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Marvin [Formerly The Martian]
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- Coming out of Brixton, Marvin (formerly Marvin The Martian), first came to light whilst working in the rap crew Why Lout? Their producer, Jack Nimble twisted the Art Brut track ‘Emily Kane’ into the now infamous ‘Stay Off The Kane’ featuring Marvin’s vocals and popped it onto their mixtape, unwittingly creating the first grime vs. indie crossover. Art Brut loved it so much, they invited Why Lout? to open for them at Koko, next thing its coming out of all the Club NME soundsystems and 6Music were playing it …
Fast forward to 2006 and a sample taken from the then unsigned band, Goodbooks from their track ‘Walk With Me’ lead onto the release of the ‘Hoods & Badges EP’ via Universal Digital. The EP also featured Stay Off The Kane and Marvin, now operating as a solo artist was invited as a guest to the 2006 Camden Crawl. It was about a week after that, when Marvin opened the NME that he ran across a piece on a new genre called Grindie which cited him as a pioneer. It’s a tag that stuck – no wonder when you have Steve Lamacq, John Kennedy & Bobby Friction playing the lead track from the EP ‘I Don’t Go’. Later that summer, Marvin opened the vocals on the Akira The Don single and underground smash ‘Boom (Smash Stuff)’ that used the Elastica riff made famous by Trigger Happy TV.
Then came three trips around the UK, first supporting the recent Mobo winner Akala, then with iForward Russia! label mates Yes Boss and finally with the Goldie Lookin Chain. The live set was tightened and included the Jack onstage with DJ Tego on the decks. It’s an arresting sight, the high energy show lead by Marvin, aided and abetted by the 6’5” presence of his co-conspirators. ‘I Hate My Job’ was released to coincide with his acclaimed appearance at In The City and the year culminated with a show at ULU.
Marvin was again invited to perform at both nights of the 2007 Camden Crawl (having appeared as a guest the previous year) performing to rapturous audiences at The Purple Turtle and KoKo. Inevitably the record contract came in with newly formed Universal label, NoCarbon Records. The initial plan was to move quickly with Marvin’s innovative version of ‘Guns Of Brixton’ sampling Nouvelle Vague’s lounge-jazz cover and telling the reality tale of gun crime in South London. At last minute, the clearance was denied by Paul Simonon and everyone returned to the drawing board.
Some major good came out of the experience though. Musically, Marvin was looking to move on from the Grindie sound. The recording of ‘Guns’ had lead him & Jack down to Bristol to work with Bob Locke & Andy Jenks. These two were veterans of the Bristol trip-hop scene having worked extensively with Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Alpha and Smith & Mighty amongst others. The grimy sound of London was about to be cross-pollinated with the smokey, dub heavy bass of Bristol. Thrown out too, were all the samples upon which the majority of Marvin�
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Somebody's Watching Me Mixtape is out now! FREE!
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Somebody's Watching Me Mixtape- Tracklisting
1. CCTV Watches Me (Intro)
2. Line For The Toilet
3. Soul Seeka Feat. Pixel
4. Everything
5. My Phone (Take That Back)
6. Beware of the Voices
7. Carried Away (Accapella)
8. You Don't Even Know
9. The F Word
10. Misunderstood (One)
11. How Couldn't I?
12. Noise
13. You So Tough
14. Yesterday Feat. Jack Nimble & Pixel
15. London City (Beautiful)
16. Hero
17. Droven
18. Invasion
just left the studio with a piece of paper. It has a list of songs. Jack's still there. He's exporting. Do you know what exporting means? It means the tape is done. Mixtape of the year. I'm sorry it took until October for the mixtape of the year to come out. I couldn't help it. This thing right here? This thing right here? Wednesday.
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i lv ya music
please dont read this..nooo! sorry but In 1997 a girl called lauren was walking in a forest and then a she just dissapeared no one ever found her untill 2000 when a yoing girl called Mary found her body and markings on her chest saying: I wasnt pretty enough" and now you have read this she will appear in your mirrorrsaying your not pretty enough and kill you. by the way the girl called mary
you aint daht good ay
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Please dont read this..nooo! sorry but In 1997 a girl called lauren was walking in a forest and then a she just dissapeared no one ever found her untill 2000 when a yoing girl called Mary found her body and markings on her chest saying: I wasnt pretty enough" and now you have read this she will appear in your mirrorr saying your not pretty enough and kill you. by the way the girl called mary
Mixtape has just finished downloading. Cannit wait. Love Superstar. Its a wicked Tune. Cheers For The Free Shit Cal x
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luvin ur music nw, r u going to be playing at the sugar mill in STOKE any time soon??? was good when you played there last wit lethal Bizzle, you shud play there again
Get By s a sik tune
PLEASE DO NOT READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry.......In 1997 a girl called lauren was walking in a forest and then a she just dissapeared no one ever found her untill 2000 when a yoing girl called Mary found her body and markings on her chest saying: I wasnt pretty enough" and n0w you have read this she will appear in your mirror saying your not pretty enough and kill you. by the way the girl called mary
that game. . . woz fucking amazing. that mite well hav been better than the final. i cant beleev it. LIVERPOOL 4 - 2 ARSENAL Tuesday 8 April 2008 19:45 , Champions League Quarter Final (2)
iTunes April 7th. Wait until you hear the B-Side and the remixes. Crazy. I need to come to Newcastle for real. Last time we were up there was a Friday night. Nobody warned me.
Alrite mate? Loving the superherp vid. Whens it on itunes? And get your Arse to newcastle again, missed you with lethal Bizzle, purley on the fact i aint 18, bit wank like. Cal.xx
lovin the "SU-PER-RE-MIX"