Morgan King

Who is Morgan King?

Morgan began his musical career as a drummer in Manchester band Illustration. The group signed to Some Bizarre Records when the song "Tidal Flow" was picked up to feature on the Some Bizarre Album. It was the same album that saw the first tracks by Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, The The and Blancmange. Their song was selected as track 1 on the fish side and they went on to have their second release produced by Martin Hannett at Strawberry Studios. During this period he also worked with Mike Hedges at his Playground Studio.

At the beginning of the house music scene he moved to Chicago to write with Kym Mazelle for her debut album produced by Marshall Jefferson. A few of these songs he used again later when he joined Clubland winning a Grammy for best album with “Adventures Beyond Clubland”. Together they also scored three US Billboard dance no1's with "Let's Get Busy", "Hold On" (Tighter to Love) and "Hypnotized.” In all Clubland produced three albums between 1990-1995. Many of their tracks are still being remixed by a new generation..

He was doing so much material that pseudonyms had to be created as a way of getting it released, to name a few: Sound Source with "Take Me Up”, scoring a UK top 10 when it was sampled in 2000 for Lock n Loads "Blow ya mind.” Obiman "On The Rocks" featuring on the seminal Cafe Del Mar album, plus he co-wrote and produced Jose Padilla's "Agua on the same album. The same year their was a re release of his first solo single from 1990, "I'm Free", appearing on Sasha and Digweed's "Northern Exposure", plus a William Orbit Remix, then in 2008 the Original mix was picked up by Defected for the Cafe Mambo compilation series.

Recently, Morgan decided to put focus back on his music as a direct result of working and touring with Lene Lovich.