Mark Gwinnett

Mark Gwinnett, DJ, Producer, Lunacy Sound Division
Mark's first love of music was grounded by the awesome had to be there era of the Madchester music scene of The Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, Happy Mondays etc.... For years during his teenage years Mark then followed the bands he loved catching so many live shows by everyone from Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine to The Wonderstuff, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and The Charlatans. Then came the Hip Hop, Mark began to get bang into everything from Onyx to Cypress Hill to Gangstarr. There was that one mad year in '92 that the Reading festival was privilidged to have Nirvana and Public Enemy headlining on consecutive days!. An amazing musical feast. This was all before house music really took hold of his mind around '94 with a first visit to a certain nightclub called Cream in Liverpool. Still in love with all of the musical influences of his formative years Mark really never looked back from that first visit to Cream and embarked on a wicked clubland journey incorporating the rave scene and early and jilted Prodigy tours which ultimately became responsible for Mark buying his first pair of 1210's in early '96. Then there was Derrick Carter! etceteraaa......boomp!........
Lunacy Sound Division was brought to life in 2004 when after many years on the dance floors of nightclubs from Cream to Goodbye Cruel World to Space, Mark began to produce his own material to pepper into his DJ mixes with the advent of the CDJ into the booth alongside the trusted 1210s. The production grew and developed from loops, beats and FX in a DJ mix into full blown tunes played in their own right in the mix. In 2005 the live concept of Lunacy Sound Division was brought to life with live performances accompanied by FX, keyboards and live percussion at Kanya and Eden in Ibiza and regular appearances at Lunacy Nights towards the end of 2005 which was a pre club event at Priory in Farringdon, London put on by Mark and the LSD boys, (Martin Ridgway and Colin McCann), to primarily showcase new material. This was pretty short lived however but in early 2006 Mark upped the anti on the production and it became slicker and much dirtier. The creative juices began to flow and the LSD sound as you find it today created. Lunacy Sound Division begun performing again and showcasing new material in live and DJ mixes layering FX into the mix with the trademark percussion most recently for Club Class' Futurism at River, Maidstone, Snapshot and in January 2007 Nice & Dirty again at River. Mark was also on the decks promoting the Lunacy vibe in DJ sets at Drop in Canterbury, New Mix, Snapshot, Summer Twist and How Clean is your House at River, Maidstone throughout 2006/7.
December 2006 saw Mark play at Undercurrent with Sam Ball and Sam Gregory at Bar 54 in Shoreditch, London alongside Luke Solomon and Serge Santiago. Mark was found regularly at Undercurrent throughout 2007 playing alongside some of the best names in underground house and techno in April 6th alongside Duncan K of Babyshake fame and 20:20 Vision's Silver City and then most recently on October 20th for the 1st Birthday warming up for Cagedbaby. May 6th 2007 saw Mark make his debut for Club Class' for the May Day Bank Holiday madness at River playing alongside Dave Robertson, Jim Rivers and Sebastien Leger. Mark has also been found spinning at Turnmills, The Key and The Egg in London over recent months.
Mark's production as Lunacy Sound Division caught the ear of globally respected DJ and producer Tony Thomas in September 2006 who promptly signed a 4 track EP to his Cubic Records imprint which was released on 21st December 2006 with an exclusive Beatport pre-release from November 30th 2006. The 'War Inside My Brain EP' has been doing the damage big time on the dancefloors ever since and has gained support from a wide spectrum of DJs from Trevor Rockliffe to Carlos Francisco to Nic Fanciulli and was featured in the mix by Tony Thomas for his guest spot on Carl Cox's Global Radio show on 16th December 2006. www.carlcox.com 'War inside my brain' was also featured in Carl Cox's July 2007 global chart at number 2 no less!!!
Very soon after two other LSD tracks were signed up by new label SP Recordings (affiliated with one of London's longest running and successful club nights Smartie Partie which currently resides monthly at London's premier club, the one and only Turnmills). Lunacy Sound Division's 'Sexual Freakquencies EP' was released on SP Recordings across all of the major digital download networks in December 2006 and directly from SP @ www.sprecordings.co.uk.with a great launch party at Turnmills on December 9th 2006 where 'Multiple Bassgasm' gave the famous soundsystem a nice little work out courteousy of label boss SP resident Carlos Francisco!
2007 also saw 'Get with you' featuring Natasha Drum finally released on Cubism. Typically an RnB singer, Natasha Drum is an awesome vocal talent most recently found providing backing vocals for Craig David, this was a big departure for her.... but it worked! Support well ahead of it's release has already come from Carl Cox and the track also opened Tony Thomas forthcoming Cubism Volume 1 mix album. 'Get with you' is released in the Autumn with a formidable remix package featuring Carlos Francisco, Red & Blue, Richard Belsom and Tony Thomas. LSD and Natasha have plans to work together soon on further projects.
Having established himself as one to watch on the production front in 2007 further releases are scheduled well into 2008 continuing with a two track release forthcoming on Evasive Recordings featuring tracks 'Crossed Wires' and 'Yellow Snow Conspiracy' with a Loopity Goof remix of Crossed Wires and a Lunacy Dub Mix of 'Yellow Snow'. Also set for release is the first of a series of collaborations with Sam Ball, a two track release featuring tracks 'Loca' and 'Defect' with 'Loca' already having been played on BBC Radio One and doing the damage on the dancefloor well ahead of the release on Mark, Tony Thomas and Rich Belsom's new Cubism label with remixes by Tom Budden, Richard Belsom, Darien J, Rob Cockerton & Jason Still and Intec's DJ Hal.
Also expect a slew of remixes out on various labels this year including reworks for DJ Hal, Tony Thomas, Rhythm Code, Richard Belsom and Rob Pearson to name a few.
In addition to all of this Mark will also be busy working on various exciting collaborations throughout 2007/8 in addition to running the Cubism label with Tony Thomas.
The Cubism label was founded by Tony Thomas, Mark Gwinnett and Richard Belsom in July 2007 with a view of showcasing the very best up and coming talent alongside the more established names within the house, techno and electro scene both on the label and at exclusive live events at different clubs within the UK. The label sits neatly alongside Tony's already well established and hugely successful Cubic imprint as it's sister label. The launch party on 7th July 2007 saw Tony Thomas rip it up at The Loft in Maidstone for one of the most memorable parties at the club last year. With Richard Belsom now moving on to persue other interests Tony and Mark will be unleashing some big records on Cubism this year and beyond with interest in the label gathering pace.
Cubism has already gained support from some of the worlds biggest DJ's including Carl Cox (on his Global radio show), James Zabiela, Nic Fanciulli, Paolo Mojo, Yousef, Pole Folder, Kissy Sell Out (2 plays on Radio One & LIVE show), The Loose Cannons (8 plays on Kiss FM!), Joe Ransom (Plays on Kiss FM), Trophy Twins (Plays on Radio One), Elite Force, MSTRKRFT, Dopamine, Micky Slim, Miley Dyson, Touche, James Talk, Jon Gurd, Rob Mooney, Kid Blue, Djuma Soundsystem, Chris Micali, Monoroom, Flash Brothers, Kasey Taylor, Anil Chawla, DJ Rebekah, Graham Gold, Stian Klo, Lee Mortimer, Crookers, Boy 8-bit, Bass Kleph, Affie Yusuf, Will Bailey etc etc etc..!
For further details/bookings contact Lunacy Sound Division and Mark Gwinnett on [email protected] or if you want to keep posted about Lunacy Sound Division or Mark Gwinnett add us as a friend and check the bulletins and blogs and also check out the Cubism myspace www.myspace.com/cubismuk
Please send any house/techno music to: [email protected] or email me through this page.
LUNACY SOUND DIVISION OUT NOW
CUBISM TRACKS OUT NOW
JAMES ZABIELA @ STUDIO A, MIAMI WINTER MUSIC CONFERENCE 2008
PLAYING TOM BUDDEN'S MIX OF SAM BALL & MARK GWINNETT'S LOCA
OUT NOW ON CUBISM
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WAR INSIDE MY BRAIN EP (OUT NOW)
Lunacy Sound Division - War Inside My Brain (Spider on my trousers remix) (Cubic Records)
Lunacy Sound Division - Fear & Self Loathing (Cubic Records)
Lunacy Sound Division - Bonzai Tree (Cubic Records)
Lunacy Sound Division - Sick Puppy (Cubic Records)
REVIEW FOR WAR INSIDE MY BRAIN Cubic Digital (CUBIC DIGITAL 015), UK
IDJ Magazine (December 06)
"We have a second offering from Tony Thomas’ excellent Cubic label this month. This was a close for contender for ‘tune of the month’ this month, and when you get a chance to hear it, you’ll realize what a tough decision I had. This is a real lo slung dirty lazy groover, perfectly crafted and executed. Nuff said. 4/5"
"Lunacy Sound Division's "War Inside My Brain", "Bonzai Tree" and "Sick Puppy" went off when I played them in Ireland at the weekend!" Trevor Rockliffe
"War Inside My Brain, love it mate... fukkin love it!" Alan Barratt
Number 2 on Carl Cox's Global chart for July 2007 ............................................................ ............................................................ ...........
SEXUAL FREAKQUENCIES EP (OUT NOW)
Lunacy Sound Division - Multiple Bassgasm (SP Recordings)
Lunacy Sound Division - French Kiss (SP Recordings)
"Both wicked, my fave is the bassgasm track. The other is cool too, reminds me of something id hear inside at DC10. Both nice phat little chuggers. Love the drums on Bassgasm." Oliver Lang
"I think Multiple Bassgasm is awesome" Tim Sheridan
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LOW SLUNG DEEP EP (OUT NOW)
Lunacy Sound Division - Low Slung Deep (Cubic Records)
Lunacy Sound Division - War Inside My Brain (Original) (Cubic Records)
Lunacy Sound Division - Low Slung Deep (Tony Thomas remix) (Cubic Records)
Lunacy Sound Division - Low Slung Deep (Sam Ball remix) (Cubic Records)
"Really like Low Slung Deep. Keep up the great work." Nic Fanciulli
“Low Slung Deep sounds fucking sick! I love it!” – Rob Pearson (Evasive/ Plastic City/Drugsex)
“Top stuff, really liking both original and remixes of Low Slung Deep. The boy Gwinnett done good! Full support from us!!” Skindeep, Dirty Disco, Leeds, UK
“Sam Ball’s mix of Low Slung Deep is massive – destroyed the Plug in Sheffield“ Justin Robertson
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HOUSE MUZIKA EP (OUT NOW)
Lunacy Sound Division - House Muzika (New Era Recordings)
Lunacy Sound Division - House Muzika (Tony Thomas remix) (New Era Recordings)
Lunacy Sound Division - House Muzika (Richard Belsom remix) (New Era Recordings)
Lunacy Sound Division - House Muzika (DJ Hal remix) (New Era Recordings)
Lunacy Sound Division - Househeads United (New Era Recordings)
Lunacy Sound Division - Househeads United (Richard Belsom remix) (New Era Recordings)
Lunacy Sound Division - Self Inflicted (New Era Recordings)
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THE EXTRAS EP (OUT NOW)
Sam Ball & Mark Gwinnett - Loca (Cubism)
Sam Ball & Mark Gwinnett - Loca (Richard Belsom remix) (Cubism)
Sam Ball & Mark Gwinnett - Loca (DJ Hal robot sex mix) (Cubism)
Sam Ball & Mark Gwinnett - Loca (Tom Budden remix) (Cubism)
Sam Ball & Mark Gwinnett - Defect (Cubism)
Sam Ball & Mark Gwinnett - Defect (Rob Cockerton & Jason Still remix) (Cubism)
Sam Ball & Mark Gwinnett - Defect (Darien J remix) (Cubism)
Loca played by the Trophy Twins on BBC Radio 1
Other support so far from Deep Groove, Nic Fanciulli and James Zabiela. ............................................................ ............................................................ ...........
STELLA BRAKEZ EP (OUT NOW)
Lunacy Sound Division - Dem de brakez (Original) (New Era Recordings)
Lunacy Sound Division - Dem de brakez (Tony Thomas funkin mix) (New Era Recordings)
Lunacy Sound Division - Stella Funk (New Era Recordings)
Lunacy Sound Division - Wonderland (New Era Recordings)
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GET WITH U feat Natasha Drum (OUT NOW)
Lunacy Sound Division feat Natasha Drum - Get with you (Cubism)
Lunacy Sound Division feat Natasha Drum - Get with you (Extended Club Mix) (Cubism)
Lunacy Sound Division feat Natasha Drum - Get with you (Carlos Francisco remix) (Cubism)
Lunacy Sound Division feat Natasha Drum - Get with you (Richard Belsom remix) (Cubism)
Lunacy Sound Division feat Natasha Drum - Get with you (Red & Blue remix) (Cubism)
Lunacy Sound Division feat Natasha Drum - Get with you (Red & Blue tech edit) (Cubism)
Support from Tony Thomas and Carl Cox
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BRAIN MUSIC VOLUME 1. (OUT NOW!)
Lunacy Sound Division - Suburban Zombie (Cubic Records)
Lunacy Sound Division - Suburban Zombie (Richard Belsom's walking dead remix) (Cubic Records)
Lunacy Sound Division - Brown Acid (Cubic Records)
Lunacy Sound Division - Brown Acid (Tony Thomas remix) (Cubic Records)
Lunacy Sound Division - Brown Acid (Claire Ripley remix) (Cubic Records)
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DARK WARRIOR feat Greg Clifford (OUT NOW!)
Lunacy Sound Division feat Greg Clifford - Dark Warrior (Original Mix) (New Era Recordings)
Lunacy Sound Division feat Greg Clifford - Dark Warrior (Acid Flux Mix) (New Era Recordings)
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THE SULTANS OF SICK - SICKNESS (ORIGINAL & TRANSLATOR REMIXES OUT NOW!)
The Sultans of Sick - Sickness (Original Mix) (Shiva Records)
The Sultans of Sick - Sickness (Translator remix) (Shiva Records)
The Sultans of Sick - Sickness (Lunacy Sound Division remix) (Shiva Records)
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CROSSED WIRES EP (May 2008)
Lunacy Sound Division - Crossed Wires (Evasive Recordings)
Lunacy Sound Division - Crossed Wires (Loopity Goof remix) (Evasive Recordings)
Lunacy Sound Division - Yellow Snow Conspiracy (Evasive Recordings)
Lunacy Sound Division - Yellow Snow Conspiracy (Lunacy Dub mix) (Evasive Recordings)
“Crossed wires - been playing this for months and months and has destroyed every club I have played it. The bass is absolutely rude – guaranteed to shake any floor.” Sam Ball (Club Class, Undercurrent) ............................................................ ............................................................ ...........
BRAIN MUSIC VOLUME 2.
Lunacy Sound Division - Love Rat (Cubic Records)
Lunacy Sound Division - Guerilla Funk (Cubic Records)
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REMIXES
Richard Belsom - Devastator (Lunacy Sound Division remix) (Cubic Records) OUT NOW
Michael Morph - No Mas (Lunacy Sound Division remix) (Cubic Records) OUT NOW
Mr. Rogers - Monster in my closet (Lunacy Sound Division remix) (Adjust Recordings) OUT NOW
Tony Thomas - Double T (Lunacy Sound Division remix) (Cubism) OUT NOW
Red & Blue - Musique Electronic (Lunacy Sound Division remix) (Adjust Recordings) OUT NOW
DJ Hal - King Cobra (Lunacy Sound Division remix) (Cubic Records) OUT NOW
Darien J - Metal Impact (Lunacy Sound Division twisted metal mix) (Cubism)
Rhythm Code - Don't Stop (Lunacy Sound Division tweekin remix) (Cubism) OUT NOW
Rhythm Code - Don't Stop (Lunacy Sound Division tech edit) (Cubism) OUT NOW
Carlos Francisco - El Gringo (Lunacy Sound Division triphouse remix) (SP Recordings) OUT NOW
Carlos Francisco - El Gringo (Lunacy Sound Division triptech remix) (SP Recordings) OUT NOW
Jon Varney - Raw to the point (Lunacy Sound Division remix) (Cubism) OUT NOW
Radiosky - Twisted Polygraph (Lunacy Sound Division cool stella mix) (Shiva Records) OUT NOW
Rob Pearson - Question Mark (Lunacy Sound Division remix) (Evasive Recordings)
Richard Belsom - Eye of the storm (Lunacy Sound Division remix) (Jack Digitals)
Christian Vila & Jordi Sanchez - I feel good (Lunacy Sound Division remix) (Adjust Recordings)
Harvey McKay - Reflex (Lunacy Sound Division remix) (Cubism)
Mike Healey - Push it (Lunacy Sound Division pushed remix) (Cubism)
Sam Ball & Anil Chawla - Melting Pot (Lunacy Sound Division melted remix) (Cubism)
Trio - Da Da Da (Lunacy Sound Division Da Da Dark mix) (SP Recordings)
Cactus Twisters - Natural Flow (Lunacy Sound Division mix) (New Era Recordings)
The Sultans of Sick - Sickness (Lunacy Sound Division mix) (Shiva Records)
James Talk - Get Down (Lunacy Sound Division remix) (Unsigned)
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