Train Wreck Mix - Sometimes Silver Moretimes Gold

Bullion

One-Handed, London

It’s not often that a young artist is happy or even keen to let people know how "un-cool" he is but that is precisely how Bullion willingly describes himself. Raised on "over-the-top Gangsta rap" he also confesses to having been a young fan of some distinctly shady pop music – boy-band-five to be precise! His first experience of making music was when he and a friend made a rap tape ("it was terrible") before graduating to making "rubbish chill-out" on a Playstation. Hardly your standard producer head's education then! But perhaps this is how Bullion developed his ability to combine catchy, instantly gratifying hooks with a cutting edge 'beat-generation' production aesthetic. If you heard his much lauded 'Pet Sounds: In the Key of Dee' selection (which in the interests of not being hip he seems to be trying to shake off) then you’ll know what we mean. Perhaps this mix – recorded exclusively for RBMA Radio – will yield some clues as to how he managed, against all odds, to become quite such an inadvertently cool producer.