Mochipet and Friends
Savage Henry, the maniacally creative duo behind Mochipet’s infamous Godzilla New Year Video have been gaining a reputation far and wide. Their most recent conquest is 1320 Records, home-base for the likes of STS9, The Flying Skulls and OOO so many more. View the fullfrontal
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…And we’re back! With Podcasts 009, that is, brought to you this time by yours truly (Dhruva). The track list is below and this one is all about some fresh, new forward hip hop, dancehall and dubstep leanings (not too surprising given that that’s the way we tend to lean) from some of our favorite producers around the globe. You can get the podcast via Feedburner, iTunes or if you’re of the audiophile sort, you can download the podcast in full res audio below.
Bay Area Musician Mochipet Shocks and Delights Audiences With Ever Experimenting Electro Beats
Who wears a purple dinosaur costume, mixes live DJ sets with spazzy, self-produced hip-hop, house, and electro break beats and runs his own label? It’s not Barney on ecstasy; it’s San Francisco native, Mochipet, aka David Wang. Wang has been releasing music since 2002, and has since released nine full-length albums. Did I mention he also runs his own label, Daly City Records?
Monk Fly is a Producer, Dj and musician influenced by jazz, hip
hop, dubstep, jungle, wonky beats & the found sounds of his
environment.The Monk Fly sound is thus animated, diverse, bass
heavy and has ended up in the record bags of some of the worlds
most respected DJ & Producer such as Danny Breaks (UK),
Flying Lotus (US) & Gas Lamp Killer (US).
Monk Fly’s previous releases through his own label,
The Frequency Lab, have had critics stating:
“…serious top notch production…fusing together a variety of
musical inspirations. I’ll eat my hat if you don’t appreciate this”
(3D world) “a stand out Sydney producer…” (www.inthemix.com.au)
Live Monk Fly cuts both an amazing laptop set or DJ set. A recent
2 part live laptop set can be heard or downloaded at
www.fortheheads.blogspot.com Live reviews have commented, “see this lad he has an ear for
sound and where it meets fun…he rocked” (Drum Media)
Most recently Monk Fly has played support to Internationals
such as Hudson Mohawke, Mamiko, Harmonic 313, Deadbeat,
Benga, Skream & Dorian Concept.
Monk Fly, with his cohort Jonny Faith, also hosts Sydney’s only
weekly future beats radio show (FOR THE HEADS) and also the
only regular club night HEADROOM dedicated to such left-field
wonky beats, Beyond producing, Monk Fly has long been an active player
in the Australian music scene. He was a founding member of
Elefant Traks, a label now known for “…some of Australia’s
best hip hop, dub and broken beats.” (Juice Magazine)
After Elefant Traks, Monk Fly continued on to set up The
Frequency Lab, an artist run initiative – offering affordable
performance, recording and exhibiting space. The Frequency
Lab ran for 5 years as a venue and became known as “the
breeding ground for Sydney’s creative music community.”
(Clayton Thomas, co-director of The Now Now Festival). The
Frequency Lab has since evolved into one of Australia’s most
innovative boutique left-field music labels.
FLIGHTS:
The Hi Fi Club (UK)
The Faversham (UK)
Couch Bar (UK)
Bist rot reque (UK)
St George’s Theat re (UK)
Schokoladen Bar (Ber l in)
Trodler (Ber l in)
Underbel ly Fest ival
Peats Ridge Fest ival 06,07,09
The Great Escape Fest ival
Woodford Folk Fest ival (Br is)
Chalk The Walk Fest ival
Ear thdance Fest ival
Playground Weekender Fest ival
The Sl ip Inn
The Gael ic Club
Hermanns
Bar Broadway
The Abercrombie Hotel
The Mandar in Club
TINA (Newcast le)
Pony Bar (Melb)
Loop Bar (Melb)
The Gl i tch Bar (Melb)
Bar Open (Melb)
Revolver (Melb)
RESIDENCIES:
Cafe 1001 (UK)
The Cr icketers Arms
The Clai re Hotel
The Frequency Lab/ Knot Gal lery
Lab Styles @ The Excelsior Ht
The Lounge Cafe
Headroom @ The Br ighton Up Bar
For The Heads – 2SER 107.3 FM
Mochipet’s Turbo Thizz Petnation
Makes Addictech’s Top 10 Bangers of 2009!
First up is a titan clash between Mochipet and Kraddy as the Glitch Mobster takes on a track from the Glitch Godzilla’s Master P on Atari album. He’s not the only one either, Master P On Atari Transformed Vol. 1 which is out now on Daly City Records also features the likes of Restiform Bodies, S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and Sub Swara.
Glitched beats and bass take the lead on The Land of Animation from UK producer MusSck. Sometimes experimentation at the fringe of genres can go too far, but MusSck keeps things comprehensible while still pushing out the creative boundaries. There’s midtempo sensibility that will get heads nodding as the tracks shift from the dark and ominous to the light and melodic. Excellent craftsmanship!
Spaceheater spawned from the Jazz Mafia cabal, and originated as a duo with Francis on woodwinds and producer Bill M. mixing beats. The expanded version is distributed by Daly City Records, home of Mochipet and other DJ-centric acts. Normally a jazz combo would seem out of place in such environs, but Spaceheater isn’t really a jazz combo — not in the traditional sense, at least. Rather, Francis likes to experiment. He’s the composer’s equivalent to a restless teenager, always shifting grooves or mixing and matching, setting a busy drum pattern against an equally busy — but unrelated — horn part.
On some songs (“Persistent” and “Interlude”), he adds electronic sounds to make the music sound live and synthetic at the same time. The horns seldom fall in lockstep with the rhythm, but that’s what makes it interesting. There’s no question Francis is on to something new. (Ropeadope)
Iko Iko- The Belle Stars vs.64bytes Remix- Ill Gates feat. Mat the Alien- Yan Zombie mashup
Do the Robot- Turf Talk
The Robots-Kraftwerk
Lightworx- Yan Zombie remake
Enter the Machine- PantyRaid
Unknown Suspect-Noah D
Bear Trap(excision remix)-Ultrablack
Girls and Boys and Toys-Mochipet feat. Jahcoozi
Sirius- Mimosa
Funhouse-16bit
Complex Player’s Dub- Mochipet
Want Some Crack?
Jungle-GeorgeLenton
Calypso-Excision and Datsik
Volcano- Antipop Consortium
