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Joseph Malik has a music career going back to
the early 90ies as a DJ and club promoter and
producer in Scotland. With fellow DJs Sace
and Easi, he organised various club-nights
and parties in Glasgow and Edinburgh, slowly
building a rep as a DJ in the scene. But in
1993 Malik moved to Edinburgh to check out
the International Arts Festival. There he
hooked up with an old friend from back in the
early 80's Hip Hop scene: AJ who had his own
studio and was already producing music for
various rappers and singers. So he was
looking for some fresh beats and ideas for
tracks. The results were amazing and the duo
had their first release under the name of MF'
Outa National on the ground breaking "Mo' Wax
Headz" album Vol. 1 with the track "Miles Out
Of Time". 1994 brought Malik and AJ to the
Stereo Mc's label "Response" home of fellow
DJs Sace and Easi now recording under the
name of NT and Mc Mello with a new production
name "Black Anized", taken from an old Hank
Ballard record. They released a series of
killer EPs and album projects on the Response
label. In 1996 Black Anized set up a home
grown label in Edinburgh called Yush Records.
With a host of musicians and visitors from
around the world to their Bedroom beats
studio's they released various EPs, albums
blending musical vibrations of Hip Hop,
Reggae, Latin, Jazz, R&B, Breaks and Beats,
African Asian Chinese experimental music
styles. In 1997 Malik left Black Anized and
Yush Records to turn his thoughts to the Club
scene with partner Tobey Shippy Salsa
Celtica' and Simon Hodge Big Beat'. They
launched a new club night called "The Lizard
Lounge". Based in an old church run by
hippies and called Cafe Graffiti the club
night was a development in mixing DJs and
live bands from around the world. After three
wonderful years, in which they won Club Of
The Year Award 2 years running, sadly the
club came to an end, because the venue was
sold to a new owner who was not a music
lover. But Malik moved on to a new project
called Futuristica pushing the new wave UK
and euro NuJazz scene with the help of record
collector and DJ Daryl Gannon. The club
gained a grassroots support and brought Malik
into contact with Rainer Trüby, who asked
Malik to sing again after hearing a track he
recorded with Drum & Bass producer Grand
Unifiy "Music Makes Me Feel This Way" on
London Elektricity's Hospital Records "Out
Patients Vol.1". The track Rainer had in mind
was called "High Jazz" and they recorded it
with the rest of the Trüby Trio in Munich at
Fauna Flash studios. While being in Germany,
Malik met with Michael Reinboth, label boss
at Compost Records. Malik signed a new
recording deal for a singer song writer
project that Malik was working on in secret
with studio Maverick producer David Donnelly,
a diverse multi talented musician whose
complex arrangements Malik first heard on
David's Demusphere project on Parallax
Records in Edinburgh. Together their diverse
musical influences focused on Miles Davis,
John Coltrane, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye,
John Lennon, Shuggy Otis, Crosby, Stills,
Nash & Young, Ritchie Havens, Joyce, Terry
Callier, D'Angelo, Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix,
Dr. John, Fela Kuti.
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