In 2016, he released Subterranean Homemade Alchemy, an extended album of Radiohead remixes aimed at drawing eyeballs to the social issues championed by the band. Most of these only see the light of day in his live performances, but occasionally, he’ll find a cause worthy of sharing them. He’s crafted more than 150 remixes, edits, and mixtapes, and records virtually every show he plays. Rather, he serves as a living bridge between a hundred years of pop music we love, and four decades of modern dance music that pushes a dancefloor. With that said, this isn’t some old man railing at ‘the kids these days’. This is a polymath DJ who defies anyone to classify his style or reign in his taste. In his many years at Outside Lands he has done sets built around the music of Radiohead, Metallica, Santana, 1969 in Remix, Michael & Janet, Soul in Remix, the list goes on and on. Or the countless festival lineups he has geeked into including every Electric Forest, every Bottlerock and a ten-year residency at Bonnaroo. Or the three custom metal remix sets he created to follow Metallica at their XXX Anniversary. Like a 54-song southern rock set for Govt Mule’s “Deepest End’. Since falling into his craft at a Greek nightclub in 1997, his adventurousness, (and the zero fucks he gives for prevailing paradigms) have led him into unheard-of DJ territory. He’s been called the “DJ for people who hate DJ’s”, ‘The Godfather of Silent Disco’ and the creator of ‘Electric Nostalgia’ but we prefer that you just call him, and ask him to create something wonderful.
These are “DJ sets” in the classic sense, unfolding like poems with every song a word and every drop a bit of punctuation. Every set is different, each unfolds in a myriad of different ways, and his intensive approach to preparation makes him versatile, deep, and so much damn fun.
He approaches performances like a sound scientist, researching specifically who will be listening, and how exactly to reach into their souls. Consider yourself fortunate if you catch a Motion Potion DJ set since an enormous amount of scheming has to occur to manifest them.
MoPo is a master craftsman and his building material is the world’s most precious commodity: time.
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