Kormac

It's been quite the few months for producer, DJ and band-leader Kormac. Of late he has brought his 11-piece live show to Electric Picnic's main stage, rocked festival after festival over what was a completly booked-up summer, picked up another DJ residency in Liverpool, recieved numerous press accolades and confirmed live and DJ shows in Africa, Austria, Switzerland, France, the Ukraine and England all before the end of 2008.

Kormac's debut solo release (The Scratch Marchin' EP) was released worldwide in 2007 and sold out 2 re-presses having received support from established DJs and stations including Bonobo (Ninja Tunes) DJ Craze, Joe Ransom (Kiss FM, London) DJ Food, Crazy P and a host of others. DJ Yoda is currently giving kormac's track a lot of plays during his sets and included kormac's material on his BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix. Tracks from the record and a recent DJ mix also featured on the highly respected Ninja Tune Solid Steel radio show . The EP picked up plays in clubs and on the air the world over while the video for Rainstorm also picked up a lot of plays on TV stations all over Europe

His Good Lord EP was released in March 08 and fuses much sampling of 20/30/40s gospel music with live trumpet, scratching, banjo and a barbershop quartet. It has already picked up plays in clubs all over the world and on Kiss FM and BBC Radio 1. Alongside a hectic DJ and performance schedule, Kormac is currently working on his debut album and remix productions.

His music also takes the form of a live show featuring - alongside Kormac on turntables and keys/samplers - double bass, a barbershop quartet, trumpet , claranet, banjo, drums and a VJ. The band have played alongside DJ Numark (Jurassic 5,) DJ Food (Ninja Tunes,) DJ Craze (USA,) DJ Premiere (Gangstar,) Nas, The Herbaliser Band and Lupe Fiasco.

Kormac began his DJing career presenting and producing his own hip hop/drum and bass show on the now defunct Radio Caroline at the tender age of 17. As he started to hone his style he moved on to larger pirates like Power FM and eventually started to get some gigs in clubs playing scratched up, dance-floor sets. Since then he has played in almost every established venue nationwide at one point or another and has played support to many international acts including DJ Hype, DJ Yoda, Fabio, The Scratch Perverts, Grandmaster Flash, Goldie, DJ Storm, DJ Numark (Jurassic 5) DJ Craze, Doc Scott, Asian Dub Foundation and countless others.

Kormac's DJ sets are no longer purely drum n' bass affairs and now incorporates many different styles of music all assembled in a cut n' paste fashion. He uses Serato Scratch live and also designed his own "live sampling" turntable-controlled program . Kormac is a resident at Scribble. He plays regularly around the country and Europe.

He has recently completed 2 film soundtracks, both aired on Irish and UK TV. Forthcoming in 2009 , he's 2 EPs and an album on Scribble Records , plus a new DJ residnecy and radio project . Watch this space ...