Marcus Marr

Influenced by classic soul, rock, disco, and acid house, Marcus Marr makes spacy dance music, often including percolating synths, funky bass guitar, and vocals. Over the last few years, Marr has been releasing acclaimed records via DFA Records, including ‘Brown Sauce,’ named in Pitchfork’s Best Tracks in 2015, and ‘The Music,’ named one of the “Best Dance Tracks of 2013” by SPIN. 2016’s ‘Rocketship’ A regular at Berlin’s famed nightclub Berghain/Panorama Bar since 2014, the lifelong music obsessive's first encounters with dance music were acid house records, which grew his vinyl collection of rock and soul, and attending all night parties under Brixton's St Matthews Church. Traveling to Brighton’s famous Zap Club to watch DJ Harvey play a lengthy set, he saw the kind of power a DJ can wield over a willing crowd. In 2015, Marcus recorded a collaborative 4-track EP with singer-songwriter and headline DJ Nick Murphy (a.k.a. Chet Faker), Work, via Murphy’s own label, Detail Records. Work yielded two hit singles, ‘Birthday Card’ (Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 first play, #1 Hype Machine) and ‘The Trouble with Us’ ((#1 Hype Machine). Marr’s solo single ‘Rocketship’ was released by DFA in 2016. Marcus Marr’s new single ‘High Times’ is out now via DFA Records. DJ, Producer and Multi-Instrumentalist. New track 'Rocketship' out now on DFA Records. Buy it here: http://smarturl.it/MMRocketshipiTunes