MC Magika, sometimes credited as M•A•G•I•K•A, is a British

United Kingdom

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 MC, music producer and rave

Rave

Rave, rave dance, and rave party are parties that originated mostly from acid house parties, which featured fast-paced electronic music and light shows. At these parties people dance and socialize to dance music played by disc jockeys and occasionally live performers...

 promoter. He has been regularly featured on the UK breakbeat

Breakbeat

In 1992, a new style called "jungalistic hardcore" emerged, and for many ravers it was too funky to dance to. Josh Lawford of Ravescene prophesied that the breakbeat was "the death-knell of rave" because the ever changing drumbeat patterns of breakbeat music didn't allow for the same zoned out,...

 compilation

Compilation album

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 Dreamscape series, and on the mega-hit dance music

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

 compilation Dancemania

Dancemania

Dancemania is a series of remix compilation albums by i-DANCE. The series deals primarily with dance music, especially eurodance. Despite its tracks have been made by various musicians from all over the world mainly from the European continent, the albums have been released exclusively in Japan.The...

's Speed

Dancemania Speed

Dancemania Speed is a sub-series of Toshiba EMI's Dancemania compilation series. This series features faster, further remixed versions of recordings from previously released Dancemania albums or faster remixed covers of various famous songs...

sub-series. He is also well-known for being the former MC for DJ Carl Cox

Carl Cox

Carl Cox is a British techno and house music DJ.-Biography:Cox grew up in Oldham, Lancashire, before attending Glastonbury High Boys secondary modern school on Glastonbury Road in Morden. Cox began his career as a hardcore and rave DJ in the mid 1980s...

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Career

Born in Birmingham

Birmingham

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, England

England

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, he started MCing in around 1989 at a club located in Birmingham. He later met with Carl Cox

Carl Cox

Carl Cox is a British techno and house music DJ.-Biography:Cox grew up in Oldham, Lancashire, before attending Glastonbury High Boys secondary modern school on Glastonbury Road in Morden. Cox began his career as a hardcore and rave DJ in the mid 1980s...

 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

Slipmatt

Slipmatt is an English happy hardcore producer and DJ based in Essex, England. He was one half of rave act SL2, who had a 1992 UK hit with "On A Ragga Tip".-History:...

, Dougal

DJ Dougal

DJ Dougal is a British UK Hardcore and happy hardcore artist and DJ.He first became involved with the dance music scene at the age of 15, while setting up sound systems for some of the first acid house parties, as part of work experience assignment to a music shop.His style is a mix of euphoric...

, Dave Angel

Dave Angel

David Angelico Nicholas Gooden , better known as Dave Angel, is an English techno musician.-Early years:Angel was born in Chelsea, London in 1966. He is the son of a London-based jazz musician, and the elder brother of rapper Monie Love...

, LTJ Bukem

LTJ Bukem

LTJ Bukem is the stage name used by the drum and bass musician, producer and DJ Danny Williamson . He and his record labels Good Looking and Looking Good Records are most associated with the jazzy, atmospheric side of drum and bass music....

, Carl Cox

Carl Cox

Carl Cox is a British techno and house music DJ.-Biography:Cox grew up in Oldham, Lancashire, before attending Glastonbury High Boys secondary modern school on Glastonbury Road in Morden. Cox began his career as a hardcore and rave DJ in the mid 1980s...

 and MC Conrad

MC Conrad

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. 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

Dancemania

Dancemania is a series of remix compilation albums by i-DANCE. The series deals primarily with dance music, especially eurodance. Despite its tracks have been made by various musicians from all over the world mainly from the European continent, the albums have been released exclusively in Japan.The...

appearance on the third issue of the Speed

Dancemania Speed

Dancemania Speed is a sub-series of Toshiba EMI's Dancemania compilation series. This series features faster, further remixed versions of recordings from previously released Dancemania albums or faster remixed covers of various famous songs...

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

Classical Speed

Classical Speed is a sub-series of the Dancemania Speed compilation series, with uptempo dance remixes of famous classical music compositions.-History:...

in the early 2000s. Many of his tracks on the series were co-recorded with fellow British DJ Kambel

DJ Kambel

Kurtis Campbell, better known as DJ Kambel, is a British electronic music DJ. While DJing in the UK happy hardcore scene, he composed many works for the mega-hit compilation Dancemanias Speed series, which made him one of the most frequently appearing artists on the series along with the likes of...

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Singles

• Flashdance (What a Feeling) (1996)
• Hardhouse Raver (2002) - with Mutant DJ
  Yoji
  -Possible writings:Yōji can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:*洋二, "ocean, second"*洋次, "ocean, next"*洋司, "ocean, rule"*洋治, "ocean, govern"*陽二, "sunshine, second"*陽次, "sunshine, next"*陽司, "sunshine, rule"*陽治, "sunshine, govern"...
  
  

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

Dreamscape

• 6 (1993)
• 7 (1993)
• 8 (1994)
• 10(1994)
• 11 (1994)
• 14 (1994)
• 22 (1996)
• 24 (1997)

Dancemania

• Speed
  Dancemania Speed
  Dancemania Speed is a sub-series of Toshiba EMI's Dancemania compilation series. This series features faster, further remixed versions of recordings from previously released Dancemania albums or faster remixed covers of various famous songs...
  
  : 3 (1999), 6 (2001), 7 (2001), 8 (2002), 9 (2002), 10 (2002)

Classical Speed

Classical Speed

Classical Speed is a sub-series of the Dancemania Speed compilation series, with uptempo dance remixes of famous classical music compositions.-History:...

: 1 (2002)

Speed G : 1 (2003)

Best of Hardcore

Best of Hardcore

Dancemania Speed Presents : Best of Hardcore, or simply Best of Hardcore, is a compilation album of Dancemanias Speed sub-series, released by Toshiba EMI in the early 2003....

(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)