Paul Alborough (born 1 June 1975), professionally known as Professor Elemental, is a steampunk and

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musical artist.

Career

Professor Elemental began his career as Emcee Elemental. The character of Professor Elemental arose from a planned concept album. While the album never came to fruition, the character stuck. Professor Elemental has since been seen performing as a solo act or in theatre acts such as ''Come into My Parlour''. He is also popular at steampunk events and has been a headliner at the Steampunk World's Fair and the

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. The Professor Elemental character first gained attention with his music video for "Cup of Brown Joy", directed by Moog, which got the attention of

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. Since then he has released a new album, continued his work in the community and performed live. He was, for a time, in a friendly feud with fellow "chap-hop" artist

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. However, Professor Elemental had a short appearance in Mr. B's music video for the song "Just Like a Chap", of which Professor Elemental said "much as I hate to admit it, I bloody love that video and am jolly glad r. Blet me gate crash." Mr. B reciprocated with a cameo on Elemental's video for his song, "I'm British" (which also featured appearances by members of the Eccentric Club, of which Elemental is a member). The two seem to have finally settled their differences in the track, "The Duel", on Elemental's 2012 album ''The Father of Invention'', where, after a rap battle, both agree that the other is "jolly good" at what they do and go to enjoy a crate of

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and some opium. Professor Elemental (23063021136)

The short film ''The Chronicles of Professor Elemental'' was successfully funded via Crowdfunder in 2012, raising £7,226 - with 155 supporters in 45 days. The professor is called on, in the film, to find the statute of the golden frog. The 45-minute musical comedy was directed by Benjamin Field, starting Paul Alborough, Grace Alexander-Scott, and Dan Gingell, created by Hilton Productions Ltd, and released in 2013 via YouTube - in three parts. The videos were later made private and the whole film available to stream via Amazon Prime Video. In 2013, he appeared in the "Steampunx" episode of ''

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'', as well as the episode "The Bewildering Bout of the Astounding Automatons" of '' Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero''. He collaborated with the steampunk

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Personal life

Originally from

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, Alborough currently lives in Brighton.

Discography

Albums

* ''The Indifference Engine'' (2009) * ''More Tea?'' (2010) * ''Special School: The Album'' (2011) * ''Father of Invention'' (2012) * ''The Giddy Limit'' (2014) * ''Apequest: The Search for Geoffrey'' (2015) * ''Professor Elemental and his amazing friends'' (2016) * ''The School Of Whimsy'' (2018) * ''Professor Elemental and his amazing friends: Part 2'' (2019) * ''Let's Get Messy'' (2020) * ''Good Dad Club'' (2021) * ''Nemesis!'' (2021)

References

External links

*
Elemental page at Tea Sea Records
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