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Justin Broadrick

Justin Karl Michael Broadrick (born 15 August 1969) is a British singer, songwriter, guitarist and drummer. He is best known as a founding member of the band Godflesh, one of the first bands to combine elements of extreme metal and industrial music. He was briefly in the English grindcore band Napalm Death when he was a teenager in the mid-1980s, writing and recording guitar for Side One of the Napalm Death's debut album, Scum. Broadrick has also maintained a parallel career as a producer, producing records and remixes for groups such as Pantera, Isis, Mogwai, and Hydra Head labelmates Pelican. Broadrick has set up record labels such as HeadDirt, Avalanche Recordings, Post Mortem Productions (briefly renamed Uprising Productions), Lo Fibre and Heartache.

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I think when you can be supremely self-indulgent sometimes it's easy to get up one's own asshole. I need parameters. I need discipline.

Discipline, Parameters, Self, Think, Thinking

I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid.

Fans, Huge, Kid, Kids, Play, Records

Inspiration has to be natural for me, not so considered, I am not saying that is right or wrong, it's simply what works for me.

Considered, Inspiration, Natural, Right, Simply, Works

Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction.

Culture, Down, Extinction, Gone, Level, Levels

I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records and, on that same token, I wouldn't in any way wish for them to come back and repeat themselves.

Come, Early, Records, Swans, Token, Wish

There's always gonna be people saying they were so much better back in the day.

Back, Back In The Day, Day, Gonna, People

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

Becomes, Despise, Dogma, Form, Organized, Religious

Rhythms, beats, etc. , are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being 'progressive'.

Rocks, Guitar, Creative, Involved, Emulate, Beats

When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me as such in any band.

Band, Kid, Kids, Music, Years

I always felt at odds, politically, with people, and with any group of people that congregate and declare themselves as some sort of movement. It's usually motivated by wishing to dominate other people.

Congregate, Declare, Odds, People, Wish

What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture.

Luxury, Technology, Thinking, Time, Week

Electronic music, for me, has been the only real pioneering music that actually does push boundaries and is constantly futuristic.

Boundaries, Doe, Music, Pioneering, Push, Real

Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the beat on “Christbait Rising” which Broadrick was quoted as saying, “It was my attempt at copying the rhythm sample on 'Microphone Fiend' by Eric B & Rakim”.

Artist, Heavily, Hip Hop, Hips, Influenced, Machine

I know a lot of mainstream hip-hop people, have been listening to things like Aphex Twin for years. When somebody first played me some of that album, I was just like, "Woah!"

Album, Hip Hop, Mainstream, People, Played, Years

I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism.

Frailty, Hands, Professionalism, Proficiency, Sort