Named after a Pond song, Brian Kruse plays solo as Ebner. These songs are typically done in one take on a 4-track while in a trance. Mushy, tender, scratchy and deranged... Ebner is home taping.
Slackjaw has always been hard to pigeon hole. The individual musician’s influences are dangerously divergent. However, if you were to go searching for its sources, there may be some minor, unmarked intersection somewhere along the path that runs between The Cure “Disintegration” and The Afghan Whigs “Gentlemen” that might get you pretty close to the dark & dreamy textures that make up Slackjaw’s music.
Three friends united by pop-rock! Originally called Hub, B.F.O.S. is about rocking with your heart on your sleeve. Romantic lyrics and fuzzed-out guitars mix with thundering drums to bring you these true stories in song...
Tony Gonzalez - guitar/vocals
Ryan Louther - drums
Brian Kruse - bass
Hip Hop legends (in Portland, OR)... Known for stealing parties, borrowing girlfriends and feeding puppy dogs ice-cream cones... The BUTTERY LORDS are putting the "fun" back in "funky". Loved by the ladies... Their rhymes are so potent they could make a dude pregnant. Look to the sky for the Bat-Butter Signal... Grab your dicks and roll with The Boner Patrol... And prepare yourself for the Buttering of a lifetime. The world is not ready for BUTTERY LORDS.
NEW DQT is pronounced "Nudie Cutie"...
Straight out of The Fruit Salad Krew comes the debut double album by America's Next Most Naked Rapper!!! New DQT is a phenom. This album was actually recorded while the artist was in a trance (some call it sleeping) and none of the songs you hear are real. This is all a dream. But please... Calm yourself. Take control of this dream and ride with NEW DQT.
Once NEW DQT hit the stage in 2001, he was quickly snatched up & added to the line-up of the Buttery Lords (replacing MC Baby Powder Fresh). Many live shows have proven the adorable nudity and a natural ability for fruit rhyme that NEW DQT weaves like a sugar spider making a sweet web to tangle you in...
"Oh New DQT..." the ladies sigh as NEW DQT floats by, like a sweet gliding dream... Gleaming The Cube if you know what I mean...
Fruit Rap inspired with Sex Rhymes for hire... NEW DQT rules the fruity with the leadership of a lion and the mind of a tiger.
Don't be afraid.
We're just getting started.
Loosen up and do some stretches.
Get prepared and give me a dollar.
Cus' NEW DQT gonna make you holler...
These are REVOLUTION JINGLES. Here to save all music!
These are SEX RHYMES. Here to turn you out with Hip Hop!
This is FRUIT RAP. If you don't know fruit rap, then you don't know crap.
This is PARTY MUSIC. Get the balance right. And get the neighbors used to it.
This NEW DQT and The Fruit Salad Krew...
So what... So what... So what you gonna do!
Can you find it in your soul to get fruity with NEW DQT?
Take off some clothes!
The Talking Grapefruit is the "sexual citrus sci-fi" alter ego of Brian Kruse aka Baby Powder Fresh (of the Buttery Lords) aka MC Mic Controla aka The Rappin Lime aka Healthy MC aka NEW DQT and the aka list goes on for 365 days. In the late 90's, Buttery Lords were just getting started and Brian decided to create a "rap name" for each day of the year to determine the greatest moniker. With a mountain of cassette tapes filled with sounds from a "sexual fruit mind space" comes this 42 song debut by the world's first rapping fruit. Many fruit rappers have grown from the seeds of The Talking Grapefruit, but none have yet to capture the pure essence of original fruit rap like The Fruit Salad Krew. With his pals The Power Banana, The White Mystery, The Krenshaw Melon, The Talking Pomegranate, The Kumquat Kid, Canned Pears, Mr. Clean, KJ Krinkle Cut, KJ Coolio King Glacious, MC Peachy Keen and countless numbers of sugary yet seedy characters, The Talking Grapefruit and The Fruit Salad Krew have created something to be remembered.
Hip Hop history books may never mention the phenomena of "fruit rap" and this album is destined to be lost in the black hole of CD BABY, too many music downloads and a culture that has no room for risky innovators... Or fruit from outer space... Or sex rap from a naked boy-man...
But there is hope...
You are reading this.
And perhaps someday you will tell the children - "Once... There was Fruit Rap. And it was glorious..."
This music was made with a 4-track cassette recorder (pictured on album cover), 2 Casio keyboards (CTK-611 & SK-1), a few scribbled napkins of lyrics, a television and very few re-takes. Most tracks were recorded on the first try and 75% of the lyrics were freestyle or free-association.
Anyone who places a review for this release will be honored with a lifetime membership in The Fruit Salad Krew.
So please, review us with some rhymes and do something great with your time.
Show fruit your love!
When yer finished, check out: NEW DQT - New DQT's Neighborhood!
