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ARTIST
MARKS, NIKO
TITLE
Day Of Knowing
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
PLANET E COMMUNICATIONS
CATALOG #
PLE 65378LP
PLE 65378LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
7/27/2018
Double LP version. 2017 release.
Niko Marks
exists at a musical intersection where
Stevie Wonder
and electronic music collide. Born in Detroit and raised by a family of musicians and singers, Niko was taught chord progressions by his mother on the piano and learned the rest by ear. He took just one music class along the way. It wasn't long before Marks's genre-defying path -- and ability to sing, write, produce, and play -- would link him up with the next wave of Detroit techno. In the early 1990s, Marks was working under the same roof as underground luminaries like
Juan Atkins
,
Eddie Fowlkes
,
"Mad" Mike Banks
, and
Jeff Mills
. As
Underground Resistance
established its iconoclast status, Marks joined collaborative production team
Members Of The House
. Marks manages to bend those chord progressions learned on his mother's piano to his will today, creating a bevy of soulful techno and house tracks in his wake for labels like U2X Productions Detroit and
Carl Craig
's Planet E label. Starting in 1999 with his
Niko Marks & the City Boy Players
release with Fowlkes, Marks has released new music nearly every year. As a live performer, he's found himself doing stripped down DJ sets as well as bringing his body of work to life as a jazz trio. "The trio gives people something more real, something move live," says Marks. "The interaction is greater for me, but it's still dance music at the end of the day." With
Day Of Knowing
Marks is releasing his debut full-length. Produced in part with Craig, the record is undoubtedly one of Marks's most compelling efforts. His raw talent as a musician takes center stage as rich instrumentation becomes a soulful weapon over crisp electronic drums. There's crossover appeal here that plays as well in the basement dive as it does in the jazz club. Marks describes
Day Of Knowing
as a decades-long culmination of producing, arranging and writing -- but coming back home to his roots at the same time. Features
Santiago Salazar
.
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