Martin Ikin
Dj/Producer since 1991, MARTIN IKIN aka: Soul Purpose, Indigo, MIGrant, DJ Mayhem, etc etc... Too many Aliases to mention...
As well as Producing & DJ’ing, and spending some years employed as an in-house engineer at several recording studios he also studied jazz piano, has been bandleader of several jazz funk outfits and is still gigging, session playing and teaching piano today.
After over 10 years of releasing music on other labels, Martin launched his own label – Soul Purpose Records in 2003, as a stable for his own productions. With artists such as Juliet Roberts, Elisabeth Troy, Angie Brown, Mary Pearce & Bryan Chambers joining the camp straight away and letting the music do the talking, Soul Purpose Records has now built a reputation for quality house music with numerous chart Number 1's under its belt. And is going from strength to strength.
2005 saw Martin has adopted his label name "Soul Purpose" as his DJ & Production/Remix moniker, dropping the old school "Mayhem" tag from the early 1990's
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Now Djing & Producing using his real name for the first time ever! Martin kicks of with a Monster release on Andre Crom's OFF Recordings.
Martin's remix credentials include names such Mariah Carey, Jamiroquai, Joey Negro, MAW, Grant Nelson, Hardsoul, Ron Carroll and many many more.
As a musician and producer Martin draws his musical influences from the likes of Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, Azymuth, Donny Hathaway, Jeff Lorber, Roy Ayers and legendary house masters like Mr Fingers, Marshall Jefferson, Derek May & Kevin Saunderson.
Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.
Records out on Defected Records, Swing City Records, Nervous Records, OFF Recordings, Lo:Rise, Stimulated Soul Recordings and Soul Purpose Records. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
7 listings across 6 nights — one date in June 2026 carries two listings, and both are here.
2026
- Sat 27 JunUnveiledfirst time · GRAY-AREA
- Sat 27 JunUnveiledfirst time · Joonbug Presents
2025 — 2 nights
- Sat 6 Dec 2025Superior Ingredientstheir 3rd night · GRAY-AREA
- Sat 5 Apr 2025Superior Ingredientstheir 2nd night · GRAY-AREA
2024 — 2 nights
- Sat 27 Jul 2024Musica Club NYCtheir 2nd night · GRAY-AREA
- Sat 10 Feb 2024Superior Ingredientsfirst time · GRAY-AREA
2023 — 1 night
- Sat 5 Aug 2023Musica Club NYCfirst time
Their rooms
One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2023, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.
- Superior IngredientsFeb 2024 – Dec 20253 nights
- Musica Club NYCAug 2023 – Jul 20242 nights
Once each: Unveiled.
Who they play with
Five nights on the books, and no name on more than one of them.
- Sat 5 Aug 2023Mark Knight · Tone Troy
- Sat 10 Feb 2024x Bruno Furlan · 2pull · Blank Sense
- Sat 27 Jul 2024w. Bruno Furlan
- Sat 5 Apr 2025Bastian Bux · Robyn Balliet · Will Sass · Madison Park
- Sat 6 Dec 2025Chelina Manuhutu · HYDE · Manu Gonzalez
13 people have stood on one of these bills; none has stood on two.
The nights, the rooms and the bills are the listings themselves. The biography and the labels are Resident Advisor's. Nothing on this page was written for it.