iLL Communications Presents :: Mark E (Merc/Running Back)

iLL Communications July continues with Mark E (Merc/Running Back) July 22nd at Trilogy, Madinat Jumeirah. 

MAIN ROOM: Dany Neville & Rone Jaxx (Radio 1)


✜ Mark E (Merc/Running Back)) ✜
http://www.electricmotel.c​om/artist_account.php?id=1​525
http://www.discogs.com/art​ist/Mark+E

The music of Mark E is overwhelmingly deliberate, and in that sense it’s quintessential house—unswerving, mechanistic, intoxicatingly simple. And life imitates art: the Wolverhampton-reared, Birmingham-based DJ/producer has had a slow, steady ascension to his status as one of the genre’s most natural talents.

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

Mark’s first forays into production were, naturally, edits—warm, understated, and interestingly mellow, with tempos hovering somewhere between 105 and 115 BPM. (Or thereabouts.) Once “Scared,” a ten-minute rework of Womack & Womack’s “Baby, I’m Scared Of You,” found the ears of influential selector (and, more importantly, BBC radio DJ) Giles Peterson, it was on, and a solid string of memorable, vinyl-only releases introduced the world at large to this humble, devoted househead. Slowly (again), Mark went beyond edits and into original production, starting his own label, MERC, and honing a sound that was uniquely blue collar and utilitarian—classic, almost industrial house, with a tinge of disco warmth.

A stellar remix for Matthew Dear’s “Little People (Black City)” introduced him to the Ghostly/Spectral fold, who are now releasing his first artist album, Stone Breaker. It’s as defining as anything he’s done, a symbol of his unique spot in the global club music landscape, sounding simultaneously familiar and unique like few others can.




✜ ✜ Event Details ✜ ✜

iLL Communications Presents :: Mark E (Merc/Running Back) 
Friday, July 22nd, 2011 at Trilogy, Madinat Jumeirah
Main Room: Dany Neville & Rone Jaxx (Radio 1)
Electric Studio: Mark E (Merc/Running Back)
Warm Up: Hassan Alwan (Boogie Box)
Doors open from 10:00pm-3:00am
Before 12am: AED 100, After 12am: AED 130, Ladies and FACE Card free till 11pm
Available on Time Out Tickets, Platinumlist Tickets and at the door
For tables & information call 050 725 8277 or e-mail jason@ohmrecords.com