His album, White Sunday (2003), was recorded in New York and two singles hit the Top 10, but Mareko's time in the spotlight was brief. His follow-up was more of a critical success than a financial one and he moved to Australia to expand his horizons. Yet he kept his hand in with the underground hip-hop heads, through a succession of mix-tapes and an online radio show, proving that there was life after death for the MC known as Mareko.
Mareko first met Alphrisk/Frisko during a fire drill at school. Mareko was told by mutual friends that he should try his freestyle skills against a boy from another class - Daniel ‘Alphrisk’ Moate. The two were impressed enough with each other to form a crew together.
In the slang of the Deceptikonz, “horsin” means to get drunk. This in-joke led to the name of their wider crew, The Horseman Family.