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Dave Clarke (H. 1982-85)
(David Carter)
OBA Alumni Hall of Fame
One of the most respected (and idiosyncratic) techno DJs and producers in the ninties/noughties, Dave Clarke began his music career as a hip-hop DJ in the mid-'80s, shifting to and staying with Techno & Electro.
He began recording for XL in the late eighties under the guise of Hardcore (where he scored a number one in the gallop album chart), he also became the first British Artist to record for the Belgium label R&S, By the mid-'90s, he had gradually shifted away from rave to a brand of straightahead techno with the ferocity of hardcore yet the sublime feelings of classic Detroit techno. A series of three singles named "Red" gained fame during 1995-96 (the last went Top 40 in the U.K.), as did his ferocious DJ sets.
Clarke's phenomenal album debut Archive 1 appeared in 1996 on Deconstruction (with a few more chart placings to come). Demagnitized, a compilation of his earlier material on Magnetic North came out in 1995, Clarke also mixed two volumes of the crucial electro compilation series Electro Boogie for German label "Studio !K7" .His production skills have been utilised by Depeche Mode (a band he used to listen to in his study in Hamden), Gary Numan, Chemical Brothers, Underworld amongst many others (not bad for a boy that got chastised rather heavily by his then HouseMaster Tony "Bamber" Whitestone for looping the Nuclear Attack Siren on the begining of Frankie goes to Hollywood's "Two Tribes" for five minutes during an interschool cricket match!). He then later signed his World Service compilation to React to become one of the most important and groundbreaking compilations of the year. He also has worked with Brighton label Skint with various remixes and the the release of his second artist album "Devil's Advocate" in 2003. His passion for radio was clear also, Dave started off his transmissions from the humble "Festival Radio" in Brighton and later on used that experience to do weekly radio sets broadcast on fm in many countries including Belgium, Portugal, Turkey (which he stopped due only so that he could record music in the studio again), and he even did a stint in 1997 on BBC Radio One, and transmitted to over 60 million people on the one off show "Eurodance".
DC not only continues to DJ non stop around the world in clubs with headlining sets in many festivals (including the legendary Glastonbury) but remains active in the studio with remixes and a forthcoming compilation this year.
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