An Ohio native and a San Francisco resident of nearly sixteen years, Zach Moore was first smitten by house music on the back patio of the Phoenix Hotel in the summer of 1999. From that fateful encounter at one of San Francisco’s infamous Wet Parties, a profound appreciation for electronic music and the art of the mix was born, and so began Zach’s decade-long love affair with DJing.
Zach’s career began modestly in 2003, playing mostly pro bono for handfuls of friends at small parties and local watering holes. And he continued to toil anonymously in San Francisco’s vast pool of DJ talent until the summer of 2005 when, in an attempt to stimulate interest in his fledgling career, Zach launched a series of recorded mixes called The Gough Street Sessions. After sharing the first few volumes with close friends, word of the project spread virtually overnight and only months later The Gough Street Sessions were played to a national audience on XM Radio’s popular DJ showcase, Thump Radio.
Today The Gough Street Sessions are an enormously popular podcast featuring guest mixes from top international DJ talent such as Elite Force, Meat Katie, Dylan Rhymes, Soul of Man and local heroes like Opel’s Syd Gris, Seismic’s MurphStar and 8Ball of The Space Cowboys (along with Zach’s own house and breakbeat mixes). And the project continues to garner attention both nationally and abroad while appearing on respected music sites such as Jungo Road, The Tech Funk Manifesto, Breakzlinkz, Podomatic.com, SoundCloud, iTunes and Mix.DJ.
In late 2006 after joining the renowned Burning Man sound camp, The Deep End, Zach began to truly harness his potential as a DJ. Backed by The Deep End’s stellar name and reputation, he began landing gigs with many of San Francisco’s top promoters (Spundae, Seismic, Opel Productions, Satellite, Qool and Flirty-Flirty) at the city’s best-known venues (111 Minna, Mighty, Shine, Anú, 1015 Folsom, The EndUp, Supperclub, The Fillmore and The Warfield) while sharing the bill on occasion with some of the world’s finest DJs (Meat Katie, Dylan Rhymes, The Plump DJs, Plaza de Funk, The Rogue Element and the 16 Bit Lolitas).
After three fruitful and rewarding years with his good friends at The Deep End, Zach joined forces with
The Space Cowboys, another famed San Francisco-based Burning Man crew, in January 2010. Jumping in with both feet, as he always does, Zach embraced this new affiliation by launching, The RIPEcast, a weekly podcast featuring most notably live recordings from the Cowboys’ 10th Annual Breakfast of Champions New Year’s Day party.
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 the breakbeat, electro house and tech funk genres. Among his favorite artists Zach counts The Stanton Warriors, DeeKline, Elite Force/Zodiac Cartel, Meat Katie, Dylan Rhymes, Soul of Man, Slyde, The Beat Assassins and Krafty Kuts.
