Behind the music: Labrinth on life with Simon Cowell

The producer of Tinie Tempah's Brit single of the year Pass Out explains why he's signed to the X Factor creator's SycoWhen Labrinth signed with Syco it raised a few eyebrows. Why would the producer and co-writer behind one of the most interesting breakthrough underground tracks of last year – Tinie Tempah's Brit single of the year, Pass Out – choose to get in bed with Simon Cowell's pop factory, which churns out conveyer-belt Identikit pop stars? "Syco is a machine, like X Factor is a machi...

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