Mark de Clive-Lowe is a Japanese-New Zealander keyboardist, composer, and electronic music producer born on 16 August 1974 in Auckland. Raised bilingually by a Japanese mother and a New Zealand father, he began piano lessons at age four and later studied jazz at the Berklee College of Music in 1994. He gained international prominence while living in London from 1998 to 2008, where he became a key figure in the broken beat movement and collaborated with artists such as Lauryn Hill and 4Hero. His discography includes the 2000 worldwide release Six Degrees and the 2005 album Tide's Arising, which featured bassist Pino Palladino. In 2010, de Clive-Lowe founded the independent label Mashibeats, named after a nickname given to him by Kaidi Tatham. He is a proponent of community engagement models for creator funding and has utilized blockchain technology for releases like the NFT-minted album Motherland. He is a recipient of the 2021 U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship and is currently based in Tokyo.
