"These are 10 unreleased songs (some coming out soon, some still unfinished) and I put them together not as a liveset or perfectly mixed dj set, so much as a way to showcase as many new songs as  I could in 60 minutes without cutting them off. I like that they rub up against each other haphazardly because I wanted the listener to know specifically that a new song is starting. Also included are my new alter egos (on an original, a remix I did for Dilo, and a song I sang/talked on with Jin Choi)." Beaner

1. I am writing the questions for this interview on Tuesday afternoon a few days after Bar 25's Birthday party Kick Off. Im wondering if I am catching you still at the Bar on one of your famous "Staying Awake Marathons"?

Nope, Tuesday afternoon I was home. On Monday afternoon, directly after I finished my dj set, I was carrying my bags back to the office and tripped on a rug in the "living room" directly behind the dj booth and hit my chin on a coffee table, chipping a tooth and giving myself a pretty gnarly busted lip. I didn't go home directly after that, but I did decide to go home on late Monday night.

2. Speaking off Bar25 (Where Beaner holds a residency), it feels like the sound has been drifting more back to the roots of house music and shying away from the minimal sounds it's so known for. Is this a natural progression excepted by the crowed or something you need to fight for?

Good question. I think the house influence of the sea-change of the last couple years has influenced the overall sound, but not as much as people might think. The sound that Bar25 used to be known for is still the predominant sound (which was never really what I played). Minimal has always been a misnomer, though. The sound of Bar25 was a kind of tech-house and also a kind of minimalism. Some people played reduced, dark, thuggish versions of this, and some more pumped up peak-time versions. The dark sound is not so popular anymore,  unfortunately. I just play whatever I want, although sometimes I do feel like I need to fight to get people to listen. I'm enjoying the house renaissance since I've always had those records and just didn't play them as much. But I've been going slower and slower, trying to get set BPMs down to 120 and under if i can... I like the space between the kick drums.

3. 2010 has been your year with many releases and remixes out on leading labels. Please tell us more about whats planed release wise for 2011?

Well, I did a song with Jin Choi that will come out late 2010/early 2011 on Contexterrior as the vinyl relaunch of the label. I will probably have another record out on the Bar25 label but the songs aren't confirmed yet. Beyond that and a whole mess of remixes that are out soon. I recently released a mini-album with thema recordings, but digital only. We are planning on expanding it to a full album and putting it out as a limited Cassette release. I hope that will happen before 2011. I have something like 30 songs that are done or near done and ideas on who to release them with, but nothing is confirmed yet. They include new alter-egos, though like the Skirtchaser (who only does music between 100-110bpm) and Ol' Dirty Beaner (who tells disgusting stories over records) and maybe El Frijolero...

4. You made waves with your "Super Group" "3 Good Doctors" With Agaric & Ed Davenport. Can we expect more great trax from the Doctors in the Future?

I was talking with Patrik (Agaric) about that recently. We always planned to do at least 3 volumes of that. It was also supposed to be vinyl originally, but the market is really tough right now. I'm sure we will do it, but we are all busier than before now, so it's hard to make time. Last time we made the song in one day basically, but it took months to do good mix-downs and get all our original songs and the remix together. I hope we can do vol 2 and 3 in 2011.

5. Last but not least, your sense of fashion and love for Tattoos seem to the outside to be an integrated part of your artist persona. How important do you feel it is for a dj to take his appearance seriously? Or if we approach this question from another direction, do you see the dj as a entertainer and if so, where do you draw the line?

While I understand that if you get tattoos, you have to understand that people will want to look at them, sometimes ask about them, and will occasionally (way more than they should) try to touch you and grab them, I didnt get tattoos for everyone else. Each tattoo I have has a story and meaning behind them. Up to a certain point in my life, they all had sort of serious, depressing stories. Then they all started to have funny stories to remind me not to take life so seriously. The place and the community I come from (the San Francisco Mission/Bay Area Punk Rock community), tattoos are also more commonplace. Less thought of as something out of the ordinary. My fashion sense is about having fun. I like to dress up, it makes me feel good. Pretending is a great part of life. I don't create a persona as a dj or a musician, but as a person. I dont mind, though, if it gets attached to music work I do, because other people seem to enjoy it as well.

As for the dj as entertainer question, I think I could write an essay on that. The short answer will have to suffice, though: a dj is part entertainer, part teacher, and part of why each dj does it is because it's a form of therapy or s/he is stuck in a state of arrested development. Where do I draw the line: the obvious one I never stop talking about: We aren't jukeboxes and didn't do this to play your favorite songs, at least not all of us, so stop asking.

Thanks a bunch to Sweat Lodge for asking me to do this and I want to say one last thing (a quote from a great man, Matty Luv) "Oh honey, please don't give your heart to a world system based on exploitation of the luckless, give your heart to us.".

Artist of the Week:Beaner will air Tuesday August 17th at 18:00, with repeats Wednesday at 12:00, and Saturday at 10:00.