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Marc Rapson

Futuristica Family

About Me

Hi all!
I've been playing keys for over 20 years, and producing for about 5 years.
Rapson in the studio:
Nathan J Thomas, Escape Committee, Deborah Jordan, PW, Masirah, Jade Williams, Soulpersona, Rise, Nuala, Peachy Salthouse, Hybrid Styles
Rapson on wax (and CD... and download):
Replife's debut album The Unclosed Mind out now on Futuristica. Check out production on R U Ready, and co-production .. 4 A Dolla and The Method (Japanese Bonus Track)
Hang Around and So Good Today (acoustic version) from Ben Westbeech on Brownswood. Plus live shows from 07 (inc. Later with Jools Holland)
Chapter One from Nathan J Thomas on Caitlin Records available through iTunes. Soul, funk and pop written, played and produced by Nathan and myself
Shine (album)and El Sol (single) from Nuala on Caitlin Records. Latin, pop, folk. Playing on the whole album, writing and producing a few...
Digital Bling (album) from Spacehoppa. Trippy electronica funk DVD album.
Rapson in the 08:
Atjazz - Underlined (Rapson Remix)
Escape Committee album 'First Time Around'
Masirah 12"
Marvin Dedication 12"

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/24/2006
Influences: The voices: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Donnie Hathaway, Minnie Ripperton, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Sarah Vaughan, James Brown

The players: Herbie Hancock, Miles, Coltrane, Clyde Stubblefield, Frank Zappa, George Duke

The bands/artists: The Carpenters, The Eagles, Genesis, The JB's, Portishead, Sting, Paul Simon, Pink Floyd, J Dilla, The Roots
Sounds Like: Ben Westbeech @ Ronnie Scotts

Ben Westbeech @ Kultur Festival Stockholm

Ben Westbeech on Jools Holland

Record Label: Futuristica
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Marvin re-edit on Gilles Worldwide Radio 1 Show

You can listen to it here!http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/gillespeterson/Many thanks to Gilles P, Ben Westbeech and Simon SThe edits should be out soon, more info to followM...
Posted by Marc Rapson on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:17:00 PST

Mystery of Man will remain a mystery....

Yo!Not great news I'm afraid. We received an email from the publishers of the original Mystery of Man track informing us that if we released the track they would take action, so the long and short of ...
Posted by Marc Rapson on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:12:00 PST

Mystery of Man on Gilles Peterson’s All Winners Part1. Radio 1

Yo!The Mystery of Man was included in Gilles’ All Winners Show yesterday. You can listen again herehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/gillespeterson/CheersM
Posted by Marc Rapson on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:12:00 PST

Replife - Change 4 A Dolla on Gilles Peterson Worldwide

Yo! Two weeks in a row for me! (starting to get big headed  ) Change 4 A Dolla - Replife (produced by Rise, SoulP and myself) A little taster on the GP show, minus the profanity (and a littl...
Posted by Marc Rapson on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:17:00 PST

The Mystery of Man (Rapson Re-edit) on Gilles Peterson Worldwide BBC Radio 1

Yo yo yo, The Mystery of Man (Rapson Re-edit) was played by Gilles Peterson this morning on his BBC Radio1 show. Check it out here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/gillespeterson/ Thanks to Gilles, and sp...
Posted by Marc Rapson on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:45:00 PST

New Tunes!

Yo, New tunes up on my page. Let me know what you think! M
Posted by Marc Rapson on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:56:00 PST

Radio shows and Stockholm

A busy one this week on the music front. On Monday Ben and I played two radio sessions. One was for Selector (not sure where it's broadcast in the UK, but it gets played all over the world which is ni...
Posted by Marc Rapson on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:14:00 PST

Ronnie Scott's

Yo all, Wednesday just gone I had a gig with Ben (Westbeech) and the band at Ronnie Scott's, but I was under the impression that it was an industry only gig (and therefore wouldnt be a full house, and...
Posted by Marc Rapson on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:14:00 PST

Bristol to Paris to Maida Vale

Hey all, So I'm back from my crazy week and a half away. It all began with a drive down to Ben's (Westbeech) in Bristol. Ben and his housemate Lucy were kind enough to put me up for the week and made ...
Posted by Marc Rapson on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:37:00 PST

Travels...

Yo, Off to Bristol to rehearse and hopefully do a little writing with Mr Westbeech on Thursday for a week, then in and out of Paris to play the Brownswood launch, then straight to Maida Vale the next&...
Posted by Marc Rapson on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:46:00 PST