Lewis Parker (musician)

Lewis Parker is a British hip-hop producer born in London of Barbadian Creole descent, who lived in Canterbury, Kent. As a teenager, Parker released an EP, B Boy Antiks, and a 12" single, Rise/Visions Of Splendour, through Bite It!, a London-based recording label. He signed an album deal with Virgin imprint Melankolic who released his first LP, Masquerades & Silhouettes, in 1998,^[1] before he went on to produce a number of hip hop records. Lewis Parker has also been credited for his work with Ghostface Killah on the Fishscale and More Fish albums. In 2010, he released a critically acclaimed album with American MC John Robinson called "International Summers".

Aliases

Parker often uses aliases, such as:

• the original cloudstepper
• L.P
• the man with the golden sound
• Jedi master parker
• the deadliest man with an sp
• the deadliest man with three sp's
• Dusty Vinyl
• Kid Soul

Family

Akayzia Parker

Discography

Albums

• Masquerades & Silhouettes (The Ancients Series One) (LP) (Melankolic/EMI)(release: 1998)
• It's All Happening Now (The Ancients Series Three) (2xLP) (Melankolic/EMI)(release: 2002)
• Home Grown Hip Hop (LP) (Cavendish Music)(release: 2002)
• Put A Beat 2 a Rhime (LP) (The World Of Dusty Vinyl)(release: 2004)
• Mixtape Volume One (Release 2007)(The World Of Dusty Vinyl)
• THE PUZZLE episode one THE BIG GAME (2009) (The World Of Dusty Vinyl)
• The Rise & Fall of River Nelson (River Nelson & Lewis Parker) (2010) (The World Of Dusty Vinyl)
• International Summers (Lewis Parker & John Robinson) (2010) (Project Mooncircle/HHV)

EPs

• B-Boy Antiks EP (12") (Bite It! Recordings)
• The Options EP (12") (Melankolic/EMI)
• it's all happening now (12") (Melankolic/Virgin/EMI)
• Easter Island (12") (Low life records)

Singles

• Wonderwall (7") (White label)
• B-Boy Antiks (12") (White label)
• Rise/Visions Of Splendour (12") (Bite It! Recordings)
• 101 Pianos (Test Press) (12") (The World of Dusty Vinyl)
• Shadows Of Autumn/101 Piano's (12") (Melankolic)*101 Pianos (12") (The World of Dusty Vinyl)
• Incognito/At Large With A-Cyde (12") (Melankolic)
• Incognito/At Large With A-Cyde (Promo) (12") (Melankolic)
• It's All Happening Now (Promo) (12") (Melankolic)
• Blood F/T Lost Souljah/Mr Parker's Siesta (12") (The World Of Dusty Vinyl)
• High Stakes (12") (SFDB)
• The Big Idea (12") (Canteen)
• international HEAT(12") (The World Of Dusty Vinyl)

Appears on

• V/A Operation Overlord - Track: Visions Of Splendour (CD/Cass/Vinyl) - Label: Coke Star Produktions/EMI - Release: 1997

References

External links

• http://www.myspace.com/lewisparker