Metal meets breakcore: Mochipet hosts Electric WhomMp for local metal artist

December 7, 2:20 PMSF Nightlife ExaminerMary Danzer

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Steel giants constructed of recycled, welded materials at Burning Man 2007.

Photo courtesy of Flickr User: Iversonic

Electric WhomMp, the city’s premier dubstep night, and Mochipet team up Thursday, December 10, at Roe to bring you beats in the name of local, large-scale art. More than 100 people are rumored to be attending this month’s Electric WhomMp, which will feature Mochipet alongside local favorites Ultraviolet, Smasheltooth, Zombie-J, Syd Gris, Mancub, Nugz, Jonathan W. and Gravity. The event is part of a fundraiser for metal artist Takuro Hashitaka, who lost over $20,000 in metalworking tools and welding materials this summer to a warehouse fire.

Takuro Hashitaka, known as “Tak”, is recognized as the brawn behind some of Burning Man’s most infamous macro metalwork sculptures, including those used in “Leaping Giants” and “Crude Awakening.” The structures, exhibited in 2006 and 2007 by artists Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito, were constructed mostly of recycled metal plates, chains and rings by over thirty artists and volunteers. Hashitaka is credited with single-handedly building the “skeletons” or steel bases for eight of the sculptures which upon completion stood over five times the size of their human creators. On August 9th , coincidentally the first day of this year’s Burning Man Festival, Hashitaka lost his workspace and tools to a fire that raged across seven warehouses in the Bayview District. Many of the warehouses, including Hashitaka’s own, were completely demolished in the blaze. A percentage of the proceeds from Thursday night’s Electric WhomMp hopes to restore some of Hashitaka’s tools and possibly provide a portion of the funds needed for a new work space.

Headlining is the owner of Daily City Records, Mochipet, who is as infamous for daring to mix dub Thriller as he is for breaking beats while sporting a purple dinosaur costume. Coming in two days after the release of Mochipet’s newest EP Master P on Atari, the night is as much a fundraiser as a celebration of all things grindy and glitchy.

Located at 651 Howard St in the SOMA district of San Francisco, Roe hosts Electric WhomMp, the only monthly dubstep night in the city, the second Tuesday of every month. Two floors of two-for-one drinks and dancing, not to mention a modest $5 cover (both until 11pm) leave little excuse for staying in on a school night.