Morgan King

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Morgan King is a musician, writer, producer and DJ who was born on 28th March, 1961 in London. His 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, working with Kym Mazelle and Marshall Jefferson on Kym's first album, "Crazy" (1989). Later in the same year Morgan joined his third band, the Manic MCs who had UK top thity hit with 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 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 acheived 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, Bassrace, MDA, Om and others. He also recorded a solo record, the Balearic Anthem "I Am Free", which was first released in 1991.

Post 1994, Morgan took a break from the music scene, eventually resurfacing in 2003 to work with Fragma on a remix for Trybe's "Sarah Said". He is currently working on his new dance label "Accidental Music" and writing / recording a solo album.

1 Selected Discography
2 External Links / Sources

[edit] Selected Discography

[edit] With Illustration

Compilation: Some Bizarre Album (Tidal Flow) - 1981 Some Bizarre records.

[edit] With Manic MC's

(King / Cottle / Hudd)

Singles

Mental - 1989 RCA UK #30
The Beat - 1990 MCA

[edit] With Clubland

(King / Eckholm / 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
Hold On (Tighter To Love) - 1991
(I'm Under) Love Strain - 1992
Come Rain Come Shine - 1992
Hypnotized - 1992
Set Me Free - 1992
Peace of Luv - 1995
Gimme Love, Gimme All - 1995

[edit] With Soundsource

(King / Hook)

Singles

Take Me Up - 1991 FFRR
One High - 1992 Om records

[edit] With Obiman

(King / Blake)

Single: Rising - Om records 1993

Compilation: On the Rocks - Included on Cafe Del Mar Vol 1 album React Records 1994

[edit] VFN Experience

(Nasty / King)

Single: Vol 1 - Om whites 1994

[edit] Morgan King / La Serrena

Single

I'm Free - 1991 BTech records

Remixes

Clubland - Ride the Groove 1992

On Compilations

Cafe Del Mar - Cafe Del Mar Vol 1 - 1994 (Obiman - "On the Rocks") React Records
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
Sasha - Global Underground #009: San Francisco" - 1998 (I'm Free - William Orbit Mix) Boxed