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MoShang is a downtempo

Downtempo

Downtempo is a laid-back electronic music style similar to ambient music, but usually with a beat or groove unlike the beatless forms of Ambient music. The beat is sometimes made from loops that have a hypnotic feeling...

Musician

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and Music Producer originally from South Africa. He is referred to as the Sound Jeweler and has been living in Taiwan since 2003.

Early Life and Musical Background

MoShang is the Chinese moniker of SESAC

SESAC

SESAC, originally the Society of European Stage Authors & Composers, is the smallest of the three performance rights organizations in the United States. SESAC was founded in 1930, making it the second-oldest performing rights organization in the U.S. SESAC is also the fastest-growing PRO in the...

affiliated composer Jean Marais. He began as a choral singer in the early 1980s in Cape Town, South Africa – at which time he acquired his first computer, a Commodore VIC-20

Commodore VIC-20

The VIC-20 is an 8-bit home computer which was sold by Commodore Business Machines. The VIC-20 was announced in 1980, roughly three years after Commodore's first personal computer, the PET...

. It would take some time, however, for his love of music and computers to find its ideal expression. Marais first earned acclaim as lead singer/frontman of the South African art-rock band Duusman and as saxophonist for the group Tsunami; he also served as producer on three award-winning albums honoring poet Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship.-Biography:Breyten Breytenbach was born in Bonnievale, Western Cape, approximately 180 km from Cape Town and 100 km from the southernmost tip of Africa at Cape Agulhas...

and formed half of the Afrikaans pop duo 12 Hz with Riku Lätti

Riku Lätti

Riku Lätti , is a South African singer, songwriter and writer. After Riku matriculated in 1991 at Hoërskool Florida, Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, he studied philosophy at University of the Witwatersrand where he finished his honours degree.In South Africa Riku collaborated with superstars such...

. He garnered South Africa’s prestigious Avanti Craft award for his score to the short film “Angels in a Cage.”

Marais relocated to the Taiwanese city of Taichung

Taichung

-Demographics:Taichung’s population was an estimated 1,040,725 in August 2006. There are slightly more females in the city than males.24.32% of residents are children, while 16.63% are young people, 52.68% are middle-age, and 6.73% are elderly....

in 2003; his first release as MoShang, Made in Taiwan, was released on his Onse Plate (Afrikaans for “Our Records”) imprint in 2004. His second, Chill Dynasty, followed in 2006. His music was selected for the Discovery HD

Discovery HD

Discovery HD is the international name of the high-definition television channels from Discovery Communications.The international Discovery HD first launched in Korea on February 2005 as a programming block...

production “Fantastic Festivals Of The World.” In 2009, he was selected as the winner in the audio category of the Ubuntu 9.04 Free Culture Showcase and his song "Invocation" was distributed with that version of the OS.
In 2009 he teamed up (as Jean Marais) with Andre van Rensburg

Andre van Rensburg

Andre van Rensburg is a South African avant-garde composer, producer and instrumentalist. Van Rensburg is a prolific artist with dozens of credits as composer, performer and producer. He established himself in South Africa in the mid 90's and has since traveled the world, performing and recording...

and Louis Minnaar and released the project/album 'Eentonig'.

2010 to present

MoShang released his fifth full-length album "Further East" on Lemongrassmusic label (2010). He has released more than 100 episodes of his Live Online podcast - each episode is an hour long recording of a live performance of his original music and is released under a Creative Commons

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...

license. MoShang recently completed the original score for the National Geographic Channel (Asia)

National Geographic Channel (Asia)

The National Geographic Channel, also commercially abbreviated as Nat Geo, is an Asian subscription television channel that features non-fiction, factual programming involving nature, science, culture, and history, produced by the National Geographic Society, just like History and the Discovery...

documentary "Koxinga: A Hero's Legacy".

Discography

Made in Taiwan (2004 Onse Plate)
Chill Dynasty (2006 Onse Plate)
Asian Variations: Various Artists Remixed by MoShang (2007 Onse Plate)
Stone Bell EP (2008 Onse Plate)
Suncake Lounge Vol. 1 (2009 Onse Plate)
Further East (2010 Lemongrassmusic)

Various Artist Compilations

The Chillcast with Anji Bee: 5 Years of Chillin' (2011 Chillcuts)
Lounge du soleil Vol.11 (2011 Lemongrassmusic)
Buddha Grooves 6 (2011 Ayia Napa)
Luxury Lounge Cafe, Vol. 4 (Audio Lotion Recordings 2010)
Body Art 2 (2010 Tiger Grass)
Smooth & Relaxed Vol. 3 (2010 Wax N Soul)
Tokyo Chillout (2010 Lemongrassmusic)
Deep House Dreams 4 (2010 Lemongrassmusic)
Lemongrass Garden Vol.5 (2010 Lemongrassmusic)
Buddha Grooves Vol. 4 (2010 Audio Lotion)
Lounge du soleil Vol.9 (2010 Lemongrassmusic)
Lemongrassmusic in the mix: Ethnosphere 2 (2010 Lemongrassmusic)
Big In Japan – Japanese Chillin’ (2010 Wax N Soul)
eentonig (2009 Onse Plate, South of the Border)
Beste Breyten (2009 Rhythm records)
Future Jazz Cafe (2009 Lemongrassmusic)
Lounge du soleil Vol.8 (2009 Lemongrassmusic)
Lemongrass Garden (2009 Lemongrassmusic)
So Pure Remixes (2009 Lemongrassmusic)
Buddha Grooves 5 (2009 Ayia Napa)
Kou Chou Ching Presents: Unsung Heroes (2009 KCC Music)
Exodus (2009 Uloud Music)
The Cinematic Sessions: Shanghai (2009 House Music Records)
Chillin’ in the nude (2009 Lemongrassmusic)

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