Websites: www.djmarkfarina.com
www.om-records.com

Myspace URL: www.myspace.com/markfarina

Check out the first 12" release on Mark's new label, "Great Lakes Audio" titled 'Bes' Enatainment E.P."

“I look at my job as a modern day traveling minstrel, to bring new music to as many places as I can, and expose obscure records that, otherwise, might go hidden.” While Mark Farina may be able to sum up his job description in a sentence, there is much more to be written. Mark developed his musical tastes in Chicago – listening to house music on the radio, living in one of the country’s most primordial breeding grounds for house. Around ’88, while record shopping at Imports, Etc., he met Derrick Carter and a friendship began. “I just ended up there between classes, I ended up buying his picks. He steered me toward the cutting edge House producers of the time.”

“I started playing when I lived with my parents and didn’t have any bills to pay so I could just buy records. My intentions were never to just make money, it’s nice, but it’s kind of turned into a job by accident - it was a hobby that turned into a job.”

On CD, Mark has recorded both of his dominant musical personalities. His first mix, ‘Mushroom Jazz’ on Om Records, is defined by a hip-hop sub-groove with jazzy, dubby elements in the down-tempo range. It was followed by ‘Seasons’, a critically acclaimed House mix. An Imperial Dub mixed CD, a guest slot in the pedigreed ‘United DJs of America’ series, ‘Mushroom Jazz 2’ (Om Records) and ‘San Francisco Sessions, Vol. I’ (Om Records) to round out the Farina catalog. ‘Mushroom Jazz 3’ traces the pattern of the previous releases in the series with a mellow, downbeat groove programmed and mixed as none other but Farina could do. In 2002, Mark has released original productions, as well as another OM mixed CD ‘Connect’, and recorded what was to be the final installment of Mushroom Jazz, Volume 4. Once again, Mark delighted fans and followed up with another Mushroom Jazz CD, V.5 in 2005. For 2006 he launched his new record label, Great Lakes Audio and toured his MOS CD compilation "Sessions". For 2007 enjoy the next installment in the "House of Om" series from Mark Farina!! Catch his set live in a city near you...