Super-producer Mac Nifty has crunched his imprint on the music scene since 1997. His production has helped create career defining style and swagger for artists under ground trying to come up. With the motive of music before money. Influencing acts or known acts behind the scenes giving the ideas of excellence and motivation. Respected beyond the genres of hip hop and urban music, Mac Nifty, has also been sought by superstars and underground legends whose music needs a new edge. Nifty is Detroit's Monster.
Born Chris Mac in Detroit, Michigan on January 7th, 1976, Mac Nifty has had many reincarnations-- to making mix tapes for school dances with DJ Magic Mike and NWA in 1988-1991 with the name Bass Tracers & Big Bass C then after family situations out of hand drawing a needed closure and upper Nifty started doing House - Ghetto Tech - Techno music with the name Chriz Mac releasing under ground dance mixes "Blunt Opinion" and "Open Door Mindz I Enter" then to going to prison and getting out going wicked in 1998 as Detroit Sykoe with the group Tempts Eve Posse and members "Me, Myself and I. My crazy personalities and why the name $ykoe" says Nifty. Thus starting his own music and entertainment label MINDSTATE RECORDS. Under MindState Nifty released Multiple Smoke in 1997, Zillionz in 1998, Detroit 2000 in 1999 and then into a new light in sound as producer and rap rennaissance straying away from the name Sykoe to Mac Nifty in 2000. Something more flexible and simple. Troubles with the law, love, family and money issues because of the law, Nifty's edges were getting jagged, rigid and dangerous. You can hear it in his releases Natural Reactionz in 2000 and Comin' With the Quickness in 2001. 2002 Nifty released Stab Woundz and in 2003 his best album release yet due to the extreme sound and innovation. Some producers claim to be authentic and original. Harmonization in rap lyrics were forced by Nifty to sound different than everyone else with hits like "Million Dollars" off his SkillzMental double album in 2003. In 2004 Mac Nifty started a new side of himself and alias, G Gawdy. G for growth in Detroit's Hip Hop. Gawdy because everything Nifty touches grows and becomes something over the top with eccentric qualities. Gawdy. With the Gawdy sound and vocals on Motor City Ridin' Out released in 2004 to Tier 1 Status in 2005, bass album Fort Knocks in 2006, Devious in 2007, Champ Mode in 2008, Club 8 Mile in 2009 and going back Mac Nifty with Further Underground released in 2010.
Mac Nifty's sound is unexplainable, and meant to be heard and not read or spoken of but listened to….
His dedication and loyalty to staying true to music has spanned the untouchable label MindState Records, and his trademark sound has spawned numerous imitators in the Detroit area. Still known as the originator and master of the auto tune harmonization started in 2000 with his SkillzMental double album to extensive use of pitch shifting, doubling, complexinated multi faceted style pushed up under with the power of some hellish bass. This is the new wave of Detroit ghetto tech sound when it comes to hip hop, rap and house music.
Along the way Nifty built an impressive and complicated for any studio tech to maintain or figure out. The first ever recording process with no terminating sequence in the audio chain. Where everything played and performed is recorded and sent into the omega loop arsenal of studio equipment for his self endulgence mastering the craft in the lab studio dungeon, Club 8 Mile. Techniques and equipment manipulation many try to sneak a peek to follow and learn. But it is not that easy as they thought.
Mac Nifty's genre breaking has changed music today as those at the top have always come to see what he is up to and doing. "I feel I get held back purposely by those at the top. I am more than the tripple threat. I get into everything and top it up." says Nifty. Because a lot of what you hear by Detroit's monster Mac Nifty is a test of what is to come in the future music you one day will love so much and appreciate. Listen to any of Nifty's albums of the past and relate the style and sound to famous artists recordings coming out years after. Listen to Further Underground today and see that in 2 years time the industry is doing something of the same array linear to Mac Nifty. Always ahead of the pack of producers in the area creating something off the wall, unique and like nothing else. Nifty takes pride in his success at staying ahead of the game with his experimentation and originality. Hard working and confident to smash a keyboard or dent the MPC's sheet metal shell with rhythmic anthrax. "My goal has always been to be different. To not follow but be followed and admired in a class of respect of my own." Nifty.
One thing Mac Nifty has on his side, other than incredible talent, is visibility, imagination and ideas that facilitate abstract prizms of creativity in is works of art expressed.
