✫ 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 wasn't 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 "Mushroom Jazz". Originally launched as a cassette series, the Mushroom Jazz tapes grew from the first Chicago run of 50 copies each…on to the next stage, where 500 copies of several volumes were easily distributed and sought after. As the Acid Jazz boom began, he perfected his sound and fused the newest tracks from the West Coast's jazzy, organic producers with the more urban sounds he had championed in Chicago. While the predominant musical force in SF was still dark, dubby House and Wicked-style Breaks, the city embraced the downtempo movement with a healthy bunch of live bands and DJs generating the tunes.
Mark Farina, along with partner, and manager, Patty Ryan-Smith, created the now legendary weekly club in San Francisco, Mushroom Jazz, in 1992. Every Monday night the crowd slowly germinated - from 100 for the first few months to 600-700 two years later. As time passed, Farina and Patty put their energies into another project, the first Mushroom Jazz interactive CD-ROM for Om Records. After a three year run, where the club had established a fanatical, cult-like following for Farina and the Mushroom Jazz sound, the club closed its doors and transformed into a CD series and accompanying tours.
Since 1989, Mark Farina has been traveling the globe performing at literally hundreds of shows a year, sometimes DJing both of his preferred styles in two different rooms at the same party. At other events, he's 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.
╚► MAX HEBERT (Montreal)
✫ Proclamed by many as "Montreal's best kept secret" French Canadian DJ Max Hebert started his musical journey as a young vinyl junkie at the age of 14, constantly squatting Montreal’s record shops for rare vinyl collectibles and diversified stlyles of music such as House, Disco, Techno, Funk, Hip-Hop and Break Beats.
His passion for House Music, intimately connected him with the vitality of Montreal’s underground scene since the early nineties, all by contributing thru out the years to the success of legendary local venues, such as Playground, Sona and of course, during the first years of world famous Stereo after-hours where he co-presented the monthly Move events. His distinct way of fast paste mixing and capability of blending-in the West Coast Deep House sound to Chicago’s Funk and Jazzy infuences, often spiced-up with a rolling and jacking Tech-House edge, makes this turntablist a definite sure shot when it comes down to dance floor destruction.
Attracting world wide attention since 2008 by hitting the American and European charts with the releases of the “Jazz 4 Dope” and “Swing Daddy” Eps, featuring original tracks such as the much acclaimed “Just Friends” and “Jitterbug”, Max Hebert and studio partner Cenzo keep piling-up the musical projects ever since, while getting support from major players such as Mark Farina, who has lately cropped two of their latest releases “Records Drop” and “Breeze” in order to be added on the Great Lakes Audio March 2010 Podcast track listing, witch features the latest and most exclusive tracks by the world’s most talented producers on a monthly basis.
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