Zach Moore’s twelve-year love affair with DJing began in 1999 when he was smitten by house music on the back patio of the Phoenix Hotel at one of San Francisco’s infamous Wet Parties. In 2003, Zach bought his first pair of Pioneer CDJs and began playing as often as he could at house parties and watering holes around the city. But Zach didn’t make any ripples in San Francisco’s deep pool of DJ talent until the summer of 2005 when he launched a series of recorded dance mixes called The Gough Street Sessions (2005-2011). The project struck a chord with many of San Francisco's ravenous house music fans and only a few months after their initial release, The Gough Street Sessions were played to a national audience on XM Radio’s DJ showcase, Thump Radio.
The popularity of Zach’s Gough Street mixes proved an important foothold for his fledgling DJ career and eventually led to a residency with the renowned Burning Man sound camp, The Deep End, in 2006. As a Deep End resident, Zach began landing gigs with many of San Francisco's top promoters (Spundae, Seismic, Opel Productions, Satellite, Qool and Flirty-Flirty) at the city’s finest venues (Mighty, Shine, Ruby Skye, 1015 Folsom, The EndUp, Supperclub, The Fillmore and The Warfield) while sharing the bill on occasion with world-class DJs like Meat Katie, Dylan Rhymes, The Plump DJs, Plaza de Funk, The Rogue Element, Slyde, Soul of Man, A-Skillz and Krafty Kuts.
In 2009, Zach turned The Gough Street Sessions into a popular iTunes podcast which featured many of San Francisco’s finest DJs as well as top international jocks like Elite Force, Meat Katie, Dylan Rhymes and Soul of Man. And thanks to appearances on several respected music blogs (The Tech Funk Manifesto, Jungo Road and Breakzlinkz), the show became a hit with electronic music fans as far as the UK, Europe and even Australia.
After three years with The Deep End, Zach joined The Space Cowboys, another famed San Francisco-based Burning Man crew, in January 2010. Zach embraced his new partnership with the Cowboys by launching The RIPEcast, a weekly podcast featuring the musical stylings of The Space Cowboys as well as distinguished guests from the international scene like Krafty Kuts, Plaza de Funk, The Plump DJs, Elite Force, Slyde, Myagi and Soul of Man. The RIPEcast quickly became one of the most popular dance music podcasts in the United States while maintaining a stranglehold on the #1 spot in the breakbeat charts on Podomatic.com.
While the Gough Street Sessions were a success that far exceeded any of Zach’s expectations, the show was eventually moved to the back burner by the weekly demands of The RIPEcast. And in March 2011, Zach launched a new podcast for his old friends at DISTRIKT (formerly known as The Deep End). With no time left for a third variety show, but still wanting a place for his own content, Zach retired The Gough Street Sessions in April 2011 and replaced them with a new podcast called, Zach Moore In The Mix.
Over the years Zach’s love for electronic music has run the gamut (deep, vocal, tech, progressive & electro house, breakbeat and techno) but of late the focus of his live sets and recorded mixes has been breakbeat and tech house. Among the artists that most heavily influence Zach’s style are The Stanton Warriors, DeeKline, Elite Force/Zodiac Cartel, Meat Katie, Dylan Rhymes, Soul of Man, Slyde, Plaza de Funk, The Beat Assassins and Krafty Kuts.
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