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Recent News September 30, 2011
Mocean Worker's "My Own Little World" is "Today's Top Tune" on KCRW
"My Own Little World" from Mocean Worker's just released Candygram for MoWo! was featured by KCRW (Southern California's leading National Public Radio affiliate) as "Today's Top Tune," just three days after the album's release. The track features Mindi Abair on sax and Lyrics Born on vocals. Listen to the track here.
September 16, 2011
Mocean Worker #1 most added on CMJ RPM Chart!
Mocean Worker's "Candygram for MoWo!," set for release next Tuesday, September 27th, was the #1 most added album on the CMJ RPM Chart last week. For more on MoWo's new album click here.
July 28, 2011
Electro-funk beat maker, Mocean Worker, set to drop first album in almost 4 years!
ETA is proud to announce the release of Mocean Worker's sixth studio album, "Candygram for Mowo!," set to drop September 27 on MOWO! Inc. The album features special guests Charlie Hunter, Steven Bernstein, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Lyrics Born, Bill Frisell, Mindi Abair and John Ellis. The first single is now available for download here or for your listening and sharing pleasure here. For more on Mocean Worker visit www.facebook.com/Mocean-Worker.
October 21, 2010
MOCEAN WORKER AGREES, “THE RENT IS TO DAMN HIGH”
This year’s mid term elections have had their share of characters including gubernatorial candidate Jimmy McMillan from “The Rent is to Damn High” party. Taking samples from Mr. Millian, Mocean Worker has composed a remix of the party leaders now infamous statements. You can check out the song and accompanying video of Jimmy Mcmillan versus Mocean Worker at this "Link"
November 24, 2008
Entourage signs Mocean Worker!
Entourage Talent is proud to announce the addition of "breakbeat jazz" stylist Adam Dorn, a.k.a. Mocean Worker (MoWo! Inc. / Ryko), to our roster! Dorn's sound draws from influences such as Marcus Miller, Luther Vandross and Miles Davis, all of which he spent studio time with during his teen years. This jazz & funk extraordinaire creates thick and groovy jazz music with a boom-bip touch. Touring as a red hot six piece funk machine featuring some of New York City's most revered musicians, look for MoWo in a city near you in 2009!
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 It’s been four years since we last heard from our favorite fast-talking, electro-funk, party-jams beat-maker Adam Dorn a.k.a. Mocean Worker. Since then tough economics have turned tougher, smug indie bands have become smugger and raving mad religious fanatics have grown, well, raving madder. What the world could use in these troubling times is some good ol' fashioned, happy days are here again, get up on the good foot grooves. Mocean Worker has built a reputation for exactly that over a ten-year plus career as a recording artist, songwriter, remixer, DJ, bassist and more. He returns made to order with his sixth studio album, Candygram For Mowo!
From the opening salvo of the record’s first track "Shooby Shooby Do Yah!" in which 1930s big band horns are met by the syncopated rattle of a tambourine, it's apparent that the Mocean Worker feel-good brand is intact. Joined by a divers cast of special guests, including Lyrics Born, Mindy Abair, Bill Frisell, Charlie Hunter, John Ellis, Hal Willner and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Mowo! brings the funk in all manner of delectable shapes and sizes. He crosses swing era rave-ups with ‘70s rare groove ("Do Like Ya Like"), Les McCann meets Marvin Gaye-flavored house party, soul jazz ("Sistas & Bruthas"), North Cali hip-hop with ‘50s hard bop ("My Own Little World") and injects deep house with Nuyorican rhythms ("Out There In The Random"). In all instances, the beats are sublime, the hooks irresistible and the attitude always cheeky. Mocean Worker's signature sound—the one you've heard in countless movies, television shows and commercials over the last ten years—remains decidedly of the moment and undeniably infectious. Also of note, Candygram For Mowo!'s closing vignette "JD," is a tribute to Dorn's dad, the visionary record producer Joel Dorn, who passed away in 2007. In Mocean Worker's own words, "These ain't good times, so why not have something that makes us feel good?" |
