VARIOUS - MIXED BY MARK FARINA

Music has ruled Mark’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. As Mark’s musical tastes took a turn for the electronic, he dove head-first into the luscious world of turntables and nightclubs. With Chicago being such a close-knit scene, Mark eventually bumped shoulders with many of the scene innovatorS. With his DJing career rapidly unfolding layers, Mark joined minds and rooms with emerging DJs DERRICK CARTER and CHRIS NAZUKA, living in a loft space they fondly
called “Rednail”. Producing under the moniker Symbols & Instruments, the synergistic trio’s most important (for the Chicago scene, and electronic music in general) production is, to this day, credited as the “first ambient house” tune: the KMS classic “Mood”.

Reaping the rapt success of Chicagoan productions like ‘Mood,’ DJs from different corners of the country began flying in to the Midwest to see what was bubbling. As a result, the snowglobe mentality of the Chicago house scene finally opened up, allowing the scene to see outside of itself – and Mark, meanwhile, was able to see all the way over to the left coast and
beyond. Fusing the laid-back vibes of San Francisco and the jackin’ sounds of Chicago, bringing the Midwest and West coast to some kind of smooth, sunny middle ground, Mark Farina takes ‘Fabric 40’ by the helm and steers it down an astonishing, picturesque route. Mixed lovingly by hand, this buoyant, essential summer soundtrack swells and melds with the headnodding
sounds of DERRICK CARTER, INLAND NIGHTS, MOOD II SWING, JOHNNY FIASCO, JT DONALDSON & UNEAQ, DJ SNEAK and KING KOOBA on legendary labels such as KING STREET SOUNDS, NORDIC TRAX, SO SOUND and DROP MUSIC amongst
much more!

Estimated despatch 14-20 days after ordering.