This is a fan page dedicated to Washington DC based artist SUNe MC.

SUNe [pronounced Sun or son] is the late Seventies spawned love child of an white heiress and a Black Panther. The extreme dualities he experienced growing up prompted him to check out of regular society and mount a spiritual and physical journey in search of a place to be free.

This struggle for freedom permeates SUNe's music, lyrics and video/visual art.

Little recorded material survives from SUNe prior to his discovery of Jungle in 1997. SUNe recounts breaking open glow sticks with a few friends in a tent outside the infamous massive Bass Rush: Summer Rush, when he heard Soul Slinger playing records with huge bass sounds and hypnotic FX that he himself had recently been experimenting with. SUNe stumbled to the Jungle room in time to catch much of Soulslinger and the entirety of the DJ SS and Warren G set. This evening and early morning marked a turning point for SUNe, as for the next decade he seldom made any non-jungle beats.

There's Jungle and then there's Drum and Bass. Hard Step, Tech Step, Neurofunk, Liquid: the next decade was not without it's variation and SUNe's work resembles little of it. SUNe seems to have opted to extract what he found expressive about Jungle and then walked off on his own. 20 minute jazz improvisations with elements of trance and radically mutating sounds are features of his earliest forays into Jungle production.

All the while SUNe was performing as a live MC in and around DC with The Step Syndicate. Again we see SUNe striking out in a different direction for the typical club MC and yet SUNe's innovative delivery became influential to many other artists in the Area. As for subject matter, SUNe seems to meander through fantasy, history, mathematics, technology and spirituality in many of these early sessions. He then became very direct. "Have a great time" became SUNe's message.

SUNe's tenure with The Step Syndicate provided him with very definite opinions of what a techno performance was meant to be. The music he produced changed - became more stripped down. Nearly bare. Gone were the pretenses of jazzman stylings. SUNe work grew very dark. Cacophonous, un-EQed, and stripped down standing in stark contrast with the highly produced ideals of techno purists.

SUNe claims to have aimed for dissonance. Song titles, collection names, and the dystopian imagery exhibited in his studio recorded vocal work of this era offer some proof, one wonders. Perhaps the roughness of the sound was a manifestation of SUNe's lack of proper recording gear. Evidence of that possibility exists in the fact that SUNe completed over 330 tunes in wave editor Soundedit3. Much of the SUNe's work from this period is truly brilliant and, despite SUNe's dubious decision to create discordant soundscapes, a jovial exuberance exists with in many of his beats from this era... a feeling that "we shall overcome".

Perhaps he did. After graduating from the University of Maryland, College Park with a B.A. in English with a concentration SUNe studied digital narrative, SUNe began a widely successful professional career. His art took a back seat for a short time as he used the skills he'd developed in the underground to earn a living and start a family. Though living in artistic isolation and dead set on forging success in the corporate world, SUNe still produced a great deal of music between 2002 and 2008. There was little evolution in terms of tools or format however SUNe excelled in technical terms and his arrangements grew increasingly exact. SUNe has since stated that while creating much of his work during this stage he felt more like he was exercising than than actively creating. SUNe's dedication and discipline did yield a few jems however such as the entire Meconium collection.

2008 marked a stark change for SUNe. While on a visit with a dear friend in California, SUNe became completely taken with Dubstep while listening to a mix by Maneesh the Twista on Future Breaks. Before going into isolation SUNe had grown tired of the drear associated with techier dnb... although he loved the sounds. What he heard in the mix was many of the sounds he loved but without "requisite" darkness he'd grown accustomed to. The shift was immediate and was Dubstep that day. He's pointed to other interesting factoids about dubstep - most notably the genre's apparent prediction in the cryptic lyrics of Saul Williams on Krust's Coded Language:

Motherfuckers better realize, now is the time to self-actualize

We have found evidence that hip hops standard 85 rpm when increased by a

number as least half the rate of it's standard or decreased at ¾ of it's

speed may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness.

Though, mathematically, this doesn't exactly make sense since Dubstep is 140 BPM.

Regardless, SUNe switched tools for the first time in nearly 7 years and exploded onto the world stage. SUNe's star is rising. He's now a cult favorite with fans worldwide. The former model has also become a media darling of sorts with regular coverage on DCDubstep.com and elsewhere. In 2008 Big Up Magazine wrote that SUNe, "can apparently do whatever the hell he wants to do"... apparently SUNe just wants to thrill you with some things that go ¡bo0om!.

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