Kosheen creator Markee Ledge releases his debut solo album ‘Elevate’ on Friday 4th December. 

The album, which has been 3 years in the making, features guest producers including Seven, Leon Switch, dubspeeka and Rinse FM’s DJ Youngsta, plus guest vocalists Alys Be, Susie Ledge and Jodie Elms. The release of ‘Elevate’ is preceded by the single  ‘Make Your Move’ feat. Alys B.

Following 5 studio albums as Kosheen, the band’s songwriter and producer, Markee Ledge, took advantage of the group’s hiatus in recording new material to develop his own project, combining Kosheen-style big vocal tracks interspersed with deep underground electronic sounds. 

The 17-track album, which presents a deeper and dubby perspective of the UK electronic music soundtrack, features 9 vocal tracks including 2 tracks presented as Kosheen remixes: ‘Picture Perfect’ and ‘Purity’ both feature singer / songwriter Susie Ledge. Other vocal highlights include lead album track ‘Talk Is Cheap’ and ‘Saturn’ both featuring Alys Be, the latter also comes in a deeper remix form courtesy of DJ Youngsta. 

Kosheen, one of the UK’s most successful live electronic music acts, came to prominence with the groundbreaking album ‘Resist’ in 2001 following crossover releases ‘Hide U’, ‘Catch’ and ‘Hungry’. The album charted at No. 8 in the UK and went on to sell half a million copies, making it the most successful drum & bass album at that time. Further releases followed including the highly successful follow-up ‘Kokopelli’ featuring the single ‘All In My Head’, and albums ‘Damage’, ‘Independence’ and ‘Solitude’.

‘Elevate’ takes the Kosheen template and twists it into the current underground musical narrative. “I knew I had a bunch of very powerful songs in the bag and I was really digging the real deep sound coming from London and Rinse FM,” Markee explains. “I wanted to reach out to the producers I was feeling and make fresh music and recapture that vibe we had on ‘Resist’ - a real current sound but with soulful, powerful songs.”


Make Your Move feat Alys Be (Optiv & BTK Remix) - Markee Ledge & Leon Switch

Markee Ledge is a deep drum & bass and dubstep DJ / producer
with a long history in underground electronic music.
 He made drum & bass as Substance in the 90s, releasing on labels like 
31 Records, Formation and his own Ruffneck Ting and Breakbeat Culture 
imprints. 
He was also the founder of electronic crossover band Kosheen which took Markee onto a bigger stage of festivals music awards, TV shows and touring the globe. 
More recently he’s also immersed himself in the 140 BPM scene with a love of deep UK dubstep and has had heavyweight releases on the likes of Tempa, 
Artikal Music UK, Uprise Audio and his own Zonal label. 
Although he’s always been a versatile producer in deep electronic
music, vocal tracks have always been his forte. Recently, he’s been
working with new vocalists on a collection of uplifting drum & bass
vocal tunes. Markee has sourced the singers from countries like Nigeria,
USA, The Netherlands and the UK, there are also familiar faces such
as MC Jakes and MC Megatron.