Mochipet and Friends
A short time ago, France’s hot music blog, Splash My Sound, featured Mochipet on their Decouvertes Electro section for 10 Reasons to Love Hate Dubstep.
The feature touches on everything from the release of “10 Reasons” to “All I Want is Moog Porn for Christmas” and even documents a short bio on Mochi… All in French… So put your Google Translate to work and check out here!
Big Love to everyone who came out in Arthur, ND last Saturday to kick off the Grassroots California Level 4 PR Pet Your Godzilla Tour! @Sovereign Sect was off the chain as usual! Peep their new record coming out on Daly City Records soon!! Now back in the studio writing tracks till Thurs w/ Ill-esha and Friday Raindance Chinese New Year! w/ edIT Boreta Eprom Ana Sia and more!!
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Under the playful name of ill-esha, Elysha Zaide has made her mark from her hometown of Vancouver since the late nineties. She started off humbly enough as a house vocalist before moving into drum & bass. Then she caught the DJ bug, quickly earned her first residency, playing to twenty-odd people at a martini bar. Though she was fired when they found out she was only 16, the experience was invaluable. Soon, ill-esha was not only DJing and singing, but getting credits on records and producing her own material. Since 2001, her name has appeared on dozens of singles, while her albums and EPs have become more ambitious.
As the 2000’s wore on, Zaide felt that drum and bass was becoming repetitive and stagnant. Her full-length debut The Perfect Circuit – a collection of heady, trip-hoppy downtempo jams from 2008 – showed ill-esha at a crossroads. Disillusioned with jungle and romance, but not yet wholly dedicated to bass, she locked herself in the studio. With the help of a few friends, she learned to balance live recordings with processing and synthesis, and exorcised her emotronic demons.
Around this time, as her passion for West Coast Bass expanded, ill-esha co-founded the popular Glitch Hop Forum. Through this, Zaide forged professional relationships withMochipet (Daly City Records) and Dov (Muti Music), which would lead to seminal releases on both of their labels. As a side effect, it would also facilitate her move from Vancouver to the bass mecca of San Francisco in 2010.
As her talents in the studio developed, ill-esha has shifted focus from her vocal skills to her musicianship. Far too often, because of her gender, people assumed she was merely a singer, often asking her who made her beats after sets. As a result, she produced her first entirely instrumental album.
Released by Daly City in 2010, Circadian Rhythms silenced anyone who questioned her abilities as a producer. Zaide demonstrated her elegance in the string arrangements on “Sullen Sultry” and “Smoke & Mirrors,” her intricacy in the tasteful minimalism of “Stutterfly” and the thoughtful progression of “Hunting Season,” and her downright raunchiness in the dubstep moan of “Bedbug.” Reveriefollowed in 2011, gifting Muti Music with seven more slick, boom-bap influenced, bass heavy beats.
Where her voice on The Perfect Circuit was very clean and present in the mix, the vocal on Reverie closing track “Slide Over” was chopped up and processed. Lyrics used to be of the upmost importance early on, but now she uses her voice more subtly, as a texture than a conduit of specific meaning. Thus, though her vocals are prevalent on the warping soundscape single “Black Ice” and the Elusive History EP, they flow within the compositions, rather than on top of them, showing that she has many sharp tools at her disposal.
Yep, you read that right… it’s time to Pet Your Godzilla America.
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Everyone loves a good pet and what better way to kick off 2012 then by getting down with the King of Purple Pets himself?!!
Mochipet will be hitting 15 cities across the US with a vengeance in his first tour of the year, and we promise absolutely no speaker will be left standing at the end of it… so get ready little dinos, he’s about to take your city (and dancefloors) by storm!
PET YOUR GODZILLA TOUR is proudly sponsored by
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2/4: FARGO, ND @ JOHNSON’S BARN
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2/9: EUREKA, CA @NOCTURNUM
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2/10: SAN FRANCISCO @RAINDANCE CHINESE NEW YEAR
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2/16: SAN FRANCISCO @ RAW SF
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2/19: NEW ORLEANS, LA @ DRAGON’S DEN (MARDI GRAS)
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2/21: ATHENS, GA @ NEW EARTH MUSIC HALL
2/23: ATLANTA, GA @ APACHE CAFE
2/24: NASHVILLE, TN @ EXIT
2/25: MILWAKEE, WI @ THE MIRAMAR THEATRE
2/26: MINNEAPOLIS, MN @ BOOTLEGGERS
3/2: RENO, NV @ CARGO
3/3: POINT ARENA, CA @ POINT ARENA
3/10: CHICAGO, IL @ LEPRECHAUN DISCO
3/16: PHOENIX, AZ @ BAR SMITH
3/22: DENVER, CO @ BLUEBIRD THEATRE
—-> Until then, practice your petting… you never know when that may come in handy! <—-
Happy Holidays from Mochipet and Daly City Records!
We thank you for all the love and support so we just wanted to give a free download as a present! This track Moogporn is a Mochipet favorite originally from our first compilation released in 2006 called “Baby Godzilla” If you like it please check out other tracks form the album from artists such as: edIT (GlitchMob), Daedelus (Ninjatune), Mochipet (Freestyle Fellowship), Spaceheater (JazzMafia) and Skateboarder Ray Barbee (Powell Peralta)
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/baby-godzilla/id156089769
Bandcamp: http://mochipet.bandcamp.com/album/daly-city-presents-baby-godzilla
Addictech: http://www.addictech.com/p/21023
ALL I WANT IS MOOG PORN FOR CHRISTMAS (FREE DOWNLOAD) by Mochipet
Enjoy “The Geoffrey”, a Dubsteplicious gift for the holidays. Santa came a bit early on this one, and you get the benefits.
“In a time where too many people either receive acclaim too easily or simply buy their way into the industry and mp3-players of fans all over (if this is you – yeah, you suck for it). Sometimes an artist will breakthrough because of their hard work ethic, great attitude and all around positive vibe. When it comes to Living~Stone, nothing could describe him better. This guy carries as much heart as he does bass.” Construct (www.Jaimeledubstep.com )
Click below to get Living~Stone’s free download of his new track “The Geoffrey”
***FREEDOWNLOAD***Living~Stone – The Geoffrey by Livingstonesound
Little John is searching for someone creative and talented to design the cover for his upcoming Daly City Records release, Road to Cairo! If you think you have the skills, read on to see what you need to get started:
INSPIRATION: Road to Cairo was created as a tribute to the recent political uprising in Egypt and features remixes by David Starfire, Mochipet and Nanda. Little John employs live instrumentation, high fidelity samples and haunting vocals in his mid-tempo, gypsy crunk music. He refers to Beats Antique, Rena Jones, and Tipper as artistic influences.
ARTIST NOTE: Little John has dedicated this EP to “all the people you truly love, and to all freedom fighters of the world.”
WHAT YOU’LL WIN: 1 year free pass to every Raindance event for 2012 !
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: All submissions must comply with the following standards – artwork must be 5×5 inches, 300 DPI and must be sent as a .pdf file. Please email all submissions to Cairo_Contest@dalycityrecords.com.
Happy designing!
Tonight LIVE105 will be featuring a special mix by Mochipet at 1am PST – whatever your location, you can check out the station’s Wobble Wednesdays page and click “Listen Now”!
Check out Mochipet’s brand new remix of Kid606‘s “Ejaculazertag”
Note from Mochi: “A remix for my homie Kid606. Went a totally different direction for this one. Wanted to make something bassy melodic but also groovy as well. I hope you guys like it. Comments are always appreciated. Look for the release soon on his Tigerbeat6 imprint.”
Daly City Records is ecstatic to announce a new licensing deal with Grooveshark, the largest international music streaming service! We can’t wait to share our sounds with a ton of new ears – thank you so much for listening to our artists, coming out to their shows and supporting our label; we owe this to you guys. Check out the article from The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch site here!
