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Dios
Acousmatic / Tape music / Experimental / Psychedelic

Psychedelic Thrifstore Folk



Los Angeles, California
United States

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Last Login:  12/30/2009
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   Dios: General Info
Member Since10/11/2004
Band Websitewww.wearedios.com">www.wearedios.com
Band MembersWe Are Dios*:
- Joel Morales - singer/songwriter/scrabble
- Edwin Kampwirth - keyboards/sounds
- John Paul Caballero bass guitar/hair-products
- Patrick Butterworth - drummer

*The started out as "dios" before summer 2004, then changed their name to dios (malos) and in 2009 are back to their original band name, Dios.
CONTACT: wearedios@gmail.com
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   About Dios
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dios are defined by their four-track mission statement: "proud to be a home recording;" an experimental approach to song and studio-craft, creative freedom, and lack of time constraint that had informed the hundreds of recordings the band made during their ascent from backyard party band to critical darling. dios began working on album 3 in late 2006, following years of touring throughout the U.S. in a van converted to run on vegetable oil, and abroad to the UK and Mexico. After a brief foray into the world of professional recording with the Phil Ek produced sophomore effort "dios (malos)," the band felt compelled to once again embrace their DIY fusion of budget gear lo-fi and spiritual melodic devotion that had defined their previous efforts, this time adding a greater degree of sonic experimentation and genre-bending. Taking an almost Howard Hughes-ian approach to the recording process, leader Joel Morales largely disappeared from the Los Angeles music scene to commit the better part of a 3 year period toward realizing and expanding the schizophrenic combination of powerful melodies and compelling arrangements that debut effort dios hinted at. Songs melt together, creating a pocket-symphonic-folk-song-cycle in which leitmotifs drift in and out, aurally suggesting a Fellini score played over the Electric Kool-Aid acid test. Spiritually inspired by the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Mexican bolero standards of Chavela Vargas and Cuco Sanchez, and the tortured devotional atmospherics of Los Pasteles Verdes and Los Angeles Negros, the result was a concept record about home-recording, and by extension the group's cultural identity. It must also be noted that dios are a product of their environment. The group hails from the South Bay of Los Angeles; a collection of burnt out, perennially overshadowed and disregarded semi-urban cities, specifically the "City of Good Neighbors," Hawthorne; home of the Beach Boys. This once quaint hamlet, however, has slowly devolved into its current chaotic blend of race riot aftermath, shuttered malls, and used car lots. Smog, graffiti, and strip malls; not surf, orange groves, and beach bonfires. They have more in common with the high-school dropout, the homeless man, and the ragged car-wash attendant smoking in the sunset. They are the result of TV as latchkey parent; marked by the influence of early 90's hip-hop, daytime television, narcocorrido ballads, and post-Reagan American junk culture on their aesthetic. dios are second generation Mexican American, and this too is an important and often overlooked aspect of the band. They share a cultural identity with approximately 50% of LA County's 4 million inhabitants; the same underrepresented and marginalized people who work long hours on low wages to bring you the California dream at discount prices. dios are an LA band, in the way that the LA Lakers are a LA basketball team. Emerging from their hermitic recording pilgrimage, dios have chosen to release their 3rd album and begin the touring cycle once again, playing new arrangements of every song, every tour. It is hard, but dios have never followed the path of least resistance.

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seagreen art

seagreen art



Dec 23 2009 5:01 PM

Shred FEST!
Keepers

Keepers



Dec 18 2009 7:13 PM

Trish

Trish



Dec 17 2009 7:06 PM

just wanted to drop by and say hello. :)
how are you?
happy holidays!
Buddyhead.com / Buddyhead Records

Buddyhead.com / Buddyhead Records



Dec 17 2009 7:06 PM




Thomas

Thomas Rodriguez



Dec 9 2009 10:59 PM

Gentlemen wassup with da new album?! Really lookin' forward to it!
shay

Shannon Schmidt



Dec 9 2009 10:59 PM

310.666.0512 // shay shay nay
shay

Shannon Schmidt



Dec 7 2009 11:08 AM

Joel please call me. I lost your # and have a karp documentary poster for you. Oh and I'd like a copy of the new album. It's really good.
Mimetic real

Samuel Miralles S.



Nov 21 2009 12:43 AM

What, s happens?
pPeEDDrRoO

Pedro Rodriguez



Nov 20 2009 11:01 AM

Where can I get a studio version of "Tel Mee Theen"?





Thanks for the add, btw.
Trish

Trish



Nov 14 2009 11:29 PM

thanks for the add!
Jodie

Jodie Knight



Nov 13 2009 4:02 AM

thx for acceptance ,I'm glad to be your friend
tigresse

 tigresse



Nov 11 2009 9:20 PM

hi diosito
b swans

Brian Swanson



Nov 11 2009 7:19 PM

these are some good tunes.
Fiona

Fiona Kinsey



Nov 6 2009 9:01 PM

hi Dios,
thanx for the friend request,
hope you have a nice day
Erin

Erin



Nov 5 2009 8:52 PM

My dream self will always buy you a ticket home shes just cool like that.
IZOZZI BandSkins

Izozzi BandSkins



Oct 20 2009 4:11 AM

Thanks for the friend! Listening in the studio. NICE!
c-horse

c-horse



Oct 18 2009 9:30 AM

Que lindos a noche:)  Me gusto much el show!  xoxoxo
Erin

Erin



Oct 12 2009 5:21 AM

when are you gyes coming to austin remember you have a place to sleep wooot woot
Mikko Manuel

Mikko Manuel



Oct 1 2009 9:31 PM

Allright !
SUNNO 神聖な庭

SUNNO  神聖な庭



Sep 19 2009 6:40 PM

hey thanks for accept my request :D have a good weekend :)
Jeannette

Jeannette



Sep 19 2009 12:12 AM

i second the comment below mine!
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very touching tribute, bloods thicker than water man hahaaa funny shit.
you guy are playin' a FREE show in HERMOSA!!!! i'm so there! after party at my parents house hahaahah
KROQ KEN

KROQ KEN



Sep 15 2009 12:20 AM

Your performance at Little Radio's September Camp was amazing, and the tribute was touching.
Heaven

Heaven Lindsey-Burtch



Sep 12 2009 3:23 PM

Guys.  It's raining here.  In the middle of summer.  But there will be a rainbow. 
Mika'ele :)

Mika'ele  :)



Sep 10 2009 9:10 PM

Ho, thnx 4 da add!!!  Aloha  :)
Erin

Erin



Aug 14 2009 4:13 AM

Claim to be a playa but you know i fucked your wife

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