Dios Malos - Album (Tour EP)
ARTIST.....: Dios Malos
TITLE......: Album (Tour EP)
LABEL......: Self-Released
URL........: http://www.wearedios.com
RIP DATE...: May-26-2008
STORE DATE.: May-00-2008
GENRE......: Indie
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 31,2 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Hermit (F.Y.P. Cover) 02:58
02 - I Feel F.A.T.T. 03:08
03 - No Dance Now (Might As Well Jump) 03:31
04 - Freq Mod. 16 Bitty 03:30
05 - I See The Light (Miguel Mendez Cover) 02:35
06 - Ghetto Bird+ 03:09
07 - Some Alcohol (UK Release) 02:57
08 - Dumb After All (UK Release) 03:34
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25:22 min
Release Notes:
http://www.myspace.com/diosmalos
There's a part of me that doesn't want our bio left up to the
label or some writer's imagination because I don't like being
misrepresented, and because maybe there's some kid out there who's
just genuinely curious about our band, and would like to hear
stuff straight from the asshole's mouth. That said, where we're
from has a lot to do with our approach to our music, and with who
we are. We're all from the South Bay in Los Angeles. That's our
bond.
We understand that being from L.A. has its stigmas..... Well, fuck
you. I, personally, am an L.A. aficionado, and I resent the fact
that true Angelinos have to put up with fucked up labels and
misconceptions because people who move here from other shitholes
to act, start shitty bands, and/or get in "the business" junky up
the place. L.A. is more than just rats' nests like Hollywood,
Silverlake, and the Westside. It has a tremendous amount of
culture and history that is simultaneously ignored, exploited, and
trashed by these fuckheads. Luckily, we're from a different part
of L.A - an L.A. that is usually disregarded for its artistic
contributions to the city. The South Bay isn't the suburbs you see
in movies or T.V. It's beachfront ghettos, airports, refineries,
ports, you name it. It's a pretty diverse part of town - Whites,
Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Polynesians - all in the same schools
and working the same jobs at the mall. We're friends with surfers,
skaters, gangsters, musicians, artists and 9 to 5ers we grew up
with. A couple of us grew up near the fabulous forum in Inglewood,
home of the Showtime Lakers, minutes from the Beach Boys'
childhood home in Hawthorne. A couple of us grew up near some of
the prettiest tide pools and cliffs in Southern California,
minutes away from where Black Flag practiced and played their
first shows. And a couple of us grew up in and around Long Beach,
from Cerritos to San Pedro occasionally seeing Mike Watt driving
down the street to buy lottery tickets.
There's definitely a little musical history here, and we're proud
of that. Because of the musical history, and I guess, to some
extent, the isolation from the better known artistic areas of
L.A., we had a lot and a little to learn from. What the hell else
is there to do if you don't want a 9 to 5 and you suck at school,
when you don't like shitty Westside and Hollywood hotspots and the
even shittier music scene going on in the Eastside? You stay home,
get drunk in the backyard with your friends, listen to music and
form bands. Which is exactly what we did. We sucked at it like
everyone else, but we kept at it and here we are.
Our influences range from Chavela Vargas to Os Mutantes to Karp. I
grew up listening to Run-DMC and LL Cool Jay on K-DAY, early-90's
Ice Cube and "The Chronic". Other members of the band grew up
listening to South Bay punk like Black Flag and The Minutemen to
stuff across the pond like Northern Soul, The Small Faces, and
Wire. I'm sure it all comes through one way or another in what we
do now.
As for the "sun-kissed-California-easy-breezy-beach-pop" label we
were plastered with in the past, we feel it's always been
tremendously shortsighted, cliched and misrepresenting. We're
probably at fault for giving lazy journalists those Beach Boys,
and every cliche relating to California, taglines because we
constantly gave The Beach Boys and Hawthorne huge shoutouts. But
they never really got it. (which is my excuse for not doing
interviews anymore) Our connection to the Beach Boys is very
simple. We respect the Beach Boys for Brian Wilson's experimental
compositions. It's about "Heroes and Villains", not "Fun, Fun,
Fun". Hawthorne isn't Surf City. Pat isn't playing the bongos at a
fire pit. Our existence has absolutely no resemblence to an
episode of The OC. (gotta pay rent) If our sound is reduced to a
catchphrase, or some California postcard-like description, the
range of mood and innovation in our albums is lost. We're just
trying to write good songs and we're trying to dress them up or
down, creatively and interestingly. Keep ourselves satisfied
first. Fuck anybody else. So far it seems to be working.
In the past few years we've played with many great bands and
played some really big shows that we never expected to play. We've
had the opportunity to travel around the country, go to the UK and
Mexico City on someone else's dime, and we greatly appreciate
that. Now we just want to record the rest of our backlog and write
bigger and better things. We want to learn to play them live, be
as good we can be and hopefully not self-destruct in the process.
We are still trying to get our act together, we're still evolving,
trying to figure out who we are and what we're doing. Hopefully
we'll never figure it out, because we'll always be doing something
a little different. Never forgetting that a good song is first and
experimentation is a must.
We aren't into fads. We don't give a shit about what's going on in
Silverlake or Williamsburg, and we generally despise hipsters,
posers, and the like. We like things that are genuine, soulful,
and dirty. It isn't always beneficial for a band to defy
categorization, which is why we are generally disregarded in L.A.,
and at war with douche-bag promoters that don't know shit anyways.
Despite all that, somehow, someway, there are kind folks out there
that support us and come up to us at shows, or on our website, and
really make us feel good about our efforts. And that's what keeps
us going. We've definitely had a few good years and things are
looking up. Not bad for a shitty little band from the South Bay.
Love Joel Morales.
p.s. i remember when i wrote parts of this draft a few years ago
and our Label Boss was worried that it sounded too negative. what
a douche.
p.p.s. we are looking for a new label.
p.p.p.s. fuck it, i think we'll just start our own.
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This is apparently an iTunes only release, but also supposed to be
a vinyl on the new subdivision of Recess Records, Recess Reserve.
Picked this up on their tour with Murder By Death.
I don't know if Ghetto Bird+ is titled Ghetto Bird or Ghetto
Bird+. The tracklisting isn't exactly clear between their site and
iTunes.
All songs proud to be a home recording.