Robbie cofounded SunsetSF in 1997 and SIlent Frisco in 2005. In 2014, his team merged the companies and launched HUSHconcerts. HUSHconcerts sets the standard for Silent Disco, Silent Conference, distributed sound solutions and immersive events with elite technology, production expertise, and devotion to customers, clients, and community.
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Motion Potion wants you to know that you are not alone. He shares your intense love, respect, and admiration for Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Phil Selway, and Thom Yorke (oh, and Nigel Godrich and Stanley Donwood too). To prove it he has bent every rule of club DJ etiquette by collecting, creating, and playing every Radiohead remix he can get his hands on. That this unique dance-floor meal is digested with both mainstream consternation and unbridled joy from the enlightened few, just encourages him to keep serving it. For the past 5 years, he has been cooking up entire 3-4 hour sets of Radiohead material at his Electric Nostalgia tribute parties. This has led to the creation of dozens of remixes, mashups, edits, and vamps, the best of which was finally released in August 2016 as Subterranean Homemade Alchemy. To get your copy of Subalchemy, click HERE
Electric Nostalgia
MoPo isn’t some old man railing at ‘the kids these days’. Rather, he serves as a living bridge between a hundred years of pop music we love, and four decades of modern dance music that pushes a dancefloor. He’s crafted more than 150 remixes, edits, and mixtapes, and records virtually every show he plays. Most of these only see the light of day in his live performances, but occasionally, he’ll find a cause worthy of sharing them. When he creates a remix, reboot, edit or a complete live set devoted to an act or a style, he has coined a blanket term for his devotion: Electric Nostalgia. On occasion he will also perform these sets at festivals & clubs under that monicker.
The Santa Monica Pier Series
Since being chosen to play the first Silent Disco in the USAQ at Bonnaroo 2005, MoPo has set his heart to producing as many of them as any human in history. The first silent disco in California was a few years later on San Francisco's Ocean Beach with none other than Tipper. Shortly thereafter Silent Frisco produced LA's first silent disco at the Central SAPC for Toms' Shoes founder Blake McCoskie's birthday. From there the search began for a setting worthy of the craft. The team found it on the west end of Santa Monica Pier where, since 2013, they have been producing a sumemr series of 2-3 channel silent discos directly above the Pacific Ocean. LA luminaries like Mario Cotto, Jeremy Sole, Josh Brooks & Aaron Castle have graced the decks with themes like Daft Punk vs Radiohead, East vs West Hip Hop and LCD vs Talking Heads. MoPo no longer performs at all of them but if you head to the pier on a hot summer night, you will feel his spirit smiling through the surf.
Ghost Ship Halloween 2007-2017
From the early days at Treasure Island Hangar 180 and Hangar 3, to its last years at San Francisco’s massive Pier 70, Ghost Ship’s basic ethos was unchanged: “The Art Comes First”. Unlike most large events, Ghost Ship did not revolve big name musical talent, hiring production vendors and then pasting “decor” around it. Instead, Ghost Ship began with the vision and execution of more than 300 local artists, creators, and volunteers who work for weeks to create an entire universe of large-scale art from scratch. In fact, the majority of Ghost Ship’s art was built using the same wood and cardboard every year, turned into something incredible, then stored, and re-built into a different form. Add to this central art process the cream of the Burning Man arts community in the form of frequent contributors like Peter Hudson, Michael Christian, Marco Cochrane, the Unbreakables, and Kate Raudenbusch.
That isn’t to say that there wasn't music at Ghost Ship. On the contrary, every year, dozens of the finest local collectives participate and bring hundreds of DJs to the fray. But unlike most festivals, almost all of the talent is local, paid relatively equally, and expected to participate in the build as well. In 2013, Ghost Ship moved from Treasure Island to to San Francisco’s Pier 70 and in 2014, expanded to two huge nights and had hugely successful events in 2015 and 2016.
In December 2016, an Oakland warehouse named The Ghost Ship caught on fire at an event causing the deaths of 36 members of the Bay Area arts community. Because of the obvious (and erroneous) association between this tragic event, and the name of our event, the promoters of Ghost Ship Halloween elected to change the name of the 2017 event to Loevboat Halloween, and for our 10th year went bigger then ever with headline sets by Fatboy Slim & Moby among others. In 2018 however, with the tragedy of the fire looming over the community, the partners decided to fold this glorious event rather than to serve as an incidental reminder of the tragedy to those who may have lost love ones. We chose to put people above party.
Sea of Dreams NYE 2008-2017
In 2008, one of San Francisco's most brilliant and unique art producers, Joegh Bullock of Anon Events asked Robbie & John Miles and their team to come help with his most beloved event: Sea of Dreams NYE. What had started as a small art party on a boat had blossomed into San Francisco's premier NYE event combining music, spectacle, and costume the likes of which few had ever experienced. In 2008 Sunset came on as production partner and with a lineup headlined by Thievery Corp and Bassnectar, produced the event's most successful year to date.
In subsequent years, a murderer's row of progressive superstars graced the stage, both at Sea of Dreams and its later iteration THE BIG ONE. The Flaming Lips, Santigold, Gogol Bordello, Trentmoller, Pretty Lights, Claude Von Stroke, Flying Lotus, Ratatat, Justin Martin, the Glitch Mob, Ozomatli, Beats Antique, The Yard Dogs Road Show, Modeselektor, Tycho, and more graced these incredible lineups. And Joegh Bullock's unique talent for spectacle, decor, and incorporating the arts community served as an inspiration to anyone who joined in. Joegh passed away in 2022 and we are incredibly grateful for his willingness to share this incredible event with all of us.
SF Funk Festival
