Burial discloses a reason for his distinctive use of wordless vocal samples – he can't get a proper singer – and the interviewer and interviewee find common ground on the ghost stories of MR James. The following year, Mark conducted a rare in-person interview with the elusive South London producer, who is part of the roster of Hyperdub, the label run by Steve Goodman, Mark's associate from the days of the Ccru.

”I figure, well, hopefully the people will still have some honour, and honour my wish not to be seen in front of my music.”īurial's self-titled debut album was voted The Wire's top release of 2006 in the magazine's annual Rewind poll. “People need a face all the time and for many years I don’t give them a face, but now – internet, cellphone – people take pictures of me, the shit’s all over the internet.' he explains in the interview. Mad Mike insisted on remaining masked for the feature’s photographs. 'My innate paranoia intensified by sleep deprivation, I had begun to imagine that I was being subjected to a programme of UR psychological warfare.' When he eventually sits down with UR’s Mad Mike, he finds an interviewee full of warmth and ideas, talking widely about Marvel comics, progressive rock and playing organ in his local church. 'Securing the interview was a gruelling trial of faith, involving missed emails, late night phone calls, postponements and a rearranged travel itinerary,' he writes. Mark's first feature for the magazine was a rare in-person interview with Detroit techno collective Underground Resistance, whom he met in the Netherlands. The Underground Resistance collective in The Hague, September 2007: (from left) Ray 7, DJ Skurge, De’Sean Jones, William Pope (just seen), Atlantis, Esteban Adame, Stevie Bee, Juan Atkins, Mark Taylor (just seen), John Nance.

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