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The Politik is Bembe Segue + MdCL. Debut album out now on CD/2LP/digital at Amazon , ithink , any quality record store and every digital one... "The shit is BANGING!" DWELE "..The Politik is my shit. Mark on the beats and Bembe.. on the vocals...what more can you ask for?" BLU "The Politik have delivered a much needed breath of fresh air in a business filled with copycats and unoriginal offerings." OKAYPLAYER.COM "Magnificently funky fresh synth-heavy vintage soul from the future. You dig?" ONE WEEK TO LIVE
The Politik - download the album preview mixtape Lady Alma's Pressure EP available for digital download now!FREE DOWNLOAD!! - The MdCL album Six Degrees. Written, recorded, produced in New Zealand Dec 1998 - Feb 1999 after a year long trip around the world visiting the musical hotspots of Cuba, NYC, London and Tokyo. Released in NZ May 1999 and worldwide on CD and 2LP May 2000. Just a shame it's so damn hard to find now... Enjoy! :) Read the story behind the album...
FREE DOWNLOAD!! - The only official remixes from the Six Degrees album were handled by Phil Asher (Restless Soul) and DJ Spinna. Spinna's mix was licensed to the Cafe Del Mar series and sold over 700,000 copies worldwide.
REMIXERS: Download the vocal and flute parts for Day by Day from Six Degrees and post your remixes online!
mail-order CD and vinyl: (paypal and credit cards)Freesoul Sessions Vol 1 CD
[Antipodean]
£6.99
Volume 1 is here! 11 tracks of broken jazz/soul improvised live at the Jazz Cafe London and Notting Hill Arts Club, MdCL with Bembe Segue, Vanessa Freeman, Jason Yarde, Richard Spaven, Kaidi Tatham and more (paypal and credit cards)
Tide's Arising CD
[ABB Soul/Antipodean]
£9.99
Tide's Arising 2LP
[ABB Soul/Antipodean]
£11.99
VIDEO: MdCL LIVE IN JAPAN - JOURNEY 2 THE LIGHT with Bembe Segue, Jason Yarde and Richard Spaven performing You Don't Know What Love is and Voices Whisper....VIDEO: MdCL LIVE IN FRANCE with Bembe Segue, Tawiah, Jason Yarde and Richard Spaven performing Relaxalude and Syndrome....VIDEO: MdCL + BEMBE LIVE IN FRANCE improvised live n direct, Freesoul Sessions...VIDEO: MdCL LIVE IN JAPAN with Sharlene Hector, Bembe Segue, Cherie Mathieson and Richard Spaven performing covers of Charles Earland's Leaving this Planet and Duke Ellington's Caravan. Krafthaus Films' (NZ) animated interpretation of Heaven featuring Bembe Segue

Add to My ProfileVIDEO: Daylight feat Tawiah @ Southport Weekender May 2007...VIDEO: Freesoul Sessions Live @ Jazz Cafe - March 2007... straight improvised mayhem...
'...the man behind a million great tunes' - Gilles Peterson/Radio 1 Worldwide [UK]'Call it nu-jazz, call it nu-house, call it future-jazz, in fact call it what you want, I'm sticking with the words awesome and genius' - Wax Magazine [UK] '...a Herbie Hancock for the new millennium' - Montreal Jazz Festival [CANADA]
I'm a producer, beat maker and keys player, one half from NZ and the other half from Japan living in West London. Music's been my thing the whole way since starting on the piano when I was 4 - growing up through classical, then jazz and the beats. Now it's all come full circle and the music keeps on getting twisted up more and more - broken beat, spacefunk, 21st century soul, cosmic hip hop, whatever you want to call it :) I've been fortunate to collab in different forms with a lot of great producers and artists - Restless Soul, DJ Spinna, Dego (4Hero), Jody Watley, Lauryn Hill, Bugz in the Attic, Kenny Dope/MAW, Wajeed/PPP, Pino Palladino, Bembe Segue, Omar, Jazzysport, Joe Clausell and plenty more... people who all have great beat and music sensibilities and we can knock heads and come up with something unique together.The new album JOURNEY 2 THE LIGHT will be out Fall 2007 on Freedom School Records out of Japan... hope you get to check it, hope you dig it. My other main projects at the moment are THE POLITIK with Bembe Segue, FREESOUL SESSIONS - a fully improvised beat head experience and UNIVERSAL SUN with Chris Cox . Check them out (and other friends n fam) in my Top 8.peace, MdCLIf you want to collaborate.. READ MY BLOG ABOUT COLLABS FIRST...HERE For bookings in N.America contact Dan For bookings around the rest of the planet contact here

My Interests

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Member Since: 4/4/2005
Band Website: mashibeats.blogspot.com
Band Members:
For all professional enquiries: email: office(at)mashibeats.com voicemail: +44 (0)20 8133 3942Live shows in the UK/Europe includes... MdCL (MPC3000/rhodes/keys) with guests including the likes of Bembe Segue, Tawiah, Sharlene Hector, Richard Spaven (drums - Ty/PPP), Thomas Dyani (perc), Jason Yarde (horns) and more.Other musicians around the world involved in the live shows include Lil John Roberts (drums), Sammy Figueroa (perc), Lanu (guitar), Cherie Mathieson (vocals), Tomokazu Sugimoto (bass), Saori Sendo (percussion), Miguel Fuentes (percussion) and Nobuaki Fuji (drums)Check The Politik - the new unit featuring Mark and Bembe Segue together... debut longplaya out now!
Influences:

Herbie Hancock, Ahmad Jamal, J Dilla (RIP), George Duke, IG Culture, Wayne Shorter (especially Native Dancer), Miles Davis, the UMMAH, Dwele (the demos), Supa Dave West, Bembe Segue, Mizell Brothers, Creed Taylor, Quincy Jones, Dego (4Hero), Lonnie Liston Smith, D'Angelo, Patrice Rushen, Teddy Riley (the early days), Bugz in the Attic, Messian, Doug and Jean Carn, Parliament/Funkadelic, Donny Hathaway, James Brown (RIP), Kaidi Tatham, Don Blackman, Charles Lloyd, Pharoahe Monch, Pino Palladino, Hi-tek, The Neptunes, Danilo Perez, Stevie Wonder, Jack Dejohnette, Kenny Kirkland, Joe Henderson, Kareem Riggins, Bahamadia, Cut Chemist, Slum Village, RAMP, Leon Ware, Minnie Riperton, Prince, Harvey Mason, Lenny White, Tribe Called Quest, Chaka Khan, Restless Soul, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Roy Ayers, Bill Summers, Prince, Timbaland, John Coltrane, Michael Henderson (playing bass with Miles), Philip Woo, Cesar Mariano, Lauryn Hill, Elis Regina, Edu Lobo, McCoy Tyner, Leon Ware, Banda Black Rio, Earth Wind & Fire, Chocolate Milk, Common, Harry Whitaker, Bernard Wright, Flora & Airto, Elvin Jones, Nuyorican Soul/Kenny Dope/MAW, Fela Kuti, Tania Maria, Q-Tip as Kamaal the Abstract, Marvin Gaye, Edu Lobo, Jobim, Pleasure, Philadelphia International, Dr Dre, Chucho Valdez, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Larry Young, Brazilian, Afro Cuban... and nuff more - to be continued
Sounds Like: check these albums:
Soul, P-funk, Jazz, Hip Hop, House, Broken Beat, Latin all in the blender....
Record Label: Antipodean/Columbia Japan/Milan/ABB n more...
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

new interview at leisurelab

new MdCL interview online now at leisurelab.com
Posted by Mark de Clive-Lowe on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:41:00 PST

jazz refreshed turns 5 / album launch / kaidi tatham live

good friends and fam uprock are celebrating their weekly night jazz re:freshed turning 5 this week... a double celebration with the launch of the jazz re:freshed compilation album featuring artists wh...
Posted by Mark de Clive-Lowe on Tue, 06 May 2008 06:05:00 PST

beatmaking at the manchester midi school [video]

i went to the manchester midi school about a year ago and did a little workshop session. i remember coming in late straight from another city and a banging hangover but didnt remember anything of the ...
Posted by Mark de Clive-Lowe on Sun, 04 May 2008 05:27:00 PST

trancing in helsinki and back in the studio...

(originaly posted at http://mashibeats.blogspot.com)just back from a crazy weekend near the arctic circle in helsinki, finland... the main reason for the trip was to do an info session/workshop for th...
Posted by Mark de Clive-Lowe on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:50:00 PST

Remix the Politik ----- 2 weeks to go!

the politik remix competition closes in two weeks time.. we’ve had so many great reinterpretations from all around the world and looking forward to more over these final weeks. check out some of...
Posted by Mark de Clive-Lowe on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:04:00 PST

Freesoul Sessions - 1st London session for 2008 / album launch

coopr8 presents FREESOUL SESSIONSFREESOUL SESSIONS vol.1 Official LaunchSUNDAY 16 MARCH 8pm-12 @ CORSICA STUDIOSMdCL's 100% improvised clubnite returns... fresh from his NZ and Australia tour and hitt...
Posted by Mark de Clive-Lowe on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:13:00 PST

Charlie Darks African Beats (UK Tour)

heads up!... we're about to do a major UK project under the direction of Mr Blacktronica - Charlie Dark. it's a nationwide tour comprising of 4 school workshops and 7 live shows/concerts fusing afrobe...
Posted by Mark de Clive-Lowe on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:26:00 PST

Freesoul Sessions vol.1 CD out now!!

We've had a lot of fun with the Freesoul Sessions clubnite, so now it's time to share some of the vibe with 11 tracks of Freesoul Sessions live on stage improvisation performed and recorded at Jazz Ca...
Posted by Mark de Clive-Lowe on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:54:00 PST

what’s happening in the studio....

what's going on in the mashibeats lab... new finished material and work in progress - btw, this blog is copied from mashibeats.blogspot.com ... will occasionally be copying blogs over from there to h...
Posted by Mark de Clive-Lowe on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:42:00 PST

LA + the Bay (and the new blogspot)

hey fam,so finally relented and started a dedicated blog.... mashibeats.blogspot.com :) blog on the last 2 weeks in LA and the bay here.....http://mashibeats.blogspot.com/2008/01/la-bay.html. ..
Posted by Mark de Clive-Lowe on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:05:00 PST