Mark E to play @ Lucky Coq

Mark E to play @ Lucky Coq

Thats right, Lucky Coq is happy to announce they have secured Mark E and will be performing this coming Monday during 'The Best of Both Sides Festival.

BLOW YOUR OWN WAY
25th April 2011 (Anzac Day)

Lucky Coq Rooftop - 179 Chapel St, Prahran
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MARK E (Spectral Sound / Running Back)
Tornado Wallace (Sleazy Beats / Delusions Of Grandeur)
Myles Mac (Melbourne Deepcast)
Craig McWhinney (Haul Music)
Louis McCoy
Luke Bruin

FINAL RELEASE TICKETS $20 + b/fee - available from
MOSHTIX - http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=46554
RA - http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?250037

MORE ON THE DOOR!

Blow Your Own Way is back for a special Easter instalment featuring deep house legend Mark E, now on the Rooftop at Lucky Coq! Get set for a kick-ass party in the courtyard with great beer on tap, great music and an exclusive 3 hour DJ set from one of the finest DJs on the planet.

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MARK E (UK)
Spectral Sound / Running Back / Golf Channel / Merc

http://ghostly.com/artists/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.