DJ Mark Farina: Fabric 40 Sessions focus on Quality, not Novelty
DJ Mark Farina is the latest musician to join the Fabric family with the release of his imaginary club mix “Fabric 40”. Ever since dropping his Brass Bugle in favour of a turntable, Farina has turned into one of the world’s most popular artists in the field of deep house and relaxed dance music, positioning himself as the 21st century penchant to a minstrel. “When making the mix, I played a sort of fictitious set at fabric on a night that doesn't exist”, Mark Farina said about the sessions, “Musically, I tried to capture the techy, jackin' Chicago/SF side of the house spectrum - dubby, chunky tracks. I tried to pick tunes from all over the world. I picked a good variation of underground goodies, a lot of which are unreleased or hopefully not on any other compilations. Tracks that have a good "shelf life" but that aren't proven hits; hidden gems that might go over looked in this fast paced music era.” With 21 tunes comfortably squeezed onto a single CD, the flowing and yet entertainingly eclectic character of “Fabric 40” comes to the fore even more.
While some of Mark Farina’s colleagues have used the stint at the Fabric to build conceptual archs or to revisit their past with epic collages compiled from the rosters of former friends and current collaborators, the globetrotter from San Francisco has focussed on nothing but some fine tunes and a good mix, concentrating on the here and now. Quality rather than novelty is the main ingredient for his releases, which bridge the gap between “Fabric 40” and other DJ Mark Farine cuts like his “Sessions” or “Mushroom Jazz” series, as different as their musical perspective may be.
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