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I don’t know if y’all heard about this psyphy movement we got goin’ on out here in tha Bay? Well we got a heavy-handed pimp slapper for you this week to help you get familiar, courtesy of SF’s EPROM. It’ll make ya psyphy. It’ll make ya stunt. Might make ya lose your face, nuthin left but gold fronts.

Then it’ll slap them fake-ass shits out too. BAP!

Representing Nexus and Addictech, EPROM has been slinging his jacked up brand of bottom-heavy neurocrunk alongside such notorious characters as the Glitch Mob, Tipper, Bassnectar, and Z-Trip. From absolutely destroying at the Nexus Maze Party in Half Moon Bay, to laying waste at Zero Ground (SF’s landmark Regency Center), he’s been hitting the scene hard and establishing himself as a serious threat to sound systems and earholes. The title track from his new EP 64 Bytes was featured on the insert CD for XLR8R magazine’s “Best of 2007″ issue in December. Recent collaborations include SQSH (with Boreta) and Hookerz & Blow (with Mozaic).

For our 29th program, EPROM comes fucka janky with four originals, a Madlib remix, and some Boreta collab action. You know you want it. When he’s done, and you want more, cop the 64 Bytes EP over at Addictech.

memekast mk029 » 06 February 2008 » EPROM

1. EPROM - Sqratchedizzle
2. EPROM - Throbbin’ Hood
3. EPROM - Elephant Killers
4. EPROM - Qrnksalsa
5. Madlib - Selah’s Children (EPROM Remix)
6. SQSH (EPROM + Boreta) - Get Psyphy
7. SQSH (EPROM + Boreta) - Donkey Nap

You can catch EPROM this Friday, February 8 at Raindance’s 9th annual Chinese New Year party at 1015 Folsom in SF, along with the Glitch Mob, Loefah, Switch, Evinrude, Mozaic, and a crapload of others.

Links

• EPROMMusic.com
• EPROM @ MySpace
• Addictech label page

For our first episode of 2008 we bring you a RAGER from San Francisco’s Evinrude (Stimulus, Netamp). One of the Bay’s few remaining all-vinyl DJ’s, he’s been a functioning vinyl junky for about a decade, selling his drums for the stuff shortly after getting hooked.

He started making himself known in the Bay Area around 2000, slinging a special recipe of hard trance, acid, energy, and breaks under the moniker Darth. A few years later he joined forces with Dirt and Nugz to start breaks weekly Broke-Ass, and launched a monthly at the now-defunct @lpha Bar called Smoke Breaks. He also briefly ran a weekly called Crooked at Nickie’s on Haight Street, which was interrupted by the gentrification of that venue.

In 2006 he joined SF/BRC’s infamous Space Cowboys; and currently keeps busy helping run Netamp, a weekly show broadcast by nuskoolbreaks.co.uk; and Stimulus, a semi-regular event that has helped introduce Electrotech to those in the Bay starving for a new sub-sub-subgenre.

memekast mk028 » 15 January 2008 » Evinrude

1. Neztic: “Congales”
2. Neztic: “Up & Down”
3. White Papoo: “Without Bikinis”
4. Quest & Odissi: “Break Me”
5. Vex’d: “Function”
6. Lifecycle: “False Awakening”
7. Deadmau5: “Cocktail Queen”
8. Hyper: “No Rockstars” (Bass Kleph remix)

Links

• Netamp Radio
• NSB Radio
• Evinrude @ MySpace

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of the artists and selectors who have appeared on the memekast, and everyone who has helped spread the message.

Special thanks to Audiovoid for hooking up the new intro sounds for 2008. You can hear him on memekast mk012, and Addictech has tons more.

And of course we are deeply grateful to all of you listeners out there (in 40 countries!) for giving us a reason to keep doing this into our third year. Which is something like seven or eight in podcast years. Since San Mateo’s Audio1 sadly seems to have stopped putting out Pop That Trunk, i believe (please do correct me if i’m wrong) that makes the memekast the longest-running DJ podcast in the Bay. Of course, without folks like Netamp (who graciously hosted our own dj_SpaceInvader back in the day, leading ultimately to his banishment from El Rio and his first night at 850 — well technically 425), we wouldn’t have known where to start.

So thanks to all of you! Without you, our global assimilation project pancultural outreach efforts would remain a dream.