Jam and Spoon DJ dies at age 39

[ppcock]

DJ and producer Mark Spoon, half of dance music duo Jam and Spoon, has died aged 39. The influential German DJ was found dead in his Berlin apartment after a suspected heart attack.
He formed Jam and Spoon with Jam El Mar, having a 1995 hit with Right in the Night (Fall in Love With Music).
They remixed songs by artists including Pet Shop Boys and Moby. As a promoter Spoon, real name Markus Loffel, discovered Europop star Dr Alban.

Spoon began his career as a record label manager and nightclub owner, helping to discover new talent in Frankfurt.
Jam and Spoon's debut album Tripomatic Fairytales became a transatlantic hit in 1993.
From 1995 the pair recorded under the name Tokyo Ghetto Pussy, creating dancefloor hits I Kiss Your Lips, Everybody On The Floor (Pump It) and You Make Me Feel.
Spoon died on Wednesday, record company Universal Music confirmed.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4610664.stm


I have pretty much all of their records.. RIP pho shizzle.

[b0ld]

oh shit.... damn...... I got introduced to electronica WAAAYYY back by listening to a jam and spoon track...
:(

[Two_Six]

I remember their track "Everybody On The Floor (Pump It)". Poor guy, 39 is to young to be dieing.

[miSsy_chriSsy]

aww dude :(

Anyoona was one of my alltime favorite tracks - RIP Mr.spoon <3

[teneighty]

Originally Posted by b0ld

oh shit.... damn...... I got introduced to electronica WAAAYYY back by listening to a jam and spoon track...
:(

yeah, me too. My very first electronica album, the first volume of Radikal Techno, (c) 1992. I was not even in highschool yet, but I remember listening to that a lot. One of my favorite tracks off that, if not the best one, was Age of Love - Age of Love (Jam and Spoon Mix). I dug that out a few months back, and that track still to this day totally blows me away. This is a sad event for dance music.

I found out when I was looking for the record label for Mike Oldfield - Far above the Clouds (Jam and Spoon remix) on the jam and spoon page on discogs.com. I've been there several times, I don't know why I decided to reread the sumary, and it say he died earlier this month. Devastating. Known of Jam and Spoon for about 14 years, and I was just recently starting to look into their stuff more closely. Thoughts are with the familly and friends.

There is an online book of condolences. There's a link at http://www.mark-spoon.com/

[nabs]

early jam n spoon tracks are what got me lisning to electronica. RIP Spoon.

[thebobman]

heart attack?
cocaine's a hell of a drug
sucks to loose a legend