Mo Yasin

Mo Yasin is a DJ, speaker designer, and event producer from Virginia. Shaped by years behind the counter at record shops and driven by a deep passion for the sound system traditions of New York, the UK, and Jamaica, he embodies a true do-it-yourself ethos. His quiet, decade-long career as a DJ in New York has evolved into an audio practice that merges technical precision with a wide-ranging musical sensibility, using his custom-built sound system as a tool to explore and continually refine the dancefloor experience.

Direction & Editing : Lee Landell 

Photography: Anita Goes

“I don’t know if I would describe getting into the music scene by accident or super deliberately. It’s it’s a little it’s a little bit of both. I kind of got into all of this stuff, maybe as like a rebellious sort of thing”.

“In 2019, going into 2020, I was DJing full time. Obviously when lockdown hit, all of my gigs disappeared overnight, so I kind of had to pivot to something. Kind of getting into production stuff at the time, just to learn the dub style of production was what was most analogous to me, to DJing, because it’s just, you know, faders on a mixer. You’re bringing tracks up and down and adding effects to it. And the more that I learned about that tradition, the more that I learned about sound system culture,  those two things are very intimately tied to each other. That’s kind of what inspired me to just try to figure it all out and build a sound system from scratch. I really wanted a space that the stacks could just live in permanently, which would allow me to continue to tweak it, evolve it, and to continue to develop as a DJ”.

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Big thanks to Booker Mitchell

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