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Mark Farina: ''Fabric 40''
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Editor's review
We can't believe it took Fabric a whopping 40 installments before they invited house king Mark Farina to do a mix--and Mark himself even told us at WMC he felt like it was high time. He definitely delivers as usual with this segment of the long-loved series, featuring a middle ground that sees Mark's knack for crate diggin' meet the kind of edge-teetering sounds seasoned Fabric listeners expect. Still boompty though, for sure.
Biography
Music has ruled Mark Farina's every step, since his vibrant youth: days spent marching routines with a trumpet in his Chicago high school's band blurred into wild nights stomping around hardcore and punk shows. Eventually persuading his parents to allow him to ditch the brass bugle and bring a drum set into the house, Mark held the beat down for a New Wave alternative cover band (reworking The The, The Smiths, The Cure, Front 242, Ministry and the like) that tore through countless garages, gymnasiums, churches and Battle of the Bands. As Mark's musical tastes took a turn for the electronic, he dove head-first into the luscious world of turntables and nightclubs, a shift reflected by his band becoming the high school's first to incorporate a drum machine in its setup. Zealously weaving in and out of late-night teen clubs in-between his electronic band's shows, Mark celebrated his first solo DJ gig at the Chicagoan underage mecca, Medusa's, at the age of 16.
