Jamie Bissmire, John O'Connell & Lucien Thompson
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members of the Infonet Electronic Recordings , which they helped establish alongside founder Chris Abbott, as a sub label on Alan Mgee's Creation records , Bandulu are John O'Connell and former graffiti artists/breakdancers Jamie Bissmire and Lucien Thompson.
In the early 90s, they established their headquarters at Bissmire's parents' home in Muswell Hill, north London.
Influenced by Detroit techno, New York electro and Chicago house &roots dub, Bandulu additionally added tribal percussion, sampling and "real" instruments (guitars, drums, etc.) to their potential musical sources. Retrospectively, the trio have claimed their primary influence on forming in 1990 to be the creative decline of dance music at that time. "It was all Kylie Minogue, all pop music. So we just decided to each put £50 in a pot and go into a studio', claimed O'Connell. Bandulu's early singles, such as "Phaze-In-Version", were widely categorized within the fledgling Techno movement, though the execution was more intricate and more flexible than that of many of their peers who relied more on simple repetition. Their debut release was "Better Nati...
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