Joseph Patrick Kennith Mount (born 11 September 1982) is an English musician and record producer. He is the founder of British band
Metronomy
Metronomy are an English electronic music group formed in 1999. As of 2021, the band consists of Joseph Mount (vocals, keyboards and guitar), Oscar Cash (keyboards, backing vocals, guitar and saxophone), Anna Prior (drums and vocals), Olugbenga ...
.
Biography
Mount started out as a rock and roll drummer, playing in various bands at school and then in his mid teens with The Upsides and The Customers. He also taught drums to kids in his local area. His first forays into
electronic
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music started with him buying an old
G3 computer from his father. It was with this setup that he set about creating beats and discovered he knew a lot more about melody than he thought he did and he began to compose music under the Metronomy moniker.
Mount attended
Brighton University
The University of Brighton is a public university based on four campuses in Brighton and Eastbourne on the south coast of England. Its roots can be traced back to 1858 when the Brighton School of Art was opened in the Royal Pavilion. It achieve ...
; fellow alumni are
Samuel Preston,
Good Shoes
Good Shoes were a four-piece English indie rock band, hailing from Morden, London.
Biography
Good Shoes was formed by lead singer Rhys Jones and guitarist Steve Leach who often wrote and played music together as a hobby. Rhys and Steve appear ...
,
The Maccabees and
DJ Scotch Egg. Speaking of influences, he mentioned "people who’ve written, recorded and produced things all on their own, like
Prince
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," but also "a lot of
electronica
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, like
Autechre
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and
Funkstörung, and pop music and bands too, people like
David Bowie
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and
The Ramones
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, and these weird old folk records my parents had, like
Blowzabella."
Mount now lives in
Paris
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.
He has two sons.
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Songwriting and production credits
References
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English electronic musicians
1982 births
Alumni of the University of Brighton
Living people