Artist: MJ Cole
Genre(s):
Dance
Discography:
Cut to the Chase
Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
With his accessible urban appealingness and his talent for duplicate breakbeat culture's incendiary phobias with the Hi-NRG of pop and sulphurous R&B, MJ Cole was one of U.K. garage's first true stars. Ultimately renting himself out for Mariah Carey and De La Soul remixes, Cole began with drum'n'bass label SOUR, where he worked in the ab initio unassuming position of tape operator. After slogging up to an engineering title for name calling like Freq Nasty and Ed Rush, he caught the service department bug in the centre of 1996 while working on Ramsey & Fen's 2-step remixes for Kym Mazelle. It was there that solo maneuvers began to form. At first rejected by every allocator in the U.K., an early self-production "Sincere" establish source at AM:PM and became one of the earliest garage records to crack Britain's Top 40, which at the prison term was focussed on widescreen indie and Fatboy Slim. Two old age after the single's surprise success, Cole issued his debut uncut of the same name. The album's ready, crisp, and vigorously mainstream output fashion earned him a Mercury Prize nomination although many critics lambasted it for devolving to the last-place common denominator, hobbling U.K. garage's reputability in its babyhood.
