Q/A with Brendon Moeller AKA Beat Pharmacy AKA Echologist . . .

New York based South African, Brendon Moeller has been seriously producing since 1994. His compositions have been released on Francois K’s Deep Space Media; Third ear Records, Echocord, Mule Musiq, Eskimo recordings and then some. He records as Brendon Moeller, Beat Pharmacy and Echologist. Dub, techno, jazz, afrobeat and psychedelics are inspirations that appear in most of his music. Whether it be serious dancefloor bizniz, or dubbed out downtempo, his music always possesses a quality and signature that make him the force he is today. He has collaborated with some of the great dub vocalists of our time, namely Mutabaruka, Spaceape, Mikey Dread and Paul St. Hilaire amongst others.

Your Name

Brendon Moeller

First record bought...

Depeche Mode - Some great reward

Last record I listened to was ...

Flaming Lips, The – The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends

The record I pretend I don't love is ...

I'm not a great pretender :-)

The record I always go back to…

Velvet Underground, The – The Velvet Underground

My biggest musical inspiration is...

My music collection

My first gigging experience was…

Crowded House in Johannesburg in 1985

My worst gigging experience was…

My worst gigging experience was at an Orb show in Roseland Ballroom in NY in 1994. The shitty experience was not the result of The Orb's performance, but my own. Somebody fed me a tab of the strongest LSD I had ever tried, so I spent most of the show sitting in a corner tripping balls!

My best gigging experience was…

Primal Scream at Limelight in NY in 1995. Adrian Sherwood was on the mixing board doing the most amazing live dubs I've ever heard.

The person I would least like to share a stage with would be…

Ted Nugent.

If I wasn’t a musician I would be a…

Lifeguard working the beach in Gonubie, South Africa.

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