Mycho!

Originally uploaded by Teknokitty.

Lightning in a bottle was one of the best fesitivals of the summer 2006, like burningman in the woods with a (look out, here comes the ranger!) flowing river! Here I am rocking my two-step dance style, Balinese hat, and vest by Garret. This entire outfit was lost by the end of the year, much of it at SF decompression. Glad I gt to rock it.

So Raindance Chinese New Year at 1015 ended up being one of the best parties I’ve played - or attended - for a while. Of course, for the record, Fringe Events are #1, this was quite a special night.

This was also a real breakthrough night for me as a DJ, as I got to play for 3 hours, from 11pm - 2am. I played a lot of new dubstep and breaks, building up and breaking down, never quite sure how long I’d be on there, I left as the opening I should just keep building peopleup to go all night, which many of us did.

Thank you everyone for the compliments.

Here are some notable pictures of me playing that night.

 Here is a track with some ganster swang. Glitchy, breaky, fun. Danceloor tested, dancer approved. But of course I’m still working on it.

The one sample is from Kung-Faux. Thank you Logan.

unscene - mp3

A shallowly disguised pun to make it past internet sensors and copyright agents (specifically on myspace) this is a remix of the Peaches classic of similar title (say it out loud). The beats here are 100% Cocoa original, I got my hands on the a cappella (Thank you A&D of Booty fame!) and went to work underneath Peaches’ vocal.

Puck the Fayna Way - mp3

Friday, February 23, 2007 - 10:00 PM

Chinese New Year
Year of the fire Boar

Rain Dance 12 Year Anniversary
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It’s been quite an exploration, leading finally to installing this new blog software setup. the solution was right here the whole time, as it usually is. now as i configure this and figure it all out, i can look forward to ease of future posting, and configuring an instance for fringesf.com -> a multiuder one.

But for now, this is really cool. I’ve been looking fofrward to putting my new website up for a while, and did not want to skimp on it. One thing I’ve relearned this year is doing things right the 1st time, even if it takes a little longer, it’s always best in teh long run - and often the short.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a website launch party to attend.

Sunset & the Fringe bust the barriers between live and electronic music once again with Tribal Summit VI. DJ Logic one of the men most clearly responsible for the inclusion of Djs in the world of live music headlines with a 2 hours DJ set. He’ll be joined on the bill by the Dan Lebowitz Group, Ted Schram, Little John, Motion Potion and the Fringe Collective DJs, painters and dancers.

From hip hop and r&b to dancehall, from the underground to the radio and back, DJ Logic spins a wide range of styles within these genres of music in a versatility relatively seen at the table. The maestro is widely credited for helping to bring jazz into hip-hop’s sphere of influence. Hailing from the Bronx, he kicked off his adventures on the decks in the 1980s by playing at local community events. The next decade, however, saw him growing rapidly in stature as a pro musician. First he joined the group Eye & I, performing with such bands as Living Color and Body Count. He then hooked up with talented jazz trio MMW which laid the groundwork and subsequent fanbase for his solo career. Logic released three seminal records in a four year span - Project Logic, Anomaly, and Zen of Logic - all three garnering acclaim in the hip hop world and beyond. Shortly thereafter, Logic surfaced alongside guitarist Vernon Reid for Front End Lifter, a fun, adventurous album the two recorded as Yohimbe Brothers. Not one to rest or stay still he continued moving forward, where he teamed up with Blues Traveler John Popper for the
much celebrated John Popper Project.

Guitarist Dan Lebowitz and bassist Steve Adams have been playing together since middle school, forming a variety of groups culminating in San Francisco’s own ALO. As ALO’s popularity has risen to new heights, touring with Jack Johnson, and Toots & the Maytals, and selling out the Fillmore repeatedly, so has the appreciation for Steve & Dan’s unique individual styles and collective chemistry. When ALO is not on tour, the two often join forces with explosive local world-funk drummer Inx (Hamsa Lila) and keyboardist Jordan Feinstein (the Ritual). Together, the four have crafted a project to stretch their conceptions of dance music; from funk to breakbeat to disco to old-fashioned rock and roll.

Singer songwriter Ted Schram is all about the fun. Concocting wacky tales of horny animals, despotic landlords and carnivorous poolsharks comes easily to a man who has been called “the Bay Area’s Bob Rivers” Ted will open the evening with an hour of his signature sounds. Motion Potion has been blurring the lines of genre, audience and good taste for more than 10 years, appearing with artists as diverse as the Mutaytor, Maceo Parker, Parliament-Funkadelic and Galactic. A recent focus on merging psych funk and rock with nuschool tech breaks has seen him break new ground at places like 1015 Folsom, Mighty and the HipGenesis Parties in LA. Santa Cruz’s Little John has been a pillar of the underground community for over a decade, hosting his Raindance parties and helping to organize the massive Nexus project at Burning Man. The Fringe Arts Collective was formed to “bring culture to the counterculture”. An assemblage of Bay Area DJs, bands, live painters, visual artists and dancers, they’ve been seen in all the wrong places doing all the right things.

The Fringe will be represented by DJs Victor Vega (electro), Tim Dietz (breaks), Mycho Cocoa (dubstep/breaks), and painters Travis Kohler, Jayme Bertolusi, and Nicole Andris.

The “Tribal Summit” series was founded by Sunset Promotions in 2001 to bring together the disparate communities that encompass the dance music scene. Past events have featured groups as varied as the New Deal, the Mutaytor, DubTribe Soundsystem, the Motet, KJ Sawka, Tipper, and DJ Wolfie.

Live at Icebreakers Ball : 1/26/07
This was my 30th birthday set, a collection of my favorite breaks tracks strictly vinyl.

 

 Live at Icebreakers Ball : 1/26/07: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

also know in some circles as ‘crucial dubstep.’ This is my first shot at a dubstep mix, and is an all vinyl mix. I recorded this right before dubstep really blew up in the bay area, right before it changed. Check it out, it’s different and still holds up.

 

 Original Dub Step-Up! [44:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Turn the bass up on this one!

I composed this track using only sounds from inside my head. I was reading ‘The Orchid Thief’ at the tme, and the organic creepy sonds comping out of my speakers at the time reminded me of creeping through the swamp in search of orchids and other secrets.

I was also starting to experiment in composing dubstep when I wrote this. Maybe there are a few flavors similar to the genre in here but I’m not claiming that this is a dubstep track - it isn’t. But that’s one of my irons currently in the fire.

Secret of the Swamp - mp3