MJ Cole – This Thursday 23rd February
Posted February 21, 2012
This Thursday Get Low and The Shacklewell Arms are proud to present a pioneer on the UK electronic music scene, having released some of the most important UK dance records of the last ten years. We’re excited to have MJ Cole play in our Dance Hall for a free entry party this Thursday, along with the Get Low Cartel.
MJ Cole’s intricate, heart-wrenching garage productions did more to link the abstract, avant-garde tendencies of the sound to the exploding mainstream scene than any other artist’s work.
Releasing Sincere in 1998, an era-defining single that was both one of the biggest influences on 21st century British dance music, and an overground hit, MJ Cole went on to sign to Gilles Peterson’s Talkin’ Loud label where he put out Sincere the album; one of – if not the – defining garage full-length, and one that spawned the massive single ‘Crazy Love’. It was also nominated for the Mercury Music Prize.
While he never lost his touch with underground British club music MJ Cole’s releases on his own label, Prolific, including the recent Riddim EP, remixes for Mad Decent, Primary 1, Drop The Lime, etc and his production work with Wiley and Example among others show a man deeply committed to the search for emotive, smart and brave club music.
