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About Me

Yes, finally decided to put up a few of the mashes I've been giving out in cds for the last few months. Hope you enjoy them. AND hope you support the original artists and buy the songs that were mixed.Yeah yeah... GEMINI...of course. Full-time musician / producer & part-time freak. I love other Geminis, Scorpios (so passionate!), people with something to say & fashion shows that serve Pabst. I need heavy beats, rice & long walks across the city. I REALLY Like drinking, smoking & staying up - followed by not drinking, not smoking & sleep. I split my time bewteen 3 coasts & 4 bands so I love to hear from musicians, music fans, people with ideas & opinions, artists, freaks, morons, people with ghost stories & geniuses from all over the world. (I fall into all of those categories depending on who's asking)- Born in the woods of Maine (village of 700 people - Denmark rocks!) I started taking apart cassette decks at the age of 5 & running wrapped cassette tape over the exposed heads with my hands to try & recreate the skratches I was hearing on my favorite hip-hop albums at the time. Learned to play some drums, harmonica & bass. Started to play in bands. Moved to beautiful scenic South Central LA for music & fun. Few years later moved to San Francisco for more of same. Finally learned turntables, samplers & keyboards and started putting out strange solo electronic albums..Lived with ghosts, made skratch albums, ghost stories & straight funk................................................
Currently splitting time between Honolulu, SFC and NYC.I Like dirty sounds, clean clothes & smokey rooms..Vist my other sites & bands I play with & grab hella free music. http://www.myspace.com/opiatevoidhttp://www.myspace.com/expl icitokayhttp://www.myspace.com/walrusjones1say hello to VAHCO for me! Surprising new clean mountain scent!! www.myspace.com/vahcoart
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/3/2004
Band Website: www.myspace.com/explicitokay
Band Members: shen - sampler, turntables, mac, bass, guitar, keys, stuttering Obake - sampler, tables, tapes, waxed paper, donutsTree Toad - jungle soundsSometimes I've been lucky enough to be joined onstage by VAHCO on keys, California Dave on guitars, Moses on beats & flows and Drummer X on the electronic & acoustic sets. Sets vary from just me on stage to a full electro orchestra depending on the venue & the show.
Influences: matmos, skratch piklz, ken nordine, alice coltrane, howler monkeys, BUCKETHEAD!!! bloody imitation society, james kochalka, 808 state, doc watson, hun huur tu, Robert Johnson, Tom Johnson, Johnson Brothers, New Riders of the Purple Sage, john coltrane, mccoy tyner, jimmy smith, arturo sandoval, scientist & jammy, nirvana, fugazi, sublime, king tubby, lee scratch perry, steve perry, nuno, pappa smurf, E40, prince, Too $hort, RBL, YBS, VAHCO, OPIATE VOID, Dave Boscacci's Armada, shadowy men on a shadowy planet, dub syndicate, Y.M.O., phonsychographadisk, eddie def, dj sushi, d-styles, d-righteous, metallica, cacaphony, vai, zorn, zappa, zeppelin, hendrix, floyd, hot butter, moog cookbook, propellerheads, peff, puffy amiyumi, white zombie, andy wallace, slayer, beastie boys, boogie boys, whodini, UTFO, Run DMC, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Sir Run Run Shaw, Runme Shaw, waves at the beach, tom tom club, Walrus Jones, X.E.S., soft cell, fatboy slim, fats waller, fats domino, slim pickins, kim wilson, brian wilson, wilson soccer balls, ac/dc, ministry, gwar, green jello, pantera, the Who, big tymers, ICP, ISP, ICE, Ice Cube, NWA, Gold Chains, Foreigner, Journey, Rush, duran duran, the Time, Thelonius Monk, broun fellinis, freeload, hot johnny, p-funk, f-punk, big audio dynamite, 3rd sight, the lovely ladies of London Street, Leonard Kwan, william orbit, your obit...***************************************************** *******Yeah - I play bass & some keys (look for my clips in the Drunken Girl video from the 2nd studio in the 808) as well as work on beats & anything else that I can with OPIATE VOID & Explicit OK!!! Our new videos....directed by Ron Boscacci.
Sounds Like: kid 606, matmos, Uziq, kid koala, Conkie the Robot, some ting kinda new....
Record Label: ned the goat-boy records

My Blog

Recording with the VOID in SFC

Got off island for a visit to the studio in SFC. Great to be back in the studio & record where Grateful Dead, CCR, Santana & Digital Underground all made albums too. New OPIATE VOID is sounding heavy...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:06:00 GMT

Bigfoot Sighting in Hawaii

We were glad to have another bigfoot sighting here in Honolulu as Split Obsession hosted an art show for Bigfoot1.
Posted by on Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:44:00 GMT

Home again in the 808

Great to be back in the 808 - Was in the mainland for a lil bit there - Pittsburgh and SFC. Picked-up a new bass. Recorded parts of about eight new songs with Explicit OK!!! Got to visit the fam & the...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:16:00 GMT

Off island

Gonna be off island & out of email range for next week or so. Going to SFC, Maine, & a funeral in Natick. Love to the fam & hope I get to see everyone I can during the travels.- shenfu
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:23:00 GMT

Use your INDOOR voice

Shhhhh. Been holed-up here in the lab for the weekend. Finally back off the crutches & enjoying it.
Posted by on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:26:00 GMT

Songs from my other projects....

So I'm getting used to living out here in Honolulu now full-time for a lil bit. Missing my bandmates still back on the West & Middle coasts (yeah, the continental divide is the middle coast..wanna...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:51:00 GMT

mashups

In between the Explicit Okay stuff and making beats for the next album, I have really gotten into just crushing music into what I'd like to hear. I've done a few megamixes (clear/fooled/plan2rock) and...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:40:00 GMT

Show at SLIM'S

Ow...Sore the day after a show. Thanks to everyone who came out to support Explicit OK's first show ever here at Slim's in SF! It was a great crowd & a great sound system. We had a few problems with t...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:04:00 GMT

My namesake Priest Shen

Anyone wondering what finally made me decide on the Priest Shen moniker for Djing need only read the review of Story of the Chinese Gods by Javadevil. I watched it many years ago when Sifu Tat Ma Wong...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:54:00 GMT

Living in SF

So anyone who has seen me more in the Bay instead of Honolulu lately may have noticed that I didn't get my move on this year. Sent hella stuff ahead & now waiting for us in HI but just didn't get a st...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:32:00 GMT