![]() ![]() Growing up in Manchester influenced all my music in one way or another. Shark Vegas Has this city influenced your work? It’s due to close in its current venue on 12th August 2017 This is one of the last chances you have to see a gig at this authentic venue. It will be an exclusive opportunity to hear his latest album Mauerstadt, featuring remixes of artists including New Order and Queen of Hearts. He has been described as a godfather of early electronic music and his influence on Manchester was celebrated in the opening music to Manchester International Festival 2017.Īnd now Mark Reeder is returning to Manchester from Berlin to DJ at an exclusive gig at Tiger Lounge on 5 th August. He’s worked with the likes of the Pet Shop Boys and Sam Taylor-Wood and recently he’s been working with Manchester musical collective Modern Family Unit and remixing their track Law. His remixes have been particularly well known. He became Factory Records’ German representative, formed the synthpop-rock duo Die Unbekannten, toured western Europe with New Order and, controversially, brought the Dusseldorf band Die Toten Hosen to play in the East during the 80s. But it was in Germany, where he worked from 1978, that he made it even bigger, founding the dance music labels MFS and Flesh. It was here where he started out, forming punk band The Frantic Elevators with Mick Hucknall and Neil Moss in early 1977. In a career spread over three decades creating, producing, composing, and remixing, he has worked with the likes of artists including van Dyk, Inspiral Carpets and New Order. ![]() Mauerstadt contains 2 distinct reworkings of New Order tracks which include the The Game, and Academic, along with the fantastic In Sight featuring The KVB, along with collaborations with Inspiral Carpets, Ekkoes, Queen of Hearts, MFU, and Maja Pierro.ġ.Mark Reeder – “In Sight” (with The KVB)Ģ.Mark Reeder – “Mmm Mmm Mmm Ahhh” (with MFU – Umm & Arrggh remix)ģ.Mark Reeder – “United” (with Queen Of Hearts – Bonded By Sadness mix)Ĥ.Mark Reeder – “Electricity” (with Ekkoes – Power Surge mix)ĥ.Mark Reeder & Maja Pierro – “Broken Hearts”Ħ.New Order – “Academic” (Mark Reeder akademixx)ħ.The Inspiral Carpets – “You’re So Good For Me” (Like A Tonic remix)Ĩ.Mark Reeder – “Giant Mushrooms” (radioactive Fall Out mix)ĩ.Mark Reeder – “Suicide” (with Queen Of Hearts – Killer Queen mix)ġ0.Mark Reeder – “Mauerstadt” (extended RIAS mix)ġ1.Mark Reeder – “Heartbeat” (with Ekkoes – Heart Throb mix)ġ2.Mark Reeder & Maja Pierro – “If You Love Me Tonight” (Mark Reeder Will Love You Tomorrow remix)ġ3.You may not have heard of Mark Reeder, but you’ve probably heard his music.īorn in 1958 and raised in Manchester, little did anyone think back in the 1970s that the local lad who worked in the Manchester city centre store of Virgin Records would go onto become an acclaimed musician and record producer. ![]() In our interview above, one of our Editors Thomas Thyssen spoke with Mark about his latest album Mauerstadt, which is the followup to his 2014 release Collaborator (a record which contain the original version of Crystal, that would later go on to be the New Order hit). There is too much to talk about involving Mark’s many adventures in the Music scene-so much so in fact, that a documentary about his life titled B-Movie: Lust and Sound in West Berlin 1979-1989 had to be made. Mark also was part of the group Die Unbekannten, which would later changed it’s name to Shark Vegas, and the band would go on to tour Europe with New Order. Mark also worked as a sound engineer and managed Malaria!, and had Nick Cave stay with him when the Bad Seed moved to Berlin. Leaving Manchester for Berlin back in 1978, he became Factory Records German representative-promoting the label’s bands, such as A Certain Ratio and Joy Division, the latter of which he setup the final gig of their European tour at Kant Kino on January 21st 1980-which went on to be the inspiration for the song Komakino. Mark Reeder is a historic figure in the Post-Punk scene. ![]()
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