Oakland, United States
MoPo is a master craftsman and his building material is the world’s most precious commodity: time. Consider yourself fortunate if you catch a Motion Potion DJ set since an enormous amount of scheming has to occur to manifest them. He approaches performances like a sound scientist, researching specifically who will be listening, and how exactly to reach into their souls. Every set is different, each unfolds in a myriad of different ways, and his intensive approach to preparation makes him versatile, deep, and so much damn fun. These are “DJ sets” in the classic sense, unfolding like poems with every song a word and every drop a bit of punctuation. He’s been called the “DJ for people who hate DJ’s”, ‘The Godfather of Silent Disco’ and the creator of ‘Electric Nostalgia’ but we prefer that you just call him, and do so with a weird musical challenge.
Since falling into his craft at a Greek nightclub in 1997, his adventurousness, and the zero fucks he gives for prevailing paradigms have l