Nik Weston

Nik Weston
Origin United Kingdom
Genres Jazz, soul jazz, dance music
Occupation(s) DJ, record label owner, promoter
Years active 1994-present
Labels Mukatsuku Records
Associated acts Jazztronik, Opensouls, The Tornadoes
Website Mukatsuku Facebook

Nik Weston is a DJ, music producer, record label owner of Mukatsuku Records and music buyer for Juno Records. Based out of London, UK, he was from the late 1990s to 2007 a key player in the promotion and distribution of Japanese recording artists and their releases outside of the country, as part of the late 1990s into 2000s revival in the jazz dance, soul-jazz and electronic Japanese music scene. He is a keen advocate of the vinyl record format.

Career

Nik Weston first entered the London dance music scene in 1994, when he started the club night Phony. He and two other friends then started a club night in Soho called Mukatsuku in 1997. It ran for 2 years from 1997 - 1999 upstairs at two floor room Club in London China Town called The Clinic, and was nominated by London Evening Standard Newspaper as 'club night of the year'.[1]

He started the label Mukatsuku Records in 2006 after DJing as part of the Mukatsuku Crew since 1997.[2] Weston started up a promotional company called Mukatsuku PR in 2001,[1] doing consulting and promotion for labels such as Verve Records, Impulse, Sonar Kollektiv, Schema Records, and Ricky Tick amongst others.[2]

As a DJ, he's played over 30 countries and supported Gilles Peterson, Jazzanova, and others.[2] Since 2001 Weston has put out over 100 releases on various labels in the US, Europe and Japan,[2] and over 34 releases on his own Mukatsuku Records.

Discography

Production credits

Partial production credits for Nik Weston
Yr Release title Artist(s) Label Role
2001 Inner Flight Jazztronik Counterpoint Records A&R
2002 Moshi Moshi - Nu Sounds From Japan Various Fuego Records compiler
Music & Movement One Various Climate Records compiler
2003 Take Me Aosis - A Nite Out In London Various Aosis Records compiler
Light Years Calm Lastrum translation
2004 Habit Butti 49 Exceptional Records liner notes
2006 "Even Though / What You Do" Paul Mac Innes and T.B.O.I. Mukatsuku Records A&R
2007 The Opensouls EP Opensouls, The Tornadoes, Tyra Hammond Mukatsuku Records A&R

DJ mixes

The following releases Weston compiled and/or did the DJ mix as a presenter, sometimes also handling A&R.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Isaac, Pete (February 2011). "Interview with Nik Weston". JellyJazz. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Nik Weston Interview- Podcast". The Jazz Meet. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  3. ↑ Nik Weston Discography at Discogs
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