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Morgan King Born March 28, 1961 Origin Petticoat Lane, Spitalfields, London Genres House, ambient, electronica Occupations Musician, Writer, Producer/Remixer, Photographer Instruments vocals, drums, percussion, keyboards Years active 1979–present Labels Accidental Music Associated acts Clubland, Manic MC's, Morgan King, Soundsource Website www.accidentalmusic.net Morgan King is a singer, producer and DJ.
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Musical career
Born in Spitalfields, London, Morgan's musical career began in 1979 as drummer for Manchester band Illustration, who were subsequently signed by the indie label, "Some Bizarre". After several years immersed in the UK indie scene, Morgan's musical direction changed considerably with the advent of house music in the late eighties. In 1988 Morgan moved to Chicago and started writing with Kym Mazelle and Marshall Jefferson on Kym's first album, "Crazy", which was released the following year. In 1989 Morgan joined his third band, the Manic MCs who had a UK top thirty hit with their first release, "Mental".
In 1990 Morgan started collaborating with BTech record's Jan Ekholm and dance duo Quartz, working in Sweden on a series of Dance releases under various pseudonyms, including Technoir, Backbeat, Groovement, Bassrace and others. He also formed the successful dance act "Clubland" with Jan (later joined by Zemya Hamilton on vocals), who recorded three main albums, and received three gold discs, a Swedish Grammy, and topped the US Billboard Dance chart three times with "Lets Get Busy", "Hold On (Tighter to Love)" and "Set Me Free" respectively.
In 1991, Morgan partenered with Nick Hook to form Om records in London and the band "Soundsource", who subsequently achieved success with the House / Rap track "Take Me Up", later recycled by "Lock 'N Load" for their 2000 top ten UK hit "Blow Ya Mind". This single was followed up by the 1992 club hit "One High". Again, Morgan started writing and recording with various artists under a variety of pseudonyms with Om including Obiman, Al Hambra, VFN Experience, Om and others. He also recorded a solo record, the Balearic Anthem "I Am Free", which was first released in 1991.
Around 1994/1995, Morgan took a break from the music scene, eventually resurfacing in 2003 to co-write Trybe's "Sarah Said" with Fragma. In 2007 he opened his Accidental Music label so he could make his archive available in the digital realm for the fist time and to collaborate on new dance projects. Also around the same time he became a professional photographer after he was invited to do a one off project in Iran. He is currently working on solo material in a singer/songwriter mode and at the same time doing shoots for various publications worldwide.
Selected discography
With Manic MC's
(King / Cottle / Hudd)
Singles
With Clubland
(King / Ekholm / Hamilton)
Albums
- Themes From Outer Clubland - 1991
- Adventures Beyond Clubland - 1992
- Secrets Of Inner Clubland (Clubland featuring Zemya Hamilton) - 1995
Selected Singles
- Let's Get Busy (Pump It Up) - 1990 US Hot Dance #1 UK #86
- Hold On (Tighter To Love) - 1991 US Billboard "Hot Dance" #1, US #79
- (I'm Under) Love Strain - 1992
- Come Rain Come Shine - US Hot Dance #39 1992
- Hypnotized - 1992 US Hot Dance #1
- Set Me Free - 1992 US Hot Dance #1, US #90
- Peace of Luv - 1995
- Gimme Love, Gimme All - 1995
With Soundsource
(King / Hook)
Singles
- Take Me Up - 1991 FFRR UK #62
- One High - 1992 Om records
With Obiman
(King / Blake)
Single: Rising - Om records 1993
Compilation: On the Rocks - Included on Cafe Del Mar Vol 1 album React Records 1994
With VFN Experience
(Nasty / King)
Single: Vol 1 - Om whites 1994
Morgan King
Singles
- I'm Free (Anniversary Edition) - 2011 Accidental Music
Morgan King / La Serrena
(Morgan King) Singles
- I'm Free - 1991 BTech records
- I Am Free - 1993 Om Records
- I'm Free - 1998 Excession Records
Morgan King & Max Julien
Singles
- Lifetime of Understanding - 2009 Deepsound Records
- Building A Dream - 2011 Accidental Music
Morgan King Vs Charma
Singles
- Justify - 2010 Accidental Music
- Justify (Dirty Rhythm Syndicate Remixes) - 2011 Accidental Music
Morgan King Vs Lyla D'Souza
Singles
- I Want Now - 2010 Accidental Music
Remixes
- Backbeat - Love and Happiness (Gasmatron mix) 1991
- Clubland - Ride the Groove (With Billy Nasty) 1992
- Clubland - Hypnotized (The Soundsource Seduction) 1992
- Alhambra - Sonar Remix (with Nick Hook) 1992
- MDA - Take an E (Roofon remix) (with Nasty / Hodgson) 1992
- Hypernature - Flow "The Morgan King mixes" (King Full Force Effect, Kingdub and Kingdeep mixes)1992
- Elimar - Prosody II (Morgan King Reprise) 2007
- Sami Dee - Da Fly (Morgan King Remix) 2008
- Max Julien feat Yohan Knight - We're the Angels Alive! (Morgan King Remix) 2008
- Marco Zappala feat Claudio Pinhero - Wherever You Go (Morgan King Remix) 2009
- Clubland - Let's Get Busy (Morgan King Remix) 2009
On Compilations
- Trance 3 - 1993 (Morgan King - I Am Free - Soma Mix) Rumour Records
- Cafe Del Mar - Cafe Del Mar Vol 1 - 1994 (Obiman - "On the Rocks", Co-Written and produced Jose Padilla's "Agua") - React Records
- Sound of the Absolute - 1994 (I Am Free - Soma Mix, Soundsource - One High - Bump Mix, Alhambra - Alhambra - Otama Mix, I Am Free - Leftfield Escape From Da Da Mix, Obiman - Rising - Rosi Ryder Mix, Om - Older Brother From the Rock)
- Northern Exposure - Sasha and Digweed - 1996 (I'm Free - The Full Length La Serrena Mix and Playdo's Minimalist Mix) Ministry of Sound / Ultra Records
- Renaissance Worldwide - Singapore 1997 I'm Free (William Orbit Mix) - Renaissance
- Sasha - Global Underground #009: San Francisco" - 1998 (I'm Free - William Orbit Mix) Boxed
- GU Mixed - 2007 Sound Source "One High" - Global Underground
- Cafe Mambo - 2008 "I'm Free" compiled by Andy Cato, - Defected Records
- 90's House - 2010 - Accidental Music
External links
- Accidental Music (Morgan King's Dance Label)
- Morgan King's page at MySpace
- UK Chart Stats
- Billboard Chart Archive
- Clubland US Billboard chart positions (from Allmusic)
- Morgan King discography at Discogs
- Alhambra discography at Discogs
- Backbeat discography at Discogs
- Clubland discography at Discogs
- Control E discography at Discogs
- Manic MC's discography at Discogs
- Obiman discography at Discogs
- Om (artist) discography at Discogs
- Om (label) discography at Discogs
- Technoir discography at Discogs
- VFN experience discography at Discogs
- Deepsound Records
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- Traxsource
- Morgan King Photography
Categories:- 1961 births
- Living people
- English house musicians
- English dance musicians
- People from Spitalfields
- English record producers
- English songwriters
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