Mark Pistel is a producer, engineer, programmer, remixer and songwriter who has been working in the genres of electronic music, experimental music, break beat, hip-hop and dance since 1988.Pistel works out of a San Francisco recording studio called Room 5.Pistel was a founding member of the band Consolidated, and has contributed to recordings as varied as artists such as Meat Beat Manifesto, Tino Corp., Latin Soul Syndicate, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, MC 900 Foot Jesus, Machines of Loving Grace, ledenhed, BlackMahal, Hector Zazou and Grace Jones.