Metro Area is a Brooklyn-based

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and

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duo formed in 1998 by

Morgan Geist Morgan Geist (born November 5, 1972) is an American music songwriter, producer, mix engineer and DJ from Wayne, New Jersey. Among mainstream music consumers, he is best known for his UK number one song " Look Right Through," recorded under the al ...

and Darshan Jesrani.

History

Geist grew up in Wayne,

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. Both arrived at electronic music through their interest in rock music, with Geist through the electronic sound effects he noticed in progressive rock songs and Jesrani through the electronic introduction to Rush's song Tom Sawyer, which he says "led me into

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" in which both had been producing music independently since the mid-90s. Before forming Metro Area, Geist attended

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(where he founded his record label, Environ, in 1995) and was responsible for a number of highly regarded solo releases, while Jesrani began his production career as half of the groups Essa 3 and Acronym City. The two met through internet mailing lists in 1995 or 1996. After collaborating under the names "Sage." and "Phenom," they began Metro Area in 1998, releasing four 12"s on Environ under that name between 1999 and 2001. Edits of six tracks from these releases later turned up on their 2002 self-titled album, which received good reception, being named as "the second best album of the decade" by ''

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'' and "the nineteenth best album of the decade" by ''

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'' magazine. Both Jesrani and Geist are DJs as well as producers; in 2002 and 2003 they hosted a monthly residency at APT in the

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, called Party Out of Bounds.They Will Rock You
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Marc Kinchen Marc Kinchen (born August 3, 1972), known by his initials MK, is an American DJ, record producer and remixer. He hit number-one on the US ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Dance Club Songs, Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1993 and 1994 with ...

Discography

Albums

* '' Metro Area'' (2002) * '' Fabric 43'' (mix) (2008) * ''Metro Area 5 & 6'' (2012)

Singles and EPs

* ''Metro Area'' (1999) * ''Metro Area 2'' (2000) * ''Metro Area 3'' (2001) * ''Metro Area 4'' (2001) * "Piña" (2001) * "Dance Reaction" (2002) * "More G.D.M. Vol. 3" ''with Gina X'' (2002) * ''Metro Area 5'' (2004) * ''Metro Area 6'' (2005) * ''Metro Area 7'' (2007) * "Straight A's" (2013)

References

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