Lol Hammond (born 1969 in Stoke Newington, London, England) is a musician, producer and DJ. Hammond's career in electronic music started in the sound system

Spiral Tribe Spiral Tribe is an arts collective and free party sound system formed in 1990. It organised free parties, festivals and raves in the UK and later Europe in the 1990s. Spiral Tribe was involved in the Castlemorton Common Festival and members ...

in 1991. Simultaneously he created the production/remix act

Drum Club Drum Club was a 1990s electronic music duo of former promoters and DJs Charlie Hall and Lol Hammond. They released several albums and singles on record labels such as Big Life and Butterfly Records. Their 1993 single "Sound System" reached #63 ...

together with London DJ Charlie Hall. Drum Club toured with Orbital in 1993 and released the studio albums ''Everything is Now'' and ''Drums Are Dangerous''. In 1995, Hammond and Nina Walsh formed the Brithop group Slab. He has also remixed artists such as Killing Joke, The Fall, Lush,

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, Brian Eno, Chapterhouse,

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, experimental keyboardist Brian Graves, and

Alabama 3 Alabama 3 are a British/English musical group founded in Brixton, London in 1995. They are best known for their track " Woke Up This Morning", which was used for the opening credits of the TV series ''The Sopranos''. In the United States, the ...

. Hammond released the 1998 album ''Thrilled By Velocity & Distortion'' with Matt Rowlands and vocalist Mandy Wall under the alias Girl Eats Boy. Hammond has released records under his own name, most notably the album ''All This is Bliss'' in 2001, and together with

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the album ''Damage'' in 1999. Lol Hammond is interested in film and filmmaking and has worked as a music supervisor for several feature films.Lol Hammond – A Profile
bigchill.net 9 May 2005 He has also had his music featured in movies such as ''

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'' and ''

It's All Gone Pete Tong ''It's All Gone Pete Tong'' is a 2004 British-Canadian mockumentary-drama film about a DJ (Paul Kaye) who goes completely deaf. The title uses a rhyming slang phrase used in Britain from the 1980s (Pete Tong = "wrong"), referring to the BBC Rad ...

''.Clubs preview:

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14 February 2009 Hammond has also worked for the British music festival The Big Chill. His Film Music Supervisor credits include: ''South West Nine'', '' The Football Factory'', ''

'', ''

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'', '' The Escapist'', '' The Business'', ''

London to Brighton ''London to Brighton'' is a 2006 British neo-noir crime film written and directed by Paul Andrew Williams. Plot The film opens with a woman and child, Kelly and Joanne, bursting into a London toilet. Joanne is crying and Kelly has a black eye. ...

'', '' Dirty Sanchez: The Movie'', ''Heroes and Villains'', '' Faintheart'', '' Bronson'', ''

Pusher II ''Pusher II'' (also known as ''Pusher II: With Blood on My Hands'') is a 2004 Danish crime film written and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. The film is the second film in the ''Pusher'' trilogy, portraying the lives of criminals in Copenhagen ...

'', '' WAZ'', '' The Children'', '' Summer'', '' The Firm'', and ''

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''. He has recently worked on 3D dance movie '' StreetDance'', writing and recording "Live for the Moment" with

Pixie Lott Victoria Louise Lott (born 12 January 1991), better known by her stage name Pixie Lott, is an English singer and songwriter. Her debut album, '' Turn It Up'', released in September 2009, reached number six on the UK Albums Chart and sold ov ...

for its soundtrack.

References

External links

Lol Hammond on Myspace
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