Interview on Dontstayin

I've just done an interview for Dontstayin, ahead of my gig at Unique Music in Norwich on 26th December. Dontstayin is a UK-based, hugely popular clubbing event and photo website. You can read it here.

Fade Away Getting Nearer

The mix package on the Fade Away single is gettting nearer completion. Original Mix and Dumb Dan Mix are now done and dusted. I've put up a preview of the original on my myspace page. The Dumb Dan Remix is phat as anything - more mixes coming from Scandall, DJ Sender and Leonid Rudenko. There's also mixes from Lebedev, Pimenov and Openair (the first of these is massive in Russia already). Not sure what the final tracklisting will be yet - will be released sometime in 2007 on Starview Records in Holland.

Silly Season

Couple of really cool gigs lined up for the tail-end of December, including Unique at Pams House in Norwich in the UK on the 26th and the ever-brilliant Club Pepper in Groeningen in Holland on New Years Eve, where I'll be sharing the decks with Jody Wisternoff from Way Out West and Sebastian Davidson. More travelling coming up in January, including dates in Poland and with any luck, my debut in Dubai. More info coming soon.

Remix Machine

I've done a ridiculous amount of remixes in the last year, I've got a few more to finish then I'm probably going to take a little break to concentrate on writing some more of my own stuff. But in the meantime the remix saga continues - there's a few more on their way from me, including Ricky Stone - "Shanghai Taxi" - Red Recordings (UK), John Ashby - "Posh People Cant Dance" - Palace (Spain), Ledge - "Cyclone" - Ledge Music (France), and The Adjuster - "Sweden" - Dumb Recordings (Sweden). Just staple me to the mixing desk.

Dark Sweet Vinyl

My remix of "Dark Sweet Piano" by Wally Lopez vs Dark Suite is finally out on vinyl. Big support from Nick Warren, Jody Wisternoff, David Gausa, Flash Brothers, Andy Moor, Mashtronic, Chris Lake, Cheshire Catz, Dumb Dan, Sonny Wharton, Static Revenger, DJ Livio, Tim Andresen, DJ Rollo, Stian Klo, Mike McKenna, Patrice Strike, Mark Dynamix, Goodwill, DJ Rap, Onno Van Velzen, Timo Garcia, Mike Hiratzka, Lewis Dene, Griff Manumission, etc etc etc.

Get it now from Juno.

Astana, Almaty and Moscow...

...were great fun as usual.

In Astana I wound up playing two clubs, 69 and Hollywood. The first was a fashion party and I was accompanied during my set by a Jazz Accordion Player (I'm not joking), who absolutely rocked. In Almaty, I played Da Freak (still one of my favourite clubs in the world!) for the 4th birthday celebrations of the Set Session Radio Show on Energy FM, in the company of local stars Sniper, Timoffey and Serega. Big thanks to Nour for another fantastic weekend, and to Denis for looking after me in Astana!

Over in Moscow, I had my first gig at Saxar, a small but
perfectly formed club with a really up-for-it crowd. After the gig, we did the usual after party rounds, winding up at Gorod and a couple of other insalubrious establishments. Met up with young Norwegian producer/DJ David Sense (more cake?), and bumped into Guy aka DJ Hyper and his entourage in the backroom at Gorod (the big Nokia-sponsored event that was due to take place that weekend was cancelled at the very last minute so everyone was wandering around town in search of the next party!) Big ups to Kirill, Yulia (so drunk!) and Misha for organising everything.

If you want to check out what it was all like, there are some pics from Da Freak here, pics from Saxar here, and videos from Saxar here (thanks to David Sense for the vids!)

Site Upgrade

My website's had a few improvements made to it. Still sticking to the blog format, but it's all slightly better organised with sections for audio, gigs, video, biog etc, making use of all the best that Web 2.0 has to offer... There's even a nifty little app so you can IM me directly from the site. Go and check it all out at www.moussaclarke.com.

While we're on the subject, my blog is also mirrored at www.myspace.com/moussaclarke, moussaclarke.livejournal.com and moussaclarke.vox.com so if you're a member of any of those, please feel free to add me :-)