This week our journey takes us to the magical country of Australia, and her beautiful people and climate that seem an ideal stop point for finding the freshest underground sounds we can. Its here we find an Ex-Pat doing rather well for himself. From Northern Ireland originally but making big waves down under, ladies and gents give it up... for Mark Craven!!

With an incredible history in the UK & AUS dance music scenes, Northern Irish DJ Mark Craven continues to scale the heights and is one of Sydneys most respected DJs... and for very good reason. Technically perfect, a foolproof knack for reading a room, with expertise lying in the lush surrounds of deep melodic and progressive through to gritty paths of minimal techno.

In 2019 he released on Hernan Cattaneo's SUDBEAT imprint and has remixes out this week on onedotsixtwo and If you wait.

Being such a versatile DJ, Mark holds residencies at Return to Rio and Church of Techno and is annually booked for almost every major Sydney house music festival.
Craven's poignant progressive taste and flow makes him a favourite in the big city!!

Enjoy the Mix!
Intro
Amber Lake (OHMZ Deep Vision); Eleonoar, Jelly For The Babies & Ultravizion - (3rd Avenue)
Laveel (Original Mix); Modd -(Kindisch)
Painting the World (Original Mix); Stranger Tourists -(The Purr)
Night Pluton(IIya Gerus Remix); Following Light & K.Oshkin -(Bevel Rec)
Wasol (Original Mix); Gonzalo Sacc &Franco Leonardini -(The Purr)
What We Got feat.Bidi Sanchez (Beije Remix) ; El Bastardo - (Stellar Foundation) 
Greatest Day feat.Reigan (Extended Version) ; Double Touch - (All Day I Dream) 
Nyame (Original Mix) ; Mass Digital - (Souksonic)
Break Into My Walls feat. Jay Medvedeva (Armen Miran & Hraach Remix) ; Doyeq & Jay Medvedeva - (trueColors)
Hostage (Plecta Edit 2020); Bille Ellish - (JAY CH Music)
Road to You (Eli Nissan Remix) ; Nohan - (When We Dip)
Take a Ride (Original Mix) ; DSF & Shai T (TRYBESof)
Tripitico (Jelly for the Babies vocal Mix) ; Hernan Cerbello - (Low Pressings)
The Last of Us (Original Mix) ; Nebula(AR) - (TRYBESof)
Rye & Eggs (Memaleph Extended Dark mix)  ; Fingerprint - (Anjunadeep)
Eikones (Original Mix) ; Anber  - (Ready Mix Records)
Helios (Original Mix) ; Rodrigo Lapena & Gonzola - (Forward Music)
Sq 16 (Original Mix) ; Marcelo PM - (Superordiante Music) 
Temporal Sense (Original Mix) ; Audiostorm - (Stripped Digital) 
Native (Original Mix) ; Paul Deep(AR) - (Serendeep)
Collusion - (Jody Barr mix) ; Alexander Church & Jody Barr - (Configurations of Self)
Touching the Sky (Original Mix); Dylan Deck & Juan Ibanez - (Balkan Connection)
Wonder Way (Kamilo Sanclemente Remix) ; Golan Zocher - (Onedotsixtwo)
Arrival (Original Mix);  Mattim - (Aboriginal)
Her Sigh (Kenshi Kamoro Remix) ; J.P. Velardi - (Forward Music)
Under The Rain ; Alexander Church & Jody Barr - (Configurations of Self)
ASHA - J.J Tribute (GSEP Circus Circus Memory Lane Remix)

PFG The Progcast - Episode 32 - Mark Craven

I've been listening to electronic music since I was old enough to tune into the John Peel show on Radio 1. Peel first introduced me to Chicago House, Detroit Electro and Rap. I would listen to an entire show with my finger hovering over the record button of my 'tape-recorder' close to the radio speaker just to record whatever 3 electronic imports he would play each night. I wish I'd kept those recordings.
From the moment I first heard 'Roxanne Shante' I sought out everything I could ranging from Kraftwerk, Mike Oldfield, Kurtis Mantronik, Africa Bambata, Grandmaster Flash, Gorgio Morodor, Axel-F, Jean Michel Jarre and just about anyone who used a synth to make music! With the arrival of House in the mid-late 80's the likes of Marshall Jefferson, Frankie Knuckles, Farley Jackmaster Funk, Steve Silk Hurley, Adonis and many more American underground House producers, the music had developed into a new, seriously exciting phenomena.
Music progressed at pace with House and Acid imports driving change, the UK in particular underwent an epiphany of sorts in the 80's and 90's. From Break-Dancing to New Romanticism, the music developed, finally morphing into the early genres of Acid Trance, Techno and Progressive Trance. Heavily influenced by American and underground Dutch and German artists and with the advent of clubbing and non-speaking mixing DJ's, it opened up a Pandora's box of new music, influences, sounds and styles. What that amounted to for me (and most others like me) was an ever-growing range of electronic music that was continually breaking free from pigeon-holes and mainstream pop culture. Electronic music had become the new classical music of a generation.
I can only say that electronic or computer music has evolved beautifully in the past 40 years and I love it as much now as the day I first heard John Peel play fantastic American imports.
I'm not anything more than a bedroom DJ and electronic music enthusiast. I have the greatest admiration for those who DJ publicly and seek to build a following or career from DJing, but that’s not a path I’ve tried to follow. I do love to put together great tunes, so for me using this sort of platform for sharing music is perfect for me. I do mixes both on my decks and using Ableton, as sometimes I find it easier to create a journey through that medium. 
As for making music, I’m slowly finding my way around Ableton in order to bring life to the musical ideas rolling around my head. 
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the mixes I post, please give me some feedback and if nothing else, support the artists themselves and buy their music.

Angrish

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The aim of our Podcast series is simply to showcase the great music we are surrounded by, no music policy or genre bias what so ever... share what you love with us & we will share it to the world.

Originally from Scotlands coastal East Lothian but now based in Edinburgh . Very broad musical tastes influenced over the years, my parents loved a party, their music definitely influenced me.

I was into early gangsta rap in 90s, then Leftfield,Daft punk etc , whilst working in a kitchen as a teenager in a Saturday, i listened to Pete Tong before finishing work and heading home for the essential mix later! 

Became hooked on clubbing during the early days of prog , 2000 onwards it was every weekend nearly.My love of clubbing and music has never stopped from those days.


Picked up Belt drive turntables before moving to 1210s in 06 and added Pioneers, I still use vinyl but mainly digital nowadays.


Over the years I have played in clubs in Edinburgh at nights such as Beatroot, Karnival. 

Aswell as Edinburgh I have also played at Kinfolk in Williamsburg ,Brooklyn NYC, Cariocas Beach Bar in Greece and also in the glamorous Cote d'Azur areas of St Raphael/Frejus. 

I hit a buffer in 2018 due to family circumstances and it wasn't until 2020 I got back into DJing again. 

I did 2 vinyl live streams during lockdown and afterwards I was Invited to do guest mixes for Online group PFG , I was then asked by Steven Mccreery and Kev Wright to do mixes for Beat 106. In July 2022 I was asked by Belgium/France based station, Xbeat radio to do a mix. I have since done a further 6 mixes for them .

The Pinnacle for me has been playing at the mighty Skyline parties in Glasgow, I was first asked to play at their 2nd Birthday Sudbeat Showcase in May 2024 alongside Graziano Raffa, Marcelo Vasami, Nicolas Rada, GMJ and Matter .

Incredibly I was asked to play again at the Selador records party in September 2024. Dave Seaman and  Steve Parry, alongside Kasey Taylor,Tara Brooks.

I like to try and use music from many different genres and artists. Anything goes ! 

From Ambient sounds to Hip Hop,Jazz,Disco and on to good ol House music with anything else in-between! 

I continue to record guest mixes for stations around Europe and hopefully beyond in the future ,
Thank you for checking out my page and I hope you enjoy my mixes.



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PFG The Progcast - Episode 32 - Mark Craven

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