Jermyn - Moderate Sounds

Mark Jermyn is a DJ working from Buxton, in the Peak District, under the name Moderate Studio. He plays records. Disco, soul, funk, house and indie, on vinyl or digital, deep enough into each to keep a room moving without falling back on the obvious, with room to go further into jazz, jungle and Balearic when the night wants it. Sets are built from what you want and read on the night, so the plan changes if the room does. Every booking starts with a conversation rather than a fixed set list. Weddings are the bulk of it. That can be one DJ across the whole day, from the ceremony through drinks and the meal to the last record, or just the evening once the formalities are done. Sound, microphones and lighting are included, so there is nothing else to arrange and nobody else to brief. For bars and clubs it is residencies, launches and one-off nights, public sets built for the particular room rather than a set carried from gig to gig. For parties, birthdays, anniversaries and closed-door nights, it is built around who is actually in the room, at a volume that room can still talk over. There is a quieter side as well: vinyl-led Balearic sessions at slower tempos, drawing on disco, downtempo, soul and cosmic records. Good for daytimes, gardens and the early part of a long evening. He is self-contained. A clean, reliable PA can come with the booking, delivered and set up, so a venue without in-house sound is no obstacle. There is also a solar-powered system that runs an entire event off the sun, with no generator and no mains, used for weddings and ceremonies in fields and gardens across the Peak District. He covers the Peak District, Derbyshire, Cheshire and Greater Manchester as standard, and travels further for the right night.