Mark B is just one of the excellent DJ/producers on Jazz Fudge Recordings, the label most closely associated with Britain-by-way-of-Russia's DJ Vadim. Compared to the usual run of scratch-happy turntablists in underground rap, Mark's much more reliant on drum-machine dinosaurs and samplers. He began recording for Jazz Fudge in 1995, and produced a couple of tracks for Vadim's 1996 debut U.S.S.R. Repertoire (The Theory of Verticality). Mark B released his own first album, Underworld Connection, the following year and collaborated with rapper Blade for 1998's excellent Hitmen fo...