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hings are great, I’m getting to see the world, meeting loads of people, DJing everywhere and getting to hang with so many great producers and DJs along the way,” explains a slightly jet-lagged Marc Kinchen. On the hop from a recent tour that took in Ibiza,
Italy, Russia, Germany and London, where he played back to back with his good mate Lee Foss at the Found Festival, MK is back in his hometown of LA, where he’s currently moving house. It’s all go and the rest of the summer isn’t letting up as he takes in New York’s Electric Zoo and a whole bunch of gigs back in Ibiza and beyond; playing alongside Disclosure, Benga and Skream, Shadow Child and Duke Dumont. “I sometimes pinch myself to see if it’s a dream,” he confesses. The second single from his Pleasure State collaboration with Lee Foss and Anabel Englund will be out by early fall. MK’s also working on new songs for his forthcoming album. And then it’s eyes down for his first trip to Australia and New Zealand at the end of the year. Phew!
First ever rave experience? “OMG, I will never forget it. I have no idea what year it was, sometime in the nineties. Frankie Bones was throwing the rave, everyone was dressed in rave wear and there were thousands of glowsticks. Someone told me we were at ‘the dumping grounds’, so I asked what that meant and they told me, ‘duh, this is where they used to dump all the bodies’. I assumed it was some sort of Brooklyn mob thing, fascinating and gross at the same time. I kind of remember Frankie Bones played Moby, Joey Beltram, Adam X, maybe even Richie Hawtin, it’s hard to remember when the visual is an ocean of glowsticks and Mickey Mouse hand gloves under black lights and lasers. It was pretty wild.”
Most crucial dance record of all time? “That is hard, since I was a producer to begin with. It’s hard to pick one record since my inspiration comes from so many places. But if I had to pick one person, I would have to say Kevin Saunderson’s early records meant the most to me. He was part mentor and the rest was pure inspiration. He is still like that, he lives and breathes music, and he knows how to get that balance right. On one hand he knows and understands vocals and melodies - look at Inner City (absolutely timeless) - and on the other hand his sense of dark deep rhythms, combined with harder bass and keyboard sounds, is just undeniable. He just gets that balance and he is always surrounded by talent.”
Three tunes that never leave your ‘bag’. “This will be a tough one, since I don’t have a ‘bag’ anymore (laughs), I have a thumb drive and a laptop. I can tell you that I always have ‘Burning’ and ‘Storm Queen’, and since I don’t carry a bag anymore I don’t need to limit myself to what I can carry, so everything I can possibly need is on the thumb drive or laptop.”
What’s your lights-up, end-of-the-night tune? “I can’t say I have one since I change my sets depending on the vibe, the time, the place. On one hand, everyone misses the warm sound of vinyl, but I have to say one of the greatest things about all the tech stuff is that it has expanded our ability to be as spontaneous as we want when we are DJing, so I just go with the flow.”
If you could meet anyone – alive or dead – who would it be? “This is super sad. I have to say James Gandolfini, Tony Soprano. I just heard the tragic news about his sudden death and I am gutted, he was one of my favorite actors and I am a massive Sopranos fan. What a loss, and he was not that old.”
Imagine the world is going to end tomorrow. What are you gonna do tonight? “This is also really hard since I am in the middle of moving house, I don’t have much choice. Even if the world ends tomorrow, my stuff has to be out of here so it really limits my choices.”
MK 064
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Please give us three words to describe your life. “Incredible, nocturnal and unpredictable.”
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