Marley has played all over the world in counties such as USA, Japan, Germany & Australia. Over the years working within such a fastly developing scene has been extremely rewarding, enjoyable and hard. However Marley has constantly changed and moved with it and creating the infamous Geos Crew alongside DJ Robbo is arguably his most recent musical conquest.

In the beginning of 2004 together with DJ Scandal he formed Electrik Events which is one of the most celebrated hardcore nights in the South of England. On the back of this success Marley & Scandal have managed to quickly develop, launch and establish their own UK Hardcore record label named Electrik Euphoria Records.

Marley has written & produced many tracks including the Raver Baby smasher Connections & Hardcore Underground with DJ UFO & Look At All The Ravers & Power and the Glory as part of Geos Crew. He has mixed a CD for the hardcore compilation Hardcore Reunited 2 album with DJ Druid.

Marley's tracks have appeared on BBC Radio One, Galaxy FM, Bonkers, Ministry of Sound and Helter Skelter vs Raindance Albums and True Hardcore

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MC Marley Profile 2

Over the years, hardcore has seen many faces, acts and artistes come and go. Some have had an excellent spell, but this for whatever reason was short lived. Others have stood the test of time throughout it's highs, it's lows and everything that has come between during it’s evolution as a scene, a way of life. One man that has managed, despite all odds to stay a very prominent part of the UK scene as it was then and as it is today is one Mc Marley.

Some may know him as both old and new school MC, parading the stages of the likes of Slammin' Vinyl, Dreamscape, Fantazia, HTID, Hardcore Heaven, Fusion and his very own Electrik, many of which he was a resident. Others may have more recently been a follower of his work as part of the Geos Crew for which he was nominated in the Hardcore Heaven Awards as ‘Best Breakthrough DJ’. Funny you might think that only now after his recent progression to DJ, that he gets a nod from the powers that be for his work as a ‘new’ DJ, despite flexing a Microphone on some of the World’s biggest stages for the better part of the last two decades.

From MC’ing, to producing his own material with Geos, UFO, Hixxy, with tracks featured on Raverbaby, including the now infamous 'Connections' that was the first real mc based track to smash main room dancefloors and give him worldwide acclaim alongside DJ UFO and also the popular 'Music is my Life' with DJ Hixxy, that has had upto 1 million hits on YouTube. Plus 5 tracks on Clubland X-Treme, as an artist and as a label owner.

He is also also known for DJ’ing and promoting, and can be found most weekends commanding main arenas roaring lyrics into a Microphone at full volume, something he's been doing since 1991.

Marley has pretty much done it all, from playing abroad to touring Australia in the mid 90's with his long time partner in crime DJ Ramos and the rest of the Adrenalin crew which included Force & Styles, Clarkee, Supreme and Vinylgroover, he was also the first ever hardcore mc to appear in New Zealand alongside the legendary DJ Vinylgroover back in 1994, and he has also played at nearly every main UK event and city since the scene begun.

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Interview with MC Marley

MC Marley has seen it all so far as hardcore is concerned. As an MC he performs for the likes of Fusion, HTID, Hardcore Heaven and his very own event, Electrik. As a producer, he works with UFO, Hixxy and the Geos Crew. He also DJ’s (for which he’s been nominated in this years run up to the Hardcore Heaven Awards as ‘Best Breakthrough DJ’), and somewhere in between all of that he’s a good dad and partner.

‘To be honest, it’s always been about MCing since the off. In the last three or four years, that’s when the DJing started’, he says. ‘In the early days I was MCing with Pal and Jeff (Ramos & Supreme), probably until about the late nineties. I was a raver before that.”

As the nineties raged on, by way of Dreamscape, Helter Skelter and even gigs overseas, it would seem hardcore had given Marley a name as an MC. ‘I think Pal and myself were probably doing three or four gigs a weekend like Hixxy and Re-Con are doing now.’ It was a feat that afforded him the opportunity to be the first ever mainstream hardcore MC to appear at a proper main stage event in Australia. In fact, he was the first hardcore MC ever to appear in New Zealand, with Vinylgroover. ‘We played places like Germany and Switzerland on a regular basis too.’

Now hardcore is a more serious, organised and well-oiled machine. Still going strong, Marley has adapted well. ‘I’ve had to adapt otherwise I wouldn’t still be able to do what I do, but if you asked me if I like it now as much as I did then, I don’t know. I think the structuring of it I don’t like, because it is too structured - this MC’s got to go with a certain DJ and that’s got to be a certain way. I’m more of a freestyle MC’.

After more than a decade of entertaining down a microphone however, the urge to do more than just MC was high and so the Geos Crew were born. The catalyst for this it is fair to say, was his smash hit track with UFO, ‘Connections’, signed to the Raverbaby label. ‘Connections was probably the first real, MC based hardcore track on that sort of level - not just an MC sampled in the track. Around this time I’d just got together with Robbo, who’s always been an awesome DJ. When we started Geos Crew fifty percent of our set would be tracks that we’d done or I’d done. Then we started working with Tony (Scandal) and we’ve been doing the Electrik label ever since.”

What does Geos stand for? ‘Nothing, absolutely nothing. I’ve always had this weird knack for being able to give people names, you know. I’ve done it with Jeff (Supreme) and even Scandal. Supreme probably wouldn’t ever admit it but yeah, I gave him his name. With the Geos Crew, I always thought we needed something a little bit different and it seems to have worked.”

It worked so well as a package that Electrik the event was born in Southampton and has been a much loved rave for the South Coast collective every Bank Holiday weekend ever since. But what of the talent he regularly features at each event and on the label? ‘There are some DJ’s and producers we’ve got on Electrik, the likes of Clodhopper, Bishop, JB-C. They are all very talented, and they’ve got so much to offer. Even the likes of Eufieon, who’s a young local lad and he’s done spec remixes for us. They are all good at what they do. We’ve also had a lot of hard work, enthusiasm and support from Matt Petruccio, who’s done us proud.’

This would go to explain then why we’ve seen a little bit less of Marley on the main stage in 2009. ‘This year there has been a break, I’ve not done a lot of MCing. I wanted a break from it, I just wanted to concentrate on studio things. The main emphasis with the Geos thing is to be able to play our own music – these days the way the scene is and the way the DJ’s and the events are, everybody predominantly plays their own stuff now. So we can play our music at events and the ravers can listen to the CD packs and hear our sets. That and spending with my family - got my baby girl now - was one of the most important things. It’s funny we’ve been nominated in the ‘Best Breakthrough’ category, and I suppose we are, as we’re new to the DJing in effect. I’m massively old skool as an MC though.

‘In 2009 I’d say the plan is more production and a follow up to ‘Connections’. We’re working on a new Geos track as well, another Electrik event in August, and doing as much DJing as possible. The end of the year you might see MC Marley on a more regular basis. That’s the plan, don’t hold me to it. I mean fortunately I’ve got a lot of people who do support what I do - Hixxy in particular has always been very supportive of what we do, in the studio and of me as an MC. We’ve had a lot of support from Grant and all those boys at Slammin Vinyl, also Jeff at Fusion – so hopefully yeah, maybe September onwards on top of all that, MC Marley may well return.’

Interview By Jon Brown