Murder Mark X TT The Artist X Mike-Mike "Set Me Free" Gets City Paper Write Up
Review by Brandon Soderburg
At this point, giving old Motown hits the club treatment is pretty much played out—and nobody’s ever gonna top DJ Technics’ “Mr. Postman” anyway—but Murder Mark cleverly reimagines that entry-level club music trick on “Set Me Free.” The Cherry Hill club producer.......Continue Reading here http://blogs.citypaper.com/noise/index.php/2011/01/listen-murder-mark-and-friends-set-me-free/
2010 Best of Baltimore-Best Club Producer
Murder Mark wins 2010 Best of Baltimore Best Club Music Producers as voted by the City Paper.
article written by Brandon Soderburg.
Murder Mark’s signature sound is an absolutely horrifying buzz of synthesizers—like the sound of club’s youth s
scene attacked by bees—rubbing up against a surprisingly traditionalist sense of sample-chopping and looping. He
has a wealth of fun increasing the BPMs of the forever-classic “Think” loop (see his club take on “Pretty Boy Swag,” co-produced with DJ K-Spin) or slicing-up the seemingly unsampleable (the busy, goofy beat of “B.M.F” for his Baltimore take on the Rick Ross summer jam), and for much of Ayo Vol. 1, his most recent club mix, Mark tests out a sound that’s almost entirely electronic, informed by skittering techno and the tinny beats of Southern rap as well as traditionalist club.