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Moqita


Moqita is Billy Blaise, JG, and Ashley Thomas. or to their parents, Billy Blaise Dufala, Justin Geller, and well..Ashley Thomas. Moqita began as the work of JG and Billy Blaise. Two musicians from Philadelphia, friends for the past 11 years, Billy and JG met when they were in a rock band together in New Jersey. The band ended, but their friendship lasted and after a brief hiatus, while young Billy finished high school, they hooked back up when Billy went off to college in Philadelphia. Billy made his mark with his quintet, Groove Funkshen, playing shows around the area and spreading his own form of funk jazz. JG, on the other end, was making waves in the drum and bass community with his group, GFS, with partner J.Smooth. They had several drum and bass lables and put out a slew of twelve inches. They even had their fun on Warner Brothers' dime when they were signed to the short lived, but prolific F-111 Records. But, like many major label stories, they released a few records and were swallowed up by the AOL/Time Warner/ Supergobalmegacorp craziness. When the bottom dropped out on seemingly everything in the music world, JG and Billy found themselves at a crossroads. Billy couldn't deal with the hassles of his young band, and JG couldn't listen to another two step jungle beat with a hoover synth bass anymore. They got together to see what would happen if they just stepped away from what they were doing. Looked at music again like they did as kids. When music just made them fe...

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