Garage innovator reinvigorated
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staying below the radar for several for the continued growth of dance
years, UK garage virtuoso MJ Cole is music.
The winning mix will be broadcast exclusively on Kiss, on the Main Room Mix
back in full effect with a new single, “I’ve been playing gigs where
Session, 2am – 3am on the last Thursday morning of the month. Hear your mix
collaborations and a forthcoming people have been really mixing it
next to sets from some of the world’s greatest DJs, including Carl Cox, Armin van
album. up,” Cole enthused. “It seems like a
Buuren and more. Remember to include a pic and a brief biog
“I’ve kind of been rumbling on the good time for UK music at the
with your post!
underground for the last few years, moment, there seems to be more of
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but on my label I’ve been releasing a community vibe out there. When I
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stuff in a low-key way,” affi rmed go out to play I’m sticking around to
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Cole. “Now I’ve got an album on the check out other people’s sets, from
latest mix is a well-programmed and thoroughly
way so we’re pushing back to old dancehall to old skool to bassline.”
cohesive trip through the fi nest tech cuts of the
prolifi c form.”
moment. Bubbling with deep progressive
Drawing on the burgeoning UK
ambience and swirling bass-driven energy, it
New single for his Prolifi c imprint funky scene and rougher grooves
jumped out at us.
‘Gotta Have It’ sees MJ united with alike, Cole’s forthcoming album
rising vocal talent and new Atlantic (release date tbc) sees him hooking How it works
Records signing Digga. Packed with up with Toddla T collaborator and
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warm electronic funk over a songstress Gabriella, among others,
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thumping 4/4 garage beat, the to fashion his uniquely subtle and
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single updates the classic Cole eclectic soul-suffused tracks.
sound and gives it a 2009 re-spray, “It’s gonna have a rough edge to it,
which is bound to appeal to house it’s not gonna be pipe and slippers
heads and those hankering after stuff,” said Cole. “Some rough bass-
WHERE
ARE
some of the original grooves that heavy bits, but with full songs over
made his name. them. It’s gonna be across the board
THE
Y NOW?
“When I heard Digga’s track pretty much, you still want an
‘Broken’, I got in touch with the album to be listened to as an album
people that look after him and I was and fi t together.”
What are the stars of
gonna do a remix of that, but in the
yesteryear doing today?
end we said, ‘Let’s do a couple of MJ Cole rose to fame with the classic
days in the studio’ and we came out ‘Sincere’ in 1998, with the album of
with a couple of things. the same name dropping the
“He just came down and listened to following year to huge acclaim and
NOMAD
a couple of beats and then we wrote helping to popularise as well as
together, it was really easy. He was push forward the UK garage genre; Few old skool rave classics have had “I decided that I wanted to write for
an amazing person to work with, 2003’s ‘Cut To The Chase’ album also quite the spine-tingling impact of them ‘cos I love Corrie,” grinned
really down to earth and a good enjoyed some success. Releases on 1991’s ‘Devotion’ by Nomad – aka Damon. “I’ve been there six years as one
writer.” his Prolifi c stable have been Damon Rochefort. of the main writers and write about 20
sporadic but it looks like Cole is on a But Damon’s long since left the dance episodes a year. Whenever there’s a
Invigorated by the current eclectic roll again. music world behind. The former dance storyline about clubs, drugs or music
genre-blurring pushed by an “I’ve got excited again about music, producer turned his hand to I’m thought of as the guy that will
increasing number of DJs, Cole sees which is great ‘cos I’m having fun in screenwriting and he’s currently probably know about it!”
the convergence of the fi dget, the studio,” the DJ/producer said. keeping us on tenterhooks three days a Rumours Damon has been spotted
bassline, UK funky and dubstep week with the trials and tribulations raving with Deidre at Fabric are
down the cobbles of Coronation Street. unsubstantiated…
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