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MOORE, MARK - Mark Moore MM01 (Trust The DJ)

(Wednesday February 27, 2002 10:50 AM )

Released on 04/03/2002
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Trust The DJ return with their latest showcase DJ compilation from one of the people who laid the foundations of contemporary dance music.

To speak of the evergreen Moore as a forefather of the UK's club culture is to downplay the length of service he has put in as a club kid, DJ and early house pop star.

Moore first made his mark through the post punk club scene of early Eighties London, taking part in the developments in the capital's night scene that were later to spawn acid house and the subsequent rise of dance in the UK into a major genre of music.

His first break came via Phillip Sallon's seminal mid Eighties Mud Club at Buzby's, where Moore's DJ sets blended high energy sounds into early hip hop, disco and celebratory soul.

But his fame was to finally rise to its full extent with his S-Express vehicle, which, launched at the end of the Eighties and brought a distinctly European take on house to 'Top of The Pops', while simultaneously inspiring the rise of early Nineties glam clubbing.

Here Moore celebrates his journey by tying together the disco fuelled house sounds Anti Trance Terrorists with the peak time tracks such as Haktan O'Nal's 'Bedford Street'.

Around this core we range through Manu From Newcastle's superb and onomatopoeically entitled 'Africa Tribal Harmonica', Los Chicharrons' Latin percussive house groove on 'The Feeling's Right' and the equally aptly titled Brian Damage Presents a Disco Tragedy's 'Musicality'.

The high energy roots to his music are finally unleashed mid set with the gyrating disco-tech house of the aforementioned Haktan O'Nal's 'Bedford Street', which pushes things as close to the edge of cheese as you can get while still not falling over the precipice.

Jurgen Dreissen's 'Tenshi' swirls into trance production, but stays locked on an almost electro two four metallic snare. Having pitched things up the tempo Indart, Wally and Kucho's 'The Sea' recalls the album's earlier percussive elements, which are now firmly locked into harder tech house bpms.

Moogwai's remix of Tony Rapacioli's 'Ce La Faro' take things into a darker, deeper territory before Major North's 'Annhilate' does what you'd expect and adds further moody edges before taking off into a carnival of breaks.

Finally Ping Pong Bitches pitch in the anger disco keep fit work out of 'Rock Action' to bring the tale to a suitably messy finish.

    by Ben Osborne

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