Mark Broom (born 6 May 1971)Mark Broom Official
at facebook.com, Retrieved 2 December 2012 is a British

techno Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempo often varying between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time (4/4) and often ch ...

DJ and music producer.

Life and career

During the

Second Summer of Love The Second Summer of Love was a late 1980s social phenomenon in the United Kingdom which saw the rise of acid house music and unlicensed rave parties. Although primarily referring to the summer of 1988, it lasted into the summer of 1989, when e ...

in 1989 Broom was travelling to

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, where he first heard music genres like

Chicago house Chicago house refers to house music produced during the mid to late 1980s within Chicago. The term is generally used to refer to the first ever house music productions, which were by Chicago-based artists in the 1980s. History and origins Disco ...

and

Acid house Acid house (also simply known as just "acid") is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago. The style is defined primarily by the squelching sounds and basslines of the Roland TB-303 electronic bass synthesiz ...

.Mark Broom Biography
at myspace.com, Retrieved 2 Dezember 2012 At his return to the UK he bought his first turntables and started his musical career. He regularly visited the London record store

FatCat Records FatCat Records is an English independent record label based in Brighton. The label's output reaches into many styles including experimental rock, electronica, psychedelic folk, contemporary classical, noise and post-punk. Notable artists that ...

and was introduced to

Baby Ford Peter Ford, better known as Baby Ford, is a British electronic music record producer, known particularly for his contributions to the birth of acid house. He has also released material under aliases with Mark Broom (Casino Classix, El Mal, Solcy ...

as well as Ed Handley and Andy Turner from

Black Dog Productions The Black Dog is a British electronic music group, founded in 1989 by Ken Downie along with Ed Handley and Andy Turner. The group are considered pioneering figures of techno's ruminative "home-listening" aesthetic in the early 1990s. Followin ...

. Broom became a DJ in Ford's club ''Nude''.Sven Schäfer, Jesper Schäfers, Dirk Waltmann: ''Techno-Lexikon.'' Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89602-142-7, p. 222. Together with Handley and Turner he released a few records for General Production Recordings. While Broom first was mainly associated with

intelligent techno Intelligent dance music (commonly abbreviated as IDM) is a style of electronic music originating in the early 1990s, defined by idiosyncratic experimentation rather than specific genre constraints.''"…the label 'IDM' (for avant-garde, 'intel ...

, he later focused on dancefloor oriented productions. 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.''Rob Young: ''Warp. Labels Unlimited.'' Black Dog Publishing Ltd., London 2005, ISBN 1-904772-32-3, page 181. Hill and Broom also founded the project Rue East and released the albums ''Summer of Blood'' (1998) and ''Indoor Culture'' (2001). Both continued to released their music as a duo under different project names such as ''Midnight Funk Association,'' ''Sympletic,'' ''Visitor,'' ''Voyectra,'' and ''White Lines.'' In general Broom has kept a relatively low media profile.

Discography (selected)

;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

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Broom, Mark 1971 births Living people English electronic musicians English techno musicians English DJs BPitch Control artists Techno musicians Electronic dance music DJs