[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, “Bizarre Ride,” appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Thavius Beck might be the least geeky self-proclaimed ...

When producer and MC Thavius Beck arrived in LA as a 16-year-old kid, he stepped off the bus (just like Axl in “Welcome to the Jungle”) and got a ride with a father he barely knew to a street he’d ...

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Opening Acts: Jemini, Thavius Beck, Radioinactive, Busdriver, Dopestyle 1231 When: Thursday June 16th, doors 8pm, show 9pm Where: The Independent, 628 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA Ticket price ...

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Thavius Beck is the 2009 man that 1989 hip-hop knew was coming one day—all sampled gunshots, over-cranked bass hits and a post-Bomb Squad sense of dread that didn’t find an analogue until Hypnotize ...

The production, courtesy of Saul Williams collaborator Thavius Beck, owes more to frantic IDM than it does to anything the RZA ever did on this album of Kerouacian stream of consciousness, literate ...