dropped by ZTT after disagreements over the label's refusal to release a controversial song called 'Cop Killer' and Thompson's opinion the label did not know how to promote the band. Thompson continued on his own, working on various sideprojects and interspersing his background work (occasionally with regular friend/callobrator Cliff Hewitt, a short-lived band called Black Radio and providing music for Television commercial) and continued to release occasional album releases such as 1994's Beneath the Pavement (which featured 2 tracks produced by Raymond Watts of KMFDM fame) and 1998's Hoodlum Priest, which featured former Gaye Bykers on Acid frontman and Pigface/Apollo 440 bandmember Mary Byker on vocals. After the release of the self-titled album, the group has been on hiatus. Recently, Derek became a member of Brighton's experimental music collective Spirit of Gravity and was last seen gigging as Komuso, which he described as an improvised unit, which featured guests who were given no information what to play on arrival to the stage. His last known Hoodlum Priest recording was "Blood on the Moon" for the closing credits of the Danish film The King is Alive directed by Kristian Levring. Later works have appeared under his real name. He was commissioned by Jessica Rosemary Shepherd to compose "Leafscape" - an arrangement that merges electronic sounds with Jessica Shepherd's field recordings. The piece was composed to be played with her collection of 42 leaf paintings at Abbott and Holder and was released by Concrete Music Publishing for Inky Leaves Publishing as a limited edition CD. In 2018, he was commissioned to create "Black lux" in tribute to the 50th anniversary of the cinematic release of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey for INKQ Magazine. Cop Killer Controversy Derek created a track entitled "Cop Killer" (not related to the Body Count song Copkiller of the same name) ZTT refused to release it because of the heavy use of various 'cop killer' samples (most notably from movies like RoboCop; it took 2 years to collect most of the samples) and concern that the song would cause an uproar. Both this song and the single "Caucasian" were banned, although some white labels of the records do exist. Discography The Heart of Darkness 1990 Beneath the Pavement... 1994 Hoodlum Priest 1998 Remixes Fatman (The Hoodlum Priest Fatboy Mix) and Menofearthereaper (The Concrete No Fee No Fear Mix) by Pop Will Eat Itself - Two Fingers My