For Episode 74 of STARK REALITY, under his musical alias of DJ Darkat, Mendocino-based visual artist/DJ/producer Ezra Li Eismont serves up his “Freedom of Speech Mix,” a sensational eclectic and funky set of hip hop, punk, random soundscapes and samples, featuring tracks by Mouse On Mars, Bill Laswell, Coldcut, The Style Council, Bjork, Kalahari Surfers, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Les Paul and Mary Ford, the Beatles and much more.

To hear Ezra’s in-depth Stark Reality interview with Host James Dier aka $mall ¢hange, go to Episode 73 of Stark Reality.  Ezra and Jim go deep on art, politics, record collecting, their long association with attending and working behind-the-scenes at Burning Man, his issues with Bay Area landlords, and much much more.

Visual artist/DJ/producer Ezra Li Eismont is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working on the Mendocino coast in Northern California, with primary emphasis on painting and sound. Born in North Carolina 1974, he moved with his family to NYC 1977 and was raised there through the 1980s until moving to Oakland, California in 1990.  A graduate of the California College of Arts and Crafts (BFA 1997), he has been an active member of the Bay area art and music communities since the mid nineties, lending his artistic flavor to many bay area music albums and flyer art over the past decades.  Ezra was a founding member of the electronic music group Cat Five (1999-2005) and music producer under the name Dj Darkat. He was an active attendee of the Burning Man festival between 1999-2016, including working for the Burning Man Department of Public Works between 2007-2015. From 2009-2022 he broadcast a weekly online radio show called Sound Dimensions broadcast on Spaz.org

For more information and links go to www.Ezrali.wordpress.com