Olugbenga Adelekan, also known as Olugbenga, is a Nigerian-born
music producer
A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...
. Olugbenga performs as a solo artist and as the bass player of the
Mercury Music Prize Award-nominated 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
Born in
Lagos
Lagos (Nigerian English: ; ) is the largest city in Nigeria and the List of cities in Africa by population, second most populous city in Africa, with a population of 15.4 million as of 2015 within the city proper. Lagos was the national ca ...
, Nigeria, Olugbenga moved with his family to
The Hague
The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...
, The Netherlands before returning to Nigeria in his teens. At the age of 16 he settled in England, where he started making original music.
Olugbenga studied English literature at
King's College, Cambridge
King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...
.
Olugbenga's brother
Seye Adelekan
Seye Adelekan (born 15 May 1988), sometimes known mononymously as Seye ( ), is a Nigerian British bassist, musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the live bassist for Gorillaz since 2017.
Early life
Seye Adelekan was born in Nigeria t ...
is also a professional musician, playing with
Gorillaz as their live
bassist
A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a Bass (instrument), bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), synthbass, keyboar ...
.
Live performances
In 2012 Olugbenga toured Asia, Australia, Russia and the UK, as well as festivals across Europe including
Field Day (UK),
Dot to Dot Festival
The Dot to Dot Festival is an annual music festival held at various venues in Nottingham, Bristol and Manchester across a weekend. Unlike weekend music festivals such as the Reading and Leeds Festivals, there is no artist rotation – all artist ...
(UK),
off Sonar (Spain),
Soundwave Festival (Croatia),
Kendal Calling
Kendal Calling is a music & arts festival, held annually at Lowther Deer Park in the Lake District, Cumbria in the North West of England. It has grown from a two-day, 900 capacity event in 2006 to a 25,000 capacity 4-day music festival. Kendal C ...
(UK) and
Summer Sundae Weekender (UK).
Olugbenga performs using
Ableton Live
Ableton Live is a digital audio workstation for macOS and Windows developed by the German company Ableton. In contrast to many other software sequencers, Ableton Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool ...
and MIDI controllers.
Discography
* Pink Violence - "Untitled
LUGBENGA Edit, 2011, Free MP3
* Youthless "Golden Age"
lubenga edit 2011, MP3 file
* Ezra Bang & Hot Machine "Cadillac"
lubenga edit 2011, MP3 file
* Tallulah Rendall "Ghost On The Water"
lubenga edit 2011, MP3 file
* Error Operator "Mistakes Mk3"
lubengla glossilalia edit 2011, MP3 file
* Napoleon IIIrd "This Town/I Try/Leaving Copenhagen"
lubenga editft. Karl Nova, 2011, MP3 file
* Esben and the Witch "Hexagons IV"
lubenga edit 2011, MP3 file
* Ghostpoet "Liiines"
lubenga ares edit 2011, MP3 file
* Three Trapped Tigers "Reset"
lubenga edit 2011, MP3 file
* Diagrams "Hill"
lubenga edit 2011, MP3 file
* Jim Kroft - "Ulysses"
lubenga edit 2012 MP3 file
* Seye "White Noise"
lubenga edit Stranger Records, 2012, MP3 file
* Olugbenga "Epic & Blues EP
ree download, 2012, MP3 file
References
# ^ Malt Andy (23 July 2012
Approved: Olugbenga – Epic & Blues EP ''CMU''. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
# ^ Torabi Genevieve (24 July 2012
EPIC & BLUES EXCLUSIVE''Dazed''. Retrieved 31 July 2012
#
''Dots & Dashes'' Retrieved 31 July 2012
# ^ Murray Robin (16 July 2012
Of The Day 16/7- Olugbenga Epic & Blues EP - Ulysses''Clash''. Retrieved 31 July 2012
# ^ Searles Graham (19 July 2012
MP3: OLUGBENGA''Mixmag''. Retrieved 31 July 2012
# ^ Red Bull Studios London (19 July 2012
Mix: Olugbenga''Redbull Studio''. Retrieved 31 July 2012
#
download new music by Olugbenga (Metronomy)''MOBO''. Retrieved 31 July 2012
#
to Dot/Olugbenga''Subculture''. Retrieved 31 July 2012
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Nigerian record producers
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge