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My "Digital Twin"
An experiment in AI-powered virtual representation.
Music
The Rhythm Society: Away
Late night tribal, Afro House mix
Thoughts
Who needs donuts?
When margins matter more than meaning: design’s ethical exodus
Music
Equity 2024
Dancehall and Drum & Bass with the False Profit/Priceless crew.
Thoughts
Keep AI Weird
A shout out to the creatives, the rebels and the troublemakers.
Thoughts
A founder walks into a bar. Ouch!
Or: It's all about the context. Exploring new AI paradigms.
Projects
SNDOUT
Powering music discovery and storytelling with generative AI and LLMs
Thoughts
The Duality of AI
A blessing and a curse, our savior and destroyer.
Thoughts
Foxes in the Henhouse
Thoughts about the current and future state of AI regulation and ethical use.
Music
The Rhythm Society: Oasis
Camping and dancing — a deep tech house mix.
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The Rhythm Society: Sunday Funday
Dancing with friends on an island in the SF Bay.
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Sunday Sundowns 6/4/23
Downtempo and chillstep sprinkled with pop-laden dub
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Animal House 2023
Daytime furry rave in the redwoods.
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The Rhythm Society: Paradise
Dancing under the stars — African and Middle East house mix
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Formation
The AI-powered loyalty startup I co-founded
Music
Sunday Sundowns 5/15/22
Minimal/Micro Drum & Bass with hints of Psy-Chill with the Ambient Mafia
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The Ambient Mafia: Cinco Di Midtempo
Deep house birthday mix with The Ambient Mafia
Thoughts
Formation retrospective
Reflecting on my corporate-backed startup journey
Music
Sunday Sundowns 4/10/22
Early 90s trip hop — like we used to do it at Mushroom Jazz
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The Rhythm Society: The Rumpus
Poolside downtempo beats for our annual gathering
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Sunday Sundowns 8/22/21
Vaporware and Chillstep mix with the Ambient Mafia
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Sunday Sundowns 5/23/21
OG chill downtempo mix with the Ambient Mafia
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Unison 7
A quiet journey of chilled downtempo
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Sunday Sundowns 4/11/21
Songs from the Asian Underground with the Ambient Mafia crew
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Reggae Covers & Mashups
1970s Reggae covers and mashups of Soul, Disco, and Pop hits
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March Midtempo
Jazz-influenced house music with the Ambient Mafia crew
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HipLife
Ghanan Pop and Hip Hop inspired by Highlife music
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Highlife
West African Highlife music
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Unison 6
Chillout, uptempo ambient and ambient techno
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Sunday Sundowns 2/7/21
Trip Hop with the Ambient Mafia crew
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James Brown
The Godfather of Soul — and friends
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Early Night Tales
Jazz-infused mid-tempo electronica mix from a livestream event
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Sunday Sundowns 1/17/21
Trip Hop mix with the Ambient Mafia
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Downtempo 2
90s chilled downtempo jems
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Greatest Hits
Mashups and edits of some of the greatest pop hits of all time
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Chillits
Virtual Boxing Day event chillout set
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The Rhythm Society: Hope
Opening set from the winter solstice Rhythm Society celebration "Hope"
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Unison Holirave
My mix from a virtual holiday party with the Ambient Mafia DJs
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Deep Pop
Blissed-out, chill, pop-infused, deep house mix
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Sunday Sundowns 11/22/20
Chillout mix with projection mapping visuals for Ambient Mafia's weekly
Music
Indie Electronica 2
Second of the genre in the SIS series. Quiet, moody, and introspective
Thoughts
Ambient Bionics
Mapping a path towards a discrete form of empowered augmented reality
Music
Hope
Soul, funk and disco with a message of hope and love
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Unison 5
Chillout dj mix & projection mapping for Unison 5 event
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Latin Beats
Salsa and Rhumba edits, Latin House and contemporary Latin Electronica
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Dub House
Traversing dub reggae, dub techno and dub-inspired deep house
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Afro Boogie 3
More disco and boogie sounds from early 80s West and South Africa
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Rave Hop
Old-school rave sounds, pitched way down with hip hop samples
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Acid Jazz
The sounds of Mushroom Jazz - early 90s soul and jazz
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Mo' Wax
Mushroom Jazz staples from the early 90s
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Nu African
Mix of contemporary African electronic music
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Luke Vibert
Ode to the trip hop guru
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IDM
“Intelligent Dance Music” - aka chill house music
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The Irresistible Force
Chillin’ with the Mix Master
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Beats 4 Camping
lofi hip hop, triphop and other hoppy sounds
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Afro Disco
West African Disco and Boogie from the 80s
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Indie Electronica
Moody downtempo from the 90s
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Mashups 4 Solomon
A little mix for my brother
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Soul Edits
Deep soul edits for your body, mind and spirit
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Acid House
A little tribute to the mighty little 303
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Routes of Slavery
Mix of African, Caribbean, and Blues music for Juneteenth
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The Rhythm Society: Alter Ego
Gospel House mixed by my alter ego "DJ Amen"
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Protest Songs
Mix of civil rights and black power songs from the 60s-70s
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O.G. Deep House
Early 90s soulful deep house mix
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Atmospheric Drum & Bass
Chilled-out D&B mix
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Jungle
Early 90s dancehall, dub & jungle
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Latin Jazz
Afro Cuban, Salsa, Rumba mix
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Roots Reggae
Mixing up the roots
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Dub Round 2
Dub classics
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Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk tribute mix for Florian Schneider
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Afro Boogie 2
African boogie, funk and disco
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Tony Allen
Tribute to Fela Kuti's late drummer
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Dub Techno
Dub + dub techno mix
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Microhouse
Chill and minimal Microhouse mix
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Ambient House
Chilled out electronica and deep house mix
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World Beats
Global bass and ethno-downtempo mix
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Rocksteady
Roots and Rocksteady mix
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Dancehall
Jamaican dancehall vibes
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Funk
Funk and soul — classics and reworks
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Boogie
80s boogie, disco rap and funk mix
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Brazil
A wander through old and new Brazilian music
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Jazz House
90s jazz-influenced house music mix
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Gospel & Soul
Soul rarities, R&B and re-edits
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Chillhop
Chillout, chillhop and psy-chill mix
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Downtempo
90s chill downtempo and trip hop
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Midtempo
90s trip hop, midtempo electronic, chillout and indie electronica mix
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Afro House
African Electronica and Afro House
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African Jazz & Highlife
African Jazz and West African Highlife
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Afro Boogie
Early 80s West African disco and boogie
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The Rhythm Society: Homecoming
Downtempo chillout mix
SPEAKING
IxDA // Interaction 19
My talk on data sovereignty and design tactics for AI from IxDA’s annual conference
Music
Sufi Camp 2019
Afro house and tribal tech house mix
SPEAKING
AILA // AI, Ethics + Fairness
A panel discussion on ethics and fairness related to machine intelligence
SPEAKING
Interaction 19 - SF // Redux
My IxDA talk in San Francisco—plus a panel discussion on the ethics of AI
Thoughts
Hunting Mushrooms
Synchronicity and reciprocity — my lifelong relationship with the mighty fungus
Thoughts
My Year In Music
Favorite music discoveries from 2018
Thoughts
Finding Center
An appeal for a centrist mindset to enable meaningful change
Thoughts
Rotation
Accidental artist — my foray into photographic art-making
Music
Joy & Happiness
Afro pop, afro house, and deep house mix
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The Rhythm Society: Retreat
Afro house and deep house mix
Thoughts
Drifting Into The Valley
Thoughts on privacy and artificial intelligence
Thoughts
Formation
A brief history of my software startup
Music
Little Hip Hop
Chill instrumental hip hop mix
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Gia's Birthday
Afro-caribbean and west african dance mix
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The Rhythm Society: Portal
Quirky chillout and downtempo mix
Projects
Tangents
Visual relational discovery engine
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Drum Machine Jam Band
Balearic and left-field mid-tempo mix
Thoughts
The Art of Discovery
Voyaging into the unknown
Projects
Sixth Sense
Research project exploring subconscious notification
Music
Chug Along
Slow down and chill out
Thoughts
Attention Management
Information overload and some ideas to fix it
Music
Joy's House
Soulful journey through rare grooves, funky edits and downtempo gems
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Serendipity Watch
Using playfulness and empowerment to mask hard machine learning problems
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The Rhythm Society: Superheroic
Funky house jams
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SFPUC Digital Arts Panorama
58 foot long interactive storytelling wall
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Bluescape
Creative collaboration platform
Music
Slomo Disco
Soul and disco edits
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Solomon
Tribute to my late brother Solomon - reworks of soulful songs
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Facebook Physical AR
Augmented reality social experiment for Facebook
Music
Africa Edits + Disco
Traditional and electronic african music mix
Thoughts
Folksonomic Musicology
DJ's approach to music classification and organization
Thoughts
Guy Murchie
How I discovered one of my favorite teachers in Joshua Tree
Thoughts
Transmigration Reboot
My humble attempt to define the meaning of life
Music
Patterns & Rhythms
Deep, electronic infused, afro house mix
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Nostalgia
Old-school deep house mix
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Dropbits
Native iOS augmented reality game
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Kodak Pipeline
The worlds largest seamless interactive table created for CES
Projects
Hard Rock Cafe: Rock Wall
Shared computing paradigm for content discovery
Projects
Nike Skateboarding V3
The evolution of an iconic brand experience
Thoughts
S.S. Vallejo
Mystery and wonder onboard an old ferry boat
Music
The Freshening Of Past Ideals
60s and 70s psychedelic chill-out mix
Thoughts
Albany Bulb
Old landfill turned Bay Area art park
Music
Mali2005
Mix of contemporary West African music
Thoughts
Bruce Connor
Legendary mixed media artist and filmmaker
Thoughts
Electric Sheep
The generative and collaborative art of Scott Draves
Music
A Son Picks The Sons
Mix of music from my father’s band
Projects
Nike Skateboarding V2
Nike's irreverent skateboarding brand get a brutalist treatment
Music
Prinspiration
All vinyl electro-funk tribute mix
Music
TechTwerp
Quiet mix of minimal techno and ambient music
Music
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Chilled-out breakbeat mix
Projects
Anaspace
Dewey Decimal System-based discovery tool
Music
History Series
Mapping regional music genre history and progression with music on-hand
Music
Bliss & Tumble
Chill liquid drum & bass mix
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First Ascent
Web-based extreme sports reality show from 1999
Music
Sleepy Sunday
Quirky 90s downtempo/chillout gems
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Aidni
Quiet mix of middle eastern and Indian electronic music
Projects
37signals
Logo for the iconoclast company and founder
Music
Dub Quarantine
Ambient and electronic dub mix
Thoughts
Burning Man
Short Super8 film I made about Burning Man in 1995
Projects
Cappuccino
My first font design
Thoughts
Rhythmos Issue 2
The second issue documenting Bay Area rave culture in 92-93
Music
Live at Mushroom Jazz '93
Old mix from the SF Monday night weekly
Thoughts
Terry Riley Interview
The godfather of modern minimalist and ambient music
Thoughts
Terry's Reviews
Early 90s ambient techno tracks reviewed by Terry Riley
Thoughts
Rhythmos Issue 1
Zine from 1992 about the Bay Area rave scene