With DJs Mark Farina (Om/Great Lakes), Chris Smith (DJFluid/Om Records), Rooz (Deep Blue), Bo (DeepBlue), Michael Anthony (supperclub), Ken Minn, ThuyVu, Mark Slee, Dimitri Playdoughboy, Sep D
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Deep Blue, BASE Italy Underground, and Christian bring you MARK FARINA to Mighty.
Our parties with Mark Farina at Mighty have been legendary, a show that you know is going to be off the hook, 100%! Thats what happens when you get the #1 all time SF DJ on the insane sound system of Mighty and let him loose in that underground atmosphere where he can play whatever he wants and get creative to the MAX. Not to mention the underground crowd that is totally into the music feeding energy into Mark. Last time Mark Farina played Deep Blue @ Mighty it was very close to selling out. An incredible party that went all the way till 4am!!! Not to mention we have 3 of the top promoters in SF pushing the show with massive support from Om Records.
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Click HERE to download Rooz Live @ Mighty 9-11-2009
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** PICTURES from our last events with Mark Farina at Mighty:
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"I 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." 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 listening to house music on the radio, living in one of the country's most primordial breeding grounds for house. Around '88, while record shopping at Imports, Etc., he met Derrick Carter and a friendship began. "I just ended up there between classes, I ended up buying his picks. He steered me toward the cutting edge House producers of the time."
"I started playing when I lived with my parents and didn't have any bills to pay so I could just buy records. My intentions were never to just make money, it's nice, but it's kind of turned into a job by accident - it was a hobby that turned into a job."
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 eachon 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 Patty Ryan-Smith, created the now legendary weekly
Mushroom Jazz club night in San Francisco 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.
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
DJ's 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.
On
CD, Mark has recorded both of his dominant musical personalities. His
first mix, 'Mushroom Jazz' on Om Records, is defined by a hip-hop
sub-groove with jazzy, dubby elements in the downtempo range. It was
followed by 'Seasons', a critically acclaimed House mix. An Imperial
Dub mixed CD, a guest slot in the pedigreed 'United DJs of America'
series, 'Mushroom Jazz 2' (Om Records), 'San Francisco Sessions, Vol.
I' (Om Records) and Mushroom Jazz 3 (Om Records), 'Connect' (Om
Records), 'Mushroom Jazz 4', and his critically acclaimed debu artist
album "Air Farina' (Om Records). Recently, Mark Farina has released a
double LIVE mixed cd "Live at Om" w/ Derrick Carter (Om Records), and
the long awaited 'Mushroom Jazz 5'
MUSHROOM JAZZ 6 hit #1 on iTUNES USA & CANADA (Electronic Chart)
...MARK FARINA’s ‘Mushroom Jazz 6’ compilation is out now on Om
Records. Mark’s legendary Mushroom Jazz compilations, their cumulative
sales over a quarter million copies, have essentially made Mushroom
Jazz its own distinctive genre of music, blending hip-hop sub-grooves
with jazzy, dubby, elements. Mark’s new single ‘Life’, featured on MJ6
is out now on Om Records.
MJ6 Press Feedback
“For many downtempo fans, Mushroom Jazz is where it all began.” –BPM
“The most influential American contribution to the laid back beats scene.” –URB
“Mark Farina is an expert in creating seamless downtempo mood pieces.” –FILTER
“Mushroom Jazz sets the benchmark for quality in the field of jazzy soul and hip hop.” –DJ
‘Fabric 40: Mark Farina’ is also out now on Fabric Recordings.
Farina’s mix follows installments by Carl Craig, Diplo, and James
Murphy.
