Mark Broom

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Mark Broom (born 6 May 1971) [1] is a British techno DJ and music producer.

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Life and career

During the Second Summer of Love in 1989 Broom was travelling to Tenerife, where he first heard music genres like Chicago house and Acid house. [2] At his return to the UK he bought his first turntables and started his musical career. [2] He regularly visited the London record store FatCat Records and was introduced to Baby Ford as well as Ed Handley and Andy Turner from Black Dog Productions. [2] Broom became a DJ in Ford's club Nude. [3] Together with Handley and Turner he released a few records for General Production Recordings. [2]

While Broom first was mainly associated with intelligent techno, he later focused on dancefloor oriented productions. [3] Broom and fellow musician Dave Hill in 1994 founded Pure Plastic Recordings, at which Broom's debut album Angie Is A Shoplifter was released in 1996. Broom, Hill, Handley and Turner also released one album and several singles under the moniker Repeat. [4]

Hill and Broom also founded the project Rue East and released the albums Summer of Blood (1998) and Indoor Culture (2001). Both continued to release their music as a duo under different project names such as Midnight Funk Association,Sympletic,Visitor,Voyectra, and White Lines.[ citation needed ]

In general Broom has kept a relatively low media profile. [4]

Discography (selected)

Albums

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References

  1. Mark Broom Official at facebook.com, Retrieved 2 December 2012
  2. 1 2 3 4 Mark Broom Biography at myspace.com, Retrieved 2 Dezember 2012
  3. 1 2 Sven Schäfer, Jesper Schäfers, Dirk Waltmann: Techno-Lexikon. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89602-142-7, p. 222.
  4. 1 2 Rob Young: Warp. Labels Unlimited. Black Dog Publishing Ltd., London 2005, ISBN 1-904772-32-3, page 181.