DnB Legend Marcus Intalex is dead
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stethoscope
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Damn! 
RIP Intalex.
This tune just sums up driving back from a night locked into Kool or Rude...
RIP Intalex.This tune just sums up driving back from a night locked into Kool or Rude...
stethoscope
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Still love this first tune from Intalex (with L Double)....
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unbelievable...he can't have been 43?
can't image what the cause of death. Would be surprised it was drugs.
legend is absolutely right, in my book he saved DnB and took it where no one has taken it before. And some classic Jungle back in the day too
last year I met him at the bar of a club and gushed at him for a good half hour ... He was feeling quite down about The Scene, and I drunkenly banged on that DnB needs him!! and it was true....
He leaves the most solid back catalogue of any dnb producer as far as I'm concerned. If there's a new Marcus tune its buy on sight, no questions asked. Never missed. No exaggeration to say he will always be my favourite dnb producer.
tragic loss.....
can't image what the cause of death. Would be surprised it was drugs.
legend is absolutely right, in my book he saved DnB and took it where no one has taken it before. And some classic Jungle back in the day too
last year I met him at the bar of a club and gushed at him for a good half hour ... He was feeling quite down about The Scene, and I drunkenly banged on that DnB needs him!! and it was true....
He leaves the most solid back catalogue of any dnb producer as far as I'm concerned. If there's a new Marcus tune its buy on sight, no questions asked. Never missed. No exaggeration to say he will always be my favourite dnb producer.
tragic loss.....
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with a heavy heart ive done a mix and written down some words
Marcus Intalex – A Better Place – Tribute & Salute
Better Place
Love and Happiness
Lose Control
Dreamworld
Neptune
Warp 1
Second Thoughts
Proof Rock
Red 7
Faceless
Make a Raise
Step Forward
Cabal
Temperance
Meltdown
Stark
Celestial Navigation
Bitter End
Airborne
download link etc
Mikus Musik: Marcus Intalex – A Better Place – Tribute & Salute
Marcus Intalex – A Better Place – Tribute & Salute
DnB is a scene that draws on a lot of influences and has people coming at it from different angles. The dancefloor rules though, and it’s always been a case that more upfront tunes dominate. I love a good upfront tune as much as anyone, but DnB has always been deeper to me than just jump up. In the mid 90s the ‘Speed’ sound pushed especially by Fabio and Bukem got more of a platform, but by the late 90s it had been squeezed out again, and Upfront seemed to run everything. Yeah there were still good tunes, but too often the soul and depth was missing.
When Marcus and ST Files started putting tunes out as MIST it breathed new life into DnB for me, at a time when things could feel a little stale. Whether on a melodic soulful tip, or on a moodier techno tip, their tunes always had something to say, and drove the message home over a hypnotic groove that felt like it was drawing on Detroit.
I’m pretty sure I first heard a MIST tune (How You Make Me Feel) on Fabio’s radio show, but then not long after heard Grooverider play Dreamworld, and from then it was all over. And that’s the thing, Marcus has tunes which can sit in sets by any DnB DJ (with any taste!), whatever their style. As far as I'm concerned everything Marcus and St Files touch is gold. If a new Marcus record comes out it was buy on sight – no need to hear it first.
In my opinion no one has put the message into DnB as clearly as Marcus. Real electronic soul music. Like the tune goes: it’s a spiritual thing, a body thing, a soul thing. His music reaffirmed the family tree connection between DnB and acid house, techno, garage, soul….
I’ve been wanting to do a Marcus Intalex and ST Files mix for years now, and kept putting it off. And this morning I woke up to hear Marcus has died. It’s a massive shock and a tragic loss. To his friends and family, of course, but to DnB and to music in general. Marcus was young and was still at the top of his game in the music he was making. He smashed it from the off with the early Da Intalex jungle material and outdid himself to the last with the killer flying-high DnB he was putting out today….and clearly there was still so much to come from him, including on his techno alias Trevino. But what he leaves behind is in my opinion the strongest discography in DnB. There isn’t a single 12” of his that isn’t worth having and hearing. Not sure anyone else can claim that. My favourite DnB producer hands down, no hyperbole.
When people talk about the great dance music heritage of Manchester they think of the Hacienda generation. To me Marcus is up there at the top with them.
Salute and rest in Peace – never to be forgotten.
This mix is a tribute of some of my favourite Marcus productions, very broadly in chronological order, and including a couple of rarer remixes from the earlier days, tunes made with ST Files, Calibre and also his solo work. So many other tunes could've gone into this mix – like I said his discography is a treasure chest filled to the brim…but a box now so sadly closed before its time. Normally I take time to plan a studio mix, but this was a throwdown off the top of my head, and when tunes like Celestial Navigation were on the deck, played with a tear in my eye...
Marcus Intalex – A Better Place – Tribute & Salute
Better Place
Love and Happiness
Lose Control
Dreamworld
Neptune
Warp 1
Second Thoughts
Proof Rock
Red 7
Faceless
Make a Raise
Step Forward
Cabal
Temperance
Meltdown
Stark
Celestial Navigation
Bitter End
Airborne
download link etc
Mikus Musik: Marcus Intalex – A Better Place – Tribute & Salute
He was really great, seminal figure in D'n'B. Gave a lot of joy and inspiration to many. RIP
Nice words, tunes and memories ska invita
Nice words, tunes and memories ska invita
stethoscope
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stethoscope
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@ska invita Forgot how damn good Love and Happiness is <3
lefteri
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heart attack apparently
sankara
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Innit - that 12" with Dreamworld on the flip has got to be one of my most played records. Absolute classic.
ska invita thanks for this mix. I had a little personal one last night which I didn't record and played a fair number of tunes you have included.
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The usual DnB formula goes: Intro>>>>1st Breakdown (no drums)>>>1st Drop (drum section)>>>>2nd Breakdown(no drums)>>>>2nd Drop (drum section)
A lot of lazy tunes pretty much just repeat 1st breakdown+drop in the second half...
Listening through a bunch of Marcus's tunes back to back theres one thing i notice he does so well which is the 2nd breakdown after the first drop really goes off on another level...melodic, stringy, spacey breakdowns, big build ups and variations which set up the second drop so well.
A lot of modern DnB gets mixed so fast because the 2nd half is the same as the 1st so why hang around? With Marucs's tunes you have to let them play as they properly build and go somewhere, especially through that 2nd breakdown section. The arrangements are on another level.
A lot of lazy tunes pretty much just repeat 1st breakdown+drop in the second half...
Listening through a bunch of Marcus's tunes back to back theres one thing i notice he does so well which is the 2nd breakdown after the first drop really goes off on another level...melodic, stringy, spacey breakdowns, big build ups and variations which set up the second drop so well.
A lot of modern DnB gets mixed so fast because the 2nd half is the same as the 1st so why hang around? With Marucs's tunes you have to let them play as they properly build and go somewhere, especially through that 2nd breakdown section. The arrangements are on another level.
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Ive just uploaded this. Its the bollocks
Also this which i dont think was online before - its alright
Also this which i dont think was online before - its alright
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This is a really nice mix, I wasn't as familiar as I should have been with his productions and this def shows how amazing his music is. It's like you say always very musical and rhythmically complex but with a light touch... like the best of the Bristol V stuff... and also very varied of course! Thanks for it, a great tribute for the man too.
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nice one rutabowa, nice to know it comes across to fresh ears.
what's clear when you hear that influences mix of his posted above is he went down that path of Detroit techno to Chicago ( acid ) house to warp/bleep /proto jungle to dark n deep hardcore to dnb, and translated that road into his own music. not everyone who makes dnb had that journey, and of those who did no one managed to bring all that history in its purity into post-2000 dnb like he did.
In that respect he was a voice of a certain generation, people who were deep into 88 but stuck with (and love) dnb to the bitter end, ie today. Many people jumped ship early or got on the train late but to me he embodies that continuity. add a good dose of Manchester rain attitude and to me he captures a massive part of my own musical path and world view. will genuinely miss him
braindancer
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Really enjoyed your mix ska - and the influences radio show you posted is an absolute blinder....
Orang Utan
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that influences mix has some great stuff on it
Orang Utan
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Listened to the Intalex mix ska invita made, and have to admit, it's not my cup of tea - too smooth.
His Trevino material is quality though
His Trevino material is quality though
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horses for courses i guess...when i heard he was doing techno i got excited but the tracks ive heard I found a bit ploddy, but im not really into modern techno tbh - not really my thing....got any favourites? Despite that Ive heard a couple of his trevino/techno dj sets and they make good listening i thought
