Born in London in 1981, Marc's affair with music began at a very early age. His fathers love of blues and soul indented onto Marc's psyche, artists like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Pink Floyd  and Aretha Franklin filling the air of his surroundings, shaping his view of music and the way he would later approach his art. To Marc music is therapy, a way to express feeling and emotion relating to whatever is going on in his life at the time. Unable to follow trends and fashions in whichever genre he has been grouped into by other people and with a total disregard for musical "rules", Marc continues to make music that represents him as a person. If you can take the time to understand his approach to music, maybe you'll start to see things differently. Open your mind to the possibility that music doesn’t have to follow a formula or fit into a tightly defined box in order to move you.

This year Marc has released ep’s on Leftroom under his full name MarcAshken and Esperanza and Archipel under his alias Soz Adams.  He also was also recently asked to remix Unkle’s new single ‘Burn my shadow.’

Album Notes

'Have you seen my dancing shoes' is Marc’s debut album on Leftroom.  It is a collection of tracks and skits taken from a period of 6 months where his whole focus was on this project.  There is a mix of house, breakbeat, techno, minimal and downtempo.  All the instruments are played by Marc, all the vocals are sung by Marc, and the engineering and production is all from him.  Take the time to sit back in whatever situation you are in and play the album from start to end as you will each individually find a clear message in its layout.  We hope you get lost in it as much as we have.
Album Due For Release Jan 2008 - Leftroom