CO OWNER / ARTIST / TROUSER PRESSER

LYTTON (THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS DJ THE BLADE AND THE GRAND AYATOLLAH) IS THE RECORDING NAME OF OWEN WILLIAMS. AS WITH ALL POLYTHEISTIC OVERLORDS BEFORE HIM, THE EXACT TIME AND LOCATION OF THE GRAND AYATOLLAH'S INCEPTION IS SHROUDED IN MYSTERY. MAINTAINING THAT HE IS ORIGINALLY FROM AN EXTRA DIMENTIONAL PLAIN OF EXISTENCE, THE EXALTED ONE NOW RESIDES IN HULME, MANCHESTER (A STARK CONTRAST FOR SURE).

EXCITED BY THE CONCEPT OF BRICOLAGE, THE GRAND AYATOLLAH WAS DRAWN TO SERIOUS ELECTRONIC MUSIC PRODUCTION SOME TIME IN THE EARLY 2000S AFTER HAILING PRIMARILY FROM A PUNK ROCK BACKGROUND. NOW THE PROUD CO-OWNER OF MARIONETTE RECORDS, THE ELATED HEALER HELPS ORGANISE AND PROMOTE MARIONETTE EVENTS AROUND THE COUNTRY. STILL STAYING TRUE TO HIS FAVOURED BLEND OF BREAKBEAT AND GABBER DRIVEN BANGERS, THE SEX CLERIC CHURNS OUT MUSIC PROLIFICALLY, SPINNING CHAOTIC TUNES LIKE A WHIRLING DERVISH MADE OF PAIN.

"IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU LIKE TO RAVE YOUR PILLED UP TITS OFF TO JUNGLE OR STROKE YOUR BEARD WHILST READING GUY DEBORD, THERE'S PROBABLY SOMETHING HERE THAT YOU'LL LIKE, AND A WHOLE HEAP OF TOSS THAT YOU ALMOST CERTAINLY WON'T LIKE."

LYTTON @ MYSPACE

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