CITIZEN TEN Die – O – Rama Mixtape interview!

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Available soon in the CB Records store and podcast

Friday April 19th

CHANGE THE BEAT

COMPUTER JAY
Celebrating his newest 10″ release
“Savage Planet Discotheque v2″

SKRAPEZ
(10SHUN & PSYCHOPOP)

EDOMITES
(PUZZLE & MIKE REED)

CENTIPEDE of MOPHONO
Playing new unreleased material

CITIZEN TEN
Celebrating the release of his newest mix DIE O RAMA

$10 admission + free copy of CITIZEN TEN’s limited edition mix tape DIE O RAMA

21 and up
$5.00 Jameson & PBR til 11:00

1192 Folsom San Francisco CA 94103

Hit+Run Vol.2

http://thehitandrun.bandcamp.com/album/road-kill-vol-2

1. Contact Field Orchestra – Dorado Alucinari
2. Mophono (feat. Bellow Garmon) – Old Illusion
3. Psychopop (feat. Scatterbrain) – Masters 2012
4. Jonwayne – Dropped Calls
5. Gnar – Combat
6. Kutmah – Smile Today
7. Pablo Ygål – Love Is The Master Key
8. Abcnt (feat. Ali Baba Abnormal) – Arrival
9. N8 No Face (feat. Zackey Force Funk) – Kill’t
10. Free The Robots – Snake Charmer
11. Darkhouse Fam – Thick Thighs
12. Scumbag Tony – Crushtron
13. Dibia$e – Deal With It
14. Dirg Gerner – Azul y Blanco
15. House Shoes – Murder Music
16. Nobody – Richard Thryce
17. Computer Jay – Uppercut From Above
18. Superdeluxe – You Are Somebody
19. CX Kidtronik – Gnarly
20. Hashim B. – Hitto-Ando-Ruuunnn!
21. Om Unit x Sweatson Klank – Old English
22. Strangeloop (feat. Van Detta) – Higher
23. Bomarr (feat. Zackey Force Funk) – Don’t Swim With The Sharks
24. Co.Fee – The Chase
25. N8 No Face – Enemies With Me
26. Carlos Niño – Bashar

www.thehitandrun.com

For more about Hit+Run

1. Quarry – It Wasn’t
2. Mophono – Early
3. Gypsy Mamba – Trapslappin
4. devonwho – Grades
5. elusive – Jenga
6. Mono/Poly – Bang9
7. Jermski – Schism
8. Aly – Hippie Wave
9. Awblzrd – Stoops
10. Co. fee – Bender
11. knxwledge – Wrappd
12. Taurus Scott – Smoke A Dub with Me Mayne
13. Insightful – Later That Day
14. Swarvy – Phatbootyhoes
15. cestladore – Too Many Moons
16. Bdot – Outro

Download it here:

http://resonate.bandcamp.com/album/aural-stimuli-vol-2

Resonate Stockton…… Great Party Great People

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for more about Resonate…..

SATURDAY AUGUST 25th

WHO CARES
DJ CENTIPEDE of MOPHONO
YOUNG AUNDEE
WHITE CANARY

DJ’s
BEN ANDRES
CROOK ONE
ERNIE FRESH
SAM I JAM
BOGGAN

8:00PM Doors
Townhouse 1517 21st St. Sacramento, CA 95814

SPARC Showcase with Mophono FREE w/ RSVP and open to non-patients: http://sparcsf.org/gkr Each fourth Friday of the month, SPARC in association with Grown Kids Radio brings you a brand new series of live music for your early evening. Expect some of the Bay Area’s emerging musicians, visual artists, and food businesses to spark your palette.

Join us Friday, March 23rd from 7 to 10pm in celebration of the week’s end for a session of fresh local music, and some of the tastiest new food culture being served around the Bay!

This week SPARC, a medical cannabis and advocacy non-profit presents to you a Live Electronic Musical Performance by

MOPHONO (CB Records) – showcasing some brand new, never heard before, production.

Featuring vocal and musical accompaniment by YOUNG AUNDEE

Along with a DJ set by B Maj (Grown Kids Radio)

SPARC Showcase @SPARCSF – 1256 Mission Street (between 8th and 9th Street)

Friday, March 23rd, 2012 from 7 to 10pm Non-members must RSVP for entry sparcsf.org/gkr 18+

Collaborations

SPARCSF – http://sparcsf.org/

Grown Kids Radio – http://grownkidsradio.com/

Mophono (CB Records) – http://www.cbrecords.com/

Burgogi (Korean-American burgers) – http://burgogi.com/

*SPARC presents is open to all people with or without a doctor’s referral for medical cannabis. Purchase of medicinal cannabis dependent upon valid and current doctor’s medical referral.

Times listed above are PST. Other Time Zones:
7:30PM-10:30PM Eastern // 4:30-7:30PM Pacific // 6:30PM-9:30PM Central
// 12:30AM-3:30AM GMT (London) // 1:30AM-4:30AM CET (Berlin) // Sat 9:30AM-12:30PM JST (Tokyo) //
Sat 11:30AM-2:30PM EDT (Sydney)

A pre-SXSW session live streaming online from San Francsico.

DEVONWHO (All City, PDX)
-http://devonwho.com/
-Strangebrew EP on All-City – http://shop.all-cityrecords.com/product/All_City_Releases__MUSIC/Devonwho_Strangebrew/20848

DJ CENTIPEDE (of MOPHONO, CB Records, SF)
-http://www.myspace.com/mophono
-http://www.cbrecords.com/

DEO (of SONNYMOON) & TIME WHARP BACK-TO-BACK
http://sonnymoonmusic.com/
http://timewharp.com/

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JASS Sessions #4
Streaming Worldwide Live from Secret Location, San Francisco, CA

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Twitter: @JASSlive

Thursday March 9th 2012

SECRET SOCIETY

Edison
Mark Aubert
DJ Centipede of Mophono
Citizen Ten
Destro

Icon 1192 Folsom St. San Francisco 94103

Gonna Be Hype

SATURDAY Feb. 25th DJ CENTIPEDE of Mophono will be performing at the Mezzanine for DJ KRUSH 20 year Anniversary!!!

Mophono DJ Centipede  Collective-Perspectives Interview.

http://collectiveperspectives.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/mo-mophono/

Big up Applied Pressure Austin

Mo’ MOPHONO

Yes! More Mophono (we can’t get enough). We were able to get back touch with Benji Illgen, the face behind Mophono’s sick beats, and ask a few questions. Read on and you’ll find that this is a real down-to-earth respectable guy.

CP: What was the tipping point in your musical interest where you knew you had talent and knew you could succeed?

M: I would say a big thing for me was one of the first mixtapes as a DJ that I made was in May 1996. It was a cassette mix I called Mophono with a really cool cut and paste cover i made on a copy machine. I gave away and sold so many of them to my graff writer, raver and skateboarder friends. It had loads of Mo Wax, Ninja Tune and classic Beat shit.

CP: What can we expect from your style of music in the future? Any new projects or inspirations?

M: I got a lot of ideas and a bunch of irons in the fire and some secrets…….. for now more open compositions. Possibly more clarity in the sound. Definitely more aggressive shit, more stupid drum breaks, Thug Jazz and Dirt Wave!

Mophono – Thug Jazz Vol. 1 by bastardjazz

CP: Any long-term plans for your career?

M: Put out so many pressings that I have more records in the dollar bin than Barbara Streisand.

CP: What’s your biggest challenge as a producer and musician?

M: Earning enough paper to not think about earning it and then getting to the real tough part of not hating everyone because I love them so much.

CP: I really enjoyed The Edge album. What is the main message you want your listeners to collect from it and the Skip On Beat style?

M: Right on Im glad you enjoyed it. The edge was more of a salute to a few aspects of the hip hop and sample based b boy culture of today. Two of my favorite producers and arrangers are Willie Mitchell R.I.P. and David Axelrod… so I remixed them. Look them up and listen to all of their work…its amazing. Also we all know the Rza and Dr Dre, so obviously respect to them of course.
As far as the SKIP ON BEAT thing. This is the first full record with compositions that skip on beat. This means you can lift the needle and put it any where on the song and it stays on beat. You can only do this with the physical record. This is why the record is more valuable than any other format. On top of all that, these classic songs and drum breaks are not available on 7″ and I wanted to be able to rock them on a 7″……so its a gift to all the DJ’s that were quick on their feet and awake enough to buy them…big up.

CP: What’s popular in today’s mainstream music is often imitated by other artists and lacks complexity. Any thoughts or messages to upcoming and developing artists or the mainstream genre?

M: To all the mainstream “sheeple” who kill communities and cultural development……..Keep being wack you boring fucks!

To all the developing artists….. the more unique and true to your own vision you keep your creative works, the more you will have to offer, causing your art to be more valuable and have more of an impact. Create something new for your family and friends and enrich your community with something beautiful that only you can create. Welcome constructive criticism from everywhere and try and better yourself and your works.

CP: I’ve always wondered how artists decide to title their tracks. What are things that determine the results?

M: On my first album the machine I was using the MPC 2000, one the dopest sampling tool available, the MPC 2000. It had a small screen that could only fit a few symbols and the the song I was working on started off melancholic so I named it I Cry.
I made the song in 1999 and even though the full album came out in 2005, I really feel like it represents the nineties and Ideas that were happening in the nineties (in general and personally). The name means more today than it did when I named it…for sure. San Francisco went through many changes between 1999 and 2002. We lost a huge amount of culture and people that made up the heart and soul of SF and made it such a unique,beautiful and fucked up place.
The name of my first 12″ on Bastard Jazz is Sinicism. It is a play on words based on an idea of being so cynical that you have stopped growth in your self and others based on your biases or judgement and that equates to being closed minded and negative. The ability to see the bad in things is a double edged sword, like a gift and a curse.

CP: In another interview, you mentioned your respect for the listeners (thanks) when you were deciding whether or not to make your Cut Form Crush album one big track. Why not present your music as you wish as an artist?

M: Yes, this idea is about preserving the order of the finished piece. I come from decades of making mixtapes on cassettes and then mixCD’s, which people would listen from start to finish and then over and over again and sometimes memorize them. The ironic side is that I skip through shit so much until i find my favorite parts of an album or song so I couldn’t be a hypocrite. Also, part of the act of finishing and releasing art is letting go. This was one of the aspects I thought it would be valuable to let go. In cutting the pieces up I’m giving the listener more control to decide what parts to listen to.

CP: Can you talk about your best and worst experiences in the music industry?

M: One of the best things has been meeting all of the talented people and getting to work with them…..also watching some of my friends blow up hella successful.

CP: What are the big barriers you’ve faced and the breaks you’ve gotten that has shaped you as a person?

M: DJ Lethal from House of Pain asked me to help produce some music while he was working with Limp Bizkit. Their music is really not my bag and at the time I was hustling my music so hard that I thought this was some sort of cruel joke that my lucky break would be so ironic. Was it my lucky break or not?….Either way I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to make the decision to stay true to my vision

CP: What’s your current addiction? Why?

M: I try to remain conscious especially of excessive things but I have been into portable instruments lately and seafood for some reason…..but I live in the bay area so its easy to find good spots.

CP: Do you have any other interests or talents outside of the music realm you’d like to share with us?

M: Being hella slow and lagging the fuck out….Im actually getting better at it, like ten minutes late instead of 2 hours, but right now I am lagging hard. I am extremely distracted as a free thinker, its fucked up sometimes but I also have the ability to concentrate hard core on some real precision shit too. It is a balance.

CP: Can you describe a time when your work was criticized and how you spun it into a positive?

M: I am very proud of what I do as a contributing member of my community and I encourage and expect others to get themselves to a better place and be proud of themselves by doing something they love and put in hard work to get there, even it sometimes it does not seem valuable to others, fuck other people, they are busy being cool and doing nothing but talking anyway. If you are unhappy or not reaching your potential, change it and build something to be proud of.

CP: You were in Austin not too long ago for an Applied Pressure event. Can we expect more of you in the live music capital in the next year?

M: Hell yes, big up Applied Pressure.

CP: Please fill in the blank: (we want to get to know you)

M: Records Records Drums Records Drums Drums Drums Records Drums
Electronics Drums Drums Drums Drum Machines Drums Echo Drums Synths Drums Drums Drums Horns Drums Drums Drums Drums Strings Drums Drums Drums Acid Drums Drums Drums Organs Drums Drums Spring Reverb….all to tape.

· My top favorite artists are To many…..really to many.

· Dirty ass basement with hella records …..or outdoors very far from all that….. is where I find peace.

· The potential to have wealth evenly spread and a positive growth based society with plenty of diversity and beauty that is shot down by greed and a few bankers flawed history and the media that supports it…… is/are annoying.

· (Dead or alive) I’d love to meet if those are the rules than I would like to meet everyone that has ever lived ever and is now dead…and then play them all a few records, talk shit, maybe have an experimental electronic jam session and smoke a joint.