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Justin Broadrick, born on August 15, 1969, is a British singer known for his unique voice and style. He has been involved in various musical projects, including Nurse with Wound, Godflesh, and Jesu. Broadrick's musical career is characterized by innovation and experimentation, and his work has had a profound impact on post-punk, industrial, and electronic music.

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“I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is entirely personal for me, and it has to be a natural process.”

Way Artist Wish Process Natural Music Is Track Remix

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“Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being 'progressive'.”

Firsts Littles Has Beens Purpose Speak Creative Rocks Involved Band Beats Machines Instruments Guitar Driven Rhythm Etc Progressive Bass Emulate Helm Articulation Instrumentation

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“Ultimately I live in the now with artistic creation, not what could or could not be in the future, if a creation appears timeless in somebody's opinion, it won't in others, that's not for me to guess.”

Ifs Opinion Creation Artistic Timeless Live In The Now Artistic Creation

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“Inspiration has to be natural for me, not so considered, I am not saying that is right or wrong, it's simply what works for me.”

Inspiration Natural

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“As a label I don't care about piracy. I want the music that we [my band] love to be heard by as many people as possible. The more people like the music we put out, the better the label and artists will do. If anyone genuinely likes what we do they will find us, buy our vinyl or come to see the artists play live.”

People Ifs Want Play Care Artist Heard Band Don't Care Likes Labels I Don't Care Vinyl Piracy

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“Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the beat on “Christbait Rising” which Broadrick was quoted as saying, “It was my attempt at copying the rhythm sample on 'Microphone Fiend' by Eric B & Rakim”.”

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“When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me as such in any band.”

Years Firsts Kids Young Band

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“I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records and, on that same token, I wouldn't in any way wish for them to come back and repeat themselves.”

Way I Can Wish Records Repeats Adore Swans Tokens

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“I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism.”

Ifs Feels Hands My Own Flawed Hand In Hand Professionalism Frailty Proficiency

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“There's always gonna be people saying they were so much better back in the day.”

People Back In The Day

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“I'd always loved hip-hop.”

Hip Hop Hips Hops

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“What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture.”

Thinking Done Technology Week Modern Bigger Luxury Bigger Picture Concise Modern Technology Abbreviations

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“I think when you can be supremely self-indulgent sometimes it's easy to get up one's own asshole. I need parameters. I need discipline.”

Thinking Needs Self Sometimes Easy Discipline Get Up Easy To Get Parameters Self Indulgent

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“I know a lot of mainstream hip-hop people, have been listening to things like Aphex Twin for years. When somebody first played me some of that album, I was just like, "Woah!"”

People Knows Years Firsts Has Beens Listening Hip Hop Albums Hips Hops Mainstream Twins

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“Electronic music, for me, has been the only real pioneering music that actually does push boundaries and is constantly futuristic.”

Doe Has Beens Real Boundaries Electronic Music Futuristic Pioneering

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“I'm always interested in very, very futuristic music and bridging the gap between the physicality of organic guitar music and trying to translate that into something electronic is really fascinating.”

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“I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid.”

Play Kids Records Fans Huge Bars Backgrounds Punk Chords Discharge

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“What I like about electronic music is you don't really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You can just make sound, noise even, whatever it may be.”

Needs May Sound Particular Music Is Noise Educated Electronic Music

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“I feel somewhat privileged because I often feel very sorry for kids. I often feel very sorry for 20-year-olds and teens who grew up with the internet and have grown up completely connected because, for me, people like me know what it was to struggle, but it wasn't a struggle. It was great! It was fantastic. The thrill of the hunt.”

People Knows Feels Years Kids Struggle Grew Internet Grew Up Sorry Connected Like Me Fantastic Teens Privileged Thrill Hunts

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“Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction.”

Culture Levels Gone Down And Extinction

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“I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.”

Form Religious Organized Despise Dogma Organized Religion Dogmatic

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“I do consider myself a very spiritual being. I fear being seen as political in any context because it's so limiting, but I do feel Godflesh is a protest music of sorts. That was the background that I came from.”

Feels Spiritual Political Backgrounds Protest Spiritual Beings

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“I always felt at odds, politically, with people, and with any group of people that congregate and declare themselves as some sort of movement. It's usually motivated by wishing to dominate other people.”

People Wish Felt Groups Movement Motivated Odds

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Born: August 15, 1969
Known for: Singer
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