OFF TO MIAMI Featuring MARK FARINA
Friday March 19th @ supperclub
with DJs Mark Farina, Rooz vs Nikola Baytalla (B2B set), Bo, Michael Anthony, ThuyVu, Ken Minn, DJ Deevice
supperclub, Deep Blue, Base Italy underground, and Christian invite you to Off To Miami featuring SF's alltime most favorite DJ, Mark Farina. Our last party with Mark Farina at supperclub sold out. Grab discount tickets as this is one you dont want to miss.
$10 presale tickets are SOLD OUT! Grab very limited $15 presale tickets as they wont last long.
DOWNLOAD LIVE MIXES from ROOZ and MARK FARINA
Click HERE to download Rooz's closing set after Mark Farina 1-30-2010
Click HERE to download Mark Farina Live set @ Mighty 1-30-2010
CLICK HERE to view the pictures from our last event with Mark Farina @ supperclub
"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'
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.
