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News flash 20th August
MK will be performing his new single with vocalist and artist
Sibley from the usa
a very special evening the launch of londons newest undergound house venue CLUB LIFE
(formally the factory)
link to location of venue
maps.google.com
nearest train and tube 'vauxhall'
M.A.D is all about the
Music
And
Dance
our motto is simple give people what they want from a night ...its time to go M,A,D
room 1 underground house music
MK
Not many people can have a true music legendary status, to mind you think 'Masters at Work', 'Todd Terry', and so on, but the biggest of them all and probably the most influential music producer on the house scene is Marc Kinchen, aka 'MK', a LIVING LEGEND in dance music history, successfully maintaining a place in the dance music industry for over 20 years, and today’s current mainstream. After starting his career in the early nineties, Marc created his own record label by the name of ‘Area 10’. He soon released ‘Burning’, the track that led to his album deal with Virgin Records.
After his single success and newly signed deal, Marc went on to become one of the top dance remixers in the world. His credits include an impressive list of artists from Bette Midler, Tom Tom Club, The B-52’s, Bobby Brown and Janet Jackson. His 1993 album entitled ‘Surrender’, featuring the singles ‘Always’ and ‘Love Changes’, hit #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play Charts consecutively in 1993 and 1994. Not to mention his mix for Night Crawlers selling over 3 millions copies worldwide and his work on Jodeci’s ‘Freakin You’, in which the record is still in the top playlists of today. His work also led him to produce a remix of Celine Dion’s single ‘Misled’, which became the first and only #1 Billboard Dance/Club Play hit of Dion’s career. A year later in 1995, Marc met the legendary Quincy Jones, who personally signed him to a publishing deal with Quincy Jones’ Music Publishing. Marc then moved onto produce the first single off Tevin Campbell’s self-titled album.
Not long after he relocated to Los Angeles to sign on as a music producer for Will Smith. From there he produced music for Dream Work’s 2005 hit movie ‘Shark Tales’ and theme music for Will Smith’s TV show ‘All of Us’. In 2006, he signed another deal with music mogul Chris Stokes and began working on production for Marques Houston, Omarion and the new super group NLT, whose album is set to release in 2008.
With nominations for Grammy Awards and many more music industry reconigniton’s, he has to date worked alongside 702, Snoop Dogg, SWV, Jay-Z and E-40, Blondie, Pet Shop Boys. His current credits in song writing include Ne-Yo, Rihanna, Beyonce, James Flossleroy, Jordan Sparks, Usher, Andre Merritt and Chris Brown.
Now, 2008, if all that’s not enough(!!), Marc has a new venture in the works, so watch this space and for the return of the MK sound. Thank god!
THE PARTY
On the night, MK will be playing all his hits, some brand new material and some very special remixes
Last time MK performed here in UK was at Ministry of Sound, back in 1998, so this is a very special evening, as he is a really busy man.
This will be a night not to be missed and probably won’t happen again for a long long time, if ever.
Joined by his brother for the first time together in UK..
Scottie Deep aka Scott Kinchen
Record Producer/Dj, holds experience spanning more than 18 years. Kinchen began a career in the music industry while attending high school in Michigan, where he started to Dj and producing records. Scott started to make a name for him around the Detroit metro area as one of the hottest DJ’s in the city. Scott secured a spot at the world famous Music Institute opening up for the legendary Derick May. The love of music inspired Scott to start AZTONK Records at the age of 19. As artist, producer, Dj, art director, publicist, distributor, marketer and accountant, Kinchen sharpened his expertise in the art of negotiating, global distribution, and producing records.
After moving to New York from Detroit, at age 22, Kinchen established solid-working relationships with major label executives, which afforded Kinchen the opportunity to record over 25 dance records for various labels. Scott coordinated and oversaw international VIP events traveling to Zurich, Pisa, Rome, Paris and London as “Dj Scottie Deep” allowing him to Dj in some of the best nightclubs on the face of the earth.
Known in the music industry as “Goldfinghaz”, Kinchen signed with Wu Tang productions as a premier producer for Wu-elements in 1997. His production and “sound” become well recognized and in high demand. Due to the overwhelming response and reception to production of his infamous beats, Scott landed “Brooklyn Beats” as a song placement in the 1996 Hollywood motion picture The Juror.
Goldfinghaz has worked with major gold and platinum artists such as Wu-Tang Clan, Gravediggaz, Capadonna, Kelis, Sweetback, Snoop Dogg just to name a few. Scott is a 2004 MTV VMA nominee for work he has done with Snoop Dogg as well as a Grammy Award nominee for the work he has done on the 1997 Wu-tang Forever project and a Spike TV Video Game Soundtrack of the year winner for the True Crimes- Streets of LA video game. He is also responsible for securing publishing deals with BMG and has been awarded several Gold and Platinum Awards along with other prestigious music awards for his productions.
Scott Kinchen is the President of Ambition Management Group, which are a full service management company, which exclusively represents; Recording Artist, Record Producers, Songwriters and Actors.
uks leading producer
GRANT NELSON
Grant was born in April 1971 just on the outskirts of London.
From a very early age he showed more than an interest in music but oddly enough it wasn’t what he wanted to do with his life. He was always the class joker and overall entertainer through his school years and it was maybe his love of cinema that convinced him to become an actor. To this date, he swears that if things hadn’t unfolded the way that they did he would have gone to R.A.D.A and who knows, maybe we would be watching him on the silver screen now.
So when did the music bug first bite?
At around the age of 9 he first began dabbling in acoustic engineering – oh okay, pulling his parents hi-fi system apart and recording the results onto his granddads old reel to reel cassette recorder. He claims that he was a mix DJ before the term had even been invented. “I used to take a bit of Queen’s ‘Another one bites the dust’, throw in some beats from some dodgy old Hawaiian drums LP and, very poorly, scratch in orchestral hits from my ‘Star Wars’ original motion picture Soundtrack album. The result was nearly always terrible but it was the fact that you could make something different by layering pieces of music that first drew my attention to the intricate workings of music production”.
Then came the classical training….
Nope, not in this case. With a present of a keyboard for his thirteenth birthday he started tinkering away at his own pace. Within a few short months he had set up a band with some school friends. Sadly the highlight of the band’s career was playing a few Pet Shop Boy’s covers to the rest of the school in an assembly period one morning, but it was his first taste of musical performance and he liked it.
Remixes at the age of 13?
His first remix, albeit just in his own bedroom, was of Chaka Kahn’s “I feel for you” and it went down with his friends so well that he decided to do some more.
Lots more… In fact it got to the stage where he was so proud of his ‘cassette pausing, record looping, live synth playing, reconstructions’ that he sent his mix of The Jets’ “Crush on You” away to their record company. Alas he never heard back from them but ironically years later he would do quite a bit of remixing work for MCA.
Illegal parties and Djing…
After blagging his way into a Djing gig, just because he had bundles of records and bundles of lip, he became quite popular in the local area and ended up doing a few birthday parties and Christmas do’s. This soon became frustrating due to the musical requests though – “They were asking for all sorts of rubbish and although I admit that I bought some pants records in my youth, I was 16 now and had a devastating collection of 70’s disco, 80’s soul and early house…. I was being asked for ‘Congratulations’ by Cliff Richard. It had to stop… It was offending my ears….” So Grant teamed up with a friend to ‘put on a few parties’. This quickly escalated into mini-raves and all sorts of trouble followed. “Well I only got caught once. The police took some amps, decks and a couple of strobes – no big deal. There was a small fine too, but that wasn’t the problem, what was worse was that if we tried to hold a party legally, like in a church hall or something, the place would get totalled and we’d get lumbered with a huge repair bill…. Some people have so little respect for a pulpit I can tell you…” When the newspapers reported the story about the one that had been busted by the police they called the event a “Massive Audio Disturbance”, which Grant later used to name one of his recordings with Kickin’ Records under his Wishdokta guise.
The Demo tape and Deal …..
1990 – Grant had just returned from a summer season Djing gig in Jersey, CI. Coming down from the buzz of being the resident DJ in the islands top club wasn’t easy and he couldn’t really settle into a career job. “I’ve tried everything from working in KFC to Bingo Calling…” During his illegal stay, (“The bursar just thought that I was a student”), at his girlfriends college halls of residence he began working on a demo tape that would eventually get him his first deal. “I used to spend a lot of time tinkering on the communal piano in the TV room while other education skivers were trying to watch Oprah. It didn’t take me long to realise that everybody was probably too stoned to even know I was there so I thought, what the hell, and brought my 4 track tape recorder, Korg mono/poly synthesiser, a £50 Casio sampler and my sorry little Boss drum machine down into the TV room and set up my own little studio…. Between hiding under my girlfriends bed when she had a room inspection and working at Rymans the stationers I managed to record an entire album of tracks.” Tracks, so good in fact that Kate, his girlfriend, persuaded him to send off his tape to a record label. Reluctantly Grant sent the tape off to Kickin’ Records. A couple of days later he received a phone call, went for a meeting and had a record deal…
Wishdokta was born ….
As Wishdokta Grant bounded onto the stage, his face painted with 3d blocks and astounded crowds Europe-Wide with his eclectic blend of rock, hardcore, ragga and breakbeats. “At the time I was telling members of the press that I sacrificed goats before I went on stage and all sorts of weirdness like that…”
His first single release was entitled “Evil surrounds us” and went straight into the UK’s top 75 singles chart and his first ever review stated "Is Wishdokta the Ozzy Osbourne of House?". Not bad for a new artist making devil worshipping hardcore nonsense. As Wishdokta he toured extensively at festivals, raves & clubs in the UK & Germany building up a fan base that actually lead to one crazed American guy ringing the Kickin' offices and stating that he had just come out of a rave and he 'totally understood what Wishdokta was saying!'. So much so that when he was told he wouldn't be be able to speak to the Dok he threatend the lives of the people on the end of the phone. Happy days.
From Hardcore to House….
Growing more and more discontent with the musical restraints of the Hardcore scene, he teamed up with top Happy Hardcore DJ, DJ Vibes. “I know it sounds like jumping from the pan into the fire, but it wasn’t. Vibes and I used to hook up once every month or so and record a couple of tracks in my bedroom studio. We pressed up the vinyl on our own label ‘Asylum’ and Vibes took them off to sell them to the shops. During the rest of the time I was experimenting with different styles from, R&B to out and out Pop. It gave me the financial freedom to try a few things out….” The pair enjoyed a huge amount of success with their work and one of the singles even lead to an introduction to the person who later became Grant’s partner in the company Nice ‘n’ Ripe records.
Nice ‘n Ripe.…
1993 Grant met George Power, former Kiss FM DJ & Founder. After explaining to George where he wanted to go musically, the pair founded “Nice ‘n’ Ripe Records”. George would be the financial backbone while Grant made the music. The work Grant recorded during this period of his career would later be heralded as the birth of UK Garage. “A lot of people assume that I had a fantastic time during the Nice ‘n’ Ripe days, that I revelled in the acclaim and fame I was receiving and that it must have spurred me on in the studio… The truth is that I was blissfully unaware of the impact my music was having at the time. I was locked away in the studio day and night and the only time I was aware that my work was being heard was when it was played on pirate stations that I happened to be listening to..”
So how long was it before he realised?
“It must have been around mid ’95 when I really discovered how popular my sound was… It was quite a shock, I had known that there were a hardcore group of pirate Dj’s on my records, but had no idea it was as widespread as it was.. I was getting calls from DJ’s & Producers in the states asking me to work with them and considering that I had originally based my style on an American garage vibe this was a huge compliment”….
For reasons we can’t discuss here, Nice ‘n’ Ripe came to an end in early 1996 but Grant had already moved on by then.
Swing City records....
During his time at Nice ‘n’ Ripe he had been discussing ideas for a new label with his long-time partner, Kate Ross. In the summer of 1995 Swing City Records was born. It has established itself as one of the main international House & Garage independent labels with a strong following worldwide. Grant doesn’t have anything to do with the actual running of the label himself, he prefers to keep himself locked away in the studio leaving all the hard work to his partner Kate Ross, he says, “I wouldn’t have the first clue about running a label, all I know is music and it’s what I do best, If Swing City were left to my devices I’d be selling tapes at Oxford Circus tube station”. Grant’s Production / Remix of Negrocan’s “Cada Vez” released on Swing City in 1999 has become a Universal smash topping the pop charts in several countries and has so far totalled World-Wide sales of nearly 2 million copies. To date Swing City has featured a host of international artists and producers and continues to supply high quality house music for the dance fraternity.
Remix Duties…..
Grant has remixed and re-produced songs for a multitude of Artists including the likes of James Brown, Kelis, Jodeci, Frankie Knuckles, Artful Dodger, Mis-Teeq, Liberty X, Aaliyah, The Brand New Heavies, Guy, Another Level, Juliet Roberts, Rosie Gaines, Gabrielle, Hinda Hicks, Thelma Houston, Beverley Knight & Faithless to name a few. He unwillingly takes a breather from the mixes every now and again so he can concentrate time on his own productions. Unwillingly due to the fact that he enjoys tampering with other people’s work. His remixography gives a little insight into why he is constantly in demand as a remixer.
The UK Garage explosion….
In 1997 a new sound was born out of the London club scene. 2 step was a mixture of US Garage songs with a breakbeat styled drum pattern and bouncy UK basslines. Bump & Flex was a project set up initially as a way of releasing some this ‘harder’ garage music without confusing people about Grant’s more melodic and bumpy musical style. From the first remix of Indo’s “R U Sleepin’”, Bump & Flex was a huge name on the scene. To this date it still remains one of the most prolific of all the UK Garage production outfits. Grant also teamed up with Norris ‘da boss’ Windross and together they formed the act N’n’G. Their first single, “Right Before My Eyes”, debuted in the UK charts at number 12 in March 2000. As well as his contributions to the UK Garage scene Grant continued to produce House music evident with him getting signed to Virgin records with the release of “Step 2 Me” featuring US Vocalist Jean McClain. Following a multitude of remixes achieving ‘classic’ UK Garage status, Bump ‘n’ Flex signed a major deal for one of their own singles to Warner Brothers UK. He also managed to find time to get on production & mix duties for the hit UK band Mis-Teeq with their single “Be With Me”. The single debuted at number 4 in the UK charts. A very busy 2004 saw Grant’s Djing schedule take him all over the World and earned him a nomination as ‘Best House DJ’ at the Urban Music Awards.
Recent Projects….
Grant's remix of 'Fade' by Solu Music feat. Kimblee brought an underground classic to the mainstream. After tearing it up all over clubland for 6 months it resulted in a commercial hit for Hed Kandi records.
Other recent club smashes include Grant's own release "Spellbound" and remixes for Chocolate Puma, Towa Tei, M-Gee feat Mica Paris, Chanel & Afromento.
Grant has produced a sample CD containing beats & musical parts aimed at house music producers called 'Studio Essentials - Beats 'n' Pieces Edition', which is available exclusively at www.traxsource.com
Countries Grant has performed in….
England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, USA, France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Holland, Spain (mainland), Ibiza, Mallorca, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Japan, Singapore, Australia, South Africa, Greece, Jersey, Guernsey, Austria.
DJ Huckleberry Finn (birthday set)
An Introduction to Huck…… A folk law hero in the USA but on the underground dance music scene, DJ Huckleberry Finn is a legend to some, a gentleman and total nice guy to others. A godfather to the music scene, that has taken his career over the last 20 years and doesn’t look like its ever stopping. His love and passion for music and for what he does is compendious, yet he still sees himself as one of the crowd and that’s why, along with his outstanding technical ability, he rocks any venue.
Jingo alongside superstars of the scene, including Roger Sanchez , Todd Terry, Norman Jay MBE, Soul Avengerz, Seamus Haji, Hoxton Whores, Smokin Jo, CJ Mackintosh, Shinichi Osawa, Bodyrox, Dave Spoon, Jeremy Healy, Grooverider, Fabio, Judge Jules, and many many more. Having traveled all the four continents of the world, playing at gigs holding from 50 people to events holding 20,000 people, he has taken his talent and expression on the turntables with him.
Highly respected by many professionals in the industry, he was quoted by Tony Portillo in his book ‘RAW’, as the DJ’s DJ. Sony, Japan, spoke of him as the most humble, polite and talented artist, from the UK, they have ever worked with.
Over the years he has run the well established UK dance label ‘Open-Dor Records’ dance label to Polydor records and has also had his own independent labels too . He will be launching his next in 2008 called ‘MADMAD WORLD’. Past releases include mega hits such as ‘Nightcrawlers - Push the Feeling’, ‘Kim English – Nightlife’ ,‘Sophie Ellis Bextor – Murder on the Dancefloor’-‘Wildchild-Renegade Master to name just a few.
Being on the cutting edge of the scene huck was A&R to Polydor records dance division and was the founder of many artists’, including The Artful Dodger (acclaimed within the text on the back of their worldwide hit ‘Rewind’), Craig David (holding a Platinum Disc in recognition), DJ Deekline, Daniel Beddingfield,Modjo, the list goes on.
Working in many London record shops over the past 20 years, from ‘Unity’ to ‘Release the Groove’ and his most famous outing at the Mecca of all house music, alongside Black Market Records, was ‘Uptown Records’ in Soho, where he was for six years. Black Market even tried to poach him away!
DJ Huckleberry Finn’s productions have been on many compilations and remixes, including high profile artists from the likes of Daniel Beddingfield to Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Lighthouse Family, Ms Dynamite, Eminem and kylie.to his most recent ministry of sounds bassline classics ‘Kristine Blond –loveshy remix’
Throughout his 20 years, he has been a DJ on numerous radio stations throughout the UK, from pirate stations to legitimate stations, including a guest mix on BBC Radio 1. He currently has a regular spot on the ever-so-popular London station ‘Passion FM’ (website: www.passion4music.co.uk) and can be heard every Friday afternoon from 11am till 3pm GMT with ‘Huckleberrys House’.
He promotes his own nights called ‘M.A.D’, ‘One For The Girls’ and in the past has promoted events for Notting Hill Carnival, to nights at the famous Ministry of Sound.
He DJ’s continuously worldwide and is a resident for three of London’s premier events ‘Smartie Partie’ (who are into there twelfth year)www.smartiepartie.com , ‘Shiva’ www.shivaparty.com and ‘Promised Land’. www.myspace.com/clubpromisedland
He has graced the decks of all London and many UK major venues, past and present, including Ministry of Sound, Pacha, Koko (formally Camden Palace), Turnmills, The Cross and 100's more. The music Huck plays is right across the board from old to new, funky to filthy, house to breaks, it all depends on the crowd and what the promoter wants. He has been publicly nominated as the Best Classic House DJ 2007 at the Old School Music Awards.
Huckleberry’s knowledge is sort after by the media for reviews, charts and interviews. In the past he has done the official chart for DJ Mag and also did record reviews for I.DJ Mag.He has helped advise the Observer newspaper on a article about the uk scene. He has been interviewed for magazines in France, Japan, USA, & Poland to name a few. The British Dance Media and TV groups use to contact him often for his advice and hints on what’s hot and what’s not
As a DJ he has just about seen it and done it all, but still is seeing and doing, his saying is "I haven’t even started yet"!! How much more there is to come? Well, you have to wait and see! Currently working on a solo album with music to represent the last 20 years in his house, plus his most recent project ‘Aretha Franklin - Deeper Love’ remix, soon to be released. The fact is Huck’s arms should be needles, music runs through his veins and he never disappoints the dance floor…..ever!! YOU AINT BEEN OUT ‘TIL YOU GET HUCKED!!!!
plus
DJ mozza (resident MAD man)
Room 2 (all things house)
Qualifide
Liam D (shiva)
Rob Alldritt(get diverted)
Chris Biscuit b2b Ramone (smartie partie)
Jason Chance & Rob Loco (licked)
dj Ped
Muzz Khan
Headset Heroes
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