SixtySixNorth
Growing up just north of London, SixtySixNorth (aka Mark Edwards) was immer… Read Full Bio ↴Growing up just north of London, SixtySixNorth (aka Mark Edwards) was immersed in music from the start. As he puts it:
"My folks were big jazz and classical lovers, so that was always being played around the house.But I also had two older brothers, so I was listening to punk and stuff like Neil Young from an early age".
Always wanting to make music, Mark picked up the guitar and never put it down. "At first I was playing Hendrix and stuff, but then I started hearing John Martyn and Nick Drake and JJ Cale, and I didn't really look back after that".
Having developed a distinctive style and a deep love of the acoustic sound, the early days of drum and bass opened his eyes to sampling and production techniques as a way to capture the sounds in his head. After moving to Scotland to become a fisherman, Mark found the time to develop his style and take on the influence of his surroundings.
"I was working on the sea all day, and surrounded by mountains and wilderness, and it kind of became part of what I was doing. I'd come home in the evening and work in the studio till one or two at night. Then I'd go out fishing at seven in the morning and develop the ideas all day in my head".
Moving back to London for a career change ('I had this kind of fear of drowning') has lead to a continued progession in the SixtySixNorth sound:
"I'm coming from 70's Latin-Funk soundscapes and the spaced out end of folk, colliding with nineties lofi beatage and deep bass. And country Jazz. Listen to music because of the way it makes you feel rather than the record rack you find it in."
"My folks were big jazz and classical lovers, so that was always being played around the house.But I also had two older brothers, so I was listening to punk and stuff like Neil Young from an early age".
Always wanting to make music, Mark picked up the guitar and never put it down. "At first I was playing Hendrix and stuff, but then I started hearing John Martyn and Nick Drake and JJ Cale, and I didn't really look back after that".
Having developed a distinctive style and a deep love of the acoustic sound, the early days of drum and bass opened his eyes to sampling and production techniques as a way to capture the sounds in his head. After moving to Scotland to become a fisherman, Mark found the time to develop his style and take on the influence of his surroundings.
"I was working on the sea all day, and surrounded by mountains and wilderness, and it kind of became part of what I was doing. I'd come home in the evening and work in the studio till one or two at night. Then I'd go out fishing at seven in the morning and develop the ideas all day in my head".
Moving back to London for a career change ('I had this kind of fear of drowning') has lead to a continued progession in the SixtySixNorth sound:
"I'm coming from 70's Latin-Funk soundscapes and the spaced out end of folk, colliding with nineties lofi beatage and deep bass. And country Jazz. Listen to music because of the way it makes you feel rather than the record rack you find it in."
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