Topic: Anti-Crew in KC Star
- Mar 13, 2008 07:37pm by FlareThaRebel - http://www.myspace.com/anticrew
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It's in the preview section of today's paper (3/13) pg. 7.
Here's the link to view from kc star website,
[url]http://www.kansascity.com/594/story/527825.html[/url]
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Posted on Thu, Mar. 13, 2008
Kansas City’s Anti-Crew brings band to first local gig in two years
By TIMOTHY FINN
The Kansas City Star
If you’re a rock fan whose concept of live hip-hop is an MC, a DJ and lots of canned music, you should check out Anti-Crew this weekend.
If you’ve already seen the hip-hop troupe from Kansas City and you think it’s still only Lincoln Prep grads Jeffrey Shafer (FlareThaRebel) and Matt Peters (DJ Eternal) with backing tracks, you, too, should check out Anti-Crew, which has undergone a revolution of its own since its last local gig: Jan. 8, 2007, at the downtown Peanut.
About two weeks after that show, Anti-Crew became a five-piece band with a guitarist (Pat Attack), bassist (Cambo) and drummer (Hector), and the additions have changed the band’s live shows, and its music, considerably.
“For Kansas City, it will all sound new because we’ll still be playing some of our old tracks but for the first time with the band,†Shafer said.
How and why did you add three musicians to a duo that was doing pretty well on its own?
We were doing lots of shows in Chicago with other live bands. We were part of this tournament, Emergenza and were competing with live bands, and to bring out the dynamics of our sound we decided to branch out and bring in the instrumentation.
Where did you find the guys in the band?
We met our drummer and bass player in college. The drummer was a friend of a friend who hooked up with us. They all come from different music backgrounds, but they all love Anti-Crew music and were real passionate about playing on our tracks.
How did the transition go?
Smoother than you’d expect. There’s real good chemistry between us. We played our first show live after just one rehearsal. And it went really well. That was at the Note in Chicago in January 2007.
Explain how you incorporate the live music with old songs, which were not written with a band in mind.
With Matt’s production — DJ Eternal — we still have a hip-hop sound, and some samples are involved. The way we play is with a backing track and if there’s a bass line or a guitar, we take them out because we can play them live. And we take the drums out. The drummer can hear a click track and play along with it. Eternal still has certain sounds in his production that we don’t play live: horns and strings and occasionally some piano. So those still play in backing track. But drums, bass and guitar are all live. And not all the tracks have a backing track. Some are completely live with just the band.
Has writing with the band changed the music?
Yeah, a little bit. DJ Eternal is still in control of the overall sound. A lot of times what he’ll do is make a beat and we’ll figure out how to add the band into it. But on a couple of our newer songs, which we’re going to perform at RecordBar, we wrote more as a full band, by jamming out at the end of rehearsal.
Because of the live music element, have you noticed or heard at your shows that you’re getting people who might otherwise not check out a hip-hop act? Does it change people’s concept of live hip-hop?
Actually we have had that experience a lot. We get up there and hear hip-hop band — people can underestimate us until we really bring it together and they hear the musicianship. Our sound is still hip-hop but it has a cross-genre feel to it.
Talk about the music tastes and background everyone brings into the band.
For me it comes down to lyrics and the conscious hip-hop scene. So my major influences are Common and Mos Def, and the same for Matt as well. The other influences for the band in general can range from Red Hot Chili Peppers to Linkin Park to the Beastie Boys to even some Metallica.
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friday
Anti-Crew, above, performs Friday at the RecordBar, 1020 Westport Road. Also on the bill: Ces Cru, Reach, Human Cropcircles and DJ Sike Steez. Show time is 10 p.m. You must be at least 18. Cover is $8 for 18- to 20-year-olds, $6 for everyone else.
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