama, INXS, James, Suns of Arqa,Wet Wet Wet, Depeche Mode, The Shamen, Misery Loves Co., Texas, Dido, Dolores O'Riordan, Gravity Kills and Fake?.
Glover is credited with founding the first psychedelic trance record label, Dragonfly Records. Youth formed other record labels such as Liquid Sound Design and Kamaflage Records. He is well known on the psychedelic trance scene and participated in collaborations such as Celtic Cross with Simon Posford and Saul Davies, Dub Trees with Greg Hunter and Simon Posford, and Zodiac Youth.
He performed both full-on trance as well as chill-out DJ sets at several Return to the Source parties and released a mix album, Ambient Meditations 3 on their label in 2000. His Butterfly Studios were also home of the Return to the Source offices circa 1999 - 2002.
He is most famous for being the bass player in Killing Joke. Glover had also made plans to work with Duran Duran in the later stages of their lost album, Reportage, before it was shelved later in 2006.
He is a member of the band Transmission with Simon Tong of The Verve, Paul Ferguson of Killing Joke and Tim Bran of Dreadzone. He has also played guitar on several tracks on the 2007 Client album "Heartland." In 2008 he produced the Delays album Everything's the Rush, the Futureheads' This Is Not The World and worked on the debut album of American band The Daylights.
In mid-2010 Martin Glover teamed up with Alex Paterson (The Orb) to compile a retrospective compilation album of tracks from the WAU! Mr Modo label. The album titled "Impossible Oddities" was released on CD and double vinyl on 25 October 2010 via Year Zero records.
On 27 October 2012, during the International Festival of Music Producers and Sound Designers SOUNDEDIT, he received The Man with the Golden Ear Award.
Production discography edit:
See also: Category:Albums produced by Martin Glover
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Taken from Martin Glover's Youth site.
Artist
Title
Record company
Credit
Sonido Vegetal
Las Bases del Razonamiento
Maldito Digital
Producer
Alien Sex Fiend
Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain?
Anagram Records
Produced
The Futureheads
This Is Not The World
Nul Records
Produced
Embrace
Forthcoming Title Tbc
Independiente
Produced
Erasure
Chorus (single)
Mute Records
Produced/Mixed
Vega 4
Love Is The Music
Taste Media
Produced
The Music
Come What May
Virgin
Produced
Missy Higgins
Forthcoming Title Tbc
Virgin
Co-writer
Howie Day
Stop All The World Now
Sony (US)
Produced
Marilyn Manson
Mobscene
Interscope
Add. Prod/Remix
Dido
Don't Think Of Me
BMG
Production
The Fireman
The Fireman
Hydra
Writer/Producer
Vanessa Mae
The Capulets and The Montagues
Prod/Mix
Shack
HMS Fable
London
Producer
The Verve
Urban Hymns
Hut
Producer
The Verve
Bitter Sweet Symphony
Hut
Producer
The Verve
Lucky Man
Hut
Producer
The Verve
Sonnet
Hut
Producer
Embrace
Good Will Out
Independiente
Produced/Mixed
Embrace
Come Back To What You Know
Hut
Producer
Embrace
Higher Sights
Hut
Producer
Embrace
All You Good Good People
Producer
Beth Orton
Best Bit
Heavenly
Producer
PM Dawn
Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
Island
Add Prod/Mix
Edwyn Collins
A Girl Like You
Remix
U2
Night And Day
Island
12" Remix
James
Seven
Mercury
Producer
The Orb
Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Island
Co-Prod/Co-Writer
The Cult
She Sells Sanctuary
Beggars Banquet
Add Prod/Mix
Blue Pearl
Naked In The Rain
Malarky
Produced
Sugarcubes
Vitamin
One Little Indian
12" Remix
Blue Pearl
Blue Pearl
Big Life
Production
Art Of Noise
Art Of Love
China
Production/Remix
Crowded House
Together Alone
EMI
Production
The Drum Club
Drums Are Dangerous
Instinct
Production
Heather Nova
Oyster
Big Life
Production
Heather Nova
Siren
Sony
Production
FAKE?
Switching on X
MusicTaste
Production
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