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Birth name
  
James Hannam

Years active
  
2003–present

Record label
  
Exceptional Records

Instruments
  
Keyboards

Genres
  
Occupation(s)
  
DJ

Role
  
DJ · culprit1.com

Origin
  
Newport, Wales

Name
  
Culprit 1


Also known as
  
Culprit 1, Culprit One, Culp

Education
  
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

Albums
  
Running In Order, Solitude, Grains of Light, Theme 2, Running In Order EP, Aqood Guud EP

Similar People
  
Culprit, Paul Hartnoll, Eddy Temple‑Morris, The Automatic, Tom Middleton

Profiles

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Culprit 1 a.k.a. Culprit One (born James Hannam) is a London-based DJ, remixer and electronica producer. He is considered 'The DJ Shadow of Wales' by BBC Radio 1 and 'The Bastard Son of Orbital and RJD2' by XFM.

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Hannam holds a degree in music from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and attended Crosskeys College in the Welsh valleys, where the Manic Street Preachers also studied. His music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 1 by Steve Lamacq, Zane Lowe, Bethan Elfyn, Annie Mac, Annie Nightingale, Colin Murray and Huw Stephens (who contributed sleeve notes to first album 'Running in Order'). Eddy Temple-Morris, Adam Walton and Radio 101 (Croatia) have also supported Culprit 1 releases.

'What I Use', the first recording made under the Culprit 1 moniker, was released in July 2003 on Boobytrap. Hannam went on to perform at America’s legendary South by Southwest event and subsequently signed to Exceptional Records.

Following popular events with a string quartet early in 2007 (two members of which also performed with Kanye West on his 2006 UK tour), he found favour in the classical music world, earning the support of influential UK radio station Classic FM.

In November 2010, Exceptional released Hannam's second album 'Theme 2', featuring vocal contributions from Smiler, Polarbear and Iko.

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Trivia

  • Unusually for a producer in a traditionally serious and publicity-shy genre, Hannam maintains an amusing, tongue-in-cheek journal and Facebook group in which he regularly describes his studio experiments, vegetarian recipes and journeys back to Wales.
  • A couple that met at the debut Culprit 1 performance in October 2003 married in 2008.
  • The name Culprit 1 was influenced by a graffiti scrawling at Newport bus station.
  • At Bettws High School in Newport, Hannam won the 1992 Eisteddfod keyboard solo competition with a rendition of 2 Unlimited's European hit 'No Limits'.
  • Hannam's first job after graduating from university was a club reviewer for the UK dance magazine Muzik. The editor at the time was Conor McNicholas, who later became editor of leading indie magazine NME.
  • References

    Culprit 1 Wikipedia


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