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Mark Spoon(Jam & Spoon) found dead

30 durable postsStarted 2006-01-11Latest 2006-01-15
#22575Post 1 of 30

[url]http://trance.nu/v3/news_show.php?id=3324[/url]

Posted: 2006-01-11 12:30:17 (EST)

TRANCE.NU -- A legend died... German DJ, producer and remixer Markus L?ffel a.k.a. Mark Spoon was found dead in his flat earlier this week...

Written by: Twan van Loon, aka Dancemania

Mark Spoon died at the age of only 41 years old in the morning of Monday, January 9 cause of an heart attack. Mark was found dead earlier this week in his flat in Frankfurt, Germany.

Mark Spoon was born in 1964 as Markus L?ffel. Together with Rolf Ellmer (a.k.a. Jam El Mar) he was behind the popular dance / trance project ?[b]Jam & Spoon[/b]?. They produced various hits such as ?Stella?, ?Right In The Night?, ?Find Me? and ?Be Angeled?. Besides the ?Jam & Spoon? project, Mark was involved in other popular dance projects such as ?Storm?, ?Tokyo Ghetto Pussy? and ?Big Room?.

During the years Mark made remixes for many artists and bands such as Paul van Dyk, Dr. Alban, Moby, Technotronic, Enigma, Deep Forest, Age Of Love, Pet Shop Boys, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and many more...

And last but not least Mark was a well known DJ in the international dance scene.

Trance.nu would like to pay their respect to the family, friends and fans from Mark and wish them all the best in those sad days...

[b]R.I.P.[/b]

#542868Post 2 of 30

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Dayum . had alot of there stuff back in 90-93 .. Very prolific in the albums and tracks they put out . All good too .. bit of a shame him going .

#542875Post 3 of 30

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Well that's a shitty way to start the new year. Listening to "Stella" right now as a tribute. He was a huge influence in the edm scene for many years. Sad news indeed.... RIP brother.

#542882Post 4 of 30

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RIP dude.

#542885Post 5 of 30

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very sad, rip

#542893Post 6 of 30

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Wow! I'm shocked.

#542896Post 7 of 30

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So young :(

RIP and thanks for many memorable tracks

#542916Post 8 of 30

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Damn, that sucks.

#542927Post 9 of 30

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indeed...those guys made some great jams...

#543071Post 10 of 30

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Right in the Night was my fav track at the time of its release.... really sad to hear about this

#543072Post 11 of 30

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thats unbelievable.. RIP Spoon

#543076Post 12 of 30

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Rip

#543097Post 13 of 30

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That's very sad. "Follow Me" is still such an amazing track. When it came out nobody had every heard such a long track with such a big breakdown, or a big speed change.

Most of Tripomatic Fairytales was a great album too.

#543123Post 14 of 30

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Holly crap!

RIP

#543157Post 15 of 30

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I'm just in shock...very sad indeed. RIP :(

#543167Post 16 of 30

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Def. rest in Peace.

#543171Post 17 of 30

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That is just crazy. RIP.

#543247Post 18 of 30

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RIP

Stella is an absolutely awesome track

#543250Post 19 of 30

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Holy f**k, he was a legend, half responsible for the greatest remix of all time with Age Of Love :shock:

R.I.P.

*sorry Kamal but Right In The Night is probably one of the worst records of the 90's :lol:

#543261Post 20 of 30

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[quote=chemicalbeavis]*sorry Kamal but Right In The Night is probably one of the worst records of the 90's :lol:[/quote]

Tell what you really think Si :smells l:

#543302Post 21 of 30

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worst records of the 90s??! Dont think so mate!! you ever heard of East17?!

RIP...

Storm - Storm will always have a place in my record collection

#543343Post 22 of 30

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Sorry to hear about this. Dead at 41 of a heart attack. Was he a cocaine user?

#543456Post 23 of 30

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not sure about that but he definitely drank a lot...with some of these guys you never know sometimes...

#543682Post 24 of 30

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very sad indeed... tripomatic fairytale was an absolute classic.

#543685Post 25 of 30

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another article about this sad news from trustthedj.com [I][B]Marc Spoon[/B] died suddenly in his Berlin apartment this week, after reportedly suffering a heart attack. MTV Germany said police broke into his flat after friends tried and failed to contact him. He was 39 years old. [/I] [IMG]http://www.trustthedj.com/images/SKRUFFF/spoon.jpg[/IMG]

[I]The legendary German DJ, whose real name was Markus Loeffel, achieved massive commercial and critical success in the early 90s, remixing acts including Quincy Jones, the Pet Shop Boys and Dr Alban before producing the definitive remix of Age Of Love that became one of the first trance superhits of the era. He also became a bona fide pop star in 1993 when he teamed up with classical musician [B]Jam el Mar [/B]to form [B]Jam & Spoon[/B], scoring massive worldwide hits with [/I][URL="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002A4A/ref=ase_trustthedj05-21/202-3201446-5886212"][COLOR=#0000ff][I]Stella[/I][/COLOR][/URL][I] and [/I][URL="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002A4A/ref=ase_trustthedj05-21/202-3201446-5886212"][COLOR=#0000ff][I]Find Me[/I][/COLOR][/URL][I], featuring the vocals of former Shamen singer Plavka.

Simultaneously, he developed a parallel career as a techno/ trance DJ, regularly spinning at London?s seminal Final Frontier at Club UK and becoming one of dance culture?s first genuine superstar DJs.

Always a larger than life character, both physically and via his well known penchant for hard living, he was famously jailed for several days in Ibiza in the early 90s after being caught necking a couple of ecstasy pills as he DJed at Space. He also received a 3 day jail sentence in Germany in 2002, after being convicted of football hooliganism for fighting in a stadium 12 years previously.

Corvin Dalek?s manager Mark Reeder who knew Marc well throughout his career told Skrufff he was ?shocked but not really surprised about his untimely death?, adding ?I was in negotiations to get him a gig in China and spoke to him just before Christmas.?

?Mark was a colourful character in the club scene and a legend in his own lifetime. We will miss him, thankfully, he's left us a legacy of truly classic tunes which will remain with us forever,? said Mark.

Gigolo Records chief DJ Hell also paid tribute, telling Skrufff ?we?ve all lost a great character and a friend.?

?Everybody is shocked about this sad news,? Hell added, ?he will life forever in our minds.?[/I] [I][URL="http://www.trustthedj.com/SKRUFFF/news_article.php?news_id=4924"]http://www.trustthedj.com/SKRUFFF/news_article.php?news_id=4924[/URL] [/I] really sad, carl cox had a heart attack last year but luckily he survived Mark Spoon was a good producer, may he rest in peace

#543743Post 26 of 30

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Someone said on another board that they read an interview that he would have to go into detox after ibiza. So, apparently he had a history of HEAVY partying.

#543909Post 27 of 30

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[quote=GregWhelan]RIP

Stella is an absolutely awesome track[/quote]

Hear Hear!

RIP :(

#543917Post 28 of 30

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[quote=templeofsiva]Someone said on another board that they read an interview that he would have to go into detox after ibiza. So, apparently he had a history of HEAVY partying.[/quote]

all that shit does take a long-term toll, especially on your heart...you may not feel it until 5, 10, 20 years down the road however...apparently it caught up to him fairly quickly..

sucks

#543946Post 29 of 30

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[quote=fletcher]worst records of the 90s??! Dont think so mate!! you ever heard of East17?![/quote]

Let It Rain! :RockOn:

#544219Post 30 of 30

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right in the night was great track. take the vocal away and you have that Humate track from a few years ago. that bass line marked 1000 trance tracks. also the instrumental version with the 1 - 2 minute spanish guitar solo was great. Kinda what robert miles copied.

Journey to ayonna (spelt wrong, I know :-) was my fav track that hem lads done, also liked the weirdness of i pulled my gun once

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