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My pal Damon McMahon must have been born witha golden tongue, amazing ears and an acousticguitar in his right hand, an electric in his left. Thisyoung, amiable and highly talented musician, bornin 1980 in Philadelphia, schooled in Connecticut and feted forhis musical abilities by the highly competitive New York mu-sic crowd, has been professionally making music since 2001.His band INOUK immediately cut a record with Say Hey. In2003, he put out a solo record with Astralwerks and then ano-ther under the EMI label. Then in 2007, McMahon got off theNY music scene's hamster wheel--he packed up and movedto Beijing after Modem Sky, a Chinese-owned cultural mediaoutlet, offered him a job.