Mark Holmes

Mark's has been a vinyl junkie from since the age of 15. Inspired by the British rave scene in 1990, he spent the years spinning early breakbeat and harder edged house music at small clubs and parties in and around the North East of the UK.
He now plays regularly across the UK, and has recently been portraying his 'sound' on the deck's in various clubs through Europe and the US.

He has had various guest mixes on Steve Parry's Juice FM Show, Todd Richman's Eccentric Beats Show and up & coming on the Belgium Station LazerHotHits have given him th

e opportunity to push his innovative sound to an even wider audience.
With influences that range from Sasha and Digweed, Sander Kleinenberg and Deep Dish to Meat Katie and Hybrid and the technical skills of Max Graham, he has developed a unique style based around a diverse selection of tracks from deep progressive through tribal beats into some dirty breakbeat.

Mark has not been involved with Nascent for that long, but he is now an asset that could not be taken away. Marks role within Nascent is one of Artist & Repertoire. Mark has a pretty much final say to a lot of the remixes and signings to Nascent along side Neil they go through countless demos a week to choose where to take the label next.
With forthcoming dates in the US, Belgium, Israel and Turkey, as well as a number of dates in the UK, Mark Holmes is defo one to look out for!

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Paul Lancaster

Born and raised in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, 27yr old DJ and producer Paul Lancaster was first introduced to the sounds of acid house and techno by local pirate radio station Wear FM in the early 90s.

Inspired by the DJ mix tapes of Carl Cox that he heard at school, Paul quickly embraced the local underground rave scene and began honing his own mixing skills with the techno and breakbeat he discovered at Bass Generator Records and the deep house grooves of Trax (now Flying Records) in Newcastle.

Following a move to Leeds, Paul drew further influence from the diverse mixture of funky vocal house and US garage at club nights such as Up Yer Ronson, Back 2 Basics and Hard Times along with the techno and breakbeat of the Orbit and Warehouse. After a short spell DJing for fashion shows and promoting his own club nights in Leeds, Paul returned to Newcastle with a new found confidence as a DJ and a burning desire to break through as a producer.

Over the next few years Paul took his first tentative steps towards production, remixing a number of house classics for his own DJ use and his first full production in the form of debut single 'Bad Girl' that was quickly signed to local house label Climax Recordings in Newcastle.

Paul then began working as A&R scout, DJ and producer for Climax Recordings in Newcastle with a number of his productions and remixes signed to the label including 'The Gringo Trail' by Julio G. Soon after, 'Don't Stop Burning' was signed by Cass to his Sabotage Systems label and included on his compilation album '8' and more recently 'Night Vision' was released in September 2003 as the first single on the awesome new label CP Recordings.

In 2004, Paul has already remixed 'We Feel' by Blue Haze for the Confi-Dance label and 'Leathersex' by the Thrill Kill Kult for Red Ant in the US which will also be featured on a new TKK remix album later this year. Many more productions and remixes are set to follow throughout the year.

2003 was an incredible year for Paul with headline gigs in London, Rome, Malta, South Korea and Sacramento and the start of his own club night Fragile in Newcastle. With an eclectic mix of musical styles, Paul's productions and remixes have found strong support with some of the world's best DJs whilst his own reputation as an accomplished DJ mixing the very best in house, progressive, tech-house and breaks continues to grow far and wide.