Moussa Clarke is an inspirational DJ/producer with a worldwide reputation for igniting dancefloors from
London to Moscow to Tokyo and back again. Never far from the madding crowd – apart from when he’s
cooking up monster basslines and electrochemical beats in the studio – he’s also founder of the thriving
London-based label and DJ agency Oven Ready. Born in Switzerland, half English, half Senegalese, he found
his feet in France and Italy, and then travelled the globe before moving to the UK aged 12. His father an
immigrant from Dakar, his mother a roving bohemian opera singer, his unique personal history created the
perfect storm. Cue Moussa Clarke: a multilingual, musically gifted and stylistically diverse DJ.

Moussa’s passion for emotive dance music hails partly from the classical styles passed down by his family.
He also grew up under the influence of 80s pop music, learning to play both the guitar and keyboards. But
more than anything, he was turned on to the magic of loops through pioneers such as Kevin Saunderson,
Leftfield and Slam as well as house music luminaries like Marshall Jefferson, Tony Humphries and Frankie
Knuckles. Then came the UK’s ‘Summer of Love’. A time when Moussa would relish the nocturnal rumblings
of Mr C’s infamous Braintree Barn sessions in Essex, and party hard at the Crazy Club in London. He
made the transition from the dancefloor to the decks at the age of 18, and won his first break in 1990 when he
moved to Paris. Here he accepted a residency at the momentous Soma parties that erupted on top of the
Pompidou Centre, lining up with such revered talents as Andy Weatherall, Darren Emerson and Sasha.
Moussa returned to the UK in 1991, but continued to electrify the clubbing community at large with a surge of
gigs across Europe.

Moussa unleashed his first track in 1994, working with Jamie White under the moniker Party Faithful. ‘Let
There Be House’ initially came out on Oven Ready, a label Moussa set up with an old school friend. The track
was soon snapped up by XL Recordings and even made the UK’s Top 50. Moussa and Jamie continued to
collaborate - evolving into the PF Project, they produced the massive ‘Choose Life’, which sampled the actor
Ewan McGregor’s anti-establishment rant from the cult movie Trainspotting. Starting out as a cool bootleg for
the clubs, the track exploded into the Top 10 when Positiva officially released it in 1997, and led the guys to a
TV appearance on the legendary Top of the Pops (RIP). Moussa and Jamie returned to the charts soon after
as Tzant, with a ubiquitous speaker freaker called ‘Sounds of Wickedness’, then Moussa hooked up with Nick
Hanson under the alias Musique to deliver ‘New Year’s Dub’. Their ballistic bootleg was signed to Universal
back in 2001 – the year Moussa’s Miami Winter Music Conference took an exceptionally surreal twist when
Universal sent the starstruck pair to meet U2 in Florida to film the video for the single.

Equally at home producing underground clubland stormers or chart-bothering dance bombs, Moussa has
always enjoyed juxtaposing diverse genres and mashing them up to reveal innovative new sounds. Indeed,
it’s one of his specialities. As a producer par excellence, he has built up a mind-blowing body of work over the
years and his name is credited on more than 150 tracks and remixes. He has remixed a huge range of artists,
including Adamski, Afrika Bambaataa, Monie Love, Nitin Sawhney, Phats & Small and more recently, Simple
Minds, Wally Lopez and Jody Wisternoff. In the last couple of years he has produced an alarming array
of singles that scorch dancefloors wherever and whenever they are heard. These include “And The Beat
Goes On” (Cubrik Recordings), “Regret” (Dumb Recordings), ‘Love Key’ featuring Fisher (Slammin Muzik),
and ‘She Wants Him’ (Armada).

Meanwhile, whether he’s dicing it up at an intimate gig by the Gulf in Dubai, rocking a packed club in London,
or headlining a 5,000-strong rave in Russia, Moussa continues to expand his horizons as a DJ, and turn it up
yet another notch... The world may now be flat, but musically he remains way ahead of the curve!