IG Culture IG Culture entry
at www.discogs.com is a London musician and performer best known as a pioneer of the

broken beat Broken beat (sometimes referred to as "bruk") is an electronic dance music genre characterized by syncopated beats and tense rhythms, including staggered or punctuated snare beats and/or hand claps. It has been heavily influenced by styles such a ...

movement. His production features rhythms and hybrids of several musical styles such as jazz-fusion, funk and soul.

Musical career

IG Culture first became known as a member of the hip-hop duo

Dodge City Productions Dodge City Productions (DCP) were a British hip hop/ acid jazz group based in London formed by IG Culture (real name Ian Grant) and DJ Dodge (real name Roger Drakes). They were one of the leaders of the acid jazz movement, and also received acclai ...

in 1990. After the demise of that outfit, he founded an independent record label ''One Drop Interouter'' which released four albums. Later, he worked with the ''People'' label and founded the ''Main Squeeze'' label. He now runs the CoOp presents label with Alex Phountzi. IG Culture produced an album by Japanese jazz artist

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- ''Jazz Brat'' - in 1995 and appeared on the

Roots Manuva Rodney Hylton Smith, better known by his stage name Roots Manuva (born 9 September 1972), is a British rapper and producer. Since his debut in 1994, he has produced numerous albums and singles on the label Big Dada, achieving commercial succes ...

album '' Brand New Second Hand'' in 1999. In 2001, he compiled and released a various-artists album called ''Inspirations'' album followed by a 2-CD set of the same name in 2003. He also produced tracks from the

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album ''One Step Forward''including the title track released in 2003. In 2019 Ig Culture returned to the studio and completed work on a new album which is a soundtrack to a theater dance show, the OST was titled EarthBound and is due for release late in 2019

New Sector Movements

Circa 2000, IG Culture founded the New Sector Movements project. While predominantly consisting of work by Culture himself, the project also serves as a collective featuring a number of broken beat artists such as Eric "Murky Waters" Appapoulay, Eska Mtungwazi, Kaidi "Agent K" Tatham, Julie Dexter and Kate "Bémbé Ségué" Phillips, as well as Frank McComb (ex-Buckshot LeFonque) and strings duo Chix With Stix (Izzy Dunn & Stella Page). New Sector Movements signed with

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and its debut release was the 2001 EP ''No Tricks'', which was followed by the ''Download This'' album later the same year. In 2004 the project released its second album ''Turn It Up'', this time credited to NSM.

Discography

* ''The Clarity EP'' 1992 as Dodge City Productions * ''No Tricks EP'' 2001 with New Sector Movements * ''Download This'' 2001 with New Sector Movements * ''Inspirations'' 2001 * ''Inspirations (2CD)'' 2003 * ''Turn It Up'' 2004 * ''Zen Badizm'' 2008 available only in Japan * ''Soulful Shanghai'' 2012

References

External links

IG Culture

New Sector Movements

NSM

Instant Graffix

Quango

Son Of Scientist
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