J. El Mar and M. Spoon

Jam and Spoon are one of the first Electonic acts that I followed, all the way back to 1992, 1993. When I then saw the video to Follow Me on MTV Latin America, I knew it was going to become one of those timeless works of art.
The Tripomatic Fairytales 2001 and 2002 albums are jewels.
Although some of their music was burnt out and constantly hammered on the radio, making it sound too commercial, it was in fact just the tip of the Iceberg, and one that not too many people cared to explore.

After a long silence their 3rd release, and unfortunately last album, the style had considerably changed, but, still a magical sense of making music.
Vata is my favourite track on this last album.
A rare 12" vinyl has a Sr Coconut Mix, which I treasure.

It is a great loss for the Electronic Community the very untimely death of Mark Spoon. They are in fact a Fantastic duo. But their music will live on.

Mark Spoon died on January 11 2006. I am taking a few moments to write about his collaboration with Jam El Mar. Together, as Jam and Spoon, they surely knew how to surprise me with their outstanding music in the 90's. I first discovered them with "Right In The Night", their most commercial single. I never liked it (although some remixes are better, and who doesn't like the obscure "Follow Me"?), but looking at the back of the album "Tripomatic Fairytales 2001", I was curious about hearing these tracks which had fantastic, strange titles like "Two Spies In The House Of Love", "Who Opened The Door To Nowhere", "Odyssey To Anyoona". So I did. Then, it became like a revelation. I first heard "Stella", "Find Me"... and then I discovered "2002" which also impressed me a lot: tracks like "V. Angel is calling" (a deceased person is trying to reach someone on the phone, but is not able to talk due to decorporation) are little moments, little stories which I listened with a lot of attention and interest.
"Kaleidoscope" is also a great album. A lot more vocals this time (all courtesy of Plavka), but still a lot of originality ("I Pull My Gun", "Usual Suspect", "Warm Dead Dog", "Get In / Get Out") and enough elements to link this opus with their previous works ("El Baile", "Kiss Away").
Their singles were always pushed on the commercial side (and judging them indiviadually is a different thing, some of them are good, some aren't), which makes people think they were just another Euro House fake act. But they weren't. They were true artists. And together they filled my teenage years with their powerful, intelligent and fantastic music.
I am sad the story is over, but I will still have Tripomatic cravings. Thank you Jam and Spoon!