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Variable Unit recorded and played live from 2000 – 2005, making five albums with a collective of Bay Area talent. Seven Grain, Cold Flow, Handbook for the Apocalypse, Mayhemystics, and Mayhemystics Outbreaks. The sound for VU consisted of hip-hop, funk and turntablism.
DJ zeph and DJ Quest turntables
Kat Ouano (Crown City Rockers) Rhodes
Jacob Aginsky (Subnodic) keyboards
Matt Montgomery (Wide Hive Players) bass
Ron E. Beck (Tower of Power) drums
Thomas Mccree (Wide Hive Players) drums
Gregory Howe guitar
Azeem MC
Omega vocals on Mayhemystics
Paul S. Flores vocals on Handbook
Mark Bamuthi Joseph vocals on Handbook
Spoken word appearances by William S. Burroughs and Howard Zinn on Handbook
horn players John Birdsong, Mike Rinta, Paul Hanson, and Joe Cohen (Jazz Mafia) on Seven Grain
Saxonphone player Sonny Fortune on Cold Flow
horn players Tim Hyland, Mike Rinta, and Paul Hanson on Mayhemystics and Cold Flow
