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Brazilian drum and bass DJ Marky is forging a new sound

The drum and bass is a new style worldwide, at least when compared to the more commercial electro music that’s been going around, but already it has people knowing its ins and outs and even revolutionizing it and remaking it and ready to draw a bit of its history. While drum and bass may be fairly popular in the more electronic music listening countries, it’s not your first choice of music if you’re a DJ in Brazil, as it turns out, and if you ask DJ Marky, he’s had first hand experience with that. But he’s not just your regular DJ and it was his passion for drum and bass rather than his will to get bigger fan base that pushed him forward, so DJ Marky had to leave Brazil to get his recognition.

Unlike other drum and bass DJs, like DJ Fat Barry, of whom you can find a DJ review here, who were born in the right place, DJ Marky, or Marco Antonio Silva, by his real name, was not. In Brazil, people aren’t really that open to his drum and bass type of music, although he started as early as 1992. At that time, drum and bass was edging hardcore music, with very few fans, which spells doom for anybody trying to make a living off of music. This caused DJ Marky to nearly quit and let it all go, but his trip to London, and support from English DJ Bryan Gee gave him the boost that he needed to launch in foreign markets, as Brazil wasn’t for his drum and bass mixes.

Of course DJ Bryan Gee and everybody in Britain didn’t support DJ Marky just because he was Brazilian and a nice fellow, but because they were truly impressed by his style, and in truth, DJ Marky is sort of a pioneer in his own right. His scratching skills got the best of the British DJ scene, and soon enough, DJ Marky was invited to play in London, after which he gained a residency at The End club, worked for BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix for a bit and from there on, popularity was ensured.

DJ Marky also had his fair share of luck, as he had to record and master the session of his Working The Mix album in his house, on a good old DJ setup like in the old days, consisting of just:

• two pick ups
• one DJ mixer
• and a whole bunch of vinyl albums

He showed off his results to moguls at Paradoxx and soon enough, everybody was in awe of his sound articulation abilities. A careful choice of tracks used in his repertoire and how they combine led DJ Marky to success, along with the elaborate mix ins and outs that he used to connects tracks together. He is, after all, a drum and bass DJ. All that led to DJ Marky being named Best New DJ in 1999 by the British critics, which was only one official recognition of his long years of mixing drum and bass and scratching his passion away.

DJ Marky now became a worldwide figure and a main representative of drum and bass all over the world, with the bulk of his music being released on the Innerground Music label (which is a sub company of Bulldozer Media). Some of his songs can be found in video  games, but mostly, he managed to get the attention of drum and bass fans worldwide.

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