Album: Cut Form Crush

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Album: Cut Form Crush
Label: CB Records
Release Dat e: 2/15/11
(photo credit: Ricky Powell)
Track Listing:
1. Be Human Part One
2. Crush
3. Be Human Part Two
4. Blade
5. Cut Form Control
6. Dedicated to the Synthetic Cosmetic
7. Cut Form Crunch feat Flying Lotus
8. Rep feat. MC SUBVERSE
9. Cut Form One
10. Now (Skip on Beat)
11. Cut Form Into(DIGITAL ONLY)
12. Cut Form Crush Jam
13. Cut Form Eight (Skip On Beat)
14. Cut Form Three Electric Kingdom
15. Cut Form Five Out
Support from the likes of:
The Gaslamp Killer, Flying Lotus, Ricky
Powell, Edan, Slugabed, Salva, Amon Tobin
and others…
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From DJ’ing at the now infamous Future Primitive parties
to running his own Change the Beat weekly in San Francisco for
nearly 5 years, Benji Illgen aka Mophono (also aka DJ Centipede)
has been an unsung mainstay of the Bay Area, CA electronic/hip
hop DJ scenes for some time. Fresh off of both an appearance on
The Gaslamp Killer’s latest Death Gate EP and live at his 10/10/10
Brainfeeder Session in Los Angeles, the beatmaker and cratedigging aficionado has begun to focus on his next step - a full length
release entitled Cut Form Crush for his own label CB Records.
Illgen’s sample digging and break hunting roots stem from
the era where DJ Shadow was “Entroduced” and vinyl was the only
way to DJ; as Mophono, he specializes in the art of dusty drums and
heavy synthscapes. Cut Form Crush presents an expert take on the
escalating west coast beat scene with 14 tracks of formidable
compositional styles that beautifully weave together all sorts of
musical breeds - the wide-ranging influences of music concrete, BBoy culture, classical string arrangements and dirty jazz drumming
can all be heard throughout. “Cut Form Crunch”, which was created
from a live studio session with the luminary Flying Lotus, is
completely exemplary of the album’s hard edge drum machine
crunch and odd rhythms. After a listen to the album, the unique
stamp of Mophono’s skillful past and future in music becomes
exceedingly clear.
Having performed at the Brainfeeder festival (Flying Lotus
brain child) and shared the stage with Amon Tobin, Edan, DJ Food,
DJ Krush, Dabrye, Diplo, Gonjasufi and De La Soul and many
others), Mophono is poised and ready to present Cut Form Crush,
his finest and most all-encompassing statement.
Leeor Brown // lazybrow@fofmusic.net // 323-346-7884 // lazybrow (AIM)