complicating matters since 1978
Listen on Bandcamp Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Music Listen on SoundCloud Anyone who’s spent any real time with me has probably heard my origin story with hip hop. I didn’t just listen to it — I lived in … Continued
Listen on Bandcamp Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Music Listen on SoundCloud Come With Me was made in 2007, while I was living in the foreigner’s ghetto of Itaewon-dong in Seoul, South Korea. I was also head over heels … Continued
Listen on Bandcamp Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Music Listen on SoundCloud This is a call to the sound boys and sound girls — the whole sound crew — to the dance floor. Rastas chanting. The Think break. The … Continued
Listen on Bandcamp Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Music Listen on SoundCloud (Stay tuned next week for the Jungle Version.) This track comes from a period of my life when I spent more time in dark clubs than in … Continued
Listen on Bandcamp Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Music Listen on SoundCloud By 2010, my creative world had shifted dramatically. I was making music in a tiny “studio” built inside a closet, working quietly in headphones while trying not … Continued
Back in 2008, I made this track with the intent of signing it to the newly formed Cold Busted label. At the time, they were just starting to carve out their identity as a home for funky, sample-driven beats, and … Continued
By 2007, I’d been living in Seoul for three years and had already spent a decade playing aggressive, bass-heavy music in dark clubs. Maybe it was time to chill out. Years earlier, when I was looking to travel, I’d gone … Continued
Unsurprisingly, this one’s exactly what the title promises — something chill. The rhythm comes from a dirty record pop, the kind of imperfection that gives a track its heartbeat. It was inspired by the sampling of H.R. Is A Dirty … Continued
This one was my take on the phenomenal field recordings of Alan Lomax — whose work has influenced generations of musicians, often without them even knowing it. Anyone who lived through the ’90s, or at least the party kids who … Continued
In 2010, I was working quietly alone in my headphones, in a “studio” that was really just a closet in a windowless room. There was no face-to-face connection with any kind of community. That solitude completely changed what I was … Continued