Jason Mosby, who performs under the name Next Time Gadget, is an American
electronic musician best known for his works in the genre of
arcade funk. His pseudonym is often presented in programming
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Career
Early career
Jason Mosby began producing music at 13 years of age, creating unconventional mashups of
hip-hop,
funk
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,
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alternative
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music. From 1994-2000, he performed with a number of rock, alternative, and hip-hop groups as a
bass player or
drummer
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, anchored by his stints as the
lead vocalist
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/
emcee for the
hip-hop/
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group Moses and drum programmer for the cult arcade funk group Stankassjazz. In 2000, Jason Mosby embarked on his solo career, initially composing and licensing original music commercially for companies like
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, and
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In 2003, Jason Mosby reclusively opened Pooh+2 Studios and released his first solo album ''Brownmail'' under the moniker Stankassjazz. Unlike Stankassjazz’s group works which were intentionally nonsensical, Brownmail exhibited the versatility, progression, and contrast that became his mainstay in his subsequent releases. Brownmail also unveiled the ambient track ''A Song for Someone'' that Jason considers to be "the best thing I’ve ever written", and that has been included as track eleven on each of his full-length releases since. In 2005 Jason released ''These Are The Days!'', ironically named considering its content of dark, driving, glitch-heavy
drum and bass
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and
IDM.
Tasteful Licks Records
In 2006, Jason Mosby signed on to
Tasteful Licks Records and assumed the pseudonym Next Time Gadget. On August 21, 2007 he released his third solo album ''Bit
' on Tasteful Licks Records.
[', a collection of original tracks from live sessions conducted from 2003 to 2007, were purposely lighter and more basic in their construction.
]
Recent
Mosby's fourth full-length album ''midRange''['
*2005 ''These Are The Days!''
*2003 ''Brownmail''
]
References
External links
Official Website
Next.Time.Gadget
on Tasteful Licks
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American electronic musicians
Living people
1980 births