Mark Ernestus

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Mark's Disco Dub 06:26 Tools
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Masikulu Dub 07:55 Tools
Moyege (Mark's Disco Dub) 06:28 Tools
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Masikulu Rhythm 10:37 Tools
Moyege - Mark's Disco Dub 01:00 Tools
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Gigantes Version 06:42 Tools
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Ngunyuta Dance Remix 08:11 Tools
Danna Dubwise 06:42 Tools
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Wari Vo Dubwise 01:00 Tools
Mark Ernestus Meets Shangaan Electro 01:00 Tools
Moyege (Marks Disco dub) 06:27 Tools
Meets BBC (18-10 // OT301) 01:00 Tools
Mark Ernestus meets BBC (Version) 08:08 Tools
Dub Dafa Nekh 02:59 Tools
Marks Disco Dub 06:27 Tools
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Moca ca la te - Groove 26 06:27 Tools
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Mark Ernestus is the founder of the legendary Hard Wax record store, which in 1989 laid the foundation for Berlin's electronic club music scene. He played a key role in establishing the Berlin-Detroit nexus, and started creating music as one half of Basic Channel (aka Maurizio), with its deep, immeasurably influential hybrid of dub and techno. As Rhythm & Sound, the duo of Mark and Moritz von Oswald refined this signature sound alongside a range of vocalists — most extensively Tikiman (aka Paul St. Hilaire), besides reggae legends like Cornell Campbell, Jennifer Lara, Willi Williams and Sugar Minott. In the mid-nineties, BC set up Dubplates & Mastering, a mastering and vinyl cutting studio. It also launched a series of dub and reggae reissues drawn from the fabled Bronx-based Wackies label — ‘roots like Downbeat, sweet like Treasure Isle, mystic like Upsetter’. In recent years Mark has remixed Tony Allen, Tortoise, Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit and Konono Nº1. Besides co-hosting the monthly Wax Treatment club nights in Berlin, he runs the Dug Out label — with Mark Ainley from Honest Jon’s in London — dedicated to lost reggae killers (following on from the Basic Replay imprint). Ernestus’ sets feature dub and reggae, mostly instrumental, from deep roots to militant steppers, roughneck electronics to digi minimalism, heavyweight doom to hardcore uptempo. On occasion, he plays mbalax, and other West African dance music. Typically, Mark appears with Tikiman on the mic (as intro man, MC, singer), mixing with live effects and treatments, dubwise. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.