Justin Warfield

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Justin Warfield (born 1973) is a musician and hip hop emcee who is currently half of the darkwave band She Wants Revenge.

Bradley Torreano writes:

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[Emcee] Justin Warfield was only 20 years old when his debut album, My Field Trip to Planet 9, was released to curious ears in 1993. Produced by Prince Paul [and Quincy Jones III], the album was a bizarre mix of loops and unpredictable beats that was not a very large success, but established him as a young talent to watch for. Of course, he turned completely against his first album when The Justin Warfield Supernaut appeared in 1995. Comprised of a charming classic rock sound, it still did not make a difference in terms of sales but it did confound his fans. Even stranger was his sudden disappearance [from the music industry] after the promotion of his second album, making sporadic guest appearances with bands like Placebo and Cornershop but staying away from releasing his own album.

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Justin Warfield is musically versatile, having been involved in most contemporary Western musical genres, in one form or another during his career, and seems to choose his projects based on personal interest rather than through career concerns. His projects seldom receive mainstream recognition but tend to baffle the majority but generate small isolated cult followings, due to the drastically differing stylistic choices between each project.^[1]

He was a member of the group One-Inch Punch, which released "Tao of the One Inch Punch" on Hut Records in 1996. Now he is one half of the darkwave duo She Wants Revenge, a project different again from any of his previous incarnations. It is a deliberately caricatured, heavily electronic group that draws influence from bands like Joy Division, Bauhaus and Depeche Mode, to more contemporary groups like Interpol and The Faint, cultivating a stylized visual identity in a contemporary analogue to Depeche Mode and the Cure.^[2] His most commercially recognisable track is probably “Bug Powder Dust,” in which he was the vocalist of a Bomb the Bass release, he also featured on another track on its album Clear.