Mocean Worker
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Mocean Worker (pronounced like "motion worker") is the recording alias of jazz musician and producer Adam Dorn.
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[edit] Background
Philadelphia native Adam Dorn is the son of famous jazz and R'n'B producer Joel Dorn. He grew up around the jazz and R&B discs his father produced for Atlantic Records in the '60s and '70s. As a 15-year-old, he sent a fan letter to bassist Marcus Miller. When Miller responded, inviting Dorn to come by the studio, one visit turned into three years hanging around artists David Sanborn, Luther Vandross and Miles Davis.
Dorn is a bass player and vocalist. He studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
[edit] Mocean Worker
Dorn adopted the Mocean Worker moniker as a DJ of drum 'n' bass music. The project came about almost by accident, the results of a series of half-serious recording sessions.[1] Since the release of his first album, Home Movies from the Brain Forest, the style has varied from a drum 'n' bass sound to a jazz-oriented dance sound, incorporating elements of funk, big-band and swing.
Dorn currently resides in New York and finished his latest album, Cinco de Mowo (a parody of the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo) in 2007. Reviews of this album have been almost solely positive, with most citing it as Dorn's best work to date.
In 2008, Dorn led an eight piece band, which featured some of New York City's most revered soul and funk players. Assembled by Dorn to bring to life the “breakbeat jazz" stylings of the Mocean Worker studio albums, the group gave a series of high profile performances, including Bumbershoot, Burlington Discover Jazz Festival and a residency at NYC venue Nublu.
Dorn remains good friends with childhood friend Steven Wolfe.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Home Movies from the Brain Forest (released April 7, 1998)
- Mixed Emotional Features (released February 23, 1999)
- Aural & Hearty (released September 26, 2000)
- Enter the Mowo! (released April 6, 2004)
- Cinco de Mowo (released 2007)
[edit] Singles and EPs
- Detonator (1998) (features a remix by DJ Trance)
- Diagnosis (1998)
- Times of Danger (1999)
- Intothinair (2000)
- Shake Ya Boogie - The Remix EP (2009 - Digital release) (features remixes by Ursula 1000, Count de Money, and Bill Hamel.
[edit] Remix Tracks by Mocean Worker
- Tenacious D - "Explosivo" (Mocean Worker's Megamix) on the EP D Fun Pak (2002)
- Cathedral Brass - "Joy to the World" on the albums Christmas Remixed - Holiday Classics Re-Grooved (2003) and Holiday Remixed (2005)
- Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - "Express Yourself" on What Is Hip?: Remix Project, Vol. 1 (2004), Express Yourself - EP (2005), and Mr. and Mrs. Smith Soundtrack (2005)
- Rare Earth - "I Just Want to Celebrate" on the album Motown Remixed (2005)
- Nina Simone - "Go to Hell" on the album Nina Simone Remixed and Reimagined (2006)
- Herb Alpert - "Bittersweet Samba" on the album Whipped Cream and Other Delights Rewhipped (2006)
- Marvin Gaye - "Here, My Dear" on the album Here, My Dear Expanded Edition (2008)
- Johnny Cash - "Hey Porter" on the album Johnny Cash Remixed (2009)
[edit] Compilations featuring Mocean Worker
- Groove Jammy, Vol. 2 (1999) - "Lighten Up Francis"
- Pink Panther's Penthouse Party (2004) - "Tres Tres Chic"
- Starbucks: Hear Music Playlist Volume 3 (2004) - "Right Now"
- WFUV: City Folk Live VII (2004) - "Right Now"
- Jazz Lounge, Vol. 2 (2004) - "Right Now"
- Ultra Chilled 05 (2005) - "Right Now"
- Oliver Peoples 4 (2005) - "Shamma Lamma Ding Dong"
- Inside Deep Throat Soundtrack (2005) - "Chick a Boom Boom Boom"
- The Devil Wears Prada Soundtrack (2006, Warner Bros./Wea) - "Tres Tres Chic"
- Jazz&Milk Breaks (2008) - "Shamma Lamma Ding Dong"
[edit] Trivia
- The album Bird Up: The Charlie Parker Remix Project features two tracks "produced and constructed" by "Hal Willner's Whoops I'm an Indian," credited to Hal Willner, Mocean Worker, and Martin Brumbach.
- Porn star Christy Canyon often appears in the thank you list for his albums.
- Although it is not on the movie's soundtrack CD, the song "Intothinair" is featured in the film The Bourne Supremacy during the Moscow club scene.
- In 2005 Mocean Worker supported Marcus Miller in his tour of Japan. In preparation, Mocean Worker paid an inordinate amount of money for designer trousers.
- The Song "Right Now" is featured in an advertisement for the 2007 Lincoln Navigator, and also "The Shower", an episode of Fox TV's The O.C..
- The song "Tickle It" is featured in an episode of the television show, CSI, and is also used as theme music for NPR's radio show "All Tech Considered."
[edit] References
- NPR Weekend Edition article (Airdate: July 8, 2007)
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