Mighty Mark is a pioneer in the world of Baltimore Club Music, but also isn't afraid to push the genre forward. Whether it's his made for the club releases such as Mighty and Real or his Hip-Hop efforts such as Modern Dreams, Marquis "Mighty Mark" Gasque is always creating his own path inspired by his hometown of bmore. Together with frequent collaborator TT The Artist, Mighty Mark has made numerous underground hits such as F Trump and tracks that have been featured on top shows  as "Lavish" and "Thug It Out"(HBO's Insecure) and "Bass Drop Bigger"(Netflix's Nappily Ever After). Mark's original releases and remixes receive frequent airplay via Clubs, Rinse FM, BBC Radio and Radio One FM Stations. With recognition and features via respected publications such as Complex, Vice/Noisey and Fader, the future is looking bright as Mark continues to create club anthems and curates music on his label  Hands Up! Records.

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What do you get when you combine the call of a Panamanian white-lipped foam frog, some classic big-band jazz, and the sonified X-ray of a distant star? A track that’s a signature Smithsonian remix.

SMITHSONIAN at 8 is throwing the craziest sound party ever—a night where the guests make the music, and the audio archives of the Smithsonian provide the inspiration. We’ve uploaded some amazing audio files to SoundCloud and they’re ready and waiting to be combined into whatever your musical imagination can come up with.
Maybe you’ll grab a sound of nature from the Encyclopedia of Life archives (how about some insect back-up singers?), a selection from the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory collection that translates cosmic X-rays into a haunting piano solo, or a freewheeling Dizzy Gillespie riff from the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Blend them together or add them to your own compositions or performance tracks and then upload your remix to SoundCloud.


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