Northern Israel, Haifa, Mo Shic Shlomi
is born – a man, whose name thrills millions of progressive
House fans today. He grew up in a musical family, but not
everything in his life inclined cheerful singing.
In the age of 18, he was enlisted to National Service, where
as a medic, he had to deal with death everyday. Soldiers brought
from Lebanon were dying right in front of his eyes. Continuous
suicide attacks and living on a time bomb made Mo Shic understand,
what’s the most important thing in life – to seize
the day.
When he finished paying his debts to the country, he decided
to devote himself completely to electronic music. He fell
in love with progressive, which wasn’t too popular at
that time in Israel. He was handing out his mixes wherever
he could, but the scene ignored his “too dark”
style. Disillusioned, he moved to New York – the city
where John Digweed and Sasha were spinning records in Twilo,
and Mo Shic’s progressive darkness finaly found a susceptible
breeding ground.
Nevertheless, Mo Shic didn’t stay on emigration for
too long. At Avi Yossef’s request he went back to the
motherland too meet Avi, a meeting that later on changed his
life. His dreams started to come true. With his first singles
under the Argonout guise,
Argonout (Aka Moshic) is Moshic first project and got releases
threw Cyber records (NL)
Got Supported by the best world djs and featured in the best
Compilations such as :
Armin van Buren,Tiesto(in search of sunrise3),Global-Undeground
"after-hours",Gatecrasher(discotech),Kasey Taylor(Balance).
Mo Shic started to conquer the dance scene worldwide. However
the true fame and publicity gave him a production made with
his friend – Shlomi Zidan. “Nightstalker”
was included in Danny Howells’s “Nocturnal Frequencies
3” and Jimmie Van M’s “Bedrock: Compiled
& Mixed" Compilations. When “Dj Magazine”
announce the tune as the underground hit of the year, nothing
could stop Mo Shic.
The Mo Shic mix for John Digweed’s broadcast on Kiss
100, went down in history. Since then – December 2001
– Mo Shic has constantly emerged from the underground
to finally became its ambassador. The Ambassador, because
his fame doesn’t fit within borders of underground anymore.
Every day, every week, every month masterpieces like “10@ZE”
or the remix of Memnon’s “Locutus” were
produced. Year after the Kiss 100 broadcast his “Distorted
Patterns” compilation was unearthed. Progressive fans
went down to their knees and Mo Shic was asked to do the Essential
Mix that was broadcasted in February this year. Soon after
that his mix is added to the “Dj Magazine’s”
April issue. This set as well as the Essential Mix mostly
included tracks from not widely known Middle East artists
and the world was left without doubts – Mo Shic is a
genius! He spelled it out once more with the slamming remix
of Christian Hornbostel’s “Into Your Mind”.
In an interview for soundrevolt.com he said: “My main
ambitions are to export different kind of productions that
will get special attention on the dance floor. I hate average
music and I'm known to my relatives as a guy who yearns for
perfection in his life. And I will not go the easy way and
sample other people works, 100% Moshic and not a cent less.”
Few listens of his productions or sets is enough to fully
understand what the author meant. If not remixing, he very
often edits the tracks he plays to give them the touch of
his unique style. The style filled with darkness and curdling
blood energy. But it doesn’t freeze the body. The body
meekly obeys the perfect sound and fulfills itself in dance.
Till this day, Mo Shic has produced over 40 tracks! But it’s
not the end! More are waiting to be published – the
fruits of his collaboration with Rui Da Silva to name just
a few.
The darkness shines brightly, showing that progressive can
still be breathtaking...
