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Biography. The term 'legend' is often banded around willy nilly in the dance music realm, but Mr. G, aka Colin McBean, is one of the few who can rightfully lay claim to this accolade. Having been in the game for around 2 decades now, Mr. G is widely considered to be one of the most under-rated artists about - with only true music fans ...
The term 'legend' is often banded around willy nilly in the dance music realm, but Mr. G, aka Colin McBean, is one of the few who can rightfully lay claim to this accolade.
- Entrance
- Inhibition
- Sub Level 3
- Fixated
The whole album is like my perfect eight-level club, somewhere on a dark industrial estate. So the idea is that ‘Entrance’ is level one, you’re approaching the club, you enter the room and all of a sudden that’s when the bass drops. This track’s quite special for me because it’s just hypnotic. A lot of the tracks on the album are quite short. The b...
This track’s all about when you go to a new club, you think, ‘Where’s my spot?’ You might walk around, look at the bar, look at the people, listen to the music, but then one track grabs you and find your place in the club. I love those latin funk drums on this one. That whole latin, shake it, get intensething. Then the bell comes in and for me in t...
This track was a really core point in making the album. I’d been working with the EQs on the mixer the night before and everything was in minus. Instead of boosting the EQ, everything was taking things away. So when I started to write this track and ran the MPC through the board, I didn’t realise. I was quite happy with the sound I had, this sub in...
This one’s when you’re in your spot, you might see a girl or whatever and the music’s just amazing, you’re just stuck. You’re in this place and you can’t get out. I’ve been there many times when I’ve loved something and it’s like, ‘Ah man, I need to go home but this is killing me, it’s so right’. It’s got this really druggy, almost rock type of thi...
Sep 28, 2017 · But last year saw Mr. G, known to the taxman as Colin McBean, have his biggest year yet, taking his high-energy live show around the world as well as hitting the DJ Mag cover to tell all. As adept at turning his hand to the sublime broken beat of ‘One For The Headz’ as he is the emotive deep house of DJ Mag’s best track of 2016, ‘Transient’ – or the muscular tech-house on cuts like ‘Dark Thoughts?
A UK house veteran digs deep.Mr. G‘s name has become synonymous with quality in UK house. The artist born Colin McBean was raised in London (though he now re...
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The infamous Colin McBean, former member of 'The Advent' back in 1996 when their sound was at is optimum, went on to have a successful solo career as 'Mr. G'...
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Jul 23, 2021 · Sequenced carefully, The Forced Force Is Not The True Force is a rewarding, if somewhat morose and sometimes challenging, listen. The Mr. G persona that McBean has cultivated over the past three decades is easy to caricature, mistaking affability for simplicity of sound—this LP is a reminder of the depths of his emotional and sonic range.
