There’s a reason Clark Warner’s DJ sets are unlike anything you’ve heard before. An early Motown-radio influence coupled with a near-simultaneous rave-and-club cocktail helped to shape Warner’s style: full of heart and yet challenging to the listener, absolutely in tune with the moment and the pacing, bursting with atmosphere and energy. Call it radio-free meets radio-friendly.
Starting in the early ‘90s, Warner’s Detroit-area DJ residencies—at The Shelter, Zoot’s, and Motor—grew into regular trips to New York, the Midwest, and international festivals including Sonar, Mutek, DEMF/Movement, Nature One, and Tribal Gathering, among others. Warner has also been instrumental in developing Plus 8 Records and Minus, working with Richie Hawtin, John Acquaviva, and some of techno’s most profound artists while helping produce legendary events.
Taking his roots at a time when sounds and scenes were colliding without prejudice or buzzwords, Clark Warner makes unusual sounds fit in perfectly, fusing left-of-center audio with the newest dance pulses. Warner rightly concludes: “It has to have soul, human or alien, if I’m going to play it.”
