Over the past ten years most of you know that I’ve been writing electronic music on the site for fun and well… bus fare. I also run the largest and longest running community dedicated to Christians who love electronic dance music and four years ago I started to DJ, host a monthly podcast and run the club stage at the Cornerstone Music Festival. I’ve been pretty busy. Needless to say, there’s always been something driving me to do a bit more.
In 2005, Joseph Mercado of Next Dimension Music told me that I needed to start a label. I blew the idea off for the next 4 years. During this time, I met Kevin Oneel of Boost FM and we forged a deep, like-minded friendship and actually have been partners in running the stage at Cornerstone now for three years. He and I had kicked around the idea before, but for some reason we got more serious about it this past April. June came and we talked a bit more about it at Cornerstone and I literally dropped the idea and ran scared afterwards. In came Chris Reiche a few months later with some really good tracks that didn’t really fit with any label he was looking at. Being honest with myself, I had the same issue. The two of us ran back as fast as we could to Kevin and mk837 was born.
So… mk837, what is it? First, it’s pronounced Mark 8 37. I’m sure most of you are going to look that up right away. We’re going to do our best to provide fans and DJs with top quality music. Generic I know. More specifically, we’re going to release a combination of house and breaks along the tech, tribal and progressive lines.
To celebrate our launch, we’re offering up an EP of Kevin Oneel’s for free. You can check it out on bandcamp. We’ll have more on our release schedule, artists and what not in the coming weeks. For now though, feel free to visit www.mk837.com or become a fan on facebook.
Thanks so much for your support and encouragement over the years.
Dave R