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Name: Priest Shen
Sounds like...Minister of Propaganda, beats, samples
All Signs Point to... - Gemini

Shen started off as one of the "behind the scenes" Opiates, helping the band compile samples, the newsletter & this web-site. Look for Shen in the studio or on Muni!

Downloadable Samples of Priest Shen

Priest Shen cuts it on the ones & twos & sometimes threes. He wears a sampler on his arm. He records ambient sounds of the city constantly.
Priest Shen is one of the studio-phreak Opiates. He spends his non-Void time composing albums of glitchtronic music, DnB, ghost stories, mixtapes & electronica albums also available on OPIATE VOID's label, NGB Records. Click on the Ned the Goat-Boy button below to hear all the bands on the label.

Priest Shen has completed work on his latest release, 2003's SANTAIGO'S OBAKE - SF GHOST STORIES. Available at all shen & void shows in the Bay Area! visit http://priestshen.iuma.com for updates & free downloads.

We have our on-stage crew of Brian, Dave, Vahco, Moses & X and our studio crew of these five plus the additional Opiates: Priest Shen, Dr Dark Bent and DJ Obake. The studio Opiates are here to cut it up on the tables, run the samples, program some beats & keys, help with the boards, run the web-site, make the T-Shirts and help with everything else that you see. Some people are born for the stage and others prefer to pull the strings and warp the tapes off-stage.

It's like in Pink Floyd where bassist Waters' evilness and depression helped dilute Gilmore's sappy-happy guitar and lyrics, and vise-versa, to produce an overall sound that was edgy but not too evil or too happy. The stage Opiates need someone to take the studio stuff to the next level in freakyness by adding even more samples, keys and beats. And the studio Opiates need a band that can play tons of styles on command and translate their ideas into stuff that can work live too.

Be kind to your DJ for they may produce your next album!

SHEN DISCOGRAPHY
Santagio's Obake:San Francisco Ghost Stories (CD)
2nd Degree Deep Frostbite (CD)
Fastbreak Serial:MadDog 20/20 Breakfast (CD)
Jan 1999 Part 2 (CD with DJ Obake)
On the One (CD with DJ Obake)
What was he on? What Are We On? (cassette)

MIXTAPES (also with KLT & DJ Obake):
SFC2NYC1, Cutting 3s, Continuous 2, Continuous 1, Chet's Party Mix, Amalgamted Consortium of the Undauntable Deng,
Mortimer, Blunted Series (tapes 1-5 with Tree Toad)

THANKS FOR SUPPORTING INDEPENDENT MUSIC!!

Now what'cha gonna do??