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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� Marvin [Formerly The Martian] says: "Finally!!! My debut album 'Devil in The Distance' is on iTunes for just £7.90. It's classic I swear to you!" (18 weeks ago) me too! | Genre
Rap
Hip Hop
Soul
Label
NoCarbon/ Universal
Major Label
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Brixton
UK
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http://www.bebo.com/marvthemarsh
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July 2006
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25 weeks agowas good when you played there last wit lethal Bizzle, you shud play there again
Get By s a sik tune
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30 weeks agothat game. . . woz fucking amazing. that mite well hav been better than the final. i cant beleev it.
34 weeks agoLIVERPOOL 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.
39 weeks agoI 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.
39 weeks agoWhens 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"
39 weeks agoWhy no more Martian????????
47 weeks agosaw u at roadhouse in manchester u wer bad mate. i really want superhero anywer i can get it from
50 weeks agoMARVIN SAW YOU AT THE SUGARMILL IN STOKE AND THINK UR TUNES WERE QUALITY BUT CAN;T GET HOLD OF DEVIL IN THE DISTANCE OR SUPERHERO ANY CHANCE YOU CUD SORT ME OUT PLEASE? SAFE JAY
50 weeks agoim good, yno jst the usual. cheers
51 weeks agowell, ill listen out 4 your music and that..keep up the good work.
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safe. wil check that.
51 weeks agohows it going? i saw u met rza on ur myspace... gotta be happy bout dat 1 haha.
Cheers man.
51 weeks agoIl be lookin 4ward 2 seein the video
Laterz