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MARK FARINA
Occupation Chicago house master.
Chicago you say? He‘s certainly not the first quality DJ from that neck of the woods Very true — Chicago has a place in the hearts of anyone who loves real house music. Farina counts Derrick Carter among his friends but also has strong connections to the other capital of electronica, Detroit. releasing his seminal ‘Mood' (a co-production with
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house’ track and he spawned his edition is also the last Superfly to be held at the West Woodside, albeit with a reduced and more intimate
own style which he labelled End’s seminal Woodside Social Club, as the venue capacity. Naming Glasgow nights from a previous ‘Mushroom Jazz'. moves closer to planned redevelopment. generation like Texas Fever, Rooftops, The Far Out Club I’m confused, ' | have ‘lt’s a shame that so many social clubs in Glasgow and Subterraneans as influences on his ewn, he Chlago DJ: got to do with have fallen to the developers,’ says DJ and promoter doesn’t reckon the loss of socral clubs will stnke a “09087 Well mushrooms grow Duncan Birrell, who founded Superfly with a willing mortal blow to DIY events: ‘It might be harder for new in dark places and M a rk’s DJ style team of helpful friends eight years ago. ‘From the the clubs to come through now, but I suspect the next flourished in the darker corners of Polish club to the RAFA and the Riverside, there are no generation will Simply find new spaces to occupy and the Chicago scene playing the venues to replace them. In their day, they served play in.’ (Davrd Pollock) .
second rooms in various clubs. communities from cradle to grave - they’d hold I Superfly returns at the Hetherington Research Club,
“As opposed to competing with functions for chnstenings, 18th birthdays, 21 sts, Glasgow, Sat 5 Sep.
the house music being played in
the other room I decided to play HOUSE
more mellow stuff,’ explains DROP TI-IE LIME
Farina. Moving beyond pure Sneaky Pete’s First Birthday at Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, Tue 21
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hip hop beats. Soon he had his own Mushroom Jazz club night (Jazid Up) in San Francisco that packed them in every week. despite the fact it ran on a Monday night. The Mushroom Jazz sound now lives on as a series of mix 003 (now on its sixth instalment). 'I look at my job as a modern day travelling minstrel.’ says Farina. ‘to bring
‘What's in a name. huh?‘ muses Luca Venezia. the New York-born, Italian-descended producer of some truly riotous breakbeat meets acid house meets new rave recordings as Drop the Lime. ‘lt’s based on an old Sicilian ritual. where you take a lime and throw it in the sea, and it‘s supposed to bring you good fortune.’ It’s certainly bringing Venezia good fortune. As he talks, we can hear the security announcement on his flight out of Athens, Georgia in the background. just the latest date on a perpetual in-demand summer of parties around the US, the UK and Europe.
With a fast. busy, bass—heavy sound that is best filed alongside fellow new music to as many places as I New Yorker AC Slater and Scotland's Drums of Death. Venezia's music is can. and expose obscure records the product of clashing influences. Hisfather is a painter. his mother a that, otherwise. might go hi d d en.’ photographer, and the artists Sol LeWitt and Dan Flavm were friends of Sounds 8'90 me up the family. Vene2ia is an artist too. creating sleeve art and videos for . where’s ghooosdplnnlng? ’ releases on his Trouble 8. Bass label, but mu5ic is his overriding passron.
‘My parents blame it on taking me to opera when I was in the womb.‘ At Telefunken, his first appearance he says. “I'd be kicking away like crazy at Don Giovanni. then I took up 'n Edinburgh for ten years. SO guitar at age seven and started singing in the school choir. When I got don't ”"33 0”" older I loved Fugazi and Sonic Youth. but then a friend in London sent (Henry Northmore) me a jungle mixtape by DJ Hype. Suddenly it clicked. and I was out at I Telefunken f3" Electric Cir GUS: raves all the time. I love music in general. though, and that's why I love Edinburgh, F n 77 JUL new technology - you needn't limit yourself to one genre; you can mix them up and create something new.’ (David Pollock)
40 TH! LIST 9-23 Jul 2009