12 Facts About Mark Summers

Mark Summers is the English CEO, sound engineer and music producer of Scorccio, a music production company founded in the UK in 1996.

Mark Summers's productions have been featured on hits for Nicki Minaj, Diplo, Sam Smith, the Prodigy, Pitbull, Fatboy Slim, David Penn, Jess Glynne, Disclosure, Steve Aoki, CamelPhat, Swedish House Mafia, the Shapeshifters and many other notable music artists.

Mark Summers is related to Herbie Flowers, one of the UK's best-known session bass players.

The first single "Party Children" just missed the UK top 75, whereas the second single "Mark Summers Magic" climbed up the UK chart to peak at number 27, in January 1991.

Mark Summers became the head studio producer within less than 3 months.

Fully inspired by 1970s disco, '80s hip hop and '90s house music, in 1996 Mark Summers launched his own label, Scorccio Records, with releases that combined elements of those three music genres from the past three decades.

Key to success was Mark Summers using up to 10 different pseudonyms for his artist name, one of the most popular and often used being Ultimate Heights.

The Scorccio release of "Inferno" in July 1996 originally featured a sample of Dan Hartman's "Relight My Fire", which Mark Summers was told by PolyGram that the sample either had to be replayed, or that he should pay for the master sample clearance.

Quickly establishing the world's first ever 'sample replay' service, in 1996 Mark Summers took his venture into the next stage by working for a large number of major and independent music labels, DJs, producers and recording artists.

In 2009, Mark Summers replayed "Street Player" for the US Billboard No 2 hit "I Know You Want Me " by Pitbull.

Mark Summers replayed four samples on the album The Day Is My Enemy by English electronic music group the Prodigy, two decades after both Mark Summers and the Prodigy had first appeared on the UK rave scene.

Mark Summers was guest speaker on panel discussions at the New Music Seminar in New York, June 2015.