The One Man Band Broke Up

The One Man Band Broke Up The One Man Band Broke Up New Haven songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/rapper Ceschi Ramos (pronounced chess-key) and Berlin producer DJ Scientist (Günter Stöppel) initially connected around 2005 over a mutual adoration of rare 60's/70's Psychedelic, Prog and Folk Rock as well as 90's Hip Hop. On their first record together, The One Man Band Broke Up, both gentlemen evoke their influences creating a completely original sounding, melodic, dark and unabashedly progressive Hip Hop concept album.Based around the ever revisited topic of the rise and fall of a musician, in this case one named Julius and The Bearded Saviour, "The One Man Band Broke Up" is as much about Ceschi's own fear of failure as it is about personal experiences in a dog eat dog music industry. As Ceschi's voice moves from meticulous almost mathematical rhythms to aggressive nearly punk howling to scat like rhymes, Scientist layers epic montages of samples, dynamic drums, along with chopped live instruments to compliment the diversity of styles. The album even slides in two of Ceschi's acoustic based tunes complete with violins, banjos and ukuleles. Friends including Sole, Astronautalis, Radical Face, 2econd Class Citizen, Cars & Trains and MiC K!NG also contribute instrumentation and vocals.The combined outcome is a Post-Modern Hip Hop project unlike anything else the two musicians have previously released. It's been four years since Ceschi's last album They Hate Francisco False slowly but surely gathered a following around the world because of its honest and unique blend of left field hip hop and indie folk.  During that recording hiatus Ceschi relentlessly toured the US, Canada, Europe and Japan with independent hip hop heroes such as Myka 9, Awol One, Sole and Onry Ozzborn all while starting his own successful record label, Fake Four Inc., and recording his latest album with Equinox Records' Founder DJ Scientist.
The One Man Band Broke Up Buy From album: The One Man Band Broke Up
Half Mast Buy From album: The One Man Band Broke Up
No New York (feat. Astronautalis) Buy From album: The One Man Band Broke Up
Lament For Captain Julius Buy From album: The One Man Band Broke Up
Fallen Famous Buy From album: The One Man Band Broke Up
Bridge Buy From album: The One Man Band Broke Up
Serious Business Buy From album: The One Man Band Broke Up
Hangman (feat. Shoshin, MiC K!NG & David Ramos) Buy From album: The One Man Band Broke Up
Bad Jokes Buy From album: The One Man Band Broke Up
For My Disappointing Hip Hop Heroes Buy From album: The One Man Band Broke Up
Long Live The Great Short Lived (feat. Sole) Buy From album: The One Man Band Broke Up
Swallowed Salt Buy From album: The One Man Band Broke Up
Julius' Final Song Buy From album: The One Man Band Broke Up
 Free digital version with physical purchase.
STREET DATE June 12th, 2010

New Haven songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/rapper Ceschi Ramos (pronounced chess-key) and Berlin producer DJ Scientist (Günter Stöppel) initially connected around 2005 over a mutual adoration of rare 60's/70's Psychedelic, Prog and Folk Rock as well as 90's Hip Hop. On their first record together, The One Man Band Broke Up, both gentlemen evoke their influences creating a completely original sounding, melodic, dark and unabashedly progressive Hip Hop concept album.

Based around the ever revisited topic of the rise and fall of a musician, in this case one named Julius and The Bearded Saviour, "The One Man Band Broke Up" is as much about Ceschi's own fear of failure as it is about personal experiences in a dog eat dog music industry. As Ceschi's voice moves from meticulous almost mathematical rhythms to aggressive nearly punk howling to scat like rhymes, Scientist layers epic montages of samples, dynamic drums, along with chopped live instruments to compliment the diversity of styles. The album even slides in two of Ceschi's acoustic based tunes complete with violins, banjos and ukuleles. Friends including Sole, Astronautalis, Radical Face, 2econd Class Citizen, Cars & Trains and MiC K!NG also contribute instrumentation and vocals.

The combined outcome is a Post-Modern Hip Hop project unlike anything else the two musicians have previously released. It's been four years since Ceschi's last album They Hate Francisco False slowly but surely gathered a following around the world because of its honest and unique blend of left field hip hop and indie folk.  During that recording hiatus Ceschi relentlessly toured the US, Canada, Europe and Japan with independent hip hop heroes such as Myka 9, Awol One, Sole and Onry Ozzborn all while starting his own successful record label, Fake Four Inc., and recording his latest album with Equinox Records' Founder DJ Scientist.

NEWEST RELEASES »

COHO LIPS - COHO LIPS

STREET DATE » 06/25/2013 One of the most exciting ways to take the power away from naysayers is to appropriate one of their symbols, subvert it, and use it against them. So it is that when Arne Van Petegem, the Belgian producer who makes records under the name Styrofoam, decided to make his version of a disco record with vocalist Chantal Acda, he chose a name that had an acid bite to it.
 

Freddy Knop - Polyphonies

STREET DATE » 05/14/2013 Polyphonies is Berlin based composer and musicologist Freddy Knop's latest effort. The EP is less conceptional than his previous releases on labels Froggi and Mush Records (Remaking the Past EP).
 

powerdove - Do You Burn?

STREET DATE » 03/19/2013 Annie Lewandowski comes from Minnesota, a place full of things that are long and longer: church services, dinner tables, and worry lines, to name a few. Somebody said there are ten thousand lakes there; if that’s true, each of them shows up in some little way in Annie’s songs. She writes under the name powerdove, which began as a band of one in California in 2007.
 
Google+