A product of the 80’s San Francisco dance music boom, DJ/Producer Doc Martin has been creating innovative, high-energy electronic music for nearly three decades. Once a mainstay on the Pacific Northwest scene, he has gone on to perform everywhere from Ibiza to Tokyo, creating an enduring body of work in the process. Now, as he enters a new phase of his career, Doc shows no signs of slowing down, as he continues to evolve, revealing new sides of his artistry as he releases the most compelling music of his career.
Doc Martin’s choice to pursue a career in music was an obvious one, given the musical family he grew up in. Most notably, his mother sang with Bay Area icons Jefferson Starship. Doc, however, was more interested in absorbing the various electronic subcultures that were emerging around the country. Endless hours spent in SF’s indie record stores armed him with an expertise in everything from acid house to techno, as he developed the genre-bending style that would come to define his career.
Within a few years of his first performance, Doc was selling out shows across his hometown and began setting his sights on bigger things. In the early 90’s, he relocated to Los Angeles, where he quickly integrated himself into the city’s thriving rave scene. Not long after, his profile had risen enough for him to be invited to Europe to play at some of the continent’s most iconic clubs and parties, including (List European Venues). In the ensuing decades, he became a favorite amongst audiences from New York to London, performing regularly at clubs including Output, The Roxy, Twilo, City Fox, and The Tunnel. (We can add to/edit this list)
After three decades of bringing people together with music, Doc Martin’s passion and drive remain as strong as ever. He maintains a steady schedule of performances across the globe while continuing to release new tracks regularly. As the rare artist to achieve the status of elder-statesman, he has left a lasting legacy in electronic music, a legacy which he continues to add to every day.
He continuously chooses and enjoys mixing with digital and analogue gear as he creates his own signature style of DJ’ing & Recordings.
Constantly producing and remixing for his own and various labels across the world Doc Martin is always working on a new project. He constantly tours at such clubs as:
Residency at Sublevel
He has also hit the DC10 (Ibiza) circuit countless times playing along side Seth Troxler,Jamie Jones,Harvey, Ralph Lawson, Dan Ghenecia, Ellen Alien, Cassy, Martinez Brothers, Damian Lazarus, Apollonia. Cityfox (New York) & Los Angeles along with Dixon.Paradise(Ibiza/New York/Toronto),Heart(ibiza),
Fabric's 15 yr Anniversary (London) playing along side DJ's such as Craig Richards, Ricardo Villalobos, Dixon, Ame, Terry Francis, DJ Three.
As well as other cities like Toronto Coda with DJ Sneak & Ricardo Villalobos, Montreal, Halifax, Vancouver Shine with Jay Tripwire, Rex Paris with D'Julz & Phil Weeks, KCRW Hammer Museum, Public Works (San Francisco), Cityfox (New York), Coachella Festival, Sunwaves Beach Festival, Long Beach Festival, Long Beach Pier, High Tides (Cruises) Soup New York.
New Sound nightclub Hollywood with Steve Lawler & Sublevel Live, The Exchange LA.
He visits Tokyo once a year at different venues/festivals, and everywhere in between.
He has played at such clubs & festivals as:
SXM Festival
Coachella (Indio)
Lightning in a bottle
Ocaso Music Festival (Costa Rica 3x)
Fabric (London)
CRSSD Festival
Sublevel (Los Angeles)
Space Miami
Oregon Eclipse
Desert Hearts / City Hearts
Movement Detroit
D.E.M.F. Detroit
Twilo (New York)
Sunset San Francisco
Panorama Bar
The Viper Room (West Hollywood)
Electric Forest
West Coast Weekender
Coachella (Indio)
Do Lab (Coachella)
BPM(Portugal)
Paradise(Ibiza/US)
DC 10 (Ibiza)
Get Lost(Miami 7x)
Subtract LA
Love Long Beach Festival
Meow Wolf
Amnesia(Ibiza)
The Block (Tel Aviv)
Output (NYC)
Cityfox (NY & LA)
Houghton Festival (UK)
Knee Deep in Sound(LA/Mex/Las Vegas)
Circoloco (Ibiza)
Holyship
EDC
Escape
Factory93
Insomniac
Sea of Green Festival (JP)
B.P.M. Festival (Playa Del Carmen)
Sublevel (Los Angeles)
Sunwaves Festival (Romania)
Bob Beaman (Munich)
Treasure Island SF
Soul Clap party @ Movement
Trouw (Amsterdam)
Ubermax (London)
Output (Brooklyn)
Sankey’s (Japan/New York)
Club Yellow Japan
Club Eleven Tokyo
Electric pickle
Sunset 20 yr Anniversary (San Fransico)
DEMF (Detroit)
Eleven (Tokyo)
Sunset Junction Festival (Bali)
Ozone (Hong Kong)
Circus (Ibiza)
Electric Elephant Festival
Zoo Project (Ibiza)
Mint Warehouse (UK)
Soul Clap UK Warehouse (UK)
The Rex (Paris)
Womb (Tokyo)
Outside Lands (SF)
The Block (Tel Aviv)
Mago (Nagoya)
Great Northern (SF)
Public works (SF)
Deep (LA)
Sound (Hollywood)
Art of Sound (SD)
Lost Beach (Ecuador)
Bar Standard (Denver)
Spin (San Diego)
New Guernica (Melb, Australia)
Sunset Junction (Street Fair Los Feliz)
Romania La Mania
U Street (DC)
Tel aviv Fetish
Mi Casa Su Casa (Playa Del Carmen)
Funktion (Seoul)
World, (Kyoto, Japan)
I am (Manchester)
East Village (UK)
11: 11 (Istanbul)
Love (New York)
Club Heaven (Seoul)
Ovum 15yr Anniversary WMC Miami
The Faith 10 Year Anniversary (Garden Festival)
Ministry (London)
Beta (Denver)
Content (Manchester)
Secret Sundaze (London)
Full Circle, Egg (London)
East Village (London)
Republik (Waterford Ireland)
Back to Basics (England Leeds)
The End (London)
Cielo (New York)
Yellow (Japan)
Ghost Bar / Sound Bar (Las Vegas)
Previlege (Ibiza)
Amnesia (Ibiza), Roxy (NY)
Sound Factory (NY)
Avalon (NY & LA)
Pacha (Ibiza & NY)
Circus (Liverpool)
How Sweet it is (Los Angeles)
Nocturnal Wonderland (Los Angeles)
JuJubeats (Los Angeles)
Homelands (UK)
Focus (Costa Mesa)
Hacienda (Manchester)
T in the park (Scottland)
Stereo (Montreal)
Café Del Mar (San Francisco)
The Love Parade (San Francisco)
Perfecto with Paul Oakenfold at The Palms (Las Vegas)
Q Bar (Bangkok Thailand)
PS1 (New York)
Batofar boat party in Paris (France)
Crew Love Public Works (S.F)
Output (Brooklyn, New York)
Focus
Westcoast Weekender (San Diego)
Art of Sound (San Diego)
U.R .ART ( Santa Monica)
Womb (Tokyo)
B.P.M. Festival (Playa Del Carmen)
Listed - La Santanera (Playa Del Carmen)
Sunset Junction Festival (Bali)
Sound (Hollywood)
Ice Palace (Miami)
Mago (Nagoya)
Salted Mighty (SF)
Spin (SD)
Art of Sound (SD)
Foro Vallarta (Guadalajara Mexico)
Harumi Audio Festival (Tokyo)
Funktion (Seoul)
Love (New York)
PS1 (New York)
Perfecto with Paul Oakenfold at The Palms (Las Vegas)
Club Heaven (Seoul)
Beta (Denver)
Democratic National Convention 08 City Hall (Denver),
The End Up (San Fransisco)
Taico Club Nagano (Japan)
Yellow Tokyo (Japan)
Loop (Tokyo)
WareHouse (Tokyo)
Future 10 (Indonesia),
Q Bar (Bangkok Thailand)
The Garden Festival (Croatia)
Seven (Australia)
To name a few
Doc Martin has toured with The Basement Jaxx & Daft Punk in Australia.
He has also played with James Brown,Grace Jones,Inner City,and about anyone else you can think of. Doc Martin also held a residency at Prince's Club Glam Slam in Los Angeles back in the 1990's.Was also a tour Dj for Deee-Lite,and Dubtribe Soundsystem