{"id":629,"date":"2008-02-28T22:05:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T11:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatplanet.com.au\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/girls-love-his-breakcore-taiwans-mochipet-drops-microphonepet\/"},"modified":"2021-01-31T04:50:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T04:50:33","slug":"mochipet-taiwan-get-your-whistle-wet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/28\/mochipet-taiwan-get-your-whistle-wet\/","title":{"rendered":"Mochipet (Taiwan) &#8211; &#039;Get Your Whistle Wet&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan&#8217;s David Wang (<a href=\"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/mochipet-taiwan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last featured on Fat Planet back in 2006<\/a>) has steadily and quietly amassed a bewildering repertoire of breakcore, glitch and semi-spontaneous noise under the <strong>Mochipet<\/strong> alias; the calibre of which has attracted a long queue of collabs with fellow machine wreckers such as <strong>Kid 606, Ellen Allien, Daedelus <\/strong>and <strong>Aaron Spectre<\/strong>.<br \/>\nBurning off the heels of the recent &#8220;Girls Love Breakcore&#8221; album comes &#8220;Microphonepet&#8221;, a rude best-of collection culled from recordings made over the last five years and released through Wang&#8217;s own Bay Area-based label Daly City Records. Wang grabs <strong>Jahcoozi, Dopestyle (Kutmaster Kurt), RQM (Al Haca) <\/strong>and more buddies along for the ride &#8211; a ride which has been blessed with a PR-sting which promises &#8220;Glitch, Dubstep, Jazz, Funk, Afrobeat, and Computer Rock&#8221;. &#8216;Get Your Whistle Wet&#8217; tones down the random absurdity for a tight slab of electro-funk, a Euro-esque Baltimore jam that points to the fact that the Mochipet pony has more than a just a singular Breakcore kick in its repertoire.<br \/>\nElsewhere in the Mochiverse, his &#8220;Dessert Search for Techno Baklava&#8221; (featured on the last FP post) has been recontextualised and represented for the string-set; currently performed by the 20-strong <strong>Alarm Will Sound <\/strong>orchestra at various locations around the world. Tonight (28 Feb) they hit NY&#8217;s Carnegie Hall in a performance that also ushers forth versions of tracks from <strong>Richard Aphex James, The Shaggs<\/strong> and that &#8216;righteous dude&#8217; <strong>Ligeti<\/strong>.<br \/>\nMore: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalycityrecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dalycityrecords.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan&#8217;s David Wang (last featured on Fat Planet back in 2006) has steadily and quietly amassed a bewildering repertoire of breakcore, glitch and semi-spontaneous noise under the Mochipet alias; the calibre of which has attracted a long queue of collabs with fellow machine wreckers such as Kid 606, Ellen Allien, Daedelus and Aaron Spectre. Burning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[529,653,748,445,200,263,1301,1410,412],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-fat-planet","tag-asia","tag-claudevonstroke","tag-dopestyle","tag-fat-planet-blog","tag-jahcoozi","tag-mochipet","tag-rqm","tag-taiwan","tag-video","post_format-video","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15780,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/15780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}