Paul Van Dyk championed Mark?s very first release Atlantic, playing it on all sides of the globe, in two of his Essential Mixes and placing it in his Mixmag Chart. He has quietly been building up an arsenal of productions and remixes that are being snapped up and supported by the worlds finest DJs.
The likes of Armin, Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, and Judge Jules, are already noting that Mark Etesons DJ skills are superb, so his new Godskitchen residency is something to savour.īut it?s not just when he?s behind the decks that Mark is getting euphoric reactions from audiences. With Godskitchen announcing Mark as their new resident back in March 2006, after he had consistently played stunning warm-up sets and final sets for them throughout the past year, it?s a sign that this young mans talent is too great to be ignored.
So it was almost inevitable that the diverse and eclectic mixture of music Mark grew up with manifested into a love of electronic music at the end of the 1990?s. His father, Bill Eteson, is a musician and has been in a number of bands as well as having released 3 albums. Mark Eteson has been brought up on music. When someone with such ferocious musical talent (both behind the decks and in the studio), complete and utter enthusiasm and dedication to his art and a happy go lucky likeable personality comes along, you just know something very special is about to happen. Fans of hardcore trance and dance music and people who respected the name of Darren Styles from his remixing and production work absolutely lapped this album up, sending it to number four in its first week on the charts and keeping it bubbling inside the Top Ten for several weeks - but perhaps two hours is a little on the long side for a hardcore/techno/Euro-beat album.Mark Eteson is carving his own chunk out of the global dance scene. He produced all 30 of the tracks, wrote all but one, and even lent his vocals to 13 of them, receiving helping hands in the vocal department from a number of singers including Francis Hill, Lisa Abbott, Mike DiScala from Ultrabeat, Justine Riddock, Karen Danzig, and Rebecca Rudd. One could certainly not accuse Styles of scrimping on the sheer amount of music on the double album: nearly two hours and 30 tracks split onto two discs, one labeled Hardcore and the other labeled Commercial, with only two of the tracks presented in two different mixes, "Save Me" and the title track, "Skydivin'." Longtime collaborator Mark Breeze was present, assisting with the writing of several tracks, but this was mainly a Darren Styles solo effort to the greatest extent possible. There was the driving, pumping beat of hardcore dance albums and Euro-beat pop albums such as Scooter's Jumping All Over the World and Ultrabeat's self-titled album, and even a track such as "Come Running," for which the first minute was an acoustic, slower (certainly not slow) number, broke into a pulsating synth-beat style for the rest of the track.
Styles, known as a record producer, songwriter, and remixer, had not previously attempted to record anything under his own name, and right from the start of track one, "Flashlight," one could hear the influences of many artists who had benefited from his expertise in the past. Taking a break from remixing compilation albums featuring other artists' material, Essex hardcore DJ Darren Styles released his debut solo album, Skydivin', in the summer of 2008.
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