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Martin Glover (born 27 December 1960), better known by his stage name Youth, is a British musician and record producer. He is a founding member and bassist of the rock band Killing Joke, and a member of the Fireman, along with Paul McCartney.

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Youth

Name: Youth
Birth Name: Martin Glover
Born: 27 December 1960
Birthplace: Slough, Buckinghamshire, England
Occupation: Musician, record producer
Nationality: United Kingdom.
Fields: rock music.
Education: Kingham Hill School.
Honours: Człowiek ze Złotym Uchem.
Languages: English.

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Youth (born 1960) is a British musician, record producer and songwriter. The musician was born in Slough.

Youth studied at Kingham Hill School. The musician is a member of Hypnopazūzu, Killing Joke and The Fireman.

Genres include rock music. Languages used include English. Youth received Człowiek ze Złotym Uchem.

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• Name — Youth • Birth Name — Martin Glover • Alias — Youth, Orion • Born — 27 December 1960 • Birthplace — Slough, Buckinghamshire, England • Genre — * Rock • post-punk • experimental rock • electronic • ambient • dub • Occupation — Musician, record producer • Instrument — * Bass • keyboards • vocals • Current Member Of — Killing Joke, the Fireman • Past Member Of — Brilliant, Blue Pearl, Pigface

Early career

Martin Glover was born on 27 December 1960 in Slough, at that point part of Buckinghamshire, England. He attended private boarding school Kingham Hill School near Chipping Norton, 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 Youth after the roots reggae chanter Big Youth, in 1977 he joined punk rock 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 was the original bass player in Killing Joke but left the band in 1982 and soon after founded his own band Brilliant with future the KLF member Jimmy Cauty. The act recorded one album with producers Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) in 1985 before disbanding. Youth also played bass on the Bollock Brothers' disco-mix 12-inch, "The Slow Removal of Vincent van Gogh's Left Ear" (1982). In 1989, Youth and Alex Paterson started the WAU! Mr. Modo label. Youth was asked by Adrian Sherwood to remix some of Bim Sherman's tracks for a reworking of the Miracle album. He also 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 1990s, 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 "(Can You) 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 in 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

• Illustration — Youth (left) with Geordie Walker 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 artists including Kate Bush, Guns N' Roses, Primal Scream, Embrace, Lee Scratch Perry, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Gaudi, Art of Noise, Crowded House, Zoe, P.M. Dawn, Pop Will Eat Itself, Yazoo, Erasure, U2, Bananarama, INXS, 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 (of the Orb) 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. In 2011, he recorded Generation Indigo, a fusion of punk, dub, ambient and techno with Poly Styrene of early punk rock band X-Ray Spex. 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 with Gaudi for two collaborative releases as 'YOUTH & GAUDI': the vinyl 10in '2063: A Dub Odyssey' (printed on a limited edition green vinyl) and their debut album 'Astronaut Alchemists', both on Liquid Sound Design. Subsequently, the duo released the double album 'Astronaut Alchemists – Remixes' featuring Banco de Gaia, The Orb, Kaya Project, Bombay Dub Orchestra, Kuba, Gabriel Le Mar, Pitch Black, BUS/Gus Till, Vlastur, Deep Fried Dub, The Egg, Jef Stott/Aslan Dub, Onium, Living Light, Sadhu Sensi, DM-Theory and Uncle Fester On Acid. In 2018, he recorded a collaborative album with Nik Turner. Pharaohs from Outer Space was released by Painted Word on 17 August 2018. In 2019 he teamed with Italian musician Emilio Sorridente and created The Dream Symposium. They recorded the space rock album Green Electric Muse, produced by Youth and released in 2020 by Youthsounds Records. In the same year, he worked with Public Image Ltd's Keith Levene and Richard Dudanski on a single about the Brexit revolt with Mark Stewart of the Pop Group on vocals. In 2021, he received the Grammy Award in the category Best Reggae Album as a producer of Got to Be Tough by Toots and the Maytals.

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Taken from Martin Glover's Youth site. • Artist — Title — Record company — Credit — Year • Alien Sex Fiend — Who's Been Sleeping in My Brain — Anagram Records — Production — 1983 • Art of Noise — "The Ambient Collection" — China/Polydor — Additional Production/Remix — 1990 • Art of Noise — Art of Love — China — Production/Remix • Bananarama — Pop Life — London — Production — 1991 • Blue Pearl — Naked — Big Life — Production • Blue Pearl — Naked in the Rain — Big Life — Production • The Charlatans — Who We Touch — Frinck Recordings — Production — 2010 • Edwyn Collins — A Girl Like You — Remix • Crowded House — Together Alone — EMI — Production • The Cult — She Sells Sanctuary — Beggars Banquet Records — Additional production/mix • Howie Day — Stop All the World Now — Sony (US) — Production • Dido — Don't Think of Me — BMG — Production • Drum Club — Drums are Dangerous — Instinct — Production • Dubstar — One — Northern Writes — Production • Embrace — All You Good Good People — Production • Embrace — Come Back to What You Know — Hut Records — Production • Embrace — The Good Will Out — Independiente — Production/Mixed • Embrace — Higher Sights — Hut — Production • Erasure — "Chorus" (single) — Mute Records — Production/Mixed • Faith No More — A Small Victory — Slash Records — 12" remix • FAKE? — Switching on X — MusicTaste — Production • The Fireman — Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest — Parlophone — Writer/Co-producer — 1993 • The Fireman — Rushes — Hydra — Writer/Co-producer — 1998 • The Fireman — Electric Arguments — One Little Indian — Writer/Co-producer — 2008 • The Futureheads — This Is Not the World — Nul Records — Production • Guns N' Roses — Chinese Democracy — Geffen — initial arrangement suggestions, Additional Demo Pre-production on "Madagascar" — 2008 • James — Seven — Mercury Records — Production • Vanessa-Mae — Art of War — EMI — Production/Mix — 2002 • Marilyn Manson — Mobscene — Interscope Records — Additional production/remix • The Music — Come What May — Virgin — Production • Heather Nova — Oyster — Big Life — Production • Heather Nova — Siren — Sony — Production • Heather Nova — Pearl — Saltwater — Production • The Orb — The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld — Island Records — Co-producer/Co-writer • Beth Orton — Best Bit — Heavenly Recordings — Production • P.M. Dawn — Set Adrift on Memory Bliss — Island — Additional production/mix — 1991 • The Prostitutes — Deaf to the Call — X Production — Production • Sam Roberts Band — Lo-Fantasy — Secret Brain — Production — 2014 • Shack — H.M.S. Fable — London — Production • Shed Seven — Instant Pleasures — BMG — Production — 2017 • Siouxsie and the Banshees — "Kiss Them for Me" — Wonderland — 12" remix — 1991 • Sonido Vegetal — Las Bases del Razonamiento — Maldito Digital — Production • Sonido Vegetal — Verbena Calavera — Octubre (Sony Music) — Production • The Sugarcubes — Vitamin — One Little Indian Records — 12" remix • Symposium — Bury You — Infectious Records — Production • Symposium — Paint The Stars — Infectious Records — Production • Tribazik — Data Warfare — Skyride — Mixing and additional production • U2 — Night and Day — Island — 12" remix — 1998 • Vega 4 — Love Is The Music — Taste Media — Production • The Verve — Bitter Sweet Symphony — Hut Records — Production • The Verve — Lucky Man — Hut Records — Production • The Verve — Sonnet — Hut Records — Production • The Verve — Urban Hymns — Hut Records — Co-producer — 1997 • Naturists — Naked In the Rain — Interactive Records — Co-producer • Naturists — Naturist composition inst — Interactive Records — Co-producer • Naturists — Naked — Interactive Records — Co-producer • Nik Tuner (Hawkwind) — Interstellar Energy — Cadiz Music — Producer — 2020 • Youth Meets Jah Wobble — Acid Punk Dub Apocalypse — Cadiz Music — Artist/Producer — 2020 • Youth — Spinning Wheel — Cadiz Music — Artist/Producer — 2022 • Radical Dance Faction — Welcome To The Edge — Cadiz Music — Producer — 2023 • Lee Scratch Perry — Spaceship To Mars — Creation Youth — Artist/Producer — 2024 • 3HEAD — You Are Beautiful — Creation Youth — Producer — 2025 • Bad Fractals — The Sea Sang Screaming — Creation Youth — Producer — 2026 • Zodiac Youth — Carnival Of Souls — Creation Youth — Artist/Producer — 2026 • Chant Artist Collective — Relics Of Tree Worship (In Dub) — Cadiz Music/Balance Recordings — Producer — 2026

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