02.11 (Tue)
In a dance music world ever-more saturated by imagination-free releases, Marr is taking a refreshing quality-over-quantity approach. A songwriter and multi-instrumentalist as well as a producer and engineer, his inspirations include David Bowie and Prince.
A music obsessive all his life, his first encounters with dance music were acid house records which augmented his vinyl collection of rock and soul, and attending all night parties under Brixton's St Matthews church. Traveling to the south of England to watch DJ Harvey play an lengthy set, he saw the kind of power a DJ can wield over a willing crowd.
3 of his songs can be heard in the recent London-set remake of Nicholas Winding Refn's film 'Pusher' starring Richard Coyle and Agyness Dean. http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/pusher/
His latest single, released worldwide through DFA Records, is "The Music".
This tune charted at number 3 in Spin Magazine's "The 40 best dance tracks of 2013 so far", compiled by Philip Sherburne:
http://www.spin.com/articles/best-dance-tracks-of-2013-so-far-daft-punk-todd-terje-disclosure/?slide=38
On the flip of the DFA single is a new, DJ-friendly version of "Pleasure Moon". This ne... More Biography
A music obsessive all his life, his first encounters with dance music were acid house records which augmented his vinyl collection of rock and soul, and attending all night parties under Brixton's St Matthews church. Traveling to the south of England to watch DJ Harvey play an lengthy set, he saw the kind of power a DJ can wield over a willing crowd.
3 of his songs can be heard in the recent London-set remake of Nicholas Winding Refn's film 'Pusher' starring Richard Coyle and Agyness Dean. http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/pusher/
His latest single, released worldwide through DFA Records, is "The Music".
This tune charted at number 3 in Spin Magazine's "The 40 best dance tracks of 2013 so far", compiled by Philip Sherburne:
http://www.spin.com/articles/best-dance-tracks-of-2013-so-far-daft-punk-todd-terje-disclosure/?slide=38
On the flip of the DFA single is a new, DJ-friendly version of "Pleasure Moon". This ne... More Biography