Bandulu are a British electronic music

Electronic music

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 group consisting of Jamie Bissmire, John O'Connell & Lucien Thompson. The music often relies heavily on techno

Techno

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 and dub

Dub music

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 elements. Releasing their first two albums on Creation Records

Creation Records

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 sublabel Infonet, the group has also released albums on Blanco y Negro

Blanco y Negro Records

Blanco y Negro Records, a subsidiary of WEA Records Ltd., was established in 1983 by Geoff Travis of Rough Trade Records.Blanco y Negro was home to such artists as Bananarama, Everything But the Girl, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Dream Academy, Dinosaur Jr., Bernthøler, A House, Catatonia, The...

, Foundation Sound Works and Music Man Records. The group recorded three sessions for John Peel

John Peel

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's BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1

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 show.

The trio also recorded under the names Thunderground, New Adult, Sons of the Subway, and Space DJz.

In his book Energy Flash, Simon Reynolds

Simon Reynolds

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 credited Bandulu as part of the "Texturology" sub-genre, stating that "the best tracks on Bandulu's Guidance sounded like jazz-techno, as if Zawinul

Joe Zawinul

Josef Erich Zawinul was an Austrian-American jazz keyboardist and composer.First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with...

 had somehow ended up band-leader of Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream

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 instead of Weather Report

Weather Report

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Album discography

Album	Format	Label	Year
Guidance	2xLP, CD	Infonet	1993
Antimatters	2xLP, CD	Infonet	1994
Black Mass	2x12"	Foundation Sound Works	1996
Cornerstone	2xLP, CD	Blanco y Negro	1996
Repercussions	2x12"	Foundation Sound Works	1996
Bisness	2x12"	Foundation Sound Works	1997
New Foundation	CD	Foundation Sound Works	1997
Redemption	2xLP, CD	Music Man	2002

The CD and vinyl versions of Redemption contained mostly different tracks.

External links

• Detailed discography on Discogs
• [ Bandulu at Allmusic]
• Bandulu at last.fm