"Darc Mind"
"Darc Mind"
Lewis Parker is a British hip-hop producer born in London of Barbadian Creole descent, who lived in Canterbury, Kent. As a teenager, Parker released an EP, B Boy Antiks, and a 12" single, Rise/Visions Of Splendour, through Bite It!, a London-based recording label. He signed an album deal with Virgin imprint Melankolic who released his first LP, Masquerades & Silhouettes, in 1998, before he went on to produce a number of hip hop records. Lewis Parker has also been credited for his work with Ghostface Killah on the Fishscale and More Fish albums. In 2010, he released a critically acclaimed album with american MC John Robinson called "International Summers".
Aliases:
Parker often uses aliases, such as:
the original cloudstepper
L.P
the man with the golden sound
Jedi master parker
the deadliest man with an sp
the deadliest man with three sp's
Dusty Vinyl
Kid Soul
Discography:
Albums
Masquerades & Silhouettes (The Ancients Series One) (LP) (Melankolic/EMI)(release: 1998)
It's All Happening Now (The Ancients Series Three) (2xLP) (Melankolic/EMI)(release: 2002)
Home Grown Hip Hop (LP) (Cavendish Music)(release: 2002)
Put A Beat 2 a Rhime (LP) (The World Of Dusty Vinyl)(release: 2004)
Mixtape Volume One (Release 2007)(The World Of Dusty Vinyl)
THE PUZZLE episode one THE BIG GAME (2009) (The World Of Dusty Vinyl)
International Summers (Lewis Parker & John Robinson) (2010) (Project Mooncircle/HHV)
EPs
B-Boy Antiks EP (12") (Bite It! Recordings)
The Options EP (12") (Melankolic/EMI)
it's all happening now (12") (Melankolic/Virgin/EMI)
Easter Island (12") (Melankolic/EMI)
Singles
Wonderwall (7") (White label)
B-Boy Antiks (12") (White label)
Rise/Visions Of Splendour (12") (Bite It! Recordings)
101 Pianos (Test Press) (12") (The World of Dusty Vinyl)
Shadows Of Autumn/101 Piano's (12") (Melankolic)*101 Pianos (12") (The World of Dusty Vinyl)
Incognito/At Large With A-Cyde (12") (Melankolic)
Incognito/At Large With A-Cyde (Promo) (12") (Melankolic)
It's All Happening Now (Promo) (12") (Melankolic)
Blood F/T Lost Souljah/Mr Parker's Siesta (12") (The World Of Dusty Vinyl)
High Stakes (12") (SFDB)
The Big Idea (12") (Canteen)
international HEAT(12") (The World Of Dusty Vinyl)
Appears on:
V/A Operation Overlord - Track: Visions Of Splendour (CD/Cass/Vinyl) - Label: Coke Star Produktions/EMI - Release: 1997