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As he was interviewing artists and inventors for a six-part docuseries on the intersection of technology and music, Mark Ronson noticed a recurring theme of visionary artists taking technological advances and misusing them to suit their own creative curiosity. I think at one point we were even throwing around the series title Accidents Will Happen after the Elvis Costello song, Ronson recalls. We re like, Wow, that is just the thing that keeps coming up: These happy accidents by geniuses like Prince or Paul McCartney.
They ended up calling the series Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson.
But those accidents still happen.
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Mark Ronson has been a DJ longer than he hasnât: his entire adult life, sometimes working four or five nights a week, since he was 18. âWhat is that?â He casts his mind back and counts. âTwenty-five â no, 27 years. Jesus.â
In this time, he has been a staple of the New York scene, the studio partner of Amy Winehouse and a superproducer of artists from Ghostface Killah to Lady Gaga. He has his own instantly recognisable, vintage-leaning sound and is the invisible touch on songs that define not just years but decades.
But there was a moment last year when Ronson wondered if the pandemic might be his cue to bow out gracefully, by forcing him out of the club. âI really did think for a minute: OK, maybe Iâm never going to go back to DJing again,â he says. âLike, whatâs the elegant evolution here, without looking like an idiot who just tried to stay at the party too long?â