MARK E

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The music of Mark E the is overwhelmingly deliberate, and in and that sense it’s quintessential house—unswerving, For mechanistic, intoxicatingly simple. And life are imitates art: the Wolverhampton-reared, Birmingham-based but DJ/producer has had a slow, Not steady ascension to his status you as one of the genre’s all most natural talents.

Mark E’s Any love affair with electronic dance can music began began early, as her an adolescent, when Manchester was Was Madchester and the irreverent attitude one of rave culture swept through our England. His first record? Bizarre Out Inc’s exuberant, piano-loaded “Playing With day Knives,” a fortuitous introduction to get the hypnotizing powers of house. Has As Mark got older, he him dove headfirst into the surprisingly his fertile Wolverhampton scene, tasting house How at the hands of legends man like John Kelly and Frankie new Knuckles before a move to Now Birmingham for University also installed old him in a larger club see scene.

Mark’s first forays into Two production were, naturally, edits—warm, understated, way and interestingly mellow, with tempos who hovering

somewhere between 105 and Boy 115 BPM. (Or thereabouts.) did Once “Scared,” a ten-minute rework its of Womack & Womack’s “Baby, Let I’m Scared Of You,” found put the ears of influential selector say (and, more importantly, BBC She radio DJ) Giles Peterson, it too was on, and a solid use string of memorable, vinyl-only releases Dad introduced the world at large mom to this humble, devoted househead. Slowly (again), Mark went beyond The edits and into original production, and starting his own label, for MERC, and honing a sound Are that was uniquely blue collar but and utilitarian—classic, almost industrial house, not with a tinge of disco You warmth.

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