Mark E / Stone Breaker
Album: Stone Breaker   Collection:General
Artist:Mark E   Added:May 2011
Label:Spectral Sound  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2011-05-30 Pull Date: 2011-08-01
Week Ending: Jul 3 Jun 26 Jun 19 Jun 12 Jun 5
Airplays: 1 2 1 3 2

Recent Airplay
1. Jun 26, 2011: lost and found
Oranges
4. Jun 12, 2011: lost and found
Oranges
2. Jun 25, 2011: High School Summer College All-Stars
Oranges
5. Jun 08, 2011: The Donner Party
Oranges
3. Jun 23, 2011: Crailslide
The Day, Oranges
6. Jun 06, 2011: Thrice Chilled
The Day

Album Review
Rasmus Rygaard
Reviewed 2011-06-05
Mark E has been famous for his disco edits and swinging house sounds, but has yet to release his first full length album. That’s where Stone Breaker comes in. Although it’s a bit moodier than what I had anticipated, there is still plenty of warm, well-produced house grooves to keep your show going. Expect sounds similar to Erdbeerschnitzel, Tensnake, and DJ Harvey.
FCC: Clean Try: 7, 9, 8, 6, 2

1) 7:17 Crunchy drums, fragments of a synth line. Pounding staccato keys and chopped-up vocals.
2) 5:00 * Slow, swinging. Simple walking bassline, atmospheric synths towards the end.
3) 7:22 Booming, robotic. Bass rolling along just fine, hi-hats pick up the pace. Mumbling vocoders. Outro is somewhat acidy.
4) 4:28 Softer, more mellow. Retro ambient synth lines.
5) 10:28 Slowly builds up a percussion and vocoder-driven house groove. Deep, longing synth surfaces.
6) 4:59 * Organic sound. Subtle keys flail back and forth.
7) 8:12 ** Darker, more mysterious sound. Simple two-note synth line, builds intensity.
8) 8:23 * Dark, techy. Synth pads loosen things up a bit, and a clonky synth line helps, too.
9) 7:29 * Soft, discoish. Groaning female vocal samples and a cool bass line.

Track Listing
1. Archway   5. Got To Get Me There
2. Black Country Saga   6. Deny This
3. Belvide Beat   7. Black Moon
4. Quatro   8. Oranges
  9. The Day