MK next up to mix Defected's In The House series

Marc Kinchen has mixed the latest instalment in Defected's In The House series.

Known more for his original productions and remixes than his DJing—in fact, he rarely DJ'd at all in his early years—the release will be Kinchen's first commercial mix.Defected presents MK In The House is heavily focused on the producer's own remixes and dubs under the name MK. It contains a number of classic tracks, such as 1993's "Love Changes" featuring Alana and the MK dub of Jodeci's "Freek'n You," first released in '95. There's some brand new material, too, most notably Kinchen's own remixes of The Pet Shop Boys' "Can You Forgive Her" and FCL's "It's You."

A press release states that the two-disc mix was recorded in one long session. "A lot of my DJ friends, I thought they did their mixes and podcasts live, but a lot of them use Ableton," Kinchen says. "This was the first time I did it that way and it was pretty cool for me." Defected also revealed that Kinchen is working on a live band project with Hot Natured member Lee Foss and vocalist Anabel (the three of them have already teamed up on "Electricty," disc two's closing track.) The digital version of the mix comes with a bonus 10-track release featuring MK remixes and original productions.

Tracklist

CD 1
01. MK feat. Alana - Love Changes (MK mix)
02. Prince Club & Poupon feat. Nahrin David - Only One
03. Pet Shop Boys - Can You Forgive Her? (MK remix)
04. Dusky - Nobody Else
05. Jodeci - Freek'n You (MK dub)
06. FCL - It’s You (MK mix)
07. Alex Agore - Mizz Honey
08. Prince Club & Poupon feat. MARS - Before
09. CREEP feat. Nina Sky - You (MK Hot Tub Rub Dub)
10. Bizarre Inc - Took My Love (MK remix – Lee Foss edit)
11. Amirali - Just An Illusion (MK remix)
12. Sousk and Moonface Present Animalz - Da Riddum (Reset Robot remix)
13. Huxley - No Matter What (MK dub)
14. MK feat. Alana - Always (MK club mix)

CD 2
01. Catz 'N Dogz feat. Monty Luke - They Frontin'
02. Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans (MK Dark Blue Dub)
03. Eats Everything - The Withywood Walk
04. Rachel Row - Follow The Step (KiNK mix)
05. Harrison Crump feat. Tierra Nevaeh - No More Lies (Sonny Fodera's Beatdown mix)
06. Kings Of Tomorrow feat. April - It's Only You (Sandy Rivera's Original mix)
07. Dirty Channels feat. Rosina - On The Way
08. Jamie Jones - Road To The Studio (Fly Mix)
09. Shadow Child - So High (Hot Since 82 remix)
10. Dillon - Thirteen Thirtyfive (Lee Foss & MK remix)
11. Storm Queen - Look Right Through (MK Dub III)
12. Toto Chiavetta - Mother Acid Land
13. Lee Foss & MK feat. Anabel - Electricity

Defected will release Defected presents MK In The House on April 22nd, 2013.

Watch MK make a new dub: Part 3

FACT drop part three of their production workshop with the highly influential US house producer.

If you missed part one earlier this week.....

Watch MK make a new dub: Part two

FACT drop part two of their production workshop with the highly influential US house producer.



If you missed part one earlier this week.....

Marc ‘MK’ Kinchen shows FACT TV how to make an MK Dub (part 1)

Marc 'MK' Kinchen has been one of house music's most distinctive and celebrated remixers since the early 1990s.

A hero to generations of house and garage producers -- most notably Todd 'The God' Edwards, who's claimed in the past that without MK there'd be no Todd -- the way MK chops up vocals, syllable by syllable, to say entirely new things, has contributed to countless classics, and is a trick that's been used by everyone from Burial to Mount Kimbie since.

One of the modern producers most inspired by MK is Hot City's DJ Haus. The biggest Kinchen expert we know, we put Haus in the studio with MK last week, with two aims: to come out with an MK remix of Haus's 'Needing U', and to produce a video where MK shows FACT TV how he makes his remixes. For fans of Kinchen and garage, and budding producers in general, this should be an education and a half. Here's part one.

Filmed by Anoushka Siegler & Kamil Dymek

This Weekends Activites

Music IS ART (MIA) 1ST Birthday @ Club Hidden

Line Up

Gavin Peters (AphroDisiax)

Nick doe (Viva La House)

Jessica Rabbit (Sleep)

Micah Fish (Just Beats)

Prolific (Music is art)

Alvin Dee (Music is art)

Damian Nova (Volume)

Barry Bonds (Substance Of Sound)

Dezy B (percussion)

Time: 10:00pm - 6:00am
Venue: Club Hidden/ 100 Tinworth Street; Vauxhall; London SE11 5EQ; United Kingdom
Cost: £7



Found: Shoreditch Street Party @ Earl Street

Line Up

MK (Marc Kinchen)
Todd Edwards
Paul Woolford
Huxley
Rattus Rattus

Time: 1.00pm - 8.00pm

Venue: Earl Street  / Earl Street, Shoreditch, London, EC2A

Cost: £20+

MK: The 5 Magazine Interview

This article was sourced from our good friends over @ 5 Magazine

Everyone has an affinity for '90s House Music, what many feel is the Golden Age of House, and if there was one producer that would epitomize that era it would be Marc Kinchen. Some like to call him MK, the King of Dubs. Already making music by the age of 14, he was mentored by one of the architects of Detroit Techno, Kevin Saunderson before eventually moving to New York.

There isn't one self-respecting DJ that doesn't have Marc's "Burnin", "For You" (under his moniker 4th Measure Men), "Love Changes" or his seminal remix of the Nightcrawler's "Push the Feeling On" in their arsenal. And though he moved to LA in 2000 to make innumerable hits for major label artists, it wasn't long before returned to his roots in House music and blessed us once again.

[Marc Kinchen will also be headlining 5 Magazine's 7th Anniversary Party on September 1, 2012 at SmartBar (RSVP here).]

Being born and raised in Detroit, you've said you always felt like an outsider... You were so young and impressionable and already making music - it's not like you were amongst your peers, you were the kid! Why did you feel that way?

I think because of people like Derrick [May], Kevin [Saunderson] and Juan [Atkins] - they had a certain sound and my sound was different from theirs. Their sound kind of worked together. I was more into a different type of music during that age. I wasn't really into techno that much when I first started so I just kinda did my own thing. I just didn't really feel like I fit in.

I know everyone talks about your innovative use of chopping up vocals and using them in creative ways in your tracks. UK Garage producer Todd Edwards is probably the most famous one who derived influence from you... were there a lot of copycats of that style during that time?

I really can't take 100% credit for it because I heard people do it before I was, though maybe not to the extent that I was doing it. Mike Dunn was actually the first guy I ever heard do it. I thought it was dope and took that idea and ran with it.

I like to do it just to give the remix a twist, to give it some excitement. I always try to put something like that which catches your ear. Usually chopping up vocals works just by the way your mind works: the vocals catch your attention. You're trying to figure out what they're saying even if it doesn't make sense! It's a way to reel them in. Even your grandmother will hear it and go, "What are they saying?" [laughs]

Now I know you did the Hollywood thing for a while. When was it that you took a break from House and ventured to the other side?

Around '96 I started getting bored with it. The sound started to change and that's when the clubs were starting to die out a little bit. I liked the underground House clubs and techno started to become popular. And that just wasn't my thing and I wasn't trying to convert. And plus with the remixes there were no royalties. I didn't know that it would have turned into what it is now but back then there were no royalties. So even if say you get paid 15 grand for a mix, after that it's done. I was worried about my future. How long am I going to be remixing? People might be sick of me next year! And then I ended up meeting Quincy Jones and started working with him. I was going to LA a lot and working with a lot of his artists, I started working with just a bunch of pop acts, hip-hop, R&B, all of that. I think one year I made something like $200,000 off of songs that never came out. These labels had so much money that they would sign artists, then decide after the album's done they didn't want to release them! There was that much money being made that they could afford to shelve all these artists.

  

Were you doing all this at the same time as Steve Hurley was doing dance remixes for major label artists?

Yeah, I was doing it the same time that Steve was. But you know Steve was huge! Steve was mixing all the artists I wanted to mix. I was mixing artists nobody ever heard of.

But you were still making good money though!

Yeah but I wanted to be where he was. Because he was mixing everybody cool.

You had some pretty impressive names yourself now...

I had people like Jay-Z, Jodeci, Janet Jackson, Celine Dion. But the ironic thing was my biggest mixes were from people you've probably never heard of... like Nightcrawlers for example.

 

 

 

If you were to do a remix of a commercial song that would actually work at an underground club, the major labels probably would not want that I'm assuming.

I've done mixes where they want a club mix but not so underground - that happens all the time. They want to make sure they can play it on radio mix shows. So I'll do one that works for them, then I'll do another one that will work at an underground club. And that's actually how I started the MK Dubs. Because on most of the early records there would be a vocal mix which would be pretty straight up and maybe kinda boring, but then I'd always do a dub and that was usually chiller - the one I'd end up playing.

So you returned to House music around 2008... which shortly precedes what was probably the worst time to come into the music business what with all the file sharing and illegal downloads.

I had moved to LA and I'd been doing pop music ever since. I worked with Will Smith for a couple of years - he'd built a studio in Burbank and they had a wing for me at the time and I was working on stuff strictly for Will. But it just wasn't me, you know what I mean? It was good money, but that's all it was. And then I went from that to work with Diane Warren! And I had to make music that she wanted, which is fine, but I'm not that type of producer. I go against the grain. I purposely try to do stuff that sounds weird. Sometimes I like stuff that's out of key... where musical theory-wise it doesn't make sense. Just like "Burning" - that song makes no sense!

So now your name has been popping up on the DJing circuit. How long have you been DJing for?

Umm... a year? [laughs] I've turned down gigs for about 15 years. I think I played one show at the Ministry of Sound in London in the '90s, then another show in London maybe around 2006, then Movement a couple of years ago. So that's like 3 shows in a 12-year span.

 

MK DJing at Movement in Detroit, 2012

 

Has the way you're producing music and doing your remixes changed now that you're spinning out more?

Definitely. I listened to a lot of the stuff that I did back in the '90s and noticed I didn't have too many breaks. My intros weren't really DJ friendly. I know I had records people couldn't even play because it was too hard to play but they loved the record.

What's the history of your relationship with Chez Damier? I'm glad he was able to help get me this interview with you!

Well he's probably the one reason why I'm even in this industry right now. He's the main reason really. I did the project with Terrence Parker called Separate Minds, and Kevin was putting a Detroit techno comp out... I don't know whose idea it was to license one of the songs that I did on that album, but it was Chez who called me and that's how I met him. And we just kind of clicked. You know Chez always talks to you like he's your dad. He likes to lecture. [laughs]

Yes he does!

He would always try to talk to me about how to produce and the funny thing is he still does it to this day. [laughs] Because that's how we started out, so he still talks to me that way!

 

Marc Kinchen will be headlining 5 Magazine's 7th Anniversary Party on September 1, 2012 at SmartBar (RSVP here). Look out for MK's remix of Todd Terry's "Samba" and also a remix coming soon from Nervous Records. For more info on MK check out MKDub.com.