Youth (musician)


Martin Glover, known by his stage name Youth, is an English record producer and a founding member and bassist of Killing Joke. He is a member of the Fireman, along with Paul McCartney.

Early career

Martin Glover was born 27 December 1960 in Slough, England. He attended Kingham Hill School, an independent private school in Oxfordshire where he met Alex Paterson, who would become a roadie for Glover's band Killing Joke, and later founder of The Orb. Naming himself "Pig Youth" after the reggae chanter Big Youth in 1977 he joined punk band the Rage, who toured with the Adverts. Later he joined "4 Be 2", a band formed by John Lydon's brother Jimmy Lydon, and recorded the "One of the Lads" single with them.
Youth also played bass on the Bollock Brothers discomix 12", "The Slow Removal Of Vincent Van Gogh's Left Ear."
Youth is most famous for being the bass player in Killing Joke. He left the band in 1982, and soon after founded his own commercially orientated dub funk band Brilliant, which recorded one album in 1986 before later disbanding.
In 1989, Youth and Alex Paterson started the WAU! Mr. Modo label. Their early releases were industrial techno dubs and heavy sound system dubs from artists such as Napthali, Manasseh, Bim Sherman and Jah Warrior.
Youth's connections with dub continued in the mid-1990s when he was asked by Adrian Sherwood to remix some of Bim Sherman's tracks for a reworking of the Miracle album. He also recently appeared on a Ted Parsons/NIC dub album, contributing a remix which opens with a sample from Glen Brown's "Version '78", a track originally released on the South East label.
In the early nineties, Youth formed techno and house music duo Blue Pearl together with American singer Durga McBroom. They scored a handful of hit singles including their blue vinyl debut "Naked in the Rain", which reached No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart and was also a No. 5 dance hit in the U.S. in 1990. It was followed by "Little Brother" and " Feel the Passion". An album, Naked, was also released.
In 1994 Youth rejoined Killing Joke and their album Pandemonium was released on his Butterfly Recordings label, as was the 1996 follow-up, Democracy.
He is credited with founding the first psychedelic trance record label, Dragonfly Records, as well as the Liquid Sound Design and Kamaflage Records labels. He is well known on the psychedelic trance scene, collaborating with Simon Posford and Saul Davies as Celtic Cross, with Greg Hunter and Simon Posford as Dub Trees, and on the project Zodiac Youth. He has performed both full-on trance as well as chill-out DJ sets at several Return to the Source parties, and released the Ambient Meditations 3 mix album on their label in 2000. His Butterfly Studios were also home of the Return to the Source offices circa 1999–2002.

Later career

Youth's Butterfly Records label has produced artists such as Take That, Wet Wet Wet, Tom Jones, The Orb, System 7, Maria McKee and Heather Nova. Youth was the co-producer of The Verve's Urban Hymns and Dolores O'Riordan's 'Are You Listening?'. He has also worked, produced and remixed for bands including Kate Bush, Guns N' Roses, Primal Scream, Embrace, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Art of Noise, Crowded House, Zoe, P.M. Dawn, Yazoo, Erasure, U2, Bananarama, INXS, Gaudi, James and Suns of Arqa.
Youth had also made plans to work with Duran Duran in the later stages of their lost album Reportage, before it was shelved later in 2006.
In 2008, Youth produced the Delays album Everything's the Rush, the Futureheads' This Is Not The World and worked on the debut album of American band The Daylights. In 2013, Glover produced the debut album Collective by the DIY indie rock band Echotape, followed by Meteorites by Echo and the Bunnymen and Lion by Peter Murphy. The following year, Glover produced Culture Club's Tribes album.
Youth is a member of the band Transmission, together with Simon Tong of The Verve, Paul Ferguson of Killing Joke and Tim Bran of Dreadzone. He also played guitar on several tracks on the 2007 Client album Heartland.
In mid-2010, he teamed up with Alex Paterson to compile a retrospective compilation album of tracks from the WAU! Mr Modo label. The album titled Impossible Oddities was released on CD and double vinyl on 25 October 2010 via Year Zero Records.
On 27 October 2012, during the International Festival of Music Producers and Sound Designers SOUNDEDIT, Youth was awarded The Man with the Golden Ear Award.
In 2016 he received the PPL Music Producers Guild Lifetime Achievement award and released the album Create Christ, Sailor Boy with David Tibet as Hypnopazūzu.
In 2017, he teamed up with Gaudi for the release of their collaborative album Astronaut Alchemists, due for release on Liquid Sound Design in 2018.
In 2018, he recorded a collaborative album with Nik Turner. Pharaohs From Outer Space was released by Painted Word on 17 August 2018.

Production discography

Taken from Martin Glover's Youth site.
ArtistTitleRecord companyCredit
Alien Sex FiendWho's Been Sleeping in My BrainAnagram RecordsProduced
Art of NoiseArt of LoveChinaProduction/Remix
Blue PearlBlue PearlBig LifeProduction
Blue PearlNaked in the RainMalarkyProduced
The CharlatansWho We TouchFrinck RecordingsProduced
Edwyn CollinsA Girl Like YouRemix
Crowded HouseTogether AloneEMIProduction
The CultShe Sells SanctuaryBeggars Banquet RecordsAdd Prod/Mix
Howie DayStop All the World NowSony Produced
DidoDon't Think of MeBMGProduction
Drum ClubDrums are DangerousInstinctProduction
EmbraceAll You Good Good PeopleProducer
EmbraceCome Back to What You KnowHut RecordsProducer
EmbraceForthcoming Title TbcIndependienteProduced
EmbraceThe Good Will OutIndependienteProduced/Mixed
EmbraceHigher SightsHutProducer
ErasureChorus Mute RecordsProduced/Mixed
Faith No MoreA Small VictorySlash Records12" Remix
FAKE?Switching on XMusicTasteProduction
The FiremanStrawberries Oceans Ships ForestHydraWriter/Co-Producer
The FiremanRushesHydraWriter/Co-Producer
The FiremanElectric ArgumentsHydraWriter/Co-Producer
The FutureheadsThis Is Not The WorldNul RecordsProduced
Melanie CForthcoming Title TbcRed Girl RecordsProduced
Missy HigginsForthcoming Title TbcVirginCo-writer
JamesSevenMercury RecordsProducer
Vanessa-MaeThe Capulets and The MontaguesProd/Mix
Marilyn MansonMobsceneInterscope RecordsAdd. Prod/Remix
The MusicCome What MayVirginProduced
Heather NovaOysterBig LifeProduction
Heather NovaSirenSonyProduction
Heather NovaPearlSaltwaterProduction
The OrbThe Orb's Adventures Beyond the UltraworldIsland RecordsCo-Prod/Co-Writer
Beth OrtonBest BitHeavenly RecordingsProducer
P.M. DawnSet Adrift on Memory BlissIslandAdd Prod/Mix
The ProstitutesDeaf to the CallX ProductionProduction
Sam Roberts BandLo-FantasySecret BrainProduced
ShackH.M.S. FableLondonProducer
Shed Seven’’Instant Pleasures’’BMGProducer
Siouxsie and the BansheesKiss Them for MeWonderland12" remix
Sonido VegetalLas Bases del RazonamientoMaldito DigitalProducer
Sonido VegetalVerbena CalaveraOctubre Producer
The SugarcubesVitaminOne Little Indian Records12" Remix
SymposiumBury YouInfectious RecordsProducer
SymposiumPaint The StarsInfectious RecordsProducer
TribazikData WarfareSkyrideMixing and additional production
U2Night and DayIsland12" Remix
Vega 4Love Is The MusicTaste MediaProduced
The VerveBitter Sweet SymphonyHut RecordsProducer
The VerveLucky ManHut RecordsProducer
The VerveSonnetHut RecordsProducer
The VerveUrban HymnsHut RecordsCo-Producer
NaturistsNaked In the RainInteractive RecordsCo_producer
NaturistsNaturist composition instInteractive RecordsCo_producer
NaturistsNakedInteractive RecordsCo_producer