James Murphy & Pat Mahoney

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Pat Mahoney - brought up on an intriguing diet of folk music and, funnily enough, in the white suburbs of Ithaca, New York, reggae - developed an insatiable appetite for music and rhythm from the very start. When he turned 13, he traded in his saxophone for a PA and a mic, becoming lead singer of his first punk band, Distorted View. Three years of basements, garages, coffee houses, and his first manager ("It was fucking fun. We had a manager who was like 17 and had a car; he would take us to shows. He had a car that had no foot floor, it was just the street running by underneath it"), and eventually Distorted View made a turn for goth. Unhappy with this musical direction, Pat instead taped a pair of drum sticks to his hands and picked up a white Pearl Export drum kit for an onslaught of basement punk shows with his second band, The Five Deadly Diseases (each of the five members named after a disease - Chris Syphilis, for example). A few years and an art school education later, Pat was recording for his next band, Les Savy Fav and found himself a good friend in their sound engineer, the indie/punk home-studio recording guru James Murphy. Raised in the equally sheltered streets of Princeton Junction, New Jersey, James Murphy had garnered himself a reputation as a live and studio engineer ("recording bands on my 4-track for sandwiches") after a lifetime of starring in various bands himself. Subsequent to his first band at the age of 12, The Mystery Meats, the band names flew

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Fabriclive 36: James Murphy & Pat Mahoney

Fabriclive.36

Fabriclive 36

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Fabric Live 36

Fabriclive 36 - James Murphy & Pat Mahoney

FabricLive. 36

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Fabriclive.36: James Murphy & Pat Mahoney

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Fabriclive 36 James Murphy & Pat Mahoney

FabricLive.36 - James Murphy & Pat Mahoney

FABRICLIVE. 36: James Murphy & Pat Mahoney

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Fabriclive.36 Mixed by James Murphy & Pat Mahoney

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