MC Magika
Quick Facts
Biography
MC Magika, sometimes credited as M•A•G•I•K•A, is a British MC, music producer and rave promoter. He has been regularly featured on the UK breakbeat compilation Dreamscape series, and on the mega-hit dance music compilation Dancemania's Speed sub-series. He is also well known for being the former MC for DJ Carl Cox.
Career
Born in Birmingham, England, he started MCing in around 1989 at a club located in Birmingham. He later met with Carl Cox and performed with the DJ for 5 years during the early 1990s.
His first appearance on the Dreamscape series was on the 1993 issue, Dreamscape 6, where the crews included Slipmatt, Dougal, Dave Angel, LTJ Bukem, Carl Cox and MC Conrad. He appeared on a total of 7 issues of the series, 6, 7, 8, 11, 14, 22, 24, in the 20th century.
In 1999 he made his first Dancemania appearance on the third issue of the Speed series with his track "Flashdance (What A Feeling)". He made a number of appearances on the Speed series and its sub-series albums including Classical Speed in the early 2000s. Many of his tracks on the series were co-recorded with fellow British DJ Kambel.
Discography
Singles
- Flashdance (What a Feeling) (1996)
- Hardhouse Raver (2002) - with Mutant DJ
Albums
- The Old Skool Masters Round 2: Ratpack V Magika Presenting Blackmagic (1998) - with Ratpack
- Candy Raveparty Vol. 1 (2001) - with DJ Horn
- Candy Raveparty Vol. 2 (2002) - with KengKeng
Appearances
Dreamscape
- 6 (1993)
- 7 (1993)
- 8 (1994)
- 10(1994)
- 11 (1994)
- 12 (1994)
- 14 (1994)
- 22 (1996)
- 24 (1997)
Dancemania
- Speed : 3 (1999), 6 (2001), 7 (2001), 8 (2002), 9 (2002), 10 (2002)
- Classical Speed : 1 (2002)
- Speed G : 1 (2003)
- Best of Hardcore (2003)
Others
- Happy Daze (1996)
- Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMIX Original Soundtrack (2000)
- Hardcore Underground (2006)
- X Years of Hellhouse (2009)
- In Full Effect - The Mix Tapes (1995)
- The Payback (1996)
- Capital Punishment (1997)
- Helter Skelter Imagination NYE 1996/1997 (1997)
- Black Magik (1998)
- Helter Skelter 10 Legendary Years Hardcore (2001)
- Banginglobe Anthem (2002)
- Dance Valley 2002 - Hard Dance Edition (2002)
- The Sound of Don Diablo (2002)
- Torture Garden vs. Fallen Angel (2002)
- Hard Kandy - International Series Vol 1 (2004)
- The Legend of Hellhouse #02 (2004)
- X Bass (2004)
- Black Magic - Hard Trance Anthems (2005)
- Blutonium Presents Hardstyle Vol. 5 (2005)
- Hardbass Generation (2005)
- Hardcore Underground (2006)
- Pharmacy Volume 3: Down with the Sickness (2006)
- X Years of Hellhouse (2009)