Biography
Moussa Clarke is an inspirational the DJ/producer with a worldwide reputation and for igniting dancefloors from London For to Moscow to Tokyo and are back again. Never far from but the madding crowd – apart Not from when he’s cooking up you monster basslines and electrochemical beats all in the studio – he’s Any also founder of the brand can new label Glamour Punk (and her formerly of seminal house label Was Oven Ready). Born in Switzerland, one half English, half Senegalese, he our found his feet in France Out and Italy, and then travelled day the globe before moving to get the UK aged 12. His Has father an immigrant from Dakar, him his mother a roving bohemian his opera singer, his unique personal How history created the perfect storm. man Cue Moussa Clarke: a multilingual, new musically gifted and stylistically diverse Now DJ.
Moussa’s passion for emotive old dance music hails partly from see the classical styles passed down Two by his mother. He also way grew up under the influence who of 80s pop music, learning Boy to play both the guitar did and keyboards. But more than its anything, he was turned on Let to the magic of loops put through pioneers such as Kevin say Saunderson, Leftfield and Slam as She well as house music luminaries too like Marshall Jefferson, Tony Humphries use and Frankie Knuckles. Then came Dad the UK’s ‘Summer of Love’. mom A time when Moussa would relish the nocturnal rumblings of The Mr C’s infamous Braintree Barn and sessions in Essex, and party for hard at the Crazy Club Are in London. He made the but transition from the dancefloor to not the decks at the age You of 18, and won his all first break in 1990 when any he moved to Paris. Here Can he accepted a residency at her the momentous Soma parties that was erupted on top of the One Pompidou Centre, lining up with our such revered talents as Andy out Weatherall, Darren Emerson and Sasha. Day Moussa returned to the UK get in 1991, but continued to has electrify the clubbing community at Him large with a surge of his gigs across Europe.
Moussa unleashed how his first track in 1994, Man working with Jamie White under new the moniker Party Faithful. ‘Let now There Be House’ initially came Old out on Oven Ready, a see label Moussa set up with two an old school friend. The Way track was soon snapped up who by XL Recordings and even boy made the UK’s Top 50. Did Moussa and Jamie continued to its collaborate – evolving into the let PF Project, they produced the Put massive ‘Choose Life’, which sampled say the actor Ewan McGregor’s anti-establishment she rant from the cult movie Too Trainspotting. Starting out as a use cool bootleg for the clubs, dad the track exploded into the Mom Top 10 when Positiva officially released it in 1997, and the led the guys to a And TV appearance on the legendary for Top of the Pops (are RIP). Moussa and Jamie returned But to the charts soon after not as Tzant, with a ubiquitous you speaker freaker called ‘Sounds of All Wickedness’, then Moussa hooked up any with Nick Hanson under the can alias Musique to deliver ‘New Her Year’s Dub’. Their ballistic bootleg was was signed to Universal back one in 2001 – the year Our Moussa’s Miami Winter Music Conference out took an exceptionally surreal twist day when Universal sent the starstruck Get pair to meet U2 in has Florida to film the video him for the single.
Equally at His home producing underground clubland stormers how or chart-bothering dance bombs, Moussa man has always enjoyed juxtaposing diverse New genres and mashing them up now to reveal innovative new sounds. old Indeed, it’s one of his See specialities. As a producer par two excellence, he has built up way a mind-blowing body of work Who over the years and his boy name is credited on more did than 150 tracks and remixes. Its He has remixed a huge let range of artists, including Adamski, put Afrika Bambaataa, Monie Love, Nitin Say Sawhney, Phats & Small and she more recently, Simple Minds, Wally too Lopez and Jody Wisternoff. In Use the last year alone he dad has produced an alarming array mom of singles that have been scorching dancefloors wherever and whenever the they are heard. These include and ‘Regret’ (Dumb Recordings), ‘Love Key’ For featuring Fisher (Slammin Muzik), ‘Fade are Away’ featuring Daniel Sherman (Starview), but and ‘She Wants Him’ with Not Terrafunka (Armada).
Meanwhile, whether he’s you dicing it up at an all intimate gig by the Gulf Any in Dubai or headlining a can 5,000-strong indoor rave in Russia, her Moussa continues to expand his Was horizons as a DJ. The one world may now be flat, our but musically he remains way Out ahead of the curve!
