Motor City Drum Ensemble

The past 3 months or so I have become enamored with Motor City Drum Ensemble (MCDE).  I cannot even describe how his amazingness.  In my little microcosm, he has provided a major jump start to my renewed passion for dance music.  Here is some details on him and a really cool mix he put up on RBMA:

 RBMA Radio - MCDE (MCDE, Four Roses, Germany) - Train Wreck Mix

Danilo Plessow started playing drums at the tender age of six and discovered his love for jazz in the school big band. From eleven, he started working on his own original productions using samples and a computer. Influenced by jazz, soul, funk, hip hop and house, the first complete results were released on Stuttgart's Pulver Records five years later. Together with Joachim Tobias, Danilo had formed the house and broken beat project Inverse Cinematics. A manifold of releases followed and the project gathered fans in the form of Gilles Peterson, Rainer Truby and Benji B. Not before long however, Danilo revisited his house music roots and started making music under the moniker Motor City Drum Ensemble. MCDE soon became his best known and his Raw Cuts series released on his own label MCDE (run with Pablo Valentino), made him a shooting star in the deep house scene. Danilo has released on no less than twenty-four labels in his twenty-four years. He has evidently been busy. Not too busy however to record us a mix. Keep an eye on this one (if you can keep up), he's a legend in the making.