1.23.05 | Sleaze Factor Sessions @ 90hz.org w/BEAT PHARMACY

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90hz.org's Sleaze Factor Sessions invites you to skin up a big 'ol fattie spliff this Monday with a special guest mix of dub-flavored techno and house from BRENDON MOELLER aka BEAT PHARMACY (Deep Space Media) and ECHOLOGIST (NiteGrooves), celebrating the forthcoming release of the Echologist album through Japanese imprint Mule Musiq.

About BEAT PHARMACY / ECHOLOGIST:
Brendon Moeller was born In Johannesburg, South Africa in 1968. He started his musical education at nine years old, beginning with piano, the trumpet briefly and then in college, the drums, forming a rock band called Honeyslide, inspired by alternative rock of bands like the Stooges, Velvet Underground and Nick Cave.

He became a schoolteacher, and then began writing for some music magazines hoping to connect with like-minded people. At this time Brendon's taste in music had become much more eclectic. Absorbing the likes of The Orb, Fela Kuti, Happy Mondays, Ministry, De La Soul and much more, and he began dreaming about moving to New York to record an album.

Three years later, there he was in the Big Apple, working as a waiter on the Upper East Side. He set up his own bedroom recording studio and started teaching himself music production and recording. Brendon began submitting demos to some of his favorite labels, eventually got a response from Sme Records and released two 12" singles under the moniker Mono Blanco.

Letting his passion prevail over financial common sense, he gave up the waiter job to work at a downtown CD store, where he found the inspiration to focus his musical vision. One of his tracks, "The Next Big Chill" would appear on the Astralwerks compilation Unknownwerks.

Soon after the name Beat Pharmacy came to Brendon, he met Shigeru Tanabu, who had been living in New York for a couple of years. Shigeru's background as a musician was blues, rock and jazz. Amazed by Shigeru's skill as a guitar player, Brendon exposed Shigeru to electronic and house music. Shigeru was hooked and their friendship and collaboration began. A few months later Brendon met Todd Simon, a horn player who toured with Macy Gray and Antibalas. His contributions to Beat Pharmacy can be heard on the tracks "Cape Town" and "Monkey's Wedding." All the while, Brendon forged ahead refining his production skills and the Beat Pharmacy sound. His compositions were appearing on labels like Six Degrees Records, Turntables on the Hudson and Codek Records.

Brendon's demo then landed in the hands of the legendary François K., who offered to release a Beat Pharmacy album on his Wave Music label as well as some releases from another project Brendon was involved with called Alphamotive. In fact, two Alphamotive 12"s would be released long before anything transpired with Beat Pharmacy, but all good things take time. By then, Shigeru Tanabu and Todd Simon had both left New York, but this wouldn't matter, technology and the Internet made collaboration possible and even quite simple.

Almost two years after the first contact with François, the Beat Pharmacy album came out on Deep Space Media, the latest sub-label of Wave Music. Featuring contributions from Paul St. Hilaire aka Tikiman, Shigeru Tanabu and Todd Simon, Earthly Delights hit the street on March 22nd, 2005.

Brendon's other current releases are a 12" out on King Street Sounds for his project known as Echologist, and a remix for UNKLE - "Reign" for Global Underground featuring the vocals of the Stone Roses’ Ian Brown. He has an album coming under his Echologist moniker on cool Japanese label Mule Musiq in Jan. 2006 as well as the follow up to Earthly Delights in March 2006. Also check out his remix of Pete Heller's classic track "Timewarp" on Wavetec records.

About Sleaze Factor Sessions
Hosted by longtime DJ and music industry 'jack of all trades' Peter Anthony (kickdrum.media, Hallucination Limited, Halcyon), Sleaze Factor Sessions is a weekly two-hour plus trip into the cutting edge of the underground where house, techno, electro, acid, and left of center electronics commingle in a dark basement, lit only by a mirrorball, a pinspot, and a strobelight.

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