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Dogboy
25-Jan-02, 02:12pm
Hello All,

Just to let you know know that the next edition of Fang is on Friday 8th of February. This
month we bring you the sounds of Mako (Floating Point Music), another Canberra boy made
good in the big smoke of Sydney. Alongside ever talented locals, Ben Henderson, Mexi,
Jeremy Joshua and Bec Paton.
So if you want to hear some great music, in a comfortable environment, with friendly
people you had better not miss this night.


FANG
Friday 8 February

DJ's: Mako (Syd, Floating Point Music), Ben Henderson, Mexi, Jeremy Joshua, Bec Paton.

Babylon $10 / 10pm

See you all there
Dogboy

P.S Next Fang 28th February.



Mako Biography
Written by Lorna Clarkson

Starting out as a Canberra-based collector of jazz, soul, funk and breaks, Mako mastered
his decks at an early age, able to cut up his collection into pastiches of beat-funk
menace, capturing the ear of the most attention deficit dancefloor.

He quickly made a name for himself in hip hop circles and, when the brighter lights of
Sydney beckoned, Mako packed his headphones and soon found a place as a resident at The
Globe nightclub. His acute scratching technique coupled with his broad reference
collection of music saw him being booked for trick sets, hooking up with Nick Toth under
the name Dharma Bums and touring with Ninja Tune on, not one, but two of their Australian
tours.

Mako’s obsession with beats was never restricted to breaks and he was soon seduced by the
sounds of house music - a dirty word in hip hop speak. But purism is for the narrow minded
and Mako was never one to limit himself in his relentless quest for musical growth and
challenge.

Between ’99 and ’01 he co-promoted Vinyl, Third Bass, seminal breaks night Blueprint @ The
Globe and, the pioneer in deep house nights, The Deep End @ Frontier. He has played at the
most cutting edge nights all over Australia and has a very loyal following from his
Sydney-based radio show Top Shelf which he co-hosts with Lorna.

Now Mako has taken the next logical step, starting to write and produce his own material.
Signed to Floating Point Music, he is currently working on his debut album which is
expected to be as eclectic as his Djing influences. He has had an amazing response to his
recent remix of the Multiball single ‘Newbie’ and he is also branching out into theatre
work, invited to put together the sound and music for the upcoming Sydney Theatre Company
production of ‘Mr Kolpert’ written by David Gieselmann, directed by Benedict Andrews
(Fireface) and starring Sophie Lee.

RuffnReady
25-Jan-02, 02:37pm
Is Mexi playing hip hop?

Alistair
25-Jan-02, 05:12pm
Ruffy - last time i saw mexi at Fang, he was on early and he played some blackalicious. I know thats all you needed to hear...

By the way... thats one hell of a write up from Lorna... she of good taste giving props like that - i want to check this @!#$ out! Congrats to the Fang team for making me want to cut my sydney holiday short by a week or two :)

calico
25-Jan-02, 06:56pm
also best mates with the subject!

but mexi rocked last time at fang - definitely the best dj i've seen in canberra, breaks of a greater than one-dimensional nature. he rocked hip hop through old school party breaks, funk and new school. very good!

shame simon caldwell couldn't make it but with mako and mexi the party sounds fantastic!

calico