The DJ's at our 25 Years party part 1: Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher was born in Sheffield (UK) in 1963. He’s been collecting black music since the late 1970s, when he was into jazz, disco and the early rap records.

Early influences on the soul front were Richard Searling’s Saturday evening shows in the early 80s on Radio Hallam and Colin Curtis’s Tuesday evening sessions at Berlin in Manchester in the mid-80s. In the 90s, the Canal Tavern in Thorne, the Norfolk Village in London, the Southport weekenders and Soul Essence in Great Yarmouth were the mainstays for a proper night out.

After living in Manchester, where he worked in book publishing, and London, where he was a financial journalist, Mark moved to Amsterdam in 1997.

As a DJ, Mark is known for his sweet soul, gospel and crossover spins. As Hans Diepstraten once put it, “Mark Fisher has the very best taste in the world”. He plays a mean jazz dance set, too.

Mark first met Hans & Harry at one of their legendary Sunday Casablanca sessions on the Zeedijk in 2001, after he saw a flyer in the window of a bike shop. The track playing when he walked through the door was Almeta Latimore’s “These Memories”: he knew he was in good hands.

Since then, he has appeared on Fingerpoppin Soul more than 40 times.

​Mark’s current top 5 sweet & deep spins (October 2018)
The Exciting Legion Aires – Rain, Rain (D-Vine Spirituals 7”)
Tyrone Harris – Nothing Seems To Go Right (Barclay & The III 7”)
The Techniques IV – It Feels So Good Inside (Jasino 7”)
The Fabulous Golden Wings feat. Harold Huntley Jr. - I Got A Friend (72 Designer 7”)
The Day-Tons - I've Got To Tell You About It (Part 1) (Day-Ton Productions 7”)