The Attorney General
email: info@secretweaponrecords.com
www: www.secretweaponrecords.com/
DJ & Producer Bio:
DJing electronic music since 1996, Quail started out under the name Christian Science. Quail has released loads of mix tapes and CDs of Detroit Techno and House sounds (yes, all of them illegal as murder!!!) and finished as a runner-up in the first annual URB Magazine Mixtape contest in 1999 (the only Canadian to land in the finals). In 2005, another mix CD called Navigator garnered the following review in URB Magazines Jan/Feb issue:
Mark Quail Navigator In case you werent aware, we here at Mix-It are from the Midwest, which means its pretty impossible to impress us with a techno mix. But Holy Hollywood Batman, did this disc take us right back to a sweat and soot soaked warehouse somewhere deep in the rustbelt. Mr. Quail, whos from the once techno hothouse of Toronto, plays crunchy and hard, but not too fast, with just enough elements of melody and acid (oh that acid) to make us wish we were right in front, chewing on the speaker grills. And most impressively, hes done it by digging out records we havent heard a million times. Rarities from Felix the Housecat under his various old acid-house guises mix perfectly with DBX minimalism. We thought you had to go to Berlin (or back in time) to hear this stuff. (by Jack Real)
1999 saw Quail launching Great Lakes Records and releasing material from techno and house luminaries like Imitryx, L.A. Williams, Agent X and Jordan Fields. In 2001, he deployed Secret Weapon Records (www.secretweaponrecords.com) which featured Quails own productions under the aliases The Attorney General, The Diamond Dogs and Samoan Attorney, and remixes from L.A. Williams and Jacob Fairley and co-productions with Himadri, formerly of Teste (+8, Probe).
Quail continues to unearth more sonic secret weapons for his label and 2006 will see new tracks from Polands Greg Kobe and Chriss Zimmer and Germanys Sascha Muller. Check out http://www.beatport.com/Secret_Weapon_Records to get high-quality digital downloads.
Quail has DJd throughout Canada and the US, including on the bills with John Acquaviva, The Stickmen, Agent X (planet e), DBX (Accelerate), Mike Grant (Moods & Grooves) and Greg Gow (Restructured).
Discography (the legal ones!):
Artist Name Title Label
1. Samoan Attorney We Were Somewhere Around Barstow Secret Weapon 001 12
2. The Diamond Dogs The Conception EP Secret Weapon 002 12(with Himadri)
3. The Attorney General The Great Lakes Sound EP Secret Weapon 003 12
4. Mark Quail 4 AM (on Heavy Hitters 2 compilation) Chisel/DJ Sets (Germany) CD
5. The Attorney General Where It Began (on Great Lakes Sound comp.) Third Ear (UK) CD (March 2006)
