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Occupation
  
Record producer, DJ

Role
  
DJ

Name
  
Sabzi Sabzi

Website
  
sabzi.co

Years active
  
2002-present



Full Name
  
Alexei Saba Mohajerjasbi

Born
  
December 10, 1981
Seattle, Washington, United States

Music groups
  
Blue Scholars, Common Market (2005 – 2009)

People also search for
  
RA Scion, Saba Mohajerjasbi, George Quibuyen, Prometheus Brown

Albums
  
APORIA: IN THESE §TREETS, Bayani, Cinemetropolis, Blue Scholars, Tobacco - 1 [Townfolk Instrumen

Profiles


Education
  
University of Washington

Sabzi dj producer blue scholars common market part 3


Alexei Saba Mohajerjasbi (born December 10, 1981), better known by his stage name Sabzi, is a hip hop producer and DJ from Seattle, Washington, who is currently based in Los Angeles, California. He is a founding member of indie hip hop groups Blue Scholars, Common Market and Made In Heights.

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Early years

Sabzi's first and current collaboration, Blue Scholars, was formed with George Quibuyen (Geologic), whom he met at the University of Washington where they were students. They both belonged to the student group S.H.O.W. (the Student HipHop Organization of Washington). Blue Scholars soon become a Seattle hip hop staple, and declared itself a group dedicated to forward thinking and youth empowerment.

In 2004, Sabzi began working with solo artist RA Scion on his album Live and Learn. By October 2005, the two had released a self-titled album as the duo Common Market. The group found success, as Scion contributed questions about religion, politics and the state of mainstream hip-hop to Sabzi's beats. While there are overt similarities between Blue Scholars and Common Market, the two groups have distinct differences, and "their styles seem to be diverging more".

In 2009, he moved from his West Coast roots to the center of East Coast hip hop, New York City. When asked about the move by Seattle Weekly, he said "A lot of it had to do logistically with the people that I'm collaborating [with] now, some creatively, some more on the business end of things" (in reference to his work with Das Racist and what became Made In Heights in 2010). When asked about the possibility of doing a solo album, his reply was "absolutely". He ended up releasing four solo albums in 2011-2012.

Musical career

Sabzi most known work is in the name of his several groups, but he has also released many solo albums as well. Having relocated to Los Angeles, California Sabzi continues his collaboration with Kelsey Bulkin as Made In Heights. Made In Heights did a 14-stop tour in the US and Canada in September-October, 2014. Their sophomore album, Without My Enemy What Would I Do, was released in May 2015. In the span of 2010-2013, Sabzi released fourteen solo albums.

Sabzi has a cousin, Dhabih Eng, who works as an artist for Valve Corporation. In Valve's electronic game, Half Life 2: Episode 2, the Blue Scholars' name can be seen on the front of several radio boxes throughout the game along with the radio station "FM 89.50". It is also on an audio receiver in Kleiner's lab, above the camera screens. 89.5 FM is a reference to the frequency of Seattle's WA radio station KNHC-FM, one of the few radio stations in the country that is run entirely by high school students, in this case by the students of Nathan Hale High School.

Studio albums

  • Ciné Riddims (2010)
  • Parthenia (2011)
  • Ravena (2011)
  • Dakota (2011)
  • The Maplewood Playfield (2011)
  • Glorious Melancholia (2011)
  • Tobacco, 1 (2011)
  • Tobacco, 2 (2011)
  • Northwest Polynesia (2012)
  • Brief Lives (2012)
  • Rainier (2012)
  • Delridge (2012)
  • Yesler (2012)
  • the wøøds (2013)
  • Made In Heights

  • Winter Pigeons (Songs To Raise Your Dead Spirits) (2010)
  • Aporia: In These Streets (2011)
  • Without My Enemy What Would I Do (2015)
  • Production

  • Native Guns - "1995" from Barrel Guns (2006)
  • Gabriel Teodros - "In This Together" from Lovework (2007)
  • Macklemore - "The Town (Sabzi Remix)" from The Unplanned Mixtape (2009)
  • Das Racist - "Who's That? Brooown!" from Shut Up, Dude (2010)
  • Das Racist - "All Tan Everything" from All Tan Everything (2010)
  • The Bar - "Slow Down (Yavesh Remix)" from Prometheus Brown and Bambu Walk Into A Bar (2011)
  • Grynch - "My Volvo (Sabzi Remix)" from Timeless (EP) (2011)
  • Fresh Daily – "Pregamin" from The Brooklyn Good Guy (2012)
  • References

    Sabzi (musician) Wikipedia