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I SING FALSETTO IN THE SHOWER...
this is a brand new site dedicated to DJ and electronic music culture, get you some info and streaming mixes by clicking on the pic...word
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J. CHAVEZ was...
Producer for Mush recording artist Octavius
DJ for Waxploitation recording artists Dopestyle 1231,
Hades Jungle,
The Aww Yeah Poetry Slam,
KFSR 90.7 Fresno,
89.9 Kultradio.org in San Francisco,
Hip-Hop Slam's DJ's of Mass Destruction
The Young Soul Rebels
Vocalist for The International Jet Set
J. CHAVEZ is...
DJ4AM
1/4 of the Beat Dynasty DJ crew
Percussionist / Backing vocalist for Black Fiction
Producer for MC Dopestyle
Resident DJ for BODY GLOVE
(with Rebecca Watkins and Krang...formerly Marco Vega
AND A ROTATING CAST OF TOMFOOLERY at Beauty Bar)
and Sip Bar in Northbeach
1/2 of the Sofaking Massive Soundklash w/ Big Ant
1/2 of *RE-Group* w/ Armen Nalbandian
balding solo artist...
Prime minister of hug life
and enabler of Nightmare Soul.
born in Fresno, California....
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CURRENT PROJECTS:
Black Fiction / (untitled as of yet)
4AM / LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I BELIEVE WE'VE FOUND THE WRONG HEAVEN...OR...EVERY TOWN NEEDS A TELESCOPE (inspired directly by Rocky & Bullwinkle)
DOPESTYLE & 4AM/ WANDERERS IN BLUE
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here's all of the webstuff:
(Bike Messenger Boyfriend Blog)
http://bikemessengerboyfriend.blogspot.com
(4am)
www.nightmaresoul.com (but don't bother 'cause it doesn't seem to work anymore)
(black fiction)
www.blackfictionband.com
www.myspace.com/blackfictionband
(versus magazine)
www.myspace.com/versus_mag_sf
(just one ent.)
www.justoneent.com
(octavius)
www.octaviusnet.com
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Discography:
"Baby" featured on Cultivation v.4 Label: A Kick Produkt
Gryp "Left Behind" E .P. (2 songs co-produced by 4am) independent release
Octavius.4AM "The Electric 3rd Rail" E .P. (produced by 4AM) Label: Just One Ent .
Octavius "Modern Chairs" 12" (produced by 4AM) Label: Just One Ent .
4AM "Changed Ideals" E .P. (self released official "bootleg")
4AM "The Kill Dave Brown" E . P. (same as "Changed Ideals" except the cover says to kill Dave Brown, I
don't know why, it was just funny to tell Dave Brown that I was going to kill him, I only made one copy).
4AM "Sex, Darwinism & the Jungles of Hades" CD Label: Just One Ent .
"Sorry Wrong .." (featuring The Sleepover Disaster) featured on the Amoeba Music compilation V.4
Label: Hip-Hop Slam
"The Movement" by D.J. Zeph & Azeem (4AM remix) featured on Wide Hive Remixed Label: Wide Hive
Octavius/ Audio Noir (4AM production on 2 songs) Label: Mush
"In Da Club" by 4am featured on "War- If it Feels Good Do It" Label: Hip-Hop Slam.
"The Room" by 4AM featured on Return of the D.J. V5.5 Label: Bomb Hip-Hop
"The Alone" by The Dead Have Highways (produced by 4am) featured on the Amoeba Music compilation
V.5 Label: Hip-Hop Slam
Dopestyle & 4AM/ Fool's Pool (produced by 4AM) Label: Nightmaresoul (self-released)
4AM/ The Things You People Put Me Through 2xcd retrospective Label: Nightmaresoul (self-released)
4AM/ Love...Death...Puppies Label: Nightmaresoul (self-released)
Black Fiction/ Ghostride (4AM drums, percussion, mpc, vocals) Label: Howell's Transmiter
Dopestyle/ The Little Happy_Fool's Pool (production by 4AM) Label: Daly City Records
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Mix CD's & Compilations:
4AM & Centipede/ Downtown 78 Session 1 (released throught Just One Ent .)
Big Ant & 4AM/ Sofaking Massive Soundclash
Back2TheHotel (downtempo)
Dig? (jazz breaks)
Dig? Deeper (jazz breaks)
Rainy Wednesday V.1-2 (psychedelicsingersongwritersoul)
SteadyRockEasy (rocksteady & Jamaican soul)
AGrabFromTheEther V.1 (lost mid-late 90's hip-hop)
Ladykillers (100% female hip-hop)
Shoegazermix (dreampop ambient loudshit)
SuckMySoul (deep ass soul for deep ass people)
Dark (dubbyhedfukbeatz)
4AM's Underground Oldies V.1-6 (these 45's are hella scrathced up eh...)
Versus (mid 90's style hip-hop)
Hug Life (Whitesnake, Color Me Badd, Acapella Black Metal...)
Headnotic Funk (70's Jazz Funk Compilation)
Hug Life 2 (greatwhitelionsnake)
Anything (stream of consciousness live from the fillmore)
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I like records...which means that moving day is always the worst day of my life...blah blah blah, collecting since I was a kid (the baby pics with records exist somewhere) bought crappy decks in 1995. I ruined my college career and any hope of financial security to become a "musician." Started making mixtapes, spinning on micropower radio (free radio Fresno) and finally hit college radio in 1998 with the Beat Dynasty (big shouts to Mike Powell and DJ Transparent). It was around that time that I hooked up with a local crew called Deep Shag and turntable terror ensued, we cleared the Fresno State ampitheater in less than 5 minutes. While this was going on I started writing and doing what I like to call "stand-up poetry" at local cafe's, there was a group of us that basically mocked the other poets and killed regularly. Later Devoya Mayo and her friend Joy asked the Beat Dynasty to join her Aww Yeah Poetry crew putting music behind poets. Then this dude named Che Guevera popped up in the Deep Shag circle, he had just done a tape single with this dude dj Flipside (the one shouted out in the beginning of Rasco's "The Unassissted") called "Dreams." He changed his name to Octavius and started working with James Kirkman from Deep Shag...later when he wanted to put together a live act he asked me to join, along with dj Astro (later Subtek), Taron Barefield (from the Sleepover Disaster), and a vocalist named Autumn (later in Little Instruments)... we made quite a spectacle in shitty local clubs, then Octavius moved to Hawaii and the band was put on hold. In the meantime I started producing. I dj'ed for the band Gryp (R.I.P. to the great Jason Garcia) and tried to figure out how I was going to be a Fresno musician. Then I got a call from Octavius, he had just moved to S.F. and wanted to make an E.P. to shop to labels, so we recorded "The Electric 3rd Rail" in my run down house in the middle of a Fresno summer in triple digit heat in 48 hour periods between days he had to work in SF. Some guy named Gary Rivera liked it and put it out on Just One Ent. The release received great reviews in the Wire and in Urb magazine and won us fans in Australia and Spain. Gary also ran a spot called Rico's loft, that's where Octavius reformed as a duo and we opened for Sage Francis and Anticon. I moved to the bay area in 2001 to promote Octavius and to save my sanity, started spinning for Just One parties, recorded the Octavius "Modern Chairs" 12inch, my first solo album "Sex, Darwinism and the Jungles of Hades" (which recieved luke-warm reviews in Urb Magazine) and played with Octavius and new recruits Geno Cruz and Nathanial Eras (also later in Little Instruments) in SF, Portland and Seattle... opening for groups like Anti-Pop Consotium and the Fog. I split from Octavius after working on a couple of songs for their Mush label debut "Audio Noir" album (which was nominated for an LA Weekly award and earned the band a spot on Urb magazine's next 100) to do my own thing. I toured Europe with Just One and dj Centipede (Mophono) spinning records for crowds in London, Paris and Barcelona. Since becoming a Bay Area DJ I've shared bills with Fabio & Grooverider, DJ Revolution (from the Wake-Up Show) and countless local heads (the crew: Chan Chan, Swayzee, Vin Sol, Big Ant)... While all of this was happening I met MC Dopestyle at Amoeba records, we started working as a group called The Dead Have Highways and recorded an album that was a bit too heady for most and never finished, however the sessions gave way to our first proper album "Fool's Pool." I also joined Dopestyle 1231 (Dopestyle and Tom C.) as their tour DJ and shared bills with Danger Mouse & Jemini, Mush recording acts Busdriver, Radioinactive and Thavius Beck, Boots from the Coup, Motion Man, Kutmasta Kurt & Kool Keith. Currently I play in the band Black Fiction (featuring members of Ray's Vast Basement, Feller Quentin, Hattatak, Straggler, White Pee... everyone is a workaholic). We've played with Dengue Fever, The Sensations, Oranger, The Fiery Furnaces, Barbarasteele (R.I.P. to the man Mike Geto), Kelly Stoltz, The Sermon, Why?, Akron Family, Antelope, T.I.T.S., Citay, The Dry Spells, Pillows, Tussle, Lemonade...which led us to win SF Weekly's best indy band of 2006 award. On the horizon are numerous new solo projects, a new collaboration with avant piano badass Armen Nalbandian called *RE-Group* and random collaborations with Los Angeles beatsmith / sound collage madman Nocturnal Ron. I've also been fortunate enough to play in the improv band White Pee.
If you're into memory loss and potential liver injury I also hold 2 DJ residencies in San Francisco: Sip Bar (with the best staff in the whole city, 787 Broadway @ Powell) and Beauty Bar (Sucker Free Sunday with my boo Rebecca Watkins and Krang...formerely Marco Vega, 19th & Mission, what happens there, stays there).
Someday someone may connect the dots...
In the immortal words of the very troubled R. Kelly : "see the man, feel the man, pay the man.."
seriously, ninjas is broke...ha
oh... and the DPT are extortionists.
