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M. J. Cole

 
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  • Born: 1973, London, England
  • Active: '90s, 2000s
  • Genres: Electronica
  • Instrument: Remixing, Producer
  • Representative Albums: "Back to Mine", "Bassline Pressure
  • Representative Songs: "Sincere", "Crazy Love", "Strung Out

Biography

With his accessible urban charm and his talent for matching breakbeat culture's incendiary phobias with the Hi-NRG of pop and acid R&B, MJ Cole was one of U.K. garage's first true stars. Ultimately renting himself out for Mariah Carey and De La Soul remixes, Cole began with drum'n'bass label SOUR, where he worked in the initially unassuming position of tape operator. After slogging up to an engineering title for names like Freq Nasty and Ed Rush, he caught the garage bug in the middle of 1996 while working on Ramsey & Fen's 2-step remixes for Kym Mazelle. It was there that solo maneuvers began to form. At first rejected by every distributor in the U.K., an early self-production "Sincere" found root at AM:PM and became one of the earliest garage records to crack Britain's Top 40, which at the time was focused on widescreen indie and Fatboy Slim. Two years after the single's surprise success, Cole issued his debut full-length of the same name. The album's quick, crisp, and vigorously mainstream production style earned him a Mercury Prize nomination although many critics lambasted it for devolving to the lowest common denominator, hobbling U.K. garage's respectability in its infancy. ~ Dean Carlson, All Music Guide
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MJ Cole

Background information
Birth name Matt Coleman
Born 1973
Origin London, United Kingdom
Genre(s) house, UK garage
Occupation(s) Musician, Record producer, DJ
Years active 1997 - present
Label(s) Talkin' Loud, Prolific Recordings
Website Prolific Recordings

M. J. Cole (born Matt Coleman, 1973, London) is a British house and UK garage producer and remixer.

Career

In his youth, Cole learned to play the oboe and piano, and attended the Royal College of Music. He also played piano on the BBC Television's Young Musician Of The Year programme.

He later discovered computers and turntables, and ended up working as a sound engineer for the drum 'n' bass label, SOUR. Cole is regarded as one of the innovators of the 2Step or UK Garage sound, popular during the late 1990s and early 2000s, several of his tracks are on the UKG CD series Pure Garage. However, his roots lie in Drum and bass, the format in which he created many of his early records. He moved towards a 2Step sound and experimented with various pseudonyms, such as Mat-Lock, eventually settling on M. J. Cole.

Cole produced a song called "Sincere" in 1998 that he composed in his bedroom with a sampler and an Amiga. One of the twenty test pressings of "Sincere" was received by Pete Tong who started playing the tune on his national radio show. Cole signed on Gilles Peterson's Talkin' Loud label where he produced his first album.

His debut album was the Mercury Music Prize nominated Sincere (2000), and he followed up this with the less successful Cut to the Chase (2003). In 2002 he selected tracks for a compilation album for the Back to Mine series, which focuses on tracks suited to post-club relaxation.

He is currently releasing new material on his own record label, Prolific Recordings.

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