Prolific Recordings

MJ Cole

After a classical training at The Royal College of Music, MJ Cole’s career began with a job as tape op with drum’n’bass label SOUR. After slogging his way up to the position of engineer, he fell in love with the UK garage sound in the middle of 1996 while working on Ramsey & Fen’s Garage remixes for Kym Mazelle.

After an intense bidding war, Cole’s first solo manoeuvre, the classic ‘Sincere’ finally found root with AM:PM and became one of the first garage records to crack the UK’s Top 40. Two years after the single’s success he signed to Gilles Peterson’s label Talkin’ Loud and released ‘Sincere’ the album. This earned him significant notoriety spawning two Top 15 singles, a prestigious Mercury Music Prize nomination, MOBO's best procucer award and a silver disc for UK sales in excess of 60,000 copies. That album also established MJ Cole internationally as an in demand DJ and remixer. He has remixed everyone from Jill Scott and Mariah Carey to De La Soul and AMy Winehouse.

Whilst his work from the Talking Loud era is more familiar to most, MJ Cole's in demand more as a DJ now than ever before, appearing regularly at Dubstep, Garage, House, Funky and Bassline parties. He's also DJing at a handful of festivals over the summer including Glastonbury and The Big Chill. The records he's making and playing are reflective of this variety of current influences, representing both where he's come from and where that fits with new underground music. Having recently remixed Dan Black and with a stream of new dance-floor singles to come on his own Prolific label over the next 6 months, 2009 looks to be an exciting year for MJ Cole and for his label, Prolific Recordings.