Jake Bullit is a guy with music in his blood, the eldest son of two hard-working Brummie musicians, he was tinkering around with a sound-on-sound tape deck aged 9 and had progressed to 4 track by the age of 11 upon which he wrote and recorded numerous songs primarily about Sonic the Hedgehog and his strange neighbours.
Jake spent most of his formative years in bands of one kind of another until he discovered that he was far more comfortable working alone with an Atari 1040 and an AKAI sampler. He used these to make quirky electronic music in his bedroom, staying up all night until it was time to go to school or college or whatever.
Suddenly Jake was given the opportunity to go to Cologne, Germany to work at the distinguished Can Studio where he learnt the tricks of engineering, programming and producing from Rene Tinner and the guys from Whirlpool Productions. It was during his time in Germany that Jake developed his own unique style of song writing, drawing on the dancefloor and electro influences of the Whirlpool team and also his favourite English bands like The Beatles, Squeeze, The Cure and The Jam.
Eventually Jake headed to London armed only with his Roland W-30 workstation, a staggeringly diverse record collection and a new-found taste for pumpernickel and set about writing literally hundreds of songs about his experiences old and new.
Said songs are a refreshing mix of upbeat electro drums, dirty fat synth basslines and messy guitars. Jake plays all the instruments himself and does all the programming and recording, then finally he writes some of the most insightful and interesting lyrics you will ever hear and drawls them over the top of the track in a manner which suggests that he could be a great vocalist if it weren’t for the fact that he doesn’t try or care enough.
Jake’s wry tales of urban England, girls and boys, mild poverty and genuine indifference sit beautifully alongside his disheveled electro-pop beats and trademark synth hooks. Enough to finally provide the listener with a quality alternative to the chart-storming new age pussies or the uber-urban fake wide-boys.
He wears his diverse musical influences on his sleeve on every track. You can hear shades of Kraftwerk, Daft Punk and Richard X alongside Blur, Bowie and Ian Dury. Thankfully it’s an amalgamation which works thanks to Jake’s inimitable lyrical and vocal style and his individual approach to production. As Jake himself says this is music with a message and the message is “shut the fuck up and listen to the music”.
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