Spoon, Mark

▪ 2007

Markus Löffel 

      German disc jockey and musician (b. Nov. 27, 1966, Frankfurt, W.Ger.—d. Jan. 11, 2006, Berlin, Ger.), helped pioneer the form of electronic dance music known as trance, derived from house and techno music. Spoon began working as a disc jockey at parties and clubs in the mid-1980s. He also developed talent for Logic Records. In 1991 he formed a partnership with former classical guitarist Jam El Mar (Rolf Ellmer). Taking the name Jam & Spoon, the pair remixed earlier dance music and released an EP (a format intermediate in length between a single and an album) called Tales from a Danceographic Ocean, which included the hit single “Stella.” Their debut album, Tripomatic Fairytales 2001 (1993), yielded the hit singles “Right in the Night (Fall in Love with Music)” and “Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona).” In 1994 the British magazine Mixmag named the pair best remixers of the year. They released Disco 2001 (1996) under the name Tokyo Ghetto Pussy and had a hit in 2000 with the single “Time to Burn,” recorded under the name Storm. Their final album, again as Jam & Spoon, was Tripomatic Fairytales 3003 (2004).

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