I have revisited my first ever production that launched my production career.  I have been playing it at gigs since early this year with big and humbling reaction.  Happy to share this now and say THANK YOU for the many years of support from long time listeners and to the newer ones too.

The first track of mine to reach commercial release, "...For All The People" circa 1994-ish.  I met my Fade partner Neil Kolo in 1993, even though i had seen him roaming the dancefloor at AAHZ (and surfing local breaks)during the years before, we never met.  Our connection was instant and we started pursuing our passion in bedroom studio.  We had made a handful of tracks before this, but this is the one that caught attention and made more traction then before.  It wasn't until Icey heard me play it out at gig that we knew we had something above the norm.  He encouraged us to press it to vinyl....  

FADE was formed in the summer of 1993 when Neil Kolo, a young studio engineer, introduced himself to Chris Fortier, a young resident DJ at the now infamous "Marz" club in Cocoa Beach, FL, and passed on a tape of some of the material he had been working on. Chris, very enthused by what he had heard, expressed his interest in the idea of working together and learning about how to produce tracks of his own like the ones he had been playing up and down the East Coast of America.

...FOR ALL THE PEOPLE (CHRIS FORTIER REMIXES)

...For All The People (Chris Fortier Twenty Remix)

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FREE DOWNLOW'D: Fade (Kolo/Fortier) - ...For All The People (Chris Fortier's Twenty Remix Extended)

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Zak started his musical journey back in 1998, when the scene was only for the elite, the trained. Montreal was known for its underground scene, and this is where Zak started. He promoted the biggest parties in Montreal, and was always on the dance floor side of the party enjoying the vibe and the music !!

In 2000, he bought his first DJ set with his entire allowance. In 2003, he started DJing in parties in a city where partying was a risk, the scene was a risk, yet he did it for his passion, for his love of music and life. A few months later, he was known to be one of the top DJs in Riyadh, throwing parties ranging from commercial to underground. He’s most known for parties that blend energetic vibes, happy moods and full dance floors. 

Initially, he focused on progressive music with a touch of vocals; with time, he responded to changing tastes and continuously managed to captivate crowds. The soul of the party defined what music he played. His carefully chosen tracklists had the power to control crowds and never kept the dance floor empty.

In summary, he made a dry city bearable to many. His music will make you groove regardless of your musical preference, there’s always a spot somewhere in his sets that you’d enjoy.

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Bom-gosto e conhecimento musical são duas características fundamentais que alguém que pretenda ser deejay deve possuir. A isto, deve ainda juntar uma técnica apurada e um expedito raciocínio na interpretação da pista de dança.
Ora, Mário Roque é um deejay que, não só congrega todas estas qualidades, como ainda lhe junta uma experiência de 40 anos, o que lhe confere uma bagagem musical e técnica, que lhe permite lidar com qualquer público.

Porém, o caminho que desde cedo trilhou na dance scene portuguesa colocam-no num patamar onde poucos se podem orgulhar de figurar, integrando um restrito lote de deejays que, não apenas marcaram o aparecimento da dance scene em Portugal, como a consolidaram.

Nome maior da primeira promotora de eventos de música de dança em Portugal, X-Man, Como era conhecido na altura, afirmou-se desde logo como um dos principais disc-jockeys da cena nacional.

Neste último quarto de século, em que Mário Roque tem levado o seu som quente e afrodisíaco por todo o Portugal e a algumas paragens no estrangeiro, muita água passou debaixo das pontes e a dance scene sofreu muitas alterações, com modas a surgirem e a passarem. Porém, sem cristalizar, Mário Roque tem-se mantido fiel a um conceito de música de dança que continua a agradar a uma vasta faixa do «party people», pois com ele atrás dos pratos a festa está garantida.

A sua música bem-disposta, alegre, quente e afrodisíaca não deixa ninguém indiferente, constituindo um apelo constante à dança e ao livre convívio inter pares, num ambiente marcado pela boa onda.

Mário Roque assenta as suas actuações em sets muito bem estruturados e baseados em construções rítmicas afro-tribais, perfumadas com vocais quentes que emprestam às pistas de dança uma atmosfera única, de pura animação e movimento, sem nunca esquecer o diálogo musical e emocional com o público. Aliás, a empatia que consegue estabelecer com o «party people» é uma das suas características mais apreciadas.

As compilações "afroDISIAK", editada pela «Zona Música», e «X-Club mixed by X-Man», onde assinou uma brilhante remistura do tema "Desert Storm", e “Liquid”, editadas pela «Universal-MCA Records», perpetuam o seu trabalho junto dos amantes de música de dança.

Considerado por muitos como o melhor deejay nacional de after-hours, open spaces e beach parties, Mário Roque protagonizou uma "POTENTE" prestação no ROCK In RIO LISBOA 2008, numa noite em que dividiu o cabine com TONY HUMPHRIES, DAVID MORALES e DIMITRI FROM PARIS, fortalecendo grandemente a sua posição no Djing nacional e internacional.

There are few individuals within the underground dance music industry able to match Chris Fortier for both influence and achievement over the last two decades. With a mandate predicated upon the deceptively simple notion of "constant musical evolution", the founder and owner of the globally renowned Fade Records, is not constrained by boundaries, reflected in both the music he plays and creates.

An extensive list of achievements is testament to such elevated ideals, perhaps best showcased by the iconic 2005 "Balance 007" compilation; a groundbreaking CD at the vanguard of a fresh, innovative and underground sound movement, that history would later record as an aural blueprint for the worldwide dance music explosion that followed in the subsequent decade and beyond. A further eight commercially released mix albums would also contain the Chris Fortier DNA.

As a production artist, Fortier's portfolio of skills have been crafted and honed through an intimate 20-year knowledge of clubs across the globe's dance-floor capitals – from Tokyo, Melbourne, Mexico City to Budapest and Buenos Aires to residencies at the legendary AAHZ in Orlando in the early 90’s through to New York's Twilo and London's The Cross. Always in demand and prolific in output, a continually rising 400 plus Beatport production credits tell only half of an impressive story. Fortier's remix of Delerium's "Silence", was the first and original remix and sold in excess of one million copies worldwide; while work for John Digweed's Bedrock imprint further cemented an ever-growing reputation alongside the full-length album, "As Long As The Moment Exists" and its follow-up remix album on behemoth Australian imprint, EQ.

Never one to rest on his proverbial laurels, Chris' productions have seen him take on the mantle of highly regarded modern producer with releases spanning the underground sound including most recently on Bedrock, Selador, Balance, Mooseeka, Tulipa, Maya, Manual, Ground Factory, Maktub, Mindwarp and his own imprint Fade. His remixes and collaborations since 2009 tell their own tale, as Chris remains as integral, relevant and at the leading edge in the Underground as ever. With an innate and immaculate sense of what makes the industry tick, built upon longstanding personal experience, Fortier's musical evolution shows no sign of extinction.