Mike Monday - “Salieri Complex” - Om Records
David West - “Hello Piano” - Mistakes
Julianne - “And I love to Say Goodbye” (Moussa Clarke Remix) - 19 Box
Wonderland Avenue - “Idol Eyes” (Kikko Martini) - Slammin Muzik
Tim Andresen - “Grasshopper 2008″ - What Happens
Eddie Cabrera - “Palma Nights” (Daniel Lindeberg Mix) - Dumb Recordings
Orkidea - “Metaverse” (Jody Wisternoff Remix) - AVA
Wize - “Grand Voyage” - Sismic
David Gausa, Static Revenger & Scumfrog - “Into The Deep”  - Sutil
Mr Gil - “The Dawn” (Chris Crowther Remix) - Orbiter

Also got the chance to attend the re-launch of the uber-glamourous Most club in Moscow on Friday night. It’s just had a re-fit, courtesy of architect Alexey Haas, and it’s looking and sounding great!

I’ll be back in Russia in a couple of weeks

US-based Blake Jarrell has completed an amazing remix, which has been doing some serious dancefloor damage over the last few weekends. The track is already playlisted by Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, Markus Schulz, Jody Wisternoff, Judge Jules and more. You can check out a preview on my Myspace Page!

He will be sorely missed by the music and clubbing industry.

A couple of remixes I did a while ago have finally seen the light of day, and are now available from Beatport.

The David Vendetta track originally started as a remix for Keith Thompson plain & simple, but is now available on David’s release on French label Paradise Records. It’s a remake of Raze’s early house classic, and my remix features flashes of the original bassline and riffs, albeit updated, transposed and doing some odd things with the key - oo-er.

My remix of Julianne - “And I love to say goodbye” has become a big favourite with the international melodic progressive brigade over the last year, featured in sets from Jody Wisternoff, Ricky Ryan, Add 2 Basket and more… It has to be one of my favourites of the remixes I’ve produced, and I’m chuffed its finally out on Japan’s excellent 19BoxRecords (pronounced “Jukebox” - the Japanese for 19 is “juke”). So now all those people who’ve been emailing me about it can finally get their hands on it!

Go seek

When I originally envisaged this blog, it was going to be part travelogue, part food diary and part self-hype (the latter is what blogs are for, aren’t they?), to talk about things I’ve been up to in the studio and gig-wise.
So I’m going to combine all three, and right now I’m going to start off with a bit of reminiscing, and speak a little bit about Morocco. It seems fitting since I’ve been there three times already this year, and it looks like it’s going to be somewhere I keep returning to!

My first trip was to Ifrane, a little university city up in the mountains. I flew into blistering heat in Casablanca airport and met up with Leo Veil, local DJ hero, and extremely gregarious character. We instantly struck up a friendship - he was surprised and happy to find out that I am francophone - I grew up in the East of France near the border with Switzerland - French and Arabic being the local languages in Morocco. As we drove up to Ifrane, the temperature got distinctly cooler. We chatted culture and travel with Youssouf the promoter in the local pizza joint, then headed to the club, Ifranity. A great little venue with a big heart, really up for it crowd and brilliant atmosphere, thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Next up I made the journey to Skhirat Plage to the excellent Nirvana Club. You can check a little clip of me in action on Youtube. Nirvana is based in the Amphitrite Palace, a slightly faded but nevertheless impressive luxury hotel, right on the beach and looking out onto the Atlantic. Thanks to the lovely Achouak for a wicked gig.

And finally… Rabat. This time I played the small but perfectly formed Reservoir, a really cool hangout with a great vibe. Earlier in the day, I hooked up with Leo again and local resident DJ Sim, and partook in some rather delicious Moroccan tea (very sweet, very minty) and also got taken to a fantastic traditional Moroccan restaurant called Dinarjat, tucked away in a Riyad in the old Kasbah. An old guy in traditional dress leads you through the cobbled streets by lantern-light to a courtyard set with tables and an open starry night sky, musicians playing subtle local rhythms while you eat amazingly delicious food: Harira, a local soup, pastilla, a pastry with pidgeon and almonds, and brouzia, a sweet lamb tagine with raisins. In between courses, the waitresses bring rose water for you to wash your hands. Absolute class

The gig wasn’t bad either! Again, a great friendly crowd, and a thoroughly good night. Looking forward to coming back to Morocco again very soon.

Summer 2008 Mix
Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?ddyhcmjy2mw

01. Mar T - “Gentlemen” (John Dahlback Mix) - Paradise
02. Gregor Tresher - “A Thousand Nights” (Dubfire Mix) - Great Stuff
03. Dohr & Mangold - “Sunrise 5.30am” (Style of Eye Mix) - Joia
04. Arno Cost & Norman Doray vs The Presets - “Love Apocalypse” (Moussa Clarke Re-Edit) - CDR
05. Dumb Dan - “On My Radar” (Dub) - Dumbest
06. Dubfire - “Roadkill” (EDX Mix) - Sirup
07. Claes Rosen vs Add2Basket - “Volaris” (Kris B & Nosmo Mix) - Avantgardia
08. Rasmus - “Together Alone” (Daniel Lindeberg Dub) - Dumb
09. Moussa Clarke & Terrafunka - “Unforgettable” - CDR
10. Slytek - “Flutterby” - Standby
11. Flanders - “Behind” (Micky Slim Remix) - Ego/Gusto
12. Aaron Jerome feat. Kathrin DeBoer - “Misunderstanding” (Feliciano Vocal Mix) - Ricanstruction
13. Moussa Clarke & Terrafunka - “She Wants Him” (Human Adams Mix) - Armada

In my defense, I’ve been kind of busy. Touring-wise, since Brazil, I’ve been to Russia (more than once!), Canada, Morocco, Italy, Spain and Kazakhstan, as well as managing to slot in a couple of gigs in London. On the studio front, I’ve been working on some new singles (more on these soon!), as well as doing some work with Kevin Edge for a TV ad here in the UK. So it’s all been pretty much non-stop.

I’ll be posting some photos up from the last couple of months’ gigs as soon as I get the chance, in the meantime there’s a couple of new videos (with some rather dubious sound-quality!) up on the video page on my website or via Youtube.

Tonight I’ll go out and check out the local clubs - Lee Burridge is over playing somewhere, as is Redanka, so will definitely try to catch their shows. My good buddy Nicko Izzo (who funnily enough shares my birthday) is coming over from Buenos Aires, and we are due to be playing at some after hours party who knows where

Then tomorrow night it’s the main event, I’ll be playing at El Divino along with Nicko and Enrique Fernandes - it’s a double bonanza - a La Terrrazza tour date and House Mag party. Should be a fantastic night.

Which brings me neatly onto my other news, which is that Nicko and I are the 2008 international tour residents for La Terrrazza. La Terrrazza is Barcelona’s world-reknowned openair club, and we’ll be doing more dates in Asia and Europe over the coming months, culminating in a lavish closing party in Barcelona during the summer. Hola!

Currently sitting in Heathrow airport having a snack and waiting for my flight to Moscow, the perfect time to add a couple of quick posts to my blog, which I seem to have neglected for the last month…

My gigs at the end of January in Ulan-Ude and Chita were a lot of fun, but repeat after me: “I must not try to outdrink Eastern Siberians”. I lost the contest big-time, my headache the next day was spectacular, and my greenish tinge none too fetching.

This weekend I’m back in Russia, over to Chelyabinsk, this time to play at a brand new club called Studio 74. Should be good, but maybe I should just keep away from the vodka. Chelyabinsk is becoming a bit of a favourite - it’s my fourth gig there in less than a year. Great city and great people. It’s also Dima Butrimenko’s birthday - happy birthday bro!

Then the following week I’m off to Estonia and Lithuania - more news soon

I’ll be playing for Get Diverted at Babalou, which is in the crypt of St Matthews in Brixton (formerly Bug Bar, underneath the old Mass Club, which funnily enough is where Chris Joseph and I used to run our Sleaze nights many moons ago)

Get Diverted do great monthly parties in the smoke, and I’ll be joined by London face Lofty and Norwich’s very own golden boy Jack Barham for some post-festive January beats - check out the event page on Dontstayin for more details.

First up I was in Russia, in Moscow and Volgograd. The Moscow gig was cool but not at all what I’m used to. The place I played, Pyramid, is more of a restaurant than a club, so while it was nice to be there I’m not sure the clientele really needed to hear my tunes while tucking into their sushi. All very relaxing, but thankfully my lovely friends from Chelyabinsk came and kidnapped me, and after a rather drunken interview for MTV, we wound up in a club somewhere till the early hours jumping around to my old mate DJ Koreetz. Nice one Pasha.

So after what should have been an early night, but wasn’t, I was slightly, erm, tired, when I wound up in Volgograd the next day, and the hotel room was definitely the best place to be for the first few hours (complete with somewhat disconcerting real live Piranha bobbing about in a fishtank in the lobby - her name is Masha apparently, but I didn’t ask her). I managed to get in gear in time for the party - I played after the lovely Masha from Moscow (this one’s a DJ, not a piranha) The club (also called Piranha btw, there’s a theme running here) didn’t disappoint and the crowd were up for it, and it looks like I will be playing there again, so all good

The next weekend I made it over to the Ukraine. On the friday night, I played Patipa in Kiev - a wicked club with a great crowd, rammed to the rafters, I thoroughly enjoyed my set. Following on from me was the excellent DJ Sender, who is such a star in Ukraine that he even has “Senderettes”, a group of girls who turn up at his gigs in home made “Sender is the best” t-shirts. He played an absolutely wicked closing set and I didn’t leave until the lights came up in the club.

Saturday saw a drive up the motorway to Vinnitsa for a party at Amagama. I played in the same club two years ago and had a great night, but it wasnt too busy. This time was the complete opposite, completely packed and full on crowd. Again, the night went off, and I had a great time.

The day after was my birthday and I had planned on hooking up with friends when I got back to London, but sadly my flight wound up being delayed by six hours and I spent most of the day and evening in Kiev Borispol airport due to the pea soup fog at Heathrow - so birthday drinks had to be postponed

After the Christmas break, it was time to get revved up for my new years eve in Maribor in Slovenia. It’s a few years since I’ve played there, so it was great to go back. I played alongside my old friend Wayne Fountain (who I always seem to see on New Years eve in Slovenia, even though he lives in East Anglia!) and bumped into Liz Cirelli and Kid Dub, who happened to be playing in another club in town. The Selected party was great, small but perfectly formed, with a properly debauched and enthusiastic crowd. Wayne and I played three hours each, ably preceded by local bod Grex, and had a grand old time, before heading off in search of an ever more elusive after hours party, and finally being poured out of the cab into the hotel.

Thanks to everyone involved for the great parties, and hi to Misha, Serge, Dima, Anya, Max, Masha, Zhenya, Andryi, Limonoffa, Darko, Robi and everyone else I hung out with and chatted complete nonsense to. As soon as I get pictures from any of the events, I will post them on my Flickr site.

This weekend I am playing in (drumroll….) London. It deserves its own separate blog post, which is coming up next!

Download it here:
Moussa Clarke – Winter 07/08 Mix Session
http://www.mediafire.com/?cdlittnmblq

Tracklist:
01. Nick Supply - “Simpler Things” - CDR
02. Marcella - “Who’s Your Nanny” - Terminal 4
03. Macca - “Mad Science” - Invasive
04. Adam Freeland - “Glowsticks” - Marine Parade
05. Splittr - “All Alone” (Alex Metric Mix) - Eye Industries
06. Manuel De La Mare - “Girls That Go” - Omnis
07. Play Paul & Denis Naidanow - “This is my way” - Sureplayer
08. Relanium - “Leel Lost” - CDR
09. Calvin Harris - “Merrymaking” (Deadmau5 Remix) - EMI
10. Chris James - “Voltage” - CDR
11. Interplay - “Interplay” - Add2Basket
12. The Delta Rock Duo - “Beta Receptor” – Electronic Elements
13. Sucker DJs - “Salvation” - Toolroom
14. Diego Noble - “Insider” - Avantgardia
15. Slytek - “Calyx” - Standby
16. Puppa - “Sense Da Groove” (Moussa Clarke Remix) - Helvetica
17. Rocinante - “Everybody Knows” (Moussa Clarke Remix) – Jackalope

Big thanks to the various radio stations, blogs and forums that are featuring the mix, I will post a list on here at some point…

I’m definitely of the latter opinion - the technology isn’t going to disappear, you can’t uninvent the web or mp3s or IM or CDRs or Bittorrent or filesharing websites like Yousendit, Mediafire, Zshare et al, so it’s utterly pointless moaning about it and longing for the old days - they ain’t coming back.

In fact the Hype Machine is probably my main way of discovering new music these days, at least for non-dancefloor stuff. I get sent literally 100s of clubby promos every week from labels and producers, and in my free time I prefer to listen to other types of music, or else my mind would quickly dissolve into a kind of electro/house/rave mush, and we definitely don’t want that.

And yes, if I really like it, I’ll go and buy it.

Anyway, I’m really pleased that some of these music blogs have featured my tune “Regret”, in particular the runners-up from the remix competition. Please go and check them out:

Hot Biscuits
TribalElectroDance
Boule A Facettes
Dhuun

Big ups to Kyle, Cristian, Vincent and Kapil for featuring the tune - keep supporting new music!

Also, while clearing out my studio I found a couple of CDRs and DVDs with pics and vids from some past gigs in Estonia (2004-2005), so I’ve thrown photos and clips up on Flickr and Youtube respectively - check the media section of my website, or the vid (10 minutes of it at least) is in the embedded player below.

And yes, that’s free as in beer…however we do ask a couple of favours from you in return (feel free to choose):

Favour no. 1. Show your love: Leave us a comment on this blog post. Tell us what you think of the mixes.

Favour no. 2. Spread the love: Give any DJs you know and all your clubby mates the link to this post - if you’re the geeky type, please bookmark it on del.icio.us et al, or link to us in your own blog…

Favour no. 3. Share the love: Feel free to fileshare on AIM/MSN/Gnutella etc… We’d prefer it if you shared the whole zip file since it includes all our info, but if you’re going to share individual mp3s, please leave the id tags intact.

Favour no. 4. Spend some love: If you like the track, please go and buy one of the other mixes from Beatport, so that we can afford some of the above-mentioned beer.

Ok, that’s quite enough blah blah, here is the link - enjoy!

http://www.mediafire.com/?3jbmuu0kmmm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9XdIMJrBLo

And the winners are:

Roman Rai (Czech Republic) Myspace
Roman Rai is one of the residents at the Roxy in Prague, and also heads up Solstice Records. His mix has a wicked retro feel, lots of musicality, as well as some great production touches and plenty of dancefloor bounce.

6884 (Italy) Myspace
6884 is a young producer from Turin - his remix is nothing short of amazing - moody, emotional and minimal, with more than a passing nod to Nathan Fake, James Holden and that whole Border Community vibe. Check the goose-bumbs inducing breakdown!

You can check both of these mixes out (as well as the three runners up) over at Dumb Recordings.