Coming through as a producer in the early 2000's, nothing much seemed normal. The whirlwind of 90s dance music innovation had given way to a lack of focus, with increasingly innovative and accessible technology making the sounds heard on dancefloors more eclectic but at the same time the parties had started to feel less inspired, as if it were too hard to keep hold of the magic that had swirled around us for the last 10 years.

Against this backdrop, Mark Hawkins immediately stood out by how grounded he was compared to most of the space cadets floundering with their musical calling. Watching one of his staggeringly raw live sets, ripping up the floor with a combination of jacking Chicago house and bare bones techno was to see a pragmatic idealist carving out a unique space, unashamed to reference his inspirations with humour and bombast.

It was perhaps inevitable that Mark’s boundless spirit would see him push through the barriers of the UK’s more experimental audiences to gain greater presence with his entrance to a more underground House sound. Releases followed on Dixon Avenue Basement Jams and Clone before arriving on Houndstooth, blending House and Techno in a way that reached for the sky even while their roots were clearly planted firmly in the ground. Whilst always tough-as-painted-nails, the music progressed from being identifiable through its keen rawness to displaying increasing sophistication.

During a lost year that’s been anything but normal, it’s no surprise that Mark has dug deeper, gathering his influences and ideals into a more experimental, yet relevant and cohesive whole. The Twelve tracks on this new album represent a blossoming of Mark’s creativity; freed from the constraints of immediate dance-floor delivery they explore new territory, rampaging over a landscape of electro-funk, body-rocking house, experimental electronica, euphoric pop, and reflective chill out all underpinned by his accomplished melodic sensibility.

Lead single from the album from the old ways and into the new is ‘Let It Slide’, his second collaboration with Jamie Lidell (following 2018’s “We Should Be Free”) that tears up the rulebook. Beat’s stumble and stutter, resolving in angular B-boy grooves while the bass line sounds like it’s being slapped out by a P Funk-addicted robotic jackhammer. In its sheer disregard for musical conventions, it reprises Lidell’s previous work with Cristian Vogel in their genre-destroying freakbeat combo, Super Collider, and perfectly sums up an album that challenges what ‘normal’ from now on should be.

The New Normal

PREMIERE : Mark Hawkins - Let It Slide feat. Jamie Lidell

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on Soundcloud ... 
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' the Dance of Life is here for you, it's calling you, the Dance of Life ' (narada michael walden)

Our Sunday music series, 'Sundays ride - ipanema' which we try et get out eWeek, inspirationally came from walking along a beach in RDJ basically Looking for my girl from Ipanema (long before I discovered all of Colombias hidden gems :) et stumbling across by accident, a surfing event held at Arpoador, et ive still got the t shirt! 

(on Musical Roots ...)
via Miami's South beach to Trinidad & Tobago not far from Brasil our adopted second homelands where it all started with the drum really, but nothing prepares you for the first time you hear Samba in a Rio street or sweet steel pan or the Mighty Shadow booming poverty is hell from a passing taxis boom box, just outside Smokey et Buntys ye olde Rum shoppe in downtown st james port of spain / youtu.be/ZKdDwwTaQTQ (https://medium.com/@gal_ngo/my-270-days-inbrasil-as-a-carioca-a-tri-part-musical-journey-or-my-brazilian-love-affair-auto-6eb316a18588)

"We leave to find what is left behind and that holds us, more than we know.”)

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... truly vblessed w vDeep Caribbean roots w adopted 2nd haus homelands in Amsterdam. Barbados, Berlin, Brasil, Chicago, Cuba, Colombia, Detroit, Geneva, Jamaica, Miami, NY's Sag harbor/Shelter island, Paris, SFO, Trinidads Carrera island Tobagos Goat island, Venezuela, Yokohama, South Africa, & deep down in Disko Bay! /

7 / gᗩL mZumbi 
is a different drummer
at big eᗩᖇ ᖇᗩᗪiO beᖇᒪin >

(avtr/banner artverk)
> fotograf credits feats >
main banner foto edits 'did'
previously feature amp 
fiddler meets moodymann 
special collage plus
avtr accidental foto edits 
took on david bowies
aladdin sane's album cover
appearance to our extreme 
delight so we kept the edits
now updated feats our most 
special angel two 'oh Carolina!' 
frm our portraits for climate 
series on medium plus 
rep all my C/C/C&M dedications
to my beloved beautiful 
colombias carol carolina cynthia
& miranda 1L chunko toodles
gal tu chico always :)  

(2023/24/25 work/'wish' List of collabs & studio time avec the following) 




14 Charles Webster collabs 2025/26
01 Amp fiddler 'July' song rework cover
02 Little Dragon rework of Philipp Thimm & Raphael Hofman - Lolite Shadows / https://soundcloud.com/wuza-berlin/philipp-thimm-raphael-hofman-lolite-shadows 
03 David Morales Bad Yard Club 'the Program' classic 2022 mZumbi update
04 https://soundcloud.com/da-capo/no-rainbow and/or https://soundcloud.com/djnicodeandrea/woman-fka-mash-afro-glitch RMX/rework avec @adamport & @keinemusik 
05 Lady Alma & Peven Everett collab 
06 Any Mahogany Music collabs
07 Casamena Jimpster & St Germain grooves c'mon Lets go!
08 Ron Trent Trinidadian Deep & Jody Watley reunite special project
09 More Brazilian Samba adventures w masters at wok! KDope & Lil Louie
10 World plus Berlin Music promotions contd (inspiration Paul Simon)
11 Vintage Reggie Masters vault raids! (inspiration Adrian Sherwood)
12 tea w Kate Bush ... 

(early branding & works includes ...)
www.mixcloud.com/mZumbi
https://socaboat.bandcamp.com/track/cherish-socaboat-addl-keys
https://socaboat.bandcamp.com/track/zulu-girl-socaboat-dna-mx
https://socaboat.bandcamp.com/album/piano-edits-echo-beats
https://soundcloud.com/discover/sets/artist-stations:147545039 

(mZumbi zoohaus nation & 
socaboat productions NY NY)

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https://soundcloud.com/theswimtwins
https://soundcloud.com/jaguar-people
https://soundcloud.com/gmzu 

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Swinging rhythms, heavy bass, no pretense. Bronx-born producer ONE shotta channels garage, bassline, and UK club traditions with a raw, off-kilter edge. His tracks nod to the roots while refusing to sit still—speed garage at the core, drifting into UKG, house, and flashes of jungle.

A deep love for 4x4 disco underpins the project. ONE shotta threads that pulse into every track, fusing disco’s rolling momentum with the grit of UK club sounds. It’s a subtle but vital influence—keeping the swing infectious and the floor in constant motion.

Raised on punk, hardcore, and live band energy before immersing himself in underground club culture, ONE shotta approaches dance music with both reverence and curiosity. Years of digging with close collaborator DJ Manteca sharpened his ear for the histories behind the sound, feeding into a project rooted in sound system tradition but focused firmly on the future.

With a debut release on the horizon, ONE shotta is carving out space in the modern garage resurgence—personal, weighty, and always in motion.

We don’t make songs, we channel frequencies. Tune in and feel it. 🎨🎺

Dj Booking & Inquiries : lesyeuxorange@gmail.com

Next ==> 13/09@ La  Rotonde Stalingrad, Paris
               26/09@ Burger Disco Club, Athens 
               27/09@ Rokfor, Patras
               04/10@ La Démarrante, Annecy
               18/10@ Boom Boom Villette
               31/10@ La Rotonde Stalingrad
               13/12@ La Rotonde Stalingrad


Past Gigs : 
Paris => Cabaret Sauvage, Trabendo, Rex Club, Badaboum, La Java, Mazette, La Machine du Moulin Rouge, La Prairie Du Canal, Petit Bain, Nexus, La Madrague Festival, Palais de Tokyo, La Rotonde Stalingrad, Silencio, ZigZag, La Clairiere, Wanderlust, Nuits Fauves, Double Vie, Pamela, Virage,  Le Monseigneur etc...

France => Calvi On The Rocks, Cabourg Mon Amour, We Love Green, Sarcus Festival, Tres cool Festival-Deauville, Highfive Festival-Annecy, Briques Rouges Festival-Lille, Bains Numeriques Festival-Enghien, Macadam Nantes x2, Lieu Unique Nantes, Le Sucre Lyon x3, Le Terminal Lyon, Le Petit Salon Lyon, Iboat Bordeaux x3, Chapiteau Marseille, 1988 Live Club Rennes, Gare Saint Sauveur Lille x2, Ostra Nancy, Grenoble Campus, La Bobine Grenoble, Angers, Nuit Blanche Saint Denis etcetc...

Europe => London x4 , Manchester x3, Leeds x2, Edinburgh, Berlin x3, Hamburg, Freiburg, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Stockholm x2, Copenhagen, Geneve x4, Lausanne, Neuchatel, Zurich x4, Bern, Lucern, Madrid x2, Ronda, Barcelona x3, Porto, Prague, Skopje, Milan, Rome, Liege, Istanbul, Budapest, Sofia, Bucharest x2, Vilnius x2, Palanga, Belgrade, Zagreb, Warsaw, Saint Petersburg, Moscow etc...
RoTW ==> Mexico City x2, Guadalajara, Leon, Merida, San Miguel De Allende, Queretaro etc...

PREMIERE : Mark Hawkins - Let It Slide feat. Jamie Lidell

Les Yeux Orange