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INFO:
RiPPER.: SassyBalls
DATE RiPPED..: 07-23-2002
LAbEL..: FunkTronickz
ENCOdER: LAME
RELEaSE SiZE.: 192 kbps
TRACkS.......: 11
MOdE...: Joint-Stereo
SoURCe.......: CDDA
“Like Herbie Hancock with an MPC” is how the Addict Merchants flatter themselves. And with good reason. The Merchants have become a live hip hop sensation, already rocking a few enthusiastic Santa Barbara crowds. Their self-released Matters of Fact has put them on the map with “a collection of hip-hop-jazz-funk-soul-positively-charged-eclectic” music. Word.
Keyboardist E.J. and Freez, one of the Merchants’ three MCs, say they were introduced to the rest of the group by friends and musical acquaintances a few years back and things just clicked. The rest of the band consists of a drummer, bassist, guitarist and a DJ or two to throw down beats. Did I mention that whole three-MC deal?
E.J. was influenced to play the keys at an early age by “any and almost all types of jazz,” with Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock fueling his passion the most. As for Freez, his parents rocked anything from classical to reggae. KRS-One is a major vocal influence, one who the Merchants had the privilege of rocking with, yet the Native Tongues of the early ’90s are a more fitting resemblance of his rapping and the Merchants’ style as a whole. “If you’re not havin’ fun then we ain’t doin’ our job,” Freez said with a chuckle.
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