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Mark Broom

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

Life and career

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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)

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Albums
  • 1995: Repeat – Repeats (A13)
  • 1996: Mark Broom – Angie Is A Shoplifter (Pure Plastic)
  • 1998: Rue East – Summer of Blood (Pure Plastic)
  • 2001: Rue East – Indoor Culture
  • 2010: Mark Broom – Acid House (Saved Records)
  • 2021: Mark Broom – Fünfzig (Rekids)

References

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