Mark Moore has no confirmed Ibiza date in 2026. The DJ and producer behind S’Express, whose “Theme from S-Express” reached UK number one in April 1988, first played house music at London’s Mud Club in 1983 and became an early UK advocate for Chicago house and Detroit techno during acid house’s breakthrough.
Theme from S-Express: a UK number one in April 1988
S’Express began as a studio project between Mark Moore, then DJing at the Mud Club, and producer Pascal Gabriel. “Theme from S-Express” was written in late 1987 and recorded over two or three days in a cheap London studio for around £250, built around a sample of Rose Royce’s “Is It Love You’re After” and a spoken vocal from performance artist Karen Finley. It entered the UK singles chart on 16 April 1988 and went on to spend two weeks at number one that spring.
It was S’Express’s only number one but not their only hit. “Superfly Guy” reached number five in July 1988 and “Hey Music Lover” number six in February 1989, both from the debut album Original Soundtrack. Later singles charted lower: “Mantra for a State of Mind” (number 21, 1989), “Nothing to Lose” (number 32, 1990) and “Find ‘Em, Fool ‘Em, Forget ‘Em” (number 43, 1991). A 1996 remix reissue, “Theme from S-Express (The Return Trip)”, made number 14.
Theme from S-Express also topped the singles charts in Belgium, Switzerland, Finland and Ireland, and reached number two in West Germany and France; in the US it peaked at 91 on the Billboard Hot 100 but hit number one on the Dance Club Play chart. By the second S’Express album, Intercourse (1991), Moore’s writing partner was singer and DJ Sonique rather than Gabriel.
Five years at the Mud Club, then Taboo and Pyramid
Moore started DJing in 1983, filling in for resident Tasty Tim at the Mud Club under promoter Philip Sallon, and held the residency for about five years. He played early house and techno to a crowd more used to funk, hip hop and rare groove. “I’d play ‘Strings of Life’ at the Mud Club and clear the floor,” he told DJ History. “Three weeks later you could see pockets of people come on to the floor.” He also DJed Leigh Bowery’s Taboo around 1985 and the Asylum/Pyramid night at Heaven alongside Colin Faver and Eddie Richards.
That eclecticism is the closest sourced link between Moore and Ibiza’s Balearic export. Danny Rampling opened Shoom in November 1987, built around the Amnesia and Space clubs he had experienced in Ibiza, and invited Moore to guest there after hearing S’Express. Moore has called Shoom “the Mothership of the Summer of 88.” No source found for this page places Moore in Ibiza himself; his link to the island’s influence runs through Shoom and the eclectic sets he was already playing at the Mud Club and Pyramid, not a personal trip.
William Orbit, Prince and a Philip Glass detour
Moore’s remix partnership with William Orbit produced two 1989 reworks of Prince, “Batdance” and “The Future”/”Electric Chair”, plus Malcolm McLaren and the Bootzilla Orchestra’s “Deep in Vogue” and “Something’s Jumpin’ in Your Shirt.” Solo and with other collaborators he remixed Erasure (“Chains of Love”, “Don’t Say You Love Me”), Fine Young Cannibals’ “Johnny Come Home” (1990), Seal’s “The Beginning” (1991) and, in 2007, the B-52’s “Quiche Lorraine.” He has run three record labels since the 1990s: Stylofiction, Bone, and now Needle Boss.
The strangest credit runs the other way. In 1988, after S’Express covered Sly and the Family Stone’s “Hey Music Lover,” Moore was introduced to composer Philip Glass through a mutual journalist friend and took him to a rave; Glass then made his own version, “Hey Music Lover (The Glass Cut),” scoring it in traditional notation with engineer Kurt Munkacsi rather than programming it electronically. “Every note of that S’Express mix is written out on a piece of paper,” Munkacsi told Red Bull Music Academy Daily, “and Philip probably has the score in his house.”
Moore remains active: a Soft Cell remix he made with Dan Donovan, “First Hand Experience in Second Hand Love,” was pressed to vinyl in May 2025, and a second, “Danceteria,” is scheduled for Record Store Day on 8 April 2026. Neither release, nor anything else on his news page, mentions Ibiza.
Discography
| Year | Release | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Theme from S-Express | Rhythm King |
| 1988 | Superfly Guy | Rhythm King |
| 1989 | Hey Music Lover | Rhythm King |
| 1989 | Original Soundtrack | Rhythm King / Capitol |
| 1989 | Mantra for a State of Mind | Rhythm King |
| 1990 | Nothing to Lose | Rhythm King |
| 1991 | Intercourse | Rhythm King / Sire |
| 1991 | Find ‘Em, Fool ‘Em, Forget ‘Em | Rhythm King |
| 1996 | Theme from S-Express (The Return Trip) | |
| 2016 | Enjoy This Trip | Needle Boss |
What the night is actually like
There’s no live way to catch Mark Moore in Ibiza in 2026. His own news page is tracking record releases, not tour dates; Skiddle lists zero upcoming shows; and Resident Advisor’s history for him, mostly London and Amsterdam clubs such as Egg London, Turnmills and Fire, runs cold after November 2019. Beatportal’s running list of confirmed 2026 Ibiza residencies doesn’t include him either.
For an actual 2026 Ibiza booking, Carl Cox’s Sunday residency at [UNVRS] and Black Coffee’s Saturdays at Hï are confirmed and dated; this page exists for the S’Express and Mud Club story, not a night out.