Mocean Worker

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Mocean Worker (pronounced "motion worker") is the recording alias of jazz musician and producer Adam Dorn.

Philadelphia native Dorn, son of jazz and R'n'B producer Joel Dorn, studied at Berklee College of Music. He adopted the Mocean Worker moniker as a DJ of drum 'n' bass music, and his style evolved to include Electro-Swing, funk, big-band, and swing elements. Dorn has led bands, given high-profile performances, and had his music used extensively in TV, advertising, and film. In 2014, Dorn and Charlie Hunter launched the podcast "Compared To What" and released an album titled It's Pronounced Motion... in Japan.

Biography

Philadelphia native Adam Dorn is the son of renowned

In 2008, Dorn led an eight piece band, which featured some of New York City's most revered soul and funk players. Assembled by Dorn to bring to life the "breakbeat jazz" stylings of the Mocean Worker studio albums, the group gave a series of high-profile performances, including Bumbershoot, Burlington Discover Jazz Festival and a residency at N.Y.C. venue Nublu.

Dorn's music has been used extensively in TV, advertising and film, including "Tres Tres Chic" in The Devil Wears Prada and The Pink Panther, "Chick a Boom Boom Boom" in Inside Deep Throat, "Reykjavak" in The Namesake, and "Right Now" in Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer. He also scored the Showtime/BBC film documentary about the life of comedian/actor Richard Pryor entitled Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic. Additionally, his song "Intothinair" from the album Aural and Hearty was featured in the film The Bourne Supremacy.

In early 2014 Dorn and partner Charlie Hunter launched the podcast Compared To What featuring conversations with a wide variety of people. There has also been a sudden interest in the Japanese market for Mocean Worker's sound. In February 2014 Dorn released an album featuring some new and unreleased material entitled It's Pronounced Motion... in Japan through the Voil label.

Discography

Albums

• Home Movies from the Brainforest (released April 7, 1998)
• Mixed Emotional Features (released February 23, 1999)
• Aural & Hearty (released September 26, 2000)
• Enter the Mowo! (released April 6, 2004)
• Cinco de Mowo! (released June 26, 2007)^[4]
• Candygram for Mowo! (released September 27, 2011)
• It's Pronounced Motion... (released April 7, 2014) – Hits compilation featuring three new tracks ("Piano Boogie," "Easy Does It Baby," "The Sky Is Black") and one that would appear on his next album ("Now That's What I'm Talkin' Bout")
• Mocean Worker (released digitally August 18, 2015, scheduled for physical release February 5, 2016)
• The Lost Frame (released November 8, 2018)

Singles and EPs

• Detonator (1998) (features a remix by DJ Trace); one of the CD versions also includes the song "Counts, Dukes & Strays" from Mixed Emotional Features and two versions of the title track
• Diagnosis / Boba Fett (1998)
• Times of Danger / Heaven @ 12:07 (1999) (features a remix of "Heaven @ 12:07" by Technical Itch); the CD version also includes the song "René M" from Mixed Emotional Features
• Intothinair (2000) (features remixes by
  Joshua Ryan and John Selway
  )
• Shake Ya Boogie – The Remix EP (2009 – Digital release) features remixes by Ursula 1000, Count de Money, and Bill Hamel.
• Shooby Shooby Do Yah! – The Remixes! (2012 – Digital release) features remixes by Questionable Sound Corp, Neanderthals With Technology, Techdef, and Choppertone.
• Beats, Rhymes and Strife (2012 – Digital release)

Remixes

• D Fun Pak
  (2002)
• Cathedral Brass – "Joy to the World" on the albums Christmas Remixed - Holiday Classics Re-Grooved (2003) and Holiday Remixed (2005)
• Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band – "Express Yourself" on What Is Hip?: Remix Project, Vol. 1 (2004), Express Yourself - EP (2005), and Mr. and Mrs. Smith Soundtrack (2005)
• Rare Earth – "I Just Want to Celebrate" on the album Motown Remixed (2005)
• Nina Simone – "Go to Hell" on the album Nina Simone Remixed and Reimagined (2006)
• Herb Alpert – "Bittersweet Samba" on the album Whipped Cream and Other Delights Rewhipped (2006)
• Marvin Gaye – "Here, My Dear" on the album Here, My Dear Expanded Edition (2008)
• Alice Russell – "All Alone" on the album Pot of Gold (Remixes) Volume 1 (2008)
• Johnny Cash – "Hey Porter" on the album Johnny Cash Remixed (2009)
• Keely Smith – "What Is This Thing Called Love?" on the album Electro Lounge, Vol. 2 (2010)
• Lyrics Born – "Coulda Woulda Shoulda" on the album As 'U Were (Remixes) (2012)
• Ramin Sakurai – "Brace Yourselves (feat. Elan Atias)" (2012) (credited to Mocean Worker with Supreme Beings of Leisure)
• "Harry Goes A Courtin' (The Mowo! Live Hootenanny Throw-Down)" on The Harry Smith Project Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited (2014)
• Soft Touch – "Swim in the Night (feat. Silya)" on Swim in the Night feat. Silya (remixes) (2014)
• Scott Amendola – "Fade to Orange - Mocean Worker Remix" on the album Fade to Orange (2015)

Compilations

• Groove Jammy, Vol. 2 (1999) – "Lighten Up Francis"
• Sound and Motion, Vol 1 (2000) – "Detonator"
• Pink Panther's Penthouse Party (2004) – "Tres Tres Chic"
• Starbucks: Hear Music Playlist Volume 3 (2004) – "Right Now"
• WFUV: City Folk Live VII (2004) – "Right Now"
• Jazz Lounge, Vol. 2 (2004) – "Right Now"
• Ultra Chilled 05 (2005) – "Right Now"
• Oliver Peoples 4 (2005) – "Shamma Lamma Ding Dong"
• Inside Deep Throat Soundtrack (2005) – "Chick a Boom Boom Boom"
• Warner Bros.
  /Wea) – "Tres Tres Chic"
• Jazz&Milk Breaks (2008) – "Shamma Lamma Ding Dong"
• Sundown: Music for Unwinding (2008) – "Changes"
• Electro Swing Club, Vol. 1 (2013) – "Shooby Shooby Do Yah!"
• I Love Swing Music (2013) – "Shooby Shooby Do Yah!"