musician/composer/producer/DJ mashibeats.xyz founder + everwave.xyz co-founder cultural curator
Phase Two: $BUYBACK Emerald x sound.xyz
[TL;DR]At the top of 2022, I launched the $BUYBACK Crowdfund - a mirror campaign to raise funds to reacquire 7 back catalog albums from the labels that controlled them and to establish the governance membership of Mashibeats - a creator community I founded at the intersection of jazz, electronic music and web3. After a successful 12.3 ETH raise (approx $40k at the time), all funds raised were paid out to the respective labels, and all 7 albums have been reacquired and as such, are now foundat...
Phase Two: $BUYBACK Emerald x sound.xyz
[TL;DR]At the top of 2022, I launched the $BUYBACK Crowdfund - a mirror campaign to raise funds to reacquire 7 back catalog albums from the labels that controlled them and to establish the governance membership of Mashibeats - a creator community I founded at the intersection of jazz, electronic music and web3. After a successful 12.3 ETH raise (approx $40k at the time), all funds raised were paid out to the respective labels, and all 7 albums have been reacquired and as such, are now foundat...
Mashibeats Remix Contest 001
You’re invited to remix and reimagine… welcome to the first Mashibeats Remix Contest! With a combination of web3 and what you’d already expect, this is the first of an ongoing series of production/creativity challenges fueled by our social token $MASHI, with prizes including getting minted on Catalog (with a 60% share on your winning remix), getting pressed on vinyl, $MASHI coin rewards (which can be converted to RLY and bridged out!), and some incredible sound libraries courtesy our friends ...
Mashibeats Remix Contest 001
You’re invited to remix and reimagine… welcome to the first Mashibeats Remix Contest! With a combination of web3 and what you’d already expect, this is the first of an ongoing series of production/creativity challenges fueled by our social token $MASHI, with prizes including getting minted on Catalog (with a 60% share on your winning remix), getting pressed on vinyl, $MASHI coin rewards (which can be converted to RLY and bridged out!), and some incredible sound libraries courtesy our friends ...
Mashibeats Creator Club Season 1
[TL;DR]At the top of the year, I decided to launch Mashibeats Creator Club - an umbrella for what is intended to be an ongoing season by season of mentorship programs for me to support and guide musicians into their genesis web3 projects. I've been blessed throughout my career in so many ways, not least of all being able to sustain a 20+ year career primarily focused on my own music, with zero regard for commercial compromise. Mentorship is one way to give-back, pay it forward and empowe...
Mashibeats Creator Club Season 1
[TL;DR]At the top of the year, I decided to launch Mashibeats Creator Club - an umbrella for what is intended to be an ongoing season by season of mentorship programs for me to support and guide musicians into their genesis web3 projects. I've been blessed throughout my career in so many ways, not least of all being able to sustain a 20+ year career primarily focused on my own music, with zero regard for commercial compromise. Mentorship is one way to give-back, pay it forward and empowe...
Introducing $MASHI: the social token powering the Mashibeats community
[TL;DR]I’m excited to be announcing the launch of $MASHI - a new gas-free social token on the Rally network - to fuel and bring value to the Mashibeats creator community. $MASHI can be bought and traded by anyone, used for access to content, online events and gated discord channels/roles. It can be used to pay for exclusive merch, project consultancy sessions and online lessons. $MASHI can be earned by contributing to our discord community and completing bounties. It can be gifted and tipped....
Introducing $MASHI: the social token powering the Mashibeats community
[TL;DR]I’m excited to be announcing the launch of $MASHI - a new gas-free social token on the Rally network - to fuel and bring value to the Mashibeats creator community. $MASHI can be bought and traded by anyone, used for access to content, online events and gated discord channels/roles. It can be used to pay for exclusive merch, project consultancy sessions and online lessons. $MASHI can be earned by contributing to our discord community and completing bounties. It can be gifted and tipped....
Motherland
So many of us grow up as “others”. Questioning where we fit in, who our tribe is and how our identity meets the world. For me, this was the story of much of my life as a Japanese-New Zealander who was never Japanese enough to be Japanese, or white enough to be white. My teenage love of jazz, hip hop and drum’n’bass all stemmed from the same needs - these were music forms where I could find comfort and community through diving into albums created from artists’ own searches for belonging and id...
Motherland
So many of us grow up as “others”. Questioning where we fit in, who our tribe is and how our identity meets the world. For me, this was the story of much of my life as a Japanese-New Zealander who was never Japanese enough to be Japanese, or white enough to be white. My teenage love of jazz, hip hop and drum’n’bass all stemmed from the same needs - these were music forms where I could find comfort and community through diving into albums created from artists’ own searches for belonging and id...
