| Born and raised in Essen, Germany - producer and DJ Marc O`Tool
is handled as one of Germany's most talented and uprising progressive
house pioneers.Marco has been influencing the electronic musicscene
from the early age of 20 years.His first records,which have been produced
only with a very minimal homestudio, already gained support from top-dj´s
such as Westbam and were a main part of the early days of House and Techno.
In these days Marco was also running very popular club events where he used to
bring DJs like Laurent Garnier or Robert Hood over to germany to present underground
music to an open-minded audience.His first years in business of course were more fun
than business,but Marco more and more wanted to become a developing part of the
electronic music scene.Music became a fulltime job for him meanwhile, not only as
a producer, but also because he currently owns two labels.Apart from his own
offshoot label Mauritius as well as Underworld Rec., Marco can look back on over 100 releases
he used to publish on various nationally and internationally renowned labels like Hooj Choons,
Maelstrom, Superfly Records,Spot On and Poison Recordings, not only as Marc O´Tool but
also under his diverse monikers such as Ballroom or Motorcraft.But he is also equally requested
and well-known for his remix works and has put his spell on records such as DJ Tiesto´s "Urban Train",
which entered the UK sales-charts at # 20, Tall Paul vs. INXS "Precious Heart", Martin H,
JBN or DJ Quicksilver. Because of rising requests,Marco had almost no chance not to introduce
himself to his audience also as an "artist to touch".His DJ-popularity is increasing from day to day
and so he spices up the most en-vogue clubs and festivals in germany as wellas headlining diverse
international events in countries such as Mexico, Greece, Russia, Denmark to name but a few.
There is no doubt that this workaholic is definitely someone to keep an eye on. 2002 he finally
teamed up with ELECTRIBE,which should become his new home, label- and management wise,
from then on.He was the labels´ first night with his promising doubletracker "Black`n`white" /
"Lexicon Legend",followed half a year later by his second double A-side entitled "Logical" / "Jack".
Having gained the support from almost every toplevel dj in the world without seeing any boarders
of style - people like Deep Dish,John Digweed, Satoshi Tomiie, Sander Kleinenberg, Paul van Dyk,
Tiesto, Saeed & Palash, Moguai, Tall Paul,are just a very few examples - it was about time to bring
it to the next level. So he thought,locked himself away into his studio hardly working and came out
half a year later with a large amount of different unique tracks.A selection of the best, most
representative and outstanding tracks have been bound together to his very first artist album called "Tao".
Introduced by the self-named "Tao"-EP including "passenger 2.0", a re-design of his biggest success
to date on Hooj Choons´ sister label Lost Languageunder his Ballroom guide and now turned into an
official Marc O´Tool single,he again made it to catch the spotlight and to have his music played in
all the big rooms around this world. "Tao" - the album is set to be released in june 2004 on Electribe,
followed by and presented on a worldwide tour to spread "the word" (or shall we better say "the music"?)! |
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