J Saul Kane (1969 - 2024)
The news just came in today that J Saul Kane , the pioneering British breakbeat/electro musician known for such projects as Depth Charge and the Octagon Man, has passed on. He was only 55 years old. [ J Saul Kane tribute by Carl Lorben @ DJ Magazine, 19 November 2024 ] [ Resident Adviser ] [ NME ] I was briefly in touch with him years ago when I kept for my own Website a sort of fanpage of his music and also the record labels, DC Recordings and Electron Industries, that he maintained. (I can’t say I knew him well, but I remember “Nutters but good nutters” was how he commented on the page.) J Saul Kane biography Born in 1969, Jonathan Saul Kane came of age when the first wave of hip-hop culture was just sweeping across the Atlantic from its original birthplace most historians locate to Bronx, New York City, USA. It reached also Powis Square in the Notting Hill area of West London, UK, where a teenage kid called Jon lived with his mother. Notting Hill is traditionally know