Mark E
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's first forays into production were edits—warm, understated, and interestingly mellow, with tempos hovering somewhere between 105 and 115 BPM. 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 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 introduced him to the Ghostly / Spectral fold, who released 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.