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Remember! You can download our first three albums for completely extra super free from midnightbrown.com! Do it now before we trick some sort of record label into selling them!
Jeff and Chris
have been making music for years. Just not with each other. Now the two are united in their fight against the enemy, which spans from robot dogs to nefarious skatrappers.
OK, perhaps there's a bit more to it than that.
Let's back up a bit. Chris is a bass player with the voice of an angel. This trucker-turned-robotics-engineer worked his way through Sonoma County's bullyboy rap metal scene and emerged nonplussed. Was run-of-the-mill metal and uninspired indie rock truly all that Sonoma County, CA had to offer his eclectic tastes?
Jeff is a professional sandwich vandal with a double major in rapping and sequencing with a minor in hitting major notes. In 1999, he appeared on Good Morning America to discuss the release of the Sega Dreamcast, and Diane Sawyer touched his leg. With her hand. It was awesome. After being in a few moderately successful local rap groups, Jeff came out of the Sonoma County scene in a similar state of disgust.
The two became roommates in 2003. Midnight Brown is what happens with two musicians get together and form a group without expectations and without having to depend on flaky outsiders to get things done.
Midnight Brown's first album, 17 Brown Lies, was composed mostly on Sundays from December 2003 to March 2004. The album combines a variety of genres with various forms of electronic music, resulting in a form that the duo can only snidely call "post-indiepop eclectro." Too busy writing and recording songs to worry about how to best distribute them, the group has decided to release their first album, in its entirety, on its website and via various online music services.
The duo's second album, 2084, was mostly written and recorded during the final stages of the compound era. Now hiding out in the relatively quiet suburbs, Midnight Brown is residing in a mostly broken-glass-free environment... which may very well destroy the band. 2084, which can only be properly classified as a collection of "fifth-wave" music, was completed in December 2004 and released for free download on the Midnight Brown website.
February 2006 saw the release of Dope/Revenge, Midnight Brown's third album. The first album written and recorded entirely at One, this record marks a new chapter in Midnight Brown's already-exciting history and the only word that sums up the 15-track project is "emobilly." Well, not really. But "emobilly" is sort of funny, so... yeah.
Midnight Brown's fourth album, Deadly Electric, will be released in 2009. It will be the greatest album that the "shoeblazer" genre has ever seen. Women interested in dating Midnight Brown (separately or as a group) during this writing and recording period should inquire here, but now that we live in two different locations, dating us both might be sort of tricky.
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