Deconstructed

Kingsley Marshall is an academic and journalist who lectures in film, and contributes music and film criticism, features and reviews to Clash, Little White Lies, Shook and Big Screen magazines in the UK, and Film International overseas. His current research primarily orientates around the use of sound (including music and effects) in film, though he is also due to publish pieces on representations of US Presidents in cinema – including chapters on Oliver Stone’s W. and a second on Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon – during 2010. He occasionally writes reviews and biographies for Allmediaguide, and continues to contribute video game criticism and technology stories for anyone kind enough to ask him. Deconstructed is the archive of that writing.

Kingsley began writing at the tail end of the 1980s – an expansive record collection having taken him from the turntables to the recording studio and, eventually, the word processor. In recent years, like some kind of musical Marty McFly, he’s made a return journey and hopes to finally deliver on a record deal, originally signed in 1998, in 2010. He is aware that his album has taken longer than Guns N’ Roses Chinese Democracy and hopes that it too will go multi-platinum.

He has written about all aspects of popular culture – from music through to film, video games, the internet and literature – for the BBC, MTV and Amazon, in the pages of anthologies on hip hop and soul, album sleeve notes and biographies, and over 20 magazines, including Mixmag, Blues & Soul, iDJ, Dazed, Touch, Darker Than Blue, Notion, DJ, Wax, Grand Slam, Knowledge, ATM, Stranger, Muzik, and Hip Hop Connection amongst others in the UK, in addition to Break It Up in France, 3D World in Australia, Zavtone in Japan, and Urb, Massive, BPM and XLR8R in the US.

Established in 1996 as a resource for cultural ephemera, Deconstructed also spawned club nights at a smattering of venues. Deconstructed Live has drawn upon the movers and shakers of independent music in an irregular showcase of contemporary music. Guests have included Ladytron, Tom Middleton, The Big Chill, Rob Da Bank, Mark Pritchard, the Rephlex Disco Assault System, Luke Vibert, Bonobo, Jamie Odell, Ian Simmonds, Quantic and Riton – DJ sets from whom are peppered across this site.

Heralded by the NME as one of the best nights in the country, The Guardian were kind enough to profile Deconstructed Live as, “one of those nights that nightclubbing was made for,” whilst style bible i-D went even further, describing Kingsley, somewhat bizarrely, as an “Orwellian-era disc-jockey and romantic poetry quoting soul boy.”  If you take that as meaning he couldn’t mix his way out of a paper bag, and plays sets guaranteed to include at least Ennio Morricone record, then they were right on the money.

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