Artist : VA
Album : House Of OM: Mark Farina
Label : OM Records
Genre : Club
Bitrate : 178 kbps avg
Source : CD (LP)
Playtime : 01:14:07 (99 MB)
Rls date : 2007-04-03
Store date : 2007-04-10
[Track List]
1. Lurob - Dubalicious 5:24
2. Gavin Boyce - Stick With It 4:13
3. Bobby Valentine - Car Garage 3:43
4. Uneaq - House This 3:13
5. Kerri Chandler & Monique Bingham - In The 3:36
Morning
6. Olivier Desmet & Chuck Diesel - Gary's Groove 3:13
7. Vibezelect - Come Chill 4:42
8. White Collar Criminals - A Brighter Life 3:43
9. Soydan - Takil 4:13
10.Freaks Feat. Robert Owens - Right Now 4:04
(Original Demo Mix)
11.Public Access - Skeleton Keys 4:15
12.The Littlemen - What's The Time 3:42
13.Gawron Paris - Don't Stop Dis (Bryan Jones 4:12
Remix)
14.Mark Farina - Cosmic Melody 3:50
15.Neil Bainbridge - Radio Tonic (Tommy Largo 4:12
Remix)
16.King Kooba - Bleu 4:23
17.Leon Louder - Picture Of A Loop 5:18
18.Ben Armstrong And Randal Soeung - Wrong Turn 4:11
(Rhythm Plate Remix)
Mark Farina:
ôI look at my job as a modern day traveling minstrel,
to bring new music to as many places as I can, and
expose obscure records that, otherwise, might go
hidden.ö While Mark Farina may be able to sum up his
job description in a sentence, there is much more to
be written.
Mark developed his musical tastes in Chicago û
listening to house music on the radio, living in one
of the countryÆs most primordial breeding grounds for
house. Around Æ88, while record shopping at Imports,
Etc., he met Derrick Carter and a friendship began.
ôI just ended up there between classes, I ended up
buying his picks. He steered me toward the cutting
edge House producers of the time.ö
ôI started playing when I lived with my parents and
didnÆt have any bills to pay so I could just buy
records. My intentions were never to just make money,
itÆs nice, but itÆs kind of turned into a job by
accident - it was a hobby that turned into a job.ö
When Farina first started wandering from his passion
for the purist forms of House into what grew into one
of his trademark styles, Mushroom Jazz, he was playing
the main room in a club in Chicago and got demoted to
the B-room after playing too many Martin Luther King
Jr. samples. Mark experimented with a deeper style,
dropping De La Soul, disco classics and other stuff that
wasnÆt being played in the main room. However, in 1992,
Mark found a welcome place for his collection of
downtempo tunes accompanied by a small run of mix tapes
entitled ôMushroom Jazzö.
Since 1989, Mark Farina has been traveling the globe
performing at literally hundreds of shows a year,
ometimes DJing both of his preferred styles in two
different rooms at the same party. At other events, heÆs
been known to play extended sets that lasted over eight
hours. In his House sets, Mark is known for his uniquely
effortless journeys on the jazzy side of Chicago House,
mixed up San Fran style.
This wandering record minstrel has played to incredible
crowds all over the globe. Consistently drawing new fans
to his style of chunky-funky rhythms and deep underground
house, Mark plays upwards of 200 shows to over one million
(1,000,000) club goers per year. Voted in the top DJÆs in
the world by URB, MUZIK and BPM Magazine, his taste making
skills continue to turn the heads of seasoned veterans as
well as youngsters just getting into the music.