Money Mark (Mark Ramos- Nashita) played keys for the Beastie Boys from 1992 until 2012. His introduction to them came via some carpentry work he was doing for them when producer Mario Caldato got him in to fix the gate of the property the Beasties were recording Paul's Boutique in. He then helped them build their own studio (G- Son in Los Angeles) and began playing keys and organ for them. He put out two solo albums on Mo'Wax in the 1990s, Mark's Keyboard Repair in 1995 (a slew of demos and sketches, lo fi and quirky stuff) and then Push The Button in 1998, a much more fully realised album, eighteen songs on piano, keys and guitar. I'd forgotten until recently how good Push The Button is and - this is Mo'Wax remember- how beautifully packaged he album was.
All The People is cocktail hour, singer songwriter, jazzy pop that opens with the memorable line, 'Everybody's got their own kinda hope/ Some people got dope...'. Laid back, hippyish, supper club vibes.
Maybe I'm Dead is a fuzz bass groove, somewhere between mid- 90s Beck with John Lennon-esque lyrical surrealism.
Hand In Your Head is even better, late 90s leftfield pop, the sort of song that Squeeze might have written had they come from LA rahter than Deptford.
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