MARCUS WORGULL
(Innervisions, Cologne)
https://www.facebook.com/marcusworgull

Nope, Marcus Worgull's parents didn't have a record collection full of
miraculous funk, soul and jazz records. Believe us, they didn't.
Consequentially, six-year-old Marcus didn't place himself on a soapbox to
play those non-existing ones to his relatives during family celebrations. I bet
you are glad that we clarified that. Instead, Marcus had to go the really hard
way. It were the late 80ies and growing up in cosy Wuppertal near Cologne,
Germany that meant lots of learning, digging, searching and no perching at
all.

So the boy was on his travel through the world of merry music. Hip hop,
reggae, funk, soul all purchased with his lunch and pocket money at a smalls
tore named Groove Attack. Worgull got his fingers dusty there and as fate
would have it, the store moved to Cologne mutated into a distributor along the
way and is now run by Marcus himself. At around the same time, MW snuck
into club's like the Beat Box to hear DJs like Norman Jay or Gilles Peterson
selecting, before he cut his teeth as a DJ at the infamous U-Club, where he
took over the fortunes of the "house room" and played from start to finish.
Learning the art of programming and all the other important disc jockey
techniques from scratch. Thrilled by all the amazing platters of majestic deep
house that were a plenty these days, Marcus' soft spot for profound yet
moving house music turned into a real obsession.

As it goes with most passions, you cannot get rid of them that easy. So
instead of making an occupational decision in getting an academic degree,
Marcus choose the doomed path of music. A full-grown man by now with a
mature record collection, he got deeper and deeper into the production side of
it, recorded his first 12" for Spectrum Works, followed by the Texel EP
including the still ueber-massive "Dragon Loop" for Berlin's Innervisions
imprint. Bound to the label of Dixon and Âme on a professional level and even
more so on a personal one (friendship is way more important than fame and
money a wise man once said, you know?), he is considered part of their inner
circle and in-house producers. When he is not working on tracks for IV, you
can catch him almost certainly on remix duties for people and labels like The
Juan MacLean and DFA, Gerald Mitchell from Underground Resistance fame,
Permanent Vacation and Running Back.

But most of all, Marcus is still adoring the art of moving butts, spending his
weekends on planes and trains (he actually prefers driving a car) to carry a
bag of records to prized clubs like Robert Johnson, Fabric, Plastic People,
Trouw or Sub Club on the regular. His very own selection of well-made and
often newly laid house music that knows its roots as well as it is yearning for
the future or explores the leftfield, is what you can expect from him. You can
also reappraise his methods (and love for other music) on each of his
specifically created and applauded mix shows that float the net. All of this is
presented and custom-made for your pleasure with the loving hands of a
working DJ. Pure Worgold!