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Nik Weston
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Years active
1994-present
Origin
United Kingdom
Role
Musical Artist
Name
Nik Weston
Website
Mukatsuku Facebook
Labels
Mukatsuku Records
Occupation(s)
DJ, record label owner, promoter
Genres
Jazz, Soul jazz, Dance music
Associated acts
Jazztronik, Opensouls, The Tornadoes
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Guynamukat, Root Soul, Patrick Forge, Wganda Kenya, The Diddys featuring Paige Do
Ondeno - Mayolye (Nik Weston Official Mukatsuku Edit) [Rocafort Records]
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.
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'.
He started the label Mukatsuku Records in 2006 after DJing as part of the Mukatsuku Crew since 1997. Weston started up a promotional company called Mukatsuku PR in 2001, doing consulting and promotion for labels such as Verve Records, Impulse, Sonar Kollektiv, Schema Records, and Ricky Tick amongst others.
As a DJ, he's played over 30 countries and supported Gilles Peterson, Jazzanova, and others. Since 2001 Weston has put out over 100 releases on various labels in the US, Europe and Japan, and 52 releases on his own Mukatsuku Records.
DJ mixes
The following releases Weston compiled and/or did the DJ mix as a presenter, sometimes also handling A&R.
