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Aesop Rock- Jumper Cables (Phokus "Metal in the Air" mix)  by  Phokus

Just uploaded a new track to my Soundcloud. This midtempo dub/breaks inspired track is available for free download. High quality 320 kbps right here.

http://soundcloud.com/phokus/phokus-live-at-big-bo...

Attention!!! Attention!! Right here, yes, on this very page, I have posted a live recording of my set from the beach stage at the Big Bounce Festival in Belden CA. The event was crack-a-lackin, the beach was shaking, and your earholes were caressed. What a weekend. All original music from start to finish, check it my friends.

So, I've been working on some new tunes lately.  However, I realized that I have a whole shitload of music that I have yet to release that I made in the past years.  I went ahead and posted 4 older tracks of mine that you have most likely never heard.  Pow wow, Skyfish, and Mojave Sunset are tracks I produced along with Sal Del Rosario aka Psylence.  Chasing the wind was done back in 2002, one of my first tracks on Reason.  I have quite a bit more music to upload, but I reached the max number of tracks that myspace will allow me to upload, which is 10.  I plan on rotating the player, to let you listen to some more.  I am also posting a link to some older mixes which never got much promo, but they kick ass.  Enjoy.

Hosted By:
Sentience Collective

When:
Saturday, March 14, 2009

Where:
Sentience
Silk Bar and Grill
Sacramento

Description:
Art and Beats bash, Second Saturday, Sacramento, Burners, Music afficianados, Art lovers, and Freaks!!

Click Here To View Event

Hey there pal's. Its been a while since I've posted anything here, as I've been out of town for a while, and will be for quite some time. I have good news. It looks like I have been nominated for Sac News and Review "Sammies" awards in the electronica category. If you are digging my tunes, and have some spare time, I would really appreciate if you voted for me. All the voting is done online, so feel free to tell others about this. I really do appreciate being nominated, but winning the award would be fantastico. Here's the link ...... Vote .......

Well, its been a while since I've posted on here, however, I come bearing a gift. After an incredible summer, I've decided to throw down a little mix for the internet. This mix features the kind of sound that has fueled the last few months of fun under the sun for myself. Now that the snow if already falling up here in Tahoe, its time to warm up next to some crunchy breaks and techy goodness.

Also, I've got a few fresh new tracks with a new sound, hit me up for a copy of the latest. Think mid-tempo psy-breaks with heavy atmosphere.


Sorry bout the non-direct link, but to get this mix you must go to movementnow.org
(Go to the MIX section- and either DL or stream the Tea Party Mix)

Tracklist:
Phokus- "The Tea Party Mix" (dedicated to my favorite mind-altering beverage)


1. Mystical Sun- Waters of life
2. The Flashbulb- If Trees Could Speak
3. Korpus Kallosum- Skyfish
4. Stormfield- Haiku (Ed Chamberlain Remix)
5. Suspender- Quake (Freaky Chakra Remix)
6. Tiebreaker- Markarian 421 (Phokus and Seed Remix)
7. Databent- Tetrahedron
8. Skeetaz- Skeeters
9. Blake Jarrel- Okoboji (Opencloud's Big Chief Mix)
10. Si Begg- Hard Like Funk
11. Phil Kieran- Skyhook 1
12. Radical Majik-Filth In The Community
13. Ben Klock- Similar Colors
14. S.O.T.E.G.- Concept Of Nature (Lawgivers Convict of Nature Mix)
15. Flack.su- Sigma 957
16. Formulate- Johnny Brooklyn (Phonetik Remix)

I just wanted to let my friends know whats been goin on with me the last few weeks. For those of you I haven't told, I've recently moved to Truckee, CA. Yes, up in the mountains. I got myself a part time job up in Tahoe City at the Rubicon Deli, and have slowly but surely nested into the hillside. I've gotten a lot of comments or questions on why I moved. (comments like....) Why the hell would I move to the mountains? Why leave when I have so much goin on in Sacramento. Why give up a full time job with benefits? To answer those questions I reply with a few ideas. Basically, I moved to gain a different perspective on life. I have come to the realization that I can do anything I set my mind to, yet when I get stuck in a life pattern, it becomes like death to my soul. Quoting Dune "I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."-Duke Leto Atreides I realized that my music is connected completely to my life outlook and perspective. All of which are influenced directly by my body and its surroundings. I also realized my body is an extension of my mind, flowing out of my corpus callosum as a waterfall of quantum fireworks. Therefore, it was necessary to respect all of the realities that enter my body through the various senses of the body. I love my music, but sometimes neglected my life. I was stopping the river of life energy from flowing into me. A lot of it had to do with not respecting the reality that God has given us. I instead, rejected it. Not caring about my surroundings, drinking too much, not taking care of my health. I holed myself up in my apartment room when I wasn' sitting in traffic 2 1/2 hours a day, just to sit in my cubicle, crunching numbers inside a cold white six story building. I sat watching the people around me decaying and growing fatter and more miserable by the minute. I had always knew the so called "Secret" to life. Filled myself with knowledge from all sorts of published new age/spiritual authors and film makers. I just could not get my mind out of the box that surrounded me every day from 8 to 5. Then one day, I decided to chuck all the ideas and dreams the media has fed to me since I was a child, and decided to live my own life and follow my heart. I went back to being a child. No book could ever explain the joy that has entered my life since I died to the world, and was born anew to a life of wonder, excitement, and utter thankgiving to the creator that dwells deep inside the soul of us all. I decided to take a little chance, move away from my familiar surroundings, and surround myself with the mountains, trees, lakes, and fresh air. I had to adjust my way of life to that I had set in my mind. Surround myself with friends that bring me joy, and fill the air with music that makes my heart rejoice and my soul feel at home. I still love Sacramento and it will always be a part of my life. But growth only comes with change. Change can be frightening, as I have experienced. But, everytime I think I am alone, God blesses me with a new mindset to erase the old one. I believe our sins manifest from our minds, and that through faith, our minds and lifes are transformed. I believe that we can not keep blaming the world for our issues in life. Our issues and problems are directly correlated from our mindsets and attitudes, and most of all, faith. It is because our life emerges out of our vision that it is important to have a heart and core rooted in Love. That means patience, thankfulness, respect, servitude, and kindness. The only way we can reach a new consciousness is to put faith into work in our own lives, and reject the ways of the prideful. Become children once again, and appreciate each moment we get to experience. Magic is taking place in every thought, inside every wish, every dream, and every tear. I am thankful. I am in awe.

Big weekend for me coming up. Looks like I am gonna be a busy boy. Friday night, I'll be playing a homewarming party in the Sacramento area (hit me up for details). Saturday afternoon its off to a nice day party in a Sacramento wherehouse with a full on BBQ in effect. After the day party, its off to the Sierra Nevada outdoors to play a incredible 3 day long party called Patriot Act( I will only be attendance for 1 night). I will be playing at 3 am. Finally, I head down to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for the Biorythm Day party. I play at 4pm sunday as soon as the sun hits its apex in the eastern sky. Its gonna be epic. After I get back its off to Los Angeles to hit the real studio to work on some new remix's and original tracks with Brian Seed. Word is he's just picked up a new pro tools rig and some new AD/DA converters for some analog goodness. We're also using a new mastering guy (instead of doing it ourselves). Supposedely the dude did mastering for movies like Memoirs of a Geisha, Band of Brothers, War of the Worlds, and some other really great sounding movies. I can't wait to see how my tracks sound with some pro level mastering. I'll post the line up for Sundays day party below. Come on out if your in SF this weekend.

Biorythm Day party In SF. Go to Acidtotem.net for more info

12-1 acid totem freestyle
1-2 Evolution CQ
2-3 Ben Haus
3-4 Kris Kent
4-5 Phokus
5-630 Homero Espinoza
630-730 UnityVybe
730-9? Flook

This last wednesday I got the chance to do something that I have never done before as a DJ/musician.  I got to play at a real deal fashion show.  This was a nice departure from the usual rave or club scene that I am used to playing.  Most of the crowd was white-collar, rich, and into stuff that I don't really value, but I had fun slipping in some mid- tempo glitch, breaks, and a bit of electro house, infused with some more top 40 stuff like Jody Watley and George Michael (not my idea).  Well, it all went quite well.  They were late starting the show, so I got to play for like an extra half hour (which I wasn't prepared for).  By the time my pre planned live set was over, the crowd was crackin.  Like hundreds of people just sittin there waiting and watching me play on my Imac and little controller.  I was kinda nervous and didn't have any more material ready.  So, I just composed myself, quickly dropped in some chunky acid house and breaks, and tweaked the hell out of it.  It ended up working out quite well.  As I was playing, a dude from the Sacramento Bee got my info, took some pics, and even recorded the audio from behind the booth with his little hand held recorder.  To top it all off, Richard Hallmarq, the lead designer and guy who booked me, wants me to do all his music for him, and play his show at Fashion Week in SF.  Haha.  That's great.  I finally get to use my beat smashing skills and throw together some wicked circus style music for some hot ladies.  Its crazy, Richard wants to introduce me to Dee-lite (of groove is in the heart fame).  Maybe you'll see some glitched out remix's of that in the future from me, haha.  Phokus, taking the fashion world by storm.  Who woulda thought.  Next thing you know, you catch me thowin down Blue Steel, or maybe even Magnum.

Check out this multimedia presentation of the show here...with a bit of audio from my set, and a pretty sweet pic of me tweakin the keys..............HERE

I couldn't get myself to sit down and record today...I've been feeling rather anxious. Must be the world on my shoulders again...instead I thought I would write to explain my feelings today.

express myself, I ask, endlessly, this question of faith...riding the waves of eternal perception blown like winds of time to echo the memory of scattered horizons edging out beyond the sea. my mind elopes with love itself. The greatest love affair was a dance with the one, the one inside me and beyond. In each and every one of you my own reflection speaks, taking turns through sequenced moments of manifested love, the most beautiful song and dance under the moon and into the twilight. She sings a sound so sweet ,you heard it speak your name, the very heart you lost through pain. I struggle to convey my dreams with you, screaming from within my very soul cause its lonely without you. Where does this lead? Why must we ride this wave? Why do I fall so hard into my little understanding of life and its riddles. This incomprehensible routine we walk day after day, you can feel my pain, yet I seek with open eyes the beauty which still maintains, forever on, forever we see, just another moment between you and me...yet we are still so far . :+