Hudson Mohawke struggles to keep momentum at U Street Music Hall

Hudson Mohawke's Tuesday night set launched from a port of silence. The DJ's first track sent slow, rolling waves of sound over a restless U Street Music Hall crowd. Then, another cut, better suited to standing still than dancing, stretched into the new Kanye West single, "I Am a God," on which Mohawke has a co-producer credit. What followed was a journey that wandered all over the map, venturing between romping battle cries and mellowed-out sample sources. It was an erratic trip, one that, at t...