Sam Hopkins, his MacBook, MPC 2000XL, drums, bass guitar, USB keybored, normal records, Torq box, Trigger Finger drum pad
Influences
KJHK Lawrence, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Mantronix, Newcleus, The Specials, Funk Carioca, Chicago House, MIA, 90s Dancehall, David Byrne, Jorge Ben, Iraqi Choubi, Baltimore Club, dubstep, grime, Milton Nascimento, Edan, Afrika Bambaataa's "Death Mix," Aphex Twin, David Axelrod, Abdel Halim Hafez, DJ Shadow, Tim Maia, Divine Styler, Hadag Nachash, Shabak Samech, Beastie Boys, Egyptian Lover, Shannon, A Tribe Called Quest, People Under the Stairs, Nine Inch Nails, New Order, TTC, Liquid Liquid, disco blues, disco rap, Talking Heads, Fairuz, Umm Kulthum, Man Parrish, Organized Konfusion, Roscoe Holcomb, Bunker Hill, Nortec Collective, Marley Marl, Arthur Baker
Sounds Like
you went to visit the united nations on musical show 'n tell day and everyone quit being douchebags to each other long enough to get down.
Balagan breaks down thusly:
"Balagan": Persian->Turkic "wooden shack"->Russian "circus sideshow; farce"->Yiddish/Polish/Israeli Hebrew "mess; chaos"
In Hebrew I also break it down "ba'al ha-gan" = "master of the garden" (reference to Voltaire's Candide)
In Arabic "bala jnaan" is "without craziness"
and Balaganoosh is what I will name my first cookbook. Mmm...
THE SCIENCE IS TOO THICK!!!
Oh and I make words into sentences that describe music for Baltimore City Paper, Wax Poetics, and other fine publications.
we hit DC on july 9. goin to Rock the Bells on July 12. flyin to Omaha july 16-28. back to DC/NY til aug. 3....then back to japan. lets catch up...US (310) 878-9882
yo, nice meeting you down in baltimore, man. dig yr production. plus that woody woodpecker song (bayano?)still starts playing in the back of my mind when i least expect it. thanks fer that :))
Kid Koala (Ninjatune) “Mochipet is hilariously funky. He should score the next Katamari video game!”
Clash Magazine ( UK ) “Top Electronic Artists of 2008 - Savaged edits over schizphreaked beats sizzled Mochipet's great album into our charts…talent populated this sonic bullet.”
edIT (The Glitch Mob) "Mochi is keepin' it hyphy for the asians."
Lazersword (Briefcase Rockers) “yo man, was just listening to this mochipet track on my itunes a second ago, and was like what the fuck this is the dopest track i've ever heard. that whole album is rawwwwww”
MISSILL ( Paris , France ) “WOW, i didnt take a slap on my face like dat since a while.. wow wickeed album !!!...well done, big respect”
URB Magazine “Mochipet is making one hell of an argument—for hip hop and even music in general….One very versatile producer…"
KEXP ( Seattle , WA ) “beats spanning the hip-hop and electronic genres, ofte
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