"How is it that some music just makes you wanna get up and dance? This is a good question to consider while listening to "Shake Ya Boogie," the opening cut on the new Mocean Worker album. If the answer doesn't come in those first swinging 2 1/2 minutes, don't worry, the rest of the album provides more booty-shaking, thought-provoking fodder." - Seattle Post Intelligencer

"The latest from Adam Dorn, aka Mocean Worker, feeds jazz and swing through an electro/dance-club filter to create a sonic hybrid sure to inspire plenty of finger-popping. Highlights include a pair of tracks featuring Rahsaan Roland Kirk samples, a tribute to a certain junkman's spawn called 'Son of Sanford,' and 'Changes,' in which guest trumpeter Herb Alpert gets Tijuana brassy." - Westword Denver

"This is some funky shit. Like funky shit you can throw on at the bar-b-q and watch all the tube tops jiggle funky. The big band meets breakbeat sound just sweats groove. Dorn weaves the archival seamlessly into the atypical to create a fusion of the recognizable and the new." - OkayPlayer.com

"The perfect spicy soundtrack to a cool backyard grill-n-chill, this baker’s dozen of funky big-show struts and sexy grinds gets silky with Jazz greats Herb Alpert and Marcus Miller; featuring two tracks weaving back-from-the-dead samples of Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s mad flute flutterings" - Positively Yeah Yeah Yeah

On the fifth album of his career, appropriately titled Cinco De MOWO!, Adam Dorn a.k.a. Mocean Worker (pronounced Motion Worker) has assembled the quintessential feel-good summer record. Released on his own label MOWO! Inc. (distributed by RYKO Distribution), the opening number, quite simply, says it best: "Shake Ya Boogie." In what has become the incomparable Mocean Worker sound, Dorn mixes and matches the best of modern beat-making with live musicians like trumpeters Herb Alpert ("Changes") and Steven Bernstein ("Shake Your Boogie"), bassist Marcus Miller ("Brown Liquor"), alto saxophonist Cochemea Gastelum ("Les & Eddie" and "Son of Sanford") and vocalists Morley ("I Got You") and Alana Da Fonseca ("Que Bom"). Also contributing to the sessions from "the great beyond" is the late and legendary jazz icon Rahsaan Roland Kirk ("Reykjavik" and "Siss Boom Bah").

"I don't hear anybody else making records that sound like this, so I’m happy to be that guy," states Dorn. "That's why it was so significant to get Herb Alpert on board because much like he appealed to a lot of people back in the day, my records are likewise making single women in Iowa dance to that scary four letter word 'jazz' without them even knowing it. And simultaneously it's not compromising or dumbing the music down at all.”

To tour behind the Cinco De MOWO!, Adam Dorn has transformed Mocean Worker into a red hot six piece funk machine, featuring some of New York City's most revered musicians. Assembled by Dorn to bring to life the "breakbeat jazz" stylings of the Mocean Worker studio albums, the group has already made a number of high profile performances, including Bumbershoot and Treasure Island festivals, opening slots for Amp Fiddler, Koop, Trombone Shorty and The Benevento-Russo Duo, and a residency at NYC underground tastemaker venue Nublu. The latter string of shows led NPR's "Weekend Edition" to declare: "At a small, sweaty club in the East Village of Manhattan there's something you don't see much anymore, young people dancing to live jazz."

Cinco De MOWO! Is where Dorn's true vision for the definitive Mocean Worker sound took shape. Shedding the expectations of the electronica scene with which he was often associated at the outset of his career, Dorn began to embrace his jazz and funk influences, while keeping the focus on crafting songs with undeniable hooks. More than just break beats, tunes like "Shake Ya Boogie," "Tickle It" and "Sis Boom Bah" find their way deep into the sub-conscious with melodies that reverberate long after the record has ended.

Dorn also further explored sounds and flavors from different periods in music's history, re-conceptualizing them for the 21st century. "Les & Eddie" and "Changes" are obvious nods to the late '60s/early '70s soul-jazz-funk gumbo of artists like Les McCann & Eddie Harris, while songs such as "Tickle It," "Son of Sanford" and "Brown Liquor" draw from '30s big band swing. Jump ahead to the late '70s/early '80s and "Que Bom" parlays elements of Nuyorican soul. Go even deeper and "Pretty" is a contemporary Bossa Nova.

"This time out I wanted to mess around more with things that sounded old, but present them in a new context," explains Dorn. "There are tunes that emulate music from the 1930s, like if Cab Calloway was making records now. That music had mass appeal, but was rooted in jazz. It’s a perfect indication of what my goals were while I was making the album."

On Cinco De MOWO!, the Mocean Worker sound is ultimately defined. From the opening rumble of "Shake Ya Boogie," it's audibly apparent you've entered the world of Mocean Worker. Subtle improvisations emerge within tight arrangements, grooves appear inside of grooves, samples of samples are re-imagined and mingle comfortably among some of the world’s finest living, breathing jazz musicians and always present are the hooks that make for the tastiest of tasty ear candy.

Dorn concludes: "I really just want people, all kinds of people to put this record on and have a nice time, enjoy themselves, clean their houses, drink themselves into a stupor, whatever it takes, it’s all good."