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MOCHIPET

Girls [Heart] Breakcore

(Daly City)

If you're looking for the perfect soundtrack to a superfast-paced,
multitasking life, then Mochipet's Girls [Heart] Breakcore, with its
frantic, breakneck drumbeats, booming bass, and edgy but satisfying energy, is
what you need. Mochipet is talented one-person band David Wang (Daly City
Records' prolific founder), and his instrumentation for this project includes a
laptop, guitar, bass, and controllers. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, but having lived
here since age eight, Wang crafts breakcore landscapes that are broader than
most: he digs into his Chinese heritage for inspiration on tracks such as "Botan
Ricecore" and "Beijing Operacore," on which he perfectly melds a haunting
Chinese opera female vocal with a hypnotic zillion-beats-a-minute riddim. Other
standouts include the sample-happy, sonically neurotic "Weaselcore" (with Weasel
Walter of the Flying Luttenbachers) and "Donkeycore," which is like a Baltimore
club track revved up to 10 times its normal speed. In fact, with Girls,
Wang has somehow managed to successfully sculpt a breakcore album with soul and
warmth despite the relentless, heart-racing bpm driving this 73-minute, 22-track
CD. (Billy Jam)

MOCHIPET

May 30, 9 p.m., $5

Madrone Lounge

500 Divisadero, SF

(415) 241-0202

http://www.madronelounge.com/

2007-05-22 23:47:23