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Mark Ernestus is a German electronic music producer born in Berlin in 1963. His first album, titled 800% Ndagga, was released in 2013, and his work is rooted in electronic music production.
Next date in London: 21 November at The Roundhouse.
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Profile
- Latest album
- 800% Ndagga (2013)
- Born
- 1963 · Berlin
- Origin
- Germany
About — The artist
Mark Ernestus is an electronic music producer born in 1963 and based in Berlin, whose compositions range from dub to minimal.
In 1989 he founded the well-known record shop Hard Wax, which specialises in electronic music.
With Moritz von Oswald he formed the duo Basic Channel (also known as Maurizio). Together they founded several labels that released their productions: Chain Reaction, Rhythm & Sound, Burial Mix, Main Street and Imbalance. The two musicians are also known as a duo under the name Rhythm & Sound, for their productions with Tikiman (Paul St. Hilaire), Cornell Campbell, Jennifer Lara, Willi Williams and Sugar Minott.
From 2008 he took a particular interest in African music, especially Mbalax, which he discovered in 2008 at a festival in Denmark. He met Bakane Seck and produced an album with Jeri-Jeri on the Ndagga label, which he founded in 2012, 800% Ndagga.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article “Mark Ernestus” (fr), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Discography
- 800% Ndagga 2013