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About Me

Jai Young Kim, a San Francisco musician/engineer/DJ, will rock you with his hard and hypnotic funk grooves. He plays live electric instruments (guitar, keyboard, voice) while manipulating layers of sequenced loops that he guarantees are the heaviest riffs you've ever heard coming out of a PowerBook! Jai Young often recruits unlucky friends of his - from avant-raucous vocalists to co-ed go-go dancers to relentless video jockeys - to help add post-punk performance art chaos atop the generally soothing hippie vibe his music suggests.
On his most recent U.S. tour, the awesome Brooklyn band Shellshag dubbed him, "The Burt Bacharach of Stoner Rock."
Jai Young records and tours as much as he can, as a solo artist and with numerous bands and projects. He is one-third of the experimental noise-rock band Job, best known for its '90s cult-appreciated CD "Party at Ilan's." He has just completed a west-coast tour playing keyboards with the widely revered Secret Chiefs 3 . He also operates Feast or Famine, a small recording studio and boutique indie label.

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Member Since: 5/25/2005
Band Website: feastorfamine.com/jyk
Band Members: Jai Young Kim
Influences: Motorpsycho, Luomo, Can, Funkadelic, Radiohead, David Lynch, The Dears, Rhythm & Sound, Shuggie Otis, Spacemen 3, Slint, Elliott Smith, DFA, TV on the Radio, Derrick Carter, Fushitsusha, Scorn, Alice Coltrane, Trevor Jackson, Zombi, The Dead C., Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Secret Chiefs 3 , DJ M3, Thomas Dimuzio , LeD ZePPeLin, and then some.
Sounds Like: The William Hung of Acid Disco!
Record Label: Feast or Famine
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

SECRET CHIEFS 3 shows this week in Cali (incl. SF Warfield w/ Les Claypool, April 5)

Okay, playing keyboards at three Secret Chiefs 3 shows in California this week!Thursday, April 3rd - The Brookdale Lodge, Brookdale, CA. SC3 headline at this historic and haunted lodge. Info and ticke...
Posted by Jai Young Kim on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:43:00 PST

SPECTRUM (SonicBoom)/LSD &sfg/JYK/LopsidedSpaceKart/SugarplumElves @12 GALAXIES Fri, Mar 14

SPRING FREAQUINOX SPACE RITUALFriday, March 14th, 2008, 9 pm@ 12 Galaxies2565 Mission Street (near 22nd St), San Franciscowith performances bySPECTRUM (featuring Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3!)LSD & the Se...
Posted by Jai Young Kim on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:53:00 PST

SECRET CHIEFS 3 play Zorn Festival in Milan, Nov 23

Secret Chiefs 3 will perform John Zorn's Masada Book Two: "Xaphan The Book of Angels" as part of the exciting "Zorniana" festival in Milan, Italy. The festival is on Friday evening, November 23rd, 2...
Posted by Jai Young Kim on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:24:00 PST

SECRET CHIEFS 3 Australia/US West Coast Tour Dates for May/June 2007

I've been in beautiful Australia rehearsing with Secret Chiefs 3, ready to embark on a nice Australian tour, followed by a quick US west-coast tour, in support of the newly released SC3 compilation CD...
Posted by Jai Young Kim on Tue, 08 May 2007 06:03:00 PST

SECRET CHIEFS 3 - March 2007 U.S. Tour Dates w/ Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Taken from the Secret Chiefs 3 MySpace blog:Thursday, January 11, 2007 MARCH TOURCurrent mood: apocatastaticCategory: apocatastatic MusicWe'll tour again in March w/ Sleepytime Gorilla Museum;this t...
Posted by Jai Young Kim on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:00:00 PST

R.I.P. Ram Ayala (Taco Land, San Antonio)

San Antonio, TX's post-punk/indie-rock institution Taco Land was robbed at gunpoint last Thursday. The owner Ram Ayala was murdered and the other employees are still in the hospital from gunshot wound...
Posted by Jai Young Kim on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Thanks to Everyone Who Saved My Ass on the May 2005 U.S. Tour!

You know who you are... but here's a stab at that list anyway: SF, CA - The Graves Brothers Deluxe!! Austin, TX - Bigamy Sisters (Robert), Boxcar Satan, Snake Trap, Clay Bridges, Mark Vane, Red Ey...
Posted by Jai Young Kim on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST