For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

Mark is a Glasgow-based musician and software engineer, as well as the a co-founder of Grey Matter and the Crate Coalition. Previously he headed up software engineering for an international financial services company, but music is his first passion. For the past five years, he’s been running two music labels (Future Archive Recordings and {int}erpret null), touring on and off as a musician and working as a recording engineer.

Crate Coalition Manifesto: bit.ly/46HKDCL

MUSIC MENTIONS

Background: (:40)

• Labels:
• Future Archive Recordings
• {int}erpret null
• Companies / People:
• Grey Matter
• Crate Coalition
• MacEagon Voyce

Label Origins and Types of Music (2:20)

• Future Archives: Chris Richards + Mirza Ramic
• Electronic, Instrumental Hip hop, Ambient, Indie-Electronic
• {int}erpret Null
• modern classical, ambient
• Mirza Ramic

Music Making Pursuits: (5:30)

• Arms and Sleepers (guitar and keys)

Most under-appreciated group during favorite musical era (8:42)

• 2000’s
• Menomena (3-piece from Portland)
• I am the Fun Blame Monster (Album)
• Music Blogs: Headphone Commute, Coat Machine Glow, HypeMachine, Last.FM Forums, Juan’s Basement Live (Pitchfork)
• Magazine: The Quietus, Drowned in Sound

Desert Island Discs (19:35)

• Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (album)
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Song)
• Joanna Newsom - Ys
• Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
• Black Metal (genre)
• Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
• Chicago (song)