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Detroit’s Marcellus ‘Malik’ Pittman began DJing at college parties in the early 1990s but made his mark after releasing the influential Essential Selections Volume 1. His production work with Rick Wilhite, Theo Parrish and Kenny ‘Moodymann’ Dixon, collectively known as the 3 Chairs, helped define the Detroit sound, which now continues with Malik’s own label, Unirhythm.