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Get to know Tee Mango

Creative director and musician at the helm of streetwear brand-cum-record label Millionhands

  • Patrick Hinton
  • 5 October 2016

Music subcultures are often as defined by fashion as they are by sound, and few people marry these worlds as well as Tom Mangan. The Londoner’s Millionhands brand has designed clothing with some of the coolest names in music such as R&S and Planet E, while its record label offshoot houses a wealth of mystical tracks including Canadian psych-rock group Brasstronaut trying their hand at disco.

Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ video got Mangan hooked on music and fashion as a kid. He would raid his mum’s wardrobe for “anything with shoulder pads”, taking his first steps as a selector by choosing tunes to soundtrack his parents’ dinner parties, picking everything from Balearica to soul.

Studying music technology at Kingston University helped develop his production skills, setting him up for a career that has seen him release on labels such as Bedrock and rather bizarrely produce for a Chinese show-tunes artist. “He wanted to sing as if he were in Cats, while we put an arpeggiated synth underneath. It was a very strange session,” Mangan says.

 
 
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