Mark Quail
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- Mark Quail is techno producer, DJ and record label manager from Toronto, Canada.After a come-to-Jesus moment hearing Ken Collier knock out a night of house music through an amazing sound system in a Detroit club in the 1990s, this former punk rock guitarist and music critic jumped into electronic music and never looked back. That initial inspiration from Detroit has always informed his tastes in underground electronic music and that feeling still shows up in his productions today: the raw, hypnotic vibe of the underground warehouse party scene in all its permutations, whether that be the abandoned buildings in his hometown or the dark, loud clubs of Berlin. His search continues for those transcendent moments amongst the strobe-lights and the well-tuned sound systems. Starting as a DJ in 1996 under the name “Christian Science” and releasing loads of mix tapes and CDs of techno and house sounds that got rinsed in a caravan of cars as fans plied their way down the 401, I75 and I94 highways on their way to warehouse raves all around the North American Midwest. His mix “Tale of Two Cities” actually finished as a runner-up in the first annual URB Magazine Mixtape contest in 1999 (the only Canadian to land in the finals). While DJing in Toronto clubs like System Soundbar, Turbo, and CiRCA, Mark operated several underground record labels. Starting with Great Lakes Records in 1999 he released material from techno and house luminaries like Imitryx, Mike “Agent X” Clark and Jordan Fields. In 2001 he launched Secret Weapon Records that featured his own productions under the aliases The Attorney General, The Diamond Dogs and Samoan Attorney, and remixes from L.A. Williams and Jacob Fairley and co-productions with Himadri, formerly of Teste (+8, Probe). 56 releases later, Secret Weapon amassed a terrific set of releases that define the techno and tech-house genre. Mark has also played the role of A&R person in assembling compilations for various labels including “The Great Lakes Sound” for Third Ear Records (UK/Japan) that featured the cream of Chicago’s, Detroit’s and the Toronto area’s mid-2000s wave of techno gurus. That led to Mark, working under his “Attorney General” alias, compiling and mixing the “Definitive Techno Compilation Served by The Attorney General”, which was the first in a series of well-received mix compilations on Definitive Recordings. When not working on tracks, Mark handles legal and business affairs for many of the top artists in the electronic music world. That understanding of the studio and music contracts makes him the “secret weapon” for his clients. With a renewed focus on production, Mark continues to explore the interaction of electronic frequencies to find the elevated calm within the tumult of the beats.̸“We Were Somewhere Around Barstow” (under the name “Samoan Attorney”) (12”) (Secret Weapon Records 2001) “The Conception EP” (with Himadri under the name “The Diamond Dogs”) (12”) (Secret Weapon Records 2002) “The Great Lakes Sound EP” (under the name “The Attorney General”) (12”) (Secret Weapon Records 2003) “4 AM” (on Heavy Hitters 2 compilation) (Chisel/DJ Sets - Germany 2004) “Where It Began” (under the name “The Attorney General”) Third Ear (UK & Japan 2006) “Frostbite” (Secret Weapon Records 2006) “Pacific Time” (Deep Tip Records 2007) “426 Hemi EP” (Black Nation Records 2014) “Solar Inception” (Frequenza Records 2016) “The Time is Now EP” (Black Nation Records 2016) "Double Black Diamond" (Dumb Unit 2021)
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