Distant Relatives is a Hip Hop group established in 2003 representing the "Boondox" of the north bay putting it down for a long time..Group consists of (emcee) Maynee,(emcee) Vocabulary Slick and Dj Ricky Switch
Biography--
In a time where Hip Hop has took a turn towards the more extreme side of oversaturating songs with an overwhelming showing of material wealth, weather it be fact or fiction. Lyrics riddled and over refrenced with cars, money and jewelry enter "Distant Relatives". D.R .first entered the scene in early 2002 via a young Vocabulary Slick
and his longtime childhood friend Emotionall with dreams of becoming a sucessful rap group while expressing their life expieriences through the art of ''Hip Hop".
Both life long Hip Hop fans, quickly went to work on their first album enlisting the help of another local emcee named "Maynee'' the project was entitled ''For The Passion" (available on Itunes) and was their take on everything that inspired them too make music in the first place. The 3 of them took to the stage playing every show in Northern C.a. that would give them time and quickly became the go to guys for promoters and club owners alike. Soon after the release of "For The Passion'' Emotionall was detained and deported to Mexico in yet another example of crooked Government practice in this great nation we live. After the deportation V.S. and Maynee decided to keep pushing because the journey that had been started was bigger than any Political agenda. The next project they released was
"The Ethx Of Distant Relatives" (www.DistantRelatives.net) entierely produced by Fremont phenom producer "Ethx" as well as a new Dj Ricky Switch a young Dj who recently relocated to San Francisco from Ireland. The project gained them West Coast acclaim distributing 10,000 copies up and down the west coast.
After the hype of " The Ethx" ep began to die down D.R. went back to the drawing board with local super producers Rick Vargas and Adam Carr to develop a new sound
and a new record. The result is "This Changes Every Thing" their best work to date. A musically engadging project with a majority of live instrumentation. Together with the epic landscape created by the production team mixed with D.R.s self proclaimed truth music ( aggressive, personal, heartfelt lyrics) have garnered all the makings of a classic work. "If ya dont know know ya know"
More info @ www.DistantRelatives.net
www.myspace.com/DistantRelativesMusic
twitter @DistantRelativs
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completed works :
''This Changes Everything'' (Album)
Mixellaneous- (Mixtape)
Dub Rap www.DubRap.com (Mixtape)
Distant Relatives — For the Passion (Album)
The Ethx of Distant Relatives (EP)
Mixellaneous- (Mixtape) available here-----
http://bit.ly/mixellaneous
current works
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"Mixellaneous'' /mixtape available here-----
http://bit.ly/mixellaneous
"Celebrate'' Single featuring The Grouch & Eligh available here----------
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/celebrate-feat-the-grouch/id387082045
previous venues:
Tongue & Groove — San Francisco CA
The Airliner — Los Angeles CA
Old Mexico — Petaluma CA
Odd Fellows Hall — Sebastopol CA
Subud Center — Sebastopol CA
Beat Lounge — San Francisco CA
Rafael’s — Vallejo CA
The Last Day Saloon — San Francisco CA
Kings Inn — Fremont CA
Sweet Lou’s — Cotati CA
The Pheonix Theatre — Petaluma CA
Royale — San Francisco CA
The Lost and Found — San Francisco CA
The Bottom of the hill — San Francisco CA
Michelles — Santa Rosa CA
Voodoo Lounge — San Jose CA
Blakes on Telegraph — Berkeley CA
Buddah Lounge — Mountain View CA
Agenda Lounge — San Jose CA
The Caspar Inn — Caspar CA
Whiskey Dicks — South Lake Tahoe CA
El Rincon — San Francisco CA
505 Mendo — Santa Rosa CA
1015 Folsom — San Francisco CA
Boiler room — Eureka CA
G Street Pub — Davis CA
The California Club — Auburn CA
Irelands 32 — San Francisco CA
Sonoma State University — Rohnert Park CA
Cal State University — Hayward CA
Mazzotti’s — Arcata CA
Earth Wave Records — Rohnert Park CA
Phoenix Theater — Petaluma CA
Red Eye Lounge — San Francisco CA
The Red Fox Tavern — Eureka CA
Jasper O’Farells — Sebastopol CA
Cafe Du nord — San Francisco CA
Palmer Room- Los Angeles CA
Nocturnum- Eureka CA
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other artists played with:
Pep Love (Hieroglyphics)
The Cool Kids
A PLus (Hieroglyphics)
Z-Man (Gurp City/One Block Radius)
Casual (Hieroglyphics)
P.E.A.C.E (Freestyle Fellowship)
Del tha FunkyHomosapen (Hieroglyphics)
Zion- I
GZA (Wu Tang Clan)
Chino XL
The Pack
The Grouch & Eligh (Living Legends)
Souls of Mischief (Hieroglyphics)
Mystik Journeymen, Luckyiam & Sunspot Jonez (Living Legends)
Planet Asia
Murs (Living Legends)
Pigeon John (Quannum)
Evidence (Dilated Peoples)
CoDeez (Hella Records)
Blue Schollars
Krs One
Mistah Fab
Les Claypool
