Social Studies presents: Mo Yasin (NYC)
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Social Studies returns in July with an artist whose work as a DJ and commitment to the culture have inspired us for some time.
Mo Yasin is a builder—of spaces, parties, and sound systems, but, paramountly, of an intentional DJ practice and a moving musical world. Although no stranger to club booths, the Public Records resident’s DIY ethos translates to a commitment to artistic vision and a distinct care in delivering an emotional experience to dancers, no matter the floor.
Mo started DJing earlier than most, but moving to New York and working at Turntable Lab and Blue Sun opened him to the wide variety of music in those crates and how they’re connected. He’s developed a sound that’s now dance music–centric but unrestrained by type or tempo. Many know Mo as a speaker designer. His interest in dub production techniques led him to soundsystem culture and motivated him to build the well-known stacks that live in his East New York studio. Mo has worked for OJAS and consulted venues on sound but, first and foremost, his speaker practice is meant to feed the growth of his own DJing: to broaden the types of music he’s able to communicate to dancers with power and clarity, to determine what types of music sound best on what medium, and to hone his understanding of how sound travels through any room.
That sound tends deep, soulful, and moody, dark at times and stirring at others. You can hear how Jamaican and UK soundsystem cultures as well as the hallowed halls of New York clubs of the 80s and 90s inform his practice and his selections. All of Mo’s records—from deep, timeless, haunting house to Midwest or dub techno and timeless R&B—come from in-person digging so every one he sets on the platter is done so with purpose.
We’ve been lucky to experience Mo in the context of his own DIY studio parties and in the Sound Room at Public Records; in both environments, his work has moved us in a way we aren’t often. Mo hopes dancers leave his floor with a sense of fulfillment. We know we will on July 10th, when he joins us at Lower Level, on the heels of playing Paradise City Festival in Belgium and ahead of a summer Europe tour.
Mo Yasin is a builder—of spaces, parties, and sound systems, but, paramountly, of an intentional DJ practice and a moving musical world. Although no stranger to club booths, the Public Records resident’s DIY ethos translates to a commitment to artistic vision and a distinct care in delivering an emotional experience to dancers, no matter the floor.
Mo started DJing earlier than most, but moving to New York and working at Turntable Lab and Blue Sun opened him to the wide variety of music in those crates and how they’re connected. He’s developed a sound that’s now dance music–centric but unrestrained by type or tempo. Many know Mo as a speaker designer. His interest in dub production techniques led him to soundsystem culture and motivated him to build the well-known stacks that live in his East New York studio. Mo has worked for OJAS and consulted venues on sound but, first and foremost, his speaker practice is meant to feed the growth of his own DJing: to broaden the types of music he’s able to communicate to dancers with power and clarity, to determine what types of music sound best on what medium, and to hone his understanding of how sound travels through any room.
That sound tends deep, soulful, and moody, dark at times and stirring at others. You can hear how Jamaican and UK soundsystem cultures as well as the hallowed halls of New York clubs of the 80s and 90s inform his practice and his selections. All of Mo’s records—from deep, timeless, haunting house to Midwest or dub techno and timeless R&B—come from in-person digging so every one he sets on the platter is done so with purpose.
We’ve been lucky to experience Mo in the context of his own DIY studio parties and in the Sound Room at Public Records; in both environments, his work has moved us in a way we aren’t often. Mo hopes dancers leave his floor with a sense of fulfillment. We know we will on July 10th, when he joins us at Lower Level, on the heels of playing Paradise City Festival in Belgium and ahead of a summer Europe tour.
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Where is it happening?
The Lower Level, 55 Bishop Allen Drive,Cambridge,MA,United States
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