John Mack
With a love for electronic music that's done two decades, John Mack still just wants to let people hear his records. His early favourites were some of the usual suspects that get rolled out by his generation - Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, New Order, and The Pet Shop Boys. Add some early mix tapes handed onto him by the older lads at school to then getting in about the clubs and raves at 15.
He soon developed a supreme taste in all things machine funk. He got involved in the running of club nights from the age of 18. An age where on occasion heíd be MCing in front of three thousand bodies at various all-nighters and then jumping in a car for either Edinburgh or Glasgow to get the sounds of Pure or Slam in slightly more subterranean surroundings. He always had an ear out for some of the more obscure and lesser known nights too. It's still those nights as much as anything else that keep it all fresh for him. His most recent projects have been in and around Glasgow. As co-promoter of Basic Level he organised events at various city centre locations and its offshoot Nurture was played out in Paisleyís favourite basement.
Since then John has claimed a residency at the renowned Monox playing alongside one of his Deviant Behaviour cohorts in the Smut Hut (room 2 to me and you). His most recent venture Deviant Behaviour was to give upcoming talent the chance to play alongside established producers and DJs.
During this time there was the small matter of the Inductor show on Radio Magnetic and the ever informative Doggers Corner section. The aforementioned nights have seen him billed alongside those that went some way to developing the taste mentioned earlier. Robert Hood, Tyree Cooper, Keith Tenniswood, Shaun Rudiman, Surgeon, The Wee DJs, Tresor, Ultradyne, Dexorcist, DJ Stingray, Scan 7, Luke Eargoggle, Sleeparchive, Aaron Carl, Cosmic Force the list goes on and will continue to.
John Mackís own sets embrace all that fuel a party proper. Youíll find the blueprint of Detroit and Chicago, the boom of Miami, the edge of Europe and a few places in between.
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