Brass Tax had our own stage at BOC this year, tucked away from the fray up in a corner, and we couldn't have been happier with seeing all the beautiful (masked) faces who came by to say hello! In addition to being my first public appearance since NYD 2020, this is one of my favorite sets I've ever played, full of funky, soulful house, midtempo breaks, and groovy rolling basslines. We didn't get a recording at the festival, so I decided to recreate it live from Bowerbird. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Photo by Amy Engler

Set list:
Sister/ Me & My Toothbrush
Love Commandments (Alaia& Gallo Remix)/ PIEM
Future Swing Time Machine/ Duke Skellington
Chaka& Will (feat KDS)/Stabfinger
Jerkin/David Penn & KPD
Down in the Basement (feat Awoke)/Prosper and Stabfinger
Crunchy Banger (feat Keylox)/ Stabfinger
How Cowgirl/Big M
Be Sharp Say Nowt/ Patrick Topping
Took My Love Away/ Soulvation
Jolean/ Claude VonStroke, Green Velvet, Get Real
Truth Hurts/ Lizzo
Caliente (Sunny Fodera ReMix)/Electric Soulside
Stand up (feat Ramona Renea)/ David Penn
Liquid Spirit (Claptone Remix)/ Gregory Porter
The Clap Hands Song/ T Bird & The Breaks
Hard Work/Smoove & Turrell

New Years Day 2022

June 15, 2013 the Angels of bAss came together for a very special all vinyl reunion show in San Francisco. This recording is an excerpt from that evening featuring all 4 angels (j9, Tamo, ViaJay, Jess) tagging 2 x 2.

Angels of bAss Live Vinyl @ Project One - June 2013

FNF has meant so much to me since the first time I attended in 2001. It was the location where much of the early Brass Tax crew came to really know and love each other. Its former location, Walter and Jane Camp's land in Willets, inspired me to own my own land someday. 

When I was given the honor to play the closing set on Sunday morning, I knew I had to make it special with tracks that are as close to my heart as this campout. North Cack is an ode to my home state of NC. Drop the Hate was a track that OG BTx DJ Loosebeats would use to close many of our early 420 renegades. Dog Days was a song that got me through a particularly hard patch of summer last year, and anyone who knows me well knows how much Willie means to my family and how much Rainbow Connection means to Brass Tax. 

Many thanks to the FNF crew and all the work you do to make this campout an enduring bright light every year, and to the Music Committee for gifting me my dream slot and allowing me to bring this one home in 2023. And thanks to Brad Katz and his crew, who make that main stage bass thump like nobody else can.

Photo by Veronica DeFalco-Naeyaert

Track list
North Cack - G Yamazawa (feat Joshua Gunn and Kane Smego)
Better Living - Laya, Juan&Amp
Rapper's Delight - Atom Smith & Burkey
Dorothy - Polo & Pan
Somebody - White Ocean
Pon De Replay - Jen Payne
Shine - Husko, AP
It Feels Good - Enrico BSJ Ferrari
Beggin for Change - Smokin Jo, James Hurr, Stealth
Fergalicious - Trace
That's Right - Mattei & Omich
Gospel Jam - NuKey, Kevin McKay
Testify - DAVIE
Drop the Hate - Rev H Lidbo and The Progressive Baptist Choir of Stockholm Remix
Dog Days Are Over (Florence and the Machine) - The Social Singing Choir
Dog Days Are Over (Original Mix)- Florence and the Machine
The Clap Hands Song  
The Rainbow Connection - Willie Nelson

Live @ FNF 2023: Sunday Morning Main Stage

"We'll see how smart you are when the K-9 comes"
I got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain't one.

Curated for the Brass Tax 6:66 Halloween party 2023 in Petaluma, CA. Recorded live at Bowerbird.

Busted image by Kendra Biggs Sevilla

Track List
Hound Dog - Shonka Dukureh
Hound Dog - Pep-s Show Boys, Big Mama Thornton
No Scrubs - Kevin Mckay
Cameltoe - Fannypack
Bet you I Do - Chaney
Do your thing - Basement Jazz, David Penn
Trippin' - Fleetwood Smack
Big Spender - The Funk Junkies
Bring It Down - Friend Within
Papi - The Shooters
Boogie Funk - Jonk & Spook
Cool Jay - Gramophone Soul
I Wanna Be Your Dog - John McCrea

Halloween 2023: Busted

Birds of a Feather 2024 was an intimate, invite-only, bird-themed hotel takeover weekend of music, art, dancing, and an array of bird-brained activities brought to life by a flock of artists and crews from the Bay Area and featuring DJs from Brass Tax, Space Cowboys, StrategiK, Red Hot Beverly, Garage Mahal, Angels of bAss, Duck Pond, Pink Mammoth and more. 

The other planners and I could not have been happier at how well it came together. It felt like an Old School Raver Reunion, and we all left with our little bird hearts full. Thank you to everyone who participated, from the Artists to the DJs to each and every participant who made our little patch of Sonoma County the place to be for this weekend of hilarity, amazing music and bird vibes.

This set was recorded live from the Main Stage Bird Ball on Saturday 4/20. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Live From Birds of a Feather 2024

Dedicated with love to Joy, Progress, the Brass Tax community, and my hometown of Asheville, NC. Curated for and performed at the Brass Tax 6:66 Halloween party Nov 2, 2024 in Petaluma, CA. Recorded live at Bowerbird. 

Vote like your ass depends on it. 

Track list:
Home Wrecker - Daniel Steinberg
Things are Gonna Get Better - Adelphi Music Factory
Koliko - The Allergies, K.O.G
Body & Soul - Jay Vegas
Party Diva - Deeper Purpose 
I Need You Tonight - DJ Soo
Love Vibration - ESSEL
This is America - Childish Gambino, Bombo Rosa/ Stanton Warriers Remix
Yo No Se - Leandro Da Silva/ The Shooters
Don't Touch - Busta Rhymes
Speak to tha Young - Paluma/ Tyson O'brien
Harm - Alistair Albrecht
Ginger - Riton and Kah-lo
Praise - Dale Move
Joy (Unspeakable) - Voices of Fire Feat. Pharrell Williams
Freedom (Homecoming Live) - Beyonce
Dog Days Are Over (Florence and the Machine) - The Social Singing Choir
Dog Days Are Over (Original Mix)- Florence and the Machine
(bonus track for Asheville) Hard Times - Gillian Welch

Halloween 2024

Recorded live in Oakland, CA on November 1, 2025. Photo by Sara North.

Live at Brass Tax 6:66 2025

This set was inspired by my first return visit to my roots town of Asheville, NC in 20 years. A town where you can still find a speakeasy where they roll up the rug on the dancefloor and you can dance barefoot all night to a Ragtime or Western Swing band while the bartender mixes you pipe smoke Old Fashioneds. The town that provided my musical roots, before I ever knew that electronic music existed. Here's to you, Asheville. California may have my heart, but you still have my soul.

Stillhouse

Resident DJ with SF based crews Brass Tax and Angels of bAss. 

My sets on Mixcloud: http://www.mixcloud.com/helljess/

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