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BIOGRAPHY

Mark Rogan - accomplished producer, sound designer and DJ - and integral part of the Northern Irish electronic scene.

Born and raised in North Belfast, Mark was exposed to and instilled with a passion for music from an early age, taking special influence from his father’s record collection, which exposed him to everything from late 60s/70s rock to disco to 80s electronica. Bored by the mainstream output of radio, he quickly launched himself into record buying, a hobby which began at an early age. One of the great turning points for Mark, however, was the teenage discovery of House, Hard Trance, Techno and Hardcore that took off in the nineties.

This feverish consumption of music and dedication to DJing led quite naturally to his first attempts at making beats on an old computer. An ignited passion for making his own productions then saw Mark take music onto college education, gaining distinctions in First Diploma Performing Arts in Music, a National Diploma in Music Technology and a City & Guilds Diploma in Multi-track Recording and Composition.
Armed with this technical knowledge and grounding in music theory, Mark continued to lay down industrial-strength slabs of Techno and began sending out demos. It was not long before he was picked up by small independent label, Hereket, managed by up-and-coming Techno producer, Ilgar Khaligov. This first EP, Boriquas was a bold statement of intent and a warning sign of what was to come in from succeeding releases. Since then he has released on Paul Mac’s Sula Muse Recordings, Chris Cowie’s Bellboy Records, Labrynth Recordings, Triple Recordings, M_Rec Digital, Static Recordings and DSNT Records.
With a theory of producing quality over quantity central to his beliefs, no Mark Rogan production is ever the same. His characteristic wave of other-worldly, off-killer stabs, distorted pads, bolstered by 909, bass-heavy kicks goes some way to describing his signature, uncompromising sound, but in each production there is something new to discover.
After somewhat of a timeout from the scene, much to his frustration, busy with other commitments... things are now on the go again! And, after being over at the ADE in Amsterdam in 2014 to meet with contacts, DJs & promoters… new EPs, remixes, gigs, radio broadcasts, podcasts and the likes are in the pipeline, as he is back producing, remixing and DJ-ing. Along with his own solo productions and remixes in 2015, he is also venturing into collaborations too; one being MDMR (Mark Rogan & David Maguire), which is a side venture started with friend David Maguire.

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TRACKLIST

01) Slam – Resolved (Clouds Remix) / Soma Records
02) Endlec – Darkness Approaches (Original Mix) / Mord
03) Rebekah – Apex (Original Mix) / Elements Records
04) Reeko – Star Phases (Original Mix) / Modularz
05)Sleeparchive – Senza Titolo One (Original Mix) / Mord
06) Subjected – Wute (Original Mix) / Electric Deluxe
07) Terence Fixmer – Beyond (Original Mix) / CLR0
08) Monoloc – Gipson (Original Mix) / Soma Records
09) Luis Flores – Program (Original Mix) / CLR
10) Exium – Unipolar (Original Mix) / Mord
11) Jonas Kopp – Circinus (Original Mix) / Warm Up
12) Slam – Cirklon Bells (Jeroen Search Remix) / Soma Records
13) MDMR (Mark Rogan & David Maguire) – Weesperplein (Original Mix) / White
14) MDMR (Mark Rogan & David Maguire) – Above The Clouds (Original Mix) / White
15) MDMR (Mark Rogan & David Maguire) – Turbulence (Original Mix) / White
16) MDMR (Mark Rogan & David Maguire) – Leidseplein (Original Mix) / White
17) Mark Rogan – Chemical Imbalance (Original Mix) / Labrynth
18) James Ruskin – Nan Nife (Original Mix) / Blueprint Records