Best MK Songs
Five decades of dance music starts here with a 1993 track featuring a vocal and a piano that refuse to leave your head.
The founding track: Always
Always is where it begins. 1993. Featuring vocalist Alana Simon. It went to number one on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart and it's about as clear a statement of the MK sound as you'll ever find. Soulful vocal. Piano that means it. A groove that doesn't need to shout to hold your attention. This is the one. Hear it first. Come back to it later. It holds up because it's built right.
The second wave: Love Changes and Burning
The follow-up, Love Changes, also with Alana Simon, also a US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play number one in 1994. Put it next to Always and you hear the same formula being refined rather than repeated. That's a harder trick than it sounds.
Then Burning, another Alana Simon collaboration from the same run, part of the 1993 Surrender album. If Always and Love Changes are the ones everyone points to, this is the one worth digging out once those two have hooked you.
The remix turn: Push the Feeling On
Here's where MK became more than a dance-floor name. His 1995 remix of Nightcrawlers' Push the Feeling On, the MK Mix 95, reached number three on the UK Singles Chart and became a genuine international hit. This is the track most people know without knowing MK's name is attached. A masterclass in what a remixer can add to a song that's already good. He didn't just tweak it. He gave it a second life.
The modern era: Look Right Through and Pieces of Me
Look Right Through, his 2013 remix of Storm Queen's track, went to number one on the UK Singles Chart in November. His biggest remix moment. Nearly twenty years after Push the Feeling On, proof he hadn't lost his touch.
Then 2016 brought Pieces of Me with Becky Hill. A pairing that showed he could sit comfortably in a contemporary pop landscape without losing what made him his. Soulful voice. Piano-house backbone. Groove that doesn't rush.
How to hear it all
Play Always and Love Changes back to back first. Then jump to Push the Feeling On to hear the remixer side of him properly. Finish on Look Right Through and Pieces of Me. That order roughly traces his career and gives you the clearest picture of why he's stayed relevant across three decades.