Daly City Records Blog

What's New At Daly City Records...

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:55:00 +0000

We have lots of new music for you coming on Daly City Records. We are also changing up a lil bit to make love to this new digital age. Lots of suprises in store. Please stay tuned!

Mochipet Nominated for Best Electronic Artist in the SF Weekly. Vote for him?? DO IT, DO IT NOWWWWW.

noreply@blogger.com (Moquel) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:02:00 +0000

Vote for our man Mochipet in the SFWeekly Music Awards for best electronic artist! DO IT.

Mochipet's Sharp Drest Featured in NBA 2K9 by 2kSports

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:04:00 +0000

Mochipet's Electro Bangathon Sharp Drest (Feat Oonceoonce And Eriksolo Of Meanest Man Contest) will be featured in the new NBA 2K9 Video Game by 2KSports. Other acts on the Soundtrack include: Beastie Boys, Gnarls Barkley, N.E.R.D., Spank Rock, The Cool Kids, Ursula 1000, and more. NBA 2K9 comes out October 7th in Stores!!

CLICK HERE FORE MORE INFO!

Mochipet Featured on Percussionlab.com

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:11:00 +0000

PERCUSSION LAB PRESENTS
Mochipet PetHop Mix Total Time: 00:25:13 Stream (M3U) Download (MP3) Podcast (iTunes) Mochipet has been dropping some of the dirtiest, hip hop, idm and crunk influenced beats for the last decade. Head of Daly City Records, he's been busy lately with his "Microphonepet" release, compiling a list of the finest beat conductors for a remix extravaganza, and this exclusive DJ Mix for Percussion Lab. Be sure to enlist in the ranks if you're down for the remix competition. And keep an eye out for the upcoming remix album, due out 11/08 featuring remixers such as Chris De Luca vs. Phon.o, Darko (SpankRock), DJ C, Jahcoozi, Boreta (GlitchMob), Machine Drum and...possibly you? Fire up ableton already fool!

September 08Out of a brief summer hibernation with a bang. This month we're featuring a body thumping DJ Mix by Daly City Records mastermind, Mochipet. From Daly, California to Brooklyn, NY, Mochipet is rounding up the finest for a round of Mochipet remixes coming out this fall. There's a remix contest going on so fire up Ableton and hope to get on the releases featuring Chris De Luca vs. Phon.o, Darko (SpankRock), DJ C, Jahcoozi, Boreta (GlitchMob), Machine Drum and more... More info here!

Check out a couple of Mixes featuring Get Your Whistle Wet by Mochipet and Hustle Heads

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:04:00 +0000

http://www.idmforums.com/showthread.php?t=20159

and....

http://njoywithus.blogspot.com/2008/08/rock-america-videopool-august-2008-ntsc.html

Rhythm Incursions: September 08

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:01:00 +0000

Check out the new Rhythm Incursions Mix with: Mochipet, Free The Robots, Nosaj Thing, and more.

We return to the more ‘regular’ Rhythm Incursions shows this week, and with both Trick and Waxfactor unfortunately otherwise engaged and unable to step up as they normally do (real life’s crazy like that!) I’m strapping on my presenter goggles and bringing you an hour of fresh new music. Considering it’s been about 2 months since the last show, there’s quite a few bits to get stuck into from the likes of Mochipet, Mighty Joseph, Uncle Lew, Nosaj Thing, Mweslee, Dilla, Samiyam and Free The Robots. Oh and we’ve got a mini-feature on the excellent Various Production too.

http://www.rhythm-incursions.com/2008/08/31/rhythm-incursions-september-08/

1. Intro2. Pattie Blingh - Brother (2562 remix) - Ramp Records3. Mochipet ft. Dopestyle, Humanbeings and Casual of Hieroglyphics - Mr Malase - Daly City Records4. Mighty Joseph - Legend - Urchin Studios5. Dilla ft Ghostface Killa and MF Doom - Sniper Elite & Murder Goons - Stones Throw6. Free The Robots - Times Like This - Equinox Records7. Eliot Lipp - The Machine and the Wind - Mush RecordsMini-feature starts8. Various Production & Gerry Mitchell - Idiot Box - Fire Records9. Various Production - Chief - Various Production10. M.I.A - Bird Flu (Various remix) - Various Production11. FOOL - Real Thing (Various remix) - Huw & HawMini-feature ends 12. Nosaj Thing - Coat of Arms - Unreleased13. Mweslee - Chandal 500 - All City Records14. Uncle Lew - Angry - Unreleased15. Samiyam - Trick Platform - Hyperdub16. Vex’d ft. Warrior Queen - Take Time Out - Planet Mu17. The Bug ft. Ricki Ranking - Judgement - Ninja Tune

Click here to download the show!

Mochipet Remixes Broken Electronics by Meanest Man Contest

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:18:00 +0000

Meanest Man Contest's "We Blame You" is the first in a series of
odds-and-ends EPs from the San Francisco/Los Angeles
hip-hop/electronic pop duo. Three remixes of MMC faves – by
Paris-based producer Débruit (Musique Large), San Francisco laptop
king Mochipet (Daly City Records), and Dutch up-and-comer Multi-Panel
– are rounded out by a cover from Roman Ruins (Gold Robot) and a new
MMC track.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE TRACK
http://weapon-shaped.com/mmc/musicality/mmc-brokenelectronics_mochipetrmx.mp3

Zippy's Homemade Drumitar

noreply@blogger.com (pinhead) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:21:00 +0000

I'm inspired, of course, by Futureman of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, with his amazing Synthaxe Drumitar covered in touch pads. A friend of mine had this Rock-Band guitar controller that wasn't working with his XBOX anymore, so i gutted it. I bought the BOSS DR-110 off of Craig's List and it was a perfect match: 6 non-velocity-sensitive drum pads and a clearly marked circuit board. My original plan was to install the entire drum machine into the controller, and just have an audio output. Logistically though, the cat-5 connection made more sense. AND because it's detachable (thanks to a female-to-female coupler) I still have a working drum machine i can use without the guitar!!!

This isn't the best performance, i guess, but hey, this thing is brand new!!!!

MY NEXT PLAN involves the installation of a Moog 3P circuit into my cat.
:-)

MOCHIPET REMIX CONTEST IS ABOUT TO END!

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:31:00 +0000

HELLO ALL, THE MICROPHONEPET REMIX CONTEST WILL END ON 08/31/2008. SO IF YOU HAVE AN ENTRY PLEASE SEND IT IN ASAP!! WE LOOK FWD TO LISTENING. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HAVE MADE A REMIX FOR THE CONTEST IT WILL BE VERY HARD TO JUDGE THERE ARE SOME AMAZING ONES IN THERE!! PLEAES EMAIL ALL REMIXES TO: remixmicpet@dalycityrecords.com

DOWNLOAD THE ACAPELLAS HERE (SCROLL DOWN)
http://remixmicpet.blogspot.com/

Sharp Drest (From Microphonepet) is in Banditos Movie.

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:30:00 +0000

ErikSolo & Mochipet's Song "Sharp Drest" from Mochipet's latest Microphonepet Release is featured on the short film Banditos! See is soon on hulu.com.

http://www.banditostheshort.com/

Tiny Mix Tapes Microphonepet Review

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:36:00 +0000

Mochipet Microphonepet
[Daly City, 2008]

David Wang is one funny pickle. Born in Taiwan to a rocket scientist and kindergarten teacher, he has been repping California under the name Mochipet since the age of 15. In the last few years, he has taken to wearing a purple dinosaur suit onstage, while issuing full-lengths dedicated to the arts of abstract techno, breakcore, and underground hip-hop. He’s like Kid Koala meets Venetian Snares or DJ Krush meets Bogdan Raczynski: you never know what he’s going to do next.
2007 saw Wang’s own Daly City imprint release Girls Love Breakcore. With the help of Doormouse, Otto Von Schirach, and Aaron Spectre, that record reconstituted Justin Timberlake, Invader Zim, and the act of sexually pleasing a miniature stallion into glitchy, high BPM, hardcore IDM that, for reasons evident in and of itself, was never really adored by an overwhelming percentage of females. Skip to six months later and, for fans of Girls Love Breakcore, he has gone upside our heads with a complete mind-bender.
Microphonepet comes out of extreme leftfield as one of the strongest hip-hop albums of 2008. It pools the cream of Mochi-beats as collected from 2003 to 2008 and pairs them with the finest MCs in underground rap today. Freestyle Fellowship’s Mykah9, Dopestyle (KutMasta Kurt), Casual and Opio of Hieroglyphics, oonceoonce, a couple of the Crown City Rockers and Living Legends, and many more all lend their precise vision and ballsy mic skills to a set of righteous, heavily electronic beats that run the style gamut from Prefuse 73 glitch-hop to De La Soul old school. There’s more flavor here than a year’s supply of Mr. Noodles.
"Girls & Boys & Toys" bends the bassline from Coldcut’s "Just For The Kick" into a warped dancehall chugger. Meanwhile, Jahcoozi spits musings on cruising for chicks, whenever Wang lets the constant cut-and-splice land on a beat and glide long enough for coherence. Mochi must have spent weeks dicing up those words, and the effort thoroughly pays off. The Dopestyle and Casual-aided "Mr. Malaise" dips in with an even more twisted bassline and a subtle touch of dub organ over a 4/4 beat, like Mr. Oizo discovering a hidden grime influence with much rejoicing.
The hip-hop here will equally please fans of the genre, early-’90s fundamentalists, and glitch fusion fanatics alike. Mochipet’s thick Rolodex blesses the work with an equal amount of vocal and thematic variety, far from the too-many-chefs syndrome that has plagued recent Prefuse 73 works. By itself, that’s merely great, but knowing Microphonepet came from a man who often butchers distorted electronics into 180 BPM nightmares makes this album a godsend. You have to wonder how much this Wang guy is capable of. We may be looking at the second coming of Luke Vibert, only with a better sense of humor.

LINK TO THE ARTICLE

Microphonepet Remix sensual sweet sexy swinged!

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:01:00 +0000

Yo, I just got Myspaced with the most sensual silky sexy sweet Microphonepet Remix of "Take You Down" to date... Please have a listen tonight in bed with a nice box of chocolates and wine.

Clik here to listen: http://www.myspace.com/guindosilverclub

Mochipet, Daly City Records, BBQ, Taste the Mochi in the lastest SFBay Guardian (BY KIMBERLY CHUN)

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:00:00 +0000

Taste the Mochi

Mochipet -- the ever-fruitful laptop lothario. BY KIMBERLY CHUN

"SONIC REDUCER "If you build it, they will come!" A few famous first words from David Wang — otherwise known as the ever-fruitful laptop lothario Mochipet — when we spoke recently, and something to ponder as I gazed around his so-chill, so-frolicsome, and oh-so-free Fourth of July barbecue bash in Golden Gate Park. In a green, leafy nook near the fields where the buffalo roam, a DJ tent is up and housing such pals as Phon.o and Flying Skulls. Funk 'n' Chunk fire the grill with impressive flamethrower action, and Christian of the Tasty crew plunges fish-sauce-marinated chicks into the hot grease for Filipino fried chicken. Throw a Tecate on the whole thing, pet your mochi, and call it an awesome party despite the fact that, as Wang confides, "we did get started a little late because there were some rangers sniffing around." Wang is accustomed to building where few have ventured before — and as a collaborator extraordinaire who has worked with everyone from Spank Rock to Ellen Allien, he's brought together communities of sorts in the most unlikely of locales (hence the name of his label, Daly City Records). Earlier that week we chatted by phone in lieu of digging into Hong Kong deep-fried pork chops and a sweet, cheap Filipino breakfast ("It's like soul food for Asians — everything's either deep-fried or smoked") at Gateway restaurant near the literal and spiritual home of Daly City Records. The occasion is his forthcoming Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival, an improv-y and likely collaborative performance, as well as a whopping release show at Club Six for his latest disc, Microphonepet (Daly City). A formidable gathering of all of Wang's work and collaborations since 2001, Microphonepet overwhelms with its awesome sonics, roving from "Tangle" with Salva and Epcot and "Get Your Whistle Wet" with the Hustle Heads, to "Vnecks" with 215 the Freshest Kids and "Lazy Days" with KFlay. Where has Wang been hiding his crazily deep-fried, deliciously bleepy hip-hop production skills all this time? "Guess it got to the point where last year I got 20 tracks, so I just put them out as a record, because some of them are really cool," he explains. "I thought they were really diverse and it would be a good segue to my next record."
Wang has been pouring plenty of energy into that coming disc, which may be released on Daly City or an imprint like Ninjatune. He describes it as more personal: he's skating progressive, jazz, and South American musical influences off trad Korean and Chinese sounds, and acoustic guitar off heavy electronics. "I've always written ... traditional songs but I've never really been comfortable releasing it," says Wang, who describes his early aural interests as veering toward jazz and salsa. "All my records before this have been experiments — me trying new things. But they haven't been as personal as this next record. I think of it as my first record, really. I'm a slow bloomer." *

MOCHIPET MCMF show with Yoko Solo, Patrice Scanlon, and Blanket Head
July 18, 8 p.m., $7
Million Fishes Gallery
2501 Bryant, SF
millionfishes.com

Also Aug. 9 Microphonepet release show with Raashan, Mike Boo, Cikee, Daddy Kev, Dopestyles, Kflay, and others
9 p.m., $10–$15
Club Six
60 Sixth St., SF
http://www.clubsix1.com/

READ THE ARTICLE ON SFBG.COM

Waffle Sundaes

noreply@blogger.com (Dan B) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:43:00 +0000

You can never tell when waffles will strike...

Daly City Records Found the New Leading Actor for the New Mochipet Video

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:49:00 +0000

Coolest Monkey Ever

WHO is this guy? And why does he want his Whistle Wet?

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:53:00 +0000

So Strange..

Preshish Moments explains how his box works!

noreply@blogger.com (preshish) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:01:00 +0000

Preshish Moments made a ginchy new video explaining how his wooden box (splinter) works with his max patch (shredder) to make hot beats. He gets electrocuted a few times and pushes a bunch of buttons. books... check em out!

New Preshish Moments CD Featured on Beatport

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:45:00 +0000

Daly City's latest release Preshish Moments "Let's Be Friends" is featured on Beatport.com! Have a listen and see why he won the SF Laptop & Machine Battles, the biggest one ever!

https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/99677/lets_be_friends

Preshish Moments - Let's Be Friends
Cat: DCR128
Label: Daly City Records
Release Date: 07/01/2008
Format: CD
Price: $15.00
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Microphonepet #5 in Arkansas?

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:20:00 +0000

Microphonepet #5 in Arkansas! We have never been to Arkansas but apparently they love Microphonepet. We <3 you Fayetteville. =)

CLICK HERE>> > http://kxua883.blogspot.com/2008/07/charts-7082008.html

2 New Mochipet Mixes Up On Switzerland's Fairtilizer!

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:59:00 +0000

Check out 2 new Mochipet Mixes on Switzerland's Fairtilizer.com Website!

DOWNLOAD THE MIXES: http://fairtilizer.com/playlists/4037

Joelle

noreply@blogger.com (Timothy) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:10:00 +0000

Meet my new guitar, Joelle. She's a knock of Tellecaster from the 70's maybe, she has a Fernandez sustainer, killswitch and Marshal Vibratrem pedal built into her.

MP-FREE

noreply@blogger.com (Build128) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:29:00 +0000

whoooooo-eeeeeeee
fresh out the lab kidz

hope again axillary badass remix
some of you might remember this from the old Baby Godzilla compilation

there's been some stirrings about....
more soon
B128

Unicorn Glowstick Rave Party Mentioned In This Month's XLR8R Mag

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:10:00 +0000

Yay! Daly City Loves XLR8R! and Kids who Shove Glowsticks into thier heads. Woopie!

Mochipet Microphonepet Record Release Party August 9th @ ClubSix

noreply@blogger.com (Mochipet) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:25:00 +0000

The Imipoloex G and learning to play with sound

noreply@blogger.com (Timothy) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:55:00 +0000

I'm just gonna plow through this:

Well, it is a kind of funny story how we thought of the Plasma Globe invention, and it all started on April 3 when were on a podcast for Shark vs Octopus in downtown San Francisco. Ian and Dez were interviewing us and asking us a lot of cool questions, one of the questions is here wait...I know its... we have it someplace around here because we recorded it for the you tube... hang on a sec, A-and;

So, then a week after that podcast, Matthew Zipkin or Zippy as we call him sometimes, purchased a Chinese Plasma Globe off Ebay for eight dollars. He and Cyrus tore it apart and looked around in there and then put it back together, but afterwards there was much more plasma running around inside the glass globe when it was on, pretty cool looking and we're not sure if that did something to the gas in there when we took it all apart.

We tried all sorts of things to have it make noise for us but nothing seemed to want to work so we tried holding live pickups to it, holding a live quarter inch wire and touching it, which worked but not so well as we had in mind from the podcast idea. So we kinda forgot about the whole Globe thing for maybe a month or two when Zippy got me a Thingamagoop which I've been using at shows now which is a lot of fun I sorta started looking around all the time for strange gizmos like my Thingamagoop, and that twisted speak and spell that I bought, but then I really wanted to make the globe thing after seeing how all these other cool people made these unreal sound inventions and decided to get all obsessed about it because Zip and I wanted one we could call ours, a glowing little fun to play with scream and whooper, something no one else had. At last I thought to try a theremin out. I saved up some money and bought one on the internet for a great price. When it came to my house (which only took like four days, those theremin guys rule!) Zippy and I were ready with screwdrivers and things to take the Globe and Theremin apart. We wanted to have fun taking them apart and making this nutty creation but for some reason Zippy just turned them both on and we found out that if you stand in between them wait a second Zippy kind of explained it in here someplace… hang on a sec...email searching...oh here it is... A-and:

Quite simple really!
The theremin is just plugged into Timmy's amp, and placed near him when he plays with the globe! Easy!
The theremin is designed to pick up tiny changes in the interference in its little radio field, namely body parts with high capacitance.
When you touch the globe, the "lightning" grounds to your body, covering you with static electricity.
SOOooo the theremin reacts normally to the proximity of Timmy's body – and then goes COMPLETELY APE SHIT when Timmy's body is covered in static electricity. Hence, the distortion and FUGGINCOOLness.
luv,
Zip

And so we got this kick ass invention now that we want to play live at our shows and I know we're gonna, I've been practicing a lot. We named it The
Imipolex G, after a certain type of Rocket Insulation from this crazy book I can't stop reading about deadly rockets and sex called Gravity's Rainbow.

Anyway, if anyone else out there has any ideas about how to bend the theremin or combine them into one thing I'd love some help, I'm way into knobs and switches and buttons but I haven't bent anything myself.

Now I run all of this through my mixer and into my mini Hiwatt for a really kick ass tone. I don't have my camera (left it at the gf's) so I took a cell phone picture which is blurry and crap but it'll work for now, also I am making you another video which will be uploaded tomorrow that shows all the cool noises. This stuff is all fun but the neighbors keep banging on my floor/their ceiling, Screw them, this is science....