Mark Knight and Victor Calderone

It's safe to say that Mark Knight is something of a prodigy in the world of electronica. At the age of 13 he was making his first forays into DJing, playing a regular slot at The Source, a local joint in his native Maidstone years before he'd ever be able to get in without the aid of fake I.D. Thanks to the success of those slots he was tapped by Ministry of Sound to be one of their residents in 2003, the same year that he and his brother Stuart hunkered down in their parents' tool shed and began work on what would later become Toolroom Records. Over the next decade, Knight and his label became massively respected for their celebrated versions of classic productions, most notably his 2008 version of Laurent Garnier's “Man With The Red Face”.

Thanks to his collaborations with icons like Faithless and Underworld, The Black Eyed Peas contacted him to work on their 2010 record “The END”, which was a multi-platinum hit and netted Knight his first ever Grammy nominations for Album Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. Since then, he has remained one of the electronica world's most in demand producers and remixers, working with everyone from Calvin Harris to Tiesto along the way. He's also responsible for the first breaks of many an up and coming producer thanks to his continued work in Toolroom, and since he's cultivated the kind of career that people would kill for before he's even reached 30 years old, Mark Knight's still got the world at his feet, and his best days ahead of him. Highly recommended.