Named after a 1960s movie, Hoodlum Priest was led by Derek Thompson, his self-chosen moniker for his work as a producer and engineer, using hip-hop, industrial, and techno influences as the source of material for his sounds. While Thompson had done a brief stint with
The Cure, his major musical background through the late 1970s and 1980s was with avant-garde industrialists
SPK, which he co-founded in 1978. He continued with the band through the end of the '80s, departing after newer member Graeme Revell took the group to what Thompson felt was too commercial of a direction. His…
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