Paul Mac
PAUL MAC BEGAN DJ'ING SIXTEEN YEARS AGO AT THE AGE OF SIXTEEN STARTING OUT AS A HIP HOP DJ AND COMPETED IN THE 1988 DMC MIXING COMPETION. AS WITH SO MANY OTHER DJ'S AT THE TIME THE PULL OF HOUSE AND TECHNO BECAME TOO STRONG AND HE BEGAN TO USE HIS CARFULLY HONED MIXING SKILLS IN ANOTHER DIRECTION.PAULS EARLY EXPERIMENTS IN THE STUDIO STARTED IN ABOUT 1995 AND AFTER ABOUT A YEARS WORK HE RELEASED HIS FIRST EP ON JOSH BRENTS NOT GULITY LABEL WHICH WENT ON TO RECEIVE SURPPORT FROM SUCH HEAVY WEIGHT DJS AS DERRICK MAY AND COLIN FAVOUR.ENCOURAGED BY THIS PAUL THEN SENT OUT DEMOS WHICH RESULTED IN A SERIES OF RELEASES ON JAMES RUSKIN AND RICHARD POLSENS BLUEPRINT SISTER LABEL FRACTURE AND A LONG STANDING SETUP WITH FRAGMENTED RECORDS WHICH TO DATE HAS SEEN 6 SINGLES AND AN ALBUM.
IT WAS ALSO AT THIS TIME PAUL SETUP HIS OWN LABEL STIMULUS RECORDINGS WHICH LED TO OTHER COLLABERATIONS WITH ARTISTS SUCH AS BEN SIMS, JAMES RUSKIN, BEN LONG, MARK BROOM, 65D MAVERICKS, HARDCELL, OSCAR MULERO AND TAKAAKI ITOH AMONGST OTHERS. IT ALSO STARTED PAULS INTERNATIONAL DJ BOOKINGS LEADING TO HIM PLAYING AT VARIOUS INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN VENUES SUCH AS LA REAL, SENSOR, FAMILY, COCOON, BUGGED OUT,U-CLUB AND METROPLOLIS.
SINCE THEN PAUL HAS STARTED THE C-SIDE LABEL, WHICH IS EXCLUSIVLY FOR HIS OWN DJ FRIENDLY STYLE TRAX AND HAS RECORDED FOR A HOST OF OTHER HIGHLY RESPECTED LABELS INCLUDING PRIMARY, MOSAIC, SURFACE, ONGAKU, PHONT, PRIMEVIL AND MORE SEE DISCOG FOR FULL DETAILS.
THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS HAS SEEN PAUL INTERGRATE A THIRD TURNTABLE INTO HIS ALREADY UNIQUE HIP HOP INFLUENCED STYLE FOR A SLIGHTLY MORE CREATIVE APPROACH, HE HAS ALSO BEEN INSTALLED AS ONE OF THE RESIDENT DJS AT BEN SIMS NEW LONDON NIGHT RETRO_VERT AND HAS RELEASED A NEW ALBUM FOR ONE OF THE UKS MORE RESPECTED TECHNO LABELS PRIMATE.
THE FUTURE SEES, MORE RELEASES ON STIMULUS AND C-SIDE AND VARIOUS OTHER LABELS PLUS A FORTH COMING MIX CD FOR THE HIGHLY RESPECTED LABEL INGOMA AND VARIOUS OTHER GIGS AT THE WORLDS TOP TECHNO VENUES WHEN THE BUSY RECORDING SCHEDULE WILL ALLOW.
Collaborations Paul Mac appears on...
- Vince Watson & Paul Mac (2 tracks)
- Paul Mac & Vince Watson (1 tracks)
